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So with the unfortunate recent developments in Greece, I’ve seen different people try to draw parallels between current situation in Greece and Weimar Republic in 1930s with Golden Dawn = Nazi Party. Whether the parallel can work or not, one thing is almost certain: if Greece is ever overtaken...

Yesterday morning marked a historic occasion as Fatimah bint-Obaidullah al-Rashid al-Filasteenee was selected to become the new Caliph. This makes her the first female Caliph to rule the Ummah in her own right since the days of Sitt al-Mulk in the early 11th century. During her first press...

According to Wikipedia, the 2 most popular alternative history subgenres can be summed up as “Axis Victory” and “CSA & the U.S. Civil War”. The latter can be easily seen on this website – I bet if we were to categorize the threads on the Before 1900 subform by topic, the overwhelming majority...

As the title says. Have the armed forces of Canada make use of Russian or Soviet military equipment. Which equipment specifically enters service with the Cunaks is up to you -- it can be T-90 tanks or Antonov transport planes or the new PAK FA or whatever else you can think of. There are only 2...

OTL, 19 hijackers were responsible for stealing the airliners and flying them in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. Fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two were from United Arab Emirates, one was Egyptian and one was Lebanese. 1) What would be the...

Since joining this board, I have seen various theories brought up to explain China’s isolation and inward-looking attitude that it had many times in its history. One of the most common explanations I’ve seen is “China was inward-looking because it had everything it needed in its territory”. Most...

With a POD anytime after 1900, turn Mexico into a stable, prosperous, developed industrial nation with one of the highest standard of living in the world and whose close political, economic & industrial ties to USA make it viewed as “USA’s hat” (USA’s beard? :p). Meanwhile Canada is to become a...

So after over a decade of War on Terror, the occupation of Canada is finally coming to an end and U.S. troops are leaving the “Great White North” and returning home. Do you guys think it’s the right move? I know the American public is sick of the war and U.S. troops coming back in body bags, but...

I think everyone would agree that Pan-Arabism ideology played a key part in Middle East in 20th century and that several important Arab leaders were influenced by it, dreaming of uniting the Arab World. I may be ignorant on this part, but it seems in contrast that Pan-Africanism was less...

Before the Libyan civil war I recall there being a lot of speculation about the nature and effectiveness of Gaddafi’s all-female personal bodyguards. After the civil war reports emerged that they weren’t all that motivated (something I don’t entirely believe seeing that one of them did take an...

Correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I understand Mig 1.44 was intended to be U.S.S.R.'s answer to America's F-22 (unlike the Su-47, which was slated as a technological demonstrator). However, with the dissolution of Soviet Union and the issues of 1990s, the project the MiG-1.44 was developed...

I am thinking of doing a short TL. It is not supposed to be too in depth but I am having some trouble with initial PODs. Namely: 1) How can you get a scenario where U.K. accepts peace with Nazi Germany after France falls? 2) Assuming Stalin dies during German attack on Moscow, what person...

An idea I had for a TL that I would probably never wright involves a nuclear war between United States of America and the People’s Republic of China around 1998. Without revealing too much, the war is supposed to be sudden with little or no warning and internationally it would be “unclear”...

There is little doubt that currently Germany is the most influential nation in the European Union. The challenge here is with a post-WW2 POD to have Italy and not Germany become the “power house” of European Union by 2012.

Have Chuck Norris play Bruce Willis's role in the recent Looper movie. How can it happen? How does that impact the movie? Would movie be more or less successful? Would Joseph Gordon-Levitt still play young Joe?

Throughout the 19th century Ottoman Empire lost almost all of its territory in Europe. However, it hung onto Arab lands in Middle East until the final dissolution of the empire. Your challenge is to reverse this: with as late a POD as possible (preferably one after January 1, 1800) have the...

So I heard there are a number of pre-1900 TLs on this site dealing with turning Mexico (or its analog) into a USA-like superpower or a USA rival. However, I don’t think I’ve seen a TL where Mexico is just a Great Power. So with a post-1900 POD (preferably a post-1945 one) turn Mexico into a...

From what I read about culture of Tuareg people of North Africa, unlike what may be stereotypically expected from a "North African/Middle Eastern" culture, it is Tuareg men rather than Tuareg women who are expected to veil their face in presence of strangers. So the challenge is to...

I was reading a story the other day where the author apparently had Gorbachov’s New Union Treaty succeed, resulting in U.S.S.R. becoming looser and allowing more autonomy for its member republics (as the author put it, the republics could have any system of internal government they want). The...

At the moment, Europe is looking to Germany, which is nothing but a problem zone. The future may well see Germany leaving the Euro, or even the European Union. And more and more people may notice that Germany's culture actually is too different from the other EU countries (except for Austria...