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Khomeini wasn't a threat in 1964. The Shah's task was to balance the Leftist and Islamist oppositions to his regime, in the '60s, the Leftists were more powerful, striking at the Islamists then would have just empowered them more. 'Racist' is a bit harsh. Yes, Saddam didn't enact it very...

I don't think the Spanish would be surprised to see any Mongol hordes, they did, after all, think they were sailing to East Asia in the first place. Consider even when they did figure out they were on a separate continent, they didn't know how wide the Pacific was - I think the OTL lack of any...

Wouldn't the Nicaraguans start to view the other members of the union as parasites, as they'd think its their canal, and that they should have its profits? Like, if you look at the modern day Niger Delta, the profitable region has been more of an incentive for secessionism than unity. But then...

I'm sorry, but this a very old-fashioned and racist idea of Native Americans. They weren't running around randomly killing every White person they saw, for the most part, they coexisted with them, and traded with them local resources for European imports. Saying that they were nothing but an...

Well, Romans wouldn't even understand the idea of having a border. Rome was a universalist state, a state that believed it was the righteous ruler of the whole world. Hadrian's Wall was meant to be permeable, not defensive, it was a way for Roman authorities to keep track of who were coming in...

I don't think it said anything about Japan being democratic? Why would it be without the post-War reconstruction? As for integration, the trailer says that pro-independence terrorism is a common occurrence. In OTL, Japan invested far more man-power into keeping their colonies than any...

I don't think it'd be sustainable. Israel isn't going to stop getting attacked just because its in the EEC, (indeed, the Arabs will probably bring out a lot more of the 'crusader state' rhetoric). Eventually, the other European nations, will either get fed up of assisting its troublesome...

A joint Sino-Pakistani invasion of India. Pakistani troops are shifted over to China to assist in the attack on eastern India. Pakistan, for its troubles, insists on being able to reconquer Bangladesh. China agrees, and the two powers combined manage to seize control of the Seven Sisters, (for...

Hm, while its true there were quite a few Turks involved in the movement, it doesn't detract from the fact that the movement was very popular domestically. Case in point, most non-Tudeh revolutionaries exiled themselves to Iraq, or even British India.

The Soviet Red Army and the Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army are called that because they have their roots in civil wars, i.e. at a time when they weren't the only army, and a distinction had to be made for practical reasons. The same could also kinda be said about why the British Army is...

The Iranian Tudeh Party is one of the strongest political parties in the world, having held almost incontestably the leadership of the Iranian Republic since 1944 and being probably the most globally influential political party next to the CPSU. So your challenge is to mess that up, and...

Honestly, I think the red hair - neanderthals thing is a coincidence. From what I've heard, the blond/redhead mutation becoming dominant was due to the ice age making hunting large game, (mammoths and that), the main source of food, as opposed to gathering fruits and vegetables, (which were...

The immigration to the CSA will probably be similar to the immigration to the Latin American nations at the same time, (i.e. mostly South Europeans), as the CSA's economy at that time is very similar to those nations, and it'll require similar skill sets. I don't think the CSA will experience...

Honestly, it seems pretty obscene to visit a memorial for the dead Scots considering how many natives they killed.

Not so, Marx's writings were unambiguously in favour of colonialism. It was Lenin who made the about-turn in regards to colonialism, and that was more to do with trying to upset the stability of their imperialist enemies, rather than out of any real ideology.

Really? Darien? Aren't you worried at all? The civil war only ended a few years ago, and there's still a lot of tensions around...

It came closer than you might think. After the end of the Third Great War in 1943, as we all know, the United States invested a lot of money into rebuilding Europe through the Field Plan. Many American economists, (Cheynes, Pilsudsky, etc.), thought that to ensure the end to war in Europe they...

The idea that Europeans believed themselves to have the monopoly on civilisation isn't as old as a lot of people believe it is. Europeans throughout the world were quite happy to view other cultures as their near-equals, (not equals, but then no culture has ever considered any other culture to...

There were already Turks emigrating to the USA at the time anyway, (link), so these groups would by no means be the 'first' of anything. I like the idea of some Janissaries setting themselves up as an organised crime syndicate in New York though.

Wait? Are you saying direct colonial rule is more likely to make a country democratic? That's a bold statement.