Recent content by XLII

So mostly a gentlemans' agreement? "You don't do what you do not want done to you"-style? Yeah, I can see the PU guys chucking that one out once they think revenge against the traitors/enemies/insert-enemy-of-choice-here is at hand. And then the Imperials demonstrating that things called "Surtr"...

The german term is Chefsekretär - which means I mistranslated head secretary (i.e. the most senior secretary of the pool). Which is a position of considerable inofficial authority. Basically, I'd wager that german companies doing business in Poland have some sort of senior employee of polish...

And everybody else who wants a piece will get one. Japan, Manchuria, India, Mongolia, whatever is China, Iran, Turkey, Finland, Ukraine, Poland (which in a fit of irony may get a Ostverschiebung (movement to the east) this time round) for examples. And, as with the territory, everybody gets to...

Imperium novum. So, neither.

There is some recently available real estate near the Euphrates. Or it would be a "anywhere but here" type of deal. Quoted because its true for ITL. This is something unique to this TL - and there is no paralell in OTL (since we got decolonisation there). So people ITL will learn that colonies...

@Sorairo excellent chapter. Even if fucking horrifing. And even more so than the rest of this TL. Remember the discussion about how Italy would go about and keep Ethiopia? Now we know. Just like the French are going to keep Algeria. They'll kill or displace anybody who thinks different. And...

Yeah...read the site title and spend some time thinking about how your brain would function if you grew up in the ATL. But of course. All will be as we know it. You mean the de-facto member, but not really deal? The one they got because there was no real harm and the USA had other items on its...

So, they disapprove. They get told by the USA that it is of vital interest that we have a stable and prosperous Germany at the frontline of the cold war. And that they should be careful about what they do about it. Also, OTL you got called "boche" by default and worse in the 70ties in France as...

Romanticism, imagination, illusion. I didn't say it was any sort of rational thought. The german word is "Legendenbildung". They are not in the position to allow or forbid anything. They might object or protest. And depending on the objectives of the USA, they might get a sop. If the USA...

You know, the guys who made them their own state after Brest-Litowsk. I find your lack of imagination disturbing. Mind you, what is thought about Imperial Germany and what actually was might not be exaclty the same thing. FGR. Mind you, I posted a disclaimer.

This: is not a good post. Going somewhere to just call it ASB without context is not exactly contributing. Its called determinism. But then again, you admit having a bias by your location. That: is a good post. Thank you. Basically, the OPs premise requires both that Stalin abandons the "GDR...

Warning: Post contains irony, and mixing of then-thought (means ITL-thought) and opinion. Maybe a bit confused, but I don't have to heart to sort it out. Sorry. Having a hard time (#2 of worst things ever) presently. That was my first thought, too. But you are missing out that one of the...

In addition to that, Friedrich III was more liberal and better at the diplomatic game. I don't think a blow-up would happen in that case, or it would stay localised in that case. Since anyone trying to start something would have to go up against both the english, the germans and the other side...

The next question would be: Would have Russia backed Serbia (i.e. encouragement of the Black Hand) when the Germans were still on the bismarckian era foreign policy? (and yes, I know about the Geheimer Rückversicherungsvertrag).

Great. And british admirals, french generals, serbian politicians. The thing was a loose-loose proposition, and should not have existed in the first place. Or conducted by neutral parties against all participants (and prosecute for example french POW camp guards). As it was, the entire thing...