True. Probably still had plans to napalm them further in land though. Also given German Vs Allied naval capability it's likely the British would still be able to annihilate any invasion as it lands anyway. A couple of light divisions with next to no tanks won't get very far after all.
The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery
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Perhaps more importantly, the A4's locking up of middle east oil fields will likely have meant there was no equivalent of the 1973 oil crisis: counter-intuitive as it sounds that crisis was actually bad for nuclear energy.
The crisis triggered conservation measures which reduced demand for energy (causing many nuclear power projects to be cancelled, as they were predicated on much higher levels of forecast energy use) and also resulted in a decade of high interest rates (to control the inflation caused by high oil prices, and which also disproportionately hurt nuclear with its very front-loaded costs) which was in turn followed by a couple of decades of low natural gas prices which nuclear couldn't compete with.
And as for public opinion turning against nuclear power, wasn't that at least in part because ratepayers came to associate nuclear power with rising prices (perhaps because the costs of servicing debts taken to build nuclear plants had increased so much that utilities were forced to pass them on to the consumer), rather than because of the "classic" anti-nuclear arguments?
Without communism and socialism being exported because there is no Cold War, Chavez won't rise to power. It might be a second-world country, unlike OTL.
They still burn his body in effigy every May 1st.
Molotov could not save the Soviet Union. He did his best. Stalin should not have purged the generals for the loss of Stalingrad. At Stalin kept his cool, the Soviets would have at least counterattacked or made it hell for the Germans ala the Vietnam War rather than be reduced to a rump state in the heart of Siberia.
And everybody else was dead by that point. He also was in charge during the whole collaboration period and the final indignity when Russia was gassed. Be easier to list the reasons not to hate him actually...🤔
In a world with a "Silicon Gulf" around places like Louisiana, I wonder what became of the Cajun people in this TL:
Didn't Stalin have Molotov's wife in a Gulag while Molotov was foreign minister?
What does that have to do with him ruling the Soviet Union ITTL?
Might go to why he did him (it's obvious Stalin was murdered), that said rock and a hard place and while he made a terrible decision that eventually killed sixty million Soviet's he saw ending the war as the only option just then.
Seeing the last of the Greatest Generation and some of the Silent Generation reach into old age and die out in this decade, there won't be any OTL people left by this TL's 2030s-2040s. It is there that it will be completely alien from OTL's viewpoint.
World in 2023 is already really different than OTL 2023. Not in unrecognsible level but still very different. Even presidents of the United States since 1981 are comple nobodies in OTL or at least not such whom you would find from Wkipedia. But most radically changed area is definitely Europe, United States, Canada and most of Asia.
Correct.
Every U.S. president from 1981 does not exist in OTL, although some of their cabinet members and some American politicians born prior to 1943 may take up positions. Example is John McCain, who represented as Arizona as Senator from 1994 to 2008 for this TL.
Europe is the most affected as 60 years after the end of the Second Global War, it's still a poverty stricken area. It has not fully recovered. Europe would be comparable to OTL Somalia or OTL Syria.
How about Europe as of 2100 AD?
In terms of retrospectives, how does academic researchers and historians view the state of the continent as of 2100 AD where Europe might be on the verge of slowly moving out from postwar Dark Ages, except for Italy, Iberia, and Scandinavia?
Perhaps by then, Europe outside Berlin would have recovered. Perhaps the German statelets would be in a second-world status.
Essentially, one can consider this ANNW Europe to be in a second Dark Age but in modern history.
What country could be a dominant power in the European continent as of 2100?
Is it likely that dialects of Rhenish, Low German, and Bavarian would become standard languages, thus leaving German as an extinct language?
I only assume that German language would be dead, only for successor such as Austro-Bavarian, Rhenish, Low German or Saxon, and Swiss to be diverged.