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  1. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    If you read what the senior leaders of the axis thought, civilian casualties did not give a damn and did not support the allied war effort beyond killing a lot of defenseless people. Hitler, Mussolini or the Japanese militarists only cared about their own survival and would not give up just...
  2. July 1917 Kadet Coup against Kerenksy?

    Kornilov was loved by the army, really really well respected, more than denikin or broussiloff. It was only the political officers who wouldn't support him. The army would rally behind him, especially with the backing of the kadets. You have to understand that the bolsheviks only kept gaining...
  3. LordMartinax

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    My grandfather, when he still lived, had a friend who lived some 20 miles from Dresden. He saw the burning of the city, the fires being well visable from the distance. He lost dozens of friends, and was scarred for life. When he died about a decade ago, the one thing he said he still remembered...
  4. The Forge of Weyland

    Sorry, my Latin doesn't go much further than Ferrus Mannus and Corvus Corax.
  5. Ogrebear

    A Time For Greatness: The Alternate Presidency of John F. Kennedy and beyond

    Using Veterans rights to push civil rights is a smart move I think, one much harder to argue against. William H. Hastie seems like a fine choice for the Court to me. If he is not a liberal then it’s going to be harder for the conservative to argue against him and makes their racism much, much...
  6. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    What would the Americas be like if the Chinese colonized it?

    Okay, tl;dr, because I probably lost what I was trying to get at in my previous post. This time, more succinctly. They're not just Western ideas, but you either won't find them being implemented at all in China or they'll be executed very differently because local pressures in China are just...
  7. RedKing

    Is it heresy and criminal if I use youtube to watch late night talk show hosts?

    Is it heresy and criminal if I use youtube to watch late night talk show hosts?
  8. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    The biggest difference Soviets excluded between the allies and axis war crimes are the axis would deliberately divert military resources and hinder their military objectives to commit atrocities against civilians and once a county surrendered or was occupied, thats wheb the real killing began...
  9. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    More to the point, the technological limitations of the night offensive meant that getting individual bomb loads within a circle of 3 miles centred on the target as reasonable accuracy, then you know that collateral damage is going to be high. Not for nothing do we make jokes about Bomber...
  10. WI: Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn Survives, His Wife Dies in Childbed

    Princess alexandrine of Prussia could be an intriguing marriage
  11. Austria-Hungary consulted italy.

    Yes. The Austrians and Germans were pretty sure the Italians would be either slow to enter or not at all. The fact they weren’t consulted probably shows the standing the Italians had with the other two members of the Central Powers.
  12. WI: Earlier Democratization in Hong Kong?

    All this is well taken. The big shift I am shooting for is a solidly established democratic tradition (with if anything greater 'Localism' and likely at least a touch of "Gibraltar Syndrome") being more strongly established by the time OTL's negotiations for a peaceful handover got off the...
  13. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    At the time it was done it was legal. Either excessive collateral damage or targeted raids on cities, neither were expressly banned under the Rules of War. Not a moral defence I know, but a technical one. It was, for a couple of years, the only way the British (and Americans) could hit at the...
  14. The Forge of Weyland

    I resemble that remark, see you Jimmy...
  15. The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

    Would be really interesting to see the Soviet's knock Germany out of the war quickly. In such a circumstance, I don't think France or Britain would ever be able to push the Soviet's out of Central Europe without the aid of nuclear weapons on a vast scale. Also, I'd be surprised if the Soviets...
  16. The Battle of White Plains: An American Revolutionary TL
    Threadmarks: Before The French Revolution

    ...his army. Privately, he prayed to Allah to grant him the strength to wipe clean the slate. The Sick Man of Europe was about to undergo operation. ************************* 1. "Westminster Elections" are used by Americans to differ between their own colonial elections (which they were called...
  17. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    I am not trying to make an equivalence to the crimes of the axis, but "I understand" that the members of the axis or the soviets comment on crimes since they were quite bloody totalitarian regimes, but the western allies? I really don't understand who came up with the damn idea of bombing...
  18. Never Stay More Than Three Years: Another Dr Who TL

    1989-1991,1993: Art Malik (*) The Ninth Doctor is by far the darkest and most manipulative of all. Combining elements of his first and third personas he seeks to change events for his own agenda. Yet there is a reason for this. He knows that a war between the First and the Timelords will...
  19. AHC: Cold War between Religious Communism and Atheist Capitalism

    Surprising, in comparison to modern stereotypes, a fair bit of Christian ideologies can be seen as socialist ideas, leading to communism. Working to better the community rather then the individual. Charity can be seen in its most basic form as the equivalent of sharing the wealth between the...
  20. Austria-Hungary consulted italy.

    what would have happened if germany and austria-hungary had consulted italy about the july crisis? knowing that Italy would not enter in war, would the war have begun anyway?
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