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The main thing is to contain/mitigate Germany's military threat while encouraging its economic and cultural integration with the rest of Europe. The only other solution is to destroy Germany and rebuild it as was done IOTL WW2, which sort of defeats the purpose of the thread. To this end, I'd...

IOTL, East Germany was probably the best-developed country in the Eastern bloc, and on paper it was an open society that had rejected the evils of Nazism and endeavored to rebuild the country as a humane and advanced socialist state. Throughout the Cold War it tried to maintain this image...

The Cold War wasn't just two superpowers. It was the superpowers and their client states, which did the fighting.

Have the world be taken over by two massive superpowers. They are locked in a permanent Cold War with each other and hence there are no hot wars.

Sure, but Germany had a bigger population than and comparable industry to France, and shared a direct land border plus an indirect land-based path of attack through the Low Countries. Taiwan was at best a dozen times weaker than mainland China and would have had to have every conceivable...

Thanks for the reply. I'm inclined to disagree, because outside of a freak event (like Mao being assassinated or almost assassinated), the CCP demonstrated that it could maintain and coherently exercise power without too much trouble even as millions of people were dying left and right. The fact...

The only way it could have worked is if the Soviets attacked China at the same time in 1969. Merely banking on an event like the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution causing instability in mainland China is insufficient because in both those situations, the Communist Party still firmly held...

One of the most popular TLs on this site is the Anglo/American-Nazi War, literally a scenario in which the Nazis, having won in Russia in 1942, attack the continental US out of fanatical delusion around 15 years later and are totally crushed over the course of the next few years.

It looks like the performance of TTL's USSR is so bad it rivals that of the Nationalist Chinese against Imperial Japan. In that case, it's very unlikely that the Allies give any concessions to the Soviets, though maybe they'd still let them make Finland neutral or Soviet-leaning. Very likely...

Yes yes. What I meant was that there was actually a non-trace number of Germans living there versus the concept simply being "let's go conquer that bunch of land randomly because it'd be cool."

If anything, I feel like Lebensraum (of some sort) is the one goal that is shared by all the right-wing German groups, not just the Nazis. It makes simple geographical sense. In order to go up against the French, UK, and US, Germany has to spread out somehow and the obvious solution is to...

The Soviet Union would gain warmer weather and thus more fertile land from climate change; also its ports would stay ice-free longer. If anything, the CPSU would say that the very idea of combatting climate change is a capitalist plot to shore up the failing free market by switching to a new...

My thinking was that the unrest begins in Poland (as IOTL) and by the time the USSR is invested in putting it down, it realizes it doesnt have the wherewithal to extend the same to the other Warsaw Pact countries. Perhaps it's more plausible and interesting for @athgtq16129 's scenario that the...

I spent a minute looking at that map and wondering why the ROK existed in 1942. 😂 Then I realized it was an alternate year 2000. This scenario is fascinating because North Korea is in some sense a spiritual successor to Imperial Japan. There is almost an esoteric affinity between the two and...

I've always been somewhat of the opinion that what killed the Union wasn't Gorbachev, but the hardliners. Without their meddling, it could have reformed (emphasis on could) in mostly one piece.