Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

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Beatriz said:
@Born in the USSA
Idea
- a timeline that reverses some of the themes of LTTW
- even more of the world being colonised (a la Separated at Birth) with the remainder divided between fewer western Empires (no Belgium for instance)
- the Four Great Empires: Britain, a *US [1] Russia and mainland Europe with 19th century puppet states in Europe, parts of Asia etc., a few independent states in South America, Anatolia, Arabia etc.

- only one (nuclear, global in scope) world war that results in the formation of a true world government with nuclear monopoly that views surviving separate national identities as something to be stamped out or at least subordinated to human identity
- lots of post apocalyptic interventions to crush warlords, reconstruct the world etc.

[1] The loss of the US drove British expansion in India (and eventually the Indian ocean Rim), and for other powers to compete with Britain
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Everything up to the world war is basically exactly what happens in Decades of Darkness, which was already the main influence of LTTW. Even the great powers are correct (although it's Germany and not Europe).
 

Beatriz

Idea: a Britain-America as the world’s hyperpower with the largest arsenal by far (and due to Britwank which Thande said this timeline negates) with Argentina, the East Indies and the Philippines, most of Africa (except those parts to France, Spain [absent TTL] and Portugal), and some parts of the Middle East (war of the Ottoman partition plus partitioning Persia) and parts of China as clients on the colonies -> clients transition.
India (incl Afghanistan and Tibet) as an allied autonomous polity
And allied empires of Brazil, Portugal, Germany (?), Greece, Mexico?
- Japan as something like TTL’s Siam - no one pulls a Meiji here and the centre of power is still Europe or Europe-descendants allied to it

Inspired by GURPS cornwallis, Empires Earth
 
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CountofDooku

CountofDooku

Beatriz said:
Idea: a Britain-America as the world’s hyperpower with the largest arsenal by far (and due to Britwank which Thande said this timeline negates) with Argentina, India (incl Afghanistan and Tibet), the East Indies and the Philippines, most of Africa (except those parts to France, Spain [absent TTL] and Portugal), and some parts of the Middle East (war of the Ottoman partition plus partitioning Persia) and parts of China as clients on the colonies -> clients transition.
And allied empires of Brazil, Portugal, Germany (?)
- Japan as something like TTL’s Siam - no one pulls a Meiji here and the centre of power is still Europe or Europe-descendants allied to it
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I always wanted a Code Geass like TL similar to that, with Britannia ruling all, but keeping it historical possible and logical whenever we could, sadly I myself lack the time for that and honestly have so many other projects planned that the lack of time will be true even within a few years sadly. (If there is anyhting like that here in the forum, I would love to read it)
 
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Born in the USSA

Born in the USSA

Reread the Silent Revolution chapter and it got me thinking. Alfarus was able to defuse the first major split within Combine Societism by embracing the Familista position while retaining the Garderista one as an implied threat and I started pondering how he (or a more competent successor than he got) could've squared the circle with the two major factions of the Black Guards. Siding primarily with the Neo-Sanchezista faction primarily is a nonstarter, but it's possible that steps could be taken to broaden the scope of cultural homogenization and expand the creche system to more thoroughly placated the KaK in time to prevent de-Alfarusation or whatever. Toss in said successor eliminating the meritocratic tests and moving the Celatores to a less public presence while (finally!) beginning the true rotation of the Rejes would do the trick I think 🤔

If we take the "Alfaran Combine = 50s America" parallel a bit further it's easy to see the Black Guards/Silent Revolution as a "Civil Rights Era" scenario where:
  1. The young radicals were all united into a single umbrella organization (albeit a decentralized one) rather than a web of competing groups with more narrow focuses.
  2. Despite this unity on paper the anti-war students and the anti-discrimination activists had a far more solid demarcation between them.
  3. Obviously it ends with a regime change rather than reform.
So, I think a scenario where the Combine followed the US playbook of A) ending the open militarism while remaining a militarist state, B) reforming higher education to address campus protests and C) passing laws to end legal discrimination in policy could've seen them on a better footing going into the latter half of the century. Thoughts?
 
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Beatriz

Also ending autarky to force other countries to deal with them, learn their language, flood foreign states with their products etc at least to the level of OTL China

Also my *Esperantist Hawaii avoids the problem of uniting the major powers against them
 

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Beatriz said:
Also ending autarky to force other countries to deal with them, learn their language, flood foreign states with their products etc at least to the level of OTL China

Also my *Esperantist Hawaii avoids the problem of uniting the major powers against them
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Darn it, I was hopeful there'd been an update for a second...
 
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