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If the US in 1982 is replaced by its 1942 version and the 1982 boomers and other nukes outside the US are lost then its likely that the Soviets could take over large areas of the world with little-no fighting as they have nukes and no one else other than Britain, France, China and Israel do...

Not true. The USN and some industrial elements along with the traditional Anglo-phobes rattled their sabres a fair amount but there wasn't a serious desire to attack the UK and Britain was definitely no threat to the US, both from choice and by ~1920 capacity. The only threat Britain posed was...

Those are problems but with an early butterfly a lot could change. With a more westerly and more centralised 'German' state France could be a lot weaker and less of a threat. Especially if as well as not getting dragged too deeply into eastern lands they avoid getting dragged too much into...

Well it would eventually with such a territorial and demographic base. Unless somehow it stays divided into regional areas which is possibly but probably unlikely. [Would depend on the political and geographical details]. Alternatively it stays formally inside the empire but becomes the...

It really needs a POD during the American rebellion or at lastest during a 1812 type conflict. Even then while its possible it would need whatever rump US that survives to really screw themselves over. Unless you end up with a war with about 1920's- 30's technology and the widespread use of...

The other issue here if your talking of a US invasion in the 80's in response to the proposed Iranian attack on Iraq the USSR is still about. It won't take kindly to sizeable US forces on its southern border so expect at the least a lot of 'supplies' reaching the resistance. This would...

In practice all systems become oligarchical if their allowed to ascend or descend to that status. The Nazis didn't actually win a majority as they had only about 38-40% of the vote and this actually declined slightly in the last election before they managed to persuade other groups they...

In that they were the maker of the problem they faced in terms of looking only to military security by superior force which meant they threatened and hence alienated pretty much all their neighbour. That they drove Britain into defensive agreements with both France and Russia - its traditional...

Excepts its the Nazis in control of Germany. Plus even the Prussians desired territorial gains in the east. As demonstrated by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

On the last point I think its both. He hates the US Democratic Party because of their views but he's also made clear repeatedly of his hostility towards the idea of democracy in general, preferring theocratic states with strong aristocratic structures.

You really need to actually understand what Hitler and the Nazis were about. As well as your irrational hatred of democracy which also throws your judgement totally off.

2) As Buba says logistics matters. 3) If Churchill was in power he would have a decision to make as he detested both totalitarian systems. 4) Obviously wrong. Hitler had wanted to invade the Soviet Union from the start. He was even talking about attacking in autumn 39 after the fall of...

1) Well there was clear interest in such a dow against the Soviets during the Winter War so its not impossible but it does seem unlikely. I believe that the two governments had made clear to Warsaw that the guarantee of their borders applied only to the Nazis, not the Soviets. 2) Likely a...

It would depend on the exact circumstances but there would be a bloody strong reaction if it was related to a foreign elements - i.e. Argentina or the most likely probability at this time would be the IRA. If its some rogue lunatic then shock and horror and a lot might depend on how the...

Well one of the strangest in OTL was demonstrated in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels where the nature of the world, a flat earth mounted on 4 elephants which in turn stood on a giant turtle was based on an real life religion IIRC. I'm not sure there was a WTF reaction from the Jews, just...

IIRC there were a lot of white refugees that ended up in Manchuria and related areas after the Russian civil war so, once its clear the whites were losing I could see a lot of them being willing to work alongside the Japanese to rescue something. Especially since Japan was not - at least not...

You missed my point. I mentioned that OTL Japan didn't need to [try to] conquer China. In your proposed ATL where Japan holds a good chunk of eastern Siberia - they wouldn't get the western bit and had no real interest in it as far as I'm aware - the same would apply. They are still likely to...

Very difficult because with the Greek 'threat' in decline their the two big powers and hence natural rivals. You could get some partition agreement with say Rome getting the Italian mainland and Carthage Sicily and other islands. However sooner or later Rome will seek to expand outside Italy...

Japan didn't need conquests OTL in China. Its just that the predominant military culture in control thought they did. That's unlikely to change easily without massive changes in Japanese culture of the time. OTL that was done by the crushing defeat in WWII.

Yes basically. Several of his son's were given Danish names in part of curry favour with the Danish kings Godwine served prior to Edward coming to the throne.