The Anglo/American - Nazi War

[Bookmark1995]

I thought of an idea for an in-universe Polandball comic:

Western Alaskaball is portrayed as an abused child, who is brutally mistreated by his drunken father, Soviet Unionball.

With the defeat of the Soviets, Western Alaskaball is brutalized and forced to work by his evil father in order to pay off the horrible "reparations" to Nazi Germany.

After the Krasnoyarsk attack, Western Alaskaball flees from his incapacitated father, but collapses into the snow from hunger and exhaustion. Just as he is about to succumb, he finds a shadow looming over him. And passes out...

When Western Alaskaball wakes up, he finds himself in a hospital being given aid by Swissball, who tells him Americaball found him.

After some soul searching (and pleading from his children Alaskaball and Hawaiiball), Americaball welcomes Western Alaskaball to the Union (i.e. adopts him).

The final page cuts to Western Alaskaball happily waving the American flag, happily celebrating his new family.

 

[JasonVoorhees525]

@CalBear, what happened to the Japanese monarchy? Did they also succumb to the nightmare that Japan became when the Allies blockaded it? If so, did the Allies try to find whoever was next in line, or were the Japanese already so deep in despair that they just didn't care about their Emperor anymore and Japan became a republic?

 

[Whiteshore]

@CalBear, what happened to the Japanese monarchy? Did they also succumb to the nightmare that Japan became when the Allies blockaded it? If so, did the Allies try to find whoever was next in line, or were the Japanese already so deep in despair that they just didn't care about their Emperor anymore and Japan became a republic?

Here:

The emperor was left in a position of ceremonial power (at the suggestion of the British, who saw him as a reasonable pawn to help control the populous) although there were plenty of folks who wanted him to swing by the neck.

The actual power in Japan is the U.S. military governor. Japan is a very different place ITTL compared to OTL.

 

[midnight77]

what happened to the french philosophers of the time? many important philosophers lived through the french occupation - Camus, de Beauvoir, Sarte, etc.

 

[Johannes Parisiensis]

what happened to the french philosophers of the time? many important philosophers lived through the french occupation - Camus, de Beauvoir, Sarte, etc.

Some were left-wing, and Pétain, Darnand and Laval weren't that fond of anyone slightly left off Maurras. So they surely ended dead or were drawn to non-political works, such as teaching. The right-wing ones, such as the aforementioned Maurras, ended up among the inspirers of the current regime (the most anti-German ones ending as the left-wing ones). We have also those who managed to flee New Europe.

 

[gooba]

What if on the day of Stettin there was a the Lunar railgun Malfunctioned when it fired and destroyed the railgun while also causing one or more of the bullets to not only Miss Stettin but to hit.
A. A differnt Prussian City.
B. A city from a different german Statelet.
C. A French/Polish city.
D. An A4 city.

 

[Craig]

What if on the day of Stettin there was a the Lunar railgun Malfunctioned when it fired and destroyed the railgun while also causing one or more of the bullets to not only Miss Stettin but to hit.
A. A differnt Prussian City.
B. A city from a different german Statelet.
C. A French/Polish city.
D. An A4 city.

E. Malmö, Sweden

 

[RamscoopRaider]

What if on the day of Stettin there was a the Lunar railgun Malfunctioned when it fired and destroyed the railgun while also causing one or more of the bullets to not only Miss Stettin but to hit.
A. A differnt Prussian City.
B. A city from a different german Statelet.
C. A French/Polish city.
D. An A4 city.

Can't happen, the mass driver never fired the day Stettin was hit, it fired 60 hours prior.

If the package was fully ballistic then the A-4 knows about a miss days in advance and can evacuate the city and possibly deflect the thing. If only that package was on the way they could claim it was a meteor or a malfunction of the Mass Driver, which was until Stettin officially used as a construction tool, and Stettin gets nuked. If not heads will roll as the sort of failure which leads to the Mass Driver being totally destroyed and a projectile striking a populated place it was not aimed at should be impossible in a rational world, and Stettin still dies. If it is case A then they may claim it was on purpose to save face, maybe even B if that statelet was not 100% compliant

The A4 still has the stuff needed for their monopoly so this is just an embarrassment and no a threat to their power, with the #2 Driver a year from completion and their orbital/lunar nukes still extant

 

[Donald Reaver]

At this point A4 has the monopoly for mass destruction and is not likely to lose it. So for opposing nations they have to fall back to shall we say micro-destruction. Attacks will biological, nerve agents, in time hacking of computer systems.

 

[Stretch]

Hey, just wondering @CalBear could you add in threadmarks so newish members (like me) can read this easier?

 

[nbcman]

Hey, just wondering @CalBear could you add in threadmarks so newish members (like me) can read this easier?

Why? The story including some extra content is posted in the Finished Timelines forum:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-anglo-american-nazi-war.211950/

 

[CalBear]

Why? The story including some extra content is posted in the Finished Timelines forum:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-anglo-american-nazi-war.211950/

^ What he said.

 

[CalBear]

Can't happen, the mass driver never fired the day Stettin was hit, it fired 60 hours prior.

If the package was fully ballistic then the A-4 knows about a miss days in advance and can evacuate the city and possibly deflect the thing. If only that package was on the way they could claim it was a meteor or a malfunction of the Mass Driver, which was until Stettin officially used as a construction tool, and Stettin gets nuked. If not heads will roll as the sort of failure which leads to the Mass Driver being totally destroyed and a projectile striking a populated place it was not aimed at should be impossible in a rational world, and Stettin still dies. If it is case A then they may claim it was on purpose to save face, maybe even B if that statelet was not 100% compliant

The A4 still has the stuff needed for their monopoly so this is just an embarrassment and no a threat to their power, with the #2 Driver a year from completion and their orbital/lunar nukes still extant

A failure would almost certainly result in a insufficient power launch, if not a launch along an entire different axis (the Luna non man-rated drivers are concentric and located near a crater wall specifically to catch debris in case of so a failure would toss the package away from Earth over most of the path or if early in the run-up to release it with retain insufficient velocity to escape Luna's gravity well.

There is also a limited Guidance Package on each projectile. It is not useful for precision work, but it can be used early in the flight to nudge the package into a parabolic pass-by swinging around the Earth and out into deep space (this is how the Mars supply drops are designed to work, time will tell) and somewhat later in flight into one of the ocean (and yes, this options scares the Hell out of the engineering team. In the worst case the A4 would simply do whatever was possible to evacuate the target, two & a half days is a lot of time to get folks out of the relatively small destruction footprint, and several senior officers and a couple civilian oversight managers would be invited to publicly fall on their swords (figuratively) and take the fall.

 

[CalBear]

what happened to the french philosophers of the time? many important philosophers lived through the french occupation - Camus, de Beauvoir, Sarte, etc.

Those who adapted to the new political reality did as well as any other French citizen (i.e. crap sacky). Those who couldn't were designated for labor within the Reich.

 

[Stretch]

I had no idea that it was there, so it is finished?

 

[GDIS Pathe]

I had no idea that it was there, so it is finished?

Yes unless Calbear does a surprise post war update

 

[Stretch]

Yes unless Calbear does a surprise post war update

Thanks, have got it open on another tab to read later.

 

[David Ritz]

Good Evening, CalBear. I was wondering if, in the absence of any significant military snafus after TTL WWII, the nuking the Stettin is even up to the level of controversy as, say, drone assassinations in OTL.

Also, did you see my question related to jet travel at the beginning of page 454?

 

[GDIS Pathe]

Good Evening, CalBear. I was wondering if, in the absence of any significant military snafus after TTL WWII, the nuking the Stettin is even up to the level of controversy as, say, drone assassinations in OTL.

Also, did you see my question related to jet travel at the beginning of page 454?

There is no controversy about Stettin

 

[David Ritz]

There is no controversy about Stettin

Well, according to CalBear, this is a world where the political consensus of the A4 towards the rest of the world makes Charles Krauthammer look like Noam Chomsky!