It’s now “asymmetric” conflict – overwhelming equipment superiority v.They Shall Not Pass, good v.evil. The sherrif v.Billy. Malta’s Gladiators pressed on; so for while did Malaya Buffalos. So did Kamikazes. So would V-Force, like their Dads to the Ruhr. If Galland’s kit had been better than Leigh-Malory’s – FW190, or say, if Merlin had not come good by 1938, so like France/Belgium we had Hawks, or wooden Miles M.20…The (very)Few would have Kept B***ering On. More Detlings, more Plymouths. Either:
1. our Betters would have taken the deal – sea for us, land and Open Trade for the Axis, so they could purge Bolshevism for us; or:
2. after hurting us till winter, Hitler would have turned to the East. UK as an irrelevant pocket (like Channel Is./U-Boat ports, enclaves left in 1944 to starve). Regia Aeronautica’s admirable work v.RAF would have puffed Musso, so he would not have bothered with Greece. No Threat in rear: Axis would have poured its all into Barbarossa in April,1941 and defeated General Winter.

It’s the same as cussed US after Pearl not accepting the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere – just a flattering replica of the Monroe Doctrine. It was the resources of USSR that the over-populated, under-fed Axis wanted: from West and South, Germany plus its allies Bulgaria/Croatia/Finland/Hungary/Italy/Rumania/Slovenia/Slovakia/Spain/Turkey/Vichy piling in, victualled by Argentina/ Sweden/Switzerland; from East and South, Japan/Thailand,+coolies and Koreans. The brief campaigns against us were irritants, distracting the Crusade for Civilisation.

The great What if of WW2 has US/League of Nations recognising this evangelism, so not attempting Trade sanctions that provoked seizure of materiel that could not be bought, and acceleration of the Drang nach Osten. Axis’ May 1939 Pact of Steel planned that for 1942. Stalin told his August Congress that Imperialist-Finance aided that, to explain his Faustian Pact, carving up Poland &tc to build a cordon sanitaire. So: if: UK had been humbled, autumn 1940 (and if USN carriers had been in port 7/12/41), USSR, thus communism, would have expired by mid-1942.

(Some of this is Marxist revisionism, endorsing the dictator-dominator. Absolute power does corrupt absolutely. Our boys done well).

Now if some of you didn’t get that, It’s on Teletext page 210:eek: