Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-32656-20140702063541

Either of those South American countries joins, and then Brazil and its other neighbors go after it. Rapid win, there.

Argentina was really not able to invade the Falklands in the 1980s - the amount of troops they landed there was tiny. Think about how badly that would have gone over four decades earlier.

The Germans stopping in those areas is impossible. Goes against quite literally everything Hitler and his staff stood for. Even if they did do it, would not stick. Soviets would overrun it far easier than you think.

That the two were going to eventually fight had more or less nothing to do with Romania, and everything to do with mutual hatred and competing claims.

Remember, Hitler only beat Stalin to the punch, by maybe a year or so.

If the Germans stop at a line like that, that just gives the Soviets basically all of the men and equipment they lost in the invasion otl back. And good luck fortifying a river like that. As for the Baltics, bad idea. More than doubles your defensive lines, and easy to cut off from the rest. Going past Prussia a bad idea, past Lithuania suicidal.

The line you guys describe is roughly the one held in part of 1944. Result of that? Germans lost most of an army group when the Baltics got surrounded.

Not only is it beyond the abilities of WWII Germany to invade the Middle East - both in terms of territory and supplies - but the idea that the Soviets would take advantage of it is correct.

No one but the Germans has Nerve gas until after WWII, when they recover German stocks.

Sending more units to the beachheads would just have made it harder, not stopped the invasion. Not that it is likely any could have gotten there much faster even with orders being given for it. Transport problems galore.

GB, those scenarios are basically ASB.

Correct about the militarism.

Plotters of that coup would have considered surrender to the Allies - they were clear about that part, in retrospect. Just not to the Soviets.

Turkey lacked the ability to attack Cyprus.

Basically all that Liker said is impossible.