Recent content by Magnum

Epirus was seen as semi-barbaric, and they came pretty close to establishing quite the empire

this is quite interesting. don't know a whole lot about the internal political dynamics of Montenegro/Serbia/Bulgaria to comment. Regarding Romania, I'm willing to bet that, in almost any diplomatic configuration, they would enter a war against Bulgaria only if/when things look settled...

there would be an economic collapse caused by retaliatory measures: Source: Bogdan Murgescu, România și Europa - Acumularea Decalajelor Economice 1500 -2010 Romanian trade in 1980 was basically split in a 3-way tie between eastern block nations, developed capitalist nations and ”developing...

Different Korean War and a third term for Harry Truman?

Sadly too late for a Greco-Bactrian resurgence lol

This would have major repercussions in the Adriatic though

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/magnums-naval-pods-ep-3-more-pocket-battleships.471234/

How about keeping everyone in the city and fighting for it, Stalingrad-style? No rushed transfer to Bataan, instead everyone concentrates in Manila.

how would Austria go to war with France by itself though?

One idea I had some time ago and was toying with was somewhat more successful crusades, particularly taking Aleppo instead of failing. Then, when the Turks come crashing into Anatolia and the Latins and Bulgarians take the Balkans, there's a rump state containing Cilicia, Cyprus, Syria from...

Who do you think would go to war against who?

nope, not the same one. never even heard of "ФАИ"

Find way to direct the Turkish demographic pressure elsewhere AND delay the collapse of Imperial authority in western Anatolia AND prevent the emergence of a single unified Turkish polity in Anatolia for long enough , and Constantinople may just hang on in its Thracian core (with or without...

This period saw such an amount of instability, that you could plausibly arrive at pretty much any result you want

Apparently, in a 1982 interview (which I've seen referenced in different locations, but couldn't find the original of), the former Austrian Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma (who was ~89 years old at the time; she would die 7 years later in 1989), upon returning to Austria shortly after its travel...