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  1. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    If you need a Cabinet level post that is basically a do nothing post but still keeps someone close, use the Postmaster General. It was used to reward Party members who were important and acted as advisors without being saddled with other things. At this time the USPO basically ran itself and...
  2. WI/AHC: Viceroyalty of Rio Grande

    Mmmmh, I doubt this is viable. The gigantic north is very underpopulated (with europeans that is) and even worse controlled. I think it's possible to create a new vice royalty in Texas and notheast Mexico but you probably need Louisiana for that. The bourbons controlled Louisiana for a good time...
  3. Gillan1220

    Dawn of the Dead (2004) 15 years after the outbreak...

    I mean what would happen if some survivor group decides to raid Fort Knox? What would happen to the U.S. gold reserves that were left there? Would it even have value in the post-apocalyptic world to be melted into currency or what not?
  4. RJ Mitchell does not get cancer

    Supermarine would just tell the Air Ministry that changing the wing design would cause several months delay in production.
  5. Alternate warships of nations

    ...really good argument that Fisher intended for the Large Light Cruisers, whose original concept did not have the heavy guns according to that source*. The idea was for a ship that could operate in the German Bight and serve as a scout for submarines, since in the pre radar days height equals...
  6. Bush Presidency without Cheney?

    It's not that Bush was a puppet, but rather Cheney (being an expert in how DC Bureaucracy works) had a tremendous influence in putting people in various cabinet posts and top executive positions. The President wasn't being puppeted - he was just largely surrounded by people who were in line with...
  7. ChadMachine999

    Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    It was worse then the first world but better then the third world, eastern Europe was like that pre-WW1 and is like that today. The USSR is an example of how the more things change the more they stay the same.
  8. Bbone91

    Dunkirk Disaster causes Spain and Soviet Union to join Axis.

    Why would Hitler let the Russians, who he absolutely despised beyond all logical reason, join his club?
  9. Gen.Jurten

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

    I was rereading this fic and the above comment... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Leese Fuck
  10. What-if SMG for late 1930s and on

    Like I said at the beginning a two (or more) track approach seems helpful to me (especially before intermediate cartridges, assault rifles, semi auto service rifles firing full power cartridges etc become available.) Maybe a mass issue open bolt design (probably firing a typical handgun...
  11. The Second Patriotic War - An Alternate Russia TL

    Indeed. Basically, Russian Empire had very little to gain from a war with the Ottomans and the Ottomans had a lot to lose (as did happen). Tye Straits idea was a bogus: in the case of war a neutral Ottoman Empire would make the Black Sea ports open for the imports which would be a great...
  12. WI: No Molotov-Ribbentrop

    Only problem I see with the scenario is here. Why would Hitler reject this Soviet warning? Poland is essentially defeated and by conceding the eastern half to the Soviets he accomplishes his goal of preventing a two front war. The French Saar Offensive is going nowhere, they just didn't have...
  13. Richard II dies in 1399

    Seems reasonable to me, and makes planning a timeline much easier
  14. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    I was envisaging a doom loop scenario. Mac has a disaster (because he ignored the policy experts and then no-one dared/was allowed to tell him it was a problem till it was to late), he then sacks a competent civilian and brings in another ex-military sycophant. Then there is another disaster, so...
  15. TheKennedyMachine.

    Bush Presidency without Cheney?

    Ah, so Bush will not be a puppet then?
  16. TheKennedyMachine.

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    What's happening with our pal Eisner?
  17. Richard II dies in 1399

    Yes.
  18. Bush Presidency without Cheney?

    Cheney was central to a lot of things in Bush's Presidency - IIRC, he led the transition team and basically hand picked the cabinet. Without him in the picture, Bush likely appoints more personal friends, cronies and family associates to his cabinet.
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