This is exactly the kind of considered, thought-out answer I couldn't find in any of the other threads on this subject. :)
Which, as you say, is in reality tremendously unlikely (tiny changes; enormous butterflies). But yes, obviously speculation for such a POD becomes meaningless...
All right; I know this one has been posed before, :) However, the threads I've found on the subject tend to drift into treating the question as a religious posit.
Being an agnostic, and considering, personally, Abrahamic mythology as being no more or less likely than any other, I pose the...
M'hmm. Crude and very general (I'm tired; two young pussy-cats still don't quite like going nighty-night at reasonable hours :D ), but here goes.
1950s
Black civil rights movement and White Supremacist counter-movement inherently more radical/vioent (each feeding off the other). Several...
The problem here is how to justify the change in Japanese policy? As I said, I'm trying to avoid concurrent, disconnected PODs. If alterations in Chinese history can be made to change Japanese reactions, that's fine. But I want to keep the triggering POD alone to Mao's altered circumstances...
Optimally, I'd envisage it appearing as early as the start of WWII. But of course there's the little problem of the IJA. NCC Mao meets them with fanatical brutality to match their own, but presumably that would only encourage them to resort to greater savagery in their turn. Unless far...
The Japanese Hawaiian occupation concerns me also. I'm wondering if I've been too much influenced by Turtledove's Pacific War, and how many changes to WWII there will have to be to make this viable.
As for the rest: Precisely, with regard to the Washington Naval treaty. Although not actually...
Actually, probably that was not particularly well put, in that I seemed to be suggesting I found Hawaii's annexation appalling *only* because of my Monarchist sympathies, rather than for its own sake. Certainly that was not my intention.
Being myself a confirmed monarchist, I've believed always that what was done to Hawaii was...*Sickening* and OTL U.S.'s taking advantage of the situation to annex rather than restore it appalling and inexcusable. But in my TL, its fate is still more tragic: years of bitterness and division as a...
Greater Missionary success pre-Neo-Christian Mao?
Perhaps there might need to be other, very subtle pre-revolutionary changes: slightly greater Christian penetration into China; very slightly greater acceptance? If such changes were necessary to make this viable, I'd try to keep them to the...
Originally, I put this post together late last year, intending to submit it as part of the `Plan Red' thread. Unfortunately, trouble with my original attempt to create an AH account meant that never happened. Perhaps just as well, as the scenario expanded swiftly far beyond my original...
Given what I imagine could be a thousand perfectly reasonable objections, I feel I should further explain.
I'm not suggesting the above scenario is likely; I'm treating this in the same way I regard the Drakaverse: it need *not* be likely, bmerely possible in a multiverse in which any...
No-no; sorry, should have been clearer (I was tired and rushed this a little). I was not suggesting he *could*: certainly not in the short to medium term. But basically, he's obsessed, consumed with hate and to be blunt, utterly off his rocker in the best tradition of religious fanatic...
Greetings all. :)
I've no idea whether anything such as this ever has been postulated, but it occurred to me in the wee small hours the other night whilst pondering on how different a world it might have been had something happened to combat Islamic fundamentalism, not by moderation, but by...