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Totalitarian regimes and people tend to not deal well with any type of questioning that could be considered doubting the inevitability of their victory. Any such writer or blogger, in such a tl, would be waking though a minefield with every post, just waiting for the least reasonable person to...

i've heard good stuff about the expanse. so much good tv these days.

hard sci fi ideas that could be used for tv drama. 1. kinetic energy weapons. 2. stealth nukes in orbit. 3. solar power satellites . 4. a bean stalk. 5. an orion. 6. terra-forming mars. 7. an oneil colony. 8. military conflict in space. 9. SDI 10 all the above. my opinion...

Agreed. Japan would fit too.

Well, the us and the ussr are very different entities, to be allied with. Note the lack of border clashes between the US and Canada over the last one hundred years for example, compared to the USSR and China. Still, if that is what you want for your timeline, it is certainly plausible. On...

My first response would be that that they would be in BETTER shape because of less Red Scare. But, if the Soviets seem like less like the "tide of history" is on their side, that could reduce the appeal of the ideology. Really, it could go either way, depending how people bounce to the new...

Sounds very reasonable to have a NOT superpower soviet Union, still involved in supporting the communists in China. A northern Manchuria/South China split seems also ok.

Depends on how messed up the Soviets are. Do you know that there was an American occupation of some of China after the defeat of the Japanese? That there was some fighting between the communists and the Americans...

If there is no Soviet Union bankrolling and arming marxist revolutionaries in the colonies, the Brits and the French, with their advanced military tech, such as gas and nukes, could end up fighting harder to hold on to their empires. Mmm, no soviet union, means no threat to the Imperial...

Without a strong soviet union to drive us military spending, you could have a situation where France gets nukes, and use that to try to appear as the US's equal. Perhaps, US mllitary spending collapses after the War, they spend a lot of money on developing nuclear capability, and then just...

1. It is easy to imagine ways that the Soviet Union could not be a superpower. 2. No soviet Threat, you could see the US return to isolationism. Or at least not have a formal NATO style alliance. 3. If the US level of commitment is far less, than a smaller nation such as France, that is more...

THe exit polls showed that Powell could certainly have gotten the nomination and won the Presidency in 96; https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/opinion/07plissner.html "On Nov. 5, 1996, Voter News Service — the organization hired by the TV networks to do exit polling — asked people at the...

Dole's campaign was shit, which I say as someone who still has his Dole campaign t-shirt. Giving him something to motivate him to be far more aggressive, both in hammering Clinton on his scandals, AND to offer some good ideas FOR change could have light a fire. A more planned downsizing of...

My dad served in the Pacific, and in his entire life he ONCE mentioned his opinion that "Japs can't be trusted". IMO, the reason that Americans generally don't care about the historical early loses, is because Americans generally don't care about history.

What if some of the Traditionally black colleges decided to reach out to the Liberian elite to be part of their alumni culture, with an eye to maintaining social and networking connections a la the Rhodes scholarship model? Maybe even have some back and forth, so that a significant portion of...

What if the US mined the Hanoi harbor earlier and kept it closed?

Ah, sorry. There are just so man nay sayers. And they are very quick to complain about "thread necromancy". But Kudos to admiral brown for digging this up.

I strongly disagree. That an alt history CHALLENGE has been met by real life, just two years after being made, is worthy of note. ESPECIALLY as we get to see the educated comments compared to real life. Indeed, after the next four years, revisiting this and seeing how OTL ends up comparing...

POInt 4 is a very strong point.