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So French victory or stalemate at Pavia could have major repercussions in the capability of the Hapsburg to keep fighting? I'd imagine at least it'd get way harder to maintain control in the Netherlands and far off regions. Given 1525 is right in the American conquest, could we see butterflies...

I'd wager a very strong gallic empire. It was very rich, and even after the disintegration of the WRE, it held for a while under a Roman rule, and that's during the invasions. Here, you have no invasion, just civil war. So I'd think you'd get a very strong kingdom, very hard to reconquérir after...

Looking at the battle, it could fairly easily go either way. If the King's forces on the west of the park (doing this from memory so please correct if needed) had been roused earlier and had managed to close the gap in the middle, it wouldn't have been a defeat. Although, to be honest, they...

Actually, you don't need a Burmese colony for that. Since Yunnan is kinda the prolongation of Tonkin, there were very strong links during colonisation. There was even a railway built from Yunnan to Hanoï! So, you could very well imagine that IF during some kind of civil war, Yunnan breaks up...

Thinking about it more, I do Wonder further about even my initial statement. It seems to me there are two different ideas between the Canaries and the gold. So the Canaries are pretty standard exploration, then they figure they can get sugar there, great deal. As I remember however, the Guinean...

Not sure the Canaries are really the first step toward their full on colonisation. It did give them sugar, but those islands are not what drove colonisation, it was gold and slaves. There's also the fact I've seen the Aviz dynasty was fairly recent and I've seen it described as a "bourgeois...

Wasn't Argentina one of the richest per capita country in early XXth century?

I guess, if Germany/Prussia and France are actually allied on the continent and promise to split Belgium between them (maybe a bit given to the Netherlands to mollify them), what can Great-Britain do? In WWI, there was a Great Power to go and support and strong chances of winning. In such a...

OK, that does make a lot of sense, and that's a feature indeed absent, as far as I'm aware, from most colonial policies. Of course, you have things like the Molucus but it's very much exceptional Now, I do think the intentionality of Natives genocide is still to be discussed, but this is not my...

Which is why I was wondering about Western Europe specifically. In your own timeline, you have local French troups serving in the German army, but no liquidation of the French population. On the other hand, there are quite a few examples of genocide in colonisation (Native American and...

Yeah, but how would post war Nazi rule be any different than a protectorate?

Both those points don't chime well with Tunisia or Indochina. There was a very strong national identity in Vietnam and it was still colonized. And there was a lot of "distant" administration, what you describe seems a lot like your standard issue protectorate I see your point but most...

OK, so this really bothers me. I look at the Nazi occupation of Western Countries, I look at what happened in Algeria, Indochina... and I don't see any real difference. My gut feeling is that, of course it's different, but it feels like my personal bias talking. Any help?

You should try Why the West Rules by Ian Morris, it's an amazing read that would answer your questions Now, why wasn't there any expéditions against Europe that didn't come from the Mediterannean? Well, it's simply a long way off. Most African empires were landlocked, or at least land focused...

Honestly, I've lived in Mile End in London, and you don't want to be there alone at night. Same for suburbs like Angel. I haven't lived outside of London so couldn't tell you but go to any British projects and council estates and you'll see pretty much the same thing. I've thought about it a lot...

There's quite a bit of stuff in French if you'd like. I did a few podcast episodes on the subject. The PoD is easy enough really, if the Nguyen get taken out early enough, you get no real opposition. Mac Dang Dung basically did depose the Lé after all, they just got restored afterwards

First off, thanks all for the detailed answers, quite interesting. So, while the problems with French command are well known, it seems a big issue before and during the war was the Belgian. They caused issue with finishing the fortress networks and half assed it. Then they retreated without...

That's not that silly an idea if you consider France almost kept fighting from the Empire, as in France Fights On. In that case, you want to keep as many pilots as possible for the long game

So even if there'd been a large contingent of tanks available nearby, the doctrine of lack of training would have been an issue? I was looking quickly at the Battle of Stone where it seems 1B were vastly superior to Panzers in combat situation and could block the advance. It might have been...

Hello y'all, So, if I gather correctly, the French tanks were Superior technically to the German ones, and were too armoured for the canons of the enemy. The issue was more around doctrine. The other issue in May 1940 is the lack of reactivity after the attack in the Ardennes was spotted by...