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  1. Revachah

    African countries grow sugarcane to sell to Europe

    Because of the gun rush European traders/slavers introduced to the continent that fueled the wars, that provided the labor sources for the Americas; having a stable African state that could compete with say Haiti’s sugarcane economy would be impossible. The main sugar colonies were able to...
  2. Basileus444

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    I've always found that a rather weak argument, since the implication is not that X is wrong, but only that being the first to do X is wrong. (Although I suppose it could work if it was phrased as a 'if you don't want to be punched, don't punch others'. Put that way I would agree.) Interestingly...
  3. “Arab spring” like uprisings in early 1980s

    In the late seventies s a series of events like Iranian revolution, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, siege of Mecca mosque and assassination of Sadat that could trigger a wider islamist uprising in the Muslim world We saw a glimmer of that in the Syrian uprising like in Hama , what if there...
  4. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    No they won't. Are you actually going to address the counterarguments I've raised about this?
  5. Hawaii Independent vs Alaska Independent Where is better

    While I'm firmly on the side of "the annexation of Hawaii was extremely not legal by any legal metric of the time (or our time for that matter)," I think that @JesterBL is correct. Hawaiian tourism would be much less without the US owning Hawaii. Also while Hawaii did have it's own...
  6. WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    Ah. By "SE controversy" I mean the Special Editions. George Lucas refuses to release the original versions of the trilogy, even to this day. Which is why all we get in every new home release, we have Han shooting second, CGI Sy Sootles in ROTJ, and out of place CGI Jabba the Hutt in New Hope.
  7. WI: Middle East as cultural power comparable to East Asia

    HaveTurkey today is actuslly quite liberal. This is the insta account of Esra Bilgic, the actress who played Halime Hatun in Ertugrul https://instagram.com/esbilgic?igshid=yzy8zywe8nsk All non Gulf MENA states have pop culture, they are not all like KSA Music also makes a part of pop culture...
  8. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    @Goldwind2 Some studios Metromedia could buy.... - The Samuel Goldwyn Company - New Line Cinema - Hemdale Film Corporation - Vestron Pictures - The Cannon Group - Republic Pictures - Carolco Pictures - Geffen Film Company
  9. The 30 mm HE shell. The ideal weapon for use by WW2 Allied fighter planes?

    IMHO if the revolver cannon concept had been devised earlier, a single 20 to 25 mm revolver cannon firing thru the propeller shaft might have been a potent WW2 era fighter armanament. I suspect sorting out the revolver cannon technology and figuring out a reliable feed system for a single...
  10. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    I don't think that the german Kaiser would want more catholics in the empire
  11. WI: Middle East as cultural power comparable to East Asia

    I don't think I'm just relying on easy cultural cliches when I say that you'd need middle eastern countries to have a seriously different attitude toward women and gender relations, if you want something like Jpop or Kpop to emerge. Which might be possible, if the sexual conservatism of those...
  12. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    Will Metromedia ever start or buy a film studio
  13. TheMann

    A more realistic (IMO) AHC: US Metro/Regional Transit as good as in Europe.

    I think the first thing that needs to change is the idea that public transit is only for poor people and people who can't afford cars. The best way I can see is to put it like "Mass transit is so that people have the freedom to get where they want without the stress, hassles and costs of...
  14. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    Americans are giving Japan a free hand in Asia when Britain looks like a lost cause. Roosevelt promised no war during the 1940 election and told his generals no intervention against Japan. Plus the American won't start giving out free weapons to Brits until March so the Americans don't look that...
  15. Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    No one, because of election. While majority of people predicted that Władysław would probably become king, it was not certain. His stepmother planned to elect his younger brother, John Casimir, instead, but this plans were stopped by Władysław who threatened his father to start a civil war with...
  16. U.S. has more successful nuclear power with waste stored on site, and therefore no transport and reduced NIMBY.

    You raise an excellent point, and I changed the title! :openedeyewink: OLD TITLE: U.S. has more successful nuclear power with waste stored on site, no NIMBY or transport. What I mean is that we fully embrace the fact that NIMBY is an issue and will continue to be an issue. Even today, I...
  17. What party would Knox & Wayne end up in?

    Yes- but my hunch is that he was the type of person who would have been susceptible to Federalist beliefs. I just can’t see him joining the(Jeffersonian)Republicans- but if anyone has additional information on Knox proving me wrong, by all means, bring it on!
  18. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    Bull Connor is basically giving free propaganda to the militant black folks AND to the communists. There was already a fire burning about the way America treated black citizens; this would have Connor pouring gas on it because...why exactly is he calling for the outright extermination of blacks...
  19. U.S. has more successful nuclear power with waste stored on site, and therefore no transport and reduced NIMBY.

    You don't need to store it on site forever. Once its out the ponds the two isotopes of concern at Strontium 90 with a half life of 29 years and Ceasium 137 with a half life of 31 years. Conventions wisdom is that 10 half lives will reduce activity to essentially zero. These are the two serous...
  20. Germans Take Ypres, 1916

    The Canadian counterattack a week later took back Mount Sorret, so if the Germans get further the counterattack takes back Ypres.
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