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Neither the Romans or the Persians in their current situation should overstate their welcome in India. If they don't leave promptly after getting Ibrahim they risk being swamped and destroyed by fresh and huge Indian armies.

If the Spanish manage to retain the Mississippi as a firm frontier the British expansion will stop cold there.

Nukes will not save Ukraine since Russia has enough to blanket nuke them anyways.

For it to be the end of the Empire means that the next dynasty will not have the powers of the Thalassan dynasty, but rather diminished powers with either the Senate or a noble's Council having greater powers.

The problem is that as the colonies grow stronger militarily and financially, and with the natives rise in power within them, any loyalty to far off Constantinople will wane and disappear. Why pay taxes and be exposed to a monopoly in trading with a far off overlord when we can perfectly...

But not the far east. From India and beyond East Africa it is fair game and the naval traditions and increasing tech generated by conflict of the Europeans will cut off the Romans and Persians middlemen status and advantages in the coming colonial race.

The parallels of this Rhomania and OTL Ottoman Empire are increasing. Both were the greatest powers of their age but were left behind by the northern and western European states searching for a way to the riches of the East without the middlemen.

Yeah, perhaps they could sold only the territory up to the Mississippi to serve as an easy frontier and a trade avenue with the US but they wouldn't have sold all of it.

The Japanese are full of it. Nothing they have will allow them to win a land war on Asia. Though they can keep Sakhalin after they sink the Russian Pacific Fleet.

That attitude is what will allow the Latins to sort themselves out and bring unification into an European Union 300 years later, to the wails of Constantinople XD

A lot I imagine. Since Manuel (and future emperors) seem to think that the Empire will not need to expand much more, defensive armies are all that it's needed for defense. Strong enough to hold the line and weak enough to be routed against the core tagmata. And then gunpowder came xD

This is all the Empire damn fault. They only needed to use diplomacy to settle this. Now because of their own incompetente they will loose all above Rome and even that city may end up in Sicilian hands in order to keep it.

Japan will always consider Korea as a national security issue. And if they move quickly they could secure Sakhalin as a new home island.

The forces that propelled German unification through Prussian strength may be absent but the concept of a single German nation can't be forgotten so long as successful examples like Italy, France or Russia exist next door.

A general European war due to the implosion of the German and Hapsburg realms is quite likely, but a world war isn't unless France, China, India or BNA become involved.

This time the bloody Revolution will be in Germany instead of France xD

Most likely wiped out to the last. And Arabia will end as a series of small kingdoms rich in oil and gas, a patch of kingdoms like OTL Kuwait, UAEs, Qatar, Hejaz, etc. with none having the sheer wealth or size of OTL Saudi Arabia.

Anahuac is pretty much non-viable since the Kingdom of California is far better positioned as an exit route for BNA to the Pacific while the viceroyalty of New Spain needs a better outlet to the Pacific and its trade with China.