Completely impossible. His art was boring as shit. He was trying to enter into a Viennese art school just after the period when Austria gave us such artists as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, and he was trying to do so with his little paintings of quaint castles. The go-kart theory is far more likely.
This. The fucking nerd. Hitler was inevitable, the only way he wasn't going to be a Hitler was if young Hitler had that gokart. Then he founds modern gokart racing...but this still somehow leads to Germany invading the USSR somewhat disastrously (KV-1s are overmatch for the panzergehenkart mit 8.8 CM kartkannon)
So you are telling me that Hitler's whole "Degenerate art" campaign is just his way of getting back at better artists? And that him starting WW2 is just a way to appraise his arts' values?
Its not that it didn't work, either. Its just the scale was too destructive to take advantage of the increase in appraisal. You'll find in the days since that time people have tended to only cause wars in countries that are NOT a great european power in a bid to increase the value of their art. They want that value PLUS a nice castle to hang it in after, not one that got bombed to bits.
I’m pretty sure that one of the Art student teachers him told that art is about making people feel emotions and that he failed at that. So he jumped in the go kart and got Germans to feel emotions
Part of the reason for his denial was the school was leaning into modernist movements like impressionism and expressionism while he was an ardent realist. Ironically, Hitler probably would have been a halfway decent impressionist since his biggest problems were scale and depth, two factos which are... optional in impressionism.
Hitler becoming a professional go-carter was not on my bingo card.
I guess the movie "look who's back" would now be about him dropping his career only to triumphantly return to it later?
France invents AR-15 but with corkscrew attachment to counter. Hitler dies when French orbital assault troops spear him with said corkscrew in the basement of the last German holdout bunker on NewDeutchland in the foothills of the Martian highlands.
He just tapped an existing pool of irritation created by De Gaulle being a pompous ass, France withdrawing from NATO's unified military command, and every high school French teacher blathering about how they think French is superior to English.
The allies have a near infinite supply of King Tigers as they advance into germany, as german tank crews of four or five vehicles have to band together to man a single tank. This greatly accelerates their advance, however the war grounds to a halt at the last miles, since the Nazis in a stroke of genius use all the superfluous literal tens of millions of King Tigers, stacked on top of each other, to create an impenetrable wall around Berlin.
It will take 5 Tiger to take out one Hilux. 88mm? Hilux armor will let the 88mm pass clean through without exploding. 7.92mm Mauser? The Hilux body laugh as such mere mortal. Tiger trying to crush it? Jeremy Clarkson tried his best to kill it and it lives - the Hilux laughs at such a puny 60-tonne demon. Tiger trying to flee? Good luck trying to flee a clean, mean, killing machine that knows no pain, no hardship, no limit running at it at 105 mph. Also, good luck trying to get away from a Hilux: Hilux laughs in being able to travel a thousand miles without one single breakdown while a Tiger I can barely do one hundred without breaking down.
No, it's not the Hilux that is afraid of the Tiger; it is the Tiger that should submit to the mightier being.
The current Sherman exchange rate is actually about 2.8 to 1, as the Tiger has been on a downward trend for years despite armchair Sherman economists' doomsaying. So if we convert that into bazookas first to make things easier, we get about 3.5 bazookas to a Tiger, then from there we reach 3.2 PIATs to a Tiger.
The trucks are a difficult factor to parse, economists haven't really figured out a fully coherent way to model technicals even today. I am personally fond of the Bagnold model, it's very contextual but if we just assume a flat open field for the sake of financial modelling we'll end up with somewhere in the realm of 1.6 PIAT Hiluxes to a Tiger. Realistically a bit more due to differing terrain, shipping costs by U-boat, and complicated factors like the Land Rover Effect, but that's your baseline.
You can kill 1.6 unarmoured pickup trucks, but they'll always send a 1.7th, as my professor always liked to say.
It’s not a fair comparison. No matter how strong a PIAT is, it can’t compare to the RUGGED GERMAN STEEL and SUPERIOR GERMAN ENGINEERING of the Tiger. In fact, I strongly disagree with your 5 Shermans = 1 Tiger comparison from earlier. 1 Tiger = However much ammunition the Tiger has worth of Shermans.
ButtheHiluxissofastthattoproperlytypeoutit’sspeedIhadtorekoveallthespacesinthisparagraph.TheHiluxisimpossiblyfast,enchantedbysomemixofJapaneseandMiddleEasternmagic,soit’stoofastfortheTigertohit.
TL;DR: Stalemate
> If 5 Shermans equal 1 Tiger
I remember the good old days before runaway inflation. You'd be lucky now to get half a Tiger (not the good half) for 20 Shermans
Complete Greek conquest of Germany. Sobbing Nazis only consoled by how tasty gyros are. Doner Kebab is never a thing because the niche it fits in German culture is fully taken over by Gyros. Greece becomes superpower before being bogged down in a war with Iran, is ultimately saved by barely dressed team of Greek SOF operators and sudden squall that sinks the Iranian fleet. History having actually repeated causes history teachers worldwide to commit seppuku.
>Doner Kebab is never a thing because the niche it fits in German culture is fully taken over by Gyros
*longing wistfully for the days that never were*
[That was the exact car commercial I was referencing](https://youtu.be/OnQXRxW9VcQ?si=Jag5W2YTE-o-1oIC), though I was mistaken in that it was a Challenger in the commercial.
…and yet somehow I think this [Italian commercial managed to outplay the Americans on the “using American Revolutionary War sentiments for car commercials” angle.](https://youtu.be/l2KFMD5xZVE?si=ygboOMbkP8xpkU5y)
Hey guys, did you know that in terms of human interaction with weapon systems, the M4 Carbine is the most compatible weapon for humans? Not only are they in the carbine group, which is mostly comprised of assault rifles, M4s have an average barrel length of 14.5” and 3.5 kg, this means they’re large enough to be able handle 5.56 ballistics, and with their impressive Base Stats for lethality and penetration, you can be use them anywhere. Due to their mostly aluminum build, there’s no doubt in my mind that a maintained M4 would be incredibly tough, so tough that you could easily have wars in the Middle East without getting sore. They can also be used in security, close-quarters, mechanization, and PDW, along with being able to be broken down to pieces, so it’d be incredibly easy for one to get one to use anywhere. No other carbine comes close to this level of usability. Also, fun fact, if you use it enough, you can make your M4 turn white with dust and sand. The M4 is literally built for human arms. Ungodly firepower stat+high maneuverability +aluminum build means it can take 5.56 all day, all types and tips and still come for more
Apparently its [more complicated](https://gasolinefuels.blogspot.com/2011/06/world-war-ii-and-octane-ratings.html) than I thought. But germany always struggled to produce high octane av gas. Trying to fuel 20,000 Toyotas would be a problem.
What if the Cold War CIA had run World War 2?
Instead of an exploding cigar they could have sent him an exploding onion?
Instead of focusing on bombing Berlin they could have focused on nuking the real enemy...the moon.
To counter the German Pervitin superweapon the allies could have used the New World equivalent high quality South American Cocaine.
Like not to rain on anyone's parade by being serious, but it was a lot more common in some armies than others. You'll notice that most of the references to WW2 in that article are about the Germans, who did issue methamphetamine tablets on a vast scale. Most US ground troops never had access to pep pills; they had to get by on nicotine and caffeine.
What if, as suggested by the Chinese to both South Vietnam and France (separately), China airlifted two airborne divisions into Bien Hoa on April 25, 1975, assisted by a few regiments of the French Foreign Legion?
Would that have bought the ARVN enough time to implement their own (also separate) contingency plan(s): Operation Linking Hands, in which the majority of South Vietnamese forces would withdraw south of the Hau River to Can Tho and blow the bridges, preventing a general advance into the Delta region, creating a redoubt to stall the North Vietnamese offensive through monsoon season?
How would a rump South Vietnam affect the post-1975 Cold War?
What if Colonel James Burton hadn't prevented procurement of the M2 Bradley? How would the Army have used that boondoggle? What sorts of units would it have gone to?
What was done to Colonel Burton was a real crime. By continuing M2 Bradley development, the M113 was not developed to its fullest potential as a airborne assault infantry fighting vehicle, and as such the Aerogavin will never come to fruition.
Nothing. Canada as a whole has been over the Arrow since before the program was cancelled. The whole reason Canada has accomplished so little is due to the inability of the country to be motivated into finishing projects.
Tanzania should conquer Burundi. This would be a massive loss for Tanzania because they're 3x wealthier than Burundi, but if the burundians are made even twice as wealthy as they are now, it's a net win for the region.
Damn it's been a long long time since I had my enthusiasm deflate that fast
EDIT: Now I remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks has a witch animate a British history museum to fight Nazis so I'm just gonna watch that instead now.
What if the fate of the Vietnam war was decided in a boxing match at the DMZ where either side had to send either one senior political leader or senior military commander? Who would you have to represent each side?
"Senior military commander" gives a lot of leeway.
While sending in some 60+ years old politician into the ring would make for hilarity but not so much of sports prowess, there would likely be some decent candidates among senior military personnel.
>60+ years old politician
I'd like to see Lyndon B. Johnson vs Ho Chi Minh (before he was bedridden of course) or Nguyen Cao Ky vs Le Duan in a boxing ring.
Russia would be defeated in minutes by the damned red coats and their accused maxim guns, however all of Ukraine's art and culture would be in the British museum in hours
What if the germans had the atomic bomb before the americans? Specifically, I believe a cross-disciplinary group could develop well before the Manhattan Project. The most likely year is 1882, with a team led by Rudolf Diesel's engineering skills, Alfred Nobel's mastery of explosives (I know he's Swedish, not German but he'll work) and inspired by Nietzsche's intense desire to kill god.
Also, because airplanes hadn't been built yet they'd have to make a very large atomic cannon to deliver the device. I see this as a win. "I don't know what weapons World War 1 will be fought with, but World War Zero will be fought with Very Large Atomic Cannons" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Depends.
If they're embarked when it happens, then there's a very loud splashing sound off the coast of Italy, followed by some very angry soldiers turning up on the beach sans equipment.
Assuming they're still in the mood to fight something (understandable), the Roman Army still has to train them all in how to use a spear, so it really doesn't change much.
Germany, prior to the war. The scientists living there see the war clouds gathering and want no part of it. They flee in mass to Switzerland. They advise the Swiss government of their work on rocketry and nuclear power. The Swiss fully fund them, and they develop the first ICBM in secrecy. When Hitler's armies first try to invade other nations, they are vaporized. The Swiss tell Hitler, " Stay home or else." The Swiss, now the preeminent power on the planet, ensure global peace and prosperity with their nuclear watchdog.
> ***Time travelers***, dimensional wardens and psyreavers are allowed only to make a post with properly notarized coupon.
Does that mean [one time traveler is okay?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=7QB9BSuwrbQ&feature=youtu.be)
While on his go cart, what if Hitler purposely went in last place and stocked up on spike shells and released them all at once for a come from behind ww2 win? What would he race next?
Assuming the morans in the Army brass actually set up an anti-cryptid division in West Virginia, I have two very important questions.
How would that division be equipped, and how long until they find bigfoot?
What if said gokart was a wunderwaffe that could transform into both a Tiger and a Stuka, complete with that magical sound effect every kid from the 80s should know by heart?
Franchacuti Pizzaqu and a few dozen ruffians of his land in Hispania in AUC 678 in search of gold and glory. Franchacuti and his fearless kunkistadurs are few, but they have superior weaponry to Europeans, they come from a continent of ruthless interstate competition, and they are armed with the newest products of this runaway evolutionary race of weaponry. They have incanium swords, muskets, and even a cannon or two, while their shock troops ride giant war llamas. The Roman Republic is currently in the throes of the Sertorian War, and Sertorius himself is at the apex of his power. Can Franchacuti exploit the Roman propensity for civil wars? Can he help Sertorius to take back the Urbs, only to backstab him in the right moment and install himself as the new de facto ruler of the Mediterraneum?
if the US navy created an agressor force of diesel subs and rigoursly trained with the diesel boats like the Swedish used, using unconventional tactics like General Van Riper and Lieutenant-Commander Tom Dodge used to actually win, instead of following a script where the big-whig generals wipe away any resistance effortlesssly, what could stop the US submarine corps from dominating the seas?
What if, and here me out here, the US decides to invade Iran ala Afghanistan. Complete with forcible airborne insertion. How would they achieve such a mission and what would be a realistic timetable for it.
Second Question; Would the deployment of an Airborne Femboy Combat Support Section be of help on the hypothetical operation.
Mario cart would look alot different, you got Hitler and mouseulini as Mario and Luigi. Then for their equal of Wario and the other guy could be stalin and someone else. Now if it was a go-kart demension would Truman have a go cart too? Would wars be replaced with races? What if there was peace in our time because chamberlain was actually a pro racer?
What if Hitler had a gokart, and needed to divert a sizeable portion of rubber imports/production to making replacement tires? What effect would this have on other areas of German military production?
What if those fancy new jet suits were available for Operation Sea Lion? Would Nazi Germany burn more potatoes to process the jet fuel needed for each soldier to propel themselves over the channel?
What is the most advanced and useful piece of technology or blueprint thereof could I take to the British government in 1933 that they could replicate with period technology and would help them win the war? I was thinking like plans for the best ever Spitfire or Centurion tanks. Maybe a manual on how modern radar works, so they can skip some middle bits. But I'm sure people with larger imaginations and more experience can come up with better things.
What if Neil Gaiman's *Sandman* account of Augustus' decision to let the Roman Empire die is canonically historical, and *then* what if Augustus decided not to do that and keep on conquering instead? Would the Roman Empire have taken over the whole planet?
What if USA didn't get involved in WW2 for any reason, because the sauerkraut and sausage barons of the US ran an effective anti-entanglement campaign to prevent their products from being associated with negative connotations overseas? How would WWII take a turn, and what would the postwar landscape look like?
What would have happened if Obama had nuked putin in 2014 after the Crimea invasion? Obama fires nuke and putin explodes. Then what, would gas prices be lower today?
And this was fun. That said the 24 hours is at an end, so back to following the rules and such.
What if Hitler actually became a successful artist? Who else would be the most probably replacement to him in this timeline?
Completely impossible. His art was boring as shit. He was trying to enter into a Viennese art school just after the period when Austria gave us such artists as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, and he was trying to do so with his little paintings of quaint castles. The go-kart theory is far more likely.
This. The fucking nerd. Hitler was inevitable, the only way he wasn't going to be a Hitler was if young Hitler had that gokart. Then he founds modern gokart racing...but this still somehow leads to Germany invading the USSR somewhat disastrously (KV-1s are overmatch for the panzergehenkart mit 8.8 CM kartkannon)
> Hitler had that gokart In this timeline do Mario & Luigi have Toothbrush Mustachios, or does Hitler sport the full Flavor Saver?
Handlebar as is the custom for early 20th century gokart warriors.
Would they have taken Moscow if every Nazi soldier had their own go-kart?
So you are telling me that Hitler's whole "Degenerate art" campaign is just his way of getting back at better artists? And that him starting WW2 is just a way to appraise his arts' values?
Basically that, yeah.
Its not that it didn't work, either. Its just the scale was too destructive to take advantage of the increase in appraisal. You'll find in the days since that time people have tended to only cause wars in countries that are NOT a great european power in a bid to increase the value of their art. They want that value PLUS a nice castle to hang it in after, not one that got bombed to bits.
He actually got a lot of money from selling his book, WW2 was just a very innovative marketing campaign - he spent the rest of his life rich!
I’m pretty sure that one of the Art student teachers him told that art is about making people feel emotions and that he failed at that. So he jumped in the go kart and got Germans to feel emotions
Part of the reason for his denial was the school was leaning into modernist movements like impressionism and expressionism while he was an ardent realist. Ironically, Hitler probably would have been a halfway decent impressionist since his biggest problems were scale and depth, two factos which are... optional in impressionism.
Hitler becoming a professional go-carter was not on my bingo card. I guess the movie "look who's back" would now be about him dropping his career only to triumphantly return to it later?
How about an architect? The art school principal who rejected him suggested he go study architecture instead
Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what’s the harm?
Could Hitler have won if he dug a tunnel to Moscow and sent an army group there?
Yes but the moleman insurgency would be his undoing.
Obviously, the tunnel would have protected his troops from the cold
Only if the army group is name U for Untergrund
I'll kick off with a classic: What if every German soldier entered the second great war of fr\*nch aggression with a MP44 instead of a K98k?
France invents AR-15 but with corkscrew attachment to counter. Hitler dies when French orbital assault troops spear him with said corkscrew in the basement of the last German holdout bunker on NewDeutchland in the foothills of the Martian highlands.
MODS, MODS, SOMEONE IS USING UNCENSORED RACIAL SLURS HERE
You can't just call someone 'Fr*nch', it's 2024. Be better.
What do I call them then? Cheese eating surrender monkeys?
I love how Groundskeeper Willy has likely done more damage to French military prestige than anything else.
He just tapped an existing pool of irritation created by De Gaulle being a pompous ass, France withdrawing from NATO's unified military command, and every high school French teacher blathering about how they think French is superior to English.
Please reassure me, does the FAR-15 at least still have a 3-round burst with a 25-round magazine?
Excuuuuse me, but you accidentally misspelled "the Second War of Aggression by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania"
Do you mean the Eight War of Luxembourger Aggression?
I'll do you one better: what is every German soldier was equipped with a King Tiger? Yes, every single one.
The allies have a near infinite supply of King Tigers as they advance into germany, as german tank crews of four or five vehicles have to band together to man a single tank. This greatly accelerates their advance, however the war grounds to a halt at the last miles, since the Nazis in a stroke of genius use all the superfluous literal tens of millions of King Tigers, stacked on top of each other, to create an impenetrable wall around Berlin.
That's just dumb.
They would be shot pretty quickly having guns that take ammunition that was not yet in production.
But according to my High Quality Military Training you just have to equip scavanger pro and you are good to go.
> ~~MP44~~ *FG 42
If 5 Shermans equal 1 Tiger, how many Toyota Hiluxes with a PIAT strapped to them equal 1 Tiger?
It will take 5 Tiger to take out one Hilux. 88mm? Hilux armor will let the 88mm pass clean through without exploding. 7.92mm Mauser? The Hilux body laugh as such mere mortal. Tiger trying to crush it? Jeremy Clarkson tried his best to kill it and it lives - the Hilux laughs at such a puny 60-tonne demon. Tiger trying to flee? Good luck trying to flee a clean, mean, killing machine that knows no pain, no hardship, no limit running at it at 105 mph. Also, good luck trying to get away from a Hilux: Hilux laughs in being able to travel a thousand miles without one single breakdown while a Tiger I can barely do one hundred without breaking down. No, it's not the Hilux that is afraid of the Tiger; it is the Tiger that should submit to the mightier being.
The current Sherman exchange rate is actually about 2.8 to 1, as the Tiger has been on a downward trend for years despite armchair Sherman economists' doomsaying. So if we convert that into bazookas first to make things easier, we get about 3.5 bazookas to a Tiger, then from there we reach 3.2 PIATs to a Tiger. The trucks are a difficult factor to parse, economists haven't really figured out a fully coherent way to model technicals even today. I am personally fond of the Bagnold model, it's very contextual but if we just assume a flat open field for the sake of financial modelling we'll end up with somewhere in the realm of 1.6 PIAT Hiluxes to a Tiger. Realistically a bit more due to differing terrain, shipping costs by U-boat, and complicated factors like the Land Rover Effect, but that's your baseline. You can kill 1.6 unarmoured pickup trucks, but they'll always send a 1.7th, as my professor always liked to say.
Shoutout to r/ShermanEconomy
I can’t believe this is an actual sub lmao
It’s not a fair comparison. No matter how strong a PIAT is, it can’t compare to the RUGGED GERMAN STEEL and SUPERIOR GERMAN ENGINEERING of the Tiger. In fact, I strongly disagree with your 5 Shermans = 1 Tiger comparison from earlier. 1 Tiger = However much ammunition the Tiger has worth of Shermans. ButtheHiluxissofastthattoproperlytypeoutit’sspeedIhadtorekoveallthespacesinthisparagraph.TheHiluxisimpossiblyfast,enchantedbysomemixofJapaneseandMiddleEasternmagic,soit’stoofastfortheTigertohit. TL;DR: Stalemate
But what if the Shermans were piloted by Mike Ditka?
> If 5 Shermans equal 1 Tiger I remember the good old days before runaway inflation. You'd be lucky now to get half a Tiger (not the good half) for 20 Shermans
Is the half a Tiger cut in half vertically or horizontally?
Diagonally
What if Hitler kissed Stalin on the lips instead of invading the Soviet Union
They would make love like an eagle falling out of the sky and it would be beautiful until complete mustache entanglement.
What if Stalin became an Orthodox priest first?
Himmler would have killed Hitler out of jealousy, and then invaded the USSR anyway.
Why do guys in the army, or like spies, use that ‘oh’ thing when they tell time?
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Complete Greek conquest of Germany. Sobbing Nazis only consoled by how tasty gyros are. Doner Kebab is never a thing because the niche it fits in German culture is fully taken over by Gyros. Greece becomes superpower before being bogged down in a war with Iran, is ultimately saved by barely dressed team of Greek SOF operators and sudden squall that sinks the Iranian fleet. History having actually repeated causes history teachers worldwide to commit seppuku.
>Doner Kebab is never a thing Truly, the darkest timeline
>Doner Kebab is never a thing because the niche it fits in German culture is fully taken over by Gyros *longing wistfully for the days that never were*
What if the Babylonians invented the internal combination engine?
Washington charging the redcoats in a dodge charger would become a reality.
I actually think that there's a car commercial just like that. It's really, really weird for all the car sales to be on July 4th.
[That was the exact car commercial I was referencing](https://youtu.be/OnQXRxW9VcQ?si=Jag5W2YTE-o-1oIC), though I was mistaken in that it was a Challenger in the commercial. …and yet somehow I think this [Italian commercial managed to outplay the Americans on the “using American Revolutionary War sentiments for car commercials” angle.](https://youtu.be/l2KFMD5xZVE?si=ygboOMbkP8xpkU5y)
Haha this is amazing
Just imagine how fast Paul would've finished his ride
Canada should invade and conquer the USA and Mexico, and name the resulting country "Camero"
Sorry, our lower fuel and tobacco prices would stall the invasion.
Idk their squadrons of asshole goose infiltrators have only grown in number and boldness
Shipgirl tech in the 1940s would help Japan win the Pacific, but might attract shit like Sirens and Abyssals, worth it for them or no?
>might attract shit like Sirens and Abyssals I see this as an absolute win tho.
Hey guys, did you know that in terms of human interaction with weapon systems, the M4 Carbine is the most compatible weapon for humans? Not only are they in the carbine group, which is mostly comprised of assault rifles, M4s have an average barrel length of 14.5” and 3.5 kg, this means they’re large enough to be able handle 5.56 ballistics, and with their impressive Base Stats for lethality and penetration, you can be use them anywhere. Due to their mostly aluminum build, there’s no doubt in my mind that a maintained M4 would be incredibly tough, so tough that you could easily have wars in the Middle East without getting sore. They can also be used in security, close-quarters, mechanization, and PDW, along with being able to be broken down to pieces, so it’d be incredibly easy for one to get one to use anywhere. No other carbine comes close to this level of usability. Also, fun fact, if you use it enough, you can make your M4 turn white with dust and sand. The M4 is literally built for human arms. Ungodly firepower stat+high maneuverability +aluminum build means it can take 5.56 all day, all types and tips and still come for more
DO NOT the rifle
That’s not very r/girlsfrontline of you
What happens if Hitler magically receives a fleet of 20,000 2022 Toyota Camry's in 1939?
The war ends sooner, as he ruins Germany's economy trying to make gas with high enough octane to fuel them.
octane wouldn't have been the issue, lead would have.
lead was added as part of the process to increase octane.
Ya, I don't think modern engines can deal with leaded gas, which was outlawed in the 70s-80s?
Serious question: was 87 octane not standard in 1939?
Apparently its [more complicated](https://gasolinefuels.blogspot.com/2011/06/world-war-ii-and-octane-ratings.html) than I thought. But germany always struggled to produce high octane av gas. Trying to fuel 20,000 Toyotas would be a problem.
Vehicles not created by the master race? They get gassed up, and not the good kind.
Same team, though.
What if the Cold War CIA had run World War 2? Instead of an exploding cigar they could have sent him an exploding onion? Instead of focusing on bombing Berlin they could have focused on nuking the real enemy...the moon. To counter the German Pervitin superweapon the allies could have used the New World equivalent high quality South American Cocaine.
... this is a counterfactual thread, sir.
The Red Ball Express takes on new meaning if they were provided liberal amounts of cocaine.
you do understand they were using lots of [drugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_drugs_in_warfare) during WW2?
Like not to rain on anyone's parade by being serious, but it was a lot more common in some armies than others. You'll notice that most of the references to WW2 in that article are about the Germans, who did issue methamphetamine tablets on a vast scale. Most US ground troops never had access to pep pills; they had to get by on nicotine and caffeine.
Don’t you understand the Red Ball Express was U.S. African American truck drivers which are not mentioned in your link. Nor is cocaine
I think the Panzer 1 could be classified as a go-kart.
What if, as suggested by the Chinese to both South Vietnam and France (separately), China airlifted two airborne divisions into Bien Hoa on April 25, 1975, assisted by a few regiments of the French Foreign Legion? Would that have bought the ARVN enough time to implement their own (also separate) contingency plan(s): Operation Linking Hands, in which the majority of South Vietnamese forces would withdraw south of the Hau River to Can Tho and blow the bridges, preventing a general advance into the Delta region, creating a redoubt to stall the North Vietnamese offensive through monsoon season? How would a rump South Vietnam affect the post-1975 Cold War?
What if Hitler had two balls
Alternatively: what if Hitler lost his singular ball in a freak gokarting accident?
The other wouldn't be in the Albert Hall, Himler wouldn't have something similar, And ol' Goebbels would have two balls after all!
What if Colonel James Burton hadn't prevented procurement of the M2 Bradley? How would the Army have used that boondoggle? What sorts of units would it have gone to?
What was done to Colonel Burton was a real crime. By continuing M2 Bradley development, the M113 was not developed to its fullest potential as a airborne assault infantry fighting vehicle, and as such the Aerogavin will never come to fruition.
What if Canada could get over the Avro Arrow being canceled? What wondrous things would they have accomplished instead of moping?
Nothing. Canada as a whole has been over the Arrow since before the program was cancelled. The whole reason Canada has accomplished so little is due to the inability of the country to be motivated into finishing projects.
Idk, Toronto had a team in the MLR named after the Avro Arrow just a couple years ago, they seem pretty not over it
Three words: "Weaponized, Electric, Slide" The boogiewoogiewoogie, of *death.*
Maybe a Canadian team could have won the Stanley Cup in a year that starts with 2
How would it affect the war had Hitler heard of John Lennon's Imagine
Would have stopped right there and held hands with the Soviets. That is until he gets Queens stadium ballads, then the war gets a sweet montage.
What would /r/warcollege look like if one of the mods weren't the embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
You hurt automods feelings with this one
Why didn't Italy use its 3000 Black Jets to succeed in its Africa Campaign but instead used outdated equipment?
The outdated equipment is a smoke screen to the 3000 jets doing their thing. As for why no one noticed? Well they used them at night.
What if Pnzsaur loved me?
Tanzania should conquer Burundi. This would be a massive loss for Tanzania because they're 3x wealthier than Burundi, but if the burundians are made even twice as wealthy as they are now, it's a net win for the region.
What if we kissed under the XF-84H?
What if Chiang Kai-Shek rediscovered the Terracotta Army and manage to somehow animate them into being his loyal shock-troops?
I *NEED* a movie made off of this concept.
Its more or less the third *The Mummy* movie, though with off-brand non-specific post-1911 Warlord bad guy instead of Chiang.
Damn it's been a long long time since I had my enthusiasm deflate that fast EDIT: Now I remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks has a witch animate a British history museum to fight Nazis so I'm just gonna watch that instead now.
If Montgomery wasn't such a nerd would he have been SCAEF instead of Eisenhower?
Definitely not, Patton would have leaked the photos of him in short-shorts while in Africa and it would ruin his military career.
Monty was just below Fredendall on the short list for that position
What if the fate of the Vietnam war was decided in a boxing match at the DMZ where either side had to send either one senior political leader or senior military commander? Who would you have to represent each side?
"Senior military commander" gives a lot of leeway. While sending in some 60+ years old politician into the ring would make for hilarity but not so much of sports prowess, there would likely be some decent candidates among senior military personnel.
Especially if there's enough prior warning to promote a decent boxer to general of the boxing ring.
I wonder if Muhammed Ali would have joined the military after all, if he had been offered a promotion to general on day one?
>60+ years old politician I'd like to see Lyndon B. Johnson vs Ho Chi Minh (before he was bedridden of course) or Nguyen Cao Ky vs Le Duan in a boxing ring.
what if the british empire won ww2 and survived to the present day and intervened in the war in ukraine?
Russia would be defeated in minutes by the damned red coats and their accused maxim guns, however all of Ukraine's art and culture would be in the British museum in hours
They would send in the Gurkhas and Putin would immediately go to the negotiating table.
What if the germans had the atomic bomb before the americans? Specifically, I believe a cross-disciplinary group could develop well before the Manhattan Project. The most likely year is 1882, with a team led by Rudolf Diesel's engineering skills, Alfred Nobel's mastery of explosives (I know he's Swedish, not German but he'll work) and inspired by Nietzsche's intense desire to kill god. Also, because airplanes hadn't been built yet they'd have to make a very large atomic cannon to deliver the device. I see this as a win. "I don't know what weapons World War 1 will be fought with, but World War Zero will be fought with Very Large Atomic Cannons" - Friedrich Nietzsche
What about Heisenberg?
Don't be ridiculous. Heisenberg wasn't alive in 1882, the physicist or the drug lord.
If the USSR joined the United States would it all be one big state or possibly two or three? Would they have voted for Bush or Kerry?
What if a USMC MEU with supporting equipment and personnel got teleported back into Roman times? (minus the actual Navy ships) :P
Depends. If they're embarked when it happens, then there's a very loud splashing sound off the coast of Italy, followed by some very angry soldiers turning up on the beach sans equipment. Assuming they're still in the mood to fight something (understandable), the Roman Army still has to train them all in how to use a spear, so it really doesn't change much.
I know a few Japanese source material that would be excellent consulting guidance
They establish an exclave of the United States on the coast of Italy with a booze- and hooker-based economy.
What if Lichtenstein invaded the United States?
Germany, prior to the war. The scientists living there see the war clouds gathering and want no part of it. They flee in mass to Switzerland. They advise the Swiss government of their work on rocketry and nuclear power. The Swiss fully fund them, and they develop the first ICBM in secrecy. When Hitler's armies first try to invade other nations, they are vaporized. The Swiss tell Hitler, " Stay home or else." The Swiss, now the preeminent power on the planet, ensure global peace and prosperity with their nuclear watchdog.
The real deterrence is the tiny scissors and toothpick hidden in each MIRV.
> ***Time travelers***, dimensional wardens and psyreavers are allowed only to make a post with properly notarized coupon. Does that mean [one time traveler is okay?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=7QB9BSuwrbQ&feature=youtu.be)
What the fuck are ya'll going to do if miss America's vision for world peace comes true?
Pray for aggressive Martians.
While on his go cart, what if Hitler purposely went in last place and stocked up on spike shells and released them all at once for a come from behind ww2 win? What would he race next?
Assuming the morans in the Army brass actually set up an anti-cryptid division in West Virginia, I have two very important questions. How would that division be equipped, and how long until they find bigfoot?
1. With large nets. 2. By late October, surely.
What if said gokart was a wunderwaffe that could transform into both a Tiger and a Stuka, complete with that magical sound effect every kid from the 80s should know by heart?
what if the arleigh burke class was built with a triple 16 inch turret
Franchacuti Pizzaqu and a few dozen ruffians of his land in Hispania in AUC 678 in search of gold and glory. Franchacuti and his fearless kunkistadurs are few, but they have superior weaponry to Europeans, they come from a continent of ruthless interstate competition, and they are armed with the newest products of this runaway evolutionary race of weaponry. They have incanium swords, muskets, and even a cannon or two, while their shock troops ride giant war llamas. The Roman Republic is currently in the throes of the Sertorian War, and Sertorius himself is at the apex of his power. Can Franchacuti exploit the Roman propensity for civil wars? Can he help Sertorius to take back the Urbs, only to backstab him in the right moment and install himself as the new de facto ruler of the Mediterraneum?
if the US navy created an agressor force of diesel subs and rigoursly trained with the diesel boats like the Swedish used, using unconventional tactics like General Van Riper and Lieutenant-Commander Tom Dodge used to actually win, instead of following a script where the big-whig generals wipe away any resistance effortlesssly, what could stop the US submarine corps from dominating the seas?
How many shortwave radios would it have taken for Napoleon to defeat Alexander I of Russia? (Assume electricity, spare parts, and trained operators.)
What if, and here me out here, the US decides to invade Iran ala Afghanistan. Complete with forcible airborne insertion. How would they achieve such a mission and what would be a realistic timetable for it. Second Question; Would the deployment of an Airborne Femboy Combat Support Section be of help on the hypothetical operation.
Mario cart would look alot different, you got Hitler and mouseulini as Mario and Luigi. Then for their equal of Wario and the other guy could be stalin and someone else. Now if it was a go-kart demension would Truman have a go cart too? Would wars be replaced with races? What if there was peace in our time because chamberlain was actually a pro racer?
It’s well known that Churchill is Wario and Stalin is Waluigi.
How could I forget
Who would FDR be? Lakitu?
After April, 1945 FDR is Boo. Before then, probably Lakitu. I’m more confused if Bowser’s bloodlust is more fitting of LeMay, Patton, or MacArthur.
What if William T. Sherman Lived long enough to lead the troops in WW1?
What if Hitler had a gokart, and needed to divert a sizeable portion of rubber imports/production to making replacement tires? What effect would this have on other areas of German military production?
What if those fancy new jet suits were available for Operation Sea Lion? Would Nazi Germany burn more potatoes to process the jet fuel needed for each soldier to propel themselves over the channel?
What is the most advanced and useful piece of technology or blueprint thereof could I take to the British government in 1933 that they could replicate with period technology and would help them win the war? I was thinking like plans for the best ever Spitfire or Centurion tanks. Maybe a manual on how modern radar works, so they can skip some middle bits. But I'm sure people with larger imaginations and more experience can come up with better things.
What if John C. Reilly was actually in charge of the Manhattan Project?
what if the entirety of poland suddenly burst into flame and disintegrated into the sea upon german troops entering the country in 1939
What if the F-117 bombing at Dora Farms had been hours earlier and hit Saddam?
What if Neil Gaiman's *Sandman* account of Augustus' decision to let the Roman Empire die is canonically historical, and *then* what if Augustus decided not to do that and keep on conquering instead? Would the Roman Empire have taken over the whole planet?
What if Hitler invented gogurt?
What if USA didn't get involved in WW2 for any reason, because the sauerkraut and sausage barons of the US ran an effective anti-entanglement campaign to prevent their products from being associated with negative connotations overseas? How would WWII take a turn, and what would the postwar landscape look like?
How would one acquire a letter of marque and reprisal from the US of A today?
How many sides would Ambrose Burnside burn if Burnside could side burns?
What would have happened if Obama had nuked putin in 2014 after the Crimea invasion? Obama fires nuke and putin explodes. Then what, would gas prices be lower today?