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Somehow, this seemed apt.

That section describes a continuation of the collapse OTL of the Kwangtung Army. Simply saying 'it's unrealistic' is to phrase 'asb' in another way, it doesn't make any argument in support of why you feel it isn't plausible. What particular part did you take issue with? The collapse of the...

I would like to know exactly what you think is 'ASB-level positioning of the Soviets' ITTL. So far the OP has described the Manchurian campaign much as per OTL, an invasion of Hokkaido of which the primary western source thought would likely work & the attempt at recruitment of Japanese...

You have literally just made me lol. You've forgotten something quite important. Despite the fact that in the five months to hand, even if the Soviets were relying on the limited logistics you claim they had they would still be able to advance through Korea, they had far more for one simple...

There was a larger list of targets OTL that got whittled down by the planners in order to decrease the chance of the plot being discovered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_September_11_attacks#Origins_of_the_9.2F11_attacks (Fourth Paragraph) "According to the September 11...

Soviets in Winter you say. How well did the Germans find the Soviets fought in Winter? ... I'm going to say double envelopment. Where is the endless strategic depth to retreat into, the endless reserves of manpower, the equivalent industry, the reserves of heavy equipment. Why would America be...

Recall the stock shorting done on the airline stocks on 9/11 that went through the WTC computers? There's a reason attacks were done on the East Coast. Massive casualties & Massive theft. Think of a better way they & their shadowy backers could do that on the West Coast & you have your scenario.

The NKVD was given orders by Stalin to capture Hitler alive. Stalin wanted to keep Hitler as a caged animal on show. Few in that bunker wanted to be taken alive, Hitler in particular. He saw what happened to Mussolini, made comments about that. With a real plan in place the NKVD might have had...

Maybe he could live out his later years as a minor tv personality? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtF1ZNqSX3w 1.12>1.45

Jack Ruby shoots Bin Laden (too many secrets) in the arrival room of JFK airport. Press gets it's 'ermegerhd' moment & subsequent trial getting media coverage. New Yorkers toast the guy who does it, celebrate in the streets. Petitions arise to name a street after him. Some Democrats will...

I don't think Korean resistance will matter all that much. The Soviet supplies weren't operating on a 'shoestring' by the end of the Manchurian campaign, a campaign which crossed 'impassable mountains' on the fly because they didn't have the supplies or the vehicles to get them moved, they were...

Beat me to that great quote. After the second world war the U.S was concerned they'd sink back into another recession. The triggering of the Arms Race of the cold war had much to do with Keneysian Spending. Say Stalin accepts Marshall Plan aid. They can take it on the grounds that it still...

Germany splits Poland with the Soviets, takes Denmark, Norway as per OTL. The invasion of the Low Countries, France goes badly wrong (it went really right for the Germans OTL). Enough Bridges are blown/spearheads are cut off. The British manage to avoid being cut off. The French manage to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 Yes (you didn't say manned space probes).

Ostensibly. War had been coming for a while. http://www.salon.com/2002/06/05/memo_11/ "Atef’s memo shines new light on what al-Qaida knew about U.S. efforts to normalize relations with the Taliban in exchange for the fundamentalist government’s supporting the construction of an oil and gas...

There were guided bombs in WW2 for targets as important as cruisers etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel_Hs_293 , Fritz X Either a smaller version on the Italian plane or one or many on an Amerika bomber & then you might start talking about the Capitol Building, Statue of Liberty etc.

It is a special case, but it was industrialized prior to the 1997 handover.

Continued Space Race? Continued Superpower pissing contest, how to.. Joke was that if the Soviets had gotten to the moon first the Americans would have had to have gone to Mars. Mars being something the Soviets just couldn't afford. Now I read somewhere about how when the Soviets were getting...

Where do you find factories (in those days) though? In urban concentrations. i.e 'Sperry Gyroscope in Brooklyn, New York' That was why the Allies used them as justification for bombing cities. Even if you miss.. you still hit something.

There'd still be war. Just war without the causus belli of 9/11. Negotiations with the Taliban got to the stage of 'take the carpet of gold or get a carpet of bombs' before then.