Nah, it's not truly bonkers until Canada has its own bomb. Or, uh, Venezuela, though that timeline has that country embark on a different path of advancement.
Just wanted to share some info on how bonkers nuclear weapons ideas got during the Cold War- while writing a crossover adaptation for...
I always thought Mowbray was an odd duck. He's the reason why Bolingbroke gets exiled, assumed he would get pardoned by Richard, and then up and dies in Venice. Just sort of vanishes off-screen...
Now I'm wondering what if there was some sort of religious ideology that would cause settlers to move to Rhodesia, but eh that's better served next door with supposedly how austere and zealous the Dutch Calvinist Boers were in South Africa (which would make for an interesting thread of its own)...
I guess Rhodesia is the 20th century Confederacy, a short-lived secessionist white supremacist nation that gets debated again quite often, much longer thread with same premise only two years ago:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/how-long-could-rhodesia-have-held-out.525515/
Found...
Let's talk about positive examples. Zambia seemed to have done alright with decolonization. What makes them different? I mean, I'm the white population was immensely smaller and so not hellbent on retaining minority rule, for once, but curious if there's any other lessons to be learned there.
There was a long-gone thread in Chat where I asked about this country, and someone described Rhodesian society as basically little English country squires for whom all of the major social changes in the metropole had passed them by. If that poster is reading this thread (I believe you said you...
lmao every time
Why don't the locals ever try to break free or is it just because Egypt was such a cosmopolitan crossroads ever since the Mamluks arrived