Also while many things in TW2000 are far fetched, let's consider the following from RL history:
* 1940 the Royal Navy issue and USE cutlasses in a boarding action in Norway.
* Syria sides with the US in 1990 over Kuwait and provides troops
* Israel supplied arms to Iran to use against Iraq
* Germany copies the Sten Gun in WW2 down to the British proof marks even though they have thousands of genuine versions and a production line of their own improved version
* The Crusaders reach the Holy Land and their first action is to attack their one Arab ally
* After World War Two the Soviets allow Austria to have democratic elections
* In 1982, the British sail half way around the world to take back a series of islands from Argentina
* After WW2 America cuts back it's army so badly that it does not have enough tanks to fight in Korea without pulling mothballed ones from storage
* The Soviets disguise their missiles on Cuba with a different type of tree than that grown on the island
* The Soviets shoot down KAL-007
* Matthias Rust flies a light aircraft to Red Square
* The Berlin Wall comes down without a war
If I wrote many of these into my alternative history I would be laughed at...
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