Recent content by Derek Pullem

Classic Media is a rounding error in the Fox / Time Warner deals so it wouldn't have made any difference. Disney already had the marketing for Dreamworks so can't see the drive to acquire Classic Media if Dreamworks were going to. Given the conspicuous lack of success that Classic Media IP...

If the Finnish collapse is relatively early (e.g. Soviets fully exploit their armoured breakthrough at Summa and the Mannerheim Line is turned) then the likely outcome is a puppet Red Finland via the Finnish Democratic Republic. How stable this might be is anyone's guess. Of course then In...

I think the area on the map is unfeasible but the idea of a Polish safe haven is not so unlikely. something like the "Free city of Krakow" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Cracow but in this case guaranteed by Britain, France and the USA. Maybe based around Osnabruck. It would be...

It's very difficult to say as the three options (lost, stalemate and didn't happen) offer very different outcomes. If stalemate and "didn't happen" mean that Japan retains its position in Korea, even without any position in Manchuria then I think little changes. The victory offered Japan so...

Army of 20,000 split by the coup with no artillery is unlikely to pose a significant threat to Entente interests

So PQ 17 gets +1 carrier in covering force and an escort carrier in the convoy itself as per PQ18. And the destroyers are first rate. EDIT - the Hampdens got sent earlier too PQ18 still lost 33% of its ships though A lot will depend on the German intentions -

China - they could have declared for the Germans in OTL but it wouldn't change a thing. In OTL Germans provided some support for one faction of the warlords who attempted to restore the monarchy but they failed. If they succeeded then it would just mean more civil war in China. Iran - much of...

Nah, not buying it. Britain would be pissed but when they did lose they just picked up their toys and played somewhere else (ARW) or waited a generation ( 1st Boer War). I don't doubt that Britain would aggressively compete with Germany but thats not revanchism its just SOP. Russia is the...

You miss the point - Churchill gave Gort and Phillips carte blanche on the 5 December and they sailed at 0430 on the 6 December. The depthcharging of Regulus 18 hours later is merely confirmation that the decision taken the day before was correct. I would not be surprised if the British...

"Former naval person" could pick up the phone. May be somewhat cryptic given the lack of scrambler technology but I'm sure that the message could be conveyed that something urgent is coming through the channels right NOW.

That is if the information comes from all the way the front line to Pearl. What might be more pertinent is that Winston may inform FDR of the British intent to interdict suspected Japanese invasion convoys heading to Thailand and that by itself may be enough to put the USN in the Pacific at a...

cant check all the figures in this article but it sounds like he's done his homework. https://en.topwar.ru/174335-pravda-o-zahvachennoj-majkopskoj-nefti.html Germans managed to put about 1 per cent of Maikop production into service, less of refined products after the Russians had left...

For the British, India is the key. Arguably WW2 delayed self government but without the trauma of WW2 and the perception that a strong India was a better geopolitical ally for UK, India may be more balkanised. Either way if India gains self rule in the early 1940's, even if it is similar to...

So keep the conscripts sweating away in Palestine surrounded by Arabs expecting them to hand over the country. And unlike OTL there is no "victory" to celebrate only debt and defeat. In that context what is another worthless colony with a rebellious population of Arabs who have been screwed...

This would be keeping a large number of troops guarding worthless pieces of sand whilst their capitals are suffering alt-Spartacist style rioting??