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But it can't be a superpower Canada unless it stops being an appendage of the British Empire. OTL that required that the UK be reliant on the US for defense after a very expensive war that left another hostile superpower standing. Without the US that's not going to happen. Superpower Canada...

I suspect that the total demand for animated movies is relatively inelastic with regards to quality since they're primarily purchased by adults for kids. The parents are going to have to sit through them for some viewings so quality does impact which are chosen, but if there is no Shreck I'd...

China did not have oil. It was the Dutch East Indies that were targeted for oil. Siberia didn't have oil yet. That field was discovered after WWII. Sakhalin had oil, but I think it was in the part Japan already held.

This option has some interesting implications. The US is more deeply embroiled in colonialism by participating in a partition of China and is less able to push anticolonialism. With China already partitioned Japan has clear lines it can't cross and is unlikely to give an excuse for embargo. A...

Obama was more sure as a puppet than a martyr. The wrong side might have won a second American Civil War and that would have meant a purge of their influences.

Your thesis as I read it is that the religious division caused the cultural division. Since you implicitly reject the Exodus narrative there would never have been an ethnic division.

These don't tally. If you accept your first thesis any Israel that doesn't at least practice henotheism for an extended period is not an ethnic group distinct from the canaanites and thus cannot be a polytheistic Israel.

Yeah, but the alternative isn't sane, enlightened rule. It's Mao. Even the putative "Japanese Hitler" might have trouble out-doing Mao simply because he wouldn't be able to mobilize the Chinese against themselves and Japan's manpower is much more limited. My expectation would be that by the...

Saying Putin is not to blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is like saying that Hitler is not to blame for the German invasion of Poland. Anyone who thinks that has no credibility to assign secondary blame.

These are two very different scenarios. If it's Germany, Italy, and Japan, America trashes them because there's almost no oil production outside America. Japan has the Karafuto prefecture, but that isn't nearly enough. If it's the whole Axis, Germany probably gets its 1000 year reich thanks...

Knowing Wilson he'd have used them in a false flag attack on cities that didn't vote for him to get into the war earlier.

The Commies didn't have a list because there were no populations they didn't intend to enslave to the last babe in arms and no dissident they didn't plan to exterminate. If you were German or Norse or Frankish or Anglo-Saxon and kept your head down things aren't nearly as bad under Nazism...

A different anti-Communist authoritarian party might still launch something like Barbarossa to remove the threat of a Communist neighbor and get a resource supplying Ukrainian and Crimean puppet state. I don't think Poland gets out of this as an independent nation. Possibly even if France...

It doesn't matter if one side wants peace. If the other still wants war there will still be war.

The Italians tied up a lot of the Royal Navy. Neutral Italy means several extra modern capital ships and their accompanying destroyers and cruisers steaming to Singapore early in the Pacific war just to start with. Without the losses in North Africa, I'm not sure why the Nazis would want...

Stonewall was financed by the Mafia and it made a profit for them. The "news media" personages who made the decisions that made it blow up and become national news sympathetic to the Mafia supporters are where you should look for Soviet influence. Every push beyond overturning sodomy laws is...

There would be none. The LGBTQ+ movement is almost entirely the product of Soviet cultural subversion as described by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov. Some of it may be artificial hormones in food and artificial estrogen analogues in plastics, but without cultural subversion those get treated as...

And there's your real answer. For Russian life expectancy to match Western European life expectancy Communism must collapse because that's what it took to bring East German life expectancy into line with West German life expectancy.

It doesn't do to understate how influential British naval gun manufacturers were. Most smaller navies were using imported British ships and some of the up and coming navies like Russia, Italy, and Japan (by the comparison to railway guns we're talking circa WWI) were using guns imported from...

Britain developed large howitzers too. They sucked in comparison to naval guns. See below. And naval guns can be bigger than mobile land based guns because it's easier to move heavy things by ship than by any form of land transportation. Ships float in water, distributing support forces...