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Have the US fail to come out of stagflation, avoid the Sino-Soviet Split, and have America under different leadership than Reagan simply withdraw from the Cold War. Even if America still has a bigger economy and much higher living standards than the USSR, if America quits it still “loses”.

You mean beary expensive?

Let’s say that some eccentric rich guy in 1810 decides he wants to tame Bears. After hearing of Lewis and Clark report all kinds of big game animals out West, he pays to have over a hundred Grizzly Bears brought out by where ever he lives. He is convinced that he can successfully selectively...

IMO, the Western Allies and Soviets will almost always meet in the middle. Once Germany implodes on one front, the they will have to rush troops to it from the other front. Unless the Soviets are basically completely collapsed anyways. If the goal is to limit Communism while also limiting the...

I vote Austria-Hungary as they will likely have twice as many people as Britain or France by the present, don’t have a colonial empire tied around their neck, and have a higher probability of developing or maintaining a competing ideology.

And by secret police, I don’t mean they have to reach Stalin’s level. Just to the point political criminals are actually afraid of the Tsar due to widespread and harsh enforcement.

With continued British rule I’m guessing Britain would find it difficult to control a population and enforce edicts in say, the Midwest. It would also be harder to be a representative of the people if you are an ocean away. This could arguably lead to Britain being more hands off than the...

The biggest boost is probably the security of not having to worry at all about a British invasion. In the long term, the US has ten times Canada’s GDP. So unless it encourages improved systems of government, it is only a small boost.

Tsarist Russia had a secret police in the original timeline, but it only employed a small number of people and killed a relatively small number compared to standard 20th century dictators. Criminals were often deported to Siberia and treated it as a vacation. I’ve heard that while it was illegal...

IMO, if Austria avoids disaster (but fails to impress) Italy will stay out of the war in 1915. Bulgaria probably still joins after the OE, dooming Serbia. Russia suffers from more attrition in 1915 and 1916 without Italy, Austria never breaks during the Brusilov Offensives, and this means...

If the US had a president in the 1990s with foreign policy views somewhere between Ron Paul, Tulsi Gabbert, Dennis Kucinich, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Greenwald, and Rand Paul, how much of an impact would they be able to have in withdrawing the US from overseas if he aggressively pushes it? Would DoD...

The entire post was a joke listing things presidents have done or supported since 1996.

He starts a series of wars and sanctions in the the Middle East that kills millions, displaced tens of millions, backs some of the worst governments in the world, makes massive money off stocks he owns in the MIC, militarizes the police with military surplus gear from his wars, arrests millions...

After 19 years, is it time we leave China? The terrain and size of China has made it next to impossible to conquer. So have the sheer number of radicalized Buddhist and Folk religions, who are not ready to accept out gifts of secular Democracy. Zhou, Yuan, Wu Hu, Qing, Britain, Japan, and the...

Let us assume for this thread that Peyton Manning never suffered from his neck issues that required surgery in the 2011 offseason (after his 13th season) and Tom Brady in this timeline meanwhile suffers Manning’s injury and receives surgery for it after the 2013 offseason (after his 13th...

Perhaps this is trivial in terms of power added, but what do you guys think of a Brazil that has its act together during the Old Republic era and its aftermath buying European territories? The Guyana’s and South Atlantic Islands could be for sale if the European empires are broke and looking to...

The Soviet Union was a Super Power despite only having a fraction of America’s GDP, cultural clout, financial strength, living standards, generally weaker technology, and weaker allies. This is in large part because the Soviets stood for something. A Super Power Brazil will probably still have...

We have gone from a Confederation with National government share of the economy at around 1%, 6% of the population voting, allowing states their own policy on things like race/religion/immigration/speech, where homosexuality was illegal, a lot of people being fine with a King as long as he...

Let’s keep current politics out of this. With a PoD of 1900, how can we have Presidential debates where each of them is given something to the effect of a 15 minute introduction, 15 minute rebuttal, several ten minute rebuttals each, and then some questions from the audience? I have rewatched...

And two in a row killed by Johnson. (I’m kiddin)