Not even close IMO. Would be treated as just another case of a state dealing ruthlessly with traitors.
What made Nuremberg significant was, in no small part, the fact that recognised members of a nation state government were tried by the other belligerent states for crimes against all of...
Yeah to be clear I absolutely agree with the stance of minimal butterflies, at least in the short to medium term, in terms of events. But "what do people in Europe think about the Second American Revolution" could still be an interesting piece to read, and longer term that will definitely become...
I've said in these discussions that it'll be quite a while before there's any significant impact on the events in the Old World, as US internal affairs simply weren't considered especially important to the great European powers, but the fact of such a successful and comprehensive left-wing...
Sorry, but has old mate here actually read the first part of the timeline? Because if he hasn't, and I also have my doubts, then this whole discussion is just a massive derail.
I don't think you can really compare the US in this state to post-war Japan and the LDP, and the very, very, very heavy hand played in the creation of that democratic structure - and the LDP itself - by the US and by Macarthur specifically. The thumb was on the scale in a big way there.
Also...
They'll pivot hard to a generalised opposition to the expanded power of the central government and a fear of devolution into despotism which, in isolation, is definitely an argument that could carry some weight amongst people who otherwise are not necessarily receptive to overt white supremacy.
Horrible US policy towards Latin America predates Kissinger by generations. Henry Lane Wilson, anyone? The most notorious actions of the United Fruit Company may have only come to a head in the 1950s by spreading misinformation to induce the CIA into backing coups, but the seeds of those...
I honestly don't think this would make much difference tbh because it gets the relationship between imperialism and prejudice backwards. If the US wants to pillage Latin America, the reasons will be backfilled after the fact. That's how the entire system of racism was constructed in the first place.
Yeah to that last point, worth remembering that liberalism - unquestionably the victorious and dominant ideology in America for the forseeable future - was not just pro-imperialism but positively beside itself with imperialism.
China in particular could be in for a rough time (well, it will be anyway, this might just make it worse). For example, you could see a much stronger foreign presence during the Taiping Rebellions (assuming they break out roughly as per OTL) with a lot more armed force in the form of...
Thinking on the question of what happens to the former Confederate soldiers, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of them in exile slowly but inexorably grows over the years. While there is an entire generation of Southern white men that has been utterly eviscerated by the war, there are still...
I'm still not really convinced this is especially likely; especially because the smallholding landowner class has been both massively enlarged and empowered by the addition of the vast majority of the formerly enslaved, and they have been yet again enshrined in national ideology - of which there...
This alone virtually guarantees a vastly more powerful and developed central state compared to OTL late 19th century equivalents even before the full consequences of Reconstruction have played out. The amount of bureaucratic and institutional capacity that has to be developed for this alone is...