Recent content by Rinasoir

You've a few instances of "Zhukov" being in text when contextually you meant "Stalin" in the first section. Most glaring to me is the airplane and after when Zhukov invites them into the city.

Anyone except for Gaddafi is going to hand them over the moment they know who they are. In theory they could go to Lebanon and disappear into the mess that is that area, but the British will spare no expense in finding them. If they got picked up in the RoI the first available Aer Lingus plane...

Listen, I get that it will probably be a good update. But I would need to have taken some serious brain damage before I use the words "excited" and "concentration camps" together lol

Typical officer class, can't just learn when to keep their mouths shut.

If by the early 80's any member of the Provo's had seriously put forward a plan to assassinate the Queen the first thing that would happen would be they would be told, quite firmly "No" by everyone above them. The second thing is that MI5 would have been informed about the plan as quickly as...

^That can not be overstated enough. Part of why Able Archer '83 scared the shit out of the Soviets and nearly got us a WW3 was because it involved a similar, but smaller, mobilization.

I mean, with 1924 as your PoD it's not even guaranteed that the Nazis still come to power and WW2 happens in the same shape. Like, for example, one could argue that the PoD is just Stalin falling down a staircase by mistake, Trotsky taking control of the Soviet Union and his backing the KPD in...

Long is nothing if not a canny bastard (though not exactly as canny in reality as alt-historians like to make him) so he'll hold on until the NatCorps are on the ropes, and then sell his services to the Republic at a high price before jumping in and bringing the deathblow around. I could see a...

I mean, considering Long and the Pacific coast are still sitting pretty and neutral, there still being Socially Conservative elements after the war is a given. The North-East is probably going to be a bastion of social liberalism for a long time to come (even the conservative person from the...

Hapless now, but in 10 years the high water mark of Irish football will be in play, and after that we'll be making a whole new definition of the word hapless! (Except for the Women's International Team, they can actually play and win a game)

2 for me. You'd have Civil Rights of African-Americans, Native Americans and other minority groups being touched by all this. Hell, with Eleanor basically running NY you'd have a strong arming of improving women's rights on the cards. I could probably make an arguement for a loosening on...

It's mythology, the characters are supposed to be a larger than life exaggeration as they are an allegory for understanding a fundamental aspect of either humanity or nature. People's ascribing more "human" characteristics is getting away from the point of why it exists in the first place IMO...

For it to last into the mid 30's would require nothing less than a miracle for the IRA tbh. By the time the Treaty was being negotiated, the advantages that the IRA had been enjoying were starting to be rolled back and the supply situation was, frankly, dire. Assuming it ran another year, and...

I don't know, personally I think it would be, at most, a polite conversation about the foolishness of their younger relatives, with someone to translate. They are simply people at the end of the day.

NGL, even with the advanced state of rocketry, the idea of a pub anywhere in Dublin having (presumably) satellite TV in 1980 is something that bends one's suspension of disbelief. Never mind that they would be willing to be the Yank bar to show the games, that's perfectly normal, just a hell of...