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  1. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    War crimes worked to somewhat lessen horrors of war because people deliberately largely went after only things that gave no, or very little, advantage as they knew full well that otherwise everyone would just ignore any relevant one the first moment it actually mattered. So it is hard to see...
  2. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    As terrible leaders go Solano Lopez is near the top, if he was actively trying to fuck over Paraguay(and the others really, while not as bad as Paraguay the war had plenty of negatives for all the countries involved) to the greatest extent of his ability there isn't much more he could have done...
  3. The Spanish Heir (What if Carlos II had a son?)

    The Spanish botched relations with Catalans again and again historically, but it is always funny to see them seek French support and annexation when the French boot would not only be worse but successful at crushing their identity. But then pretty much everyone making decisions everywhere...
  4. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    That was already true OTL. And, more importantly, USA was willing to massively pay for very little on Brazil's part, so the country not joining is more down to USA not being so willing to do so than anything in Brazil.
  5. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    It definitely feels weird that the British would even want to hold up negotiations over colonies. From their point of view the colonies are easy useful leverage not just in the present, but for the future since the Central Powers' colonies are always going to be very vulnerable to the British...
  6. What should the United States, Britain, and France, have done differently regarding Germany, and Europe, at the End of World War One?

    It is largely too late by then. Not because they couldn't do it, they absolutely could in countless ways, but because none of the three nations were really thinking about it. And worse what they were thinking about contradicted each other. In essence these were the positions of the three nations...
  7. Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Yeah but nothing matches actual experience because there is both things you can't really be taught, only prepared for, and things that are very easy to overlook without experience. So overall it shows the Japanese are doing poorly if all their myriad experiences in naval warfare only allows...
  8. The Spanish Heir (What if Carlos II had a son?)

    The problem is that France would hold onto this just long enough for them to defeat everyone else, or at least think they did, then promptly invade Spain. It is said that countries don't have friends just interests, but today there is at least some reticence and backlash to doing whatever(for...
  9. The Spanish Heir (What if Carlos II had a son?)

    Well Willem and Louis both are just asking to be humbled given everything, but it is hard to see how both could happen at the same time. I will settle for just Louis though.
  10. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Unlikely, I don't see them caring that much. In the USA slavery was an ideology with fanatical followers, in Brazil it was a method of exploitation people knew was on the way out for decades and were simply milking as much as they could. Nor there was any insane apocalyptical fears like in the...
  11. Pedro II dies early

    One thing people tend to not really grasp about Brazillian slavery, especially since they tend to compare it to USA's which was fundamentally different, is that it wasn't sustainable without the slave trade and people both understood and accepted this. So once the British started to use their...
  12. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    No that is pretty much correct. The way things were heading the government was building itself into enough of an institution the civil service could, and would, run the country on its own regardless of who was Emperor or Empress. The coup was a last ditch effort of a tiny group who saw that was...
  13. historical moral narratives: which was the 'good' side, if any, during WW1?

    Grey vs Grey(which does bring up the joke of it all being his fault). At most you can say Britain tips it towards the Entente being worse due to the fact they meddled everywhere, and so simply had more chances to cause harm, but the great powers were all terrible and behaved the more or less...
  14. Most plausible WW1 German Victory?

    See here, Not the Schlieffen Plan 1914 page 55(57 overall).
  15. Most plausible WW1 German Victory?

    To do better all they would have to do is, when faced with a war against France and Russia, take the prepared plan for a war against France and Russia and use it. A very low bar to clear, not exactly rocket science we are speaking of here. Moltke instead chose to take a plan for a war against...
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