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  1. Israel in Europe

    I know that the Albanian King Zog I proposed a mass influx of European Jews in Albania, and not just as an emergency wartime measure. Of course, he might just have been promising stuff to get the Allies to reinstate him after the war.

  2. What if Nationalist China won the Chinese Civil War?

    I say that without the crazy Mao years, by now it would already be a superpower. The USSR would probably have gotten a lot of help from the US in an effort to contain China, and would not have been allowed to collapse.

  3. No Nuclear Weapons?

    Almost surely the cold war would have turned hot. All else is of minor importance.

  4. Whats your favorite kind of Russia?

    Broken up, as all other countries should be.

  5. WI: Lenin lives longer?

    I’m under the impression that Lenin living longer would have meant the continuation of the NEP. Upon Lenin’s inevitable death, the next dictator would have inherited a much richer and powerful SU instead of the dirt-poor cage Stalin got. Perhaps this dictator could have insisted on continuing...

  6. What if USA have cold war turn decide stay out foreign affairs how world look now

    Stationing no troops anywhere but trying to balance things out by helping certain countries to gain nuclear capabilities would seem an interesting strategy. For example, arming Germany and Japan would have bolted the door to Soviet expansion in Europe and perhaps the pacific. Still, that...

  7. Polltime!: Alternate Birthplace Of The First Communist State

    Some country suffering a crushing defeat in a long war. I’d stick with Austria-Hungary or Italy (had they joined the loosing side).

  8. WI: Pakistan had no nukes?

    The idea of any society, however docile of civilized, turning into a police state is anything but laughable. If facing a consistent threat for enough time any group of people will succumb to the temptation of exchanging freedom for security. Now, it would be notable if at the very first sign of...

  9. WI: Pakistan had no nukes?

    Perhaps, perhaps not. I tend to think that they did but never could. True, but I’m thinking that the mere fact that a program was underway and, above all, at an unknown state of completion deterred the Soviets from either inciting India to attack Pakistan or else to themselves respond more...

  10. Challenge: Make Iraq a Better Enemy

    Gerald Bull isn't murdered and delivers

  11. WI: Pakistan had no nukes?

    I agree that Pakistan would have been conquered by India which, as far as I know, is still bent of the Greater India project. Of course, the whole area would have been turned into a 24/7 war-zone and terror would be a huge problem for India, but at most the guys in charge would use this pretext...

  12. Question on "Election by Petition"

    This is one of the ‘glitches’ I had in mind: for the system to make sense some weighting of voting power must be made on account of the ‘votes’ received by each candidate. But again, if you come to think of it, this is exactly the proportional system, only here it is individuals who receive the...

  13. Question on "Election by Petition"

    Perhaps I’m overlooking something but to me it just looks like a nation-wise proportional system with a few glitches of no big consequence. I’d expect it to behave as one, with a fragmented an unstable legislature and many, internally strong parties, even if the system seem to be designed to...

  14. Barbarossa: how would you do it?

    I say, don’t treat the locals like crap. Maybe, re-privatize state-farms and small businesses. Even if you intend to ethnically cleanse the area after the war, the theater of operations in war-time are not the time and place to do it. As far as I know, such plans where actually submitted but...
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