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  1. The Militant Doberman

    WI: Disney’s “Mulan” (1998 version) was set in Ethiopia during the Italo-Abyssinian War?

    With Disney’s live-action Mulan remake in the headlines I thought this might make an interesting discussion. It’s inspired by posts from a few months ago: So what if the basic plot of the 1998 animated film was instead transplanted to 1930s Kingdom of Ethiopia? Thus instead of Mulan being...
  2. The Militant Doberman

    DBWI: European Union expands into Eastern Europe instead of stretching south into North Africa?

    Back in 1987 Kingdom of Morocco applied to join the European Community (precursor to the modern E.U.), becoming the 1st Maghreb nation to do so. After much deliberation, Brussels agreed that Morocco meets the criteria of joining the Community due to historic ties and mutual influence Morocco had...
  3. The Militant Doberman

    AHC: Kingdom of Greece joins the Scramble for Africa (EDIT: fixed error in thread title)

    As the title says. How could it happen? What lands could Greece claim (or maybe buy from other powers)? How do you think the Greek colonial administration would look like compared to the other European powers of the day?
  4. The Militant Doberman

    Bronze Age “Chinese Mesoamerica” in AH works?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_alternative_origin_speculations So I’ve seen AH & sci-fi stories use the “Zheng He‘s treasure ships contact New World civilizations” premise as their POD, but I can’t think of any works based around the idea of Ancient Chinese forming the Olmec. Does anyone...
  5. The Militant Doberman

    AHC: A Ukrainian Moon Landing

    Here is something from October 2016: As you can guess Mr. Degtyarev statement was met with much jokes on the Eastern European side of the internet. At the same time, it isn’t as silly as it first appears as Ukraine does have a space-rocket industry (albeit one that OTL builds light/medium...
  6. The Militant Doberman

    AHC: Aleutian SSR

    (Inspired by me misreading the title of this thread) Your challenge is to come up with a way for the Aleutian Islands to become a separate SSR within the Soviet Union.
  7. The Militant Doberman

    WI: Sunflower Agriculture as Popular in North America as in Russia?

    As this article points out starting in the 19th century sunflower farming exploded in the Russian Empire with the seeds being used for both oil production and as a common snack. This has had lasting impact: even today, Ukraine + Russia produce more sunflowers seeds/oil than any other nation on...
  8. The Militant Doberman

    AHC/WI: USA invaded Republic of Georgia as part of the “War on Terror”?

    OTL there have been some accusations levelled against Georgia (the one in the Caucasus mountains, not the one in the Dixie), claiming the nation is sheltering Islamic terrorists. To Westerners, this might seem like a strange claim given that Georgia is a predominantly Christian country (& home...
  9. The Militant Doberman

    DBWI: Nigeria becomes a Republic instead of a Monarchy?

    I got another e-mail from a Nigerian prince, once again asking for my help in smuggling his wealth out of the country before the revolutionaries get to it. This got me thinking: what if Nigeria had become a republic instead of a monarchy upon gaining independence from Britain? How would the...
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    What would Moscow look like if Petrograd remained Russia’s capital?

    Today, Moscow is Russia’s largest city and one of the most expensive cities in the world. As a capital of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation it has played a pivotal role in global affairs and was host to many important events; the cityscape changed drastically since the start of the...
  11. The Militant Doberman

    AHC: “Lesotho” in your country

    I’m jumping on the “[Blank] in/for your country” thread bandwagon: Your challenge is to come up with an AH scenario where an enclave country is formed within the borders of your homeland nation. Ideally, the new enclave country has to be bigger than a city-state (the thread title is “...
  12. The Militant Doberman

    WI: Communist Albania survives to present day and remains in China’s client state?

    Just an idea I thought might be fun to explore: OTL, Hoxha’s Albania split from the USSR camp over Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and instead choose to partner up with Mao’s China in economic and military matters. Then in 1970s when China’s relations with the West improved Albania and the PRC...
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    AHC: a “Maoist” North Korea & a “Soviet” North Korea

    During the OTL Cold War North Korea managed to play both China and U.S.S.R. against one another, receiving aid from both without committing itself to a fully to either. However, there were factions within North Korea that wanted to see the nation align with one of its bigger neighbors (I’ve...
  14. The Militant Doberman

    WI: USA performs a banana-republic regime-change... in Iceland?

    Reading the Wikipedia page on the UK-Iceland Cod Wars (a.k.a.: the war of words over territorial waters and fishing rights) it mentioned that at one point Iceland threatened to leave N.A.T.O. unless the U.K. concedes to Iceland’s demands. Since Iceland’s territory was vital to monitoring Soviet...
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    WI: “It’s just a prank, Bro!” snowballs into a World War?

    Some of you may be familiar with Horace Cole, an early 20th century Cambridge student who was friends with Virginia Wolf and her brother Adrian Stephen; history remembers Horace as the man behind the “Zanzibar Hoax” and the “Dreadnought Hoax” when he fooled government officials and the British...
  16. The Militant Doberman

    AHC: Create a Lipka Tatar Nation

    Lipka Tatars are a very interesting historical ethnic group. First made up of pagan Tatars fleeing Islamization in late Middle Ages, then subsumed by Muslim Tatars, the Lipka Tatars settled in what is now Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. Though for a long time they served as a military cast and...
  17. The Militant Doberman

    W.I.: US tries to breed a new Americanized “hybrid” culture in Iraq?

    Here is a very interesting post I’ve read on a different forum: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/why-has-cultural-marxism-become-so-prevalent-in-the-west.328303/page-3#post-16530538 So what if, in parallel to G.W.’s desire to turn Iraq into the Germany of the Middle East, the US military...
  18. The Militant Doberman

    WI: USA-Mexican Dual Monarchy?

    I’ve seen various speculations on the topic of monarchist USA and alternative possible fates for Mexico & US, but I’ve never seen something like this brought up: 1) POD #1: USA chooses to become/remain a monarchy in the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War. If there is still a need to...
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