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  1. So Evident a Danger: The Consequences of War between Britain, Prussia and Russia in 1791

    Who's a traitor right now? Arguably, only the King. He broke faith first. Without chopping his head off, the political elite of France hasn't crossed the Rubicon. I think Louis is unlikely to get the crown back, but the Assembly could offer (or "offer) it to someone else, at which Louis's...

  2. Australia keeps the "White Australia" Immigration policy.

    I feel like there is a real thread of insight here, buried under jargon, choppy sentence structure and some random shots about international opinion?

  3. WI: Henry VIII, instead of breaking with Rome, has Catherine of Aragon executed

    It would be ironic if Henry executes Catherine on trumped up charges, then breaks with the Church later anyway.

  4. AHC: Nominate an ideal King of Gran Colombia from a European royal lineage.

    Maybe Bolivar strikes up a friendship with a young prince while he's in Europe swearing oaths to free his homeland? Given that Gran Colombia was basically his project, and everyone else wanted more decentralization, it would really have to be his choice. If he isn't still around, Gran Colombia...

  5. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    I like the premise that old style colonial empires are morally "better" because of the extra rape and cultural genocide. But yeah, the Spanish Empire looks more like the British in India than the British in America - which makes sense, because the civilizations in those places has enough...

  6. To Delve and Spin – A Medieval English timeline

    This is an awesome TL btw, just want to encourage you to keep going! Medieval Peasant radicalism and implicit social contract is massively underexamined.

  7. Worst-Case Scenario for SW Front?

    Why didn't they launch on the 22nd OTL? I assume there were considerations of some sort leading to the delay.

  8. What if Jerusalem had assented to the 1538 Sanhedrin.

    This is beautiful @Jonathan Edelstein, another area of history that I know almost nothing about.

  9. WI European powers in the age of Napoleon kept archers in an axillary usage?

    Previous thread on the subject https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/why-did-firearms-almost-totally-replace-crossbows-bows-and-arrows.513072/#:~:text=The%20longbow%20had%20to%20be,much%20less%20training%20time%20involved. But yeah, there are a number of reasons, but bows and crossbows...

  10. Most overrated weapon of the Cold War

    Are we talking overrated at the time or in retrospect? Guided missiles as a whole turned out to be important, but they didn't make tanks irrelevant. The whole gun/launcher rabbithole America went down during the 60s and 70s. Calling the biggest gamechangers in warfare "overrated" is certainly...

  11. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I mean that's the problem in a nutshell - conservatives will be spooked by any meaningful change and vilify it, so revolutionaries need to simultaneously go all in *and* somehow bring the moderates with them. Look at the Hungarian Revolution by comparison, thanks to nationalism, the center and...

  12. Napoleon does not invade Spain: what happens to Latin America?

    Or that Spain can't protect them. And a Spain that remains allied to Napoleon rather than a conquest is one whose empire is an even more attractive target.

  13. AHC/WI: Couronian colonial Empire?

    Lol, I was just about to link your TL as the answer.

  14. A Great Depression is much worse and no Franklin D, Roosevelt Presidency Could there be an American civil war in the thirties

    Also, it's hard to make the great depression much worse? It was really, really, really bad, and the initial responses made with worse, what with the tariffs basically destroying international trade.

  15. The Japanese-American war of 1899-1913.

    Can you cite occasions when the US stuck out a war of choice with high costs more than about two election cycles? Because even with a semi surprise attack, US core interests aren't really at stake. I think the US could win well before that, as long as Congress opens the floodgates to new ship...

  16. The Japanese-American war of 1899-1913.

    There's no way the US public is committed to a 14 year war. Full stop. If they can't get it done within 5 years, someone is going to win the next election with the promise to "bring our boys home". In that context, I don't think a US victory is preordained at all, though I can see this just...

  17. The IJN's July 1942 Reorganization: What if they had doubled down on the Kido-Butai strategy instead?

    What's the tradeoff? What operations and priorities are they for going by hyper concentrating the carriers? This also sounds like the IJN needs to be able to freely admit what isn't working optimally, which seems pretty close to ASB.

  18. What if Friedrich Wilhelm IV accepted the Imperial crown in 1848?

    He's not going to. The idea of a crown "from the gutter" deeply offended him. You need a different p Prussian monarch.

  19. WI: Outcomes of Britain joining the Central Powers in WW1 in a losing scenario?

    Move Austria to the Allies, super Stolypin reforms Russia, France partitioned Belgium with the Netherlands, Industrialized better, and invested far more in the navy. Germany united later/ less successfully, and invests a good deal less in their army. The Med is an allied lake between Italy...

  20. Political evolution of the CSA?

    Lawl what? In what universe are the slaveowners going to make the slaves "comfortable" in slavery?
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