What if Britain invaded Russia? Hoi4 Alt History Operation Unthinkable

[@enrixosjjdjd187]

What if Stalin lost the post lenin power struggle to Trotsky?

[@thattigercat]

Then you've got a bolshevik jew trying to foment violent communist uprisings across the world and especially in Europe and history gets written very very differently

[@8-bitstream379]

@enrixosjjdjd187 Firstly, trotsky was not a likely candidate to succeed lenin. Even if he was, lenin gave stalin a massive position of power on purpose, because he seemed to trust stalin. Stalin was actually the person who visited lenin the most in his sickness. Rykov or Bukharin were more likely candidates to replace lenin than trotsky was.

[@wilbysot343]

@@8-bitstream379 lenin didnt trust stalin in the slightest, thats why he actually wasnt given any real position of power, its more how stalin used his position as secretary to manipulate soviet politics which later gave him the ability to rise to power you are right though, immediately following lenin's death, stalin did everything in his power to prevent trotsky from ascending to power, and likely lost his chance within the first year or two, and rykov, bukharin, zinoviev, kirov among others were more likely candidates later in soviet history

[@adamelghalmi9771]

trotsky would have made the USSR opps with the entire world lol

[@enrixosjjdjd187]

@@8-bitstream379 sure I just want to see a scenario where Stalinism was replaced by internationalist „trotskyism“, Idc who exactly the leader may be

[@Sooper-Pumpkin]

Idea: What if Republican Spain (somehow) won the Spanish civil war and declared war on Germany at the start of operation Barbarossa

[@Kuwaiti_with_gun]

Underrrated

[@WaterZer0]

Amazing. Hope it wins the poll.

[@michaeltengrootenhuysen5732]

It could open a lot of possibilities what if the soviets didn't screw as much with the republicans or that they were able to hold their ground in the west so that the nationalist front stayed split. The possibilities are endless

[@JayneTeeter]

I'm pretty sure this wouldn't have significantly impacted the overwhelming success of Barbarossa, as most of northern Spain borders Vichy France, and the natural barrier of the Pyrenees would have prevented any serious invasion attempts. However the political influence that Germany had in that region would definitely lessen.

[@elseggs6504]

​@@JayneTeeter It wouldve made them station more troops in France at the very least

[@ajaxghosted5540]

What if the Kaiser remained in power after losing ww1

[@theshadowdimension62]

I hope this goes hella far

[@RosemaryThe845]

Revolution prob

[@TopatTom]

Thats like saying “what if napoleon swam back from saint halena and then became emperor of france again.” But both are cool to think about.

[@jimtalbott9535]

@@TopatTomBut that’s why he’s offering it here as a suggestion, NOT as a “what-if?” to be answered.

[@Ksescel]

Like Japan?

[@Spanishinquisition98]

What if Oswald Mosley came to power in the UK? Im not giving up, and I really just wanna see stakuyi talk about Mosley, if Im honest

[@beavernation57]

Yes!

[@michaeltengrootenhuysen5732]

Me too, he's just very intresting to talk about and study.

[@tylermorrison420]

Good idea

[@someonewhonooneseverheardo5271]

He's technically already done this

[@8-bitstream379]

Hoi4 oswald mosley is kind of inaccurate honestly.

[@michaeltengrootenhuysen5732]

What if instead of the schlieffenplan, germany held at Elsace Lotharingia and went east to capture the wheatfields of the Oekraïne to counteract the food shortages of the naval blockade , then pushes to the Urals to quickly capture Russias industrie and capitulate Russia so they can then focus completely on the western front. (Call it operation Frederick) Edit:thx for the 200 likes, it means a lot Edit 2: 250 likes,Jesus. This probably makes it one of the suggestions, so Stakuyi if you're reading this: You can't escape the great war redux mod stakuyi. We yearn for the great war redux mod stakuyi. The great war redux is love. The great war redux is life. Probably last edit: thanks for the 300 likes. It would've been an honour to have been one of the options, even if it would've most likely lost. It just sucks that stakuyi decided to skip these suggestions as all of them are really cool.

[@DieHeiligeSchüssel]

Thats actually interesting

[@MrKangaroo123]

that is actually a really interesting scenario: are we talking ww1 or 2 or the coming 3rd world war??

[@n00b5lay3r]

Perhaps they'll call it Operation Karl der Große (Carl the Great aka Charlemagne)

[@michaeltengrootenhuysen5732]

​​@@DieHeiligeSchüssel thanks man, my history class went over the first world war and the main reasons why it capitulated and personally this fixes most of them, yes the spanish flu shall still happen and the other central powers are still as weak, but there'll be almost no food shortages, which means less civil unrest. Plus i'm sure that the war will end sooner this way, as with both Austrian and German focus on Russia, Russia will fall faster, which means that the experienced troops of the eastern front are earlier at the western front, where the entente didn't get as experienced, seeing as the German troops don't attack and just hold their positions. This ends the war quicker thus hopefully preventing the devastating effect on morale that was the American intervention.

[@michaeltengrootenhuysen5732]

​@@MrKangaroo123 The first , as the food shortages had the biggest impact in that one

[@OtterSpace975]

Hey, that gives me an idea. What if there was no appeasement?

[@bop1k]

the oster conspiracy maybe

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@bop1k i like oyster sandwich

[@jpc347]

One point of note for the video: Allied and Soviet divisions were not equal in terms of size. A standard Soviet rifle division had about 9500 troops in it at full nominal strength while the average American division was 15,000 men strong. So while the Soviets may have had a 2x nominal divisional strength advantage in the European theatre the actual manpower difference was much less. Then there's the fact that this is nominal strength that we're talking about with many of those Soviet divisions being battered and bruised from many years of intense fighting in Europe. The advantage was still on the Soviets side but the skew was nowhere near as heavy as this video implies.

[@andresdominguez4914]

What if the United Arab Republic was a success? (Egypt/Cold War mod)

[@pjmetzen3483]

The issue with numbers is that while the Soviets had more divisions, after the grind of pushing to Berlin, the Soviet army division strength were about half strength. In addition, the Soviets were in a similar situation to the Germans supply wise and were in hostile territory compared to the Allies, especially in Poland.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Exactly! If the people of the occupied states of Poland, Germany, the Baltics, a good portion of the former Balkan axis, and the defeated but unbroken Ukrainians learned that the allies were pushing to actually liberate them (Not the phony totally not imperialistic "under new management" that the commies brought) they would've lit the logistics of their homelands on fire if not partaken in outright revolution. The Soviets took to a policy of loot, grape, and plunder whenever they exhausted their supply lines and the occupied territories _hated_ them for it they just couldn't do anything about it. There's a propaganda story from the winter war about an old lady living in a cabin in Rural Finland who was notified by some soldiers that the Reds were coming and they needed to destroy her Cabin to deny the enemy shelter. She took a broom, swept the floors and sat in her chair one last time before going to the hearth and started the blaze herself. Imagine that, but over the entire former eastern front. Hell considering that the Muslim majority Turkic regions also had their religion suppressed by the soviets they might also rise up in a holy war at the same time too.

[@D_clocktale]

Well, it wouldn't have changed the result shown in the video much.

[@DavidNaval]

@@D_clocktalei mean maybe initially, but as the war drags on the soviets simply can’t match american industry, they would run out of supplies, especially considering the allies would likely bomb the supply lines into dust

[@williamethandedios7151]

What if Operation Valkyrie went successful in killing Hitler?

[@rextroop1941]

I feel like that would've caused the western Allies to attack the Soviets who would've kept on pushing.

[@gergelygrosz3181]

Nothing basically. The war was already started with all four Allies. Maybe negotiations for peace coming from both sides.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@rextroop1941 why? millions more dead for nothing.

[@rextroop1941]

@@adamelghalmi9771 Because after WW2 the communists murdered 110 million people during the Cold War. And we had a chance to stop those evil monsters, I believe we should have.

[@SwedieYT]

What if Sweden joined The Central Powers in WW1?

[@KellAnderson]

Best way to have that happen would be if Admiral Essen wasn't recalled in time.

[@Mr_Godmode]

What if the Ottomans survived after WW1 (they still lost it but weren't beaten afterwards) (10)

[@BlackBanditXX]

1:45 An important point of reference, Western divisions were (and still are) larger than Russian Divisions. US Divisions for example had ~14,000 men, where as their Russian counterparts had 10,000. Meaning if you look at actual fielded manpower, the difference isn't that large.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

The west also has studied logistics for decades and has refined the transport of Men, Material, and Munitions down to a science. If the Invasion of Ukraine is anything to go by logistics is still not and will never be a strong point for the Russian Military.

[@jpc347]

Also don't forget that this is nominal strength, not actual. The Soviets had been fighting heavily on the Eastern Front for four years by this point and few divisions were actually at their nominal strength. That and the Soviets heavily relied on the US for logistical equipment.

[@Dont14-r4k]

Yeah the if the Germans taught anything, you could be heavily outnumbered and still make the Soviet's lives absolute hell on earth.

[@D_clocktale]

​@@Dont14-r4k excluding the fact that at the beginning of the operation the Germans outnumbered the soviet army, and when the Soviets transferred divisions from the border with Japan, it became hell for the german troops.

[@Dont14-r4k]

@@D_clocktale at the very beginning in Barbarossa, so from 1942-1945 the Germans, despite being in a hellhole themselves, made the Soviets cry and crack. I mean you can still see the effects of the German Invasion on the Population to this day.

[@IAMTHEMACHINE106]

What if Operation Weserübung failed. Aka, what if Norway and Denmark had resisted German occupation.

[@adiuntesserande6893]

What if the Anglo-French Union idea was adopted? (This is a Road to '56 thought.)

[@Chance-tv2jn]

What if the United States never went to war with Germany? (Japan is still attacked, but Germany does not declare war on the U.S and vice versa.)

[@JoeDueterte]

Easy clap for the Germans. We’d be living in a literal paradise

[@misterchildyeeter]

@@JoeDueterte elaborate a little on what you consider a paradise, i don't think germany was coming out of that regardless even if they didn't go to war with the US

[@wilbysot343]

the US would've inevitably still declared war on germany, however maybe without operation torch, husky, or the large strategic bombing effort, germany wouldnt have been as destroyed as it was in our timeline.

[@DDniceNeasy]

He answered that in a video 😂

[@lazy747unitedairlines]

@@JoeDuetertehow would it be a paradise. I guess you could argue the Soviets could have still won, but it would have been far deadlier if they had won. And that’s if they won, which could be argued against because the Soviets could have not received lend lease aid. This could have theoretically led to defeat of the Soviets, but if so, Germanys total plans for the east would have gone through. so yeaaaaaaaaaa, not the greatest bud. but than theirs the scenario where the Soviets when, which could be argued to actually be an alright thing, especially if the Soviets modernize their form of communism and give their people rights giving them the best aspects of communism. But than again most likely millions of more Soviets would have died. So yeah your just wrong tbh

[@theweirdcore]

What if Spain was more stable before WW1 and decided to choose a side during the war?

[@MrKangaroo123]

another really interesting scenario!

[@n00b5lay3r]

Alternatively we can make a what if Spain won the Spanish-American War (or lost less hard)

[@nonverbalpie8151]

Things are about to get real... Also since my previous suggestion was selected and even in 3 polls I decided to not suggest another scenario for 3 what if videos. So here's my new one... What if the United States joined the Central Powers?

[@andrzejczyzykowski3397]

What if Poland won Poland-Bolshevik war "more"

[@andysierra1618]

They did won and took everything they could have possibly wanted

[@elseggs6504]

​@@andysierra1618the only way they couldve went further was to annex Ukraine and theres no way that wouldve lasted

[@krasnamerah1926]

Would be untenable with minorities uprisings in the Polish-occupied territories soon.

[@andysierra1618]

@@elseggs6504 Yeah and that wasn't their objective neither

[@andrzejczyzykowski3397]

@@andysierra1618 Well, that's my country. I was wandering about Miedzymorze idea. In our timeline it wasn't possible. But maybe Stakuyi could make it :D

[@Cat_DeGaulle]

I have seen so many videos about operation unthinkable recently get uploaded its crazy

[@tylermorrison420]

What if UK agreed to peace terms with germany after the fall of France? (The soviets have to defend against germany without lend lease or the possibility of the allies opening up a second front)

[@thequinnimator]

So TWR?

[@DaBigWilliG1995]

I think what you’re not taking into account is just how much the soviets where propped up by the western resources the Soviets would have lost to Germany without the copious amount of materials they got from America and so when this tap was turned off and the war continued but now on two fronts for them would have bled them dry much faster especially if they then had their main production centres nuked, the other thing we have never seen is nukes being used against military targets rather than as terror weapons although I myself am not sure how effective they would have been or if the allies would have been able to take advantage of that even if they were effective.

[@TopatTom]

Stak your videos are way too good. I cant imagine the research and *pain* you had to do these stuff for our entertainment and learning. Your seriously awesome

[@terhop3780]

I still love that in every allied what if run Poland gets shafted at best and wiped out at worst. And then in the Russian monarchy run they were liberated with the most land.

[@firesturmgaming]

What if Operation Downfall had to take place because Japan refused to surrender after being nuked twice? (Ironman mode edition.) Also, key thing to note for the Soviets is that by the time they reached Berlin, the Soviets had only about 6% of their pre-war recruitable male population left.

[@chrisreed4065]

One thing to consider is that soviet divisions were smaller than their western counterparts. A late war soviet rifle division had an "on paper" strength of about 9500 men whereas a 1945 U.S. infantry Division had an "on paper" strength of 15,000 men. This translate all down the line in terms of unit size. The manpower disparity would not be as great as depicted. Soviet fighter aircraft would struggle against their western counterparts at high altitude as they weren't designed for it, most fighting in the air occured at medium to low altitude on the eastern front. This means that a high altitude bombing campaign would be very effective. Western pilot and plane quality was also much higher, you only have to look at the battle of the phillipine sea to see what happens in such circumstances. My guess would be an initial Western surge that would be stopped then reversed but the Soviets would not be able to exploit the reversal because every rail hub and logistic station between Moscow and wherever the front is would be completely obliterated. The result, a stalemate that would either result in the use of the bomb or an armistice.

[@Idealdeath8304]

Idea: what if Britain and Germany had made peace and went to war on the Soviet’s like hitler wished?

[@Ladiesman-iw9gc]

LGM

[@Idealdeath8304]

@@Ladiesman-iw9gc lgm brother

[@lazy747unitedairlines]

pretty unrealistic, but cool scenario

[@zacharymorehouse8501]

Idea: What if America aligned with the Central Powers in WW1. (Personally, I think this is an arguably more historically plausible scenario if some elements were shifted around).

[@wariorwolf]

What if chemical warfare happened in europe during WW2? Germany had huge stockpiles of Sarin and the UK stockpiled Anthrax, so in my eyes it's more surprising it didn't happen.

[@kurtschaefer6845]

Hmm never thought of that before. Morbidly interesting

[@noneed4sleep64]

In our own timeline, the Soviets had more divisions, tanks and planes, but their divisions were beaten and bruised, and the reinforcements they were receiving were freshly conscripted kids. Their tanks were of shockingly poor quality (those that they didn’t receive from the Allies, anyway) and their planes simply couldn’t compete with the planes of the RAF and USAAF. The Soviets may have had the numbers advantage, but the allies had the equipment and industrial advantage, and those matter more than raw manpower.

[@thatzombiplayer7993]

Here's one what if Finnland continued to push out after Russia went in (partially so History-Boi has to talk about Simo Häyä)

[@Userbie78]

What if Poland was better prepared for the the german invasion in 1939

[@andyfriederichsen]

IIRC part of the plan to liberate Eastern Europe involved conscripting German POWs to increase the Allied numbers.

[@t26e3pershingtank]

"no major offensives would be going on at this time" Plan R4 and Operation Weserübung: Allow us to introduce ourselves

[@GamingTillLate]

If Lend lease from the US was at a reduced level then Russian attrition would be increased as their resources dwindled. The US could have decided how weak to leave the USSR, just as their help at a price cost the British Empire

[@mortyjhones4068]

I think one of the BIG diferances that would have to change is the american atituid towards Lend Leace. Britan would not have continued the artic convoys after the revolution, and it would have tryed to force the same conditions for lend lease onto the sovet's. Blocking the americans from full aide towards the sovet union most probly by demanding the same conditions. With Far less Chemiocals for HE rounds and worse logistics the soviets would be hard pressed to keep there heavy armour equiped and the infantey suplyed.

[@lucabuchwald9744]

I need a "What if Finland went in help of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution" or a "What if the Bolshevik coup was in Germany AND Russia". Crazy, I know.

[@dioniscaraus6124]

"Famine would spread across Europe" Made me laugh, that's just business as usual in Eastern Europe

[@vampd2660]

Stakuyi! Are you excited for the new DLC coming? Germany is getting some fun stuff and i feel like you will love it!

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

Attempt 13: (Using the Great War Redux again) What if Italy honored the Triple Alliance and eventually joined the Central Powers when WWI comes around?

[@d0ntfeedphil447]

Idea: what if Operation Downfall actually happened?

[@MrKangaroo123]

What if British fears came true and the Germans entered the second Boer War on the side of the Dutch boers. (May need to play vic 2 or 3 for this scenario)

[@tanksoldier]

One thing to consider, if the western allies fought Russia offensively or defensively Russian logistic support from the west would be cut off, and the US likely WOULD have used nukes prolifically.

[@ocean26457]

what if Ireland got real support from Germany during the 1916 rising which lead to a version of operation emerald?

[@Lopez0451]

1:52 I loved how the camera glitched his face LOL

[@NullScorpion]

The fact that Norway didn’t fall was actually possible in this timeline! As in our timeline the British sent an expeditionary force of lightly armed recruits who immediately suffered massive casualties and losses and pulled out

[@andyfriederichsen]

What if the West came to Hungary's aid during the Hungarian Revolution in the 1950s?

[@tomikasza5198]

Please, keep asking for this one

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

I think a hot war between the East and West in late ‘45/early ‘46 would drop into a stalemate until Soviet cities start turning into instant fireballs. The Red Air Force would not access to a lot of the high octane aviation fuel that it got from the other allied nations, thus dooming them from being able to fly high altitude missions. No high altitude missions (or severely reduced) would give US Superfortresses free rein to bombard anything and everything that could ever be useful to the Soviets. The B-29 regularly flew extreme range missions against Japan and could easily hit targets in Belorussia and Ukraine and if using airfields in the Middle East, could even hit the oil fields in Baku. The only other area of concern would be the Middle East itself, where not a lot of forces were stationed and Iran being on the border with the USSR. Soviet logistics would be at the end of their rope already as everything would need to be transported by Train and then truck, which means that supplies can be interdicted by bombing raids and then fighter-bombers after the Red Air Force is diminished by a little bit. Once nukes enter the field, it’s all jover for the Soviets. Also, British Jet engines would not end up in the hands of the Soviets and the Jumo engines of the 262 can only get you so far, so jets are off the table to the Soviets in the immediate term while the Meteor and P-80 would be deployed. On the frontline, it would be hell for the first month, but American reinforcements would come pouring back in. The conflict would not have any side making major breakthroughs but will se Soviet territory itself start to fall as Marines hit the shores in Vladivostok. Everyone likes to say “The Soviets beat 70% of the German army on the eastern front!” I would like to make it clear that we are not the German army, we have things that the Germans could only dream of and we have radios in every infantry unit, so good luck with the constant artillery fire against anything that moves in the open.

[@Xenuos]

What if Churchill was PM in 1937?

[@SD-mw7sc]

The Divisions of the Soviets was a half of the Divisions from US and English...

[@Nostr00]

2:00 This projected balance doesn't take into consideration: - that soviet divisions were understrength (they rarely wanted to dissolve divisionas as it allowed them to use more artillery) - soviet manpower issues (during Berlin Strategic Offensive they already had 16 and 17yo conscripted) - the influance of LL (despite making 1/3 of soviet car park, Studebackers were responsible for 50% of soviet car logistics) - allies industrial and technological advantage (both USArmy and British Army were fully mechanized/motorized (for standards of 1945)) - polish partisants that would disturb soviet logistics - that soviets didn't have any real countr to american strategic bombers and allies would have free reign in sky - that soviet cities were already destroyed despite some industry being rebuild in them.

[@AlexMitchell-ct8tt]

What if the UK declared war on the USSR when they invaded Finland so when Germany invaded the USSR ww2 became a three way war

[@InspiredJJ]

Question for anyone: i’m playing as Norway and I lost the country. All I have left is my fleet of five ships and 18 aircraft. Is there anyway to getting an army back? Do I have to take back Norway?

[@simondesmond3574]

Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's last attempt from getting his cheeks clapped by Attlee in the election

[@alexkudzin4980]

What if at the start of the Siberian intervention, one of the Romanov sisters survives the assassination and is found by the Japanese who then proceed to marry them into the Royal family to give Japan a claim over all of Russia? Yes the Romanov sisters are assassinated in July and the intervention starts in August, so either move the intervention forward a couple of months or have the Czechoslovak Legion rescue one of the sisters and bring her to the Japanese. Either way, Japan should remain in Siberia after October 1922, with enough legitimacy so that America doesn't embargo Japan or force Japan's withdrawal Finally, Japan should be able to pay for the “reclamation” of its territory from the Reds with Siberian gold/iron/gems/fur. Alternatively, Alexieve survives and is made a puppet ruler to justify Japan's ongoing presence after the withdrawal of the other intervention forces.

[@kylerkregel558]

What if bad mustache man invaded the other bad mustache man first, instead of France.

[@typicalfurry2747]

23:23 "the war would turn into a stalemate" the unactive battleplane:

[@harmonicadude4732]

What happens if the Spanish civil war happened earlier and ended sooner. Then Spain joins the axis and goes in on France from the south.

[@LtDannnn1776]

What if mustache man died in ww1 from the gas attack

[@22Boogles]

What if Finland captured St Petersburg?

[@bascianowatches9531]

I wNt Stakuyi to choose the next one ❤

[@kristinasimmons3303]

What if France (somehow) pulls itself together enough to hold the front and not collapse to the german blitzkrieg

[@semajniomet981]

`24:30 You mean... Mutually Assured Destruction?

[@tharikaadhil5233]

What if great revolt of 1857 succeeded and British abandon india

[@lancewalker6318]

Idea: What if Germany focused on Russia after invasion of Poland?

[@dandomine]

Thanks for these awesome videos? I'll post this again: What if Japan invaded Hawaii on December 7th 1941?

[@LoCLOfficial]

Couldnt happen as most of the US navy was there. Thats why Japan attacked pearl harbor in the first place

[@dandomine]

@@LoCLOfficial the navy was at pearl harbour, but the landings could have happened at other locations making it a bit difficult even with the thousand of sailors there. I think it's worth exploring. Also, I've seen less likely options covered on this channel, so... ;)

[@BillikinWhisker-w9s]

I like the idea - Hawaii had a history with japan. The Japanese could have taken away the pacific US fob, while justifying as 'liberating' the 150,000 Japanese Americans (1/3 of the pop of Hawaii). This might have had the same effect as taking the Philippines as a US fob, but would have needed to withdraw frim somewhere else to create the expedition force? Maybe the new Guinea forces (which they ended up abandoning) - then kakoda may not have happened and Curtain not insisted on the Australians withdrawing from Africa?

[@jessehall9816]

Alt History: as Britain what if Pearl Harbor never happened, could they have actually survived and would the Russians still be able to turn the tide

[@ziga4870]

What if the Soviets joined the Axis (Berlin-Moscow Axis)? Play as the US and liberate Europe from tyranny.

[@panzershepsspehsreznap4448]

Your face waves like a flag with every move

[@clonetrooperwheeler]

What if the Germans focused on uboat production from the beginning

[@SwedishBread]

What if Sweden wasn’t neutral in ww2?

[@ironicallylivinginamerica3711]

What if Belguim ascended the position of Holy Roman Emperor and recreated the HRE under their reign?

[@thequinnimator]

8:08 Global Defense is the historical path i believe (or at least, the AI always goes down Global Defense but it just waits before doing motion of no confidence)

[@Another40kFan]

What if Stalin’s paranoia was more extreme and never ended? No generals or advisors are allowed as the Soviet Union. Stalin is the ONLY person in charge.

[@mateuszkuzma8029]

What of west opened second front on Balkans, just like Churchill suggested

[@bluebeastgamer7494]

After hearing the way he described the consequences of operation unthinkable in the last minutes, I am glad it didn't happen.

[@thenamesianna]

I love the subtitles for this video "Winston Church Hill" "Melini"

[@davidreynolds9189]

No matter how much Churchill wanted it, there is no conceivable way they’d get the allied armies to fight after they’d been promised peace

[@Thekisersake1914]

What if in world war 1 the German spring offensive succeeded

[@gamingnerd651]

Cool video! An idea: What if America fell to CPUSA or the Silver Shirts?

[@month32]

One of two. What would have happened if Operation Mercury had failed completely, or what would have happened if Operation Mercury was a resounding success.

[@HeidiBoe-h2n]

idea: what if Scandinavian countries join ww1 ( either side )

[@allinaxford]

The Soviets also at that time had shortages oil, or fuel since a large percentage was imported from the USA.

[@Aronk112]

What if mussolini never came to power

[@Deamon93IT]

Glad this, and Op Downfall, remained as hypotheticals

[@ABunchOfHobos]

What is the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 angered the Egyptians so much they joined the Axis and took (and possibly blew) the Suez canal.

[@101-n9g]

What if Italy, Spain and Japan turned on Germany during Operation Barbarossa

[@don1angel]

Spain Joins the Axis!!!

[@Tokugawa__]

What if Mengkukuo joined the allies?

[@erdood3235]

Why would it?

[@Jeffrey.3125]

What if Qing was divided after the eight nation alliance in 1900 and was left with only a small piece of land.

[@lucaswallace7476]

"[..] Airpower greater than anything that Japan would be able to do." *Ace pilot promoted* *Ace pilot promoted* *Ace pilot promoted* *Ace pilot promoted*

[@delphy2478]

i enjoyed this. i would like to see unthinkable from the defensive idea

[@SquooshyCatboy]

What if the British were more loose on their colonial policy, and maybe things like the Quit India movement and the decolonization of Africa happened much much earlier, possibly before WW2?

[@Finlandball39]

What if Russia invaded Germany instead of vice-versa?

[@GrantBeyer-cu7ty]

What if Japan joined the central powers

[@spartanhawk7637]

Yep, gonna need Metal Gear Rising music for this amount of carnage.

[@VaronTheUnbelievable]

What if Japan joined the allies in WW2?

[@hollowedshadow2822]

What if, during ww1, the polish Lithuania commonwealth rose again?

[@Joseplh]

Before watching. My thoughts are that should the UK under Churchill actually did this, there would have been a massive schism between the US and the UK. Some US generals such as Patton advocated for going to war against the USSR, however the public and President Truman wanted the war to end. It may very well be the case that it highly depends on how the US responds as to the outcome of the new war. If the US were to join, it would be ugly, but I firmly believe the USSR would collapse quickly and not in a way they could recover. By this time supply lines for the Russians are already stretched thin as they raced to be the first to Berlin, also the Russian economy was running bare. Nearly half of all men had been mobilized and there was precious few to tend the field to feed the troops. Even in our own timeline, nearly a million Russians died in the 1946-47 famine caused in large part to the destroyed infrastructure and agricultural capacity. The US at this time had the A-bomb and we don't have the fear of M.A.D. yet. It was also too early for the full ramifications of dropping the bomb on the Japanese to hit the US public. That would not truly hit until Russia came out with their own bomb nearly a decade later. I would predict a collapse and possible revolution within Russia within a year. If the US were split or did not join fully at the very least, the push by the UK would easily stall and without pressure from the Americans on the Russians, they could turn this into a death march for the UK and Russia as both were in poor shape after WW2. Russia could hold off long enough and cause enough damage to the British forces that the UK would have to retreat or come to a negotiated settlement.

[@thenaynay5057]

What if the soviets invaded first? Like what if the Germans had chosen to wait to prepare for longer or something or how could the soviets have been more prepared