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Religious opposition to slavery just about did what was politically possible. I'm not sure the South would ever agree to children of slaves being born free or mandated manumission like Brazil for example.

Does the show Suits count? Usually it's contracts or business clients in the show.

Pretty much. After a half century of Communism, you would be extremely hard pressed to find people who didn't participate in some form of the system. If they do exist, they'll be extremely old like Adenauer, or really young and inexperienced. This is why lustration has been such a drawn out...

I have no idea why they didn't, because anyone who pauses to think about it would conclude failing to do so would enable militias to emerge.

I don't see this happening. Even the Soviets didn't have as rough as an experience as Vietnam, although it was still pretty bad. Who is going to arm and supply the Taliban? Afghanistan was a pariah state, even before 9/11. Afghanistan's problem was that after 2003, it became a secondary...

They should have either kept the army intact, or disarmed them when they disbanded it. They chose the worst option.

Henri would have been king otherwise. The monarchists tried to wait for him to die, but by then people didn't view the Third Republic as an instable regime that need changing.

The distinction isn't as pronounced since the majority of legitimists accepted Philippe d'Orleans as Chambord's heir. Action française case in point.

Iran is three times larger in population. They had enough problems with Iraq OTL. Since the United States hasn't dealt with Iran directly since 1980, I doubt that regime change would be a priority. The Arab states might go for it, but then again they might fear the return of an alliance...

Christianity viewed Islam as a heresy for the longest time, instead of an independent religion. That's a big obstacle.

Well, any POD that would be feasible would have to be before Diem's assassination. Otherwise ARVN is going to be consumed with purging loyalists, leading to a lack of junior officers leaving them in such a fragile position. If RVN looks like it's still a somewhat functional anticommunist...

The Atlantic is too big to traverse. The US Navy (along with any other nation in the Americas who's anti-Nazi's Navy) would intercept and sink any invasion force well before the shoreline would ever become visible.

Well there you go! I never knew they were willing to offer neutralizing Cuba as a trade for Vietnam.

I agree for the most part. I think Chiang would be more of a Ferdinand Marcos type figure than a wonderful modernizer. No cultural revolution, and great leap forward is a huge plus. Also, this probably means no Simplified Chinese being adopted. The biggest issue is centralizing authority and...

The thing is, given the de facto failure of Laos, would he even attempt such? I do know that the Soviets weren't really invested in Vietnam, and would have been content with a partition. It was only after escalation that they saw the use in backing Hanoi.

Exactly what the title says. Bonus points if the Holy Roman Emperor is also simultaneously King of France. Extra credit if it is someone other than Francis I.

Not really. Rome/Byzantium spent 700 years warring with them and the Sassanids that replaced them. If Rome spent all of its military power on a Parthian campaign, they might conquer Persia. Hence the general reluctance to go further than influence Armenia. Rome knew in advance that Persia would...

The benefit the Soviets have is that they can resort to repressive tactics that the United States would have difficulty doing. Diem was deposed because of his authoritarianism, as well as his clique's corruption. The Soviets would not have such reservations about using secret police, mass...

Apostasy in Islam is equally as bad. This won't change much.

Iran converting back to Zoroastrianism is far likelier than this. Even then, the majority of Persian Christians would be Nestorian, not Catholic.