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Taking Moscow did nothing for Napoleon and I doubt if it would have proven to be any great boon for Hitler either. The smart move for the Germans would have been falling back to sustainable defensive lines around the oil fields and then building up their armies and support structures for the...

I think it would have been a good competition. Very few American presidents have been fit to lead anything at all and the British at least have a modicum of sophistication in their political class and a long term outlook.

If the loss of British North America was the key to the eventual decline of the British Empire, then the French and Indian war, part of the Seven Years War, strangled the British Empire in its cradle. The Crown decided to rationalize British holdings in North America and establish a regime of...