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Well I'm not a real monarchist, Action Française is a joke. I just like medieval history a lot more than most people. La maison d'Orléans has no credibility anymore.

Tfw FN supporters make fun of you for liking your country's heritage....

I think the only way that really happens is if Louis-Philippe maybe ends up assassinated and Ferdinand has to actual wield political power. However, he'd then have to temper reaction as a result of such assassination. Even then he'd be young, inexperienced, and have to maintain a balancing act...

Just as equally true as Soviets being in Vietnam. This was a well known fact by everybody involved, which is why there was insane bombing restrictions like SAM sites under construction could not be targeted. Why would you wait to bomb a SAM site until it's fully operational you ask? Because...

This. A thousand times this. STEM degrees are not lacking, there's no shortage of people in the field. Plenty of smart people already have degrees, they however like to be compensated for their work and intelligence and get in the way of companies' bottom lines. However, the Silicon Valley...

So what causes Washington to not act while South Vietnam collapses far earlier OTL, and drags down Laos and Cambodia? This is a big issue first of all, because lot of planners saw South Vietnam as the best ally possible in SE Asia fighting Communism. There was no illusions that Laos and Cambodia...

Vietnam was settled easily as well because Ho realized he couldn't move against the Viet Quoc either, since they are essentially the Vietnamese KMT. So the two of them were more or less stuck together lest they provoke Chinese intervention. A Communist China means Asia would be a potential...

Censorship would ban live coverage of all events listed. If WWII was as open in journalism as Vietnam, the public would be incredibly upset by 1943. The only exception might be Pearl Harbor, having Americans see the attack live would probably increase patriotic sentiment.

ASB. The Pahlavis fell in Iran because a good deal of Iranians thought he was trying to take the country back to its pre-Islamic culture. Any Egyptian leader who intentionally chooses to resort to pre-Islamic Egypt would also be overthrown. Besides, the term Pharaoh has negative connotations...

Nobody used the dollar coins. When the golden Sacajawea coins came out, people horded them and they stayed out of circulation. Eventually you stopped seeing them, I remember the only place where I could count on seeing them as change was at the Post Office. Now if the Treasury just decided to...

Considering the Emperor's legitimacy comes from being God's appointed representative on Earth, this can't happen. Any Emperor who converted would be murdered and instantly replaced.

The KMT government in Nanjing was successful for a while. They held (nominal) control of much of China, until Chiang Kai Shek's murder. They still have the largest territory, excluding Japanese occupied Manchuria.

The Republic of Vietnam will never reunify Vietnam. At least until perhaps the Cold War ends and North Vietnam somehow collapses. China will not allow an Anti-Communist state on its borders that is allied with the West. If you want an Anti-Communist Vietnam, then the outcome of the Chinese Civil...

That was mostly the ulema angry that their traditional sphere of influence was being supplanted by secular institutions. The liberals didn't like him either until he finally stopped being so paranoid about the communists taking over. As for Iraq....I agree that any regime that replaces them...

OCC: I don't think this would be realistic given Imperial Iran's tacit support for Israel. They even worked together on military projects. Israel doesn't have anyone else really in the area to count on (even if Iran's support is by not helping the Arab states), so the last thing they're likely...

Define victory. RVN survives, reunification under Saigon? The former is plausible to pull off. North Vietnam being annexed by South Vietnam however is rather difficult. Also, does the fate of Laos and Cambodia matter as well?

Well, Iran's a pillar of America's Middle East policy. If they collapsed into a communist, or hostile government in general then that leaves Saudi Arabia. That's an ugly thought, having to rely on the Wahhabi Saudis. Mohammad Reza's decision to disclose his cancer diagnosis was prudent, as...

Actually, the flash-point in Indochina was Laos around 1960. ARVN was getting effective enough to make crossing the DMZ unreliable, and focus on the Ho Chi Minh Trail began. Kennedy solved it by neutralizing Laos, which in effect did nothing. Oddly enough, intervention in Vietnam may mean...

Good question. Why did English colonies fail to create a comparable mestizo culture like the Spanish and Portuguese? Rigid definitions of race entrenched the mentality that denied African slaves their humanity. Slavery in Latin America was often viewed of more as a condition a person was placed...

Would the Soviets occupy Hokkaido? If the invasion stalls long enough, the North of Japan might become a communist satellite state.