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Very interesting timeline so far. With earlier social reforms, May 68 is very likely butterflied away and an earlier focus on free-market reform may mean that some elements of economic stagnation that plagued France from the 1970s could be avoided. The United Kingdom joining the EEC in 1964...

You're not! While there are occasional gems of content in it. I find the subreddit extremely weird, bizarre and out of touch with reality at times. Their mod team is in my opinion not doing itself any favour by not cracking down hard on the stupid memes, graphics, jokes etc.

In my opinion the Russian unifiers may try to reincorporate Belarus and Ukraine into Russia as well. Primarily for historical reasons and because it provides more strategic depth and access to more natural resources with which to rebuild the country. How easy it would be to reintegrate both...

In a post Heydrich Germany I even wouldn't be surprised if the Western Russian unifier walks in and takes over Moskowien around 1967 or 1968 or shortly after their war with Finland. It would be somewhat messy and bloody but retaking Moksowien would provide the unifier with immense "street cred"...

Deep reflections like these is why I am fascinated by the world that the TNO mod created. As someone who became increasingly interested in strategy, grand strategy and essentially "what are the ingredients that make a country into a great power?" in the last decade. I think that it is...

The insanity, childishness and generally stupidity of the reddit TNO community is something that I just can't understand. What's the point of all the stupid memes about some characters and also some developers at times. It's beyond weird ...

I am yet to have played them so far so I can't comment but from what I read they seem pretty good too. I just did a run with a conservative Vyatka this afternoon, economically they're pretty good too but they strike me as more likely to orient themselves towards developing light industries...

In TTL world, a Russia that manages to rebuild itself, achieve prosperity for its citizens and reconquer Moskowien, the Caucasus and even Eastern Ukraine would become a case study in national revival and a near-miracle. It has everything it takes to do it on paper, the population, the natural...

The whole matter of how quickly Russian can and should recover from its status in the TNO timeline is quite fascinating in my opinion. The canon timeline up to 1962 is very vague as to what happens in TTL Russian and whether or not horrors like the Holodomor and Stalin's purges are avoided. What...

The corridor on the map I shown is almost 70km large so wide enough for plenty of infrastructure and wide enough to provide strategic depth. If France also goes "all in" with investing in the Sahara, there's also always scope of improving infrastructure towards the Niger valley and the coast as...

You would be surprised at what could happen here. The OAS was in favour of political equality between the pied-noirs and the harkis. What's more there was de facto political equality in Algeria since the beginning of the 5th Republic in 1958, all Algerians were eligible to vote in the...

For such a scenario to happen it requires the full support of the French state and the French army enforcing partition by force if needed. De Gaulle wasn't in favour of partition OTL but other members of his cabinet were so this provides an opening of sorts for it to happen. This or...

A superb ending to a superb TL. Congratulations on finishing it!

This I admit is the weakest part of the overall scenario. I may change it upon doing further research. The gist that the Union would turn Eastern-Europe into allies post-communism would remain though.

There are barriers to a successful Franco-British Union for sure but there are also subtle and very surprising commonalities between France and Britain that could actually cement a Union in the longer run. 1. Both France and Britain had pretentions and aspirations of becoming world powers able...

I was thinking about it last night, but there's a wildcard on this list if we only look at post 1900 powers or even a bit earlier like say 1870ish. This wildcard is a successful Austria-Hungary that avoids WW1 or wins a short WW1 and reforms/federalise itself in the process. It might seem like...

While its true that the strategic position of a Franco-British Union is very strong on paper. It will nevertheless suffer from the same strategic dilemma that plagued France throughout its history, which focusing on either the army of the navy and on either north into the Atlantic or south into...

France's population was essentially stagnant from 1870 to 1914 and there is no indication that avoiding WW1 would lead to a population boom or significantly greater population growth in France for the remainder of the 20th century. Therefore I'm not sure where this "much larger population" will...

WW1 actually did the UK some relative good in some respects as it forced the industrial base to modernise. While avoiding WW1 will help the UK retain a lot of financial capital and assets. This won't do much good if other countries are able to accumulate more assets by having higher investment...

+1 A Franco-British Union arising from WW2 could become a superpower if it plays its cards right post-war, though the task will require a willingness to take hard decision and a ruthless focus on pragmatism and bettering the Union and its people above all things. Some of what I mean by...