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Indeed. Unfortunately, much of the Southern ruling class always seems to have wanted the South that way.:(

I think that the US had sufficient thermobaric weapons by 1968 to accomplish anything in Vietnam Nixon might be thinking of accomplishing with nuclear weapons. Including destroying Hanoi, Haiphong and Vinh and Nam Dinh with firestorms.

Which is why OTL the Brits needed American guns so badly that Americans were being asked to donate or sell their personal rifles to be sent to the UK IOTL. Will the Brits and French be able to get significant amounts of used weapons from the US ITTL?

Or rediscover loyalty to the English Crown.

I(f California is reasonably stable, Hollywood will still be making movies. There will be a lot less profit in distributing films domestically, though. Or Hollywood could move to Vancouver.

Or several different federal governments. Confederation with Canada is going to look very attractive to some US states, and if the Canadians and British Crown are wise, they may take those states that want into the Confederation that aren't dyed in the wool socialists or communists. Why would...

Is the United States likely to be restored as one country after all of this? The South has enough of a different culture even now that secession is being talked about. In the 1930s, there are still Southerners alive who fought for the Confederacy (though not very many). The Confederacy could...

Unless Alaska is linked to the rest of North America by road and hopefully by rail (or if Alaska is occupied already by Canada), I could see Alaska being far more valuable for Japan, both in terms of resources and in terms of strategic position.. But mostly for the coal, iron AND OIL resources...

Might Cheney have doubled down on his wars with an invasion (not just bombing raids) of Iran? Remember the neo-con;'s saying "Real men go to Teheran!"? I suspect Cheney might. Syria too. And the Iran invasion would mostly come out of Afghanistan, across Iran's deserts where the terrain favours...

So what about the Siberian rivers? Why didn't the Vikings catch onto them? There are several places north of Volga Bulgaria that they could have portaged from either the Pecora or the North Dvina to the Pecora. For that matter, so could traders with Gaul and Rome even earlier. Can you find...

France can replace its colonies and then some by taking initially the Mahgreb and then Egypt and the Levant. And with Gibraltar in France's hands, the door to the Mediterranean is effectively barred to the British. Great Britain may want to aid the Ottoman Empire, but if and when the French take...

Britain may TAKE Manila, but given it's performance in Manila when Britain briefly got Manila, Britain will have to give Manila back to Spain. The Filipinos won't tolerate the British. If the British are lucky, they may be able to hang onto thinly populated Palawan and move early into North...

Well France DID have Georges Sorel, and Michels who acted as theoreticians, teaching extremists how to create myths, social trances and synarchy that would attract a mass following as well as how a foco of the most committed could control a political party. And naturally, the most committed ARE...

Lee sweeps around and takes Baltimore instead of having his plans discovered and being intercepted at Antietam. Congress panics and evacuates via Annapolis to Deleware and then New Jersey and orders negotiations, refusing to vote any more funds for hostilities once it reconvenes, probably in New...

Don;'t forget ground sloths, wooly rhinoceroses and short faced bears. And mega sized elk. And moose. Moose may not be megafauna, (though they get pretty big) but they, along with caribou CAN be domesticated. Both can even be ridden by fully grown people. And don't forget the copper deposits in...

Why no Medieval or Antiquity trade route via Siberian Rivers? The only thing left is the Roman merchants continuing their trade route from China through the Pacific Ocean to America - that would make it the biggest ASB of the year. Yep, that covers 90% of the reasons of the Roman conquests...

The Kalmyks are the remnants of the Dzungars that escaped the Qing genocide IOTL. Of course they are Russian allies IOTL. The Russians, after all, gave them sanctuary and asylum. If the Kazakhs can't stop the Dzungars, the Bashkirs (who will be next in line ) are not numerous enough to do more...

Then that one government will be close to the ocean where the Marines and Navy can help keep it in power. It sounds like a recipe for an American version of Chiang Kai Shek.

Other places would be northern Sulawewsi. Highlands close to the coast like the Philippines. Low population except around Makassar. Other places would be the Moluccas and the Lesser Sunda Islands east of Bali. The Ryukyus are a good possibility too. And New Guinea could actually have a...

As far as I know, Taiwan was definitely Min, settled directly across the Formosa Strait by Min (Fujianese). I'm not surprised that it was the Min who regularly went overseas. There is a lot less arable land in Fujian than in Kuangdong and nothing like the Pearl River Delta. Limited arable land...