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It's not too well remembered today, but a similar situation to the current crisis occured in the 1990s regarding North Korea, in the last years of Kim il-Sung's reign. NK hadn't tested a nuke yet but the US was getting seriously alarmed at its plans and for a time things look like they might go...

The presumption of the thread is that the entire D-Day invasion force would be delivered by air.

It would be a brave officer indeed who'd be entrusted with the job of informing his unit's men they'd be sent out in M22s against Panthers and Tigers.

The best chance for Anchorage to grow is it to become a major resupply port en route from the West Coast to Asia, as IIRC it is on the shortest great circle route between many places in the north Pacific. The problem is that Hawaii is already there and a better option climatically and...

In the early 1900s, when family ties among European monarchs were even closer than today, it was not unusual for what were in effect family members to go on hunting trips together - IIRC George V took his cousin Nicholas II in the early 1910s. What if, during some such trip, one monarch ended...

Or Moldova, the Communists got into power legitimately by election in 2001. Have this happen earler and have then create a new, independent Moldovan communist republic. Though the IRL Moldovan Communists seem to be as dedicated to Communist ideals as the other former Eastern Bloc ruling...

Nanjing would be huge had the ROC won the Civil War.

What about Cordoba absent a Reconquista?

Pyongyang would probably be a fair bit bigger than today had the Korean War somehow ended in reunification under the South.

I presume you mean the Bay Area, as San Fran proper is just too geographically limited to expand - like Seattle as opposed to its area. LA County has a large amount of flattish land in a not-so-flat larger area, plus a port. Same reason Tokyo grew so much.

Great example. Rotterdam, too, in a country larger than the Netherlands - another excellent natural port.

Something that popped into my head. Which OTL cities of small or medium size could have become large global cities, either in their country's OTL borders or in an ATL's?

I have quite a fascination with the Worldwar series of books; I always look out for TLs where things are done differently than in the originals.

Burgas (the large province in the Southeast Black Sea shore) used to be a Patriotic Front stronghold (the leader of one of the parties is from there), but the United Patriots seem to have done less well there this year, though better than the national average.

Interesting; will be following.

I think people are underestimating how difficult it is to destroy a city the size of Seoul. It's a vast megalopolis of 20 million people in total in the metropolitan area. Even North Korea's large long-range artillery park would only cause mild damage on the whole.

No, it wouldn't be; Greece and Bulgaria were at comparable levels of development in the 1940s and Greece is now quite a bit wealthier than Bulgaria, though the gap is slowly narrowing.

It's always good to see another South Asia WI. One thing that might make this possible is Britain deciding how the various princely states would end up, rather than them choosing the state to accede to on their own accord (well, being pressured into it by New Delhi/Islamabad). Not sure if the...

Just finished up the entire TL. Hoping for an update soon, once you return from your fishing trip. Is there any chance of an update on Russia?

In what way? They aren't going to use *nuclear weapons* on civilians. Also, OTL South Africa had nuclear weapons. Even though they were not public as in TTL, I've never heard them being a factor in apartheid or its end.