Recent content by htgriffin

  1. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    And quite possibly a bigger England-screw as well, in terms of reducing the offshore areas to a neglected backwater taking hind-teat to ambition or even basic defense on the continent. ETA: For that matter, the 'defrancification' of the Angevin ruling classes (to the degree that it even got...
  2. To what degree did the French Revolution provide a template for future totalitarianisms?

    You are aware that the pre-revolutionary French Kingdom included places like this? I am certain the death toll on the various Sugar Islands topped 150 per day, so the concern of how much worse the Reign of Terror was might be mistaken for who was dying.
  3. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Overambitious Irredenta is not something alien to Benny the Moose and his crowd....
  4. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    IOW, there is a high likelihood of an openly Leninist party in the German Riech which the powers at be merely sigh in annoyance over.
  5. What if the CSA survived?

    Ongoing anti=Union violence would be the sort of thing that accelerates meaningful enforcement of Amendments XIII-XV (the re-imposition of Jim Crow was considerably bloodier than the Watts Riots, let alone '92). The blacks of the low country and the hillbillies of the uplands becoming the...
  6. What if the CSA survived?

    IIRC two of these cases involved a distant metropole enforcing their dictates and the third was the unpopular edict of a monarchy which got them overthrown. The CSA is not in the same boat as either and unless/until DC or London has them by the economic short hairs they never will be. Also...
  7. Map Thread XXII

    On the Ottoman Realm: To what degree do they manage to maintain use of the pre-Ataturk script/language in popular/everyday usage? It is improbable that the languages do not diverge but trade/communication will lead to some bleed-over. Come to think of it, the same question can be asked about...
  8. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    One does wonder how many regard Yiddish speakers as "cheating" when they learn German. I mean once one gets the script down.... OTOH, the Eastern Slavic languages are not that divergent either.....
  9. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    A talking/debating shop of some form on an international level is not all that esoteric an idea. Although there may be an initial split....
  10. Map Thread XXII

    <looks at lore> A White holdout state that Jews end up fleeing to, that would need some notable (and unpopular) policy decisions....
  11. The New Order: A Successful Selim III

    The Ottoman forces being visibly more measured than the rebels in reprisals/massacres/ethnic cleansing might help. Might.
  12. The New Order: A Successful Selim III

    Or add an anti-clerical bent to it.
  13. The New Order: A Successful Selim III

    This. Keeping the Greek Orthodox upper clergy on the side of the Sultanate is, if not the only way to end this mess without depopulating the Morea, certainly makes things orders of magnitude easier.
  14. Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    I will push my luck and swing back to Haiti. François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier was elected president in 1957 in a middling-corrupt election on a populist platform. He started a perhaps justifiably paranoid autocrat with little trust of the army or the mulatto socio-economic elite. Then a heart...
  15. Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    wut? an AH where the Haitian Revolution is dodged by a government in Paris supple enough to get Sonthonax and Louverture operating a coalition government of the Saint-Domingue Department rather than invading to reinstate slavery with the resultant blowback is worth contemplating even if a...
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