Critic, I don't think you looked at the rest of the story. In chapter 

3, 

it's noted that the Axis world and our own diverged about (thumbs thru 

fic 

file..) about 320 years ago.

I only got up to chapter 2.

	From this, I'd assume that in this reality, the USA as a superpower 

never 

existed, and therefore, the production capabilities that enabled the 

Allies 

to win the war never existed.

Ahem. The British Isles by themselves had more production capacity then 
the entire German reich, even if they weren't deficient in everything. 
The Russians, even devastated in the east by the Germans, produced far 
more--and better--than the Germans, which was precisely why they crushed 
the German offensive and were rolling them long before the first US 
soldiers hit the beaches of Normandy. The Japanese were in such 
desperate straights they couldn't feed their soldiers in China, even 
before the US strangled their industry.

Every casual student of the war knows full well that the Russians bore 
the brunt of the fighting and casualties in the war. Please don't bring 
up Lend-Lease.

Those production capabilities were the ONLY 
reason we won the war. Our weapons weren't better, our soldiers weren't 
stronger, we simply outspent and outnumbered the enemy.

The Russians out-spent and out-numbered the Germans. We sat on our hands 
until the issue was more or less decided and then stepped in. Had the US 
not moved on the Pacific, the Japanese economy would have ground to a 
halt, or the Russians would have laid the smack down on them first, 
which they were all to willing to do at the time.

The 'What if the US Never Went Into The War' question had been debated 
for a long time, but whenever it comes up, most historians agree that it 
would have ultimately made not much a difference.

The Russians and the British were regional superpowers, not the Germans; 
if they were, they wouldn't have went to war to begin with.

If the Nazis built 
one tank, we built five. If they sank a ship, we built three to replace 

it. 

Most of their tanks died on the Eastern front at the hands of the KVs, 
T-34s and JSs which were so much superior to the PzIII and even the 
PzIV. Not to mention the air superiority which the Germans lost over the 
skies of England, and the massive Russian artillery support. They could 
do all of this because the Russians, even after being devastated by war, 
far out-produced the Germans.

	Trust me, there were SEVERAL points in WW II where the Axis should 

have, 

and WOULD have won.

There is nowhere. The Russians had massive superiority. This is debated 
constantly, but the conclusion is always the same: The Axis never had a 
prayer. They could have won limited territorial victories, but a 
world-wide victory is just silly, given the Axis member states 
inferiority to the rest of the world.

For the most part, the reason they did not was due to 
Hitler's personal belief that he was a great general. He was a skilled 
politician, but an inept bungler as a millitary commander, and several 

of 

his orders damaged the German cause, enabling the Allies to have the 

time 

they needed to win.

Wrong. Hitler didn't exactly help his generals, but even given the 
Germans did everything right, there is no hope in hell of them winning 
anything but small territorial gains. The Japanese would have been lucky 
to have managed to keep Manchuko.



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