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  1. How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently?

    That's what happened in OTL. If the factor had just decided to follow company policy they would have starved.

  2. How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently?

    The British didn't really go overland, they went by sea. Going overland was dangerous and expensive. Most of the first American colonists who arrived only survived because they bought goods from the HBC on credit. If the HBC tells them to pound sand, they probably starve.

  3. WW2/Cold War if Alaska had been part of the USSR?

    The Alaska border probably isn't the same as OTL, Britain has no need to curry favour with the Russians and probably takes a much harder line in the Alaska boundary dispute. I would expect Britain to push for the maximal claims in the area. If the Americans or Canadians somehow manage not to...

  4. Earlier Canadian Confederation

    I'm not sure an earlier Confederation solves the root problem of a bigger Canadian population. Canada's biggest problem was never demographics, it was always geography. There's a few things you could do to pad the numbers, but nothing will really crank the population unless you add territory.

  5. A very different 1540: Anne of Cleves takes charge

    Hilarious seeing Cromwell jump on the Kitty Howard grenade for Henry. Since he got Henry a second son, he'll probably still get his Earldom and his head should be much more secure than OTL. Norfolk better be wary of him this time around.

  6. What if Marlborough crushes Villars and the French at the battle of Denain 1712

    Maybe Austria can push harder for their claims in Alsace and Strasbourg? I'm not sure how much else would change, everyone generally got what they wanted at Utrecht.

  7. Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire

    I disagree. I think Japan was too late to the colonial game, but most of the Pacific would have been far easier to control barring a few islands. In 1903 the Philippines only had 7.6 million people, while Korea had well over 17 million. It also had more language, ethnic and religious...

  8. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I don't think Macdonald realized what he's unleashed with that senate. Sooner or later the Grand Coalition will fall and he's going to have some very powerful senators to contend with on top of opposition in the house. Assuming the westward expansion happens as per OTL, it makes Alberta and...

  9. What is the Evolution of English Cities like in an English victory in the Hundred Years War?

    Everything is still going to come apart when Henry VI takes the throne, the dude has something wrong with him and the same forces that seen the Wars of the Roses break out will be festering in France. I could see a bunch of powerful French Duchies emerging from the chaos. French unification...

  10. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    Henry Clay should be quite dead by the time of the war, I think @EnglishCanuck is supposed to have meant Cassius Clay.

  11. Make Canada More Populous Within OTL Borders

    The Georgian Bay canal is just too late for a 20th century POD. There's no need for it when the St. Lawrence Seaway gets built. You're spending huge sums of money to divert a small amount of goods slightly faster. In the mid 19th century it might have made sense (not that Canada could have...

  12. Make Canada More Populous Within OTL Borders

    This is very difficult with a 20th century PoD. The best way to achieve this is to avoid the Great War. Immigration was exploding in the lead up to the war, and even it tapers off somewhat for the following decade, you're looking at millions of extra people by the 21st century. I'm always...

  13. Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    The Confederacy literally put the anti-slave trade clause in their constitution as an olive branch to the UK. Only the most radical fire Eaters would ever suggest dropping it, and I think there would be a public outcry at home (let alone abroad) if they even attempted to amend the clause.

  14. For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    Exactly. How exactly to they plan to win the Civil War when they're missing off everyone they encounter? If you're not with us, you're against us. And if you are with us, we're still going to brutalize you and treat you like garbage.

  15. For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    The Nazis got cartoonishly evil, but they didn't start off with just completely rampant murder and wonton destruction against their own people.

  16. For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    There's going to be a famine. Between the fighting in the Midwest, the Dust Bowl, and the total collapse of the civilian supply chain people are going to starve. I'm also surprised that given how cartoonishly evil the McArthurites are that they have any supporters.

  17. Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    The Confederacy has more advantages too. Simple proximity to Europe and its markets, a massive natural resource base, especially when oil is discovered, and a common culture and language with Britain and the United States, and a much higher starting industrial base. And by the end of the war...

  18. Ukraine at the scene of a Nazi victory

    They can tell people this all they want, but I'm going to have a hard time believing that people living in cities on the Ruhr are going to have 12 kids and go off and sacrifice their quality of life to go and colonize a dangerous Ukraine that has no amenities and a bunch of angry Ukranian...

  19. Ukraine at the scene of a Nazi victory

    There aren't enough Germans to colonize Ukraine. Germany will try and colonize Poland, and maybe get to the Baltics, but Ukraine is too big and there aren't enough Germans. After half the population is rolled back through the hunger plan the Germans are going to realize this. It probably...

  20. WI: Tecumseh's Confederacy won?

    Upper Canada didn't expand after the 1830s because it nowhere to expand to, it's nothing but Canadian Shield. This caused a long, slow bleed of Upper Canadian migration to the United States for the next fifty years until the railroad opened up the prairies. If there's available land to the...
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