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If you create a POD for the late 19th century. People have already commented before, a heavier focus on submarines by Imperial Germany could turn the tide. But an invasion is unlikely, as if the conditions allow for an actual channel crossing, then the British would ask for peace.

Without the Civil War, you'll get increasing numbers of militant abolitionists in the South, that'll create unrest, worsening the economic position of the CSA. The South's economy's going to crash within a decade of seccession, depending on the timing, things may turn out for the worse. It'll...

Submarines could be attractive for smaller navies because it's a stealth weapon, so why build a battleship or CV if there's a fleet 5 times your size waiting to trash it than build something that's 50 times less tonnage and has a higher chance of surviving? That mindset could spurn submarine...

It juts out - it's like Germany getting all of Jutland - no pun intended. At least Florida looks nicer.

They want a full apology for the war crimes, not just a few statements that gloss over the entire events. The Japanese gloss over Unit 731 and testing biological weapons on civilians, the brutal rapes and executions and all that nasty business. It's really left a stain in history, because the...

Why does everyone want Baja California in the US? Frankly, it looks more terrible than the nice straightish border right now. I'll actually prefer the United States having only the West Coast of the Americas. Maybe the rebels flee west over the Rockies and Eastern America is the...

Moscow falling is actually a symbolic victory for the Soviet Union. They can burn the city down, and everyone remembers the last time someone took Moscow.

Those ones are the obvious ones, and they don't have a similar size to Ireland or the specified population. But you make a good point about Japan - and we know how a high population island with insufficient domestic resources turned out - only that Ireland is under the thumb of the British.

Japanese land forces were so woefully inferior because they've kept the inter-war army tactics and doctrine from Europe. They'll be curb stomped so hard it's not funny and lose Manchuria and even Korea within a year even if the bulk of the Red Army is sent west.

How are the Irish going to feed themselves? After 1835, there's not many places left to colonize -- Although, technically, in a nuclear holocaust scenario, Ireland becomes one of the last places in the world not hit by nukes? Still, 50 million is an insane number. If Ireland somehow becomes...

Probably. The European powers would try their best to keep China divided, but at the same time, kick out the other side's hold on China. Oh and the KMT will be butterflied away, probably.

I mean an example of an earlier proxy war where warlordism is actively encouraged and supported by the European powers. So CP-backed Chinese fight the Entente-backed Chinese. The Japanese then fight and take as much as they can get. So the Warlord era this TL would be a part of WW1.

Ideal size of US = Free City of Philadelphia - leading other little city-states on the coast. Everything else is over-run by Mongol Khanates. :)

Greater participation in WW1 would have to get China involved somehow. Maybe the ROC splits up even more due to harsher Boxer rebellion with different parts of China falling to warlord-ism earlier and supported by different nations. Japan still gets the first Sino-Japanese war and Manchuria...

How do you wank small countries anyway? If you get them larger, then they aren't small anymore :confused: Economy-wise: They'll need a large population and high gdp per capita. Large population? How do you get them to outproduce larger nations? The Scandinavian countries fit the second...

I think the creation of life on earth would be the most ASB event that has ever happened in our history.

Step 1: Create Nation Step 2: Choose Ethnicity Step 3: Expel everyone with the wrong Ethnicity Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit! Assuming ASBs makes everyone not feel revanchist.

Can we somehow have a Russian Pashtun region? From Central Asia to Kutch. That'll do wonders if you butterfly away EIC dominance and replace the British hegemony of India with French. The Russians have a free hand over Persia.

I was thinking of an even faster fall of Warsaw during an earlier German invasion of Poland. This would help if the Germans pull off a successful surprise attack and receive earlier Soviet intervention It'll result in less losses for the Germans and embolden Hitler. The waiting after...

Not really. If Constantinople falls to a European nation before the Ottomans get around to it, then there's a chance of some Byzantine successor state reforming. But yeah, if the Ottomans take it, it's over.