Recent content by GSpectre

Americans always think that America is the center of the world even when it's not. I can't see that changing even in a multiple world mostly because America is so far removed from the other poles. The closest thing to threatening American exceptionalism would have been the Mexican civil war and...

Honestly the party which does it doesn't really matter. It was a combination of the loss of income, cynical political manipulation by the leadership, and needing a rallying cry now that their old one was thoroughly dead. They adopted a catholic issue they had been on the other side of and ran...

Don't have the evangelical schools tax exempt status taken away because of their segregationist policies and the evangelical movement doesn't jump on the abortion issue. That or move the timing of it later so they jump on gay rights instead, while being weaker because their reactionary positions...

That sounds like the BII's institutional memory kicking in. The Americans have thoroughly blotted there copy books with other intel agencies so when they come sniffing around an agent its better to kill them then bother with the niceties.

The Turks have a thing about Russians so if anything I would bet that they would be the ones who would be in NATO while the Greeks wouldn't feel the need. Plus the Bulgarians have issues with the Greeks.

Honestly the first scenario seems to be more likely, just because the Soviets seem to have figured out how to stay after they arrived, so my inclination is to think that they would stick arund in Romania after the liberation, if not in total then at least by splitting the country like they did...

With a POD anywhere from before the 1st balkan war through WW2, how would you keep some or all of the Balkan powers out of the communist sphere of influence? Is there a possibility of a free romania or Bulgaria? Or would it have to come from the southern Balkans? Albania or Croatia? Bosnia ever?

Ouch... That's a deeply personal human tragity that's well written. Very relatable

Earlier Balkin War with the Bulgarians being even more effective in their pursuit of the ottomans, especially if their light infantry formations end up being what allows them to take Constantinople, or at least the European half of the city. Say after Lule Burgas, or its equivalent, while the...

an alternative would be after WWI Ankara decides to strike back at the entente by supporting an independent Kurdistan in revenge for the support that the Greeks got during the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The Iraqi and Syrian portions would have been under entente control, and its...

ouch... thats going to hurt the entire holtz clan

You know, that entire scene makes me oddly fond of Jack in a way i wasn't before. He seems more human, and humane, then his lawyer and senior partner exterior makes him out to be.

You know i kinda love the fact that ITTL serving officers think nothing of calling royals badly behaved children to the face of other royals so long as their serving officers. Thats an odd bit of culture, probably left over from the soviet war, that just works. Plus its highly amusing...

Probably something along the lines of if they were willing to try a civil war while in the empire we don't want to find out what they would get up to out of the empire...

Kat has to be just so done with just about everything... and her negative attitude about it is going to be interesting to read about compared to what the rest of the world thinks of her exploits. You know that there is going to be enough masonry in the Langley privy to build a whole new city...