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For those who don't know about it: So, let's say the Jewish setters declare independence from the West Bank and form a government. Would we see another 1948, with Othodox Jews combating Palestinians? Could said state receive UN recognition, or would it be another "Northern Cyprus"? Would it...

Recently I've been reading the Great Turkish War on the Venetian part and a question came to me: Was invading Greece a sound option or were there better options to benefit Venice in the long run? They could have opted to retake Crete, attack North Africa, maybe even a ballsy landing in Judea as...

With a POD of the death of Konstantin Chernenko, the Soviets pick someone other than Gorbachev to lead (say Grigory Romanov, for example). Realizing that the Soviet economy is utterly screwed, the Premier sees two options on the table: let the Soviet Union collapse or fight the West in a chance...

As the title says, what are the chances that Frederick Douglass can get elected Governor of any state after the Civil War? IIRC only the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina had an African American majority. In theory, Douglass can win the majority from just the black vote. What...

With a POD of Quincy Adams not running in 1824 and then somehow beats Jackson in 1828, how would the Nullification Crisis play out if the President is a protectionist Massachusettsan? Obviously he'd have very little support in the South, but more support than Jackson in the North: Potentially...

A pretty simple idea I though of. :p During Bush's press conference in Iraq something grabs his attention (a fly lands on Nouri al-Maliki's shoulder, notices a crack in the wall, spaces out, ect.) and doesn't notice the impending shoe being thrown at him. Say in a lucky throw, the first shoe...

Having been floating around on Wikipedia lately I noticed an interesting piece of info on the page of François Duvalier. It reads: Say the Dominican commanders react with more enthusiasm on the idea and go through with it. How would the course of the war go? Would the US try to put a stop...

Say that former-Beatle George Harrison never had/survived his cancer and is still alive today to continued his work. The way I see it is two different paths. 1. George Harrison never has cancer and simply lives on despite his punctured lung. 2. George Harrison still gets cancer, but...

What if sometime during the late Pacific Campaign the American had decided to help liberate Indochina by landing in Saigon and continuing from there? What would the effects of an American effort in southern Indochina during WW2 bring on things like: The Post-War condition of Vietnam...

Here is something I've been thinking about lately: Was there any possibility that the ambitious Gamal Abdel Nasser could have become a Pan-African like how Muammar Gaddafi was? Say Israel was defeated in a war sometime during the 50s and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan all go after Palestine...