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That's a good point. Due to how recent the civil war is, Spain is one of the few places where you could actually get large, active partisan/irregular forces on BOTH sides, simply because everyone would be scared of the other side winning and (re)affirming their rule with persecutions of those...

I think we can safely say that NEITHER SIDE will be able to move large forces quickly (or easily supply them) in WW2 Spain once you leave the areas around the major ports. Rail- and roadnet weren't exactly overdeveloped or overmaintained prior to the civil war, and with wartime damage, lack of...

To seriously evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides we need to look at the avability of critical resources to each side. A really big and obvious problem is oil: In this period the US is the world's number one oil producer, and it's not competitive - at all. Germany and Italy...

Well, without the nazis (specifically Hitler's power grab in '33) there would be no Popular Front - in Spain or elsewhere. That means the republicans might NOT win the election, since OTL they only managed that because the communists joined and the election system gave the largest block a...

Well, there's always that other british colony, somewhat closer to home... At least they spoke english (sort of) and you didn't have to wonder about their loyalty :-) Just extend conscription to Ireland in say late 1916 and watch the show...

One view is that it was due to the panic of 1907. The many previous crashes/panics/... mostly hit west of the appalachies and can be seen as the natural consequence of the loose monetary policies (banks with little or no capital, merchants issuing their own currency & credit...) required for the...

It's not just the direct loans to Britain and France, there's a whole net of of loans and subsidies from Britain and France to "minor" Entente players like Russia, Italy, Romania, Belgium, Serbia-in-Exile, various Arab groups etc. While some of that can be in goods (at least to Belgium, Italy...

Momentum matters most to struggling campaigns and the dwarfs who need their 15 minutes in the spotlight to attract new support, like gaffes an In the '08 primary winning states is less important than by how much, winning is nice but delegates are what matters The key to a Hillary win is to...

Well, the german highcommand was very slow to react to the first uses of tanks, instead concluding that they barely worked due to the many breakdowns etc and that they could be stopped by careful use of available resources such as K-rounds (for use against bunkers), grenades etc. Of course the...

Hm, didn't Iowa have (or propose) a law that automatically moved them to the head of the queue ? And other states were looking at moving up too. The first primary could end up well before xmas... There is also the problem that Michigan and Florida may find their delegations being refused seating...

You would be hard pressed to find anyone of any significance supporting a danish entry in the war, except possibly in case of an imminent german collapse. If Denmark is drawn in it'll be due to invasion, either because neutrality becomes impossible (the brits resist mining of the belts etc) or...

Hm, regarding the '08 primary: OTL Hillary ran the worst managed primary campaign by a major candidate ever. Not only did she manage to bankrupy what was then the best funded primary campaign ever - mostly via massive overhead (too many good old boys 'n gals from '92 and '96 on the payroll...

Nixon needed to overturn BOTH Illinois AND Texas, and Texas was a one party state to the point that de facto no legal avenue for a recount or appeal existed. Basically things would have to be so bad and well documented that the federal government HAD to intervene, and that's no easy thing in...

Hmm, I suspect the graph is a bit deceptive for WW2, most of the 1940-41 dip of ~3 million is likely war workers sent to Germany plus those who fled to/stayed outside France. French war casualties were "only" ~600.000 including the colonies (French Indochina may not be included here). Also note...

Here in Denmark it's subtext, EXCEPT for material aimed at preteens which is dubbed for obvious reasons. Given that dubbing is more expensive that subtexts that probably holds for most smaller countries/languages. Germany and France dubs most foreign material (or at least they used to, havent...

The normal way for groups to join the system was to organise your group locally and sell their votes to candidates, later you ally with a party and some of your goons get no-show jobs, later you become part of the party and your people move into low level positions etc This worked for the...

And as the cherry on top, the trunk lines were wide gauge (1,668 mm = 5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) and local lines narrow gauge (apparently there were more than one local gauge) - so you might as well rebuild the whole thing to standard gauge given their general state. [EDIT] Having read up on the whole...

Well, they never bothered to change the $20 threshold for jury trials in the 7th amendment (what's the per day cost of a jury trial these days ?)

Well, there's always the option of the US declaring all european possessions in the Americas forfeit. The smaller countries like the danes and the dutch couldn't do anything about it regardless of the circumstances, France is in no condition to deal with it while the war is raging and would...

Belgium abrogated the french-belgian alliance because of french adventurism in Eastern/Central Europe, specifically the (failed) French-Russian pact. Increasingly french alliances in the east (in which Belgium had no say) were seen as likely to cause war rather than prevent it The other factor...