Why would it want to? The main reason the Brits wanted out was that they were tired of guaranteeing Hanover's safety and would just as gladly not send troops, because whatever happens to Hanover means next to nothing to the Brits. Belgium has ports on the English Channel, so Britain cares...
I see numerical scores are still a thing in this TL... on the other hand, we haven't seen OTL's numerical inflation, as a game which didn't sound like utter crap managed to get a 4.
Hope we managed to avoid Metacritic and some of the recent scandals. Created Worlds seems a lot more highbrow...
I don't think large confederations are particularly likely - you're reading the civil war too far back. One of the major fault lines was the representation of small states versus their bigger neighbors, and when you reduce the number of states that just intensifies the issue. Another, the...
The Islamic State is a Sunni Arab movement and Saddam's powerbase was the Sunni Arab community. I can't see him getting outflanked to that degree - if Iraq does erupt into Syria-style civil war, his challengers will likely come from southern Iraq and Kurdistan.
Zarqawi's organization was...
Boston's a big city, founded by the state's founders, and while it's distant from western MA, being a port on the center of the state's coastline with a makes it more accessible from most of the state's population centers, though admittedly nowhere near Springfield. That's hard to overcome...
I could certainly see it survive much longer intertwined with capital punishment if the dominant religion was one which accepted human sacrifices. Can't see things like retainer sacrifices lasting.
More to the point, New England has its own militia, and Virginia's ability to conquer the place is questionable at best. Virginia doesn't even have a land border and can't get there without going through Dutch territory, and has enough problems with Maryland's puritan settlers.
It wasn't so much the success of Nintendo as the success of pokemon - there aren't that many anime based on video games that were actually successful in Japan, let alone the West. (A 13-26 episode tie-in that fans of the game watch and get disappointed at is sadly far more typical.) And...
The Glorious Revolution becomes a civil war. James wins, but not immediately. Which gives New England time to declare for William, imprison Andros, and declare independence (albeit under a much less centralized government - or perhaps even eight states, most of them in alliance) when it's...
A coup wouldn't work and wouldn't help for a state founded on Hong Xiuquan's personal legitimacy as a prophet-king.
Now, if he died *without* foul play and with a competent successor you might get somewhere. Even better if he dies in battle and can be used as a martyr.
Belgian rebellion, please. I know it had some big effects on the Dutch state - the king abdicated in favor of his son, it probably hastened the transition to constitutionalism - but whatever the myth-making of modern-day Walloon nationalists, you can't be called a revolution if you lose.
Probably no more Virginia. Too high a death rate from malaria and war, not enough opportunity to make it worth the risk. The early colonists dropped like flies and I'd think it probable the Virginia Company packs it up or goes bankrupt instead of sending ten more years shipping Englishmen to...
It will be culturally part of what we call the European world OTL, but that might just mean they find different terms than "Europe" and "Asia". The geographical obstacle to calling it Europe is formidable.