Recent content by naraht

You mean targets for off-shore bombardments?

Sometimes, I think that the fact that anyone with the last name of Marcos has come anywhere *near* political power in the Philippines again says all that needs to be said. :(

Perhaps Germany is unwilling to risk having a Danish Monarch less Germanophile than a Scavenius regency?

Sort of like Europe in the GAW, they are using British insistence on free trade on the seas to make money. Otoh, France played lots of games on the Bloc Sud side and Germany was somewhat of a friend in the development of the Nicaraguan Canal. I don't know if they get more involved if any...

Germany would close the belt to make sure the French Navy doesn't get into the Baltic. It gives them a safe place to put ships without concern of them being attacked.

the question is as much fuel as food. I don't know how much of the IJA was horse mounted (which adds to the food issues) vs. needed Gasoline, I'd be surprised if any significant Gasoline (or other Oil products) reached Japan after February (ish) 1945. As a comparison of the Irish, there are...

Of course, this assumes that the Kiel Canal exists ittl, it wasn't started iOtl until 1887 (and finished in 1895) and was widened due to the needs of the Imperial Navy beginning in 1907 and ending in 1914, but if the author says is there, I wouldn't be surprised, the needs aren't really *that*...

Agreed, but the freedom of using the Belt is probably one of the top half dozen "keeping free trade open everywhere" accomplishments of the UK (in both Otl and this one.) Discussions will be had, the Germans can't afford to have either the UK or Russia that ticked off. However, the first time a...

Remember, at this point, the closest thing to a republic in Europe is Switzerland. I think a horthy analogue might work...

Shipping in and out of the belt *will* continue, unless the Germans want the Russians to come into the war on the other side (and probably the British with them), the question is whether French Submarines can manage to make it through the Belt. I expect the German Navy to keep some *light* level...

Famine and the diseases of Famine would have *mostly* been handled once the American soldiers landed. getting food to Japanese Civilians in the absence of any resistance would have been relatively trivial with the logistics of the US Military at that point. But still "Grave of the Fireflies" *...

the DC universe has a landlocked country in Eastern Europe called Vlatava with a royal family. It appears that the only option with a Post 1900 POD to get a country in Europe *entirely* east of Vienna, landlocked and with a royal family would be a Serbia on the losing side in WWI. I'm wondering...

Could we see Krakow and Lvov being part of the same country?

there is a road from Moscow to Archangelsk. Is most of Siberia *that* much worse than the cities on that road?