On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:13:28 -0800, a425couple
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a425c...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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https://www.alternatehistory.com/foralltime/
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>Ahhh, hopefully, you are not really meaning that
>nobody should try to throw out for discussion,
>any idea, because somewhere in the past somebody
>in your opinion has done it better?
>
>Think we all should just go with the flow and
>let the newsgroups die?
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>And, by the way, that cited work seems like a quite
>interesting alternative fiction novel, but really gets
>off into speculations entirely unrelated to Wallace.
Unfortunately that is so often the case.
I've checked out various Quora historical threads and I regularly see
them discussing things that were old hat here back when my connection
was 1200 baud...
No doubt Wallace is a most interesting character but equally he's not
particularly interesting in terms of WI's unless you have FDR die
first and during 1940-44 - one thing I have NEVER seen is that FDR
either retires in 1944 (which to my mind doesn't work if WW2 is still
going in November 1944 unless Valkyrie succeeds spectacularly or
Little Boy is available nearly a year early) or is permanently
incapacitated by then - which in my view still makes the Democratic
party powers that be pick somebody else for president.
I'm not so convinced we necessarily get Truman in that scenario but am
quite certain we don't get Wallace. Looking back I'm kind of amazed we
got Wallace in 1940.....
But no question by 1944 FDR was nearly as soft on the Soviets as
Wallace and the fact that Lend Lease continued after VE Day
demonstrates that to me at least. I don't say he was in 1940 but by
1944 oh boy.....
An interesting scenario might be 'suppose FDR lives till 1948 (or at
least to the run up to the election of that year) - does a continuance
of his 1944-45 policies through 1948 make any Democrat electable in
1948?' My point being that by 1948 Truman had had 3 years of Stalin
and time to react both to the early Cold War (Gouzenko etc) though not
yet Greenglass and the Rosenbergs (who were no doubt under suspicion
in 1948 but in OTL not arrested till 1950)
Similarly the George Kennan "X" document was written in 1946 and was
one of the founding elements in the Marshal plan - so how would that
have affected things with FDR still at the helm?
Fundamentally if Stalin behaves as he did in OTL in this scenario how
does the US-Soviet falling out unroll?
My question is if FDR survived even a year longer would Wallace have
survived politically? Because I do think that FDR was well on his way
to outdo anything Wallace ever advocated before he died. Particularly
in rebuilding the postwar Soviet Union on the American taxpayer's
nickel via "lend lease" or whatever it's called in this scenario. If
he does I cannot see the American economic recovery of 1945-47 being
nearly as robust as in OTL. Nor western Europe since I don't see the
US being able to be nearly as generous to them as they were in OTL if
1944-45 and high lend lease to the Soviets is happening in late
1945-46 or beyond.
Please understand I'm talking strictly internationally - and not at
all covering the domestic scene at all.