Just a note to ValII - if you press the + button next to quote, you can quote more than one post at once.
I'm aware of that, but you people post, when I'm in the middle of writing the answer to a earlier post. But it was still kind of you to tell me this.
Well done, Valdemar - you've broken the nuclear standoff. When AHP sees that, the resulting explosion will surpass and make obsolete all existing strategic warheads
Actually, I want to make a thread about that: what's the earliest the Ottoman Empire can be completely destroyed? Probably not 1820, but 1854-5, maybe?
I'd be interested in knowing that, since I need to see it destroyed for a scenario/timeline I'm working on.
Okay. Why does Iran unite with all Cenrtal Asian states except for the single one populated by a Persian nation?
Good Point, Turanism is pan-turkic nationalism, its particularly strong in Turkey, so i dont see Iran (who's nationalists tend to have pan aryan fantasies) being the lead country in a pan-turkic state. Turan is an ancient iranian word to denote those barbarous turkish bastards who live out in the steppe and we hate them with a passion, by the way did we tell you how much we hate them turks?.
Now a pan-Iranian state that pushes into Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Pakistan and the tajik dominated urban areas of southern uzbekistan would make more sense
By the way, here is a little map i did (sorry for the double post). This is a map with several points of departure. Napoleon survives, over the course of the next century the empire liberalises into a european union style of thing. The British Empire is in the process of federalising. France Intervenes in Mexico in the 1820's and creates a sphere of influence in california, New Mexico and Texas.
This map is of the world in 1952 in the aftermath of the worlds Great War, that lasted from 1932 to 1948 (sort of a combination of ww1 and ww2). Essentially it was Russia fighting France for Europe and China fighting Japan and Britain for Asia. While this was going on the third war between the states broke out between the US and CS, leading the defeat and partition of the USA. France and Britain win.
technology is a bit different ITL, because there is no first world war, but tanks and aircraft were developed during the Second War Between the States 1915-20
By the way, here is a little map i did (sorry for the double post). This is a map with several points of departure. Napoleon survives, over the course of the next century the empire liberalises into a european union style of thing. The British Empire is in the process of federalising. France Intervenes in Mexico in the 1820's and creates a sphere of influence in california, New Mexico and Texas.
This map is of the world in 1952 in the aftermath of the worlds Great War, that lasted from 1932 to 1948 (sort of a combination of ww1 and ww2). Essentially it was Russia fighting France for Europe and China fighting Japan and Britain for Asia. While this was going on the third war between the states broke out between the US and CS, leading the defeat and partition of the USA. France and Britain win.
technology is a bit different ITL, because there is no first world war, but tanks and aircraft were developed during the Second War Between the States 1915-20
Why did the EU grow so much without renaming? And what happened in Asia? OO
The Horror, I dont think (nor do I hope) those expansions of the EU will ever become feasible. Turkey is not even likely to become a member.
It wouldn't really be a European Union if Kurdistan, Algeria, etc. were part of it. It'd be a great political union, yeah, but it wouldn't solely European. I'd just change the name at that point.That seems more like a personnal bias.
What is so inherrently unsuitable about Turkey, or any other nation not already in the EU to not become a member state?