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  1. [Query] Successful Ottomanization or Turkification of Greece?

    "Turkification" actually did happen to a significant degree, though not in the way that you're probably thinking about. Remember that for many of the 19th/20th c. nationalist movements within the Balkans, "Turk" did not have its modern meaning; it could not have, given that the modern Turkish...
  2. AHC: competent Red Army by 1939

    Theres a general assumption in the thread its was incompetent as 1939 came. I'm not so sure either way. The Purges certainly had their effect, & as may have pointed out those could have been better done if they must be done. A few years ago i picked my way through Merekovs account of the Red...
  3. What if FDR died a year earlier?

    I also agree that a Dewey administration is unlikely to make different decisions regarding the use of the bomb, especially as part of the events behind its use was dictated by the less friendly relations with the Soviets even OTL. I can only answer the last question with assurance. Dewey was in...
  4. What if America banned guns instead of repealing prohibition?

    I think banning all firearms would yes be very very unlikely, unless maybe as you described with prohibition some vehemently anti-gun group was somehow given carte blanche to write the law. I don't think this is what OP is asking for but I could envision a more broad NFA type act where like...
  5. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    True, but it was being refined. The H2X was a more advanced system. In the context of Auschwitz it was bordered by rivers.
  6. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    If the RAF can do all that in 1941 ITTL they’ll end up closer to the RAF of ‘And They Shall Reap the Whirlwind’ than the RAF of OTL. The bombing campaign being effective a year/half a year earlier would change a lot.
  7. Keep the Essex class as a strike carrier

    Yeah, the Essex were a threat to new construction so it was bad policy for the USN to facilitate the drastic improvement of their Air Group. What's more improved Phantoms are a threat to the Tomcat, so similarly it was bad policy to facilitate the drastic improvement of the Phantom.
  8. Ottoman Empire & Austria-Hungary collapse naturally?

    Interesting explanation! Seems very plausible to me. Do you think it is also possible that after a CP victory northern Serbia and all of Montenegro will be annexed by Austria-Hungary? And that these countries are governed as a condominium, as was done with Bosnia? Will these countries be able...
  9. For Want of a Word – Stolypin endures

    Government was not pushing non-cultivation of anything: potato was something just for the personal gardens, not a cash crop. The 1st attempts had been made during the reign of CII with a stress on a persuasion. Needless to say, they failed. NI, who had a better understanding of a subject, used...
  10. TheMann

    Have Triumph Motors continue to be a viable company up to the present day.

    I don't know if I'd call the SD1 a black hole at all, I just think it wasn't what it should have been and carried the wrong badge. As a Triumph, properly built and equipped - independent rear suspension, better dampers, anti-lock disc brakes on all corners - I think it could have enormous...
  11. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 120, Chapter 2008

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight 1st August 1970 Schwielochsee, Spreewald National Park The previous year, Marie Alexandra had spent the Summer Holiday in Canada and spending it with her paternal grandmother had not been a great experience. This year was supposedly going to be different...
  12. Map Thread XX

    A quick and simple concept I needed to get out of my system. The British manage to hold the Deep South during the American Revolutionary War but lose Canada after a series of political and military blunders just before and during the war lead to Lower Canada joining the republican rebels. Of the...
  13. 2018 Presidential Election

    Saturday, March 27th, 2021 Congressman Alton Moore announces long-shot bid for presidency Congressman Alton Moore (R-CA) announced his intention to seek his party's nomination today while at a visit to Charleston, South Carolina. The 11-term congressman for California's 49th district announced...
  14. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Your right about the phycology of the collective suffering of bombing, but there is a point where the pain is just too much. Germany, and Japan had reached that point in 1945. Most of the bombs dropped on Germany hit them between January 1, and mid April. No country could take that kind of...
  15. Emerald of The Equator: An Indonesian TL

    I wonder what happened to the borobudur temple ittl
  16. Keep the Essex class as a strike carrier

    The US also had vastly more powerful catapults than the RN did. The C7 could launch a 40,000 pound aircraft at 149 knots, while even the shorter C11 could manage 135 or so at the same weight. The BS4 and BS5 series struggled to get 40,000 pounds over 100 knots IIRC. And this doesn't even get...
  17. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    I only ask two things that Sonic still be the MC of the Sonic games, along with the Sonic the Hedgehog (SAT AM) still existing, and that TReasure Planet still be made by Disney and be a box-office hit.
  18. WI: Henri de Guise survives

    As I said, Henri de Guise was Louis XII's great-grandson in female line. He was not a mere nobleman unrelated to the royal family. And his son Charles could marry Isabel. Of course, giving them the throne of France means ruling out not only Henri de Navarre but also all male Catholic Capetian...
  19. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Definitely not McClernand, since he's dead ITTL.
  20. QTXAdsy

    As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    And hopefully not only being successful, but that there will only be one Highlander film...
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