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  1. 1920s Germany if they win ww1 what do you think would have been done with the imperial navy if they didn't scuttle their ships.

    Depends if they want to acknowledge British naval dominance, happy to be dominant on the continent, try and match it, or try and beat it. Britain will spam out the remaining 15 inch armed ships, then move to 16.5 and 18 inch options already in the works. Anything prewar or even early war is...

  2. USA doesn't join WW1 but Germany still loses?

    In addition to adding the Indian Army manpower and equipment (and experience), there was also the potential for using greater manpower from the British African colonies, and for the increasing use of mechanisation on the Western Front. I’ve posted this before, but is relevant here:

  3. Steve Irwin survives stingray attack

    I believe his media career would continue to expand - and he was already being well received and established in the US across several different markets. I believe his children would still follow that trajectory and work closely with him on his show/s and content. However what is more...

  4. East Germany’s “Afrika Korps” during the cold war

    Der Spiegel back in March 1980 already made the claim…

  5. How realistic of an option was France joining the commonwealth?

    Well if the Commonwealth offer is accepted, presumably this marks a shift in the trend of European development and cooperation between London and Paris, rather than Paris and Bonn.

  6. Balanced budget

    Government expenditure as a proportion of GDP over the last 20 years. Figure 2: total expenditure and the size of the economic response to COVID-19 Source - remarkably consistent across multiple governments...

  7. WI: The effects of the UK's defense spending slashed down to 3% by 1950?

    Yep. Getting an established and developing civil society, with improving literacy and an emerging middle class that can support democratic institutions along with the foundations of uncorrupt local government and business/commerce is critical to bedding democracy down and it becoming engrained...

  8. WI: The effects of the UK's defense spending slashed down to 3% by 1950?

    That's a policy that's not going to fly. Britain is still a global power, even if being challenged in many areas, and needs to compete, and nuclear weapons and technology (inc. the civilian side) are how you remain relevant post war. Not even worth it as a trip-wire force then. Or efforts are...

  9. Alternative to Singapore Strategy?

    You don’t need a fleet train in the American sense when you have secure bases/ports/anchorages all around the world to operate from... If you base anything out of Adelaide you may as well just build the bloody ships on the Murrumbidgee to keep them safe...🤪

  10. Alternative to Singapore Strategy?

    This is what happens when 'fleet base Darwin' (or Sydney/Freemantle/Rabaul/Trincomalee) is raised. It potentially protects fleet assets but means the effectiveness to respond is dramatically reduced. Who in 1921 or even 1931 would have reasonably seen the Japanese launching their attacks from...

  11. No Daylight Saving Time

    Yeah but at least the cows are getting milked at the right time

  12. No Daylight Saving Time

    The rest of Australia has one less thing to view Queensland as being backward and parochial about?

  13. AHC Australia with a great desert city like Las Vegas

    Thankfully. But it’s up with the fast passenger train services proposals that get trotted out every once over the last 50years

  14. AHC Australia with a great desert city like Las Vegas

    Trouble is, theres enough bull dust beneath that hides beneath the surface of it that it still gets traction through various studies, reports, commissions and election cycles that whilst debunking and repudiating the original scheme, gets labelled as ‘bradfield 2.0’

  15. AHC Australia with a great desert city like Las Vegas

    Or “bashing black fellas” in the common vernacular...

  16. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Wouldn’t Bradman’s OTL health issues would still have been uncovered and exacerbated during his ongoing service in the RAAF and the army. Though there seems to be some debate about how crippling the fibrositis was and what caused it, I would say he’s not back playing first class cricket much...

  17. WI: Weimar Britain

    Meadows The People’s Flag and Lord Brisbane’s Bayonets Won’t Cut Coal come to mind. That being said, I disagree with most of the points of departure and assertions in the OP.

  18. Truth or Myth can the United kingdom repealed a Nazi invasion in 1940/1941

    So the RN (and the politicians) see this happening and just do nothing and continue drinking the lead paint lattes?

  19. Naval treaty in a CP victory

    If anything, the Royal Navy is going to be ramping up - the 12" dreadnoughts and battle-cruisers are already obsolesce as more and more 16" ships are appearing on the scene. They are going to continue their escort building, and developments in aircraft, not just capital units. The RN is the...

  20. Rearm the ANZACs for the Pacific War.

    Not to mention Charles Bean campaign against Monash (and other wider views Bean held)...
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