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OK, let's say that Japan refuses the offer presented by the Perry Expedition. Let's even say that they kill the American delegation, thus ensuring there would be a military confrontation between USA and Japan. In this scenario, rather than letting USA have free reighn over the islands, would the...

SCO = NATO? LOL. The closest Russian equivalent of NATO-type organisation would be the CSTO and that organisation lost members rather than expand.

So you think Britain might try to buddy up with Russia more?

A post-1900 POD: Soviet Union, which occupied the Danish island of Bornholm between 1945 and 1946, creates an independent socialist nation out of island.

So I was thinking for some time about doing a TL. It would be more on the fun side rather than some of the uber-detailed and analytical TLs out here (read: I’m too lazy to do very in-depth research). One of the things in the hypothetical TL I’ve been thinking about is an ATL WW1 analog fought...

Flag of the National Socialist Cherokee Federation.

I smell a plot for an AH-themed porn film! :D

Ah, looks like I misremembered the tale than.

Well, I don't recall during what battle it was, but there is a common tale that the Khazars proposed an alliance to Kievan Rus princes against the Mongols. Supposedly the Khazar argument was "if we fall to the Mongols, you (Kievan Rus) will be next". The princes refused though. Still, even...

F*ck yeah! Its about time someone wrote a Kievan Rus wank :cool:

My nomination would have to be the Pure Realm of Aryan Suryajaya. (according to the author, the initial POD is pre-1900 but its effects are not felt globally until the 1930s)

I know OP said "with a POD after 1919", but I think a cool option for a non-Moscow, non-Petrograd Russian capital can be explored in the event of an earlier Allied victory in WW1 where the Constantinople Agreement is fulfilled and the Russian Empire gains Constantinople, eventually making it the...

A hook-nosed Jewish rebel peering out of a trench on the outskirts of Acre circa 1905. The Ottoman-funded Jewish Rebellion against the United Kingdom of the Holy Land (UKHL, the successor to the various Crusader States) would fail but less than a decade later the Jews would get their wish as...

That was later though. I'm talking about the 19th century here. Also, I don't recall hearing/reading about any annexation attempts of Korea by Russia. Pacific warm-water port(s). Also, just read on wiki that "In January 1866, Russian ships appeared on the east coast of Korea demanding trading...

So I was wondering, why didn't Russian Empire annex the Korean peninsula? And is there any way it could do so in an ATL (preferably in the early parts of the mid 19th century)?

Then the question becomes useless because, like you said, you can assign the traits you want to literally anyone from Einstein to Elvis to Madonna to Mother Teresa and justify it by saying "they had different upbringing than OTL/were droped on the head as a baby causing changes in brain...

So lets say Italian peninsula is united by the Papal States rather than the Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy. Do you think there would be any push in this Papal Italy to obtain a colonial empire (Libya, other parts of Africa, etc) like there was in OTL Italy? Also, as an aside, does anyone know of any...

... doesn't fit the OP: Anyway, this thread is relavent to the topic: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238117

This is rather dumb IMO since 1) USA was no paragon of non-corruption at this time IIRC. 2) Your statement seems to imply that if Latin America were to become some far-away territories/states of Washington they would magically become less corrupt. Why would the elites who run the places...

So I have been reading about USA's problems concerning illegal immigrants from the CSA. Poverty, violent crime, riots, drug abuse -- all of it goes up sharply in areas with high concentrations of CSA expatriates. Now I know what some of you are going to say -- these problems arise because USA is...