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To: Restorer
Hitler, OTOH, came very close to winning his war, which could probably have resulted int the eventual conquest of the US.

Sure. Hitler wasn't even capable of conquering Great Britain, so the notion that Germany -- with no naval assets capable of projecting any substantial force across an ocean -- could have conquered the U.S. is a bit silly.

24 posted on 08/04/2006 8:48:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Alberta's Child

OK.

Let's assume Hitler conquered USSR in 1941. He came very close, you know. Then he spends three or four years building up his navy and air force using all the resources of Europe. Following which he crushes Britain.

He spends another five years building his fleet, then attacks the US in conjunction with the Japanese, who have meanwhile conquered everything from India to Australia.

The Nazis ally themselves with various Latin America dictators to acquire bases and support. It isn't much of a jump from Peronism to Nazism.

With such a scenario the Nazis could have realistically invaded and taken the US by perhaps 1955, by which time it would have been the US and Canada against the rest of the world. It would have been a heck of a fight, but we would have lost. Unless we had politicians come to power who "made peace" at the cost of the US becoming essentially fascist itself.

Obviously this is only one of many scenarios. Most critically it leaves the Bomb out of the equation. However, I will bet you anything you like that I can come up with a more realistic scenario by which the Germans invaded and conquered the US as part of an extended WWII than you can come up with one by which the jihadis invade and conquer us.

It is quite important to remember that Arabs, as such, haven't been a conquering people since about 800. Muslim medieval and later conquests were almost invariably made by Turks, Berbers, Kurds, Afghans, etc. rather than by ethnic Arabs.


68 posted on 08/04/2006 11:24:54 AM PDT by Restorer
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