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  1. Would Sextus really be able to defeat Octavian AND Mark Antony just by keeping his naval blockade in Rome?

    I was looking at Kings and Generals series on the Roman Civil Wars and here he portrays Sextus, despite having only naval supremacy over his rivals, vastly less territoty and armies, that he could had actually come out on top by simply just not breaking his naval blockade and keep the famine in...

  2. What if Hussein-Ali Montazeri became Iran's next Supreme Leader?

    In case you didn't know, a human rights activist, almost became Supreme Leader of Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein-Ali_Montazeri He was the designated successor from the previous Ayatollah Khomeini. But he fell out of favor because of his repeated public criticisms of Iran's over...

  3. Can Paraguay win the Paraguayan war or at least defeat Brazil 1-1?

    Just saw this video Paraguay had a good start in the war before things started turning around. They had an ingenious plan to take control of the Brazilian Navy that could actually had worked. From what I have read just having control over the rivers would had made invading Paraguay nigh...

  4. Sorry, I made the thread in the wrong section, reposting thread to pre-1900s

    Removed.

  5. Realistically how well of a deal could Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds get from the USA?

    I couldn't find the date for the events of the movie, but it likely was in early 1944, given it takes place in occupied France and Hans Lansa knows the war is lost. So, long story short, in the movie the US sends a commando and they have the chance of killing Hitler, Goebbels, Goring, Himmler...

  6. How would a Barbarossa "South" approach work?

    I was watching a youtube video about the myth of the failures of Barbarossa being on Hitler. The video claims that Hitler wanted to the main attack of Barbarossa be South, and indeed it was South where most of the Red Army was concentrated and the defenses were prepared, also where there was...

  7. Would this "sneak nuke" strategy work in WW2?

    I saw a video recently about the best case scenario for the UK and the US in WW2. Here Churchill makes peace with Germany after France falls, presumably after Hitler's "last appeal to reason" speech. Germany attacks the USSR and either defeats it or both are bled white. After this happens, the...

  8. Army Group Center Encircled in 1941, then Germany lose 50 divisions in the South in 1942. How would the rest of the war proceed?

    Army Group Center gets encircled and destroyed in 1941 near Moscow. Let's suppose Hitler still decides to go South in 1942 and Staligrad proceeds as usual, with the difference that this time the Soviets allow Germany to rescue their forces at Stalingrad, only to use this as a diversion to cut...

  9. Is there any scenario in which the US or the USSR remain a world power after a nuclear war?

    Nearly all scenarios which involve nuclear war between these 2 say that after such a war none of those countries would be in any shape to be a world power. Is this necessarily the case?

  10. How would the UK and the US react if the USSR crush Germany and by 1943, at the latest, they are in Berlin?

    So the situation goes much better for the USSR and much worse for Germany, maybe Stalin believes the reports and is prepared for an invasion or Hitler agrees to retreat from Moscow in 1941 and Army Group Centre is encircled in 41-42. The thing is, the Soviets have crushed Germany and reached...

  11. A USSR starvation stragegy for Barbarossa, could it had worked?

    I have read some very compelling posts that while capturing the oil fields would had been to hard and of no benefit to Germany, they could had captured the USSR breadbasket in the Kuban and Ukraine, which would had eventually caused a famine that would had made the USSR unable to continue...

  12. Jim Jones as president of the USA, possible?

    Jim Jones's cult was suprisingly progressive, it was indeed those anti racism and progressive sentiments that allowed hin to gain such a large following. He had such a charisma and sway over his people that he convinced them to relocate to Guyana and ultimately do mass suicide (albeit this last...

  13. Do you think that even if Germany managed to attain complete superiority over the USSR, would it had become Germany's "China"?

    There are many questions in this forum and many others about what would happen if Germany had taken Moscow, or if a battle had gone different or if the Red Army was destroyed defending Moscow or whatever. A lot of posts, myself included argue that in a scenario where the Red Army simply could...

  14. A public peace offering Churchill would had been able to refuse?

    After France fell. Is there any peace offering that Hitler could had made (that didn't include giving up Poland as it was necessary for Barbarossa) that would had forced Churchill to accept peace?

  15. No nuclear weapons. Does the Cold War remains cold?

    What if during WW2 it was found that atomic bombs are impossible to make and as such nuclear weapons are never developed? Japan still surrenders unconditionally (though a few days latter than OTL) because of the Soviet invasion. Would the Cold War between the USA and the USSR remain Cold? Or...

  16. The entirety of the German leadership is purged after the July 20 Plot, now what?

    OTL after the failed July 20 Plot thousands were arrested and killed, some of them because their name was found on the plans for the new government or they were mentioned in some documents found to belong to the conspirators. For example, Speer was only spared because some documents explicitly...

  17. Nicolas Maduro lose the 2013 elections

    In 2013 Maduro ran for president of Venezuela, at this time he was at his weakest, he assumed the presidency just because Hugo Chavez died, at the time Venezuela's electoral system was fair, or at the very least way less prone to rigging than the current elections, elections were montired by a...

  18. In 2010 Drug Cartels launch a coup and take over Mexico.

    This scenario I think is borderline ASB, but not quite impossible either. In 2006 Mexican president Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels, which has been going on since then, and the war becoming extremely brutal. What if the cartels took the government's declaration of war super...

  19. AHC: With a POD no earlier than the German Stalingrad defeat, allies win WW2 with no iron curtain

    Your alternate history challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Germans still be defeated after the Battle of Stalingrad (it is not obligatory to be an unconditional surrender, however) yet have the Soviets being unable or unwilling to take anything beyond rightful USSR lands...

  20. How would a "grind down" strategy work for the Germans against the USSR in WW2?

    I read recently that for WW2 the german generals, or at least a very prominent one (I think it was Manstein) favoured a strategy to defeat the USSR which basically was all about encircling and destroying the armies of the Red Army one after the other until the USSR simply ran out of armies or...
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