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*cough* FORCES. Not 'Oh Turkey would you like to join in'.

It depends what on earth Hitler was doing in the previous year. If he takes the ME/Eygpt/forces Turkey to join the axis he could be in a stronger position. If he loses them the Russians could batter the half-expected invasion so by next year their is no chance of any German offensives.

S.Africa did have the bomb. Apparently they had 6 of them, (co-testing with israel). Post-apartheid they were just a liability and decommisioned.

Laurence of Arabia? A small group of armed rebels effectively working over the entire ME, in the face of a indifferent population.

Small problem; the Communist Manifesto demanded violent revolution; and the seizure of transport, communication, banks from the capitalist class; communal land ownership and the abolishment of private property. Is there any country on earth who A) Could do all of that without risking a...

They could always claim it'll be easier to achieve Nirvana by being born as a Buddhist. Really I'm helping you escape your heathen bonds; and you can try again harder next time round. IIRC was the philosophy of those nutters who let out Sarin gas on the tokyo subway.

I never said they would use the gas to exterminate the slavs; they'd use chemical weapons to eliminate resistance movements. If you have some enemy combatants in area x; a Sarin attack could indiscriminatly remove most of the people in the area. You don't need the palava of actually finding them...

The Nazis could be very pragmatic and simply exterminate all slavs in coastal regions. Anyway; would the Nazis naturally have some kind of media blackout of the entire region?

But as soon as Hitler croaks; they're free to use chemical weapons aren't they? I can imagine resistance pockets simply being marked for 'decontamination'.

But the UN is discredited far earlier

China, India, Israel, S.Africa and France still have nukes. Eventually N.Korea nukes S.Korea, (all those laid off Russian nuclear scientists). US influence is diminished; although more positively viewed. USA switches too some other equally lethal form of obliteration eventually. Russia and...

Maybe command economies would be seperated from communist ideals. Not quite as attractive; but 10 times a lethal once in power because you're not even pretending to have an egalitarian paradise.

1918- Assasination attempt on Lenin suceeds. Trotsky et al begin to fight amongst each other for dominance 1919-Whites are in better position than OTL. Trotsky tries too take over Lenins position by citing the emergency and is shot by the party. Trotskys reforms of the Red Army weren't finished...

I dunno how reliable this is but apparently S.Africas nukes were considered for use in the final stage of a 'race war'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty#South_Africa

Maybe a civil war+small pox would be a good thing (for N.Americans in the long run). The gold is scattered all over the region so the Spanish find it easier to trade arms + horses for sums of gold and christian conversion of a few warring tribes. There is no big jewel to be had and they are...

May I be the first to say RETURN OF THE ZEPPELINS

Could the Japanese use chemical weapons too any affect in Pearl Harbour? The first wave seperating into attacking barracks and the rest airstrips.

If only there had been a presidential election were a National Guard serving 'War' President soundly beat a decorated Vietnam vet. To make voting compulsory is going to increase the problem of pandering to swing voters. The politicians new 50% market is going to be the 'I dont care about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdbZWNqF00

Reading a fictionalised account of the fall of the republic; that he had Antony put the crown on Caesar during one of his triumphs; but the crowd reacted badly so Caesar played it as a joke. In the writers notes he positited it as based on a truthful event. WI the Senate does give him the...