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If he had stayed out of the war? Yes, there was a chance to save the Tsardom. It wouldn't be guaranteed, but there's a chance. You'd also have to have him more open to reforms and progress - something he'd never do because of how his strict father raised him, and because his wife was vehemently...

I know what you mean. My family took a vacation in Yugoslavia in 1984. They liked Zaghreb a lot. Yugograd was nice, but to 4-year old me, it was nightmarish. I spent weeks having acid dreams about statues watching my every move. Needless to say, when I got introduced to the Weeping Angels in...

That was only part of the solution. The Zaghreb Accord of 1991 played a much bigger part, forming the basis of multi-ethnic cooperation and open discussions to resolve decades-old ethnic tension. EDIT: My bad, I meant 1983. Keep forgetting when Tito died.

It's more than that. There were quite a few measures and laws that were enforced that contributed to the ethnic tensions. Did you know Muslims couldn't call for prayer in the Tito years? The athan was forbidden, I kid you not. Though I suppose I can see your point, with a 'neutral capital'...

I could easily see the tensions erupt into full-blown disaster. When Tito died, the whole thing seemed like a time bomb ready to explode. He had ruled over the country for decades, being the only thing holding the whole madness together. Had not the people of Yugoslavia made an effort to...

I can see Britain building such a canal, and indeed almost did, which is why Teddy Roosevelt rushed the whole deal with the Panama Canal, effectively creating an Atlantic-Pacific waterway under American control. Spain was in no condition to build anything that big.

The zeppelin would need to carry and drop something about 9,800 lbs (how much Little Boy weighed). The LZ 23 could carry 11,000 lbs, so it's possible to have it carry one. However, given the slowness of a zeppelin, it would pretty much be a guaranteed suicide mission; the zeppelin could never...

Exactly. The only way the WAllies would have invaded Spain is if Franco does the stupid thing and declare war on them, and then actively helps Germany in the Mediterranean and North Africa.

The only reason I can see for the Allies to fight Franco is if he was actively hindering the WAllied war effort, sending ships to harass Allied shipping through the Strait of Gibraltar, or officially at war with them. Franco, of course, did neither; he was no fool, and he knew his country could...

So far from it for me to be a jackass and harsh everyone's mood, but will there be a new story part coming?

Vastly reduce the front wheels and enlarge the back wheels, make them more of caterpillar tracks. Sort of like a tricycle, but less insanely proportioned. The turret gets reduced in height and the base widened to lower its center of gravity. Make it less a spectacle and more of a heavy assault...

Much as it would be an interesting scenario to write, there is absolutely no way Iraq can beat back the Coalition. Vietnam was a scenario where the US could not declare a full-scale war against the Vietnamese government, and kept trying to find ways around that, effectively hamstringing its...

One more factor to 'help' the Soviet victory is that the Manhattan Project has problems, is unable to get results in time, or is sabotaged. As a result, the USA (and the WAllies) would have to go all in with Operation: Downfall, losing hundreds of thousands of men in an attempt to break the...

As one can attest to in the failure of Operation: Market Garden; the British paras managed most of their objectives, but ran into trouble when they came across an armored division, and held out for longer than expected but still wound up getting overrun because help couldn't arrive in time.

Would those men be fighting material, or Volkssturm conscripts? Germany had practically run out of bodies to throw on the pile by 1945, even if the war happens a few years later they still wouldn't have replenished those, not by a long shot.

One problem Jordan might face is its lack of participation in the Six Day War. While that was effectively an Israeli first strike that dealt a decisive blow to the Arab militaries and effectively creating a fait accompli to the world, if Israel doesn't attack Jordan too, it would create...

Definitely true. France was taken and held relatively peacefully, with only the elimination of Jews and half-Jews, reprisals against assassinations of German officers, and confiscation of assets being a problem before Allied bombing came to town. Taking and holding Russia is going to run into...

Okay, fair enough. Using a final show of force to try and impose better terms on the other side. Except unlike Navarre, the British general simply had the misfortune of running into a force of determined defenders protecting their country commanded by a bullheaded commander, perfect elements...

Technically, he seems to have been an administrator more than a commander, governing the SS as though they were his own personal fief. But it turns out he had command of the Berlin front for a few days/weeks towards the end. I'd also like to commend "Air Marshall" Herman Goering, the man who...

Really now? So not only was he off on some mad act of bravado, trying to cow the Viet Minh by a wild attempt at a "resounding victory", he also effectively sabotaged his country's negotiations and their political ammunition by not only showing the French clearly aren't serious about negotiating...