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I got a alternate tech/science question. Refrigeration is achived by pumping chemicals trough tubes and by letting it expand at a certain point. (I have to admit I need to refresh the details). The way we do it is using electric power. However, I see no reason that running water, muscle power or...

I'v started a tread on Eva Braun, just to figure out if it was any butterflies but let's discuss the whole thing. A German invasion of Sweden as discribed in the book Attentatet i Pålsjö Skog. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=106598...

I'v read an AH book where Eva Braun gets killed in 1941, Attentatet i Pålsjö Skog av Hasse Alfredson. (A book I might get back to.) But say that Eva Braun gets killed in an unexpected accident, say a car crash in 1941, just prior to Barbarossa. What would happen?

The 1900s have seen to many oppressive dictatorships. At least some had a tendency to kill their killers. So the natural response should be to leave the country as soon as things start to go the wrong way. Still, not many did defect. Some possible exeptions is Lin Biao and Rudolf Hess but it's...

Double Blind Challange: Just a random challange. With a PoD in 1900, make it so that the Swedish airforce is officially involved in only one air campaign. And to make it hard, make it in Africa

While reading wikipedias rather wacky tread on the Soviet war in Afganistan, it struck me that the Soviets could have come invited if they wanted. So what if they come in on a formal request by the legal Afgan goverment instead of doing a suprise attack. I'm not suggesting that Hafizullah Amin...

The official name of Sri Lanka is Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka according to Wikipedia. It got me thinking, how can the Soviets become involved in a similar role as in Afganistan and help fight the pretty cool guerilla/terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers?

I got a thought today. The Korean war, the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin airlift where sort of intelligence failures on the communist part where they underestimated the determination and ability of the US and their allies and took offensive or provoking actions. Generalizing that to...

The role playing games industry was deeply affected by te playing paradises. What would the industry look like without the gambling paradises like Cuba and to some extent the others? Say the attempted revolution in Cuba suceeds.

We had a tread on increased bombing turned into a bomb China tread, risking dragging in USSR, and we had a tread on US invasions of China. It would make US face a country with huge manpower resources. Both has huge risks to say the least. But what about commando style raids on mainland China...

Was it worth getting the talibans involved in the post war process in Afganistan. At least some of the commanders went back to the old, bad ways. Some areas in the south still don't allow girl schools, opium production is on it's way up again and human rights seems down. Was the west and the...

We have two treads on chemical warfare. One about Serbs, the other about Hitler. I have a follow up question to both and neither. The effect of gas bombs can roughly be acchived by use of conventional munnition. A barrage will kill the people in the way weather it's conventional or not...

What if Rasputin survive the assasination attempt and join the communist movenent. Then Lenin could live for ever.

I added a Marie Antoinette quote in the Famous quotations that never were tread that not many might recognice. It was by Patty Hearst, kidnapped millioneres daughter who went along her kidnappers. For the kicks of it, say Marie Antoinette get kidnapped and brainwashed. Then what?

Assume that Soviet doesn't attack Finland in 1939. Is it possible that Germany or anybody else use it as a launchingpad for attacks against Soviet? - Can Germany make som sort of invasion and use it as a a launching pad? - Can Germany make some kind of political deal and gain support? - Any...

OOC: I got this idea reading Leopold Trepper's book where a few Gestapo guys talk about negotiating a separate peace with the Soviet union. Since I haven't read the whole book, it strikes me that it's just a trick to make the guy talk. However, it makes sence to sign a peace treaty with Soviet...

While we prepare for the 25 year aneversery of the independence of the Belgian Congo, what do you think the theirty year plan accomplished? OOC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis#The_thirty_year_plan

South Koreaz waz a bazkward Zlaveowning zoziety and the Zouth Korean Prezedentz Got Pwnd by North Korea and the UZ when he tried to leawz the Union, zo what if Abe Linzolnl waznt Uz prezedentz??????

Reading a book about the Bosnian war in the 90's. Well, Carl Bildts book on the peace process (Uppdrag Fred), it struck me that I didn't get if players like France, Germany and UK had any goals beyond peace. Russia was somewhat more pro Serb and the US didn't want to bog down. But beyond that...

Reading about the Bosnian War my memory got refreshed. And one of the things, long forgotten, was a micro state in western Bosnia set up by a buissnessman/company. Anyway, it struck me as one of those cool things and since people ask for cyberpunk from time to time (while less these days), here...