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I just finished the two novels adapted from this timeline. Anyone have any advice on where to start reading this thread if I want to pick up where those left off? Or any news about how it's been going with the third book in the last 8 years?

Don't know what that is so probably not.

The US went from having essentially open borders (except for Asians) to very limited immigration around 1920. So if that just didn't happen it would take you much of the way there between the additional immigrants and their descendants.

"Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, but remained an important place for centuries, while Sparta – which won – sank into irrelevance. It is hard not to conclude that Athens lost the war but decisively won the peace and that it was the latter victory that actually mattered." -...

What sort of creation could lead to the creation of an elected world parliament? It doesn't need to have any more power than the UN has IOTL, just has to be a legislative body that's elected by the whole world population. Seems like the biggest obstacle is the existence of authoritarian...

Good stuff! Seems like this line may have been a mistake though - they're divided between neutrals, neutrals, and reds?

Really I think you can do it with a better development strategy during the Porfiriato (pre-1910 Revolution). Diaz basically just allowed American businesses unfettered access to Mexico. This produced a lot of development, but left them in the classic "third world" situation exporting raw...

I loved this last update. The only problem for me is that I'm not familiar with enough detail about the real events to see exactly how the divergence worked. The Tanquetazo was a real coup attempt that was really foiled by Prats right? But obviously Pinochet didn't get arrested IOTL. Do you have...

I've been playing with an idea: Britain makes peace with Hitler early in WWII, Germany goes to war with the Soviet Union but still ultimately loses to them after an even more brutal war than OTL. So the war ends with Soviet troops marching to the Rhine or farther, and in a particularly vengeful...

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I love the trope of OTL anti-communist hawks being TTL anti-capitalist hawks.

Fascinating stuff. Really comes off looking pretty great compared to OTL: avoiding the economic collapse brought on by the end of the Soviet system is a big deal, and given that they ended up in roughly the same place in terms political rights as IOTL the change here is really all gain.

The thing to remember with Chavez is that he was a relatively moderate social democratic figure when first elected - similar to Lula, AMLO, Correa, or any other pink tide leader. He was radicalized by the coup attempt early in his presidency when the opposition parties, military, and...

What is this guarantee of protection you find so important? Besides Cuba there weren't really any third world regimes kept in power by some guarantee of Soviet military support, and very clearly it's nuclear rather than conventional support that mattered in the case of Cuba. The US wasn't...

Sure having a weaker military is a disadvantage, but there's no reason it would be a crippling one. For example by having way more resources to throw at supporting your foreign allies...