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Less anglo settlement in New Mexico. As a side note, New Mexico was an officially bi lingual state (laws needed to be published in both English and Spanish, state assembly could be addressed in Spanish etc.) for generations. Even today, they issue birth certificates in both languages. The...

In regards to Poland, my guess is that the Soviets would want more buffer. They would move on eastern Poland citing that the areas had Belarusan or Ukrainian majorities (or near majorities) and were thus not truly Polish. This could prompt Germany to do the same with Silesia and Kashubian...

Though not leading to a victory: A well equipped, well trained and well led reinforced Iraqi division stays behind in Kuwait City. Heavy artillery fire from Kuwait City disrupts US convoys moving towards the Kuwait / Iraq border and forces many to be re-routed, thus slowing the advance. Even...

My guess is that the South Africans would immediately arrest those involved on their end. I think the loyalists in question were attempting to buy weapons in South Africa, but not truly from South Africa. The loyalist contacts in South Africa were probably individuals with access to military...

To my knowledge, it was the opposite. Following the collapse of the USSR, the German government offered to initiate talks regarding the future of the area. In doing so, the Germans made a general offer to make billions of dollars worth of investments in the area as well as to provide expert...

I once read an article in Archaeology Magazine where a dig was conducted at a minor site in Cornwall. In the course of the excavation, they uncovered evidence in the form of ashes, pottery, animal bones etc. that the site (not surprisingly) continued to be used for ritual purposes long after...

I like the idea of paganism in the Berber areas (high mountains inhabited by a culturally and linguistically distinct people). Likewise, the French may have seen pagans in the area as a natural buffer against Islam as an anti French unifying force. As a result, the more secular French may...

I don't think they could at least not directly. Indirectly, they could send advisors, combat units and equipment to Lebanon and Syria. As Pakistan has a professional military, the skills of these men with the needed equipment could probably lead to several hundred additional Israeli deaths...

Thanks for the correction. Thanks for the details. Yikes, going up in gun inches beyond say 11/ 12 adds a lot of everything. My guess is that such a refit for Scharnhorst was possible only in the academic sense, not the practical sense.

It was probably a matter of how badly the Germans wanted to replace the turrets. If they really wanted the refit, my guess is that they would not only need to install the new guns, but also modify the interior of the turrets, install new ammunition hoists, make changes to the ammunition...

Ironically, they would not of even needed to treat them as full equals. The Bolsheviks had brutalized enough of the Soviet population that many would accept being German protectorates or vassal states. In short, the Germans just needed to copy British India or French Algeria. Instead, the...

If anything, the Nazis were very inconsistent regarding racial polices and routinely modified their ideaology to suit the situation. For example, the initial ideaology was that only Germans, Dutch and Nordics could ever possibly be "aryans". Then, through the pre war and war period, Japanese...

I agree that a similar scenario could have also feasibly worked in Romania following Ceacescu's (sp) overthrow.

For a Christian theology in Europe, I would look east towards Belarus. Secular or religious and left or right, Belarus has little democratic tradition and currently functions under a "President for Life". Now, to move Belarus to the religous right. Maybe: - The road to independence is...

In their pure form (anti catholic party serving a tribal interest), that is about all who are going to care about them. But.... not all political parties remain "pure". As Catsmate mentioned, some parts of their message which mixes political unionism with doses of economic socialism could be...

Rather than a mandatory apprenticeship, perhaps US southerner could use long term "familial labor contracts" and "labor in lieu of debt payment" to create their serf class. IOTL, some white share croppers in the South could be employed under pretty onerous conditions. These conditions could...

I think that given the willingness of the southern US to secede over slavery and that not all colonial subjects in Canada and northern US would enthusiastically respond to a large scale rebellion, the UK would need to move carefully. Maybe... 1807: Slave trade is abolished. This is an...

Fascism could work in many cultures- particularly those with few democratic aspirations. Rather, I think its main draw back would be that Italy, its main proponent, was not only on the losing side of WWII, but lost well.... rather badly. Therefore, Spain might be the best exporter of facisism...

I disagree with the date and would go for 1979 as the Soviet's best shot.... This was before the West gained an overwhelming technological advantage, and before the Reagan build up of the U.S. military. Though I don't know the details regarding the politics of Italy, Spain, Greece at the time...

Huey Long survives to become a Senator and then joins forces with Father Coughlin. Together, they form a social / political movement that mixes leftist economics with right wing religious sentiment with sporadic anti semitic sloganeering..... .