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  1. Petike

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

    Exactly. Very well said. I'll add that those same economic illiterates often shrugged and joined with the oligarchs in the looting. They already had the mentality of an unaccountable elite, used to citizens obeying them or otherwise getting arrested, truncheoned or shot for disobedience, so...
  2. McPherson

    Alternate warships of nations

    This document may explain a lot about SAVO ISLAND.
  3. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    For a complete "ban all landmines" movement, yes. But the idea of fitting all mines with a timed self-destruct might take of from this. After all it's a WW1 mine.
  4. WI earlier financial reform

    At the time it was normal for people to spend their lives saving money to live off of during their old age. All the bank collapses caused by runs wiped out the savings of a whole lot of people. This was probably the biggest factor in getting social security passed. I’m curious if there would be...
  5. AHC: Roman Canaries
    Threadmarks: Omme high rao

    The reason may even be frivolous - some Roman patrician may simply like the island and establish a settlement there. 600-800 people are enough to kickstart a viable population that will (for reasons of geography) be autonomous. It may then start trading.
  6. America Be Watching With The Popcorn: A Sino-Soviet War TL

    Thanks for clearing that up! You really should have spelled out the settlement with Syria in your update, though. They way you wrote it, it sounded like Israel first accepted the Syrian surrender, but then didn't impose any conditions and returned to status quo ante bellum.
  7. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    Correct response to Pearson - " I was single.at the time.I had a girlfriend. So what?"
  8. AHC: Defend the Falklands

    Actually, more likely the UK borrows a LHA from the US to put it's Harriers on. The Navy would freak about the Airforce training for anti-ship as it could easily be them getting ready to stab them in the back. The Junta was a very low trust group of individuals.
  9. Sanderford

    AHC: Defend the Falklands

    The problem with those who say "just wait" like it's that simple is it may not be possible. Argentina was having domestic issues, and Galtieri's popularity was very low and going into the basement. If you or I were in charge of Rosario we may not have the luxury of time. If given such a luxury...
  10. Northstar

    AHC: Roman Canaries

    I wonder if you could somehow have a fad for black sand develop in the Roman Empire? I don't know what they'd use it for, but black sand beaches are rare enough that it could make the Canaries valuable if it did happen. This website lists only a few locations where there are black beaches in...
  11. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    I couldn't believe they would be in what was essentially still peacetime. All you need is one liner veering out of a safe lane and going straight to the bottom in 10 minutes with a thousand lives aboard and the empire is an international pariah.
  12. DrakonFin

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

    One of the main issues I have with a "New Marshall Plan for Russia" in the 1990s is that what you are envisioning there is a massive program also from the POV of the contributing nations, especially if is is generally done for the benefit of the entire former Warsaw Pact and not just Russia or...
  13. WI: Woodrow Wilson Dies in 1919

    How would Edith rank among Presidents?
  14. Is it possible to avoid the catastrophic economic and demographic fallout from the USSR collapse

    I would suggest that twenty or thirty years is not long enough to allow the concept of 'private property', the rule of law and an independent judicary to be accepted as 'the norm'. It takes a generation before you have citizens creating wealth that they are confident won't be taken from them by...
  15. Petike

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

    Honestly, if this was something as east as whether to liberalize the economy or not (in a laissez-faire way or mixed-market way), that would be relatively easy. The key problems lie elsewhere and they are unfortunately systemic problems with the country. You can't improve the economy and living...
  16. AHC: Roman Canaries

    Canaries have dyes (Murex snails) but other than that are poor and remote and offer nothing the rest of Morocco/Mauretania doesn't. I think you'd likely have a Roman protectorate there and Rome exerting a lot of influence, but not direct rule. In either case you need the Romans to push further...
  17. Sanderford

    WI: Woodrow Wilson Dies in 1919

    He almost certainly loses as the American people wanted a change post-war, and that included a change in leadership. He would need to do something truly monumental to win. In truth Mrs. Wilson should have been told to stand aside. Marshall should have sent word of Wilson's condition to the...
  18. The Winkel-Tripel BAM project
    Threadmarks: version i.d. 0.3.3

    version 0.3.3 Changelog: Added regions: South Asia
  19. Ombra

    In a freak coincidence, both Stalin and Hitler die during the beginning of Operation Barbarossa

    They did in the Great War, and they would again in WW2 without external sources of grain. Between 1939 and 1941 this primarily meant Soviet deliveries of grain as part of the M-R Pact. But if you invade the Soviet Union, they surely will not be sending you complimentary grain deliveries, now...
  20. WI: Alexander the Great lives to 75?

    I doubt that. Not even the Mongols managed to pull that off.
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