Short of Mussolini abandoning his support for Italian entry in the war, I can't see him being allowed to stay in the party tbh. And since a belief in militarism and support for Italian involvement in WW1 was clearly one of the cornerstones of Mussolini's personal beliefs, I can't see him...
The idea seems pretty ASB to be honest. The US oil embargo was crippling Japan, and unless the Japanese government can be persuaded to give up on China, which is extremely unlikely, they're either going to bankrupt themselves or be forced to expand into the European colonies for the resources...
As John Farson and Rogue Beaver have said, it depends how you go about getting him to survive that long. He'd been ill for years, and was a dying man at Yalta. If in the unlikely event he does survive, unless he makes some kind of miraculous recovery I cant see him getting that much done, he'd...
Yes, the average American (and Russian, i dont know why they were included in the list of baddies) soldier would act differently to a German soldier who has been exposed to Nazi propaganda for a decade and has engaged in widespread slaughter of civilians on the Eastern Front (and, in some...
The problem with this is that Britain's carriers letting the USN focus on the Pacific and Indian Oceans leaves a gap in North Atlantic ASW coverage, and the USN placing greater emphasis on ASW as opposed to a large CVN force would require significant changes in US doctrine. There is also the...
I think this is the most important point. As with CVF, its likely that a RN spending OTL's budget on trying to maintain/ build 2 (which seems a fairly useless number) carriers is going to have to make massive compromises with the escorts, and at the end of the day, unless theres a radical change...
It depends on what the rest of the fleet is like. If the Navy gets the budget for a decent escort force, I doubt it, but if it ends up like the Navy is going to in a few years with 2 carriers, 11 frigates and a couple of guys in rowing boats, then I think they'd still try it.
I think "Peak Oil" as a world threat is overrated, people arent going to just wake up one day and the price has skyrocketed, its going to rise gradually, and the global economy is going to adapt. France is largely dependent on nuclear energy, Britain and Germany are moving towards more gas and...
No. Contrary to popular opinion Republicans dont harbour a secret desire to round up and commit genocide against minorities, ethnic groups aren't all collective hiveminds, gangs of any colour are usually too busy fighting each other to come together and "cleanse" their areas, and America doesnt...
Def Leppard still regularly do big arena tours, at least here in the UK, but I get your point. I have a friend who went to see the new "Guns n Roses", apparently Axl Rose was 40 minutes late coming onstage, if he's that un professional on a regular basis i can see it becoming an issue between...
Relations with Russia improved largely as a result of mutual fear of Germany, with the Germans out of the way I would be suprised if Anglo-Russian relations dont slide again, especially if Russia avoids revolution and continues its rapid economic growth. Russia could attempt to expand and take...
I dont really think hostility with the US following an alt-WW1 is the way to go. British and US co-operation led to advancements in technology that benefitted both sides in WW2, and so unity in the face of a greater Japanese threat (or at least an absence of the Nazis so Britain keeps her eye on...
Are you really suggesting this is all the US did? Really? I know it doesnt fit it into the "evil yankee capitalist rightists let the glorious workers of the Soviet Union do all the hard work whilst they got rich" image that some left wingers seem to have of WW2, but that is completely untrue...
I dont see why Spain would join the Axis if they seemed to be doing well, they didnt in OTL even when France had fallen and the end seemed nigh for Britain. Franco wasnt an idiot, he'd realise that Spain didnt really have that much to gain from joining the Axis, Spain was still devastated from...
Every country had contingency plans for unforeseen events, do you think the existence of War Plan Red is proof that US leaders of the time were secretly planning to invade Canada? Churchill lost in 45 because of weariness with a decade of Tory government, a feeling that Labour could "win the...