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US - With a different president you could have the US on the CP side, or at least neutral, favoring the CPs. Not sure how much of a difference it would make, since I think we'd managed to start differentiating Canada and the BE as a whole by that point. Could throw a spanner in the works on...

:confused: wait - isn't enabling Royal divorces the CoE's entire reason for existing?

Plausibilty concern with PoD - If the plane is shot down: 1. the debris is not going to do that much damage - we've had entire jets plow through residential neighborhoods with moderate casualties. A mid air strike is going to result in a fireball, some shattered windows, and possibly 4...

well, there were a decent slew of articles back in 02/03 timeframe about how we brought it on ourselves. They disappeared during the run up to the 04 elections, when folks figured out they weren't doing 'their' side any favors. Possible effects of POD 1. DC plane evades defensive measures...

so, the basic thrust of the thread so far is that the secret conspiracy to turn the US into Canada 2.0 ;) shot itself in the foot by banning prayer in public schools?:confused: :D Of course, the obverse implication is that if the hard religious right ever got their way, then the net impact...

The germans started the war. It is like anything else in life - if you start something, you better be ready for all the consequences, especially those that you didn't foresee. Or, as my drill instructor used to say (well, shout really) "Mess with the best, die like the rest" Certainly solved...

Yeah, Mexico might've had a chance back during the first Mexican - American war, if they weren't busy ripping themselves apart around that time. By the 1900s, any Mexican assault on the USA = national suicide. It's like Ireland launching an invasion of the UK - theoretically conceivable, but...

Never happen for the ROC(assume this refers to the Maritime provinces?) or Canada as a whole. Maritimes only - The Maritimes are poor and sparsely populated. They would be a net drain on the Treasury and have minimal strategic value. Accession (as comonwealths, not states) would likely be...

Fascist America - easy. Have the WW1 wartime socialism under WWilson remain in place. Throw in a recession or two (even a 'great' one) and some international tension, and you'll be well on your way to a Fascist, and even rabidly racist America.

That sucks - the book was at least interesting, and a different take on the Carthaginians win POD that used to be so popular.

Two amusing themes : 1. Of course the US and UK will support and ally with each other. Why? Especially in a world where the UK lost WW1 - either the US didn't intervene, in which case why would the UK trust/rely upon the US? Or the US did intervene, in which case the doughboys died for...

Sorry - but that conclusion does not follow from the assumption. If the US is neutral, it will, if anything, charge the Entente more for arms, supplies, financing etc. Further, a US with no experience of fighting alongside wartime allies will be even more likely to view the outcome through...

Italy can have GDP coming out the wazzoo. Doesn't matter for two twigs if Italy doesn't have the men under arms, the material, and the will to use them. How is Italy going to translate it's GDP into armed forces in Poland fighting off a Russian assault? - that's the could part. Next, what...

That would be beautiful, and would probably work. If the folks in western Europe hadn't just finished making clear that they consider nations in the former soviet sphere of influence to be, at best, an ablative armor for the 'true' (western) Europe - aka the parts of Europe that 'matter'...