Recent content by alexcoppo

I won't continue it. If Philip Dick had been a AH.com member and created a thread titled "The Man in High Castle" he would have first been trolled by the Historical Determinism Police and, had he persisted in his inconsiderate behaviour, banned for nazi fanboyism. I have decided to stop...

Making, not. Implying it.

Board nuclear fetishists will keep relishing their sick fantasies of a splendent 'Murica in a de-communistized world utopia; everybody else refer to this page for a healthy dose of nightmare fuel.

Some ideas. To make the Union function worse: * Grant could have died in Mexico (a tad too Rambo-ish), at Belmont (horse hit) and just before Shiloh (fall from horse). * Sherman could have eaten a gun in Dec 1861 (depression). Without Grant his career would not have been so certain (e.g...

Yeltsin dies immediately after 1991 in an alcoholic coma and is substituted by General Lebed.

TFSmith121 is not a ass, he just cannot get rid of a fundamental (and wrong, as I write below) assumption: that the Union will keep fighting on until confederate total defeat. If you posit the war-to-death scenario, economics tells you that the Confederacy will be crushed, full stop. The...

The situation on the ground, not a stone more.

Things are going South :D for the Union with a terrible speed (reasonable since Hamlin lacks the political finesse of Lincoln).

Something that I never succeeded in explaining on this forum: Confederacy "wins" (note the quotes) by not losing.

The turks would savour a taste of the medicine they were so eager to administer to the armenians. The interesting effect is later: this Greece controls the Dardanelles and therefore is a big asset for Germany. I imagine Hitler telling Mussolini to calm down and entice Greece into the Axis...

To sum up, on April 20th the Confederacy is made up by Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, N. & S. Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland, right? The secession of California almost gives the Arizona & N.Mexico for free to the Confederacy :eek:.

Or the Fenians conduct the campaign in the 1860's... Spring 1862 Queen Victoria in murdered by a Fenian bomb. Summer 1862 British investigations uncover a New York trail for the bomb (easy, NY was the largest irish diaspora colony in the US). Autumn 1862 Diplomatic tensions escalate, the US...

American isolationism ends where american economic imperialism begins :D. In our case, China was contended by the Japanese and American empires for economic colonization and exploitation purposes. You can even put Lindbergh in the White House, the contrast with Japan will inevitably grow and...

Pissing off his hydrocarbon moghuls base?

The way around, the Brits sealing the Continental Army in Valley Forge and making it wither away (i.e. Continental Army as the French, British Army as the Viet Minh).