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Most likely divide, conquer, exploit. Likely a main puppet government with compliant regional puppets to keep China weaker. In an Imperial Japanese fantasy, they'd somehow make the Chinese compliant and use China as a vast pool of manpower, and resources, their own personal supply closet.

I think the question is if they don't topple the Soviets, do they at least force them to the peace table? That's a difficult question to answer considering how Stalin didn't survive into the war and the leadership that did eventually emerge did so purely to surrender. If the Soviets can hang in...

Generally, history regards the Wehrmacht well and the Red Army much less so. I don't think many would argue that the Red Army in 1941-1943 is superior to the Germans at that time. On the other hand, a two front war including a land war in Russia? That's a tall, tall order. Perhaps not...

Eh, look at what happened to communism. It was the right choice, as the 80s and 90s showed that those regimes were ultimately doomed. Odds are nothing good, and the USSR still failed with a big seat on the UN. I don't think this ultimately changes anything long term, but short term I suspect it...

I'd take any that involve Dan Snyder not getting ownership of the Redskins. John Kent Cooke manages to hold onto the Redskins and leads them to 20 years of comfortable, middle of the road NFL success. No Super Bowls, but a few decent playoff runs and a feeling the team's a well run team that...

I liked the general idea as well as the unflinching look at how terrible communism is. I also liked the moral ambivalence around Mussolini that makes him a complex figure rather than a cardboard cutout to hate. Those were very well done. These were mostly fine. Serviceable at worst and...

That's about the ending I hoped for. This Mussolini is complex enough that the answer isn't spoonfed to us and we have to make our own judgment. Great timeline, looking forward to the 2020 update.

Very much so. What strikes me in particular is that Mussolini often drew on Roman imagery and was posthumously declared the Caesar of Italy. In 30, 50, 100 or more years, will there be a strongman who wants to become the Mussolini of Italy? Scary stuff.

Understandable need to finish the timeline aside, I do feel that it's like fascism had its day, it won and now its age is over. It doesn't feel like it lost like communism did (both OTL and ITTL), but merely that it accomplished most of its aims and thus spent itself as a political force. After...

Yeah, a whole lot like that. I thought Mussolini's last words in story were pretty apt: Wondering if he was worth another's life in the end. That no answer was given in story felt like it summarizes Mussolini's career rather well.

About my take. I suspect you'll see a lot of people go something like, "Yeah he was bad, but he was a product of his time and did a lot of good, too." A lot of the native Italian sentiment would glaze over the bad points and emphasize the good, while the worldwide opinion would be more evenly...

The real problem and deal breaker with this is war weariness, as well as manpower and the US supplying the Soviet war effort. All sides but the US were nearing their limit of manpower. The Soviets relied on US support a great deal to survive WW2. Remove that and factor in the war stretching on...

It's not a question of timing, per se, it's a question of content. This is a timeline about boxing, right? I'd reasonably expect to read about boxing and not politics. When the third or fourth update branches into politics, and in a way that feels like a way to derail a politician people here...

I don't know, this feels pretty extraneous to the story so far (what little of it there is, admittedly). Without touching on if Reagan would say that for a moment, the entire incident being shoehorned in feels forced.

I can't even blame you. Congratulations!

So say Bush 2 can produce WMDs from Iraq? He suddenly looks a lot more competent and shutting down Saddam a smart move. It may not mitigate the various issues with Iraq post invasion, but Bush can hold up evidence that justified what he did. I imagine the '04 election is a more decisive Bush win...

This. I'm not saying he will or won't have a better opinion of the fascists, but it's entirely plausible he concludes both are terrible systems. The fascists just happen to be correct about the threat of communism, that's all.

At that time, likely complete social revolt. 1967 is not 2010. It might well undermine the Supreme Court due to the backlash. It's tossing a few gallons of gasoline onto the social and cultural fires already going on in the late 60s, that's not going to help anyone or anything. You're way too...

Yeah. Nothing to be done about that. Anyway, keep up the good work, it's a fun timeline to read.

Redskins fan here. The Redskins with Coughlin and Fitzgerald? It's nice on paper, though the problems in Washington are likely beyond any player and coach to fix. Still, nice to dream.