Recent content by 83gemini

A much more brutal war on drugs unlikely to be more effective. But how much of the activity is sanctioned/facilitated by the *US?

What I mean is 8 states shifting Republican on account of black voters in '56 seems odd

The 19th century cartography is on the retcon list.

My favorite: This "Islamic Republic" names aircraft carriers after Osama but names the Baltimore airport after Khomeini (hint; Shiite does not=Sunni).

In my view the invariably result of large-scale war in Europe would be at the very least a limited nuclear war, and most likely a full scale exchange.

Very well done and as these things go, plausible. Also an excellent source of many, many, many PhD theses, some of which might even be as well written as that installment.

With an expected PoD after November 4, 2008 this is clearly radically implausible.

Politically though it seems unlikely. Israel was fairly left, as these things go (as was the Yishuv), but it is difficult to imagine it being plausibly Stalinist, particularly given its self-appointed mandate regarding Aliyah, something that doesn't mesh well with turning towards the Soviets...

The problem is not so much Quebec sovereignty, it's that Quebec sovereignty (by the sovereigntists) was expected to include: Retention of Canadian Passports Retention of the Canadian dollar Not accounting for Quebec's share of the national debt Retention of the benefit of Canadian treaty...

Hunt down his short stories and old school fantasy. Harry can write when he feels like it.

Interesting stuff. A tantalizing mix of things other cultures have done (without so much detail that the construction is too obvious). Did you just select and blend?

OOC: AFAIK OTL canon has a WWIII thrown in somewhere.

Are all the democracies on that map really democratic? I mean Russia? There was an excellent map in the online Atlas of the 20th century that showed the post-WWII Western Europe cycle of Conservative vs. Social Democratic governments. There is some merit in having a true UCS reflecting party...

In OTL there were various massacres on both sides (the nature of which are debated). If Israel doesn't pull through in '48 I sincerely doubt there'd be an organized genocide as such (a lot of dead sure; I suspect eliminationalist anti-Semitism filtered through into elements of Arab nationalism)...

I'd tend to think the basic problems for the Arab world are still there so the cold war dynamics would be relatively similar. There'd be lots of butterflies from Arab victory in 1948 though (though I tend to think the monarchies wouldn't last). There'd be somewhat more Jews in the U.S, which...