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A Nazi IRA is an interesting thought. A bunch of criminals occasionally popping up and murdering people before melting into the general population. No reason that couldn't work, apolitical serial killers do even in countries that aren't in ruins afterall. Some Nazis sympathisers in Switzerland...

The problem is that Japan is a very well organised country and it plays by pretty similar rules to European nations. Its somewhere Europeans can do business with without needing to conquer anything. You've also the problem of the 19th century political situation between the Europeans. You...

Yeah. They were foreigners. There was little in the way of pan-celtic thinking. One of the key reasons for the Britons inviting over the English and fleeing to Brittany in the first place was Irish raiders.

Plus the Israelites weren't exactly a widespread and large in numbers people. Lots of ethnic groups have been wiped out over the course of history, no reason they couldn't be one among the many. You could also stop it developing into a rather unique religion with some early changes to keep it...

The big question you need to be asking is not are they capable of it- of course they are; the question is why would they? What is there to make them want to colonize Australia? That is what you need to tackle

This is in after 1900 but it is really more of a late victorian period onwards question, no 1900 limit needed. Berwick Rangers are a rather insignificant football team from a small town which have never really amounted to anything. They are however fairly famous down to one odd fact about...

To get Indians instead of Chinese perhaps you could afflict the Americans with the same type of thinking that Brits in the mid 20th century had with regards to muslims- they are loyal, hard working people who don't complain...not like those shifty pagans. I think you'd probaly need a big war...

Though the punk sound had been fairly well developed earlier with e.g. The Ramones, the Sex Pistols are widely regarded as the first true punk band because such a major part of punk was about the style, attitude and fashion, not just the music. Without them punk could well follow a more Ramonesy...

The entire point of Alaska selling it to the USA was they figured the Brits (enemy number 1) were bound to take it anyway so they might as well rip off the Americans while they lose it. Pretty similar reasoning to the Louisiana Purchase. Nations tend not to sell land just for the hell of it...

It wasn't the corridor hitter asked for, that was Polish. It was Danzig he wanted. If Poland have up Danzig then they would probably buy themselves a few months before the Germans then make other demands. Which is a good thing for the allies. The entire point of appeasement was that time was...

The trouble is two of the big winners of the Napoleonic wars with Russia and Britain. Both of whom really don't like the idea of one nation, especially a powerful one, controlling the entrance to the Baltic. Not to mention that Prussia wouldn't approve of a new and powerful nation on its...

I disagree. Two points there. 1: Out of nowhere suddenly getting a say where there was none before and not much demand for it- that will make people happy 2:In the EU neither all people nor all countries have an equal say and it works fine. But generally as I said there's no real point...

The trouble is, what would the Imperial Parliament do? Domestic decisions are best handled locally and foreign policy isn't exactly something people are going to vote solely about. The way things evolved IOTL with regular meetings of the commonwealth leaders is the logical way for things to...

In the 20th century yes, Britain could have done with being less trusting of the US. This is in before 1900 though so I've no idea what you're talking about with "appeasing america". Do you mean such things as not caring to fight over Washington and the like? The impact of such minor things...

Assuming it was possible and the british were willing to do it then thee question remains of : Bomb what? Auschwitz is a big place. Was there intelligence of which part of it had the guards quarters? And then hitting that area correctly wouldn't be guarantied...

I think if you look at the population density of OTL Ukraine and the major farming areas of the US, Australia, etc... you will see that it really doesn't take too many people to make efficient use of A LOT of land with modern farming techniques.

Larger and more disease resistant native population, less migrants from outside, the time in which most of Africa was colonized was a post slavery and less rapey time.

IOTL the Dutch arrived in South Africa at a pretty similar time to the Bantu peoples. Earlier even at the Cape. Speed up Dutch settlement there or slow down the Bantu migrations and you will leave only the Khoisans for Europeans to deal with, who are much less advanced and far fewer. A lot...

Well, yeah, that was the point of my post. :p

The trouble there is that the Emperor really helped to bind the country together. No matter what the actual political situation looked like there was always the emperor of Japan whose religious role is often gravely overlooked. It is true that over the Edo period it weakened and the Meiji...