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How could the Nasser-type project of Arab unification have been successful - or, at least, MORE successful? I don't see ALL Arab states entering into a secular superstate, federation, confederation, "hard" alliance, etc., but maybe a lot of them. (A hard alliance is something like NATO or the...

Maybe things start to look a bit more like Ceaucescu in Romania: without an enemy, ai think the state is going to be much less potent. There will be some insanity, sure. Assuming the general course of Cold War remained the same (which is unlikely), ai feel like Korea is likely to move into East...

Oddly enough, I don't think Brazil in particular or all of South America in general get Balkanized enough. Over the course of the nineteenth century, central governments could fail to do quite as well as they did OTL. Imagine a bunch of city-states with small empires along the coast - like a...

Ai think the best bet for it would be for it to not collapse at all - at least for a bit. Whatever government you get - maybe the August coup leaders - isn't going to let the Soviet Union fall apart, and they defend the borders, repress every uprising, scorn the West, etc. Take power from the...

So, ai realized that it's very fun to play a communist Japan in Victoria: Revolutions. Ai typically always go communist in the 1870s or so during the grand campaign. Very ASB. Ai was thinking, though, that a communist revolution might've been possible in Japan in the late 1920s, early 1930s...

With a POD no earlier than 1825, how can Russia rise to the status of being considered a genuinely free society by 1950?

Upper Canada is Canada. Canada doesn't expand beyond Upper and Lower Canada, and, later on, Quebec separates.

Attitudes might change after a few good years of fiercely resisted Spanish occupation, however. Many Mesoamericans, while disliking the Mexica and the Acolhua (the principal of the three "Aztec" tribes of the Triple Alliance), they certainly did have a very great deal of respect for them as...

Have some kind of religion start in some other part of North America, and have it eventually flee to northern Manitoba and elsewhere, escaping persecution. This will make the population jump up there - although I don't think there could be THAT much population density, so you'd have to see a...

Okay! So, please be gentle! This is my first TL. As you can see, I am unable to write things in a logical way, if I just go about it as a sequence of events. I think I am going to have to relegate myself to large paragraphs and sections. There is a possibility that some of what is written seems...

Japanese territorial conquests in Asia, 1914 to 1921 The assassination of an Austrian archduke in the distant city of Sarajevo led to the nations of Europe turning against one another, and slaughtering each other in both record numbers and marvel ways. In Tokyo, a window of opportunity was...

Barbieland, after Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, emerges from anonymous exile and takes over the country.

Connect the Russian Revolution with the German Revolution, and you have communism in the middle of Europe. See greater communist/socialist elements in the Mexican Revolution - maybe a surviving socialist state in the Yucatan?

I like the idea of a Nordic-Native hybrid culture in Markland, i.e. Labrador and northern Quebec.

Well, I am trying to see just how chaotic the Red Summer of 1919 could have become. If my original hopes for unrest into 1925 are unreasonable, then so be it. However, things certainly could have been worse - at least a little bit. Race riots, a more devastating influenza, non-interventionist...

That's actually a very good point.

I will make the assertion that, considering the fact that you'd need quite an early POD to get the Japanese atomic bombs in the first place, it can also cover them getting warhead-capable aircraft - and possibly even keeping from the United States from having radar. :p I do not envy the man who...

Ah, I don't want a socialist United States. I want a United States that is economically crippled by rampant internal insurgency, violence, assassinations, etc. Essentially, a very politically unstable country, like Central Europe or pre-revolutionary Russia. I am seeing revolutionaries taking to...

It's really not that hard to imagine a lone aircraft carrier, with a plane with a nuclear warhead, sneaking across the Pacific Ocean and getting close enough to the West Coast to hit Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. The Pacific is a big place, and, considering Japanese martial...

I think a POD between 1854 and 1870 might be appropriate - at the earliest. Basically, you need a huge Nipponwank. Japan has already got to be in control of, like, China. It has to be a superpower by 1941.