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Wow, that ATL mentioned at the top is some serious imperialist apologia. In what world are the Opium Wars portrayed as anything but naked British greed? What about something like OTL but on steroids though? Instead of just Treaty Ports, entire coastal regions of the Empire of China effectively...

Would Trump run on a Paleoconservative platform in the 80s and 90s though? I know he was always protectionist, but I thought he was more amenable to populist platform back then, if only because he was not tied to the GOP.

Curious, has there been any butterflies involving Bismark as of yet or is his MASTER PLAN of German Unification going on schedule? I'm a bit curious about what the Ethiopia view on Race, alluded to in the previous chapter, is specifically; is it that they are ethnically Semitic and therefore...

This is just the Northern and Western Democrats; Southern Democrats would form their own party (Which, confusingly, are the Whigs in Turtledove's TL).

Been sort of reflecting a bit on the AH works I've read, and probably the biggest work I've completed was Turtledove's Southern Victory series. A lot of said about how hamfisted the historical parallelism is in that series, but one thing that's been my mind the past couple months is how likely...

That's basically Ace Combat 04: http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Stonehenge_(Strangereal)

But I mean, doesn't he run the risk of burning Centrist NE Republicans (Dunno what West Coast Republicans were like at that the time) if he doubles down on a Cultural argument?

I don't think there was enough a schism between Northern and Southern Democrats at that point for it to be a successful tactic. I know there was "Massive Resistance" to Brown vs Board of Education by that point, but I don't think it had matured to the point in 1960 for it to drive White Southern...

I mean, wasn't Operation Neptune the biggest airborne operation ever at the time? You really couldn't go beyond what they actually did.

Yeah, I think looks good. I was thinking the Horn of Africa, after the Balkans, would probably one of the biggest counterinsurgency missions of the Italian empire; Fezzan security would probably be big issue as well.

@varyar WRT to Italian Deterrence, I'd think they'd be more in the mindset of flexible deterrence; I don't think they or the Nazis would throw all their eggs in the nuclear basket. They're also a society that still glorifies military service; I think they'd have, being a bit conservative, 300k...

Why is the Italian army so small? that's maybe 200-250k Active Duty soldiers. For some reason I sort of expected Italy to have at least as half as many soldiers as the Reich, given how fortified their border is; plus probably 100k or so more for counterinsurgency across Africa. WRT SE Asia; I...

Hmm, I shoulda looked into how the whole East Indies thing played out IRL a little more closely. (Related question then, what is the status of the various governments in exile in London? Does the British government still recognize them or did it become a sort of Taiwan-ish scenario with the...

...Just realized something. Shouldn't Germany have gotten the Dutch East Indies? I don't think Germany would've accepted a peace where Britain didn't recognize their control. Unless Batavia declares it's independence; is it a founding member of the Commonwealth?

I still think if you file off the explicitly fascist bits you could have a Corporate theory of state that could meet both Conservative and Socialist ends. I think without the guiding hand of the Soviets and their satellites you could see some Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists here and there...

@Lafayette_ It sort of sounds like Corporatism is still a viable alternative to Liberal Democracy (Sort of like how it is atm irl).

I'd probably have to read more about how Italians treated indigenous people more to make much of a statement on non-citizens, but I'd suspect Residents do not have the right of free movement within the empire; they must get permission from both their own provincial authority and the authority of...

@varyar Well was curious if I was on point about the Culture of Italy. I sort of have it in my head that there actually is a small clique of semi-open Liberal Monarchists, but their interests probably would be too academic for even the Student Activists of Benghazi. Is Turkey Fascist in this...

Been thinking about Italian Racial policy, @varyar . Dunno if this is the place to give ideas, but this is sort of an adaptation of an idea I had for an aborted Code Geass rebuild. Obviously when Mussolini and Hitler were BFFs in the 30s and 40s Mussolini shifts the policy towards being...

I still feel like being war time Fleet Admiral in the European War would result in classes being dedicated to him.