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I'm really glad you wrote this reply, because it was super interesting, but I meant that some small union cadre of something seize power, and most NZers, ofc including the white farmers, oppose them. Super-fascinating analysis, but you misread my comment.

I think the most likely impact is that the former Entente powers go "all-in" with the Greeks during the Greco-Turkish War, resulting in a Greek Constantinople and Smyrna. May even lead to a resurrection of the Treaty of Sevres.

This is one of those things where the only semi-feasible (but still incredibly unlikely) scenario is a Communist takeover which is opposed by the majority of the population, which would welcome Australian forces. I can't understand why Australia would choose to annex New Zealand when NZ is...

More likely because there's a lot of EU4 players on these forums...

Good to see @Julius Vogel in this thread too! Realistically, and barring late *end of the world* PoDs like an Able Archer apocalypse, the PoD should be before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. A few different local conflicts and some shifts in which chiefs live/die could lead to greater...

I think the most likely way to get a non-democratic Western Europe is the way I went about it in Stars and Sickles. I had the 1961 Algiers Putsch be successful. The way it was carried out in OTL it had little chance, but with some background variables changed it has a non-zero chance of...

Given how small the Chuvash are compared to the three major Turkic groups, the Turkish, Tatars and Turkmen, I don't think the existence of another Orthodox Turkic group makes the Gagauz any less of a macrohistorical curiosity.

Been having this thought for a few days now and thought I would see what y'all think. How would you have Francia as a Chinese analogue, that is, the core region remaining consistent, with cycles of expansion and retraction, unity and disunity. The country has to be big enough to maintain...

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Hi y'all, Just wondering what your thoughts were regarding the likely development of the Pannonia plain without the Magyar invasion and settlement. Would it remain Slavic? Would Austrians continue to settle further East along the Danube or would another set of nomadic pastoralists inevitably...

The limited slavery that did temporarily exist in Australia was called "blackbirding" and involved kidnapping Pacific Islanders for use as Labour in the sugar plantations of Northern Queensland. Why import Africans when Islanders are right next door?

You would definitely have internal problems with regards to ethnic issues. The largest group by a fairly large margin would be the Uzbeks, followed by the Kazakhs. Its likely that the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Tajiks (and, most likely, the Karakalpaks) form a bloc against Uzbek dominance. Civil war is...

I can only imagine how Burma would get even crazier post-decolonisation with Yunnan added to it. As it is Yunnan is the most ethnically-diverse province in China and Burmese attempts to reconcile the interests of its constituent peoples have been... Unsuccessful at best.

The only issue with that is that, at the time, Split was a subject of the Byzantine Empire, and it's inevitable that, barring a complete Byzantine collapse, that Constantinople would eventually send a punitive expedition that would probably overwhelm the Narentines. The Venetians too are...

From a cursory glance at the history of the Repubblica Serennissima, it seems that at the very beginning, supremacy of the Adriatic sealanes was highly contested between Venice and a number of polities on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. Zadar (Zara) and Dubrovnik (Ragusa) were notable...

I had the same issue with a TL of mine, and went with the generic "Arabian Republic". Could signify its allegiance by going with "Free Arabian Republic" for a pro-US regime or "Arabian Democratic Republic" for a pro-Soviet government

Sounds like a Prodigy album.

Tbh I think you're over-thinking it. There's two reasons AK-47 got chosen: 1) they're very dangerous and use automatic fire, which also parallels the sounds of beats or the "chopper" style of rapping (which is called that precisely because chopper is a slang term for an AK-47) 2) During the...

This is a good point. In so many ways, the 60s was the height of the Cold War. Obviously on the early 60s you had the Cuban missile crisis, but also the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Sion-Soviet split, the decolonisation of Africa... By 68 you had the massive protests throughout the...

Wang Jingwei had been the primary figure in the Wuhan government of 1926/27, a rival to the Guangzhou-based GMD govt that was lead by Chiang. The Wuhan govt was run by the left-wing of the GMD, which opposed Chiang, who was the most notable of the GMD right-wing. If Wang doesn't defect, I see...