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  1. 2018 Presidential Election

    Senator Charlie Forrester at a Senate hearing in 2019. (photo by Mitch Pileggi-Original 2010 casting)
  2. Middle East without Christianity or Islam

    As several people said upthread, I guess the answer to your question is there would be many different religions and no clear winner. Alternately, but it's a fairly unlikely scenario (but then 500 years after a POD nearly everything is fair game) you get a single syncretic religion which is a...
  3. WI: Japan don't attack Philippines/Hawaii in 1941: how does US react

    It creates a very awkward situation for Roosevelt By December 1941, most Americans had accepted the idea that the US might enter the war. According to Gallup polls (IIRC), about 20% favored immediate US intervention, about 20% were opposed to any US intervention (isolationists), and about 40%...
  4. "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    The Official IRA was Marxist-Leninist, INLA (Irish Nationalist Liberation Army) was Marxist, the Provisional IRA came out of OIRA and was nominally Socialist but I doubt the members making millions out of smuggling in South Armagh or drug dealing in Derry or Belfast agreed. Real IRA, Continuity...
  5. David Flin

    "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    I don't know about Lebanon 1985, but I do know about Beirut 1976. Beirut 1976 was an order of magnitude, possibly 2 orders of magnitude, worse than Northern Ireland 1972. I was in both.
  6. AlanJWhite

    AHTL: British Carrier Strike

    NP... and very true in OTL in the late 30's However, given that iTTL there seems to have been more attention paid to the FAA, both decks and aircraft, I rather suspect @HMS Audacious has a POD in mind that may ameliorate (if not completely avoid) that kind of shortsighted/narrow minded...
  7. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    I...specifically spelled out why it's better. More durable parts mean a lower consumption of resources overall (since you don't need to make as many parts) and more reliable systems based on them (except maybe in specific cases where durability is the opposite of what's required, in a fuse for...
  8. Largest possible British India?

    Maybe you can also add the Maldives and some other islands.
  9. Richard II dies in 1399

    Oh? Interesting, will have to have a look :)
  10. Diagram

    Oh, I was just tired of being out of contact.

    Oh, I was just tired of being out of contact.
  11. KingOnTheEdge

    AHCWI: Milanese Italy

    With almost a century to play around with, I didn't see those conquests as particularly hard to get, as long as they don't go for Rome proper
  12. Richard II dies in 1399

    Yes. As I've said in other threads -- in fact, this topic is what got me to join this forum! -- I think Monmouth and Isabella wedding and having children in the 00s may well be the key to English victory in the Lancastrian War. (At least insofar as reclaiming the Angevin Empire territories.)
  13. Atterdag

    If Nazi Germany had had industrial parity in WWII, would they have won?

    It would probably have to be far worse in a way that leads to more political instability, so that those resources can’t be put to use as well.
  14. WI: No Molotov-Ribbentrop

    Honestly I just threw that in there for dramatic character. With Germany having already rejected the British ultimatum to withdraw from Poland, the French launching an offensive in the Saar, and the Anglo-French agreeing to much of the substance of what the USSR wanted (Military/political...
  15. AHCWI: Milanese Italy

    They'd need to grab Naples + Sicily and deal with the Pope before that, though. And the Ottomans are on the rise, so they'd probably be cut off from the Black Sea. I could see Tunis and Algiers becoming tempting targets for this state, if only to provide bases for them to deal with the Barbary...
  16. DBWI: Market Garden Instead Of Scheldt Battle

    Ive gamed this out several times, the plan such as it was as written, & with assumed improvements. 1. The attack is limited to the airborne and British XXX Corps. The adjacent 21 AG corps were not ready to follow and cover the XXX Corps flanks. I've not found and logistics magic that gets...
  17. 2018 Presidential Election

    Thursday April 8th, 2021 Senator Charlie Forrester "ready to declare" Presidential bid Georgia Senator Charlie Forrester is understood to be "ready to declare" his entry into the Republican presidential battle in the next few days, NBS sources say. Forrester , 67, who served in the Lassister...
  18. What-if SMG for late 1930s and on

    The British converted SMLE's and P14's to .22 LR as the Rifle No.2 and Rifle No.3 respectively. As far as ammo selection I would recommend using something that is also suitable your standard service pistol. That was a major logistical benefit of SMG's, and it would be a shame to have to run...
  19. Middle East without Christianity or Islam

    I'm just saying that there were many different faiths before Rome fell and after it did the region is nor 85% Islam. I'm pretty sure Islam is the clear winner otl. Would Gnosticism have any major changes now that it has to take influence from Judaism and Zoroastrianism exclusively?
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