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Targetpractice3/27/2017 2:06:19 am PDT

re: #150 freetoken

Regarding TMITHC: we Americans love our guns, and that was true 80 years ago too. No way a few hundred thousand occupying troops could dominate North America. Neither Japan or Germany could have the manpower to occupy North America. Even if Germany has a working A-bomb in 1940, that would just have forced the US (and the rest of the world) into a truce, to allow Germany to hold their gains in Europe. And in the story Japan doesn’t have the A-bomb, and would have been totally dependent upon Germany (which the story alludes) which would have been a very un-Japanese thing to do.

As for SS-GB, it’s universe is a smaller scope and it’s really only centered on England proper being under German control, with the “north” wild (and presumably Ireland also). So in this sense SS-GB is not as far-fetched as TMITHC, yet I still find it problematic that the British Empire would not have fought even if England proper was occupied.

TMITHC seems to rely on the idea that without FDR, the US never pulled itself out of the Depression and never began rearming due to isolationism. And then capped off with a nuclear strike on Washington, D.C. that forced a formal end to the war in ‘45 even though the Nazis spent a further 2 years fighting the American resistance. Meanwhile Japan was already in a formal pact with Germany, so the idea that they would have staged an invasion in concert with the Reich isn’t totally far-fetched. It would have hurt their pride that they didn’t force the formal surrender, but wiping out America as a threat and taking over the West Coast would have assuaged some of that.