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No need to worry! It definitely will. Always a pleasure. Cheers! Glad to have another reader on board. Yes, this does seem to be a recurring problem. I appreciate that you looked though, and I am thankful for any help that anyone can offer. I'll see if I can find it somewhere. I have really...

This. The Japanese army occupation of eastern Siberian bore all the traits of a proto-colonisation, and for all intents and purposes, they seemed to have been at least partially serious about it. They set up their own administration, issued their own currency, et cetera. They left largely...

I think it would be hard to get France to settle Lebanon instead of Algeria. It would not be awfully difficult to get France to settle Lebanon as well as Algeria. From 1918 onwards, as the person above me points out, it would be extremely difficult to get 400k French people in Lebanon. It...

A successful Boxer Rebellion would probably end in turmoil, as the Qing Empire is forced to reorganise the economy and political sphere completely, which by now has become dependent on Western involvement. Also, many of the Boxer's aims were not just to exterminate Westerners, but to do away...

Recap: Ten Posts So Far She Represents (Carnival Scene) by Jeanne Mammen, 1928. Jeanne Mammen was a prolific artist who affiliated with George Grosz and Otto Dix, whose art we have seen earlier. However, while Grosz and Dix, who were traumatised veterans of the First World War, expressed...

If this happened, I doubt the French would even be particularly scandalised. It’d probably just be business as usual.

I don’t have any constructive to add to this discussion, but I just wanted to jump in and say that the imagery evoked in this paragraph made me LOL.

"Over millennia, society has tamed our impetuous urges and desires; the savage, brutal, shrill tone of our instincts has been polished, smoothed and dampened. Growing refinement has enlightened and ennobled man; yet the beast still sleeps in the depths of his existence. There is still much of...

Thank you. I'll see if I can't find these somewhere. Appreciate the help, and hopefully I can work in the Finnish in an interesting way! And as you've correctly guessed, I am not fluent in Finnish. Cheers! Glad to have you on board.

I think Ehrhardt, Ludendorff, or von Schleicher would be best suited for a Boulanger-esque situation.

In fact, I would argue that the Franco route is actually very likely, given the incredibly prickly situation of the Hohenzollerns. Many of these men were monarchists in name but not particularly devoted to Wilhelm II himself (unlike, say, von Mackensen and von Hindenburg). Furthermore, many...

Ah, well. Then you've got your work cut out for you fairly easily: Ehrhardt, von Lüttwitz, Ludendorff, even von Schleicher or Hugenberg could fulfil similar roles to Boulanger. There was a wellspring of pro-militarist, anti-republican agitation in Weimar Germany for you to draw on.

I think you could make a pretty strong argument that the ideological threads that informed Boulangerism deeply embedded themselves in the German government IOTL. Nationalist militarism, revanchism (even if it was revenge against largely imaginary injustices e.g. Wilhelm II's obsession with a...

Ah Christ. That's like the nineteenth time I've written "Balkans" instead of "Baltic". And to think I decided to write a timeline on the damn place... Yes, indeed. I was recently reading about Hans Kalm, who led a regiment of Finnish volunteer in Estonia. I want to do some more research on the...

Yes, the Finnish involvement will be very interesting. I'm thinking about von der Goltz using his Finnish connections somehow, as he served with them against the Russians in the closing days of the First World War. A more successful Freikorps mission in the Balkans could have extremely...

Aaaaaaahhhh!!!!! Thank you!! Always glad to have a new reader.

Easiest route to that is a more successful Union of Sovereign States, and the easiest route to that would be a slower and more deliberate devolution of the USSR. In my opinion this isn't that hard to achieve, but would be harder and harder to maintain as the decades go on. One of the problems is...

Hard to do than it first seems, I think. At least, as long as it is the USSR designing the borders. Eastern Poland had been in Soviet designs for a long time, so the westwards compensation comes quite naturally with that in mind. I think Prussia and Silesia and more-or-less forfeit, but...

Of course! I am always open to critique and discussion. And I'm really glad you're enjoying the TL so far. I will try to make a point of including major breaks from OTL. Of course, I'll only be able to do this in the beginning of the TL as there'll eventually be a point where this TL diverges...

That is a very reasonable critique and I appreciate it. I don't want to break the immersion. I have moved that section to a note that deals with Denikin. I do enjoy writing "directly to the reader" in that style sometimes, but I think I will leave that sort of thing to when I put out a recap...