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Wasn‘t Russian culture more popular until Communism? A lot of the music, novels, and plays are still used to this day. They have at least three very well known Kings (Nicholas II, Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible), which is better than just about any other country for Americans with our...

The name was bad and there was a shortage of advertising in the US. Fixing that will help, but if we aren’t allowed to change the hardware it will still end up being well beneath the PS4 and below the Xbox One. Though as a selfish Nintendo fan, I have always wondered what would happen if...

What kind of boo is a HRE kind of guy? Because those guys are my preferred German dudes.

Europe was already recovering before the Marshall Plan. Eastern Europe and Spain recovered from their wars without US aid. The countries that received the most aid actually had the lower growth (Britain, France) while the countries with proportionately less (West Germany, Italy) had higher...

The established Kingdoms, Empires, and trading posts of Africa trade with Europe. New technology and Christianity (and Islam) are gradually incorporated. The population booms with new technology and crops. The cities on the coast that do the best job implementing these upgrades conquer the...

Outside of my previous post (which I believe still stand), I have to ask two questions. 1: If Germany will have a different view on Britain if Britain does not have a military alliance aimed at Germany by 1914? Will Germany still be as keen on excluding Britain and reducing its influence? 2...

So, we need 1: Germany to win 2: The German Empire‘s domination to last 3: The German Empire to decide to Britain is a foe 4: Germany to decide locking Britain out of trade to be worth the cost of losing a major trade partner 5: The German Empire to not change its mind 6: The German...

They had close to a million dead, went broke, fought a worse war 25 years later, went even more broke, lost their empire, and became dependent on the US. Millions of your colonial subjects died in the second war. Both sides resort to attempts to strangle the civilian population in order to win...

Germany has had a very low fertility rate even by the standards of a developed country since after WWII, with a weak baby boom and lower fertility over the last few decades than the Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, Britain, and Ireland IIRC. Which does not seem inevitable to me. Combined with...

I never said you were a monarchist or that Russia was backwards. Outside of foreign policy I don’t think Nicholas was bad at his job. I was just making a joke about how one sided the article was.

This guy along with whoever writes the Mad Monarchist blog would make decent lawyers. They could start a PR firm together defending Monarchs. I would love to see them write articles about the how the King of Thailand and Prince Andrew are great hero’s who just need to take breaks with girls to...

Had a part of the old order of Europe, which died in the OTL, narrowly survived to WWII, what would their reaction and policy be if applicable? Certainly, butterflies would probably prevent these things from happening as they did. Some are impossible outright: asking how Imperial Germany would...

Tsarist Russia had around 170 million people, nearly 7 kids per woman, and a low life expectancy by its end. Increasing to 400 million by 1950 as fertility rates fall to around 4 kids per woman and life expectancy increases into the 50s and child mortality becomes rare, then having another 30...

Any government that has the loyalty of the army is capable of lasting. If Tsarist Russia has 400 million people in 1950, universal literacy under the age of 50, a GDP per head of around half of Britain, and the worlds largest or second largest economy, people will begin to change their...

This was a big decision for Britain: Is Russia or Germany a greater threat? They originally decided that Germany was more dangerous. Was it a good call, at least in comparison to backing Germany against Russia?

As hard as it is to believe, America had the highest GDP per head in the world in the early 1900s. It was economically dominated by major industrialists and financiers. However, little was done about these captains of industries growing power, resulting in several Presidents who were supposed to...

As a Christian sympathetic to Monarchism, I think things have to probably be significantly more decentralized for a traditional society to thrive without substantial central state enforcement of said traditionalism. This would probably in turn allow a large degree of things resembling modern...

Is the question basically asking “when he emerges from his bomb shelter a month later, which president has the charisma to avoid being lynched”?

You can’t win a nuclear war against a country capable of repeatedly nuking you. It’s not like the president is going to invent a device that can shoot down ICBM or open negotiation with thousands of missiles heading towards us. Things like conventional forces don’t matter once you have enough...

Let’s say Eisenhower, after Britain and France develop their own nuclear weapons, begins drawing the US down from Europe with a goal of leaving by the end of his second term. He argues that Europe has rebuilt itself to the point that by 1960 they should not need American support as they can nuke...