What if The Final Countdown - USS Nimitz strikes
Apr 5, 2022 4:34:49 GMT
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Post by simon darkshade on Apr 5, 2022 4:34:49 GMT
Agreed. A literal change to the outset of American involvement in the Second World War is going to make a lot of the (comparatively) minor downstream political debates of the 1970s seem like very small fry.
How can someone be persecuted for something they have not done and will now likely never do? I would suggest that it would be difficult to do so.
We are too used to viewing all events of our timeline as inevitable. The further back the change occurs, the more unrecognisable subsequent events become. This is one of the criticisms I had of the Navweaps story on this topic, whereby HMS Victorious nuked a Japanese surface force. The changes were very, very minor, involving Singapore falling just a little bit later. Such minimalist renderings fail the test of imagination.
How can someone be persecuted for something they have not done and will now likely never do? I would suggest that it would be difficult to do so.
We are too used to viewing all events of our timeline as inevitable. The further back the change occurs, the more unrecognisable subsequent events become. This is one of the criticisms I had of the Navweaps story on this topic, whereby HMS Victorious nuked a Japanese surface force. The changes were very, very minor, involving Singapore falling just a little bit later. Such minimalist renderings fail the test of imagination.
