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  1. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    I was "only" 8 years old in 1970 so popular consciousness is all I got :biggrin:
  2. David-Shiell

    Could USSR attack Germany during Battle of France?

    The Soviets might be able to make some progress initially, but the farther west they get, the worse things will go. In 1940, Finland was not even considered a player on the European stage, but they still managed to bleed the Soviets severely. In 1940, Germany is one of Europe's big dogs, and...
  3. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Exactly, RAF Typhoons killed more tanks with 20mm and 250lb bombs than rockets. Though rockets made a much bigger impression than anything else because of the noise they made and as the Germans generally closed up when attacked, when they popped up they would find tanks on their on their...
  4. In hindsight, was American independence from the British inevitable?

    It was a diminishing threat, but largely empty unsettled land was still a gap. New Brunswick wasn't properly settled until the loyalist expulsions from other colonies in OTL. Georgia was still largely a buffer zone. Florida and the Gulf Coast was unsettled and New Orleans was still in Spanish...
  5. Romanov Ascendant: What if the Soviet Union survived?

    True on that, though Iran probably has some of the best terrain for asymmetric warfare in the world. I would not count on the Sunni/Shia divided on Pakistan, they have the second most Shias in the world to Iran and I believe roughly 30% of their military is shia though both serve together. True...
  6. Denliner

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    Yeah, there's like 3 Romes in Europe as of now, with the German Holy Roman Empire, the Occitan Kingdom of Romania, and the Greek Bataid/Roman Empire. Luckily the Andalusi stay the heck out of trying to claim any sort of legacy of Rome, despite having Hispano-Roman blood running in their veins...
  7. God Owes Phillip II Twenty Bucks

    There is the rumour that Guise was the love of her life, but idk how credible that is.
  8. Earliest self-rule for India as a part of the British Empire

    Probably late 20's early 30's as was envisioned by Indian leaders, if Britain gets out of WW1 better
  9. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Well compare Germany in 1905 to 1939. Times change,
  10. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    I think it is informative to consider the treatment of Russian prisoners after the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. The Japanese not only took prisoners, but provided top line medical care, adequate housing and food but as far as I am aware there were no instances of maltreatment of prisoners...
  11. Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    Still all three claim the same thing as rome sucesor.
  12. Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    Yes, the electors were unwilling to elect a total random person. The first time they refused the throne to the son of reigning monarch was after John III of Poland died and the electors didn't elect his son James. I know that Stephen and Henri were supposed to marry Anna Jagiellon and Sigismund...
  13. In hindsight, was American independence from the British inevitable?

    Would we be talking about it? If that imperial federation of sorts is formed, it would likely include substantial autonomy for each "state". Also, it would likely include over time a number of places outside North America: Caribbean colonies, white settler colonies in Africa, Australian...
  14. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    That is somewhat open to debate. The Il-2 was quite effective, and the use of rockets as well as 20mm cannon (which didi a very fine job of destroying the engines of of panzers), not to mention liberal applications of napalm seemed to have taken the starch out of more than a couple SS Armored...
  15. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Going back to a much earlier post, the public reputation of the railroads in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was on par with that of Osama bin Laden post 9/11. That is significant in the different American approach towards RR as a vital part of the transportation infrastructure...
  16. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Don't let harris hear you intend to so gravely misuse Bomber Command ;)
  17. RelativeGalaxy7

    Remember the Rainbow Redux: An Alternate Royal Canadian Navy

    A bit unrelated to the story itself but I thought some of you might get a kick out of this. I just found out today that Canadian Maritime Engineering Ltd in Port Alberni, BC is offering to give away a 20ft long model of HMCS Rainbow as they can no longer keep it around. Perhaps @YYJ can come to...
  18. scourge

    Der Kampf: The Rise and Fall of the Austrian Führer

    This Hitler is proving to be more of a leader of men than the OTL one.
  19. Japan with no ww1

    If ww1 (and ww2) never happen, what happens to Empire of Japan? Would invasion of China still happen?
  20. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    It attracted public ridicule. It's not like there wasn't a better design around either, that being the Schofield Tank, designed by a car salesman in Wellington.
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