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  1. Most likely winner in a no-watergate 1976 Presidential election?

    It’s pretty safe to assume that this butterflies the Iran hostage crisis, and by extension probably the Iran-Iraq War. That creates a very interesting situation, because the giant oil price bump that lasted until 1986 IOTL is most likely butterflied and the glut/price collapse from excess...
  2. Fuzzy Dunlop

    AHC: Wank the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II

    Possible orders RCAF: 360 CF-4's instead of 200 CF-104 & 132 CF-101 TAIWAN: 312 F-4 & 48 RF-4 instead of 282 F-104 & 40 RF-101
  3. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    My point was more that given the Persian route was delivering significant support I would imagine that it could sustain a British field army in the southern Soviet Union. The goal in 1941 is to keep the soviets in the war and that’s one way of doing it.
  4. What if FDR died a year earlier?

    I disagree it's necessarily so. Witness Churchill's replacement by Attlee in 1945. And besides, a Wallace administration is a rabbit hole we've gone down several times before. I prefer to explore a Dewey wins in '44 scenario, where he owns postwar outcomes. There could be interesting...
  5. Inspector Javert

    AHC: American President of Hungarian descent

    Most Austro-Hungarian immigrants weren't ethnically Hungarian or Hungarian speaking.
  6. Question for Fester -

    What's the TLDR of the European war? I assume Pearl Harbor, or the general Japanese assault on the ABDA powers, happened in December '41 like in OTL.
  7. US recognition of Vietnamese independence

    I've always thought US-Vietnamese in the 20th century could have been radically different if we had recognized their independence from France. The Vietnamese were one of the few peoples to liberate themselves from Axis control, and that should have counted for something. Can it be done during...
  8. WI: France gives all Algerians full citizenship during the Algerian War

    You may well be right, but there’s no marginal difference vs OTL because France is going to be 25% Muslim anyway, and most of the OTL Muslims are either Algerian refugees from the conflict, Algerians from the post-war population explosion who emigrated, or their descendants. It’d be simpler to...
  9. Most likely winner in a no-watergate 1976 Presidential election?

    This might be a little off topic, but what happens to George Bush's career? Will he still go to China, or head the CIA?
  10. What if the Greek Revolution failed?

    What are Arvanites?
  11. John the Baptist's movement survives, Jesus' doesn't.

    IOTL, followers of John the Baptist (outside of Christianity) were active as late as the 2nd century AD, with some claiming him to be the messiah. Mandaeism is still around, though that's not exactly the same. Can this religion entirely take Christianity's place with a POD that elminates Jesus...
  12. Most likely winner in a no-watergate 1976 Presidential election?

    Yeah, Nixon's go-to response to economic crises seemed to be short term bandaids and kicking the can down the road. However imo by the mid-70s that approach had pretty much reached its limit. If Nixon tries to establish more price controls for example, the situation would only continue to get...
  13. Gulf crisis 1990 : Saddam's asymmetric response

    If Saddam wants to react to Kuwait without prompting a big ol' war he could just occupy Warbah, Bubiyan, and the Kuwaiti portion of the Rumaila field.
  14. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    Here's the lists of both affiliates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_WB_affiliates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_UPN_affiliates Are you referring to the death of Orion or the syndicated animation that popped up on the Fox Network at the start?
  15. 1901 and Going Up (A Collaborative TL)

    1908 IN BASEBALL Before the Season Began: Despite the Denver Bears and the Dallas Texans moved to MBL, A Decision is Made as the Champions of the MBL World Series face off against the champions of the WBL for a best of Seven Winner Take All, All-American Series to determine the True World...
  16. AHC: Resurrection of Pantheistic Stoicism in the Middle Ages

    In India there were Sufi leaders that moved a very long way beyond Islamic orthodoxy. I wonder whether you are onto something. Perhaps the best way to get back to Greek philosophy is via heterodox Islamic monotheism.
  17. Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    War is not waged in a vacuum free of politics. Did Johnson not have the Korean War or his Great Society domestic programs in mind? Or his and his underlings's assumptions that drove their decision making and policy? Strangely, they considered and did what you are proposing. The problem is that...
  18. Much more aggressive UN peacekeeping missions

    And there's your problem right there. If you perceive the UN to be some sort of world police that's made up of the militaries of developed nations to keep those pesky third worlders in line, then the rest of the world is likely to perceive it in the same way. This means that no sovereign...
  19. Magniac

    Have the Jensen Interceptor be a big seller in the USA.

    I kid you not that a Leyland Interceptor made in Australia could IMO be viable if they got in early enough before the Oil Shock, simply just didn't do the P76 and like, had the rest of their production capacity geared to licensed non-anglo-designed tractors or something./waits to get smacked...
  20. Derailed and Rerailed: A story of American Railroading, during the Cold War and Onward.

    Coming back to this, I am very interested to see what alternative infrastructure will be built in the coming decades... OTL, we were blessed with an enemy far from our shores, but now with a hostile Latin SSR Union border defense and defensive weapons have much greater importance. The "Patton...
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