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Let's say that for domestic reasons, in June 1942, just after the fall of Tobruk, President Roosevelt tells Churchill that it's now absolutely out of the question that the Americans participate in any landings in French North Africa that year.
And let's assume that Churchill decides that for political reasons, if the Americans aren't along with it and leading it, the British Empire can't do it, in case it causes Vichy to throw-in with the Axis.
Would there have been any operations that the British and their (imperial) allies could have carried out either on their own or working with the Russians in the remainder of 1942 with forces in the UK that would have otherwise been used in Operation Torch? Would an attempt to liberate the Channel Islands or an effort in Norway have had any chance of success? Or would there have been something else that forces based in the UK could have tried, given potential limitations to distance coverable by shipping and/or air-cover?
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