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Giovanni Caboto instead of Cristoforo Colombo? Being a (non native) venetian colud potentially change a lot of things, including the sponsorship of the first voyage, as historically happened... If Caboto discovers the New World sponsored by Spain may be Colombo will catch the eye of Henry...

depends on how you define friendship...

Leaving aside the whole tread derailment, I belive the 3rd reich totally misundrstund the dynamics of terrorism and laked the infrastructure and ideology to apply it to a war (too specialized in terrorize to submission his own people?). Bombing London with V2s wasn't particullary scary for an...

Well it remains the issue of a mechanical failure, WI one of the bormber is forced to land?

Yup, the general idea was to help Italy to industrialize at a rate sufficient to be in par with France by 1939, 12 years, beginning when it was in a good enough international position to fully benefit from a commercial revolution. The containerization of goods and the need of retrofitting...

Well this system may make italian performance in par with the best commercial powers of the time, wile a less corrupt and inefficent nation will surpass all of them starting a race to copy it, this situation will actually benefit Italy, giving some years of adavantage before this happens...

On the other hand OTL containers descended directly from american military logistics, ITTL Italy or France could have evolved it to respond some outremer enterprise, allowing a new class of retrofitted ships to carry and unload (by onboard cranes) modules on any port and a simpler retrofit on...

I'm beginning to see some potential in the idea of a technocratic change in '30 France, antagonizing the other colonial powers with it's newfond economic explosion... As You noted in the case of the italian inventor fighting in countless copyright infringement cases (as every other company in...

Ho, well, what about France? Peraps the idea is still italian (so I can keep the name... Modulò/Modulì ) but a nation like France will surely benefit from this idea alot! Your idea about increasing maritime competition is really intresting, you think alliances in WW2 has any possibility of...

Tnx Geekhis, that makes alot of sense :) I was intrested also in political butterflies, with this technology will it make sense for Italy to assume the role of universal middleman (NBHL gets credit to inspiring this idea, an informal italian exclave in ports around the world that makes profit...

Indeed, but this will give Italy the advantge it needs to became decent power in 1939? What about the impact on geopolitics if Italy became a mayor commercial power? Surely it will spring an industrial revolution of sort, but it will be enough to better itlian performnce? What will be the impact...

Italian futurism had this bizarre idea called modulism, wha if this artistic trend get a sudden application in commerce from 1929 on, in the form of a shipping cargo box (6x2.5 metres) that allows multimodal logistics?

Expect also a lot less support from allies, since nukes ARE scary, most Europe will shy away from a confrntation with people that could do it again in, say, Madrid in 2002, pretending higher moral ground in face of the devasting counterstrike that the U.S. will surely deliver...

well no on noticed, but there is no Swizerland on the map... To make all the map unctioning we need a PoD near Carle Magne...

I repectfully point out that second plane will miss his target since a nuclear blast om the first tower will probably knok the second... and viceversa

OOC: i was only non contradictory of something Nickcvader aready posted before (the the National Socialist Reich of New York thinghy and the Statue of Rommel in Delhi ) if you (rigtly) think the idea is ASB trie to tone it down in character, like i'm going to do! IC: Yup president Lieberman is...

Yup, german space program, per se, sucks bad. Main reason? They outsourced all big projects to... Italy! How do anyone really think the "Giulio Cesare" moon base has any italian tecnology? And just remember that the main italian-german and the smaller "german only" space programs both are...

Any surviving italian nation that attain power status without that leading to an italian unification! Most intresting scenarios a peripheric italian state, with vaste colonial holing outside Europe, opposing a united Italy. Most likely are Genova, Venice, Sicily, Sardinia

nothing really changes, no one will ever know, it is POSSIBLE we will refer to the Cristh with another name...