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The British would have to fill the land west of the Appalachians fast or individual Americans would simply move in and take it. Even if the British did something as crazy as resettling the whole population of Quebec along the US Western frontier they wouldn't be numerous enough to block nature...

For whatever reason the Norse didn't introduce smallpox or other Old World diseases to the Americans. If they had the Native Americans would have had 500 years to build up population immunity and re-populate the continent before the real European invasion began. Is this enough time? Either the...

To remain the majority in North America the native americans would have to adopt European technology wholesale, including intensive agriculture. They'd have to do this EARLY and RAPIDLY in order to have the numbers to fend off European colonization, which would be very difficult since the first...

March across the Appalachians, float down the Mississippi, and take it from whatever massively outnumbered force is holding it. This sort of bold action also fits with the Virginian character/temperament. I'm not sure however how defensible New Orleans is against a superior naval power. The...

The British would be most capable of taking New Orleans, but the Virginians need it the most (as in DESPERATELY). With the British in control of New Orleans they have all Virginian commerce west of the Appalachians by the throat: the Ohio is only important insofar as it flows into the...

An alliance between the British and Virginians (which would make sense), hemming in New York and Pennsylvania, would surely force the latter two into a counter-alliance. Very interesting possibilities there...

Agreed re: canals. With (as a minimum) a lot more military competition on the Great Lakes, and possibly more commerce as well, the Erie and Welland canals get moved up considerably. This also gives a considerable advantage to New York and British North America, each having an all-sovreign...

In this scenario I agree "Canada" as a federation extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific wouldn't exist since there's no overwhelming American threat (in OTL Canadian federation came about as a response to the post-Civil War US Army). I don't think, however, there would be any successful...

In a dis-United states scenario it seems very likely to me that the British will grab a share of the Old NorthWest, treaty or no. A war against one or more of the American nations in the Great Lakes area in the first few decades after the revolution, particularly if Britain isn't also...

If Alberta felt so maligned (e.g. w/ an NEP-on-steroids) and tried to secede, it'd have a hard time holding onto Northern Alberta let alone taking constitutional-property-of-the-Federal-Government Yukon with it (same problem Quebec would run into holding onto its north in an independence...

I think it's just possible a constitutional clusterf**k in the 80s over resources and Quebec causes Alberta to ask the US for statehood. It wouldn't be difficult to then imagine the rest of Western Canada and perhaps all of Canada going along for lack of other options.

I posted just such a scenario yesterday. The hardest part I think is getting India to go along, although something like a high profile terrorist attack / assassination could be the catalyst. If the Pakistanis can be persuaded to throw in the towel early in order to save the Punjab and Sind I...

It gets the Soviet Union control over the Middle East's oil (and therefore control over the capitalist economies) without (hopefully) sparking WW3. The alternative, as we know, is rapid economic and political decline ending in the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the decade...

This would require a POD well before 1900, either to have Britain+Canada invade the US when it wasn't so formidable (pre-Civil War) or to have a much more powerful Canada and much weaker US in the 20th/21st century (e.g. have the war of 1812 go badly for the US, so that Western border runs...

If "Israel" is instead created in Central Europe out of some portion of Germany then it seems to happen automatically. That is if it doesn't join the WP...

I agree it's possible the Iranians could 'wake up' to their dire situation, but in OTL they did what they did (the hostages, anti-American theatrics, etc) against the backdrop of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Saddam's moves against them. The Iranian masses were aggrieved at the...

Remember the hostage crisis went on for 444 days. That's a lot of time for the Soviets to complete both steps. And while it would be strictly rational for the US to come to Irans' defence no matter what, the US is a democracy (approaching a presidential election) and revolutionary Iran has done...

Here’s the scenario: Step 1. The Afghan communist government (backed militarily by the Soviets) and India hatch a plan to invade and partition Pakistan. After a quick campaign Pakistan bows to reality and cedes all of Kashmir to India, Pashtu speaking areas to Afghanistan, and grants...