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  1. KingOnTheEdge

    AHCWI: Milanese Italy

    could a strong Italian state hold enough power to project into the middle east or black sea and retain more power after the discovery of the Americas?
  2. Vanguard45

    DBWI: Market Garden Instead Of Scheldt Battle

    Given the British advance in 1945 being held up because they ignored Dutch Army units warnings about not using the roads allowing for columns to be shot up easily? The airborne units would've been lucky to hold out on enough to hear the distant artillery of their relief as they surrendered...
  3. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    Why? If it takes much more expensive processes to make a more endurable part how is that better? You are either going to have to hire higher skilled people who could be do something else. buy more expensive equipment and do without something more useful, use a rarer raw material more quickly or...
  4. The camp David Accords fail

    On the other hand, assassinating Sadat might scare future leaders who presumably don't want to be assassinated in turn.
  5. BELFAST

    AHC: An Irish Economic Miracle

    You have a good point about Ardnacrusha. The state built it, but in a wasteful way. They took people from different part of the country on the dole. A few after months when they learn what to do, they were replaced with other workers on the dole who had to learn a new. Much of the work was done...
  6. unclepatrick

    DBWI: Market Garden Instead Of Scheldt Battle

    Even "Shattered" panzer units can be nasty for Airborne units to deal with. What anti tank gear did the British jump with? The big issue would have been the ground assault. The Germans had some of those Bridges wired to explode . The plan for Market Garden assumed that the Airborne unit would...
  7. Richard II dies in 1399

    Most definitely older children are likely etc
  8. DBWI: Market Garden Instead Of Scheldt Battle

    One bridge blown and the whole thing's pointless. They get to liberate southern Holland--OK, good for them, but Amsterdam and Rotterdam remain in German hands, and if the Arnhem bridge is lost, they have to mount a whole other major offensive to cross the Rhine. And given Prince Bernhard's...
  9. AHCWI: Milanese Italy

    Not having Gian Galeazzo Visconti die from a fever when he was about to conquer Florence would go a long way towards having a strong native Italian state form and expand from the Renaissance onward. These were the lands he controlled at the time of his sudden death: The peninsula would still...
  10. Ibn naazbu

    Sehzade Mahmud (Son of Mehmed III) Becomes Sultan

    Unfortunately that's where my knowledge end, so you will just have to wait till @Osman Aga finishes his exam!
  11. Amadeus

    American Conservatism without Goldwater and Reagan

    Or you could see William Scranton nominated in 1964 as a compromise candidate. (I think Rocky's personal life would bar him from getting the nod even w/o Goldwater).
  12. "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    In a UDI situation they are going to be hard pressed fending off loyalist and NI “state“ forces, bombing GB is going to be down the list I would think.
  13. "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    Pretty much in this case I would say so.
  14. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    Also, I would consider this to be a pricing failure. If it's cheaper to accept parts wearing out more frequently and having to be replaced, then something about the pricing model has gone wrong somewhere.
  15. Richard II dies in 1399

    Could. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Depends on how you imagine the reigns of Henry V and his successor play out after ATL Henry IV. Now there's an interesting thing that I hadn't thought of. An early marriage for Monmouth has enormous consequences in the long run, even if he dies as young as...
  16. WI Nazis overthrown from within ?

    IMO no Resistance forces were capable of defeating German garrisons on their own. Also, as of 20 July Allied armies were poised to sweep over large sections of the Nazi empire. OTOH, Germany did withdraw from Greece in October 1944; the Communist wing of the Resistance tried to take over...
  17. Dutch retain Taiwan

    If the Dutch take before the Qing do and keep it, we might see much more Dutch influence on Japan than IOTL, and could lay the grounds for a Dutch-Japanese alliance rather than an Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
  18. No Kriegsmarine cruisers or modern destroyers

    No cruisers at all isn't viable, simply because the light cruisers and Panzerschiffe were built under the Weimar regime. And these ships were invaluable in building up naval industry and a core of experienced seamen after the break from the Kaiserliche Marine. They also provided a margin of...
  19. The camp David Accords fail

    The fact that Egypt-Israel peace has continued for decades after the actual assassination of Sadat in '81 indicates the policy didn't depend on one man but had broad support in Egypt. But things might've turned out differently if Sadat's government was overthrown at the time of an assassination...
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