AHC: 'Taiwan' your country
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overninethousands
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USSR cross the Rhine in 1983, the president can't push the nuclear button because neither NATO nor Warsaw pact did it (very unlikely), so the USSR invades France. The government takes shelter in Corsica and creates a French government in exile in Ajaccio. MiGs clashes with Mirages near Marseilles and Toulon.
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A real-life plan: if Portugal was invaded in WWII, the governement would transfer itself, along with the bulk of the army, to the Açores.
The Spanish Republicans win the civil war but as the nationalists control the navy they can't cross into the Balearics, Morocco or the overseas posessions, and thus nationalist Spain survives there after a cease-fire and declaring itself supportive of the Allies (Franco thinking he was backstabbed by the Axis during the war).
There are complications for this. Among them is the fact that the islands were (like they still are) demilitarized through a multilateral international treaty. The islands also would hardly have the population base and the economics to support a viable independent nation. IMO the most likely outcome of Red victory in the Finnish civil war and a White withdrawal from Finland through the Ålands would be a Swedish annexation of the islands in the aftermath of WWI, perhaps through *League of Nations mediation.
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The 1970 Black Power Uprising in Trinidad is successful, the mutinous units in Chaguramas make it into Port of Spain and force Eric Williams and the rest of the PNM goverment to flee to Tobago to wait for support from the US and Britain.
A communist rebellion takes over CONUS after a bloody civil war in the 1920s and 30s. The Federal goverment keeps hold of all overseas territories and puppet states (Liberia and Cuba)
Canada gains St. Pierre and Miquelon by purchase. Many decades later a Québécois rebellion is defeated but the rebels flee to Anticosti and St Pierre and Miquelon.
A communist rebellion takes over CONUS after a bloody civil war in the 1920s and 30s. The Federal goverment keeps hold of all overseas territories and puppet states (Liberia and Cuba)
Canada gains St. Pierre and Miquelon by purchase. Many decades later a Québécois rebellion is defeated but the rebels flee to Anticosti and St Pierre and Miquelon.
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In this scenario, could you possibly see the House of Windsor “going native” instead, becoming an English-Canadian monarch? How would this impact Québec, I wonder? (For that matter, might the Quebec Act then become a basis for removing the exclusion of Catholics from the throne? The “Church of England” would be a moot point, after all...)
Truth to tell I've found the path to the Cypriot coup there a bit unlikely and there were a few factual errors, frex Papadopoulos himself was the arch-colonel. Still a great read even if it brings the king back.
For the United States, the easiest way to create a Taiwan-like territory is to have the US annex Cuba at some point during the 19th Century. The greater challenge is to have a specifically Communist revolution on continental North America succeed.
My proposal for a Communist Britain is.... Ireland. It would probably unite and be placed under US protection with a large amount of refugees. The Channel Islands could fall under French control and maybe the Shetlands under either Denmark or Norway. The Isle of Man could remain independent also.
For Britain to fall to Communism though I imagine the whole of Europe would have to fall so I'd expect Canada, Australia and New Zealand to pick up it's legacy.
For Britain to fall to Communism though I imagine the whole of Europe would have to fall so I'd expect Canada, Australia and New Zealand to pick up it's legacy.
Feunoyr
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For France the destination would depend on the political nature of the regime
A royalist government could survive in the regions of western France (brittany, Anjou, Vendée ...) under certain conditions.
A Bonapartist government would choose Corsica, of course.
As potential alternatives I think that Algeria and the other overseas territories would be possible but unstable distinations.
A royalist government could survive in the regions of western France (brittany, Anjou, Vendée ...) under certain conditions.
A Bonapartist government would choose Corsica, of course.
As potential alternatives I think that Algeria and the other overseas territories would be possible but unstable distinations.
The Royal Family of the UK might have escaped to Northern Ireland if Britain went communist.
The Republic of Ireland would probably be under US protection and aligned with the Kingdom of (Northern) Ireland, and maybe part of an alliance with the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The North would have a lot of refugees from Britain, and Ireland would have even more in absolute numbers, just a lower percentage. There would be a lot of US forces here too, so a larger number of Americans and Irish-Americans in the country. Ireland would take that deal over the British Army helping protect the Republic.
After fifty years of this, the two countries would be closer than Ireland and the UK have ever been, and both are equal members of a major Anglosphere alliance that replaces NATO (equal except that one has nuclear submarines).
The Republic of Ireland would probably be under US protection and aligned with the Kingdom of (Northern) Ireland, and maybe part of an alliance with the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The North would have a lot of refugees from Britain, and Ireland would have even more in absolute numbers, just a lower percentage. There would be a lot of US forces here too, so a larger number of Americans and Irish-Americans in the country. Ireland would take that deal over the British Army helping protect the Republic.
After fifty years of this, the two countries would be closer than Ireland and the UK have ever been, and both are equal members of a major Anglosphere alliance that replaces NATO (equal except that one has nuclear submarines).
No, they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t last a week before being assassinated by the Republicans.
Northern Ireland would probably collapse into a Bosnian War type situation if Britain went communist.
The Northern Irish economy is already dependent on British subsidies as it is, it wouldn't be capable of paying for the upkeep of the British Army or dealing with insurgency.
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Have the Ethiopian Monarchy flee to the Dahlak Archipelago when the Derg takes power and remain there with the Derg remaining in control of Ethiopia.
Alternatively, the Ethiopian Monarchy in @twistedirregular’s Meiji Ethiopia TL could move to Himyar if Ethiopia goes Communist.
Alternatively, the Ethiopian Monarchy in @twistedirregular’s Meiji Ethiopia TL could move to Himyar if Ethiopia goes Communist.