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I'm interested in this ATL. Anyone else? Since the Balkan wars haven't started yet, Albania still has Kosovo. So an Italian railroad though Albania would access the lignite deposits. If Italy hadn't become involved in WWI they could afford to both pay off their overseas debts and also build a...

Phillipine troops are pretty tough, and Willie feared and hated the Japanese. There wouldn't be many German troops in the Phillipines, but there would be a much, much, bigger, and much, much, better trained Phillipine army. I could see a long war a la the African war happening in the swamps and...

Easy. MacArthur drops dead and a competent general takes over. Our subs weren't very useful for sinking ships without good torpedo fuzes, so we can spend a year hauling ammo in and troops out. Figure on one sub run every two months to Pearl Harbor, and thirty troops each, times one hundred...

The Italians used airplanes in the Turkish war the year before the Balkan war. If you fought WWI in 1907 and it was over very quickly after the Germans ran out of nitrates for ammunition, then armor might not have been developed until the next big war. OK, Russia and Japan get into it...

It's pretty easy to load a few thousand tons of explosives onto the blockship and blow her apart. Sinking her in the Panama canal would certainly accomplish more.

Jackson picks Brown as his running mate. Jackson is assassinated by a disgruntled racist. Brown wins on the sympathy vote. We have a more progressive but less liberal presidency than Clinton, and Clinton was the guy that abolished welfare!

Why would the Allies care? The war was already over, except for all the Germans who were going to die in the next ten months. If the Germans want to surrender, OK, otherwise it was punishment time. Of course, the dead Germans in OTL included lots of innocent children. In this ATL, the Allies...

The British plan to infect America with smallpox and wipe out their armies is revealed after the epidemic is launched when somebody gets mugged. The letters are read in a coffee house near Parliament and the handwritin is recognised and publically attested to. ALL the Americans and Canadian...

Larry Niven. "The Warriers". You will find his stuff in many libraries. "A reaction drive is a weapon in proportion to it's efficiency."

I have reason to believe I am in my OTL. For one thing, I can't get those dried, spiced, lizards that I could get in that ATL I visited.

I don't think a war was inevitable. In two years there might have been a civil war in Austria-Hungary after the King and Kaiser died, though. Why not a history of the Austro-Hungarian civil war of 1917 to 1918, with volunteers from Germany, Russian and German Poland, Serbia, Rumania, Greece...

Do they grow potatos in Northern Scotland? Contact with the Americas will give you potatos in about fifty years and then your population density goes up to the point that Scotland makes sense from an agricultural empire's point of view. Great Britain provides a major source of naval power the...

The USSR shut off supplies to the North Koreans after Stalin died. The Korean war ends when Stalin dies. If Stalin dies in 1948, the Korean war doesn't even start. What would happen to the South Korean and Japanese economy without massive amounts of US money? What happens to the Cold war...

I don't know why they chose those areas. Perhaps the South African colonists didn't want them, perhaps not. Coal, diamonds, gold, ferroalloys, agriculture, etc. Good place to build a country. But this is the wrong place for this post because the POD is before 1900. It shouldn't be in the after...

Room temperature superconductors. Lots of fast, very fast, electric trains. A seraphim design would have cars join a train at the front as individual cars, no locomotives. Then the cars would drop off at the back. You would get on the car, the car would join the train, more cars would join the...

In the early nineteenth century there weren't a whole lot of whites in Natal, were there? I thought that Cape Colony was where everybody was. I just went to wikipedia and it says there weren't any whites in Natal till 1837. Sierra Leone was founded in 1787, Liberia in 1822.

Cheap room temperature superconductors and we get so many supersonic trains that the transatlantic flights involve Wing In Ground Effect vehicles only, no jet aircraft? Not a big enough market to compete with the maglevs and WInGEs.

How would a Quebec yes vote on sovereignity partition Quebec? Would Montreal vote to remain part of Canada, or the Gaspe Peninsula, or the Cree dominated north decide to go it alone?

In 1920 in your ATL the Democrats will win election, just as in 1920 the Republicans won election in OTL. The Republicans would have to actually win the First World War in the eyes of the public before they would win a postwar election. That would be a major ATL. What would make the Republicans...

Perhaps a butterfly causes a Germany First strategy for the US and the European war ends in 1944? The Japanese war is still going on in the Pacific till 1946 and the voters reelect Churchill because they are unwilling to switch horses midstream. Churchill gets five years before a socialist...