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I'm pretty sure they paid for a full-page ad about it in a local newspaper after the fall of the USSR... :D

Would it be possible for abolitionists in the US to encourage black migration to Haiti, rather than Liberia?

Assume that the US doesn't join WWI*. Without the OTL backlash from opposing American involvement in the war, would the SPA continue to grow? Or would it still be destroyed by infighting and government repression during the Red Scare? *Entente and Central Powers come to some sort of truce in...

Sounds like the British version of the Business Plot.

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You could ask the same thing about NATO, and I think the answer would be the same as well: the Cold War might have ended 25 years ago, but nobody seems to have told the Russians. And technically, we don't have bases in Britain. You guys just let the US military use a handful of airfields and a...

I could see the US becoming a major destination for Chinese immigrants (again), thanks to the established Chinese populations in LA, the Bay Area, and NYC. Just picture it: 30 years from now, latino politicians could be complaining about how the new immigrants don't make an effort to assimilate...

That just seems like suicide for Hezbollah. Why would they try to fight a conventional war with Israel?

The US didn't really explicitly encourage it. The federal government just sort of let it happen, and didn't really take any action until the 1880s (when it started restricting East Asian immigration).

IIRC, Argentina and Chile both explicitly encouraged immigration and did their best to attract Europeans to their countries. So you can put them on the list too.

That term seems a bit...loaded. But yes, they were real constraints. I just think it's absurd to equate them to the damage done to the USSR, which lost more than 10% of its population and had much of its own territory and major cities destroyed. EDIT: And I wonder if the strikes would have...

I was under the impression that the UAE was like that too.

Hitler's Third Reich ultimately failed because he went to war with enemies that he couldn't defeat. Once the invasion of the USSR stalled and Hitler declared war on the US, it was only a matter of time until Germany collapsed.

Technically, I think we could. We have twice as many people as we did in 1945, so it should be possible. The question is what kind of situation could possibly warrant that level of mobilization?

Are you trying to compare labor strikes in the US to the destruction of most of the USSR's territory and the loss of more than 10% of its population?

I really like that rule. Makes things nice and easy, citizenship-wise.

But by that point, we wouldn't have wanted those territories anyway. It's the great paradox that ruins many Ameriwank scenarios.

And I suppose the British are just going to hand it over to us if we ask nicely?

We could have gone the Argentina route and passed laws encouraging immigrants without even considering laws that might restrict immigration (Chinese Exclusion Act, the Gentleman's Agreement, Quota Acts from 1920 to the 1950s, etc.). Of course, that didn't work out so well for Argentina...