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Originally posted by m21sniper
Well the British actually did it.
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The British did not conquer any of America, invade, yes, conquest is much more than an invasion. The US government has invaded Iraq, but failed in it's attempted conquest.
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Also, you are ignoring the possibilities of coalitions arrayed against the US.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
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For instance, HAD the germans defeated the soviets and brits, and the US sat on the sidelines and not been attacked UNTIL Japan and Germany had consolidated their gains and were united in a position of strength against a complacent and disinterested isolationist america, it is PLAUSIBLE that they could have done just what you said could not be done, but which, in point of fact, has already been done by the British.
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The British were never near defeat. The Germans had no means to invade Britain, much less conquer them. You really must think logistically about this. The German air attacks were meant to show Britain that Germany could deny them protection from the air, it broke the back of the Luftwaffe instead. The Germans never had a heavy bomber, the British built over 13,000 of them. No, the FW200 Condor doesn't count, it did not have the payload, and only 296 were built. The German decision to build the "V" wonder weapons cost them the production of over 25,000 combat aircraft because raw materials for aircraft production were sent to the "rocket works" instead.
The list goes on, and is long.