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Btw - a different perspective: http://www.redcoat.me.uk/

I always find it amusing that Americans calling the southern states traitors for seceeding from the US, when ALL 13 states did exactly the same less than a century earlier. Hard to say without being called a slavery-sympathizer, though, but I'm counting on the level of intellect and capability...

Knowing Stalin, he never intended for "peaceful reunification", or for allowing German "neutrality". He'd be too worried about being double-crossed as he'd been by Hitler. This "offer" was basically Stalin saying: "Please leave yourself defenseless, should my whims dictate making Germany an...

Another factor: How would the Great Powers react to a pan-German union? IMHO, Britain and France (and Russia too, for that matter) would see this as a huge shift in the balance of power....and they wouldn't have let it fly.

I doubt the USSR would allow a unified nationalist China. It'd be considered very much a threat. I think the balkanization-theory is more plausible, and more likely to meet with Soviet approval. It might not be communist China, but it's the second-best thing: A fractured, divided China

Hmm....Amsterdam springs to mind as a potential candidate now that those other two are excluded, but 1900 seems WAAY too late a POD for that to happen....

Well....you'd still need to have a RADICALLY different US to have this kind of Empire that the OP's suggesting...

How much is ASB? All of it. Because the entire premise of this, is that the US is the same kind of state that USSR was (except for the "communist" part). However much some people might talk about "the American Empire", it's BS. For this to happen, you'd need a POD that turns American ideals away...

Britain is straight-forward. Russia likewise - because of its involvement in Chechnya. China - because of the oppression of the uighurs (typo?). France, though, is tricky...

I just did... Btw, I also inform you that 2+2=4, and that London is the capital of the UK. Why does my OP leave me out of position to inform you thusly?

Yes, and Denmark's military power at the time was equal to France's, right? :rolleyes: Because of the drastic cutbacks on defense in the decades up to WW2, Denmark's military was in NO shape to fight anything or anyone. The German paratroopers that were dropped on the Madsnedø Fort to take...

The French would surrender to al-Qaida ;)

Alright, so the history of the Ukraine is not my specialty (I thought the area to have been under Russian control). No reason to be a condescending bastard.

That, or a Poland-Lithuania-wank that conquers the Ukraine and "catholicizes" it.

Islamic armies invading Egypt in the first half of the 7th century, doing a "Taliban and the Buddha-statues"...well...actually ITTL, it'd be the Taliban doing a "Jihadists and the Pyramids", but that's a different story.

A written language is but an expression of the spoken one, and would therefore always come later. Indeed, written Hebrew has no vowels. However, SPOKEN Hebrew does.

There's no way this is happening after WW2. The USSR was determined to not allow something like Barbarossa to happen again, and the best way to safeguard against THAT, is a series of MILITARIZED buffer-states. In order to get to the Rodina, an invading army would have to go through all of...

It's already here - it's called Jutish ! Sorry - couldn't help myself :P To answer seriously: I doubt it very much. But of course: Never say never.

I'm perfectly aware of the lack of predestination in matters of procreation :mad: Don't treat me as if I'm stupid, please! Am I really the only one having trouble with the claim that this POD in effect means that everything ELSE (even matters completely unrelated to it) changes as well? Why...

Staying with that theory of Jesus' origin (for the sake of argument): How does a change in Athenean philosophy change which of Joseph's sperm cells meet which of Mary's eggcells? Or, another example (though one totally beside the point of this TL): Let's say Miguel de la Madrid does not win...