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Peter the Great had coveted a Warm Water port for much of his reign, but rather than resort to warfare he sought to make a series of peaceful alliances with Middle Eastern rulers. For a long period of times Nader Shah had seemed to be supportive of the plan, but ultimately Most of the Princes...

Pope Benedict XVI demanding an apology by the European Union for garrisoning troops inside the Holy City. Although it was widely regarded as a necessary action it is remains an unpopular decision. "I instantly realized that everything I thought was un-fixable was totally fixable, except for...

That their government was efficient and they made the economy strong. In reality corruption, kickbacks, and general ineptitude weakened them immensely. Germany was on the razor edge of a massive financial collapse in '39.

Pass the pot.

I just tore through Decisive Darkness and then read this. I may have to read a more positive timeline.

Honestly even if you spread it as far as it plausibly can go it still won't be that much. It is very hard to convert to Judaism and they don't really seek out converts if my understanding is correct.

Another distsff counterpart of superman? Wasn't one enough? Without being a walking negation of comic cliches I don't see her lasting very long.

Without Fundamentally changing the map as we understand it your best bet is probably Mexica. Butterfly some coups and expensive wars early on, give it a few years, and you have yourself a super power.

Is it possible for the Western allies, before the fall of France, to draw win a Pyrrhic victory so costly for the German Army that it stalls their advance, even if temporarily? If so, where might it happen and under what conditions? If said battle did happen what would the effects be?

In video games JRPGS probably never get out of the Final fantasy series and maybe the first crono trigger at best. Thus Western RPGs have a much more Narrow competition. We get something along the lines of "electronic Dungeons and Dragons." In place of final fantasy 7 and onwards. Maybe this...

The ratings system might not be the clusterfuck that it is today, Where PG is what G should be, PG-13 is what PG should be, and R is everything form what PG-13 should be to what NC-17 should be.

Eh, tough to say. There is no doubt that the McCain/Pawlenty ticket was the definition of "party of old white guys" republican campaign. But on the other hand Pawlenty was smart and relatively experienced. It was probably the smart idea at the time.

Green lantern is decent. DC convinces Christopher Nolan to allow Batman to enter the DCEU. Dark Knight Rises goes much the same as it did in OTL, except Joseph Gordan Levitt's Robin explicitly becomes Night Wing. Man of Steel is mostly the same, but a little bit more bright. Insert a good...

skilled speaker, lucky in everything else.

A Weaker United Nations for certain. Towards the end the Super Powers were outright hostile to the organization.

True, but Cortez's expedition failing would be like the first crusade getting annihilated at Antioch. Now, The Inca will probably do better at surviving the Plagues, but Spain already has a sizeable new world empire. If they don't ever really get it we might see more Native American...

Basically this. I could see the Inca surviving, and maybe becoming an interesting local state up to the present day, but nothing more. True, they were attacked at the worst possible time, and if they survived they might have recovered, but they wouldn't be able to fast enough to take on the...

As one of your so called "wide eyed university students", I point you to a simple phrase "What is to be done?" and various thinkers from the past two hundred years. Conservatives and liberals alike agree that there are problems in society that have to be fixed. The problem is that conservatives...

Would a Soviet Union without Stalin in charge but Trotsky instead have had a better or worse relationship with the west? How would the 20s and 30s go? would WWII still turn out the same way?

Honestly the whole "make Confederates american" thing just isn't smart. It would've been better to set up some kind of continental union, maybe call it the American Socialist Alliance, de freedomize the south then let them self govern in a generation but still have a hold over them through the...