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Now, we have been dancing around that one as WWI. Interesting reading.

Insofar as this ALTERNATE HISTORY, let's entertain this one:

1) US not getting involved in Europe. Hitler not declaring war on US after PH
2) Britain isolated after fall of France
3) Stalemate in the desert (that is reasonable to achieve after all. Kill Malta, etc)
4) Barbarossa is modified and is a) "No untermenchs", b) achieving a stalemate in 1942
5) Hitler goes on pension (or dies in a plane crash together with soem of the other fanatics)
6) Churchill is losing the elction as there is no end to the war and no real winning card to be pulled (please, leave the bomb alone for now, it would be many years away if Britain had to do it themselves)
7) Now what?

Will Europe end up in a cold war scenario?
EU with Britain longing to be a member (like when it happened and De Gaulle said "NO"

A war cannot go on forever, so some sort of settlement will have to happen.

I know Hitler is a bit of a show-stopper there, so let him go away in 1942?

Ivan
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