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I've greatly enjoyed this story so far, but I think things went a bit too well for Germany in the last chapter. Given the shortness of the war and realpolitik concerns I can see them getting away with a relatively light treaty, but the domestic politics are not going to go so smoothly. The...

Lower tensions between the West and India than OTL's US/China relationship for one. Possibly India has a faster start on investing in Africa too due to geographic proximity and the Indian diaspora in Africa from the colonial days. On the other hand, the India/Pakistan relationship will be...

Not to mention that pre-revolution a lot of slaves from the South would likely be sucked into the hellish maw of the British Caribbean slave factories, reducing the African American population in the South. Very, very bad for said slaves of course, but an earlier end to slavery and racial...

It's pretty cut and dry that US civilian gun ownership played zero part in Nazi or Imperial Japanese calculations about invading the US. They had other things to worry about, like that massive industrial capacity that outweighed them both by a factor of at least 2 and was churning out a...

Hard to get too great a change in tech or society without really going back further and changing things. Maybe a pre-WW2 POD that nixes the Cold War in the bud could lead to a more prosperous and technologically advanced world that has the social and economic capitol to invest in things like...

So i finished up the first leg of my Paradox megacampaign I started way back in the beginning of the year... the Western Dynastic Cycle, where I repeatedly build and smash the Roman Empire in a Chinese dynasty-like manner in CK2 with HIP. Here's the Imgur album I made for it, started with...

Do something to prevent the emergence of the classical Greco-Roman and Chinese educational systems. Both were overly focused on analysis of past cultural texts with an emphasis on rote memorization instead of development of critical thinking skills. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to do this, as...

Both GOP pickups in Missouri and Minnesota were impacted by deaths, but I'm not sure it's justifiable to butterfly them as neither were really linked to 9/11. The GOP pickup in Georgia is pretty safe at a ~7% margin, as is the Dem pickup in Arkansas. Without 9/11 the Democrats probably have a...

We tend to forget in this day in age is that back then the Presidency was less powerful, parties far less polarized, and the US dramatically less confident on the world stage. As @David T says in his post, there isn't likely to be much immediate change in the war, but I can see a slightly more...

It'll rile up the Democratic base for sure and may impact 2002 and 2004, but by then the election was over and done with the Republicans solidly behind Bush. Gore certainly could give it another go in 2004; it may just depend on how much traction he gets with his environmental work. Not sure...

I have a hard time seeing Iraq invaded without 9/11 kicking the US in the rear, much less it being more bipartisan than OTL. Yes Bush was focused on getting rid of Saddam and the board was set for a disastrous occupation, but it wasn't set in stone back then. If Bush pushes an invasion of...

Average is rating him far too highly. Nicky II would have made a nice figurehead monarch somewhere like Britain, but as the ruler of Russia he was catastrophically poor due to both his lackluster abilities but also thanks to his fanatic ideological attachment to medieval style autocracy and...

Difficult but possible depending on how postwar diplomacy shakes out. If France is completely defanged as a threat, Russia has a worse civil war than OTL, and Italy and AH remain in the German orbit I could definitely see Germany having the resources to build a navy that can seriously contest...

That was one disturbingly realistic take on a eugenics program. Give it a generation and I suspect even some Drakians will be unnerved by what they've created. Nobody's going to want to put a generation of psychopaths in charge of themselves, regardless of whether or not they're "genetically...

Jeez, what a mess in India. I'm quite interested in the concept of a UN owned nuclear arsenal as well as the Soviets flouting that treaty with their national stockpile. Seems to me that would be a very large flashpoint and aggrivator of tensions between West and East, what is the reaction in...

Monarchism is pretty effectively dead as an ideology today, but back in the 19th century it was both the "right wing" ideology and a rather potent force with new countries such as Greece and Belgium being established as monarchies, and things like France trying to foist an Emperor on Mexico...

Monarchism seems to fit that bill OTL.

You would need a POD going back to the early days of the United States that allows slavery to spread to the Midwest, and flips the political atmosphere so that the agrarian slaveholders are more amenable to a strong central government. With these factors in play, one could imagine some sort of...

Total bunk best I can tell. Based on this Wikipedia article it seems the Ming had artillery just as good as the Europeans, but they only fell behind when the Qing took over and turned inward.

Just finished binging this timeline and bravo good sir, this is without a doubt my favorite Civil War timeline on this site! I really appreciate your mastery of the political and social aspects of the war, as well as depicting the people and societies not as static actors, but as dynamic and...