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If the KMT had stayed in power in at least Southern China or if the Southern government had not been as awful and corrupt a South Vietnam capitalist country would not be unimaginable.

A lot more people would be shaved! I doubt it though. What interests would anyone have in letting the Nazis stay active?

Probably as a sign of the empire's decline it would still be remembered. Someone in the royal family, esp. the crown prince is shot and nobody does anything about it but oppress some minorities. Bold and decisive leadership, but only when compared to Washington DC.

The Hannibal takes Rome scenario is the most intuitive because it involves a shattering of Roman power but not the destruction of the Republic that would still continue in the same form.

For the people, by the people, of the people.

Russia may still consider Kruschev's main its staple crop, changing the world forever.

There's a structural background to every events chain. I think what you're talking about is if the Republicans remained a sort of dominant culture middle class sunbelt migrant mainstream faction. Then yeah it would still be red.

Collapse into civil war and economic ruin. Does anyone really think a Nazi Empire could have survived running on the principle of racist occupation? Even the shocktroops were demoralized by that. What works in Hitler's head (his plan to immediately sideline Italy after winning the main war for...

Taiwan, Syria-Israel, Ukraine, Moldova-Transnistria, Cuba-USA, Iran-Saudi Arabia, North-South Korea all blow up at once and the great powers wave their egos around until they start shooting at eachother. Then we might have a probable WW3 scenario. Imagine if everyone had an awesome missile...

Blood blood blood and more blood. Japan would be completely diablerized, but then again, was it relevant in international affairs from 1945-1990 anyways?

I think Biden was pretty moderate appealing whereas Hillary was more seen as part of the Democratic establishment.

Well there wouldn't be a gold standard movement!

Would have prevented the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. THe main reason the Ottomans lost so easily to minor British sidetheaters in the Middle East was that they were distracted with a series of fiascos in the caucusus. The timing might not align completely but those certainly drained Ottoman...

The Turks would have one at Lepanto!!!

English would be a much different langauge!

Rome's collapse was caused more by internal problems and economic mismanagement instead of competing outside pressures. I think that this would have put a buffer between Germans and Rome but let's remember that until the very end Western Rome controlled sizeable portions of Western Europe but...

The caliphate was practically discredited by 1923 but it might have recovered in the 1970s which would mean that extremism would be less widespread and more contained.

This changes everything!

What about a Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe dominated country? haha

The West would secede from both and the Union and Confederacy would fight eachother to the death before the Union united with the West by conquest.