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I knew a scenario like this (relatively recent, still currently controversial) would bring out people with political axes to grind. I wonder now if the original poster chose it just to draw such a reaction. I still don't think my answers are particularly Lefty, and even the most partisan...

If the personal is political, don't take it politically RE: Dean - I'm trying to objectively consider the butterflies, but even where you agree with me you seem like you're disagreeing with me. I'm not saying that Katrina would have turned into a creampuff, or that Gore would have an open...

I meant more socially than politically (or rather, soft power rather than hard). Somehow I don't see millions of Europeans taking to the streets to protest banana tariffs. You wouldn't see the term "Old Europe" except in a few far-right wing US blogs. The mutual animosity would never grow beyond...

This strikes me as a political, rather than strictly A-H question, but I think under such a scenario (no Bush, no 9/11 - which is two PODs, btw) US-China tensions would be MUCH higher, since without Al-Qaeda and Iraq to focus on, the Neoconservative foreign policy intelligentsia would latch onto...

Well, you could have the islands become a sort of Western-backed Qemoy-Matsu/Taiwan analogue if the Communists take over Greece after WWII, and they decide to revive the old name after seceding.

But Broz, the indentured servitude system was replaced by the racial system. Perhaps Protestant-Catholic tensions could be exported to the New World (say as a result of the English Civil War and Cromwell's invasion of Ireland). As I recall the first African slave in the future US was sold by...

- Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic The above quote crystallized a thought I'd been having after watching the series Rome: what if the indentured servitude system in colonial America (where white convicts or debtors worked without pay for white masters, although their status wasn't heritable)...

Minor quibble. In 1980, Carter would still be president - in the US, the president-elect doesn't take office until January 20th of the odd-numbered year following the election; otherwise, I dig this concept - please continue.

Not to be macabre, but if there is an Indo-Pakistani nuclear war, the next time your parents have to reinstall Windows, there will be no one on the other end of the help line and you will have to do it!:eek:

Seems to me that Europe's political, economic and defense structures are needlessly overcomplicated by the fact that they are embodied in different institutions - The EU/Common Market and NATO, respectively. With a POD during or immediately post-World War II (perhaps motivated by an even scarier...

Maybe you could have this in a "Confederacy wins" timeline, with a US-built canal in Panama competing with a European-financed and Confederate-built canal in Nicaragua. Neither country would want the other to be able to shift naval forces from ocean to ocean faster than the other, though the...

Dante the politician I dunno 'bout Dante-as-Lenin. He was a believer in Imperial authority in Italy (at least insofar as it diminished the secular power of the Papacy), and I don't think he had any real populist leanings. I have to stress that in the course of this thought experiment, I want...

What if, instead of writing the Divine Comedy in exile, Dante successfully rallied his faction of the Guelphs and recaptured Florence? He was big for the power of the Holy Roman Emperor in Italy, and I can think of all sorts of potential butterflies for the Papacy, the HRE, the Crusades, and...

Another mistake I put OTL Macedonia in Bulgaria rather than Austria-Hungary (HT mentions anti-Hapsburg Macedonian people bombers in one of the Settling Accounts books)

RE - hugeness of the map Sorry - if I shrink the map too much the labels get lost - the Sandwich islands look like they have a pixilated shadow rather than a label - I'll have to work on a smaller version with larger labels.

Which did you want - "Political Map 1941" or "Alliance Systems 1941"? I also did the 1914 maps for TL-191 in the Turtledove wikia - Just OTL map with a Confederacy added and Maine halved in size, Alaska Russian, etc.

Author! Author! Thanks, guys, I did the map last fall and wondered if anybody'd seen it. I still wonder if it's quite accurate, especially in South America - I awarded Chile Argentina's half of Tierra del Fuego at the end of the Great War, for kicks (and to provide a revanchist motive for...

I'm basing most of my military analysis on John Keegan (a good general history of the war) and extrapolating from there. The social and political stuff is mainly guesswork-I'm not terribly familiar with the personalities in the late Ottoman Empire, but I can hazard a guess on the workings of...

Mark - don't start a flame war. If you'll recall there was no great clamor in either party to go after the terrorists pre-9/11, and has there ever been a political policy more feckless than the endless pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment?

Also, I completely forgot about the Russian Front in WWI - I was writing in another context about the Dardanelles Campaign succeeding - with the Straights in Allied hands, the Western Allies could send supplies and possibly men to Russia, shortening the war and maybe staving off the Russian...