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  1. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    That's my point. In both Britain and France the entire concept of appeasing dictators is utterly discredited. Everyone, both in government and the man on the street 'knows' that it doesn't work, and just makes the inevitable war more difficult and more costly. Particularly as the current...

  2. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I've mentioned this before, but the big issue with allowing Russia to keep eastern Poland is that the concept of appeasement will be about as popular as syphilis in France and the U.K. as it has been 'proved' to be counterproductive. As a result, it is very difficult for any politician to make...

  3. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I'm not convinced. Italy really only went all in on Balkan adventurism after they'd failed to keep Austria within their sphere of influence and had to accept the Anchluss after the British and French refused to intervene.

  4. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I don't see how they'd stop him supporting a puppet government post-war, to be honest. Fascism should also be seen as somewhat different to the Nazi regime - it's quite notable that one is informal allies with the Soviet Union and one very opposed. Italy had previously been the 'protector' of...

  5. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    According to wikipedia (I know...), iOTL he was caught still in communication with the Japanese eight days after Pearl Harbour. He'd have been looking at the gallows if his father hadn't been part of the royal household.

  6. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    A military coup against the monarchy just looks really unlikely. It's only a short number of years since the anti-royalist parts of the army were purged after their failed coups, and the then solidly pro-royalist army reinstalled the monarchy. It seems very unlikely that the same officers would...

  7. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I'm a bit late with this, but the pre-war Greek government didn't keep substantial amounts of communists in prisons on the mainland. They held them in military run camps on Aegean islands that were much easier to secure, and were such a rescue attempt would fail. It's also interesting that such...

  8. A Blunted Sickle

    Austria back in their sphere of influence is an easy ask. The Austria as victim narrative may never get established here as well.

  9. AHC/WI: Britain won world war 1 without becoming heavily indebted

    The easiest way for the British to win is probably for the Germans to fail to capture the nitrate stockpiles at Antwerp (400,000 tonnes) intact, which means they lose the ability to wage industrial scale war before they get the Haber process producing ammonium nitrate at scale, and the western...

  10. A Blunted Sickle

    I'm given to understand that prewar Malaya was pretty rough on that kind of thing as far as the wives and daughters went. Husband hunting for officers is one (pretty limited) thing. Anyone that would be called a sailor would be quite different,

  11. A Blunted Sickle

    The streets would probably literally run red with blood. 'Population transfer' in general will probably be messier than iOTL, and will produce more documentary evidence of the accompanying atrocities.

  12. A Blunted Sickle

    From what I can find out, at the time of the invasion, partially because Poland didn't, and partially because the British and French guarantees to Poland didn't require it, they only required declaring war on Germany. Of course, it seems clear that the British and French were making...

  13. A Blunted Sickle

    (Very) Eventually, probably, but the pacifism of the inter-war left was pretty thoroughly discredited in the UK, and many of those who supported it were disgraced or recanted. The Labour government went into Korea and began the suppression of the Malayan Emergency when the saw it as being in the...

  14. A Blunted Sickle

    The Swedes haven't been a military ally of Germany within the last couple of years in the dismembering of a friendly power like the Soviets have. Their situations are completely different. There's a reason that the British and French were making the preparations to attack the Soviet Union...

  15. A Blunted Sickle

    It doesn't really matter. What matters is that it's the race riots that were remembered and influenced policy. It also isn't. The 1919 race riots were much worse than the other incidents, and happened in multiple places across the country. They were a big deal, and left scars on the government...

  16. A Blunted Sickle

    I think the opposite should be the case, to be honest. The post war migration from the colonies required several factors to combine that won't be present. 1) Major labour shortages. This won't happen to anything like the same degree in the UK without the devastation of bombing and the massive...

  17. A Blunted Sickle

    This is where you're going wrong. European guest workers are the default. You have to positively move away from them and decide to offend the Portugese, Spanish, and Italians by banning them from engaging in their traditional trading, as those social structures haven't been destroyed by the war...

  18. A Blunted Sickle

    A large part of the reason for the labour shortage is the enormous task of post-war reconstruction. It's hard for us to comprehend today the sheer levels of devastation inflicted on the physical infrastructure of the UK by the bombing and wartime overuse. There will also be a lot fewer people...

  19. A Blunted Sickle

    I'm not convinced on the immigration front. It all depends on the economic situation and how decolonisation is going. A nebulous 'gratitude' probably isn't very relevant. Without the massive level of destruction in the UK that needed repair you're unlikely to see the labour shortages that lead...

  20. A Blunted Sickle

    Particularly as the other members of their informal 'Empire' would hate the implications Hapsburg restoration so much that they might give concessions to Italy to keep the situation under control.
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