The idea that Stiener could save Berlin is ridiculous short of them somehow having magic bullets and the Red Army having the shooting skills of stormtroopers
Umm…there’s no realistic way Greeks would incorporate the Crescent and Star of Islam on their flag after centuries languishing under the Ottomans.
And the population exchange will still happen, to what degree it occurs (and how violent) will rely upon the outcome of the Greco-Turkish war.
Have the British actually adhere to giving the Hashemites rule, or alternatively have Arabs do better in 48.
Hear me out, the presence of the Israeli state to at least to much of the Levant (Syria, Iraq, Egypt, etc.) was the excuse many of these states needed to create the...
The first thing that comes to mind is that 6 more years of a pointless war are avoided.
Some consequences down the line is that we quite possibly avoid a timeline where Iraq doesn't invade Kuwait (due to the gargantuan amount of money it had borrowed from them and other gulf states and now had...
I don't think he would have joined. As anti Soviet as he was, from reading his biography, I think he would have been repulsed by the Nazis just as much; he was too much of the old order.
Even if he did for whatever reason join, beyond emigre communities in France and to a lesser extent in...
The best propaganda opportunity for Ba'athism and secular nationalism in the Arab world in decades, akin to how many felt about Hezbollah and the Israeli conflict in 06. Iraq would milk it for what it's worth but it wouldn't do much, it would be occupied with trying to subdue it's neighbor.
The thing is, the institution lost legitimacy with a string of defeats that saw the monarchy lose support, with no Great War and time to breathe and further industrialize, I don't see why the monarchy in some form wouldn't continue to exist.
I can't recall if it was that high, but reforms were happening and picking up speed, eventually they would have had an long term impact on the populous.
But we're not talking about Saxe-Coburg Gotha, but focusing on the Romanovs who had the Church among others providing a bulwark against just that. Alexei inherited hemophilia due to the genetics of his mother's family tree not due to inbreeding on the side of his father.
As for me I think it...
Russia utilizes it's position as defender of Eastern Christendom and marches in to Anatolia, going deep enough to provide a buffer zone for surviving Greeks, Armenians, and if they are close enough Assyrians.
Except political reality supercedes sentiment, Turkey would raise hell and seeing as Ankara is vital to us in the region, I don't think Washington would let the KRG achieve independence....we stayed on the sidelines when Barzani tried to secede after all.