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Forget that, without an effective counterbalance to Ontario the whole Canadian nation could easily unravel. Just as Russia was uninterested in a Union without Ukraine, the RoC could easily find themselves ironically uninterested in a Union without Quebec.

Literally anyone would've been better.

So the POD is no Turkish orthographic reform?

Elect a black president in the '80s.

Given that Manifest Destiny was the inspiration for lebensraum, the biggest difference is one of political correctness. Both expansions were genocidal.

Obviously Salazar would never allow a free and fair vote, though Delgado's strong support IOTL scared the shit out of him. Let's say Salazar slips in the bathtub a bit earlier than OTL, and President Craveiro Lopes (who would later go on to support a coup attempt against Salazar in 1961) takes...

A pan-Arab victory butterflies away Arab nationalism? Um.

Yes. This concept is called work sharing.

If Lebanon didn't join the war there would be a revolution or coup to ensure it did.

Yep, certainly.

Interesting, keep it up. Ford would be a one and a half term president. To be fair, he was the only President of the '70s that did leave the country better off than when he found it.

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In many cases this was OTL before Suez.

Heh, great work.

Wilson pulls a Cleveland IMO. Herbert Hoover probably has a shot like OTL. I've been fond of Al Smith getting the nod but I'm not sure how plausible that is.

Technically this is Imperial Japan—opposition to government tacitly supporting President Goldwater's nuclear war in China and Indochina increases until the US encourages a neo-Imperial coup. The regime quickly falls to a socialist-communist revolution. Or a more classic option is Japan loses...

Forget Santo Domingo: in 1867 Minister Thomas Stilwell entertained the notion of annexing Venezuela in order to avoid dealing with corruptions in customs. Such a proposal seems to be a) an absurd overreaction b) imperialist arrogance c) unlikely to come to pass, given Sumner's resistance to...

Soviet Union: same, if not more so. But the less experience means some things could end up very different. Unlike Bush hopefully he sees the wisdom of Baker's proposal of another Marshall Plan, which considering Baker's mainstream foreign policy outlook, is probably likely. Tiananmen: would not...

Truman/Eleanor. She supported Wallace IOTL and refused the offer, guy practically begged her. There's also the interesting 1972 stop-McGovern Humphrey/Wallace ticket and the Ford/Reagan '76 ticket (according to The Invisible Bridge Reagan wouldn't have declined it.) I also think any combination...

Or a Soviet satellite Denmark. Or the US not caring about Denmark, but Greenland isn't worth disrupting relations to that point. The only big knockoffs would be a slightly larger chance of an American Newfoundland or Iceland. There was actual support among Newfies for the former, while...