Recent content by Miguel Lanius

Question: What is the PoD here? Seems like in this universe, the Peninsular War never happened. So no invasion of Spain. Will Portugal be invaded as well? The effects in that regard are very important, vis-a-vis relations between Spain and Portugal in South America - or a possible Brazil.

I think the thing is that Stalin is very much a cautious type. He is the kind of guy who always make the smart, safe plays, unlike Hitler who was a massive gambler. So on one hand, Stalin just got like half of Poland. On the other, if he keeps said half of Poland, he will straight out make...

Oh boy. Well, there's the obvious issue of what the hell happens to Poland now. Because the Soviets got half of it. Will Stalin give it back and restore Status Quo Ante Bellum, will he keep it or will he take chunks out of it? This has a serious chance of becoming a real shitshow very quick...

I feel like it could be accomplished in a reasonable way if a decent enough PoD results in France holding the Germans for long enough for the BEF to make itself felt. The Germans arrived for a 1940s war of manuever and got the 1914 trench warfare shitfight they feared. The Maginot Line ends up...

Won't Hitler suffer a coup if the invasion of France fails?

I was studying some stuff recently and there was a tribe somewhere, Idaho I think, which was buying its own Geothermal power plants. That's kind of awesome.

One big issue is that Britain is literally stuffed to the gits with coal, while Iberia has mediocre, if any, coal resources.

European Ancestry is relative, my mother looks perfectly european except for her long curly hair and her father was a cafuzo. So does my brother and he has straight hair from my father. I on the other hand inherited much of my appearance from my mother and maternal grandfather (my thick legs are...

No it ins't. I live here. Mixed people are super common in Brazil, I see them on the street every day, and I am one too.

Because it led to the Spanish eventually having way more money than sense. Which meant rampant deficit spending, which meant massive inflation. And in the context of the Religious Wars, a lot of that money went to pay for wars against Protestant Revolts, because the rulers of Spain were not...

Here's some ideas: - No Spanish conquest of Incan Empire. May have to take away the OTL Conquest of Mexico, too. - Habsburgs don't inherit Spain. - No Dutch inheritance. - No Union with Portugal. - Spain is ruled by monarchs more concerned with Spain than in trying to hold down most of Western...

Well, I didn't paint a rosy picture, but its still better than Jim Crow, better than Tulsa Riots and the Red Summer. Althrough it might not change that much, race relations in the US were always worse than in Brazil.

Yes, that is what I was thinking. I based it on what happened in Brazil. We had a slow phase-out of slavery, in the last years, the provinces themselves were prohibiting slavery in their territories. There wans't a resentment of the slaves themselves, but rather at the people seen as the ones...

Or would it be? Slavery might end up being phased out anyway, and it might end up in less resentment towards black folks.

Colombo barely knew anything about the American continent. Its not only likely the Portuguese already knew about the New World, but probably knew more than Colombo. I think not, because they likely already knew something was there. If Portugal doesn't get anything from the Americas, it will...