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  1. Favorite Lost Cause?

    How are any of these recent posts related to "Lost Causes"? They are wonderful potential What If's, but who's cause were they? My Lost Causes: Chief Joseph & the Nez Pierce - So close! The 1st Crusade - What would the world look like today? Vinland - A whole different New World...
  2. Two Jewish State

    Why would anyone believe that the split was anything but a ploy to allow Israel to do what it has always appeared eager to accomplish? Israel has made noises about the West Bank being part of Israel since the '67 war, this would be more of the same. I'm a big fan if the Israeli state & of...
  3. ATL Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor, or its equivalent was inevitable unless the Japanese gave up their China plans. The Japanese could not survive without oil & other raw materials. The source for those vital items had embargoed them, so a different source had to be found. Japan also knew that it had, at most 18...
  4. AH Challenge: US and THEM

    Trans-Hemisperic European Monarchy. POD 1850 - All of Europe is gradually brought under the control of a resurgent French Royal Family; with only the UK, Iceland, & the Danish possession of Greenland still Independent. THEM attempted to intervene in the ACW; they were thwarted by a...
  5. Challenge: Canada conquers the US

    Unleash the "Only kills U.S. citizens Virus" given to you by the ASB's. Wait a month. Declare victory. Attack an U.S. Custom's Station on the Upper Peninsula. Steal the U.S. flag from the flagpole. Declare victory. Announce your intentions on National TV. Wait 24 hours. Compare your...
  6. The Greater Anglosphere

    Well, that leaves out a decent portion of both the US & Canada. The US portion has much of the resources and earning potential of the nation (fair thee well oil & High Tech). I'm not sure of the % but it also may leave out parts of NZ & Oz. Still will make for most interesting POD, supposing...
  7. The Lords of Creation;S.M. Stirling's next project

    Pray tell; how does one differentiate between a Creationist & a crackpot? There seems to be not an iota of difference between them. Don't even get started on those Intelligent Design fools.:mad:
  8. Iran Captures Special Forces, January 2005

    If they just HELD them the US population would be out for blood. Iran has pretty much used up its forgivness quotient. As I mentioned before, Iran has already provided LOTS of reasons for Americans to look at the state with little fondness indeed.
  9. Stalin's Muslim Holocaust

    STALIN wasn't genocidal!? He may not have built gas chambers, but that was because he just worked the populations to death. Look at what he DID in OTL to the various Caucasus peoples (marching millions of them halfway across the old USSR because they were "polluted" by German exposure) Once you...
  10. The Greater Anglosphere

    India uses English for business, politics, & national communication. Belize, Guyana, Kenya, Liberia, The Philippines, Tanzania, & Zimbabwe are just some of the countries that have not been mentioned that use English as Official langauges. If you add in all the countries that use english a...
  11. Could armored trains be more useful?

    Armored Trains lose their glamor as wheeled & tracked vehicles become practical (especially tracked). Trains are, well, trains. You have to control the area, or at least control the trackage, to use them. Tracks are fairly easy to damage/destroy which leaves your Train vunerable to being cut off...
  12. PH - the other way around

    Given the problems with American torpedos in 1941, the relative lack of range that the F4F had, the warning network that the Japanese had (every fishing boat with a radio), and the inexperience of American Pilots had in combat operations, I'm forced to say that the US Fleet gets wiped out. It...
  13. Conrad's War, 1917

    Is there enough food, fuel, fodder and other essentials to keep Germany going until 1919-20? I've always gotten the impression that the German Home Front was about to fold up or raise the Red Flag because of the privations caused by the British Blockade. This is the reason always given for...
  14. World where Quebec voted to leave but Ottawa won't let them

    At the risk of drawing another fairly harsh reply (OMG, I had no idea that the Monroe Doctrine was so controversial!) the overall tone of the recent posts brings a couple of questions to mind. Why is English so, well, despised in Quebec (and in other French speaking areas)? One could almost...
  15. Is Our TL highly Probable Or Aberant?

    The European colonist's might have disagreed. many of them noted in their journals that the "savages" weapons were equal, if not superior, to anything the colonists had. I would also point out that had the American population had regained even 50% of pre-contact levels, that would have been...
  16. Mongol invasion of western Europe

    Without, I hope, creating too many outraged replies, I must make an observation or two. I am a newcomer to the board, and I have found the experience quite enjoyable. The imagination that is demonstrated here is remarkable. This being said, I have noted that their tends to be somewhat...
  17. US heavy WW2 tank

    There is, of course, one very good reason that the no heavy tank was sent in earlier. The US forces drove across Western Europe in 11 months without one. The US could afford the mathematics of the force ratio & the Germans couldn't. Even the M-26 Pershing wasn't a true heavy tank, although it...
  18. World where Quebec voted to leave but Ottawa won't let them

    A couple of points: The Monroe Doctrine is not solely a policy regarding the introduction of new colonial powers into the Western Hemisphere; it is a policy that non-hemispheric powers should keep out of the affairs of nations in the Western Hemisphere (yes, it would have been a good idea for...
  19. World where Quebec voted to leave but Ottawa won't let them

    Would there be sufficient Rage & hatred for Quebec to actually explode? A few hard-liners would not be enough (unless they are willing to adopt the Middle East's tactics of suicide attack, which REALLY requires passion). The RCMP has always struck me as being quite competent, and the Canandian...
  20. Is Our TL highly Probable Or Aberant?

    I'm not sure that you would need to delay the 1492 events. There is considerable evidence that there was trading contact throughout the Americas (the classic being maize, which was developed in present day Mexico and spread across the hemisphere). Give 300 years for populations to be impacted &...
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