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Why was the Sicilian expedition undertaken even? Like what was the strategic goal? What was the end game? And if nothing else what was the motive?

I was recently playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and that got me reading up about a topic that i had previously never really looked into - the 2nd Peloponnesian War/Attic War. Apart from the devastating plague what were the other major reasons why Athens lost? From the little that I understand...

A hundred years ago today, WW1 ended. Are there any PoDs that can stop WW1 from happening? Obviously, no one getting shot in Sarajevo on that fateful day helps, but what changes will truly ensure that WW1 never happens? And then what’ll be the result of such a world?

Not necessarily, Nehru had the money behind him.

If Nehru wants to and is willing to make the appropriate concessions to Jinnah then possibly yes. In 1944 ML was in a tough spot, the Bengal Famine had eroded away the support it enjoyed in Bengal, as it's provincial government was being partly blamed by the people for the disaster, mostly...

That would be an interesting possibility, but unlikely since there wasn’t really an Indian Mao or Uncle Ho.

Yes. He dies shortly before he was to be released. OTL the British administration was freaking out over possibility of Gandhi dying in prison. So they released him when he got really sick. ITTL they would be freaking out too, but due to bureaucratic inertia and simple butterfly effects, the...

He was allegedly willing to accept indian participation in WW2 (provided the indian troops were placed under the command of indian civilian government and British agreed to giving independence after the war was over) in exchange for calling off Quit India, he was willing to accept concessions to...

February 1944. Gandhi's wife Kasturba, dies as per OTL from failing health. Gandhi in prison at that time, goes on fast for 21 days in protest. OTL he caught malaria in May, here however i propose that he gets malaria in March and dies from poor health at the age of 74. BTW he dies in March...

My 2 cents is Bush Sr takes over. Fires Haig shortly after, replaces with Kissinger who he knew from his time in China, if not earlier. Keeps most of Reagan's picks. Reagan tax-cuts are still on the table, but Bush sees that they'll produce and an unwieldy deficit. He has a degree in economics...

Yeah i expanded mostly because i felt it was necessary context. Its an ancient indian intellectual tradition to expand on the ideas of others. Heck thats how we got 108 extra theological and philosophical texts (the upanishads) in Hinduism, than just the 4 original Vedas. :P

These weren't just two individuals on the street, even if i do joke that India got partitioned because two Gujarati Lawyers got in a fight. They were two figures who are central to the later phase of the struggle for independence in the sub-continent. OK, first off, you're right. The ML did...

Trust me when i say i am aware of the fact that Jinnah was an Indian nationalist. But every nationalist doesn't have the same conception of what the nation should be, and those minor differences can slowly bubble into a lot of differences.

That isn't unthinkable, but it would be much more likely if Gandhi dies in the 30s, before Bose goes full Nazi collaborator, and Bose, Patel and Jinnah team up to take down the now weakened but still huge INC which is under the control of Nehru and other Gandhi stooges. Thing is a Bose, Patel...

Indeed, Indian independence was inevitable post-1919, question was how was how it would come to be.