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Most likely there'd be intervention or support for the non-Communists in China. Hard to see how the warlords or Japanese would allow for a Communist state to take place in China. They'd be even less successful than Chiang at ending the warlord era and unifying the country.

This probably has negligible impact. Angola would still be a corrupt oil kleptocracy long term. The clique who benefits just changes. The US could claim victory in a region of the world that is fairly unimportant, and have another badly lead ally in Africa. If UNITA's victory came early...

A post-1820s is too late to Hellenize most of Anatolia realistically. You'd need to depopulate most of the region at that point which points to ongoing warfare akin to the 30 Years War - terrible and prolonged. Given the importance of controlling the straits, this would prompt a war over...

Perhaps you are not familiar with sarcasm. Do you actually read people's posts too?

The World Bank data clearly shows the upswing in 2013 of poverty - which you didn't bother to mention. So yes, you are cherry picking. As to why there isn't any data past 2013, well, I explained that too.

At least not since the days of the Five Year Plan! If it wasn't for all those darn kulaks, saboteurs, Hitlerite fascists, left wing deviationists, right wing deviationists, and Santa Claus, Venezuela wouldn't have all those shortages either - food shortages between 50-80%, the shortage of...

And all those gains have now been reversed. You are cherry picking data. The World Bank (whose figures are only up to 2013) show the poverty rate for 2013 reversed Venezuela back to 2011 numbers. 2012 was just a blip. Of course, we don't have figures past 2013 because things got so bad that...

You'd be wrong. Venezuela's economy prior to Chavez taking power was nowhere near the terrible condition it is in now even though oil prices were even lower. Chavez was elected in 199. The average annual oil price in 2001 was $11.91 (nominal) or $17.26 in inflation adjusted March 2015...

Jackson was a hawk and sincere anti-Communist, but he was also prudent. He opposed the 1983 Lebanon intervention, and advocated caution in 1980 in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution and invasion of Afghanistan. I don't see him cutting off aid to Nicaragua, but he could demand a lot of...

In Europe it was lack of cash. Because the kings didn't have real money to pay administrators, they gave control over the land instead so its wealth (crops) would be the compensation. That was a result of the collapse of Roman knowledge, and that specie fled east into the wealthier lands...

Furthermore, his first wife's father (George Junkin) was a Union man who moved from Virginia (he was president of Washington & Lee University) to Pennsylvania in May 1861 because of the harassment he received for his pro-Union views. Perhaps if Jackson's first wife survived, the combination of...

The South was bled dry at that point. Wasn't it something like 30% of white southern males between 18-40 died? War weariness was setting in. We need to remember the Confederate armies were losing a lot of men to desertion. Going to guerrilla bands will see a lot of the army vanish as opposed...

Sounds similar to the Pecheneg arrival into Europe from Central Asia and earlier barbarians like the Huns. The way migrations usually work is either 1) thorough conquest and they just keep expanding, or 2) they keep being defeated by other foes and continually forced west. In either case...

If they migrate, it won't be as one combined group under one war leader. There will be infighting in Arabia between the various clans, and some will stay and others will die while in Arabia. Some of them will migrate peacefully and join the Lakhmids or Ghassanids. Some may settle elsewhere in...

By 1947, the Soviets had their empire and they were going to keep it. There is no Tito-Stalin split. Moscow might tolerate a bit more deviation from internal policy, but there will not be a transition to a Finland style case. If Stalin died in 1945, then it is possible for lots of changes...

I think the exact timing here is important. A three week delay means Force Z could reach Singapore by December 23 if they wanted. ITTL, Indomitable should be near Cape Town on December 10 and we know per the POD Force Z is there on December 7. So if we add three more days, Force Z +...

Several things are needed. First, a more competent Yeltsin who is able to transition Russia successfully to both a true democracy and functioning market economy. In truth, lots more is needed than just Yeltsin functioning better. But it may be entirely impossible to avoid an economic...

A German seizure of the French navy would have consequences. The main reason for French agreement to the armistice was to ensure the continued existence of the French Empire in some format after the war, and the navy was essential to that. They had thought the war lost and that Britain would...