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Germany had a lot of things going for it in World War II. Indeed, it seems its real undoing was the ideology of Nazism and how its vicious cuntery drove their enemies into "war of survival" mode. I said in another thread that if the Germans had shown the slightest respect for the rules of war...

Something as simple as World War One ending quickly is enough to smother the Liberal order in its cradle. Given how much of a pig's ear has been made of it since then, one wonders whether or not Germany winning in 1914 would have been for the better.

Which feeds into my point that they'd have been better off going down the fantasy road, if they won't going to put in the proper effort. Alt history has rules, and Code Geass broke most of them.

Well that's great and all, but this genre has rules and they broke every single one of them. So much so they could have simply made it a fantasy, changed nothing in the grand scheme of things, and avoided all this mess.

There is a much praised/highly overrated animu called Code Geass. Its story is supposedly the result of an alternate history but my God, its timeline is a mess, not at all limited to failing to understand just how significant Elizabeth I of England giving birth to a son is.