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The big problem is that when Alexander tried to go further into India, his men threatened to desert him. They had spent the last the last decade roughly conquering Persia and modern-day Pakistan, so when Alexander wanted to attack the Nanda, they mutinied at the Hydaspes River. Alexander instead...

Good, just needs one small change.... Also, what's everyone's favorite wannabe 20th century Genghis Khan, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg doing in OTL? I don't think that the China of this TL, thankfully not being a failed state, would be very keen on his activities in Mongolia. (Also, while on...

5 things right off the bat that Stalin could do: 1. Give as much aid to the Poles as possible. Force it down their throats if you have to. Ever Heer soldier killed by the Polish Army is one less to invade the USSR. 2. Stop the Great Purges and end the equivalence of the officers and commissars...

The system of fortifications such as castles and fortresses emerged in Western Europe during the division of the Carolington Empire. Because of this system, the significance of decisive battles was greatly hampered since, even if an invader massacred large portions of a defending force, they...

The best way for this to occur in my mind is to have Otto I the Great be defeated or killed by the Hungarians at Lechfeld in 955. If Otto survives, his political position is extremely damaged; chances are that he would not conquer Italy, and as such, the HRE does not form (personally, I take the...

Personally, I think Marx could end up in the United States. Lincoln and him exchanged letters during the latter half of the American Civil War, so if the British decide to kick him out before Lincoln is killed by John Wilkes Booth, Marx could be personally invited by the President of the United...

At least it looks better than the flag of Split, Croatia. This is probably the ugliest OTL flag known to me. And bear in mind it isn't oriented sideways: this is how it's meant to be flown.

Would preventing the HRE from forming in the first place count? If so, just have Otto the Great lose at Lechfeld in 955. Even if he survives the battle, his political position is damaged, and Western Europe has another decade or so of Magyar raids. That would certainly butterfly away the HRE as...

I dont know if anyone's brought him up, but what's Eric Arthur Blair (better known as his pen name George Orwell) doing in this timeline? Are his political positions (pro democratic socialism, anti totalitarian) still mostly the same as OTL? If he still writes them, Animal Farm and Nineteen...

For the sake of consistency across timelines, the British defense plan for an invasion of Great Britain by the League must be called Operation Sealion; that way, on ITTL's version of this forum, they can debate on the success of an alternate Sealion.

One way to do this may be a Timeline-191 esque scenario where the U.S. allies with a non-English European power, likely either Germany or Russia, and takes loanwords from the language. Over time due to linguistic drift, American English loses intelligibility with its British counterpart...

I would love to have Phillip K. Dick's planned sequel to "The Man in the High Castle" that turned into Radio Free Albemuth.

How about Patrice Lumumba? The POD could be that he successfully gets the US and UN to get Belgium to stop supporting the Katangans so he doesn't turn to the USSR. He then manages to make Congo-Kinshasa into a semi-functioning nation-state instead of the horrorshow that was Mobutu's Zaire.

It was a compromise. That specific spot was chosen because it was roughly halfway between North and South (1783 borders).

Personally, I view Montegomery as akin to a British George B. McClellan; good at organizing and P.R., but not so good when it comes to actual command. That said, MK wasn't necessarily doomed from the start, nor was it complete failure. The plan relied on so much going right, that didn't account...

The best chance would be a continuous expansion from the end of the Mexican American war, Golden Circle style. And that's just taking. It would take a lot of blood and treasure to occupy and develop that huge amount of territory and people into anything profitable.

I wonder if I'll like Wallace ITTL like @Aelita 's "Reds!" or if I'll hate him like @Sorairo 's "The Footprint of Mussolini".

Isn't that the idea behind "A Better Show"? Although ITTL Sealion gets launched and miserably fails...

Maybe if the backlash is bad enough, Wallace gets impeached and Truman becomes POTUS.

The only way for Sealion to have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding would be to remove Hitler's anti-Semitism/anti-Slavicness (Slavophobia?) and replace it with Anglophobia. I say this because the conquest of the USSR for Lebenschruam is essentially the raison d'etre of the Third Reich...