Descanse en paz, Padre de mi Patria.
Maximilian started this journey and, just as with his Mexican Empire, the timeline must go on without him now. The one silver lining I can find is that he didn't live to see Austria implode.
It's already hard to find someone who doesn't despise Stephane Clement and all his family, and it's only gonna get harder from here on out; if they manage to survive it'll only be due to the intervention of the devil himself, and only because he's got worse in mind.
I get the feeling that...
El Condor Rojo is built on two ideas:
First is the irony that Pinochet can do almost everything he is infamous for in OTL, and the same people who curse him as a traitorous fascist dictator in OTL would praise him ITTL as a heroic defender of The Revolution who rightfully cleansed his country...
Note that Bush is leaning more on Colin Powell than on Dick "Murdered a dude" Cheyney and Rumsfeld. How much that improves the administration's ability to not fuck things up, on the other hand...
I see even more Advanced Czechnology in the future.
One amusing possibility I can see going forward is Vienna still naming a plaza after Mexico if the Mexican Hapsburgs come to the rescue during the following crisis.
Hopefully he becomes a perfectly normal minister of education and philosopher, who doesn't get inspired by Confederate rhetoric that they lost the war because of "the traitorous, cowardly Mexican mongrel" into pulling a racial Uno reverse card on them.
I find it endlessly amusing that just about everyone who's discussed the quality of the generals of WWI agrees that Luigi Cardona was the worst of the lot, and everyone else is just "fighting" for second place.
One thing I can absolutely see being a common theme in those Bloc Sud alt-history scenarios is for the next war to be fought between the members of the BS itself; you can easily see a victory-drunk Confederacy try to bully the Mexican Empire (which may or may not be larger, depending on how much...