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  1. Resurgam

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    You're making a joke but German resistance member Carl Goerdeler was convinced that he could talk Hitler into both resigning from office and giving it to him to approach the Allies for a negotiated peace. Other members... pointed out this was not a feasible idea. From the Wikipedia article above:
  2. AHC: Defend the Falklands

    Given what the British needed to do to make the runway suitable for Phantoms I doubt the Argentinians could have made Port Stanley into an operating base in the month between the invasion and the British arrival even if they did have the full year to prepare. It's not just the short runway but a...
  3. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    have you seen this series
  4. Rajveer Naha

    Romanov Ascendant: What if the Soviet Union survived?

    May not be so. It's not that India received incredible amounts of investments OTL. The pace of liberalisation is basically the same as OTL as the planned broad reforms were narrowed down and pushed along bit by bit. INC didn't have majority OTL either and they had to compromise. A more stable...
  5. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    If I may add a follow-up question: Why didn't the Allies just sit down with the Nazis and convinced them through the power of the superior argument to simply stop being Nazis? So much for the tolerant left.
  6. Grey Wolf

    Austria-Hungary consulted italy.

    To what degree were they "not consulted"? My understanding from Albertini is that Vienna offered some territorial adjustments in Gorizia?
  7. Pull a Meiji reatoration on Qajari Persia before Russia wrecks them

    Nader simply lacked the legitimacy that the Safavids had, which is what ultimately led to his assassination. He died of being murdered by the Iranian segment of his army, not sickness. I doubt that him being healthy would really change much. After a certain point in time in this region...
  8. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    I think the British would also try and game Hague XIII 1907 Article 16, if they could: "A belligerent war-ship may not leave a neutral port or roadstead until twenty-four hours after the departure of a merchant ship flying the flag of its adversary." Once Goeben was in a neutral port, the...
  9. WI: Suleiman takes Vienna

    The Ottomans will likely target Venice and Italy next to complete domination of the Central Mediterranean. The fall of Vienna barely 75 years after Constantinople will likely be seen as a signal to the Christian world to either unite (at least for now) or risk falling to Turkish domination.
  10. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Yeah, why didn’t the Western Allies use laser guided bombs to directly destroy factories and other military targets? The simple answer to your OP is that the technology didn’t exist at the time to do precision bombing over defended airspace.
  11. Kaiser Chris

    Images from the Footprint of Mussolini

    Kim Yo-Jong, the current Minority Leader of the Juche Party in the Korean National Assembly and Representative of the Pyongyang Second District. Kim Yo-Jong is the granddaughter of Premier Kim Il-Sung, the only head of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In 1975 the Republic of...
  12. Austria-Hungary consulted italy.

    The Italians would tell Franz Joseph. "No way are we supporting this nonsense" In OTL, Italy suggested the Serbs accept the note and drag out negotiations on the details. If Austria tried to impose terms, the Serbs should then appeal to the powers. The Kaiser would be delighted to use it as...
  13. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Actually the old state & federal highways could not transport goods just fine. As someone who lived back in the 1960s I can clearly remember the overloaded roads and crawling traffic on a multitude of highways that were obsolete and undersized. There badly needed to be massive investment in...
  14. TL-191: After the End

    Since citizens of the USA, Germany, and other countries are automatically conscripted into the army after High School (or the equivalent of in the other countries of the ISC permanent council), what about people who have disabilities (both mental and physical), how do they contribute to their...
  15. iPolytheistic_tsar

    These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    Already answered in terms of Canada and New England back a bit in the thread
  16. Castile wins the battle of Sagrajas

    this an underlooked Pod mostly because it didn't have an immediate consequences as the victorious Yusuf had to return to africa due to the death of his heir also it was in most senses a pyrrhic victory due to the high casualties the berbers suffered how ever the defeat did stop the chirstians...
  17. Ulyanovsk

    July 1917 Kadet Coup against Kerenksy?

    I am aware of this, none of this information really contradicts what I said - even when interpreting the Kornilov Affair as a series of miscommunications and blunders between Kornilov, Kerensky, and Lvov, the ultimate intention of Kornilov was still to take dictatorial power and smash the power...
  18. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    With the technology available, can anyone suggest an alternative to area bombing that works? I certainly can’t. Between 1940 and 1943/44, bombing was also pretty much the only way for Britain to hit back against Nazi Germany. The only way to actively hurt the German war effort. I’ve also for a...
  19. Wings

    Silver Road and Golden Stripes, Yet Another Football TL
    Threadmarks: World League 2017-18

    Group A: 1. Austria 2. Panama 3. Belarus 4. Haiti Group B: 1. Romania 2. Algeria 3. Scotland 4. Armenia Group C: 1. Tunisia 2. Australia 3. Syria 4. Jamaica Group D: 1. Greece 2. Sierra Leone 3. South Africa 4. Bulgaria Group E: 1. Mali 2. Hungary 3. Uganda 4. Serbia Group F: 1. Saudi Arabia 2...
  20. THeaven

    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Cameron Diaz as Sonya Blade in 1995's Mortal Kombat
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