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Keep the USA the same size. What is the minimum amount of people the USA could have by 2016 for this to still be possible? How strong can this depopulated USA be? Some Founding Fathers, like Ben Franklin, were anti-immigrant, believing even Germans to be impossible to assimilate. I don't...

Suppose, for whatever reason, the USA owns the area known in OTL as Canada and it got the area relatively early in the country's life. Obviously, the USA would not arrange the land as "Alberta," "British Columbia," etc. What would the state lines look like in that particular area? Would the...

Why not keep the price of oil low? The USSR benefited greatly from the oil shocks that occurred in the 70s which gave it some much needed cash to continue. Look at the economic problems Russia is going through now, and then add the fact that it has half a continent wanting to get out from under...

Japan takes them during the Spanish Civil War. Perhaps buying them from a Spanish Republic in need of money, or taking them by force in exchange for military aid to the nationalists.

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines were in the way. Thus, attacking Hawaii would weaken the fleet meant to protect it. Suppose butterflies make it so the USA doesn't control the Philippines after the Spanish-American War due to a stronger...

Suppose instead of the WTC bombing, al Qaeda decides to fly planes into the buildings in 1993 instead. The world is shocked and Bill Clinton has to deal with a major terrorist attack in his first year of presidency, similar to GWB. What happens now?

-Finland goes Communist and joins the Warsaw Pact. The Communist Party of Finland rules with an iron fist until 1989 when Communism collapses. -ATL Finland is much worse off today than its OTL counterpart. It would be more corrupt and its economy more similar to that of Poland than of Sweden...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/time-to-feel-old-inside-the-nes-on-its-30th-birthday/ Nintendo and Atari were supposed to work together in the American market. Atari killed the deal because they thought Nintendo was going behind their backs to work with Coleco instead. It wasn't true...

OOC: This doesn't work. What made Pokemon so popular was the fact that it was a mobile game, allowing you to trade and battle with with friends wherever you are. A PS3 game isn't mobile and would never reach its OTL popularity as a console game. Making it an iOS/NintendoDS/PSP game in 2009...

Weren't most revolts were lead by Native Americans, not European colonists or their descendants, prior to the American Revolution? So look there first. Because of that, maybe Mexico or Peru if they revolt at a time when Spain is fighting a global war and another European power views the...

Bush and Gore stop campaigning to morn the dead. There are calls for unity from both Democrats and Republicans to deal with the common enemy. Bill Clinton has to deal with the response and begins bombing Afghanistan before the next president gets into office. Bush still gets the presidency and...

I've always imagined a White Russia being the equivalent of contemporary post-Soviet Russia. It will have the pretense of democracy, but it won't be. It'll be highly conservative and crony capitalist. Perhaps a member of the tsarist secret police will get the reigns, like Vladimir Putin. The...

Given that British assets like Canada and the Caribbean islands are so close, I can't see Wilson deciding not to take any territory. What could conceivably be taken from 1917-1919? Canada may be too nationalistic by 1917 to completely take at this point.

Usually, when this forum discusses a CP USA, it is talked about as if the USA is in the German camp from 1914. However, in OTL, Anglo-American relations were getting testy by 1916 due to the blockade of Germany. The situation only reversed itself due to the stupidity of the Germans with...

In the mid-90s, Apple was doing terribly. It considered selling itself to other companies like Sun Microsystems and several others and it was only due to the fact that these deals fell through that Steve Jobs was able to come back. Suppose the company did get bought out. What happens to...

Game Freak, the creators of Pokemon, actually had a very strong relationship with Sega in the past before becoming second party to Nintendo. They made Pulseman for the Genesis and Sega still owns the IP rights to the game. It isn't out of the question that Sega might keep the relationship and...

Cameron and Hollande were more interested in intervening in Syria than the Obama administration was. Would it have been possible for the two European powers to implement a no-fly zone without the United States at the time, or would it have been an impossibility?

No, this isn't ASB. In the mid-90's, Nintendo attempted to create a "Dream Team" to work on the Nintendo 64. The most famous member was obviously Rare, who created the Banjo-Kazooie franchise and Goldeneye 007. A lesser known member was a small British company called DMA Design, known today...

In OTL, didn't Britain give false evidence of German involvement in Latin America to rile up the USA? I think if the British are desperate, they could do something like this.

I was recently watching an episode of Deep Space 9, the episode In the Pale Moonlight. As Trek fans should know, there is a war going on, with the Federation and the Klingons fighting the Dominion. Because of significant losses, Captain Sisko and Garek create a false flag (faking evidence of an...