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  1. WI: Khalkin Gol escalates?

    In our timeline the summer of 1939 saw some low-scale skirmishes between the Soviets and Japanese in the Far East. They culminated in the battle at Khalkin Gol which was a decisive Soviet victory. In our timeline neither side wished to escalate farther. The Japanese felt that they were too busy...

  2. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    Social and political unrest is not the same as technological or material stagnation. We haven't had a world war since 1945 and has the world stagnated since then? I don't see any such thing, quite the opposite. I mean over here where I'm posting from we went from dictatorship and a planned...

  3. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    I think this idea needs to die a slow painful death in a trench. War gets undeserved credit. We see resources being repurposed during wartime for developing weapons, and afterwards we see the civilian sector piggybacking on those developments because why not use them since they're already there...

  4. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    A fitting end to the Electric Circus. And here comes yet another world war ... it occurred to me that with 4 world wars in the 20th century instead of the mere 2 we had in OTL, the LTTW world in 2023 may end up poorer and less technologically advanced than our own in many respects. And that...

  5. Decline of the Commonwealth- Avoidable or Inevitable?

    My take is that if something unexpected happened in Russia around 1792, and the Commonwealth's 1792 constitution had gotten a few years to sink in, we might have ended up in a situation where historians would consider the Commonwealth's reform and indefinite survival to be a natural thing. I can...

  6. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    We saw the place I asked for, sweet! And some loose ends got tied up about how Russia took over Lithuania again and how the Pressburg Pact formed. The ultimate victory: ascension to meme And his enemies are sCelatores...

  7. The October Campaign (draft)

    Another piece set in 1989, featuring another sibling of an OTL individual born just after the PoD whose upbringing was sufficiently similar for him to have similar inclinations to his OTL counterpart. Per Aspera ad Asteroida "...Yours was the only reply which did not seem rather patronizing to...

  8. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    I want to hear about big Lithuania, we haven't heard much from there in ages, and about the way Societism and Diversitarianism interact in such a diverse country.

  9. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    I got War of the Worlds vibes. Newts was more about man's readiness to unleash uncontrollable forces (e.g. appeasing imperialism or permitting uncontrolled and unregulated technological development) to make short-term gains. EDIT: but yes, tolerating colonialism was one of the themes, if not the...

  10. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    That's the idea but there is always a temptation to game the system. It's easier to accuse others of deviating from the prevailing ideology than to respond with accusations of being too orthodox.

  11. The October Campaign (draft)

    Since it's been established that this is the draft thread I am less afraid of having fun, or of doing potentially "naughty" things like having people born a few years after the point of divergence still appear (or, to be more precise, have almost identical siblings), or go down a broadly similar...

  12. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    You meant the Sun, didn't you? The scientific updates are lots of fun since the genre tends to focus so much on diplomacy and wars. Speaking of different approaches to science, is it un-Diversitarian to make fun of flat earthers just because they have a different opinion than you? I can...

  13. Brezhnev accepts the Prague spring.

    This fell far short of what the Soviet subject societies wanted. It only worked because the USSR had demonstrated its readiness to attack if it decided that someone had crossed its red lines. As soon as it stopped being obviously ready to attack the Autumn of Nations happened.

  14. Brezhnev accepts the Prague spring.

    Soviet imperialism needed the Brezhnev Doctrine for a reason. Tolerating the Prague Spring will encourage the peoples of the Warsaw Pact to try to imitate it and go farther. Unless the USSR intervenes at some point its Warsaw Pact satellites all become independent, capitalist, and closely tied...

  15. Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    I don't see a Central Powers Victory scenario being inherently better or worse than OTL. WW2 in Europe is still likely. It seems unlikely to me that the UK and Russia can be decisively weakened, and there is also the USA which may decide that it has no choice than to become closely involved in...

  16. The October Campaign (draft)

    Oh well, since I already have it, why shouldn't I post it? Here are a few words from two particularly influential individuals from 1989. I realize that dropping easter eggs is not the same as replicating somebody's style but this was still fun to write. I'm fairly certain that the first of these...

  17. The October Campaign (draft)

    In other news now that increasingly large drafts exist on my hard drive I am gradually realizing that some revisions would be in order. Not revisions of the plot itself, everything that was actually written here remains canon (except perhaps parts of the last map of course), but cleaning up. The...

  18. The October Campaign (draft)

    And for a change here's something from the future of the timeline. Instead of covering the intervening time in more detail my plan is to go on to the end of the Lightning War and then do a timeskip to 1989. It seems like a neat date because it's exactly 50 years after the point of divergence...

  19. The October Campaign (draft)

    [Divergent Reality Exploration (Autonomous Mode) ERROR: internal error. Transcription disrupted.] [Refocusing in Heuristical Mode...] Chapter V: Drive to the West "I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia. I have no belief whatever in her ability to maintain an effective...

  20. The October Campaign (draft)

    4. War Plan Z "No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one" - Dwight Eisenhower, American military commander and advisor to the Republic of China during the Great Asian War Like most other war plans put into action by the various participants of the...
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