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    Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    What could have made a difference is no war loans from America. so cash and carry only. This could mean the Entente running out of money and resources before they can win. The best-case scenario for the cp is taking over France and the RN struggling to maintain a blockade on Germany, At that...
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    La Guillotine Permanente: A French Revolutionary Timeline

    This man who was a mp in the Irish parliament in Dublin was a supporter of the Republican cause and wrote letters to Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Newenham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belcamp_House He even built a monument to George Washington in his garden. The only one...
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    La Guillotine Permanente: A French Revolutionary Timeline

    Catholic priests in Ireland would be been radicalised when training on the continent. This was why the British funded a seminar for training catholic priests in Ireland in 1795 to reduce the influence of priests trained abroad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_College,_Maynooth
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    Explosion in New York Harbor in 1943

    The worse place for that ship to explode would be the Panama Canal in the lock gates near Gatun Lake. That would drain the lake and it would take many wet years after repair to refill the lake. that would put the canal out of action for the duration of the war and some time after the war.
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    WI Andrew Johnson hanged Jeff Davis?

    Indeed. if aquitted it might set a precedent that rebellion is not treason or worse that a state seceding from the union was not illegal.
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    Ekhronoplanes effect on operation sea lion

    A cannot see what use Britain would be to the Germans even if they let the people starve. The economy relies on imports from the empire and elsewhere to function. Occupying Britain would be just a drain on resources and it would be even worse if they have to control Ireland too.
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    Ekhronoplanes effect on operation sea lion

    The Vikings never took all of England. The Normans were the last ones to take all of England.
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    Ekhronoplanes effect on operation sea lion

    Invading by sea over longer distances is an even worse idea.
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    Ekhronoplanes effect on operation sea lion

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    Ekhronoplanes effect on operation sea lion

    even assuming the Germans win in Britain, how do they feed it? Britain relied otl on food imports from the empire and elsewhere that will not be coming. What do the Germans do with the British with a collapsing economy and starving due to a lack of imports? What do the Germans do with the island...
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    Nothing For Which to Apologize: Ambition and Loathing in the New South

    Those were used to excuse a lot of bad stuff OTL.
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    La Guillotine Permanente: A French Revolutionary Timeline

    Strangely near the area, the French tried to land French, French was more widely spoken than English. French was taught in the illegal hedgerow schools as it was useful for trade with France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_school
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    Our Soviet Union (USSR)

    Nettles were also used to make fibre too. https://www.suscrop.eu/projects-first-call/netfib
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    Our Soviet Union (USSR)

    Hemp was produced in the Russian Empire and the soviet union on a large-scale OTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Russia Hemp seed is a useful by product for human and animal food.
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    Our Soviet Union (USSR)

    Cocaine was a very useful local anaesthetic and heroin is used in pain control and is still used in Europe for this for people with terminal cancer. As everyone in the soviet union had their own dacha they could grow their own weed without the need to buy it for farmers. Samarkand could make a...
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    Our Soviet Union (USSR)

    Drugs and Medicine in general
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    Our Soviet Union (USSR)

    I prefer Soviet Bureau of Cannabis - Советское бюро каннабиса
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    WI: The US collapses shortly after it's independence.

    If the US collapsed rather than just break up into separate states the British might reinvade and take the colonies back.
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    Some Europe powers against Slave trade?

    Assuming some countries like the English banned owning slaves on moral grounds, then there is a labour shortage. Slaves were in large part used for dangerous and unpleasant work that most settlers were not willing to do. It could be replaced with convict labour, indentured servitude...
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    La Guillotine Permanente: A French Revolutionary Timeline

    It happened twice in Japan when the Mongols tried to invade.
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