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:( That's a shame. It was just starting to get good!

@Meadow wrote this, I believe. It's quite good!

They're both filth, but Patton would see the RU collapse faster. It would be super cool to have the collapse happen earlier in this version IMO.

I was genuinely hoping Patton would pull that off if only to see Steele bite it.

What I really love about this timeline is how every single move the rebellion makes only makes their situation worse and encourages pro-civil-rights sentiment in the loyal states. It's the little things like "very slightly different timing" and "slightly different leadup" turns into a massively...

US is dealing with counterinsurgency for a while, but even without the late 19th/early 20th century economic slump of OTL, the South just doesn't have enough people who want to not be part of the union to make it impossible for the US to eat it. It's not going to be pretty--think Russia vs...

Get your military maluses removed ASAP. Lend-leases of surplus gear, sending out attaches to big warring factions, these will help. Alternatively one strategy I heard that doesn't sound too good but I can sort of almost buy is to draw the IJA into an area with shit infrastructure than try...

Thousand-Week Reich is pretty well-done. The Nazis make it to the '50s before Hitler is killed, the Nazis descend into civil war, all their colonies explode at once, and the Americans invade and drop instant sunshine on Berlin. Germany is dismembered and left militarily neutered, the Soviets...

A bunch of "democratically elected" ethnic leaders who've held power forever because every time somebody suggests reforming the system they get expelled from government until someone more suitable to the status quo is elected. Hardly anybody votes anyway because they've seen that there's little...

OK so I'm thinking about this Mega-Stupid EU idea. Probably formed in response to a bunch of fascist governments that got a lot of people killed for nothing. Like, fascists in every major European country and they all stalemated in a continent-spanning *ww2 that ends when everybody overthrows...

Za rodinu! Za Savinkova!

In fact, to make it more absurd, have the "this system is broken" character be a young guy who talks in slang peppered with random words from various languages as part of a counterculture cryptolect. . "I met this bomb-ass chick, mate, and she Frisian, me Hellenic-Athenian, we be livin' same...

With shades of Bosnia, yeah. That is exactly what I'm talking about.

Here's a pretty crazy one for an aggressively stupid government. A state theoretically managed as a democratic federation of ethnic homelands, where everything is segregated down to the freaking neighborhood level because people don't all live in discrete ethnic blocks, so everything is this...

I admit, I "like" these ideas for Savinkov. Really makes him more interesting than a generic Hitler stand-in.

Not really my point. I'm simply stating what I believe would be necessary for the USSR to make it through as anything but a decaying tinpot dictatorship riven by internal tensions.

No. And keep in mind, the Chinese reforms have basically been a house of cards. The core problem is the authoritarian rule. It is very, very hard for authoritarian countries to do as well as less authoritarian countries, in part because scared people are uncreative and unproductive...

Well, that basically presupposed either the Nazis not taking power or the Nazis being taken out early. Probably either no Israel or a very small Israel. The Zionist movement is probably smaller and less successful. America absorbs more Jewish immigrants, it's just flat-out more attractive...

That is an unfortunately generic looking cover.

Got a link to this? Sounds pretty bad.