Will Kürlich Kerl
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What happens if the USA uses the profits of the arms sales to Iran to fund the IRA?
What happens if the USA uses the profits of the arms sales to Iran to fund the IRA?
You realise the IRA were vaguely Marxist, right?
Assuming Skippy the ASB takes over the head of Ronald Reagan (and quite a few others), the consequences would start with:
- NATO is gone, at least so far as the US is concerned. Most of the European powers had problems with similar terrorist groups - if the US is caught funding them, they'll hit the roof.
- Reagan gets impeached, anybody even vaguely connected with this gets in the sh*t as well.
- No idea what the Soviets would make of it, a lot of that will probably depend on exactly when this happened.
Honestly, I think this is actually just about possible provided that instead of Reagan you have a catholic, Irish descended and agressively anti-Colonial president in office.
Even then it's still highly unlikely, but you're certainly not going to have it happen with the OTL administration.
So you might need a POD before the 1980s at least...
The only way I can see it is if either:Honestly, I think this is actually just about possible provided that instead of Reagan you have a catholic, Irish descended and agressively anti-Colonial president in office.
Even then it's still highly unlikely, but you're certainly not going to have it happen with the OTL administration.