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

    The Italians planned a massive program of hydro dams in the 1920s. Their need to import coal had Britain dictating to them during their neutral period in ww1. Very few got built due to financial reasons. I wonder if it could have been felt to be a strategic necessity and the Italian...
  2. Collectivist western society?

    I can't see that map.
  3. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Here are a couple of contemporary observations on world war II bombing "If we lost the war we would all have been prosecuted as war criminals." General Curtis Lemay "Jackson is away conducting his high-grade lynching party in Nuremberg. I don't mind what he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see...
  4. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    TBF, I don't think eugenics is the right word. I think McNamara actually believed that he could turn below average soldiers into above average soldiers through use of technology and learning by use of video tapes. I think it was more delusional idealism than malice. I truly believe he thought he...
  5. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Or instead lots more people die from Soviet artillery barrages and lots more of Europe is waving Red flags on VE Day.
  6. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    Goeben may have to adjust its speed in order to pass through the Straits of Gibraltar during the hours of darkness. Looking at today's sunrise & sunset times for Gibraltar, it looks like 8 hours between nautical twilight & nautical dawn...
  7. Andrew Boyd: Duke of Dank

    AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    All in all, I think the best way to have HSR happen would start with rail de-regulation in the 1920s under Coolidge. Then, when the 70s and 80s come we can look at a few Acela-esque lines in specific regions of the nation, where the trains have ROWs of about 125-150 mph. Think for example...
  8. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    If being “more moral” either changes nothing or makes things objectively worse, what’s the point in debating it?
  9. Collectivist western society?

    Careful with Whatifalthist, I lost any shred of respect I had left for him after he posted this atrocity of a map- Back on topic though, if we are trying to make the Western World more "Collectivist", I suppose an easy way is to completely prevent either the French Revolution of the...
  10. David Flin

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Because the people who made the decisions didn't give a damn about the soldiers doing the fighting and the dying. The soldiers were, after all, just gutterscum. For example, Civil Servants going to India were presented with a listing of social statuses of pretty much every type of reading, and...
  11. TheSwedishHistorian

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

    In addition to all these great comments, an Al Gore victory over bush would help. Make the Fukushima incident never happen, as they build slightly more inland or whatever, would also help a lot in Nuclear power acceptence.
  12. Lusitania

    A Lusophone World

    Prior to the WW2 both Paraguay and Bolivia suffered territory loses, Paraguay losses were in the 19th century, while Bolivia were late 19th and first half of 20th century. iOTL Paraguay does not threaten its neighbors but Bolivia has started some sort of legal proceeding against Chile demanding...
  13. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    Chernobyl was constructed in 1972, and the event happened in 1986, and we still have the exclusion zone today AND a massive concrete sacrophagus over it and no one knows what is gonna happen with it in 100 or 200 years. Since OP wants to diversify "earlier than IOTL", nuclear is NOT an option...
  14. Grey Wolf

    Miscellaneous >1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    So, what ARE the Soviet gains in Europe? Are these based on promises from the Western Allies or what the Soviets occupy when the Germans make peace here? I mean, specifically for example - what happens to Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia? You mention is a Bucharest Pact - is this intended to...
  15. The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    The average life in Sinope. Pretty calm all things considered
  16. SealTheRealDeal

    It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    The Poles are making a very risky gamble because while the UK isn't important to Poland's strategy, it's become clear to them that France isn't prepare to do much of anything without British aid. So they are: 1) Playing for time. Hopefully circumstances change for the better before they need to...
  17. Votre Idéolinguiste Local

    The JABB Project - One Borderpool to Rule Them All

    Bloody Hell laddie ! How many months did that took you to make ?
  18. Alternate Football Scores

    That What-If scenario is slightly inaccurate after my research, in that Dave Jones would not have taken the Wimbledon job because he was still awaiting his sexual abuse trial at the time. Would Terry Burton have kept the job, or who else would have taken the job?
  19. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Aye, that was horrific, eugenics by any other name. Hell it even shows up in film, Forrets Gump was almost certinally one of McNamara's Morons and i'd guess that 'Private Pile' from Full Metal Jacket was a MacMoron too.
  20. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Or more likely far more innocent people are killed by the Nazis/Japanese militarists than civilians by Allied bombs.
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