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  1. Always looking for the bigger picture….

    Always looking for the bigger picture….

  2. What if the Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia revolted against Moscow in 1956 in solidarity with Hungary?

    Wasn’t the Polish Communist Party pretty well under the thumb of the USSR at the time?

  3. Most chaotic 1980s possible?

    Yeah, something like a false missile detection event or an accidental shootdown of a Soviet airplane could have made Able Archer go nuclear. I think most other nuclear false alarm events wouldn’t have resulted in war because leaders on both sides would be aware of the possibility of false...

  4. What if no Great Migration in the US?

    The great 1960s-1990s violent crime spike would have still happened, so I think there would still have been a movement to the subburbs.

  5. AHC: Make East Germany(GDR/DDR) avoid reunification and survive as a western democracy

    For East Germany to continue to exist as an independent country outside of the Warsaw Pact, it’s got to have some sort of serious difference from West Germany. An independent East Germany that is a capitalist democracy and NATO member would just reunify with West Germany. If you wanted a...

  6. What if the 20th July Plotters escaped Germany?

    It seems to be a bit of an enduring mystery to just what degree Canaris was working with British intelligence throughout the war. You’ve also got to realize what an incredible moral dilemma people like Canaris, who was entirely aware of and seemed to have opposed the atrocities Hitler was...

  7. What if the 20th July Plotters escaped Germany?

    The (I think) highest-ranking one to survive, Rommel’s chief of staff Hans Spiedel, eventually got made a NATO general in 1955. He was never a Nazi Party member though. But I agree, I don’t think the Allies would have any use for any of the plotters at first, and even if they had been...

  8. Would Canada be a regional threat to the US had they gained control of Alaska and Greenland?

    Didn’t War Plan Red give the British Empire forces way, way more forces than they ever had at that point in reality, since it was supposed to be a defensive plan and the “attack of the British empire” scenario was completely implausible unless the British were magically granted a ton of extra...

  9. AHC/WI: Earlier and more intensified EU integration?

    These countries, with the exception of the UK, were also dead broke and were described as “punch-drunk,” with civilians having little faith in their governments to protect them and the devastation of WWII hanging over them too heavily to try and build themselves up as any sort of a military...

  10. AHC/WI: Earlier and more intensified EU integration?

    A military counterpart to the EU going hand-in-hand with economic integration was originally envisioned in the early 1950s, as a division of a three-part NATO. (Atlantic, Continental, and Mediterranean). It failed at the last minute because France didn’t want to be in an alliance that West...

  11. Slavery in the Thirteen Colonies, post-1776

    This is a great question. Personally, in my opinion, the uniting of the Caribbean sugar and Southern cotton lobbies is a huge problem. OTL the sugar planters were able to delay the end of slavery to 1838. With the cotton planters and their political influence as well, they might well be able to...

  12. Broad Consequences of a Surviving Confederacy

    Oh no, I agree that revanchism would be the main reason for any such invasion, but I think stamping out slavery would absolutely be used as a propaganda point.

  13. Broad Consequences of a Surviving Confederacy

    The Union would still be more than large enough to become involved in overseas conflicts and imperial projects, but the question is would they? I think with an independent Confederacy the Union is going to be permanently preoccupied with the possibility of a second war with the Confederacy and...

  14. Question about Slavery in Confederate Colonies?

    Ok, the Confederates would have liked to make slavery legal in any colonies they could grab, and in such a scenario would have made it legal to transport slaves between any of their states and territories.

  15. Discussion: How do you make a language more innovative?

    It is? I'm gonna need a source on that, because I've heard the opposite. We know that languages will diverge at a steady rate even with the almost complete absence of language contact; a good example is the divergence of the Polynesian languages from each other. I have heard that it's...

  16. Prehistoric WI Eurasian steppe horses hunted to extinction instead of domesticated?

    Llamas are apparently only good for meat and wool. They can't be ridden and make lousy pack animals.

  17. Prehistoric WI Eurasian steppe horses hunted to extinction instead of domesticated?

    Dedicated hobbyists have been breeding donkeys for riding for decades (at the least) and that's what they've come up with.

  18. Prehistoric WI Eurasian steppe horses hunted to extinction instead of domesticated?

    True, but it's still a long way from the horse, which is naturally a very fast, agile animal. Dogs have been domesticated some 20,000-40,000 years ago, we've had a long time to modify them. As far as chariots go, I think you could get a team of donkeys up to a nice solid trot, but you're not...

  19. Prehistoric WI Eurasian steppe horses hunted to extinction instead of domesticated?

    Alright, I tried to go out and do some research on the traits of Riding Donkeys (Mammoth Jacks and other breeds big enough for an adult to ride) versus the traits of horses: -Donkeys have a plodding gait. In contrast, horses in the wild naturally gallop and can move swiftly without great...

  20. Prehistoric WI Eurasian steppe horses hunted to extinction instead of domesticated?

    On the other hand, no horses means all news travels more slowly. The world remains "bigger" for longer.
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