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Could this have happened? I know Scotland was a center of early Protestantism itself. How would it have affected Anglo-Scottish/ Anglo-Irish relations?

I thought Poland considered itself one of the "contented" powers post Versailles, and so tended to ally with the likes of Romania and Yugoslavia, who were likewise?

The single greatest factor that could have improved the KMT's image would be a successful rural land reform - the Party was heavily associated with the tyrannical and corrupt rural landlords (who the KMT ruled through in the countryside), and the Communists won massive support with their...

Thinking that this also might avoid Galloway's split, if Iraq doesn't happen at all.

The Indian situation happened when Gandhi's Sikh bodyguards were appalled at her ordering the storming of the Sikh religion's holiest temple to deal with an armed occupation, so I suppose a [hypothetical, obviously] equivalent would be... a Waco-type siege at a main Mormon temple in Salt Lake...

If I remember correctly the Philippines were presumed to be indefensible in pre-war US planning.

What really crushed Japanese morale, both military and especially civillian, was the B-29 bombing campaign which kicked off en masse in early '45, of which the nukes were just the final stroke. The fact that the US had the ability to destroy Japanese cities at will, and could actually drop...

The quality thing isn't just Soviet: postwar analysis concluded that the average US soldier had only about 75-80 percent of the fighting power of his German counterpart, removing all other factors. What the US was good at was leveraging these same other factors : overwhelming firepower and the...

Honestly, considering what liabilities the Romanian/Hungarian components turned out to be for the Nazis in the East they might have done better to use them for garrison duties in Yugoslavia/ guarding other fronts. Though that would be interesting if it results in Romanians fighting at Normandy..

I'm a big Powell fan, though to be honest he'd be better off running as a Democrat.

Tony Blair stepped down in 2007 in OTL after much pressure from his party and Brown in particular. What if he'd done so earlier - even before Iraq? (though that's probably unlikely given his personality, and Lab's popularity giving him no obvious reason to). Could Labour have stayed in power...

It's my impression that the Seafire and Sea Hurricane weren't that good.

I like McCain, but other than domestic policy differences he strikes me as far too hawkish in the foreign affairs department.

Jerry Brown in his mellower post-2000 period.

We miss you, Kaiser.

Phoenix, AZ comes to mind, as though it wasn't founded in the '30s, it had a tiny population then. Also the Las Vegas area, though neither met area has a population of 5 million, to my knowledge.

The whole reason the Pacific War was launched was that the US required a general Japanese disengagement from occupied China in return for ending the oil embargo (Japan was and is totally dependent on imported oil). Tokyo chose war instead. If they are willing to make a compromise peace with...

Considering that every American not of native origin is a descendant of immigrants (or an actual immigrant) from often diverse societies (especially in recent waves), I dispute the fact that immigration is a bad thing. Germany would be a less vibrant place without these people. Same with France...

What would be the effects on British finances of a war continuing into 1919? My impression is that the UK was essentially broke by 1918.

A major element of Nazi propaganda was the so-called stab in the back myth - that Germany had not been truly defeated on the battlefield and had lost the war due to traitors in Berlin overthrowing the Imperial government. What if there had been no revolution, and the Entente had had to occupy a...