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  1. What are some Pre-1900 real world historical events that would seem ASB and highly unrealistic in any other timeline?

    That's really impressive. What is that little border gore up to now?

  2. Map Thread XXII

    The industrial potential in that Germany must be nuts.

  3. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    I made a patch for the east coast US. Not necessary to implement but I think it cleans it up a bit. Also Patched the eastern states,

  4. What if America gained the Congo?

    I very much disagree. One of the biggest reasons the Congo is so dreadfully horrendous today is the Belgians up and left, leaving nobody at all to run any of the positions left vacant. I heard and saw this first hand when I went two years ago to Virunga. Honestly, as amazing as my trip was, it...

  5. PC: Austrian Rhineland, Russian Galicia

    Naive question: Is there a realistic scenario where they could say "tough shit, do something about it"? If Prussia and Austria somehow got further devasted by Russia and Russia less devasted by still enraged by Napoleon, couldn't Russia dictate the terms? I'm just baffled that everybody isn't...

  6. What if Italy never joined World War One?

    In advance, sorry for the long comment. Besides the effect of Italian neutrality on the rest of the war, I think this page in its entirety should be read but everybody in this thread. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_finance_italy It's a fascinating and well edited read...

  7. PC: 'For Want of a Broker' - Bismarck's death in 1877 leads to two major European wars in 1878

    Okay, I'm with you then. But if you can answer this, what made the Prussians so afraid of polish nationalism/sovereignty at the time that they'd rather have the largest great power right on their border? I don't understand the rationale.

  8. PC: 'For Want of a Broker' - Bismarck's death in 1877 leads to two major European wars in 1878

    Are you saying if they had the choice of independent Poland and a Poland attached to the Russian empire they'd choose the latter? It seems obvious that they should protect from external vulnerabilities over internal ones when it comes to Poland. The third option is they annex Poland themselves...

  9. Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    The British didn't have to bulldoze anybody else's colonies to get to BC post ARW. I'm just saying absorbing Louisiana is not inevitable. A timeline author could make it happen but that doesn't mean it's the most probable outcome. You're going to have to make Britain really want to annex...

  10. Points in history where things went either much better or much worse than they plausibly could have?

    WWI not mending race relations a bit in the states confuses me. I think that was a huge missed opportunity to not speed up civil rights by a few decades.

  11. PC: 'For Want of a Broker' - Bismarck's death in 1877 leads to two major European wars in 1878

    Now how much of a beating could Russia take at this time before the Balance of Power™ becomes lopsided for a generation? Even with no territorial loss, or just Poland at most, this war might seriously curse Russia. Financially bankrupting them, diplomatically isolating them, deeply humiliating...

  12. Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    I don't fully understand. I think you're saying that Britain fights France and Spain in the 1780s or 90s and uses that time to wrestle away Louisiana? Maybe. With a failed American revolution, especially without French involvement, I can't see the French Revolution unfolding in quite the same...

  13. PC: 'For Want of a Broker' - Bismarck's death in 1877 leads to two major European wars in 1878

    Oh thanks. So German Wikipedia translated: Gave a bit more detail than the English one. So based on this, I think you're right and seems Germany would definitely support their ally and try to bring an early end to the war either diplomatically or through military means. I just wish I knew...

  14. PC: 'For Want of a Broker' - Bismarck's death in 1877 leads to two major European wars in 1878

    This confuses me based on the premise. Russia is distracted and being ganged up on. OP postulates that Germany is doing >this.< With Bismark gone, who takes his place? Doesn't that change enough to make you wonder if Germany continues on the same course or it pivots? Now I'm curious, what do...

  15. Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    I might be veering off track here but how do you figure? No way the Napoleonic Wars happen with such a PoD so I imagine it's unlikely for a Peninsular War type catastrophe to happen a la OTL, decidedly not devastating Spain.

  16. Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    Please, explain.

  17. Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    I think he irreparably set back race relations in this country which should be bad enough. And his legacy of "spreading democracy" bled into Vietnam, Iraq 2, and Afghanistan, which did absolutely nothing for US or anywhere in the world. One of the things I'm looking into now is how he...

  18. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    The Jacobins never snowball out of Brittany. Are there other radical factions that could fill that void, even with some of the same players? Or is that just way too convergent to realistically happen? Second question: Is the French Revolution OTL (like the Reign of Terror) essentially as...

  19. AHC: Sweden Rises to a Major Power... after its defeat in the Great Northern War

    I've searched other times people brought up how to do it and they either said it was too late by the time they joined as they had vastly different interests and Norway was already essentially "an island" - or they gave suggestions how to align those interests which was still super hard. The...

  20. AHC: Sweden Rises to a Major Power... after its defeat in the Great Northern War

    Depending on when you want them to be a major power. If you place the PoD after the Napoleonic wars where it had Norway (and then kept it integrated) it could be a major power by, say, now. With Norwegian oil and now Norway's newly discovered massive phosphate reserves, it could be a major 21st...
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