Recent content by deathstrokenorris

No fucking idea. I guess that japan having more examples of would-be empires in the form of the more successful american states could open the way for closer international relations not defined by power plays from stronger sates to weaker ones? Alternatively they luck out somewhat and are less...

Japan was a number of things, cultural factors, a militarist society, etc etc. They were primed to be an european style awful empire but they went full crazy (IMO) because the other empires didn't treat them as such and actively conspired against their interests more than once. So the Japanesse...

It still probably leads to ports first and foremost, followed by big cities and the like. I mean, the point of a railroad is for travel and movement of resources so a bunch of interconnected nodes in-between the big centers of industry and produce export centers makes sense. The biggest...

I mean, the country's biggest issue is its political instability and economic mismanagement (which can be roughly summed up as "printing too much money and spending too much money you don't have") which in turn leads to each of those issues making the other worse. If we assume that the country...

I mean, I'm no shipbuilding expert but from what I understand the available infraestructure and expertise alone would give them an edge on everyone else who wasn't already into the shipbuilding game, so catching up to the new advances and paradigms wouldn't be that hard, especially with the...

The bolded bit is actually a pretty big deal, not many people outside of Europe (actually I think only the US?) could build shit as far as warships or big vessels in general were concerned. So it would probably become relevant during the Great War, nevermind after.

I barely understood a word of what you said but that aside, the story has plenty of buildup for an alternate ethnic makeup and socioeconomic standing of minorities, that isn't in doubt. What it is in doubt is that such would lead to your fixfic tier everyone is friends with everyone while they...

1) From what we've seen the opnmes where they had the most power was Paraguay. Bolivia was still pretty "colonial" just like the rest of the UP even if their antives are treated much better if only by virtue of how big of a chunk of their demographics they are. 2) I used Paraguay as an example...

Personally I still think that assuming all changes are positive is both bad from a writing perspective and unrealistic. The UP would still be settlee country full of people stroking themselves while thinking of Europe's and later on their own "grandeur". I don't think widespread education or...

Ah so ITTL they didn't go the Prussian route? I know that the ties with the UK are even stronger but I'm somewhat surprised they went for british kit and doctrine, from what I understand almost everyone went to France and Germany (and Prussia before them) for those.

UP can into Enlightened Centrism ™, lol

Honestly no. I'd rather not have my money in ML's system and I hardly consider buying something there to be the same as putting money inside a bank. Like, if you want to take it to those extremes then buying some shit at the grocery is the same, because they are acting as an intermediary. Also...

Eh, I mean I was like 4 years old during 2001 I think? and my sister one year old and we both wouldn't trust our dollars to the bank ever. It just means losing money and using pesos is also a waste, seeing as inflation will always be bigger than any interest rate. During most of the 19th...

Your own article says it is due to inflation itself. Salaries get ever lower and the peso loses value so of course what people put in banks won't ever be considerable. And of course people won't deposit their USD in the banks, why would you purposefully lose money? We are just one ransom...

Isn't the automotive industry shrinking a fucking lot as of late? I'm not sure we will be competitive much longer if that's the case. Do you have any source for this? While I agree that most people would never, ever, trust their USD to the banks (and they do well not to) I disagree that people...