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I sense a quick moral pick-me-up coming in this TL for that early-to-mid-90s crowd that thought America needed to become the world's policeman.

Yeah, I don't see them lasting too long either.

Yes, I know, this is like the third thread on Latin American PoDs I've put up recently, but hear me out... So from what I've been reading about the Shining Path , they were really close to bringing down the government of Peru by the early 90s. But then, in a surprise raid in 1992, the...

Hm, you're right. Now that's interesting. Another idea: would it be possible for the Morocco Crisis could be resolved by giving control to, say, Argentina, as a neutral third party? I doubt anyone would really like that, but perhaps Great Britain could push them forward as a compromise...

Just an idea I had. not sure whether the PoDs necessary would fall into pre-1900 or not, so I just put it here for simplicity's sake: We've discussed before how close places like Argentina, Chile, and Brazil were at the turn of the 20th century from becoming proper First World countries. Is...

...The planet Tusken?...:confused:

Hell, "race" isn't too scientific either.

There's also no #4... ;)

"If anyone should ever tell you that I write for the sake of my country's soul, please disabuse them of that notion and tell them that I write for money." --Abraham Lincoln, novelist

I was about to make the same joke, only saying to put this in "Future History"...;)

I like the modern day, poor-as-shit, riots-in-the-streets Greece the best. We could all use a good riot every once in a while.

Well shit, looks like I have a map to work on...

It does sound eerily like a Michelle Bachmann talking point, now that you mention it...

A balkanized, fervently atheistic Middle East sounds pretty cool to me, at least conceptually. That said, I have absolutely no idea how it would actually come about...

What would happen if, for whatever reason, the US didn't notice the nuclear missile stations the Soviets were setting up in Cuba until they were already complete? Would this lead to a replay of OTL's Cuban Missile Crisis? Would they have been seen as a fiat accompli and become simply an angry...

That's always confused me: why does Michigan, of all places, have such a comparatively high Muslim population? What is the appeal of Michigan? :confused:

It's weird, I just saw a map in the Map Thread featuring--you guessed it--an Objectivist Katanga. It seems Linkwerk has created an alternate history cliche...;)

Why does either Russia or Vietnam control the Philippines?

I suppose you could butterfly away the cotton gin, but with a PoD that far back, who knows what could happen.

The more interesting question, IMO, would be, how would you get the South to gradually give up slavery without a war?