Recent content by Romanos

But wouldn't this requre a much different mindset on the part of the Apartheid leaders? It rings of 'separate but not equal' sentiment which, even for those who actually believed in it, has inherent and fundamental internal contradictions and is thus impossible.

Well, I think it could be maintained as a shadow of itself if the Germans secure a victory before the summer of 1917 at the absolute latest. But it would be nowhere near its 1914 status. At this point, you can't avoid becoming a German client state, one of the many to form the Mittleuropa, and...

Yeltsin was too busy being drunk to do anything like, you know, doing something about Islamic extremists having taken over areas of the country. If he didn't do anything about, he sure wouldn't do anything of importance in foreign affairs.

Oh, the poor democratic Yeltsin guy who got tricked by the evil tyrrant Putin thing again.

I'm astounded that no mention has been made of the Greek-Turkish crisis of the summer of 1914 which was EXACTLY because of, and about, these ships. An attempt to deliver them would almost certainly result in a War, or a Crisis which would have to be solved by the Powers, provided they could agree.

I could imagine some very minor border alterations but nothing more than that. Oh you meant grabbing land from Greece just like that? That's not how this kind of thing works.

What's the PoD? It all comes down to Bulgaria. Had it remained neutral, Greece would likely remain neutral as well as Venizelos had compromised with the King and accepted that as long as Bulgaria didn't join the war, neither would Greece. Bulgaria invading Serbia really opened the Pandora's box...

That was part of my thinking, but tell me if that's a positive or a negative for you, and what made you say that. 1. Yeah, I did try to do that by adding the |colour1 = (colour) etc. but it didn't appear. And curiously, I've seen election infoboxes showing party coulours but there was no...

It doesn't have a story to it, but here it is:

Before 1924, perhaps even later than that, it's not historically relevant to talk of secularism. The Young Turks, first and foremost, were the strato-political elite of the Empire and saw themselves as the saviours of their homeland, which should be freed from foreign subvertion, by a weak and...

Yeah, I think Cyrenaica (that is, the Cyrenaican coast) is perhaps possible, but first of all, why would the Greeks want it, or any other colony? Greek foreign policy between 1844-1923 was a battle between the Megali Idea (the idea of liberating lands with substantial Greek populations, focusing...

News bulletin, 10.25 am, 3 September 1938. Address of Her Majesty The Queen to the Hellenic People. My beloved children, citizens of this sacred land. Our homeland, which we have always so manifestly valued and so closely protected is, as of today, under attack. We are being attacked by a...

Just like everywhere else.

Well, US/UK intelligence not doing an Ajax on Mossadegh should be good enough for a start.

A thing to consider is - would Russia be willing to make a M-R Pact equivalent? In other words, would they perceive Germany (not necessarily strictly Nazi ITTL) as a direct threat, or could a far-right General see in them a model to be emulated, and a power to co-operate with against the West...