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  1. AHC: Protestant reformation movement starts and spreads in Latin Europe, not Germanic Europe

    Right. And the other reason is money. The popes had been sucking much more money from Northern Europe and this was a strong incentive for these kings to want to take Church’s property and to convert to a theology that said the Church should not be so rich. In France and the iberian kingdoms...

  2. Why was Germanicus passed over?

    I agree. And, having read a biography of Germanicus, I will add that he was probably overrated by the propaganda of what can be called the Julian party. When you consider how he fared in Germany, you can understand that he was hot-headed and faced setbacks and fought useless costly actions...

  3. The ramifications of Julius Caesar surviving on Cleopatra and Caesarion

    It is important to take into account that Caesar was a realist. Legal legitimacy was very important to Romans. Rome was and remained a republic even under what we call the empire. If we want to have a clue of what Caesar would have done with Caesarion, I think we should consider what Antonius...

  4. France annexes the Austrian Netherlands in 1748. Impact on French finances.

    Holding would-be Belgium won’t by itself prevent the financial crisis that triggered the French Revolution. This crisis was due to war debts : the seven years war and the American Revolution war. But it will give France much better strategic conditions in Europe. And if France performed better...

  5. If Maupeou's reforms held, would France have been able to solve the financial crisis with new taxes?

    But if I don’t miss a detail, his judicial reform’s goal and legal effect was that the Parlement of Paris, which was nothing more than a judicial appeal court but claimed it was a legislative body because it had the same denomination as the British Parliament, could no longer oppose the royal...

  6. If Maupeou's reforms held, would France have been able to solve the financial crisis with new taxes?

    A very short answer. In my opinion : no. Maupeou’s reforms concerned the judicial system. He shut down the former judicial system which was held by nobles and a part of the bourgeoisie and used to block acts of the executive power (the king’s Acts and executive orders). So although getting rid...

  7. What if the US invaded Pakistan?

    That’s an understatement. Of course some nukes will not be neutralized and will be launched, noticeably against the invasion fleet. That’s what nukes are made for : deterrence. The only thing that can be done against nuclear powers is a mix of sanctions and saber rattling. Just consider North...

  8. WI: Decisive Habsburg loss in War of Austrian Succession?

    It won’t happen for several reasons. This was a limited war and Bavaria and Saxony did not have the means to gain total control of all these territories. Even if they had, wars were limited wars and the diplomacy in that time always aimed at limited results. Hungary was lawful to the Habsburgs...

  9. WI Germany never surrenders in WWI

    The result will be a rather swift total and crushing defeat because the German economy and society were beginning to collapse in the autumn of 1918. Casualties on the Entente side will be much lower. And the political result will probably be a partition of Germany. The southern States will...

  10. How Avoidable was WWI?

    This was the case until the 1880’s. No more in the 1910’s. In 1914, France’s population was barely 40 million people. Germany’s was 67 million. This is because of such an imbalance that Germany thought it could bully France with an ultimatum to drop the Russian and surrender its border...

  11. If The Nazis don’t come into power, is a Second World War still likely?

    This is very debatable. More recent history has proven that soldiers and people living under a tyrannical regime don’t like receiving bombs either, be they « liberation intended » bombs or « democratic » bombs. And in these situations, it is very easy for the tyrannical regime to claim it is...

  12. If Chamberlain hadn't declared war, would Hitler have stopped with Poland?

    He just had to set up a false flag attack by German troops wearing French uniforms, which he did with Poland to claim he had a casus belli.

  13. If Chamberlain hadn't declared war, would Hitler have stopped with Poland?

    And it was literally written in my Kampf but just as a precondition to conquering the lebensraum in Eastern Europe.

  14. What would have happened if Lord Halifax had become the prime minister instead of Churchill

    Your hypothesis 1 is ASB unless Britain is invaded. As controversial as Halifax may have been, he was neither an idiot nor a traitor. No decent Prime minister would pay such overpriced terms given what the military situation was in July/August 1940. And if anyway Halifax acted in such a way, he...

  15. Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor: Effect Imperial Boundaries?

    Hungary always remained outside the HRE although being ruled by Habsburgs for centuries. France will remain out of the HRE.

  16. WI: No Franco-Prussian War

    I agree with you on all your points, except concerning France’s constitutional evolution. OTL, Napoleon III precisely did this just before declaring war against Prussia : a constitutional reform that turned Imperial France into a really pluralistic democratic regime. It was just a matter of time...

  17. Could WWI be a war of movement?

    You are right. However it changed in the very last months of the war. Basically, from June/July 1918 on, the western allies went back on movement offensive. They did it because of both technological (the assault tank with turret) and tactical (running fire cannon ont) breakthroughs. The German...

  18. How can you reduce the destruction of North American First Nations?

    No. South American natives and more globally native Amerindian in continental Latin America’s did not experience mass genocide. Nor even ethnic cleansing except in some localized areas such as Patagonia in the late 19th century. The Caribbean islands natives were indeed almost killed but not...

  19. WI: No Franco-Prussian War

    Highly unlikely. European powers were not going to keep watching Prussia declare war on its neighbors and attack them to annex new territories. It must be stressed once again that Bismarck and the Prussian ruling group were aware of it. They knew they had a high risk of triggering an alliance...

  20. WI: No Franco-Prussian War

    I think they may end up joining voluntarily the Prussia-led German confederacy because modern mass transports (railroads) and the industrial and financial power of Prussia gave it leverage to attract the south German States in its orbit. Bavaria and Wurtemberg were poor and far less developed...
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