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So an F-22, F-23, and an A-12?

Ah, well. You wouldn't believe the fish I caught while I was away... but trust me, they were THIS. BIG.

Indeed. William Randolph Hearst was screaming in his newspapers for the U.S. to do a full invasion of Mexico, occupy it, possibly annex it. Of course, he was also trying to convince people in his papers and in his movies that there was a secret Japanese-Mexican Alliance to invade the U.S., based...

My understanding was that it wasn't supposed to escort the aircraft, just suppress a given set of AD radars to open the space for the supersonic aircraft to fly through the hole in the radar net.

The specter of a German invasion of Denmark, and a transfer of the Danish West Indies to German control, were indeed part of the arguments that were put forth for the treaty by which the United States purchased them. They'd wanted them for a long time, but this was a new reason to add to the pile.

So, let's assume the government collapses. What are the likely replacements? Do the Conservatives (and Liberal Unionists) swing back into power? With the Irish crisis continuing, do they get the Irish Parliamentary votes?

Why wouldn't the US intervene on Aguinaldo's side? If they've chosen to recognize the Philippines' independence, presumably they gave tacit agreement to Aguinaldo's taking office.

At the outset of the war, there was a movement in Japan to ally with Germany, led by several of the older genro. They believed Britain was doomed to lose the war and didn't want to be shackled to them, and believed Germany would make a better ally. They were outmaneuvered by the Foreign...

I doubt Romania will join the Central Powers in this instance; what's more likely is continued neutrality. There wasn't much of a pro-CP contingent in Romania.

Skip on down to around 1927 -- the Type 91 and Type 92, for instance.

I think that's the key problem. There's several war scares throughout the period of 1900-1914 that could have erupted into actual field conflicts -- two war scares with Japan, in 1907 and 1913, the latter with the General Staff saying war was "not only possible but probable" and attempting to...

Schumer losing to Ferraro in 1998 keeps him in the House, which means that his protege Anthony Weiner doesn't succeed him in the House yet (presumably staying on the city council). That could have significant ripple effects to both his mayoral ambitions and Hillary Clinton's Presidential runs...

The destruction was combined with ongoing internal dissent over the matter of the war and how it was being lost, and if I remember correctly -- my copy is in storage -- some of the SSRs tried secession and negotiating their own cease fires, and then there was a general collapse. I think The...

The West, in the sense that the USSR collapses internally following the tit-for-tat nuclear exchange of Birmingham / Minsk.

Several other Amendments flowed quickly in the course of the 1910s: The Sixteenth Amendment (Income Tax) passed Congress in July 1909 and was ratified by the states by February 1913. The Seventeenth Amendment (Popular Election of Senators) passed Congress in May 1912 and was ratified by the...