Alternate History

[Mr Man]

Valerie Solanas succeeds at assassinating Andy Warhol
Lee Harvey Oswald fails at assassinating JFK
John Wilkes Booth fails at assassinating President Lincoln
Archduke Ferdinand never got assassinated
America lost the Revolutionary War and is still British colonies
Slavery was never outlawed in the US
The Germans succeed at developing nukes before the US
Nukes were never developed in the first place
The Soviet Union never collapsed
9/11 never happened
Pearl Harbor never got bombed
The Titanic never sunk
The Hindenburg never crashed
The internet was never developed
Apple and/or Microsoft went out of business early on
America never got involved in Vietnam
Nixon never got busted for Watergate
Bush never got elected

I could pretty much go on forever

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[Kansas]

well your understanding is extremely lacking

you need to do some reading before making such an entrance

I don't understand how anyone won, maybe wars resulted in the tension but strictly between us and them how did they win, how did anyone win if there was no war

It would be nice if you explained how someone could be a victor

no bully

[Jairo]

I don't understand how anyone won, maybe wars resulted in the tension but strictly between us and them how did they win, how did anyone win if there was no war

It would be nice if you explained how someone could be a victor

the conflict is called the cold war literally because it's the antithesis to a hot war

you're trying to define it as a clausewitzen dispute when it wasn't (not directly, at least)

it was a struggle for dominance between soviet and american spheres of influence. when the soviet union collapsed, so did their sphere of influence. ergo, the soviet union lost the cold war

[Kansas]

the conflict is called the cold war literally because it's the antithesis to a hot war

you're trying to define it as a clausewitzen dispute when it wasn't (not directly, at least)

it was a struggle for dominance between soviet and american spheres of influence. when the soviet union collapsed, so did their sphere of influence. ergo, the soviet union lost the cold war

Would you call it a war of influence then, like corporation-tier competition?

[Ceist]

Would you call it a war of influence then, like corporation-tier competition?

not even.

[Kansas]

not even.

Then what is it

[Nonnel]

I don't understand how anyone won, maybe wars resulted in the tension but strictly between us and them how did they win, how did anyone win if there was no war

It would be nice if you explained how someone could be a victor

no bully

I explained it already but ok

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

Then what is it

why are you asking us to educate you if you're so sure that you're right?
dont prance on in here like you know you're right if you know that you aren't

[Harm94]

@Cold War: It was called that because of the cold relations between the USSR and the West. While there never was a direct conflict between the US and USSR, they did compete indirctely through proxy wars. The US and Ussr competed against each other for allies and countries to influence. If a communist party rose up in Guatamala for example, the USSR might try to put them in power while the US might try to support a dictatorship to keep the communists from taking power. To fight the dictatorship, the USSR might give the rebels a handsome shipment of weapons. In response the US might give guns to the dictatorship.

A majority of the wars fought from 1949 to 1991 were all part that competing for spheres of influence business.

[Agent Legit 22]

If Germany sped up their tank production (and outnumbered the west's production of tanks. and didn't worry about every single detail. Allies = forgeted

[Harm94]

If Germany sped up their tank production and didn't worry about every single detail. Allies = forgeted

Eh, over engineered tanks was one of few problems Germany had. They lacked decent allies. Italy only wanted to rebuild the Roman Empire, they worked with Germany as long as they stayed out of each others business.

Hungary and the rest were only mean to provide resources and supplement the German forces. These guys would have been betrayed in the end.

Lack of resources, over engineering, lack of allies, too many enemies was their downfall.

[Kansas]

why are you asking us to educate you if you're so sure that you're right?
dont prance on in here like you know you're right if you know that you aren't

Wow, I was trying to make a connection, why do you have to be such a bitch?

@Cold War: It was called that because of the cold relations between the USSR and the West. While there never was a direct conflict between the US and USSR, they did compete indirctely through proxy wars. The US and Ussr competed against each other for allies and countries to influence. If a communist party rose up in Guatamala for example, the USSR might try to put them in power while the US might try to support a dictatorship to keep the communists from taking power. To fight the dictatorship, the USSR might give the rebels a handsome shipment of weapons. In response the US might give guns to the dictatorship.

A majority of the wars fought from 1949 to 1991 were all part that competing for spheres of influence business.

So it was to bring ideals of the US or USSR to good standing through indirect intervention

[TeeOS]

Wow, I was trying to make a connection, why do you have to be such a bitch?

Was this a joke?

so you can either be a cunt or explain how when no shots were fired

What the hell? This isn't apart of the tension between the US and the USSR
It did not collapse through a war, how would they have won anything?

yeah ok hes the bitch

He was
Don't worry he had first strike belittling me. Read through the conversation again

http://puu.sh/hpMWS/1cdfa646a4.png

you're handicapped

[Ipquarx]

Wow, I was trying to make a connection, why do you have to be such a bitch?

resorting to petty insults make you look very bad
debating 101 here

[Kansas]

yeah ok hes the bitch

He was

resorting to petty insults make you look very bad
debating 101 here

Don't worry he had first strike belittling me. Read through the conversation again