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The problem with Mexico is that it's full of Mexicans.

No Gorbachev, no perestroika. Basically keep the Cold War going (though would be hard due to how bad the USSR was doing in the 80s, probably need a earlier PoD).

Very few people among the Bolshevik elites actually liked Trotsky very much. They disliked him so much they sided with Stalin over him (whom they didn't like very much but still more than Trotsky). Which is why even if Stalin wasn't around Trotsky would probably not have become the Soviet leader.

He would end NEP much earlier, as he was one of the loudest opponents of it. There is also the fact that the doctrine of Permanent Revolution sounds much scarier than Socialism in Once Country. Stalin used the pretense that the USSR did not seek to expand the revolution (which of course was...

His ideas might be more in line with his original ideology, i.e. still believing that a strong authoritarian government is needed for the national revolution, but seeing the national revolution as part of the social revolution, considering his ideas to be part of the Left, and the Socialists to...

If the Don and Kuban cossacks rise against the Reds as OTL, they'd probably hold them until the reds smash them (if they do). In a white victory scenario the Cossack states would probably become autonomous parts of Russia. But a White victory is somewhat implausible.

The reason was more that they guessed correctly that they wouldn't be able to force Britain to give anything up as long as they couldn't actually seriously threaten either the Home Islands, or the more valuable colonies of the British Empire.

After Austria recently having been in a war with Russia and Serbia I doubt it. If it happen it'd be a specifically Croatian Crown. Both Berlin and Vienna will want to keep the Polish state weak, so no they won't hand over Galicia- Lodomeria. Vienna handing over stuff to Italy just to keep...

A-H would be there held together by the tendency of Germany to interven every time things flare up. It would be hardly functioning, but Germany would actually prefer that.

Not necessarily, but could happen. Also remember the best way to avoid US involvement is no German renewal of submarine warfare, and thus way less food shortage on the Entente side (and while there was food shortage on the Entente side, Germany actually had it worse). My view on the Entente...

Convincing the Italians to join a war where their role would be to basically contain Austria by themselves would be hard. They hate Austria, and the Italian military leadership was a bunch of morons, but even they'd see that this is an incredibly dumb idea. Actually Austria might not do much...

The day they realized they couldn't invade Britain. Not invading Britain means Britain and it's empire will continuosly undermine them, fight them and back all other countries fighting them. It means a two front war with the USSR, and it means eventual US intervention.

Wasn't there suggestions by some scholars that the Duke Yansheng should get the Imperial throne after the Qing were deposed?

You probably need Armenia not to have Russian support.

Maybe if Gottschalk's Obotrite kingdom had survived and eventually engulfed the Sorbs too.... though that would be a Obotrite wank not a Sorb wank so nevermind.

People tend to forget that the African kingdoms the Europeans replaced also were multiethnic.

Trotsky lacked friends or allies in the party apparatus. One reason Stalin took over was that everyone started to maneuver AGAINST Trotsky.

Well as you said it spread to America with German immigrants, so if it doesn't come early as a German import, it'd come later as an American import. In Scandinavia it spread to noble families quickly due to German cultural influences, and probably was around already in the late 1700s. In the...

At that point in time OTL the elite was Swedish speaking and identified as Swedes, while most others more identified more locally with their region, town etc. (national identity was still in the cradle year 1800, and mainly existed among the elites of Europe). Finnish identity was at this point...

The next thing they do is genocide 90% of their population, since radical population reduction is core of ecofascism.