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Pretty much. He almost lost the election right there. So now we surround Canada on three sides. Yay?

New Afrika got lucky, to be honest. I'm honest to God shocked it hadn't collapsed before. I mean, how exactly do you find an empty spot in West Africa to colonize by African-Americans, build a new nation, manage to get on well with the locals, and create a viable political system made by...

The Russo-Japanese War was already a clusterfuck for the Russians. Fighting at the end of a long and inefficient supply chain against a determined enemy wasn't the best for them, and their economy was tanking pretty badly. Not to mention the repeat disasters at sea, which enraged the population...

It would be incredibly dangerous, mostly because the post-Soviet factions would have potentially easy access to nuclear material, and any invasion could trigger retaliation with all those nukes in the silos. It would be a very "interesting" timeline, but very much in the Chinese sense of the...

Yeah, but then you'd run into things like cultural clash, and a shift in the American political system. And are you really sure you want to fight another country's drug war for it? The cartel war is still pretty strong in Mexico even today.

I agree with everyone that this scenario is ludicrous. There is no way for America to "Americanize" Iraq and Afghanistan safely or sanely. But let's dig a little deeper and analyze this thing. For one, the USA will be adding about 20-35 million people to its population, admittedly small against...

Much as I'd like to blame the Shah for letting the Tudeh take over and make a mess of things in the Middle East, it seems the song is an easy whipping stick against royalty. I mean, people used Marie Antoinette's presumed affairs to discredit the French monarchy in its final days. It's just...

Gee, I didn't realize the lyrics when played backwards would incite the working class to revolt.[/sarcasm] Seriously, it's just a tabloid bawdy song about a lecherous adviser boinking the empress. It may have been political, but not that political.

One weird thing people found according the Al-Qaeda files after OBL's death was that the main Al Qaeda commanders thought the whole thing was ridiculous and overblown, and wanted to do something closer to home (Middle East, Near East). OBL wanted to do this big propaganda coup and pushed for it...

Well, it's debateable. I mean, the Russian Royal Family was kind of well hated by 1917 over a multitude of issues, especially the food supply and the mounting defeats. Probably would have given Kerensky more of a respite, though, and not given the Communists so much morale and propaganda...

I'm guessing that being on a larger weapons platform capable of carrying a few hundred more pounds easily makes it less of an issue. Plus, ships are made to withstand water anyway, so there's less concern of them leaking over sensitive electronics (which are either properly insulated or hardened...

Facing a German hegemony on the continent would be something the British wanted to avoid at all costs. It would have found an excuse to try and curb Germany's expansion, especially since Wilhelm II was rather blatant in challenging Britain across the seas. Sooner or later, Germany was going to...

I see that as unlikely. The Kuwaiti emirs were not going to join a Hashemite personal union, and tended to be closer to other Gulf states than their northern neighbors. Still, an interesting scenario, if a bit farfetched. Granted, Jordan's economy is almost negligible compared to Kuwait and...

This is not something for the post-1900 forum. The Safavid Empire died out in the early third of the 1700s, so its continued survival would have required a PoD of 1700 or earlier. As such, this would probably be best moved to the pre-1900 forum. Thank you.

Well, you never know; it could lead to backlash from people worried about "political correctness gone mad". Yes, the #MeToo movement would probably get a head start and many abuses would be uncovered quicker, but some could abuse this to fight any wrongs, no matter how slight or imagined. The...

I think he said something to the effect of "if every one of us can kill 30 Vietnamese, we will win this war." Apparently, he thought Cambodia was made up of FPS main characters who can go through entire military outposts like the Biblical wrath, and not a country made of stupid, untrained...

The Sega Saturn needs to be faster, true, but most importantly, it needs to render 3D properly. Remember, at this point, there was this big 3D craze, even though it was pretty crap (at least compared to today's tech)

I missed the blockade bit. Yeah, that's undeclared war, basically just asking for a fight. The other side has no choice but to fight his way out or risk being seen as weak. It works today because the fleet usually doing the blockade is the USN, which can flatten any challengers. While the RN...

While to be honest, it would be the most sensible move to try and force Hitler to stop being a bastard, it would have only been regarded as a provocation in the long run. Hitler would switch to buying more of his stuff from the USA and USSR, and then sped up his schedule for war. By then, he'd...

Basically. It was a counterweight to the UAR, and meant to hold off Nasser's growing influence. Assuming the AF continues existing while the UAR continues as normal, we'd end up having the AF as a major bloc in the Middle East once the UAR dissolves. One would suspect, however, that Syria would...