Cold, Aren't They?

Okay, let me explain, piece by piece, as I can tell I left out far too many details. In coming edits, I'll see about filling in details, as I can see this is causing this to look ASB, because not enough details are provided.

For the UK, it has no Land-Lease. It's not going to be able to pay for goods the entire time, world reserve currency or not. It stops receiving goods because it runs out of money. The entire point of this is that the US doesn't enter Europe, and that doesn't occur here, because relations have been soiled with the UK, while FDR has been voted out of Office.

When the date rolls around that the UK calls for a truce, it's exhausted. It has no money left, it barely got the Axis out of Europe, and the Soviet Union had to exhaust itself just to get Germany out of its 1940 borders. Neither of them have the manpower, or money, to continue. Hence, yes, it gets a truce, because it doesn't have the resources to continue, it has to wait until its economy recovers.

For the US, they still fight Japan, but not Nazi Germany, as the latter hasn't declared war on them. Without FDR, the US doesn't have the impetus to enter Europe, and Nazi Germany isn't declaring war on them in this timeline. The US and the UK aren't allies, at best, they have the coldest of arrangements in regards to the Pacific. The US and AUSTRALIA are cooperating, but that's completely different, because the latter feels threatened, and also abandoned by the UK.

EDIT: Further edits have been done to the first part of the prologue. Hopefully, this will help alleviate problems. This will continue until we have this in a non-ASB state, among other things.
 
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The problem is even if the US hates the UK they do not want to see it go under to Nazi Germany any more than they did the Soviet Union. Realpolitik would surely win out and the US would help Britain albeit under even less favourable terms than OTL. As for the US allying with Australia in the Pacific how much could Australia bring to the table in 1941? It's not very industrialized nation with a modest population. Again political reality demands working with the British.
 
Another issue I have is that you posit the Soviets being too exhausted to even overrun a Germany that has fallen into civil war. Where exactly did Germany find the resources to reduce the Soviets to this state, especially given that they were in a two front war until 1944? And even if the Soviets have to pause to regroup I simply cannot imagine them stopping short of Berlin.
You also have Britain bogged down in an Italian occupation, are you suggesting that the fascists in Italy weren't overthrown when it was obvious the war was lost?
 
1945: Japan is finally starved into submission by the United States, who surrenders.

Wait, why did the US surrender?

You should change the 'who' to 'and'.

Just starting, very interesting read. I'll comment further as I read further. I will ask which specific islands were annexed by whom.
 
Wait, why did the US surrender?

You should change the 'who' to 'and'.

Just starting, very interesting read. I'll comment further as I read further. I will ask which specific islands were annexed by whom.

Fixed.

Everyone else: Well... this didn't work out. But, okay, everyone has to have that first non-ASB TL, and sadly, this was mine. I'll try to fix it, but... that isn't looking likely at this point.

However, for realpolitk... hey, people defy that all the time, even if it's at their cost.
 
Fixed.

Everyone else: Well... this didn't work out. But, okay, everyone has to have that first non-ASB TL, and sadly, this was mine. I'll try to fix it, but... that isn't looking likely at this point.

However, for realpolitk... hey, people defy that all the time, even if it's at their cost.

So which islands are we talking about? The Gilberts? The Phoenix islands? The Line islands? The Melanesian islands seem too far south for the US to bother with.

Also, what is the point? I mean I can see commandeering them for the duration of the war, but why annex them?
 
So which islands are we talking about? The Gilberts? The Phoenix islands? The Line islands? The Melanesian islands seem too far south for the US to bother with.

Also, what is the point? I mean I can see commandeering them for the duration of the war, but why annex them?

Well, in a previous thread, them commandeering them has been called outright annexation. Additionally, perhaps the US seeks to gain them in order to gain better footing within southeast Asia.
 
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