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Referring to Humphrey as HHH just to me sounds all kinds of wrong. I only think of him getting into the White House and talking about sensible policies with his new cabinet before hearing a deep guitar riff and Lemmy from Motorhead shouting "Time to Play the GAAAMMME" before Humphrey breaks out...

Very smart guy who did a job competently in a hard time to do it. I don't think he was some moral paragon, but then again, not many people are.

Have WW2 somehow be fought on portions of American soil, or if not WW2, then some large scale industrialized war in the 20th century. The trauma of this would push almost any developed country in the direction of social democracy. It would also help to have the non white portion of the US...

Of course, that is assuming that nobody else has Paul's experiences or fills a similar role. It is entirely possible that we get a figure exactly like him who does the same thing. And as for the Empire's development, I don't think that the forces pushing towards monotheism exist without...

One of the problems was that the Progressive movement domestically, which was popular among wide segments of society, was also associated with imperialism as it represented a shift in traditional policy made popular by bombastic personalities like Roosevelt. Going after imperialism also made...

The whole world ganging up on Britain sounds like a juicy POD. I mean, the RN had no true equal, but if the next 5 best fleets in the world got in on it against them, they might be in some danger. And if they lose control of the seas, you can kiss most of their colonies, except for maybe India...

I think Rockefeller is a substantial possibility. I think RFK couldn't beat him as likely the South still swings for Wallace and quite a bit more decisively as I don't see any other Republicans appealing as much on racial grounds who could win the nomination, and RFK is just too out of touch...

She was essentially a reactionary Chinese version of Cersei Lannister, then.

The Fashoda incident could have gotten really ugly based on the egos involved. Strategic considerations might have led people to think it wasn't going to get out of hand, but it really could have.

If you think about it, some of his more ridiculous sounding orders, like keeping manpower locked up in the channel ports, were actually good ideas. I point to that because the truth of the matter is that if the troops in the channel ports that held out for months were sent east towards the...

Why is that smile worthy? I don't like the guy all that much, but I don't wish anyone to kill themselves. Suicide is a really awful thing, and for someone like Beck who suffered from alcoholism, it's not a laughing matter. But really, someone always hires people like that. Why else does...

I think that the rhetoric of Israeli opponents, even in Europe and not just places like Gaza, leads to me thinking about what it could possibly mean to the entire post WW2 order of the world if Israel was wiped out as so many of its detractors seem to advocate. I think it would radically change...

He is ousted from the throne and leaves England for Calais to try to get support, only for his ship to be attacked by pirates and taken prisoner and is taken on a roundabout trip through the Mediterranean before being banished to Corfu after the pirates start infighting and he escapes on a...

Then they would be shuffled into other Nazi groups, and continue their work through technicalities. It would be like a game of whack a mole. The SA had the organizational backbone at this point to survive attempts at elimination from the government, and they didn't need to be much more than...

So my question is if Israel was somehow able to be overrun and defeated, be it in 1948, 1967, 1973, or even if somehow an Intifada leads to an Arab army overrunning the country, what happens from there? I realize that this just wouldn't happen, but I am asking you to consider the consequences...

The power dynamics were a lot more equal than you would think. It wasn't a form of racism that was really the problem, at least not until the outcome of the struggle has been decided quite a while ago, when Victorian paternalism spread throughout the west and across the Atlantic, which is when...

What I had in mind wasn't clear. I was thinking some sort of draticpolitcao event occurs that leads us to having no relations or trade with the Soviets at all and that they have to supply this own war effort.

Exactly, if you are going to go by those figures, you might as well say that the US was inflicting casualties at a 20:1 rate by the end of the war.

They employed those same strategies against Finland, Poland, and in the early portions of Barbarossa. Their offensive doctrine did not evolve much beyond using massive artillery and rocket strikes before an attack because they had artillery and rockets due to the US, and using vehicles to speed...

Malaya fell through sheer incompetence and tactical failure. Supplies were not a problem. The only area I can see it making a difference is in aircraft, as the aircraft that Percival had were outdated and flown by green crews. Having modern aircraft with somehow more trained crews might stave...