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Basically. The only time any country has ever moved their capital to a colony has been when the Portuguese court fled Lisbon for Brazil as the former was being conquered by Napoleon. Maybe an argument could also be made for Free France moving their capital to the French Congo after the Metropole...

The system of mandatory enlistment for a short period followed by reserve duty until age 45 (or whatever) might actually reduce costs by allowing for a much smaller standing military. In Israel, this is compounded by the fact that soldiers during their required service are expected to be...

Like many ekranoplans, the Pelican was designed to be able to fly at a significant altitudes if conditions got too rough, though skimming was the main planned mode of operation (due to the higher efficiency).

I love this thread because people keep finding amazing new ways to make maps. ...Come to think of it, many of the best are from the MotF...

They did the bomb racks and rolling bombs out the back OTL.

As stated, the Su-25 nicely fills the same close air support role as the A-10, right down to the hilariously oversized cannon. An equivalent to the AC-130 (or perhaps the AC-47) does not exist OTL, as far as I'm aware - but there's no reason why it couldn't. I think the issue is that there was...

There was actually a lot of drive from within Lebanon for unification too. Even many Christians were pan-Syrianists. France made it clear that Lebanon wasn't joining Syria. Period. Anyway, in my opinion the only thing that will keep Damascus and Aleppo separate is a large external military...

Britain won't annex it. If they somehow get it away from France it's going straight to Hashemiteville, population: Faisal. The British only welshed on him because they decided that their obligations to France were more important; they were quite sincere in their original offer.

As has been mentioned, the Jews of Poland-Lithuania (and later Russia, A-H, and Prussia following the Partitions of Poland), mostly lived isolated in their own villages rather than being present (albeit in enclaves) in cities and towns, like they were in most of the world. This meant that many...

Delaware historically was part of Pennsylvania. The Delmarva peninsula was split for all of colonial history, there's no reason to unite it aside from "it looks better on maps".

You might get something like the Sunni/Shia split, with some folks saying that Jesus' descendants (or nephews' lines) are his natural heirs, and others saying they don't much matter. If the latter dominate, Christianity will likely resemble OTL more than not, but I can't even speculate on the...

Delaware was reabsorbed by Pennsylvania? And what other colonies claim "extra-Laurentine" Quebec? I'm really looking forward to Vermont being an independent statelet surrounded on all sides by British colonies.

The US established a pilot colony of folks from the northern Midwest near Anchorage as part of the New Deal (there were other such colonies, too, in warmer climes). Folks were basically given 40 acres and a mule. The whole was a giant failure: there was basically no preparation, so farmers...

What do you mean by Central-Eastern Europe? Jews were definitely in Prague at that time. There are Jews attested in the court of the Kievan Rus' in the late 10th Century. Jews are attested in Gdansk in this period, and though the first records are from later, the fact that there was a large...

I imagine Denmark is Finland. A free democracy and free economy that nevertheless can't afford to piss off their scary Communist neighbors. That makes sense; Spain also appears to be federalized.

I love Free Bremen in there. What's the status of Spain? What is America an analogue of? EDIT: By the way, torch/shovel/quill is amazing. I'm trying to imagine all of the rhetoric by which clerks and office workers are folded fully into the proletariat fold.

What about our illustrious Father of the Bank of the United States slash musical star?

I'm a simple man: I see a Benedict Arnold who dies a great patriotic hero, and I follow the thread.

When France annexed Savoy and Nice (in 1860), there was serious discussion of Savoy joining Switzerland instead. Apparently the Savoyards were pretty in favor of it, but the Swiss weren't interested.

I agree that probably George Washington is the main reason for the powerful "imperial" American presidency. The Founding Fathers were naturally inclined to be skeptical of concentration of power. On the face of it, they wanted no king, not a local king. But then George Washington established...