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NthBelisarius reacted to Riain's post in the thread Missed opportunities for Britain in the post-war years? with
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I'm no economist, my interest is in British Cold War aviation, a field where the mistakes and missed opportunities are so common as to... -
NthBelisarius reacted to Dan1988's post in the thread Missed opportunities for Britain in the post-war years? with Like.
Oh, there's so much that would be done with such a broad brush - and part of it could be down to the educational system, which was...
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NthBelisarius reacted to Psmith's post in the thread Missed opportunities for Britain in the post-war years? with Like.
I'd say there were several but don't expect much agreement on what they were. My picks are skipping the foundation of the EEC, and I'd...
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NthBelisarius posted the thread Missed opportunities for Britain in the post-war years? in Alternate History Discussion: After 1900.Another thread mentioned countless missed opportunities economy-wise for Britain in the years after WW2. I would be interested in...
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NthBelisarius reacted to Sārthākā's post in the thread AHQ: Without WW2 when will KMT China overtake Japan as the Asian power with Like.
You can take it up to Philip Sheridan, civil war veteran and President Cleveland as well as the entire cabinet of the time who verified...
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NthBelisarius reacted to Sārthākā's post in the thread AHQ: Without WW2 when will KMT China overtake Japan as the Asian power with Like.
This isn't actually true. A military information commission in 1886 by Philip Sheridan pointed out the dire state of the US military...
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NthBelisarius replied to the thread Do you think European colonization was inevitable?.Ignoring the ideological squabbles about capitalism and focusing on the question, European colonialism wasn't inevitable. I suspect the...
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NthBelisarius reacted to Lewkz1984's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
I would say that if not for the age of enlightenment, industrialization would have come anyway, although slower and far more haphazard...
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NthBelisarius reacted to GuildedAgeNostalgia's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
- The crude that came from Pennsylvania in the 1800s was a extremely high quality. Its not like the oil extracted later from places...
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NthBelisarius reacted to GuildedAgeNostalgia's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
Oil is not an available energy source for the beginning of the industrial revolution. And before you bring up Rockefeller in America...
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NthBelisarius reacted to GuildedAgeNostalgia's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
This is false. One hundred percent false. Apologies for being blunt, but this myth needs to be killed. Outside of geography and...
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NthBelisarius reacted to alspug's post in the thread How does the situation in Israel/Palestine play out with no WW2/Holocaust? with Like.
I for one disagree with the notion any peoples are predisposed towards violence more than another. The basic human condition is that...
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NthBelisarius reacted to Madhukar_Shah's post in the thread WI/AHC : Stable, long lasting Rome. with Like.
An interesting essay I was reading might be of some interest to this discussion- apparently the notion that we are Romans declines...
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NthBelisarius reacted to Basileus_Komnenos's post in the thread WI/AHC : Stable, long lasting Rome. with Like.
They were Rome however. Just because the Western half didn't exist that didn't mean they didn't stop being the whole Roman Empire. Plus...