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I've been expecting a collision of the two Asian titans for some time now, but I do find it strange that the EIC as Maratha ally would fumble the diplomatic ball so badly. I would think that to have survived so long, making profits, in this region, the Company management would have made a deep...

Oh, there are always microclimates here and there, places where a fair sized town can probably sustain itself--provided they have either deals or adequate military protection to deter steppe raiders. I wouldn't estimate the carrying capacity too high especially in the northeast quadrant, also...

French troops in Ireland, yes...but only 20,000 of them. It is a distraction and a nuisance, but Britain surely can send in forces to check 20,000 French troops and 20,000 Irish rebels. France gets this and France gets that...what do the Irish get if the French withdraw to get all that other stuff?

Um, wait a second. I think what you mean here is, that obviously if they had landed instead of being lost at sea, and then all died fighting the British in Ireland, it wouldn't weaken France since they were lost anyway. Fine, but was it the plan for them to be expended to the last man, or just...

Liked, I alluded to his having gone nuts as part of the premise myself. Also, footnote, why the heck, if we assume Mad Franco or some machination by the Reich to make damn sure the Franco regime pays its debt for the help they got from Germany and Italy triumphing in the Civil War--some degree...

Actually. since Portugal stayed neutral OTL, I don't see how Franco going nuts and declaring openly for the Axis is going to flip Portugal to the Allies. Overall Portugal had plenty of reason to go all in as an Ally. 1) the generic dependency of both Iberian nations on trade by sea, and having...

I believe you are saying we can, for purposes of speculation, handwave that with good luck, the French expedition can succeed once. Now you don't provide any links, I suppose I could look it up, but just how many French troops would the success of the plan have landed in Ireland? And did the...

Assuming that the Order and/or Lithuanian conquerors don't just subjugate the whole lot and make the dominant class language German or Lithuanian--either they do conquer but find they need a lot of coopted local collaborators, or the capture to the Roman sphere is indirect via persuading Pskov's...

Hey, I believe India was as specie-hungry as China, it is just that OTL EIC rule offset and to the extent it might become obnoxious, repressed that tendency. But Indians of wealth I gather did tend to hoard silver and gold and the collective hoards of India amounted to a huge portion of the...

Absolutely there is nothing forcing the OP situation in Yankee attitudes. You aren't rolling with the OP premise though. Actually, no, Jefferson being trapped into British alliance and war with the Napoleonic alliance system is not supposed to stem from American changes. Rather, the OP...

You clarified in the early part of this post of yours what you meant by a more normal mode of emancipation; it is unclear if you also think it is normative, that is, the way it should have gone in the USA too, because it might seem better to have a gentler, gradual, non-disruptive process...

This is one of those possibilities that is a bit sickening to contemplate, but my feeling is, yes, Napoleon and L'Ouverture have some potential to ally, and then it does seem likely that the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican coalition starts to crumble, because despite lofty principles he...

I have the notion I might shadow this project with a parallel thread, in Chat so if subjects deemed "current" politics whatever that means come up people can freely adduce them. With courtesy and civility I trust. Toward that end I have revamped the Wyoming and Vermont spreadsheets, to bring...

Liked because you said succinctly what I was saying. I really don't think Eric C. Johnson's scenario would actually shorten the war, but it would make the severance of France's entire colonial system starting with Algeria and Tunisia pretty immediate and decisive; quite a few French colonists...

I noticed a long time back that this TL avoided the French Revolution and the subsequent mass disruption of Europe in the Napoleonic/Coalition wars. That I think helps explain Russia a bit, though now it is 70 years on. I was noticing a lot of expansionism, especially by the Russians, early in...

I found DRA by Internet search. It looks limited in some ways regarding my interests, which are centered on achieving what I call "positive representation," meaning people can vote for the representative they want, have most confidence in, whom they think will most consider and advocate for...

Deliberate partisan gerrymanders are a plague on the nation, but it also happens that structural lopsidedness as bad or worse than any partisan election-rigging guru can come up with happen "naturally" when we draw districts without regard to party. One major reason I tout the leveling-up...

You are sticking with FPTP for each small district then? How do you get these indices of party lean in each district? I suppose you might have access to a database of all the precincts in each state, and either some pundit group has computed these indices based on past electoral behavior plus...

I gave @Germaniac a Like because it is condescending to suppose that the colonized peoples of the world would necessarily have to wait for the Europeans to start shooting at each other to assert their desires not to be ruled from Europe, condescending to suppose a silver lining for these ruled...

Quite a long time ago, someone issued an AH challenge to have an English-speaking but Muslim population dominating North America. The OP kept moving the goalposts but in response to this, I suggested a quite wacky sequence: 1) postulate a much stronger, unified al-Andalus. It is unclear to me...