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  1. Explain the AH Quote

    Taken from 'The house of the mouse' 2015 political satire movie, with Tom Hanks as president Disney and Robert de Niro as the FBI director. "It's times like these I wish Batman had stayed dead."
  2. DracoLazarus

    WI French capital isn't Paris

    You could always have Melun if you want another capital on the Seine. Vichy was a de facto, but not de jure, capital.
  3. (military) technological progress without WW 2

    Transplant surgery, biomaterials, and chemotherapy would all lag as a result of no world war 2. Transplant Surgery: In during the battle of Britain, there was a surplus of young men with mortal heart injuries. These were given to doctors who could do whatever they wanted with them, because...
  4. marathag

    (military) technological progress without WW 2

    The Navy program on 'Atomic Boilers' was rolled into the Manhattan Project in 1942, but that was focused on capital ships
  5. AHC: more capitalist friendly Rome

    Not really. Rome was inherently built upon a society dominated by a noble class, which promoted expansion and warfare to assert hegemony over Italy, and later the Mediterranean, due to extensive conflict all over the Peninsula. Rome needed to become a militarized society, otherwise it'd be...
  6. AHC: more capitalist friendly Rome

    Arent mercantile and militaristic mutually exclusive? IIKC in Athens it was the merchants who were most aggressive as nd f for territorial expansion Cant we somehow increase the power of mercantile classes in late republican or early imperial era?
  7. Galloway and the Plan of Union: A Saga of a British America

    At the time, it looked like Nutca and Patagonia were disputed, the former between the Spanish, Russians, and British, and the latter since it wasn't really settled and Britain looked to it during the invasion of the Rio de la Plata. If this were to happen, I would expect it to be implemented...
  8. Sārthākā

    Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    The first battle in the first world war:Alsace Lorraine by Karl Deuringer and and Alsace-Lorraine under German Rule by Charles Hazen are good starters. The German speaking alsatians and Lorrainers were by rights even more Franco friendly than the francophone alsatians and Lorrainers funnily enough.
  9. How much different would cancelling operation Barbarossa make on WW2

    Germany's big "fuel problem" is that it has 3 fuel-intensive things it would, in an ideal world, want to do: 1. Expand its motorized forces from 15 divisions in 1940 to 30+, and provide more motor transport to infantry divisions. 2. Expand its air and naval forces to compete with the RAF/RN...
  10. WI: Iraq invades Saudi Arabia?

    That is a valid point, basically unless their is Mosul grade disaster for the Saudis then Iraq can't take enough ground for the US to instead of trying to save a sinking ship they leave to ie the UAE. In which case Saddam, well maybe he can barging better now the Saudi oil threatened? Obviously...
  11. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    And yet when the Americans were researching the history of salt dome storage for oil products they recognised that Deutsche Erdol AG (DEA) obtained a patent covering the use of solution—mined salt cavities for the storage of crude oil and distillates as early as 1916...
  12. Sārthākā

    South Africa restores the monarchy after Apartheid

    Pretty much. At the time Mandela seemed really interested in the monarchy so Klerk likely was simply trying to ride the proverbial train. Yes which is why I acknowledged that some kind of change or PoD in the 80s at least would be required. Mandela apparently was going for the Ashanti model in...
  13. British Biscuit

    The (Global) South Rises: Collaborative TL

    October 24, 1945: the United Nations Security Council is formed. Victorious powers of WW2 pick 6 nations to be the Permanent Members of UNSC – Brazil, Chiang Kai-shek's China, France, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and United States of America. US president Franklin D. Roosevelt championed...
  14. An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V

    I might also be able to help :)
  15. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    the other stuff in your post.
  16. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabern_Affair
  17. Russia vs Germany, WW2

    If Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany and the US never entered the war, what would the likely outcome of Barbarossa be? Alternatively, If the US did enter the war, how would they stage an invasion without Britain?
  18. The Lenin Dynasty

    Never? Was there not even one occasion when family activities distracted him from Party activities? When, say, money needed for travel was spent on family needs? Or an article was not written? Also, the PoD means Krupskaya would have three children to care for, and while her role in RSDLP...
  19. WI: Iraq invades Saudi Arabia?

    I'd expect that the first fight would be approaching KKMC whether or not the US forces got there in time. But the Saudis wouldn't fold that fast and there's a lot of desert between the Kuwait border and Riyadh. The Iraqis couldn't get that far.
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