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  1. What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?

    Thank you for looking that up and including references

  2. How to make the UK less London heavy?

    In which case it is impossible. Unless you want to argue this is OTL 😀 London reached it’s maximum relative size in 1801 and has been steadily declining ever since.

  3. How to make the UK less London heavy?

    Yes but they are too close to London. I suspect the civil service would be based there and then we are back where we started.

  4. How to make the UK less London heavy?

    I think part of your problem is that London has always been oversized compared to other cities in the British isles. I may mis remember but I think London has always been at least 4 times the size of the next biggest slowly rising before the industrial revolution to about 6 times bigger. Then...

  5. Germany launches Manned V2 (or Woman) into space in 1944

    If I remember right the payload of the V2 was under a tonne while Vostok was over 2. Add in the rubbish control systems the V2 had and I suspect any attempt would be suicide. Frankly considering the sacrifices Germany made to keep the V programme running I can not see this being attempted.

  6. Effect on Pacific War if Dewey claimed Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbour

    Considering how poor Japanese analysis of US politics was and the prestige hit of admitting to a superior your code have been broken. I doubt it would have much effect.

  7. AHC: Have a Successful slave revolt in the US

    The easiest way is to have a sugar island join the revolution. Economically it is madness but people do some weird things. Then we get something like Haiti, all the planters get massacred, the fledgling republic has more important things to worry about and the RN is more worried about the...

  8. Where would you "divide" history?

    Why not count backwards from the present which is thus year zero and Columbus sailed in 531. And next year he sailed in 532. OK it only works with electronic data that automatically increments.

  9. Could the allied have moved faster post Overlord?

    As I understand it the Allies had very detailed plans for advancing after landing but they assumed the Germans would, after the initial counter attack failed to push them into the sea, retreat gradually to preserve the troops and minimise losses. This would allow the Germans to maximise the time...

  10. How would socialism look like (if possible at all) in western Europe and north America?

    No. I know what you mean and it is a very minor issue but as a scientist I find unsupported percentages misleading and unhelpful. Now you have defined. (More or less) your population and a simple study of published papers could support your figure. Although from that population I would not be...

  11. How would socialism look like (if possible at all) in western Europe and north America?

    Where did you get that number and how are you defining people? Do you mean people in the USA? People who speak english as a first language? People who post on the internet? People you know personally well enough to have diss ussed the matter? I know you probably mean something like. “Most...

  12. Have "Battlefield Earth" be a commercial and critical success

    Well having written by a better writer than ElRon is probably a prerequisite disclaimer. I found BE to be almost unreadable

  13. The underlying assumptions of the NAZI party

    I have been thinking about the many posts we have had over the years suggesting different ways the Germans could have acted in the second world war. The issue to me is a casual assumption that any part of the NAZI memeplex could be changed without affecting the rest of the beliefs or the...

  14. United neutral China?

    I always assumed both sides had their fingers crossef😀

  15. WI: American Hippo Bill

    There’s a horror movie here just waiting to be made. We could call it Jaws.

  16. USA conquers the Entire Anglosphere? USA+ CANZUK?

    I think that is the point. Nobody posts such a silly OP expecting sensible replies. It is the AH equivalent to students at 2AM saying “what if we all had 4fingers? Would we count in hexadecimal!” Think of it as a good natured troll. Say a kobold…,,

  17. USA conquers the Entire Anglosphere? USA+ CANZUK?

    There are not less than 40 dialects of english in england. Maximum estimates rise into the hundreds. Add the dialects in scotland wales and ireland add the extra islands add all the dialects in the rest of exbritish commonwealth and you easily get into the thousands. The usual figure for the...

  18. How much of our modern consensus of the inevitability of Allied victory in WWII is due to information after the fact?

    I looked up Quora. Apparently it is a subsidiary of Yahoo where people post questions for other people to answer. It is unmoderated and statements can and often are from people with an undeclared axe to grind. The site has a trust index average of 1.79 out of 5 for what value that has. I would...

  19. How much of our modern consensus of the inevitability of Allied victory in WWII is due to information after the fact?

    I think those numbers are way off. $870 Million for total Uk production is miniscule and total lend lease must have been over $30Billion. I seem to recall Britain sent America $8Billion in reverse lend lease! It also helps to recall that lend lease started as miniscule but only really got...

  20. How much of our modern consensus of the inevitability of Allied victory in WWII is due to information after the fact?

    I think we have strayed along way from the original question. I think the consensus among most historians today is: 1. In 1939 the allies (Britain, France, their empires and whoever Germany chooses to attack) were in economic and production terms significantly stronger than Germany. In purely...
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