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Why should they ask ? The korean war never ended, there was only a ceasefire. China is a UN member. China would simply decide to participate militarily on the side it belongs to anyway (UN) against the common enemy.

I know. How do you convince congress, bundestag, british parliament etc that western europe and russia must be defended against poland ? Or why else should russia join NATO, but not eastern europe ?

Huh ? If the west does not even lets eastern europe join NATO, why should we let russia join ?

Fifth, russia somehow convincing the eastern european NATO members that it really and truly accepts their independence and borders and is no longer a threat to them.

OTOH egypt and mesopotamia are extremely productive if well administered. There are reasons that civilization started there.

Two other points I read about: Historical sharia does not have corporations. The largest business unit is a partnership that automatically dissolves when a partner dies. This makes it much more difficult (almost impossible) to form longlasting and large enterprises. As islam didn´t have the...

And all those italian merchant ships confiscated by the allies would remain italian. http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=53366 According to JJ Sadkovich in his book "The Italian Navy in WW2", it was the French collapse in June that triggered Italy's entry before the Italian...

And probably more than historically, as there would be no Operation Compass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Compass Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during World War II. British and other Commonwealth forces...

Sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_R_4 The Allied invasion plan had two parts: Operation Wilfred, and Plan R 4. In operation Wilfred, set to take place on 5 April (but delayed to 8 April), the Norwegian territorial waters were to be mined, violating Norwegian neutrality. This...

Have the red army win the battle of warsaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920) The Battle of Warsaw refers to the decisive Polish victory in 1920 at the apogee of the Polish–Soviet War. Poland, on the verge of total defeat, repulsed and defeated the invading Red Army. It...

I have played with ideas for an european constitution with some sort of Presidial Council made up of all national heads of state as a collective (ceremonial) head of the EU. One could have a rule that the longest serving head of state chairs it.

Okay. But you also need to convince india, australia, canada, south africa, etc. to give the commonwealth precedence over the US and/or their neighbors. I don´t really see how the UK can be able to provide as much security and trade as the US. And as always, what about india ?

Agreed. I just want to add one thing: money. Part of the idea was that it wouldn´t cost much, and surely a grateful liberated iraq would reimburse the US for the costs of liberation. Add a couple of billions to the projected costs, and even more questions might have been asked.

In both cases it will remain a totalitarian dictatorship. The OP was about the USSR continuing to exist without remaining that.

Yes. With a POD in 1922 or so.

Or have the allies win much faster. If the attack on france fails, hitler falls to a coup as a result, and you have peace in late 1940, nobody will put much effort into developing jets for some time. And nobody will build jets with engines only good for 50 hours.

Less expensively is pretty much impossible, sea travel is much cheaper than land travel. Faster okay, but what freight needs "faster" besides passengers ? And how many passengers are there for this route besides troops and prisoners ? I doubt that reliability could be an issue, sea...

The annexiation 1908 hurt russian-austrian relations. That would be avoided. I believe it also cost quite a bit of money which could have been used elsewhere. IMO AH would have been better off with B-H staying ottoman not just on paper, but also in reality. It might have been demilitarized and...

Thank you.

Very interesting. Where did you find the population numbers ? I googled a bit and had no problem with numbers for 1914, but 1860/1870 seems to be more difficult, especially if I want not just countries, but provinces/regions.