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  1. marathag

    Is it possible to avoid the catastrophic economic and demographic fallout from the USSR collapse

    well, even having real competition would help as with 'You pretend yo pay us, and we pretend to work'
  2. In the absence of Islam, which religion becomes the primary competitor to Christianity?

    The ERE's hold on Rome was highly tentative. It was likely to fall sooner or later.
  3. Entrerriano

    Entre's Little Map Thread
    Threadmarks: Hafsid Sultanate

    Another TMG map!
  4. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    I know this is a couple years after 1983, but given Henson's ongoing relationship with Hanna-Barbera growing stronger than ever, I can't help but share this picture... Do with this what you must.
  5. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry
    Threadmarks: 12.10 What are we making?

    12.10 What are we making? Summary of Aircraft Production Issued by the Ministry Of Aircraft Production at Year’s end 1940. Airspeed, Manufacturing A.10 Oxford, Training and communication aircraft at Portsmouth and Christchurch. Further capacity required Percival at Luton Contracted to...
  6. Some questions about Nazi-Soviet relations.

    Kaiser and Czar came to an agreement but let their advisers bully them out of it.
  7. Entrerriano

    Entre's Little Map Thread
    Threadmarks: Tropics ISOT

    A while back someone posted an ISOT in which the world between the Tropics was transported into a Virgin Earth. This map is my own take on that premise, however, I never did a key for it.
  8. in U.S. circa 1990, “nanny state” takes the intellectual space of “political correctness”

    By that time, the nanny state took care and used resources even for the 'other differently colored type of people and that seemed to be a big gamechanger
  9. Oracle of Sobek 𓆋

    Horus Triumphant - an Alternate Antiquity timeline

    Nah, it's fun to have a black swan event or two in the mix. History itself doesn't tend to do "foreshadowing" beyond the kinds of trends we can only perceive with the benefit of hindsight. I do suspect Kush should have a role to play in the Egyptian struggle for eventual independence.... Kush...
  10. Hitler and Stalin and their entire cabinets dies the day after the beginning of operation Barbarossa

    Hitler actually stopped having cabinet meetings in 1938. Yes...the Reich cabinet never convened during the war. There were Reich ministers who did not even get a face-to-face-meeting with Hitler for years. So chances are the likelihood of getting all members of the Reich cabinet in one place is...
  11. Practical Lobster

    The New World of the White Huns

    This is a really interesting idea, and seems like a sensible end goal for companies like the Red Swans. And yeah, I don't necessarily see why they'd need a long term port in Europe - such a thing would be counterproductive at best, since it would tend to concentrate attention from the whole...
  12. After Spitfire: what should Supermarine be doing to remain relevant well until 1960s?

    Would it be cheaper than the Phantom? The Scimitar was a powerful aircraft that usually attracts the quote that "only the British could give an aircraft that much power and keep it subsonic" with those changes it would probably just as expensive and less capable than the Phantom.
  13. marathag

    After Spitfire: what should Supermarine be doing to remain relevant well until 1960s?

    1960? have them buy VW in 1946, and make a lot of Pounds off the Beetle, with Tooling moved to Itchen.
  14. WI bigger Panama Canal

    ...and the elevator on the Essex class doesn't need to fold, but no real changes. A larger canal may acutally constrain ship sizes as rather than go f*ck it, they may design to fit the larger canal, but I think that is unlikely once you get to the supercarriers, too much to be gained by going...
  15. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    One cannot underestimate what a liability Graziani was. Graziani was ultra cautious and sat on his ass for five months waiting for supplies. When Graziani did make a small advance the British retreated without giving a fight. Rommel demonstrated that a relatively small mechanized force could...
  16. Israeli preempts the yom Kappor war

    As said above the Israelis were unlikely to gain from a preemptive attack in the long run, especially when the defensive abilities of the Egyptians in particular have been shown to be very effective against them in hindsight. Their priority should have been to keep military intelligence and...
  17. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Interesting. Rudd specifically says that the Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Nauru should form a condominium "as we have with Norfolk Island", which suggests that they could become external territories of Australia.
  18. Soviet low level air defense missiles: too little too late ?

    They can, within their design parameters. There's a good book on Osprey about the SA-2 by Steven Zaloga, if you really want to read about it.
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