Recent content by Woooinion

Personally, I think Decolonization wasn't the inevitable destiny of the world. White Russia winning butterflies the WW2 we know of. With no communist menace to both threaten the ruling classes, and provide a supposedly functional route to power (and resources) for the lower classes, I think...

I think that Germany could have benefited from Hitler dying immediately after the surrender of France. At that point, Germany has a lot to bring to the negotiation table, and having Hitler die could make Germany less of a diplomatic persona non grata. It was Hitler who broke the treaties that...

The militarization of the Kuril islands seems like a mistake, but an believable one. I recall there being some blustering over those islands a few years ago, with Putin visiting them and making a speech about the many beautiful parts of Russia. The economic mobility that the Chechnyan diaspora...

I can think of a way it could work. ASB decides Autralia is unfit for human habitation. Creates super New Zealand and move the Australians and thier homes there, doesn't explain anything to anyone. There is now no one inhabiting a continent. Western World decide second time's the charm. They...

When you get down to it, it really seems like Nasser was the one calling France's, the UK's, and Israel's bluff. It just wasnt politically viable to violently subdue a foreign people anymore. Egypt couldn't possibly win a total war. If the invasion coalition treated Egypt the way say, the UK...

I think that even without the UDI, some sort of violent communist revolutionary group is almost inevitable. Even with movements toward majority rule, the concentration of a massive portion of the country's wealth, industrial, mining, and agricultural, in the hands of a visibly distinct pseudo...

To be honest, I do find a lot of what's happened here pretty improbable. Essentially, Hitler has been replaced with someone who, while still holding Hitlers fanatical view, is otherwise an entirely different person. I agree that the POD is too late for a divergence of this degree. I've seen...

It kind of depends on what motivated the AU of no Ellis Island wave. America had a vast quantity of sparsely populated land they wanted to lock down, and many in the wealthy classes wanted more cheap labor. I can see two potential reasons for the AU. 1. An unusual, but not impossible, revival...

Nazi racial policy was an inconsistent philosophical mess. IRL, I believe they referred to the Chinese as "culture creators". In practice, I dont think the Nazi leadership cared about the Chinese or Japanese as ethnic groups. Which ever one was chosen would be declared "honorary aryans" as an...

I assume that their propagandists would never let a good opportunity for propaganda go to waste. Especially because this propaganda is useful for demoralizing and distracting the British from the European war effort.

If the Soviets were being led by a fully rational human being, then I think it would be incredibly unlikely for them to lose. Unfortunately for them, they were being led by Stalin. The scenario that seems somewhat possible to me would be something like: 1. As an initial divergence, Germany...

If Mao was defeated, it would likely have happened while Stalin was still in power. I suspect that Stalin would then proceed to fund communists in China. There's nothing the Chinese van do to stop it. Their border with the USSR, is too large. I dont think he would invade. That essentially...

For a wide variety of reasons, Africa would not have been vulnerable to that sort of disaster, but I'll think of the question as more like: "What if most of the people in subsaharan Africa disappeared" Well, the first thing that comes to mind, is the sudden death of the slave trade, and the...