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  1. What would the British do if German tanks roll into Dunkirk? (no halt order)

    The cost benefit at that point was just not worth it. Would not be able to deploy most of the force and what they could was in need to rest and refit. Success possible but cost would be very high.
  2. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Perhaps, not "evil", but not exactly "good" either. Soviet massacres and rapes, Japanese internment camps, the Bengal Famine... if the Nazis were a 10/10 on the arbitrary goodness-evilness scale, the Japanese and the Soviets would be 9/10 and the Western Allies would be a 6/10. There's a clear...
  3. God Owes Phillip II Twenty Bucks

    Ah, OK, I see. Could prince of Conde surviving change things in favor of Protestant Henri remaining on the throne/ But ITTL there is no indication that Conde even survivied so it seems to me that Henry would bail it out like OTL, converting to Catholicism in exchange for recognition of his rule...
  4. WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    I have to cook up some roles for Nimoy. Maybe he gets to be the senator in Godfather II? Maybe that big Star Trek fan George Lucas gets him to play Tarkin instead of Peter Cushing? Nimoy didn't mind playing heavies. He was a pretty sadistic Columbo villain as a guest star. ITTL a possible good...
  5. A True World Cup: 24 teams at England '66

    Brazil Netherlands Portugal England United Stated (#ThingsTimHowardCouldSave) Belgium Argentina Germany
  6. DuMont will make TV work: A TL

    There's a better name for Star Trek: The Continuing Adventures: STAR TREK: CONTINUUM
  7. Socialist/communist USA, is it possible, and likeliest time period to arise?

    I guess the first question would be- did that happen anywhere else? Self described socialist parties came to power in democratic elections across the world, but how many really built 'socialism'?
  8. XTrapnel

    The Pale Horse: The Northwest Montana Insurgency and its Aftermath (1987-2002)

    Interesting point. In general, OTL's schisms between Trotskyists and Stalinists at Columbia in the 1930s which led ultimately to neoconservatism never occurred (Trotsky and Stalin being fairly irrelevant), so a lot of intellectuals who drifted to the right in the 1940s remained broadly on the...
  9. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    Sadly to underline this point with personal business experience, it effects every aspect of doing business in Russia. Even with those people and companies you are pretty sure are not directly dodgy, because they have to survive in a basically dodgy system they have to act as if they themselves...
  10. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    One of the other big cultural issues Russia has that interferes with competitiveness is addiction, it's so bad that it's quite literally killing the country (30% of all deaths there are directly alcohol related). About 2-3% of the population is addicted to heroin, and the best estimates are...
  11. WI: Japan never goes down the militarist path after WW1

    Perhaps it was likely, especially after the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War, but I don't think it's inevitable. Say, for some reason, perhaps a crucial man dies of a heart attack, the Taisho Emperor lives longer, and Japan stays in hands of the civilian government. No invasion of...
  12. WI: Philip II dies in 1199 and Richard I lives until 1215?

    John really does not seem like the crusading type ... Would the French re-propose the marriage of Eleanor and (the now boy King) Louis that Philip had canceled? It could be how they settle a permanent peace to the war with Richard.
  13. The truth about the white man.

    You're right, my apologies.
  14. Germans Take Ypres, 1916

    The German efforts in Verdun were cut back to provide troops, artillery and ammunition for the Somme, From where is the OHL going to take troops to help in an Ypress offensive? Russia?
  15. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    I mean the PDF file for SV readers, not that if there's a Separateverse TL on SV. I am also there so I am aware. But then again I saw EBR already posting the link there, so you probably just didn't link the correct page within SV. This is what I mean, Evan. Thank you very much EBR! :)...
  16. The 30 mm HE shell. The ideal weapon for use by WW2 Allied fighter planes?

    Wouldn't be a bit of an overkill to use a 30 mm gun to kill a fighter?
  17. Earliest self-rule for India as a part of the British Empire

    Possible but I don't know how probable it would be. OTL a lot of the resistance to granting Indians a greater say in the governance of the Raj came not so much from Whitehall or British governments, as from the British leaders of tbe Indian Civil Service. And from certain business interests in...
  18. Mechadogzilla

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    What no one seems to have mentioned yet is the butterflies to Spain. I almost commented that a longer Rif War would boost support for Spanish leftism, (the war was incredibly unpopular and leftist organizations were the primary ones to oppose it.) but I didn’t have an convenient source. I doubt...
  19. What would the British do if German tanks roll into Dunkirk? (no halt order)

    Yes, that is a danger. As I understand it was a major concern of high command, and one of the reasons for the halt order.
  20. The Forge of Weyland

    Unnecessary.
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