How the French-fleet counterfactual is bounded

The discussion uses contemporary fleet locations and wartime constraints to test plausible consequences of France continuing the fight. Counterfactual history connects an audience's starting question to wider historical problems without granting license to invent beyond the evidence. The source base includes primary, secondary, and accessible tertiary works, while published fleet-location lists sometimes disagree. The scenario stops before later choices, especially Japan's entry, create too many branching assumptions. A livestream cannot match a book's precision or nuance, yet public discussion can give interested viewers a route into deeper study.