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  1. What technologies could be invented to ensure the most technologically and scientifically adavanced Mesoamerica?

    This is outright wrong. The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Mesoamerica more broadly are  very contingent on the actors involved. As stated upthread, the Spanish lost during the Night of Tears against the OTL Aztecs, and Cortez's army was made largely of natives armed and organized...

  2. Taiping industrialize China like Stalin did Soviet Union

    That's theoretically possible, but you have to consider who the Taiping were and the times they lived in. The Heavenly Kingdom was ruled by a man who legitimately believed himself divine and on a mission to violently purify China. His policies and the war lead to famines. His family ruled in his...

  3. Curtis LeMay as president, what would it look like?

    Japan was two of the first atomic bombs and surrendered before more nukes could be dropped. By LeMay's day, yields had increased and the bombs were higher in number. Nuclear war couldn't and can't be won. You should really look up what fallout is. I'm not talking about the games. I'm talking...

  4. Curtis LeMay as president, what would it look like?

    I don't think anyone would look back on a nuclear holocaust and say it "lanced the boil" considering that it would result in complete destruction for both sides. Mutual annihilation, along with the irradiation of countless millions and even more millions dying in the break down of global society...

  5. Curtis LeMay as president, what would it look like?

    You do know the Soviets had nukes right? A preemptive strike with nukes means nuclear world war III, full stop. Europe would get fully irradiated, most major US cities and military bases go up in mushroom clouds and fallout ensures millions more will be irradiated and die in both the short-term...

  6. Which African 'Empire' had the most potential?

    I'm usually an Egypt lover, but I think that Songhai had some real potential to be at least the regional power of the Sahel. Given a few caveats that are endemic to a lot of empires worldwide, I think you could see a more unified front against colonization. One, and this is IMO the biggest...

  7. The Great American-Indian War: A Pontiac's Rebellion Timeline

    Ah, misremembered, American colonial history isn't usually my cup of tea so I'm working off memories of college courses.

  8. The Great American-Indian War: A Pontiac's Rebellion Timeline

    A widespread slave revolt in South Carolina would be devastating. IIRC, the colony is actually majority Black and enslaved by a decent percentage, something that didn't change until the OTL Great Migration. If they don't flare out like OTL's Southern slave revolts, we could be looking at a...

  9. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    All of this brings up a question I have about the arts in the new America. Are the official propaganda posters and such based in alt-Socialist Realism or are they more avant-garde? The reason I ask is that in the period between the OTL Russian Civil War and Stalin's solidification of power...

  10. The Great American-Indian War: A Pontiac's Rebellion Timeline

    Most Native American TLs focus on the pre-Columbian era, it's very interesting to see one that post-debate European colonization. Hoping to see some independent Native states!

  11. What if the cult of Sol Invictus replaced Christianity in western Rome?

    I think it would be interesting to see Christianity compete and have to (uneasily) coexist with the traditional syncretic polytheism of the Mediterranean that syncretized with the mystery cults. To my knowledge, the pre-Christian religions followed by those surrounding Mare Nostrum were pretty...

  12. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    To my knowledge, Vietnam is actually the names Dai Viet and Annam combined, to symbolize the reunification of the country from when it was split into the separate kingdoms of Dai Viet and Annam in the early modern period (IIRC). Assuming that Red Vietnam is just Vietnam, they'd probably just...

  13. The World of Tricolors and Traditions: Human History Without Napoleon

    I'm liking the potential for a revived Inca/indigenous ruled state in the Andes, though I am wondering how Britain will deal with an America that doesn't really have a protector and seems to still have the Articles of Confederation, I assume. I think so, the in-universe writer in the first post...

  14. The Death of Russia - TL

    OTOH, the arms smugglers/dealers would find much better deals reselling old Soviet gear to the Russian warlords at a high markup than to a single cult in a stable nation. Why try and smuggle to a nation that is not going through disintegration when you can get almost any price you want from...

  15. The Death of Russia - TL

    I'm betting on tactical dirty bombs or some other sort of short-range hacked together WMDs in Moscow. At the end of this, there really may be no safe way to rebuild if they are throwing anthrax or suitcase nukes at each other. Also, something more terrifying that I just realized - the USSR was...

  16. The Death of Russia - TL

    I think this depends on how Siberia shatters. If its most intact I definitely could see a Siberian identity derived from Russian slowly develop. If it's a free-for-all for everyone with a gun and the charisma to lead a group of bandits, I doubt that society would be stable enough develop any...

  17. The Death of Russia - TL

    You still have to take fallout into account. Irradiating pretty much any part European Russia is gonna have isotopes falling in some part of the not-Russian part of Europe. Whoever starts flinging nukes is not only going to break the nuclear taboo, but be responsible for a lot of cancer at best...

  18. WI: Ba'athists vs. Hashemites?

    I was wondering if Israel would exist at all. It and Lebanon are in the way of the UAR being contiguous, and while I could perhaps see Lebanon integrated into the UAR with significant autonomy for the diverse population of the country, a defeat of Israel could serve as a victory for the pan-Arab...

  19. WI: Ba'athists vs. Hashemites?

    During the early Cold War/early post-colonial Middle East, there was a wave of pan-Arabism that lead to the founding of the United Arab Republic, composed of Egypt and Syria, with popular support for the union and indeed for some sort of pan-Arab state. As a response to the formation of the...

  20. 共存共栄 - Kyōzonkyōei - Common Peace, Common Wealth

    It'd be interesting ITTL if armored cars lead to fast light tankish vehicles when the issues you mentioned crop up. Having mobile warfare tactics crop up much earlier would be very interesting.
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