dead parrot
Airman 1st Class
- 108
- Jul 7, 2004
Agree that what Britain did for Europe/democracies is a little underappreciated...
There were quite a lot of people within Britain--including the government--that were inclined to make peace with Hitler, weren't there, in 1940 after Dunkirk? Hitler certainly wouldn't have minded.
This would not have lead to Britain becoming a superpower though, I don't think, because the Empire was close to bankrupt at the end of the thirties anyway...
I imagine Europe + Russia would end up as a single totalarian block, either Stalinist or Fascist, with England perched impotently on the edge and the US increasingly isolationist and turned away from the Rest of the World--until, presumambly, the Japanese attacked, which they wouldn't if Russia won in Europe.
It would have been a scary world if the Battle of Britain hadn't been fought and won.
There were quite a lot of people within Britain--including the government--that were inclined to make peace with Hitler, weren't there, in 1940 after Dunkirk? Hitler certainly wouldn't have minded.
This would not have lead to Britain becoming a superpower though, I don't think, because the Empire was close to bankrupt at the end of the thirties anyway...
I imagine Europe + Russia would end up as a single totalarian block, either Stalinist or Fascist, with England perched impotently on the edge and the US increasingly isolationist and turned away from the Rest of the World--until, presumambly, the Japanese attacked, which they wouldn't if Russia won in Europe.
It would have been a scary world if the Battle of Britain hadn't been fought and won.