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Israel had achieved its basic war aims - to defend its current territory, and to defeat the Arab armies in the field. The Syrian attack on the Golan Heights had been utterly repulsed, one Egyptian army was cut off and literally dying of thirst, a second was immobilised due to fuel being cut off...

The aboriginals would have eaten them into extinction, the way they ate all the native megafauna.

... apparently was possible Keeping Presidents in the Nuclear Dark (Episode #1: The Case of the Missing “Permissive Action Links”) Keeping Presidents in the Nuclear Dark (Episode #2: The SIOP Option that Wasn’t) Hair-Trigger Missiles Risk Catastrophic Terrorism Nuclear Recollections These are...

I think that if she were the sort of person who had better judgment about who to confide in, she would have had the good sense not to schtup her boss, too. So not only would there have been no-one to dob her in, there would have been nothing to dob her in for.

Exactly. The Turks, Austrians, Hungarians and Bulgarians all sued for peace without any Americans shooting at them. American troops went to France and fought there. There's a reason we don't hear about the US Marine assault on the walls of Kars, or the US Navy bombardment of Trieste, or the US...

Mexico was a full nation and had the wheel and everything. Didn't stop the Yanquis from finding excuses to make war on and conquer large parts of them. No Amerindian state is going to be able to stand up to the USA, which will keep coming until they're utterly destroyed. They might, as they...

Perhaps the Russians could be more aggressive. In OTL, they occupied the Danubian Principalities, and it was then that Britain and France came in (even though the Russians withdrew - the British and French wouldn't let a silly thing like achieving their war aims without firing a shot stop them...

These are popular points of view, the idea that Germany's defeat and the harsh terms it received paved the way for fascism. This theory does not explain why fascism appeared first in Italy, a country which had won in the Great War, and at the same time as in Germany, also in Spain, a country...

I think it would not be too pleasant, going on OTL German plans for Europe post-war... See my Petain's Panic for an example.

In my scenarios I prefer to have only one point of divergence. Otherwise all you learn is that if everything were different, then everything would be different. Which is neither surprising nor interesting. What's most interesting is when you change one small thing and see what happens. With...

Yes, but in the passage of years it comes to the same thing. We're doing a sketch here, not the final work. The final work is when you get to do your pedantic nitpicking. :p And what was on the white flag? The fleur-de-lis. It was not a blank white flag, though of course that could be an...

Yes, whatever. It's hard to keep track of them all. Now, have you a suggestion or contribution?

It's occurred to me that the formation of the Third Republic in France was a very near thing. It was declared in Paris on the news of the defeat of the French army at Sedan, and the capture of the Emperor. And once the peace was made, a government was elected in favour of monarchy. The Bonaparte...

It's hard to say. But there were public uprisings against the government. In practice the government from 1916 to October 1918 was "Hindenburg and Ludendorff", but in principle the government was the Kaiser. Symbols matter to people. Also, as we see throughout history, when a leader leads people...