Recent content by Corbell Mark IV

I could not comment on how it was used by the partisans of the 40s and 50s, but imo, that a policy and policy makers should be judged by the outcomes of their policies. I am open to hearing how much or how little weight our words would have had to the Nationalist governnment. And I am curious...

I was watching a video that touched on the immediate post war situation in China the other day. And I was reminded of, what I think is one of America's great blunders, where we put pressue on the nationalists to make peace with the communists. And of course we saw how that worked out. Just...

If it is "highly unlikely" that the soviets would get knocked out of the war without lend lease, then you can withhold or reduce lendlease and still have the Germans fighting the two front war, and have some consideration for hte post war situation AND even NOT have the pro-Soviet propaganda...

I don't know much about the internal working of India of the time, but I do have ONE point to raise. Would/could an UNITED India exising in 1971, lead to the China UN Security Council seat being taken from Taiwan and given to what is NOW the largest nation in teh world, instead of RED CHINA...

True. But still. With a win like that behind him, he is going to have some serious street cred going into his second term.

First thing to consider, this is Nixon's ACTUAL re-election map. To give you an idea of the way America viewed him before the Watergate scandal.

Totalitarian regimes and people tend to not deal well with any type of questioning that could be considered doubting the inevitability of their victory. Any such writer or blogger, in such a tl, would be waking though a minefield with every post, just waiting for the least reasonable person to...

i've heard good stuff about the expanse. so much good tv these days.

hard sci fi ideas that could be used for tv drama. 1. kinetic energy weapons. 2. stealth nukes in orbit. 3. solar power satellites . 4. a bean stalk. 5. an orion. 6. terra-forming mars. 7. an oneil colony. 8. military conflict in space. 9. SDI 10 all the above. my opinion...

Agreed. Japan would fit too.

Well, the us and the ussr are very different entities, to be allied with. Note the lack of border clashes between the US and Canada over the last one hundred years for example, compared to the USSR and China. Still, if that is what you want for your timeline, it is certainly plausible. On...

My first response would be that that they would be in BETTER shape because of less Red Scare. But, if the Soviets seem like less like the "tide of history" is on their side, that could reduce the appeal of the ideology. Really, it could go either way, depending how people bounce to the new...

Sounds very reasonable to have a NOT superpower soviet Union, still involved in supporting the communists in China. A northern Manchuria/South China split seems also ok.

Depends on how messed up the Soviets are. Do you know that there was an American occupation of some of China after the defeat of the Japanese? That there was some fighting between the communists and the Americans...

If there is no Soviet Union bankrolling and arming marxist revolutionaries in the colonies, the Brits and the French, with their advanced military tech, such as gas and nukes, could end up fighting harder to hold on to their empires. Mmm, no soviet union, means no threat to the Imperial...