Thoughts? Engage please. Develop your counter-factuals. Have fun.

From that point the Pacific War proceeds as it did in our timeline, though more slowly because we have to build up our military industrial base, which has withered during our non-interventionist decades.

Why does war come for the US eventually? Because eventually by the logic of Empire, Japan has to invade the Philippines. And that crosses a line that even non-interventionists cannot allow. The Philippines (at this point) is ours. Take what's ours and we'll fight.

On the downside, Japan continues to have its Pacific ambitions. Whether the US is perceived as a threat to those ambitions depends on whether the US continues the non-interventionist policy it followed by not entering the Great War. If does, no need to bomb Pearl Harbor. War comes eventually though.

Anti-Colonial movements would continue apace, along with the fiscal collapse of unsustainable empires like Austria-Hungery, the Ottoman Empire, etc. It's all about the money, baby.

Without WW2, no meanful Soviet military (which was only enabled by Britain and the US to provide an Eastern Front against Germany). No meanful Soviet military, no Soviet threat, no Cold War.

The key difference is what would have happened in Germany. Without the humiliation of losing vital territory and crushing reparations, Germany becomes an economic powerhouse. Under those global conditions, no depression, no Hitler, no WW2.

In this version of reality France doesn't have the will or the leverage to punish Germany. Both countries and England would be financially and militarily ruined by the longer Great War. Europe would be wrecked by the same political pressures that pre-dated the War.

Thoughts? I have ideas about the social and politel situation resulting from no American involvement in the Great War. I'll follow up with those ideas but I'd rather hear from you. It's a thought experiment, pure speculation. What do you think?

Without Hitler, no WW2, no Holocaust, no UN, no NATO, no expansion of the Soviet Union, no Cold War...possibly no Atomic Bomb.

In this scenario the post war boom would have included Germany. Without punitive shocks to its system Germany might not have become radicalized when the Depression hit. The political system might have ridden the Depression out as other European states did. Which means no Hitler.

I've long wondered what might have happened in America hadn't entered WW1. For one thing eventually all the combating states would eventually have had to sue for peace and the resulting treaty to end the war might have treated all combatent states equally -- including Germany.

Here’s a look at the original art for Venom 250 page 5out now from Marvel!

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No, but it was a great bit in the book and a great bit in the TV show.

Reminds me of Ireland in the '80s. When I visited Northern Ireland in 1990 (where my grandparents grew up) I saw British troops patrolling the streets with with machine guns. Walking by them was a small group of little girls in their white Communion dresses on their way to church to be confirmed.

Starts TOMORROW! THIS weekend, Oct. 4-5!

Get you to the Richmond Comic & Toy Show in Richmond, KY, wherein a Darryl Banks and Bob Hall are to be found! Tix and info: richmondcomicshow.com

I’m done with TS. The self-promotion has really gotten out of hand.

Damn. McLean’s music was a cornerstone of my early twenties. Those lyrics still resonate.

If you believe the Texas redistricting to give Republicans five extra seats in Congress by taking them away from Democrats is bad, then California’s attempt to regain those seats at the expense of Republicans is good.

Screenshot from article linked below.

“The position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is to scrap Daylight Saving Time and permanently stick to Standard Time.” Remind your state and federal lawmakers!

Strangely I've never had that happen. Nobody has ever compliment me on my looks. It's a mystery. (Apart from the obvious joke, I truly understand your frustration and dismay. Objectifying anyone is obscene. Don't ever put up with it. Call them out.)

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

Hey Zack!

Same here in California. We have an important vote on redistricting. Don't sit this one out.

Miniature Scottish Highland bull on the loose in Connecticut - UPI.com A 3-foot tall miniature Scottish Highland bull escaped from a Connecticut farm and has been repeatedly spotted by residents up to 7 miles away from home.

Miniature Scottish Highland bull on the loose in Connecticut

It’s the Labrador Retriever with horns. 😋

I'm surprised when anyone knows who I am.

That would be up to Disney.

Meanwhile, fu*k Patel.

Fu*k him.

Great Friday with CGC.

Speaking of Hemingway, El Floridita is the bar he always frequented in La Havana. They even have that bronze statue of him (accompanied by my wife) leaning on the bar.