all the "if trump remains disciplined and on-message and coherent at the debate it will be bad news for joe biden" Takes are on the same intellectual level of Nazis Win WW2 alt-history that requires Hitler to, fundamentally, Not Be Hitler
The thing that’s really funny about this list, by the way, is that it’s very representative of the sort of thinking — genocidal racism aside — that made Hitler, well, Hitler
this is the thing, at core i think a solid 60% of this sort of person is a nazi apologist anyway so they just don't believe that hitler was in fact hitler
this is believable if you remember that this creature likely does not think of the Nazis what any normal person thinks of the Nazis but simply as another playable faction in HOI4
"What if Hitler weren't a fanatical antisemitic German supremacist but instead a thoughtful and strategic leader?"
"Yeah, what if you died and I replaced you with a historian?"
The fact that the Nazis *diverted resources from the war* to the Holocaust when they were losing is one of those things you just have to sit with for a while when you first learn it.
Somehow they were *even worse* than the popular conception of them.
I do think you could have done better as revanchist Germany in the 1930s/1940s than the Nazis did.
I don't think the Nazis could've done better because they were insane maximalists with "be assholes to everyone" as a foundational principle of their ideology.
*Germany* could have won *a* Second World War, but the *Nazis* would not have been able to win the war that happened. The best they would be able to do would be to survive it.
A WWII Nazi victory would require a different scope and combatants for the war itself.
For a German victory, you can either have a radically different World War II or you can have no Nazis, but you cannot have both.
Without magic, pulp sci-fi crap, or divine intervention, anyway.
I’ve always maintained that one possibility is that the allies just fumble the bag somehow. They did that a lot at the start of the war, so it’s not inconceivable that they just keep making terrible decisions until they sue for peace
Pro-Nazi coup in the UK?
Really that's about the only path forward I see. There weren't many ideological stumbling blocks to a Nazi-right wing of the Tories rapprochement. More stylistic differences than anything else.
I can imagine a mid-century war that sees Germany as the dominant state in continental Europe in the aftermath. That's about as far as as they'll get, both geographically and otherwise.
I think maybe if they don't drive out all the people who invade nukes they could end up as something like the USSR was historically, though maybe not if the actual USSR exists.
I don't want to defend anything about this list, but beseiging Leningrad (not to be confused with Stalingrad!) actually _was_ a choice.
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