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Depends on the intensity of support, but if we're talking about large scale arms sales and/or direct military intervention, coupled with a strict blockade of Nationalist ports, the Republicans might win the war within a year or less. The entire difficulty is to get France to actually intervene...

It has large reserves of coal and was an industrialized country during Japanese colonization and the first decades of Kim rule, so I would strongly dispute the claim that they can't just produced what they need to export for agricultural products they can't grow themselves.

Well, at least Communism was a real ideology that did exist at some point in history. You can't say the same thing about Max Weber's most famous brainchild.

Well, the American state depicted in Reds! is neither.

I see what you're saying, but honestly no of the TLs I read imagined the US adopting a system of government based on total consensus. IIRC Reds!, the most prominent one, had the US switch to multi-party "Soviet Democracy". Now how realistic that was is debatable, but it's not some radical...

I think I understand what you mean, and of course politics will never work as perfectly as imagined by philosophers like Plato, Rousseau or Condorcet, but saying that "Consensus Democracy" doesn't exist is quite a stretch. Switzerland, for example, has every major party represented in parliament...

With regard to gender and sexual norms, something similar actually happened in Soviet Russia (on a more modest scale, of course), and was only really ended by Stalin's conservative rollback in the 1930s.

Doesn't matter, the US are obliged by treaty to defend South Korea, it's firmly in US interests to help South Korea finish the war quickly, and the Obama administration was going to stand by its international commitments. Yes, there'll be one or two diehard, honest pacifists staging a little...

I mean, some countries (West Germany *cough* *cough*) built their entire post-war identity around that myth, so it was certainly more widespread than some like to think.

Well, it wouldn't have been problematic to hold a fair plebiscite then, or would it? That's the tragedy of the Alsatians...

One thing that I learned from recent literature (and not from Wikipedia, for that matter) and which surprised me is that mass rapes of German women were not limited to the eastern front, although that's how they're remembered in Germany. Probably because of Nazi and Cold War propaganda, it's...

Thank you, didn't know about that. This would have been a perfect solution for Poland as well.

So I really need to ask you about your sources here. I've got to admit that I've most information about the war goals discussion from the German Wikipedia page on that subject, which however is pretty substantial and, most importantly, substantiated. Doesn't seem to be based on hot air. And they...

Of course it wasn't going to happen! But even a peace on the basis of the British pre-1918 proposals (France regaining Alsace-Lorraine, Germany losing all colonies but being allowed to unify with German Austria) would have been more acceptable for Germany and this more durable than Versailles.

- The Treaty of Paris. Although France lost the Rhineland and territories annexed in Italy, Germany and Spain, it conserved its historical borders of 1792, no military restrictions were imposed on her, AFAIK no reparations either. The objective was to restore the European balance of powers, not...

So, basically, reverse secession, leading to a permanent division of the US into a slave-holding Union and a slave-free Confederacy (or something like the "Free States" or "Federation"). Ironic, isn't it?

Border areas are complicated, but that's no excuse for transferring foreign territories from one country to another under the pretext of "national self-determination". Also, the situation often gets easier when you break up larger regions into smaller owns. After lower Silesia voted to remain...

Maybe if the AfD wins the next elections we could just fuel it with diesel... Well, without the Cold War Germany would have reunificied earlier, so it might have been better off in the short run... The 14 points were unacceptable to a German nation that still (felt that it) had a chance to...

Well, but at least they aren't powered by renewable energies, because that would be even harder to build for the German industry...

I actually think that Germany got treated way more leniently after WWI. The treaty of Versailles was harsh and more or less a bad joke when compared to Wilson's lofty promises of a just peace, but IIRC Germany wasn't turned into a piece of ruble with millions of refugees after WWI, nor did it...