Recent content by Maku

I just don't see this happening. Even if the vote was somehow carried (doubtful given US money and overwhelming post-war influence) the US would do what it always does in such situations...tell the UN to stick its proposal up its arse. The US, like most nations - especially powerful ones...

Yeah what a stupid un-American idea that is :) . It's not like the US is being run by a man who's an ex-state governor and son of a former president, or that the his brother is also a state governor....oh wait a minute....;) . Or how about the endless Kennedys and the whole 'Camelot' nonsense.

Resurrection Day (smacks head) of course, thanks for the reminder. How likely is it the Warsaw Pact countries would invade W/Germany etc if the USSR was smashed by a full-scale US nuclear attack? If I was sitting in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest etc and the situation was going all to hell I'm...

I can't really remember the exact details of the damage to the US. I'm pretty sure they lost San Diego and NY & DC coped a couple each as well. The Soviet forces in Cuba deployed nukes (on FROG missiles I think) against US Marine landings but the book doesn't really go into naval clashes or...

I've got a good AH cuban missile crisis book at home, Days of Decision by Brendan Dubois or something like that I think (can't remember exactly). In it Curtis LeMay launches an unauthorised air attack on soviet/cuban positions. The situation escalates and leads to a full-blown nuclear exchange...

Why does a paranoid bulemic nutcase need a reason to do anything? Maybe she steps down just before the tabloids reveal William and Harry's newborn sister has been proven to not be Charles' following a secret royal family paternity test.

Alright forget the land connection to Kaliningrad. Hell if you didn't want the naval base there you could even give it to the Lithuanians and push the population west while taking land on the border as they did with Poland after WWII. The USSR was good at population redistribution, though...

What about a more Russian streamlined USSR. Have the leader (Gorby or whomever) be a strong Russo-centrist who decides to get rid of the 'burden' of the various ethnic groups. Get rid of the majority non-russian areas, keep the eastern (russian-speaking & coal-rich) half of Ukraine, most of...

Things did change though. The book mentions a large war between the British and the (Franco-Spanish) Holy Alliance. New Liverpool (Los Angeles) features spanish architecture because the British took large parts of the American south west from the Holy Alliance during that war (sort of an...

Anything invented early is good for this. But I think some of the best ones would be relatively simple. How about Rome inventing reasonably high-quality steel or the stirrup or handheld crossbows to match their ballistae. Highly accurate deep-sea navigation aids during the renaissance...

From what I've read it's supposed to be a great improvement on the original, but still with a few problems. The editing feature sounds interesting though, lets you create whole new countries/ change borders/change populations etc so all of us althist fans can create a nice 20th century world...

For Britain to keep the empire you need to create more loyalty to a British ideal and break up power blocks in colonies ala Roman Empire. Break up tribes in Africa by recruiting young men into native divisions, send them to police other imperial territories, grant them lands outside of their...

I think an early exit by Britain is entirely possible under Halifax, particularly if Spain joins the Axis and moves on Gibraltar. I can't see Stalin accepting a separate peace after mid 43. He knew full well he had Hitler on the ropes and had no intention of stopping short of Berlin. It...

ASB for sure. Like quite a few 'Oh wouldn't the world be a paradise if everywhere was just like America' stories I've had the misfortune to read. Perhaps we can change the title to 'A Few More Walmarts.' :D