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  1. Open the Gates!

    well except for that full scale shadow government which has been in place for at least a decade.
  2. Open the Gates!

    I do not believe that is how the COG plan works, but go ahead...........................
  3. Hatian Revolution Fails, holding it is problematic would it be sold w/ Louisiana?

    At that time Haiti was regarded as more valuable than Louisiana and Canada combined- No Sale! for less than $75 million in gold.
  4. What was the final moment that the CSA could've won the Civil War?

    Have you any idea how tired the average person especially in the Great Lakes area was getting of the war. Its all a matter of Will and frankly the desire to drive brutal invaders from hearth and home tends to trump the fervor of conscripts for a political abstraction.
  5. Why can't Japan conquer Persia

    Were the assumption to be made that Japan rather than receding into isolation were instead to continue the rapid embrace of European technology along with the churning of the social order that tech would bring........THEN yes Japan was quite capable of oversea expansion though the Philippines ...
  6. What was the final moment that the CSA could've won the Civil War?

    A Win- being defined as the Federals going away and leaving the South alone was a possibility until the very end when Lee ordered the forces to lay their weapons down. Even defeated as a regular army the troops of the Confederacy could have put up a guerilla war of ambush, sniping and terrorism...
  7. WI: Stalin betrays Hitler in Poland and invades the Reich

    The USSR was not yet at war with Finland.
  8. WI: Ron Paul runs under the Constitution Party in 2008

    beyond the neocons squealing about spoilers for the next 10 election cycles.
  9. WI: The Empire of Japan never attacked the United States of America

    FDR would have found a way to start a war and blame Japan for it no matter what so that he could also join the brits in Europe- something most Americans had no desire to do.
  10. WI: Ron Paul runs under the Constitution Party in 2008

    He would have gotten maybe 1% of the vote.
  11. Would strategic bombing work today as well as it did in WW2 against cities?

    The first Gulf War or Clinton's War on Serbia would more accurately answer the question.
  12. "Or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution"

    Many of the Founding generation were in fact not NBC's because one parent or the other lacked American Citizenship
  13. Minerva ante portas! A Roman Scientific Revolution

    This one requires a butterfly the size of a 747. Romans were a very conservative folk. Literally who needs power tools when slaves are cheap was the mindset.
  14. Could Tecumseh's confederacy have survived?

    Hard to see how. The American push west was relentless. The tribes had neither the numbers nor the tech to compete.
  15. Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945?

    maybe if that German sub with the dirty bomb makings had gotten to them.............................
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