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  1. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    But you are not? So unimportant to the British that they basically ignored Soviet attempts at alliance Except it did. The Soviets can’t supply everything that the Germans needed. So why did the British express confidence they could do the exact opposite? As to the Germans out producing the...
  2. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    Why would Germany want colonies in 1940? they might also be able to read the tea leaves and those said that colonies would be independent pretty soon (India as the leader of the pack). It is not 1900 anymore.
  3. WI: Henry, Duke of Cornwall survived?

    Mary would NEVER a marry Philip here
  4. WI: The Netherlands Keeps South Africa

    Good to know. I wonder who gets Natal here. Do the Dutch expand over time, or does somebody else like the French go for it?
  5. curlyhairedhippie

    WI: Henry, Duke of Cornwall survived?

    Mary probably weds Charles V or a French prince (either OTL Henri II or his older brother).
  6. Gulf crisis 1990 : Saddam's asymmetric response

    Sadam was already talking to a lot of the Arab League members. What was his objective? 1) Not to pay Kuwait 2) reverse the insult Apparently, nobody really liked Kuwait anyway. And Kiwait tended to be rather arrogant and demeaning to Sadam. He put his case forward t the other Arab countries...
  7. AHC: Make Morocco part of "Europe" to an extent, like Turkey or Russia, with a POD past 1500 AD

    A country as culturally liberal/secular as the more liberal parts of Turkey, as urbanized as Spain or (French) Algeria or (Italian) Libya, with a higher level of development, and involved in European institutions pretty much checks off the boxes to be European. In a TL where France retains...
  8. Romanov Ascendant: What if the Soviet Union survived?

    Margot Honecker was no member of the Politburo and had no ambitions to become either General Secretary of the SED or Chairwomen of the Council of Ministers. The two main candidates to succeed Erich Honecker were Egon Krenz (Secretary for questions of Security, State, and Law at the Central...
  9. Alternate 'Battle of Midway': RN instead of USN, what's the result?

    It fits his rehearsals, positioning, and general Brit doctrine, during Op C. Given the situation it might have made more sense for the Brits to initially deploy to the SE vs the NE of Midway, but a closer exam may suggest something else. I was thinking that from a SE position a sidestep...
  10. Wings

    AHFA 2021 United American Cup/2021 Copa America Unida
    Threadmarks: Team: Gran Colombian Republic

    Team: Gran Colombian Republic (OTL Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia) Nickname: The Bolivarians Home Stadium, City: Estadio Nacional Simon Bolivar, Bogota (140,000) Home Kit: Away Kit: Coach: Santiago BOTERO Roster (23 players) - Starters in bold Goalkeepers: Fernando GAVIRIA RENDON (Paris SG)...
  11. 'The Changes'

    It was pretty 'adult' stuff for the YA audience of the time. Rather like Children of the Stones and Timeslip.
  12. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Yeah I feel that way looking at Enterprise sometimes too. The engineering and underlying concepts are more or less solid, there are numerous advantages for going with an ET/Orbiter derived design, but it just looks weird sometimes. All that said, the image of the astronaut taking an MMU for a...
  13. FesteringSpore

    Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    There was a poster above who argued that a communist united Vietnam in 1945 would be like Tito’s Yugoslavia and I tend to agree, although not fully- Vietnam has China always to worry about. If anything, it would be pro-Soviet enough to ensure Soviet protection from China, but otherwise they...
  14. marathag

    What happens if Rock Island chooses the Christie Route to American armor for WWII?

    Note Israelis put survivability as tops, followed by reloads and crew access. Merkava uses a Christie based suspension, engine in front with open access to the hull rear, but is geared for under 30mph.
  15. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    The key word in the "moderate protectionist policy" phrase is "moderate," as I'm tired to remind. In addition, Argentina's economic policies lacked Korean consistency. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Eugenio_Aramburu Let's converge on a richer version of Argentina, which is also not the...
  16. Alternate 'Battle of Midway': RN instead of USN, what's the result?

    Well, thats what could have happened in reverse. The USN did lose most of its prewar carriers, a lot of cruisers, destroyers & auxiliaries in the S Pac From May through January 1942 - 1943. Given the sorry state of the IJN by January there may have been the opportunity for the Brits to 'roar...
  17. SealTheRealDeal

    More Helicopter/light carriers in post ww2 period

    There's also the prestige of completely leapfrogging the likes of Italy, Spain, and the UK.
  18. Sherman von Bismarck

    Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

    Funny you should mention it, a few of @Kingfish 's ideas are pretty similar to some of the ones in UWTS. Long is more aligned with Western Progressives and his VP will be Wheeler. The AUG (new name for AUS) will also be more centered in the great plains + Louisiana and Arkansas, though Long...
  19. RedKing

    A Second Wife, A Second Husband: A Tudor Timeline

    Well it looks like he's Philip then!
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