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  1. Effects of Revolutionary France Losing the War of the First Coalition

    With the resources they have, "winning" probably consists of, at best, marching the Royals back into a restive Paris, then washing their hands of the matter. You promptly get a French Civil war that the Royals almost certainly loose, but it affects which French Revolutionary factions come out on...

  2. WI Japan gets a better deal in Washington and London Naval Conferences?

    It would be hilarious if a better ratio was the straw that broke the Japanese economies back. If it happens soon enough, it might even butterfly away the sino Japanese war.

  3. AHC Earlier Decimalization of UK Currency

    And they're (almost) all gone now. It seems like once introduced, rationalized decimal currency outcompeted the traditional options quite quickly.

  4. AHC Earlier Decimalization of UK Currency

    This feels like the kind of thing that's more important for it's indirect butterflies than the change itself. It implies a UK that's slightly more willing to look outside itself for ideas, and just a little more synced up with the global economy.

  5. Stakhanovishchina fails

    I love the idea that so called "first world elites" are that united or in control that they would tank Regan's and Thatcher's careers. But to OP - maybe restate that with less bespoke jargon? I've never heard of the Soviet Union being "Fordism with Soviet characteristics" and since you answer...

  6. TLIAW: Beijing Blues - China without Tiananmen

    Okay fine, the US and Mexico, Japan and South Korea (just recently), the US and Vietnam, all the Nordic countries. It's perfectly possible to move on without winning so completely that your opponent is forced to revamp their entire society. I'm also not sure about the ROC being directly...

  7. TLIAW: Beijing Blues - China without Tiananmen

    That's inward looking nationalism for the most part, rather than outward looking. Modi isn't ginning up India to reincorporate Pakistan. By that logic Poland and France should hate Germany. And China doesn't consider Taiwan a rival government, it's a rogue provence. Every country has baggage...

  8. TLIAW: Beijing Blues - China without Tiananmen

    Said nationalism is ginned up and channeled by the CCP, because it's one of their two primary pillars of legitimacy, along with economic prosperity. More prosperity means less need to lean on nationalism, especially the grievance based kind that Xi has been pushing.

  9. TLIAW: Beijing Blues - China without Tiananmen

    If China doesn't get aggressive, it will be essentially running said world order by 2030 or so. It doesn't even need to be democratic, just not piss off all its neighbors. OTL China is the workshop of the world, but has triggered a mass reaction by throwing its weight around. If it doesn't do...

  10. What if WWI ended in 1916 with a status quo ante bellum?

    It wasn't *doing nothing* they sent a list of demands they knew were impossible, and then the Serbians accepted 95%, minus the being occupied by AH part.

  11. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    You sir are dead wrong. The first film is a masterful satire of Fascism, holds up remarkably well to this day, and legitimately has better characterization then the book. Arguably, the movie does better world building than the books as well, in terms of how it would actually play out. But yeah...

  12. Roman Shopping Malls and Science

    Increasing its tax base substantially along with agricultural productivity is actually probably enough to get Rome to survive, at least in some form. A major problem for the late empire, especially on the west, was insufficient resources to support the army and administration, as the economy...

  13. Names for a Danish empire/greater Denmark?

    Danica. Nordland. Nordmark. Those Bloody Vikings. The Great and Holy Empire of the North

  14. The Rich men North of Washington, or what if the South went Socialist after the American Civil War?

    The Liberia settlement was always a pipedream, and would have required a WWII German level of willingness for ethnic cleansing. It's not happening. There are other ways to get a left wing south (I know it's popped up in several timelines here), but that's not one of them

  15. So Evident a Danger: The Consequences of War between Britain, Prussia and Russia in 1791

    Who's a traitor right now? Arguably, only the King. He broke faith first. Without chopping his head off, the political elite of France hasn't crossed the Rubicon. I think Louis is unlikely to get the crown back, but the Assembly could offer (or "offer) it to someone else, at which Louis's...

  16. Australia keeps the "White Australia" Immigration policy.

    I feel like there is a real thread of insight here, buried under jargon, choppy sentence structure and some random shots about international opinion?

  17. WI: Henry VIII, instead of breaking with Rome, has Catherine of Aragon executed

    It would be ironic if Henry executes Catherine on trumped up charges, then breaks with the Church later anyway.

  18. AHC: Nominate an ideal King of Gran Colombia from a European royal lineage.

    Maybe Bolivar strikes up a friendship with a young prince while he's in Europe swearing oaths to free his homeland? Given that Gran Colombia was basically his project, and everyone else wanted more decentralization, it would really have to be his choice. If he isn't still around, Gran Colombia...

  19. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    I like the premise that old style colonial empires are morally "better" because of the extra rape and cultural genocide. But yeah, the Spanish Empire looks more like the British in India than the British in America - which makes sense, because the civilizations in those places has enough...

  20. To Delve and Spin – A Medieval English timeline

    This is an awesome TL btw, just want to encourage you to keep going! Medieval Peasant radicalism and implicit social contract is massively underexamined.
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