I can extrapolate on a TL where nukes have been used after the end of world war II, but even if they might be considered 'conventional weapons' I can assure you that if that would be the case, the whole notion of 'conventional warfare' would be totaly inflated. You might be able to concoct a...
The window to renegotiate european disarmament treaties and perhaps even a non nuclear central and central-eastern european zone would have been open for a while longer.
The EU would have been a bit more consolidated and perhaps it would be boasting a few more european brigades ready for...
Any divergence into this trigger happy TL (if a western power instigates) must also result in a collapse of any credible western liberalism/humanism. The reactions would, in all probability, be extreme. In a cold war setting I can imagine many european democracies political maps being completely...
Most of your assessments are rather sound, even though I still believe you are underestimating the Russians. They have been building their missile force to ensure a asymmetric deterrent and I believe that even a US first strike would miss quite a few of their cheap mobile platforms. Of course...
It seems like some people confuse extermination with conquest. Also I am surprised the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces are somehow understood to be without any retaliatory capacity. This last notion is utterly absurd, especially if you take into account the vast landmass they have at their...
I voted for the Axis victory 'cause the only way they could win that war would be with the aid of a nazi-übermench-hyperborean-spacefaring-alien intervention, and that would be BAD.
I can imagine a even more elaborate american 'death cult', if I may call it that. With more memorials, national holidays and perhaps stronger notions of 'american virtues'. Perhaps manifest destiny would be dusted off as a 'white mans burden' but rephrased as 'american mans burden'. Especially...
Hey man, what if, inside my primal masculinity I find a sensual femininity?
Seems to me like someone on steroids tried to update Rosseaus notions of our natural state. Voila, you have a dysfunctional misogynistic fantasy that in some ways mirror the diminished prestige of the blue collar man.
The whole 9/11 thing is so implausible and outlandish that any speculation on other similar events should be accompanied by some specifics. Since Al Qaidas demands never where all that clear to the general public, the whole situation could be spun quite effectively, as we saw happen IOTL...
There has always been a european interpretation of american "truthers". In a Gore + 9/11 timeline I'm sure any retaliatory action of the Gore administration would be interpreted as a manifestation of the "imperialistic attitudes of the US government".
On the american side of the pond I...