Recent content by raharris1973

The internal wartime history of French Indochina, the Indochina Communist Party (ICP), Nguyen Ai Quoc, and Viet independentist/revolutionary/political movements – Internal and political history of French Indochina & Vietnamese political figures -June 1940 and after - Admiral Decoux’s regime...

What pieces would they have ever wanted to Balkanize France into?

Why would reduction of the southern electoral vote be a factor in this ATL when it was not in OTL. I get that when the Radicals took over Reconstruction policy they temporarily got Republican governments throughout the South by enfranchising Freedmen and excluding those who couldn't take the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_(1944) Operation Rösselsprung (German: Unternehmen Rösselsprung, lit. 'Knight's move') was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationistforces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav...

But if the Hitler-Stalin Pact is enough to really estrange the surviving Spanish Republic (and even the Spanish Communist Party) from the Soviet Union, does that same anti-Axis logic make it impossible for Spain to *not* declare on Germany once France and Britain have done so? Or to remain...

This is too deterministic. This is super double-plus deterministic, in a very specific way. It presupposes not only that Spain is Stalinist, but that Stalin in Moscow directs his Stalinist Spanish proxies to allow their territory to be used as an avenue for a potentially decisive strategic...

Among the most obvious consequences of no Castro regime in the early 1960s is no Bay of Pigs debacle nor any Cuban Missile Crisis in that era (nor likely any Alliance for Progress, so less economic aid, and less aid for security purposes in Latin America), and no intervention in the Dominican...

X-Men, 1960s incarnation was sort of nothing burger. The 70s revamp was the hit.

excellent point in general, and counterpoint to the Korean lebensraum wank scenario concept A very interesting divergent possibility I had not considered. It is always a possible outcome. But nothing about the lack of Russian threat *has* to make it so. Before feeling threatened by Russia...

Never thought of that. Henri Giraud getting to do more.

What if Castro's ascent to power begins earlier, perhaps when the Eisenhower administration is in a more tense, "take-no-chances" mood. Perhaps Castro's risky, but not impossible, July 1953 assault on Moncada Barracks succeeds in embarrassing the Batista government, making Fidel famous...

I realized I posed a somewhat similar question, although differently and more simply phrased, a few years ago. At least one of you, @ObssesedNuker participated, with comments in line with what you're saying now...

Thanks - that's informative. Hey mister, thanks for reading! ;) Every thread is improved when you drop in. Do you mean *east* of Lake Baikal or *west* of Lake Baikal? Because the Bolshevik definition of their old Far East Republic while they had it exist as a front entity went as far *west*...

Thank you for clarifying, and demonstrating that I misread you. So, in your scenario, under the right circumstances India could win everything it claims back or almost everything, in the Aksai Chin. That would definitely be an Indian "win" and a Chinese "loss". This response was real helpful...

It was still rough, rural, heavily forested, with a high minority content, and very peripheral to Chinese dynastic affairs however despite its long pedigree within the empire.