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Originally Posted by P_Funk
The only thing that would have put Churchill on a Battleship headed for Nova Scotia was the wholesale loss of the British Isles
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And, yet, in mid-August 1941, that is exactly where he was, in HMS Prince of Wales.
A lucky shot by a U-Boat? It probably would not have shifted the will of the British people to try to win the war, not by 1941 with so much committed, but:
- the special relationship between FDR and WSC would be lost, along with its "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more" way of getting things done.
- an untested, less popular and less populist Anthony Eden would become PM (or would he? Probably yes, though he would have far less political capital).
- at any rate, the British government would have to adjust itself at a time where every hour wasted counted.
Probably would not have changed the outcome, but it would have been a vastly different war for the UK.