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  1. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    In a way many tactical nuclear weapons esp ones mounted on the FROG7 and SS21 were involuntary suicide for the launching troops with their range being only 70km at best
  2. Gentian1707

    Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    I was born and raised in Sri Lanka, the suicide bomber capital of the world for a few decades. The damage of a suicide attack is not in the material and human cost of the attack itself. It is actually with the cost of fear and suspicion that comes after it. I remember living with fear. Now, I’ve...
  3. GauchoBadger

    What if communism didn’t exist

    A literary reading of communist theory is not exactly indispensable for revolutionary action. A sweatshop or retail worker might not have the time to read the entirety of Das Kapital (frankly, not even most academics do), but is capable of noticing general political patterns with regards to, for...
  4. Map Thread XX

    I'd second House Longclaw for a name, but I'm not sure which sort of symbol would be best. A dragon would carry water with Targaryan supporters but not many otherwise while an inverted Stark direwolf would honor at least implicitly the cries of bastardry that tormented Jon for his entire life...
  5. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    What if communism didn’t exist

    I was talking 60s, back when the Cold War really brought communism up to everybody's mind. Plus there were the Black Panthers and other weird groups at the time. Thank you for telling, though! Great information. Could I have a look at the paper, perhaps? (with your personal identity suitably...
  6. RedSword12

    WI Nazi Germany started to recruit Russian liberation army(ROA)

    Although I suppose you could make the case that the Germans could try and convince a good chunk of POW's that they face the gulags if they return to USSR-held territory, it is still very much a risk to give them weapons.
  7. Whiteshore

    The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    So, how are the Timurid remnants faring ITTL compared to OTL?
  8. Sārthākā

    A Nation of Snow Leopards - A Political Graphical Timeline
    Threadmarks: Namgyal Wangdi

    Namgyal Wangdi also known as Tenzing Sherpa was a Nepali Sherpa statesman who later became the 15th Prime Minister of Nepal. Known today in Nepal as 'Papa Tenzing', he is known both nationally and internationally for his stand against the encroaching Chinese presence in Tibet, and reasserted...
  9. WI: Japanese Madagascar

    If you mean the 1885 Berlin Conference then I don't think it at all likely. In 1885 Japan wasn't even in the Imperial Game. The Japanese had only taken over Okinawa in 1879. Korea was the next target for domination, Madagascar was so far away the Japanese weren't even thinking about it. Besides...
  10. GauchoBadger

    What if communism didn’t exist

    The first part of your post is generally true insofar as the realities of peasant societies (as pre-revolutionary France, Russia, and China can be described) are concerned. Peasants aren't a very active class due to their illiteracy and general isolation, and usually prefer to be left alone...
  11. Miner

    Q-Bam Borderpool Improvement and Core Thread

    Thoughts about having the proposed Deseret borders on?
  12. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    WI: Japanese Madagascar

    It would take the Russo-Japanese War before the Japanese got enough power to become considered notionally equal with the Westerners, and even then they were condescended to at every opportunity. Twenty years before, they'd be way overstretching if they even got this colony (rendering it unstable...
  13. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    Planes did the concept in, decades before missles.
  14. WI Nazi Germany started to recruit Russian liberation army(ROA)

    POWs were already used on a vast scale in Germany for war work, be in farming, labor for factories or infrastructure work. Tens of thousands. Any more and you'd just be asking for rebellion as they'd outnumber the Germans!
  15. Russian Victory in the Russo-Japanese War?

    Britain had been supporting Japan's drive towards modernization and the former had refused to support France, Germany and Russia's intervention against Japan holding the Liaoning Peninsula. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance had nothing to do with the strength of Japan as a nation. It had to do with...
  16. RedSword12

    WI Nazi Germany started to recruit Russian liberation army(ROA)

    POW's were already used in forced labor, for farming, for example. As for a Russian Liberation Army, well, there were some who served quite early-on in support roles, but that was mostly ad-hoc and done on individual unit initiative, not on orders from high command. Actually arming these men to...
  17. WI: Japanese Madagascar

    I have a hard time picturing Europeans allowing Japan to have a seat at the table, let alone get any land. Having Japan there sort of upsets the entire conceit about the obvious superiority of white people.
  18. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    The rise in remote targeting made most of those less then useful. Why bother having manned missiles when you can do it just fine with computing? You'd be making it less reliable. The only one of those you actually see in OTL is suicide bombers but that doesn't fulfill any of the tactical needs...
  19. BELFAST

    What if communism didn’t exist

    Maybe something else like Anarchism might take its place for radicals.
  20. WI Nazi Germany started to recruit Russian liberation army(ROA)

    Would Nazi Germany have been more successful in defeating the Soviet Union if they started their Russian liberation army from the very beginning of operation Barbarossa 1941 from Soviet pow instead of late in the war to cover casualties and increase manpower outfitting them with captured...
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