Okay so anyone who has lived more than decade knows that Bush was largely reviled because of the false claims that Iraq had nuclear weapons.
Say Iraq does a clandestine nuclear program that is discovered after the 2003 invasion how will that effect perceptions of Bush domestically and...
You have to recall in those days such activities were far from what was seen as "normal" behavior and if it wasn't normal it was fringe and hence potentially dangerous.
Nowadays roleplaying, cosplaying(I find that distasteful), and other such things are accepted if not mainstream.
The kids...
Maybe not the scale and penetrating depth of the crisis in Russian society but they had to know the Russians were' a threat.
You have the strikes, the protests, the struggling liberal government, the propaganda, really Russia wasn't even in the game at this point. It was facing a crisis not...
The Roman Monarchy is a lot more legendary than confirmed history.
However I've always interpreted the Roman monarchy to be tied in a tributary sense to the Etruscans.
So if the Monarchy still lasts-I guess you'd need a weaker aristocracy to make up the senatorial class you'd have Rome never...
Russian society was disintegrating on its own, the Kerensky government was unstable the calls of agitation were growing greater and they couldn't hold out much longer.