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Good fun, isn't it? My disc got corrupted, and it no longer works, but I remember it being an enjoyable - if somewhat simplistic - game. :D

(Clearly I've just watched the same TV programme as Kit.) So, what if the Profumo Affair was never made public? Tory minority governmet in 64?

Maybe, but a 'Greater Deutschland' might have had enough in the way of economies of scale and primary resources to hang on for longer than one might otherwise suspect.

Hmm, I might edit it and port it over the wiki. Thoughts?

Good, isn't it? I stumbled upon it a while back, and only wish that there was more ...

If the Taiwanese had, I doubt they'd have had any other choice.

So that they could bring them 'back into the fold', and declare a cultural victory? It'd be a huge PR coup. Oh, I'm not talking about the immediate aftermath of WW2. I'm talking 1980s, at the earliest, with a POD that gives more influence / leverage to Deng Xiaoping and his allies. See...

Perhaps they could have incorporated it, had they allowed it autonomy over everything but foreign policy, and set it up as a SEZ, like Hong Kong. With promises of a steady flow of capital investment from Beijing, the nationalists might be tempted...

If everything else stays the same, I can imagine a larger Chechnya (which includes Ingushetia) pushing for a similar status to the Baltic states in the 1960s. Whether or not such moves are met with sympathy by Moscow rather depends on who ends up as Stalin's successor. I could see Chechyna...

I agree with your assessment of the twentieth century, but not your Hobbesian analysis of human nature.

That sounds like the most likely option, as it has the advantage of giving Russia 'proper' a port on the Baltic coast.

Simple solution - kill off Jeffery Sachs, and have his replacement commission a report from a multi-disciplinary team of experts (including academics, anthropologists, business interests, economists, etc.).

There is evidence to suggest that Kaliningrad has remained part of Russia - in a historical sense - because it was formerly part of Germany. Its very existence is a testament to Russia's triumph over the Nazis. In this timeline, reunion with East Germany would make geopolitical and strategic...

In a similar kind of vein, in the ex-Soviet states, I'd like to have seen a gradual transition to a free market economy, instead of the neoliberal imposition of 'shock therapy'. Being comparatively recent, this also seems like a fairly safe change, and not something that would spawn thousands...

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And I disagree. Prior to the emergence of Wilsonian doctrines in the aftermath of WW1, internationalism was nowhere near influential enough to affect national politics. It was only the threat of mutual destruction that allowed the CoE to continue as long as it did. And there was no...

Well, it was more of a fuzzy 'balance of power'-type regime than a concrete body in and of itself with institutions. We're really not talking about 'collective security' or the UN here. That's something that you're really going to have to take in account with this 'What If'.

The audio file was spine-tingling. Having read up on that period of history - something that doesn't normally interest me - it actually made me feel really close to the events in question. But yes, initial surge of enthusiasm = fails to manifest. It's the whole free rider problem. When...

What happens to Kaliningrad in this scenario?

I really want to know more about Klein Wenedig. It sounds like something that would be worthy of a more detailed timeline, or some short fiction.