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The best thing you could do would be to not have Lucas direct it.

Much of the impetus for the population boom that the one-child policy was a reaction to was generated by Communist land reform policies, which made having many male children very beneficial to a much larger segment of the population. Without land reform large families doom peasant families to...

The butterflies are huge and they change the course of pretty much all of world history for the rest of the century. What the results are depend heavily on how the KMT wins the civil war and how the Soviets handle things. You probably wouldn't see a Korean War which would butterfly both...

Isn't there a requirement in the Grundgesetz that voting be representative? I thought there was a court ruling a few years ago on that basis that mandates that they change the electoral system to try to eliminate Uberhangsmandate and the like. I find it hard to believe that FPTP would stand...

How much political support will Standley's strategy have after the loss of over 1,000 American lives and a battleship named after the nation's largest city? There will certainly be many people in the US clamoring to kill gooks, even after the Mexican debacle.

Any submerged rocks just off the cost of Bretagne? The First Mate's name doesn't happen to be Schettino does it? Maybe someone on board has some friends in Brest they'd like to wave to?

There are two main barriers to further expansion. The first is Britain, who won't let us take Canada or their Caribbean possessions and might fight us if we get to aggressive South of the Border. The second is the North-South split which made it difficult to add southern states. If the issue...

What would be the minimum peace terms Britain could accept after the French capitulation in late June/early July 1940? Assume for the sake of argument that Hitler is willing to make considerable concessions to bring the war to a close. If you need to shift the British cabinet around a bit to...

Many in the SUP will be glad to see them go, having been uncomfortable with the idea of a royal family in the first place. It's too bad they've lost the legitimacy granted by the royals, but this also gives them a chance to reform the political system which many are probably eager to do anyway...

Umm... That's not how coke dick works.

Some left-wing or populist revolutionary situation might emerge if the US does a particularly bad job of handling the depression and the wars of the early part of the century. The lack of a powerful US army early on makes such a revolution more feasible.

It's possible with significant POD's before 1900, but even with a total China-wank they'll never get more than Assam and maybe some other Himalayan border regions.

Germany would violate the neutrality of both the Netherlands and Belgium, probably with the consent of the Netherlands and without Belgian consent as OTL. This would allow them to move more troops to the North against France, but it likely wouldn't be enough to enable a decisive victory. The...

Eventually one of the rebels being cycled through the training camp will be interrogated and reveal what's going on. It's only a matter of time. The response of the US would be interesting. I don't think they could handle a full-scale invasion of Venezuela with their resources already...

Maybe if they somehow get involved in the Russian Civil War and have a Communist insurrection at the same time. It doesn't seem likely to have a Turkish-Soviet War after the early 20's without external intervention. I think your best bet would be trying to tie it in to the mess at the end of...

If McAdoo wins reelection, which I find somewhat unlikely, it will be late spring at the earliest when the conscripts can be put to use and an invasion launched. It wouldn't be very good weather for campaigning, especially with green troops, and it'll give the rebels quite some time to make...

I think the best way to accomplish this would be to have Sweden enter WWI on the side of the CP late in the war. They might then be able to take back Finland(though Estonia would be tougher). I can't imagine Swedish troops marching through Petrograd. Then either you have a CP victory or an...

I wonder how big of guns you could fire from a Zepplin without tearing it to shreds. A big gun fired from high altitude would have an impressive range, and could probably stay out of range of AA fire. Accuracy might be a bit difficult over such a long trajectory, but they could safely hit...

A smaller operation with limited objectives might be possible, if the limeys don't find out about it through their intelligence services. A suicide mission by a few crack batallions might be able to sneak in and seize some vital installations and destroy some vital equiptment before the British...

Rast, your idea of morale strikes me as counter-intuitive.