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Trotsky himself might not want that title, but a centralising successor may well do.

Perhaps fragmenting France on the same lines as the HRE could create a historic precedent for smaller states within Europe? That alone, if it persisted to the present day, would create hundreds more 'sovereign' 'state' entities. It might then lead to less colonialism and less formation of...

As it stands, the world has somewhere around 200 sovereign states today. Can you push that number to 300, 500 - even 1,000? Bonus points for the latest possible POD.

With a POD of 1900, can you create a situation where the majority of a country's firms are cooperatively owned? These can be consumer coops and/or worker coops. The remainder of firms can be privately-owned or state-owned in whatever ratio you see fit. While I'm curious to see what it would...

Wouldn't a major risk be that Britain could simply declare war on and invade a neutral France to strike at Germany if it wishes? If it doesn't have a standing army it makes it easy prey to Britain if it wishes - and if French revanchism against Germany is high enough then complementing an...

Fascinating idea - I hope someone can figure out a plausible scenario for this! (I don't know enough about the era to comment but I'd love to hear more.)

Wow, what a fascinating idea. Does this delay a Depression-level event or could the inevitable next contraction in the economic cycle be less destructive? If so that will have immense consequences for politics and maybe completely alter the face of WW2 if it happens at all - not to mention...

You could probably invert the issue by, rather than having a war draw them together by necessity, make a war a necessity of them having drawn closer politically. The obvious reason for that would be a successful communist revolution in both leading to Britain fearing a united red Europe (as per...

Almost every recognisable shred of European and world history would have been avoided if that were the case!

OOC: It's a triple-blind what if.

Tony Blair emails a draft copy of A Journey over to David Miliband including the passage where he talks about the 2001 election, where he takes Bill Clinton's advice to treat an easy-win election as if every vote mattered. With this in mind, DM takes a more cautious approach to launching the...

There's an assumption on these boards that a scenario such as a failed D-Day, no American intervention in the European War, or white peace between Britain and Germany, would lead to the Red Army marching all the way into France. I wanted to test how plausible that assumption really is. For...

Ahh, the Adama Manoeuvre

That was a delightfully thorough excoriation. Although it was all well-reasoned I found the part about the Imperial Federation a particularly convincing final nail in the coffin. Thank you for finally putting this idea to rest! Hopefully I can now move onto ruminating about more plausible...

I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your point - after all this is a plausibility check. But can you just explain why they'd have to give up their claims? You're also right to discuss the opposition of nationalists. Some potential counters: the timeline's original author assumes a chain of...