Recent content by Anarch King of Dipsodes

Who? He hasn't been mentioned before. Wiki sez he was the Khan whose domain was Tibet.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut each had an "established church" from the time of the original Puritan settlement. That is, a church recognized as the official church of the country, supported by taxation and with attendance or at least membership required. The practice of...

It should have already happened. Not that large, but significant in the relatively small milieu. Possibly some degree of diversion of Catholic Irish to a Catholic country. Californie should have a substantial Irish community. They could be relatively loyal against the Protestant Yankees.

The USSR will not recognize this, nor the puppet regime it will establish. The Åland islands would not be defensible against Soviet forces. The easternmost islands are less than a kilometer off the mainland, in easy reach of Soviet artillery to support landings. (Also those islands are not part...

Gallup took a poll on 8 December - the day after Pearl Harbor and before the US declared war on Japan. It showed over 90% support for declaring war on Germany as well. The US was already hostile to Germany (especially Roosevelt), and in wartime, rulers tend to get what they want. Roosevelt...

Hitler died on 30 April, but Germany did not surrender until 7 May. However - German units surrendered as early as 14 September 1939 (the crew of U-39), and as the war proceeded very large German units surrendered, e.g. V Panzer Army in Tunisia in May 1943, regardless of Hitler's orders. But...

By the end of WW II, the American attitude toward Germans was quite "dehumanizing". Many people had come to believe that the two world wars showed that Germans were incorrigibly warlike and destructive. One can find proposals for defeated Germany that include quarantine for decades and even...

Actually, the mass internment of Japanese-Americans in spring 1942 was almost entirely motivated by racism and greed. I emphasize the date, because the 5,000-8,000 J-As who were actual security risks were all interned in December 1941-January 1942. The internment of all J-As in the entire...

It could be very ugly at first. While the militarism and racism of the German Empire has sometimes been exaggerated, especially in view of the later record of Nazi Germany, those tendencies were already present. If WW I is a quick and decisive CP victory, I would expect those tendencies to...

Silly in many respects. For one thing, if WW II segues into US/UK defeat of the USSR, then Communism is dead, and Red is not very scary anymore. Also, the horrors of Stalinist Communism would be revealed and publicized, further discrediting Red. Furthermore, decolonization was coming even...

Great foolishness. It would greatly embarrass Vittorio Emanuele, but it would provoke outrage among the royalty of Europe (and royalists) - even more than an assassination. The latter could be seen as madness, misguided idealism, or response to "tyranny". This would be crime, pure and simple...

CATAPULT was planned and executed in view of what the British in late June thought the French navy might do. At that time, Pétain was (correctly) recognized by Britain as a very great influence. My point was that the removal of Pétain before CATAPULT substantially changes the circumstances...

Very good. Is the ERE really this far gone?

But without Pétain, the fleet moving to safety is also more likely. The British may pause to see how things are breaking before taking any irrevocable action. And I suggested that even if CATAPULT begins as OTL, Darlan probably won't be incommunicado, which could change the outcome.

A significant knock-on: The USSR would gain control of the Petsamo region in arctic Finland, where major nickel deposits were being developed by INCO, the Canadian firm that operated (and still does) the huge Sudbury mine in western Ontario. The USSR occupied Petsamo in 1939, but withdrew at the...