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Some potential solutions: 1) The Russian Empire never falls. Soviet policy greatly sped up Russia's demographic transition, and put simply a later demographic transition equals more Russians, including in the far east. 2) Better Russian/Soviet policy. Avoid major wars, keep Stalin from...

By that logic Chamberlain and Daladier get slapped with massive death tolls as well? I get the argument but it still seems like a pretty obtuse way of assigning responsibility.

Ideally on the impact of the changes themselves, though since this is essentially Palmerston's wish-list some of the points are a huge reach (as you said there's no real prospect of Austria winning the war and giving up on Italy). Expanding the war aims beyond the original limited demands...

Cutting Khedive Ismail's insane levels of spending would be a good start. He was an energetic ruler, but the expenses simply weren't sustainable. Debt was the foot in the door for European influence, especially in Egypt. A more austere ruler (maybe this guy?) would have a better shot at...

The Crimean war OTL was fought on a limited front with limited objectives, but the British PM Palmerston (among others) sought to transform the war into a much larger struggle to permanently weaken the Russian Empire. A larger coalition including Sweden, Austria, and Prussia was to be assembled...

Playing HPM, I never realized how dramatically you can turn around your country if you're in the Americas and learn to love the socialist party. FRCA 1836: population: 1.68 million literacy rate: 6.3% 0 industry 4 divisions FRCA 1936: population: 37.4 million literacy rate: 86.6% (would've been...

If Yanukovych is restored by Russian troops they'll need to stick around to make sure Yanukovych will. Kiev and the western third of the country (at the least) would totally reject his legitimacy and the western nations will likely support them in this. It looks better than annexing Ukraine...

If we're solely talking about major powers (Germany, Italy, France, USSR etc) then I'd say yes. There were some pretty major advances between 1918 and 1939. If not I'd wager 1916 Imperial Germany could still beat 1940 Netherlands in a one on one.

Complete guess, but it was precisely because of the European empires' understanding of divide and rule that made it more difficult and less acceptable in Europe. Not to imply that it never happened: 'Spain' and England did their darnedest to keep France weak, France would usually try to get the...

Has anyone played as the UK? I've owned this game for six years now and still can't bring myself to play them. Managing all that empire on day one just seems like too much of a chore.

Well Cuba is trying to break free, maybe they succeed 20 years early with Spain distracted? To be honest I don't know what colonies (if any) would be lost. The two strongest navies in the world are in the western alliance, so its not like their colonies would be in much danger-though doubtlessly...

Why Spain, out of curiosity? I'd lean towards the eastern powers. Russia and A-H are more than a match for the Ottomans, and Germany recently beat up France and probably could do so again. Italy would also be present. Unless there's some critical overseas import the UK could stop? As for the...

Ghana is another real life example of this. Modern Ghana has very little overlap with the old kingdom of Ghana, but that's what they decided to name their country after.

The Maurya ruled India 2000 years ago; if they managed to survive intact for that long it would be unprecedented.

In PDM. The year is 1919. Qinghai controls China, the Danubian federation formed without Hungary, and the Ottomans control half of Bulgaria. It is up to the Leader of the Free World to vanquish these abominations.