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  1. History question: Political leader who quit, hoping it would start a revolution?

    I remember reading about a political leader [possibly a dictator but not certain] who was rather out of touch and unpopular; when pressured to step down, he resigned believing that doing so would trigger protests and rallies in favor of him by his supporters and intended to carry that wave of...

  2. WI: Japanese biological attack on occupying U.S. troops post-surrender

    The following excerpt is from the Asian Political News (here or here) What if the attack was actually carried out? Given the vagaries of biological warfare, it seems highly likely that no matter how targeted the planning was, attempting such an attack on U.S. occupying forces in Japan...

  3. WI: WW2 Balkans strategy?

    It's commonly known that in WW2, Winston Churchill espoused a strategy which included landing in the Balkans, presumably for geopolitical reasons (i.e. pre-empting potential Soviet influence in that sector.) This varied from his support for Greece in 1941 to espousing military landings in the...

  4. WI: David Cameron, KGB agent?

    This thread is prompted by an anecdote by David Cameron that the KGB tried to recruit him, but he failed the test. - The Telegraph Suppose a naive Mr. Cameron had 'passed the cut', and ended up recruited somehow (perhaps still without realizing what was going on.) What would have happened...

  5. WI: No Sejny Uprising, 1919 Polish coup in Lithuania?

    Suppose that for whatever reason, the 1919 Sejny Uprising is butterflied away. For reference, this was an uprising of ethnic Poles supported by the Polish Army in the ethnically mixed area of Sejny, against the Lithuanian authorities. The area had previously been assigned to Poland in the...

  6. AHC: Bill Clinton: President of.... France?

    This is prompted by the following articles: - NYT Op-Ed, 2001 - Foreign Policy, 2012 As it turns out, however, Bill Clinton can't actually be president of France today IOTL. After the loophole was revealed, the French Parliament IOTL apparently abolished it in 2006. Still, it's clear...

  7. DBWI: Germany apologetic for Holocaust?

    Yesterday night, I read a news article: The German consulate sent a delegation of officials to New York City asking that city officials stop construction on the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The city government had intended it a memorial for the ten million Jews brutally massacred in World War 2...

  8. DBWI/AHC: Europe technologically advanced?

    It's a reasonably well-known argument in the popular discourses that Europe suffered in technological advancement compared to Asia, as European geography favors myriads of multiple competing states (witness the amazing number of individual squabbling states that made up the so-called "Holy Roman...

  9. WI: Finland accepts Soviet offer, no Winter War

    Less-known is that on the eve of the Winter War, the Soviets made an offer to Finland in mid-October for border revisions. The demand was for a new border on the Karelian Isthmus (see image from Wikipedia below), destruction of the Karelian fortifications, cession of several islands in the Gulf...

  10. WI: Soviet intervention in Manchuria, 1931?

    I'm actually not sure myself why the Soviet Union didn't attempt to intervene when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931. Manchuria was considered 'traditionally' in the Russian sphere of interest, and the Soviets had interests in the railways there (for which they fought and won a brief war in 1929.)...

  11. AHC/WI: German Peasant's War succeeds?

    - Would it be possible to have a semi-successful German Peasant's War in the early 16th century? IOTL, the popular uprising was of course brutally crushed with more than 100,000 slaughtered. I don't think it's necessarily guaranteed that they had to be brutally crushed - if nothing else, in a...

  12. Alternate Tea Party names?

    Question is simple: What are some possible plausible alternate monikers the Tea Party movement could have instead taken on? The original Tea Party came from supporters of Ron Paul in 2007-2008, but IOTL it eventually gained widespread support from other Republicans who changed many of the...

  13. WI/AHC: Greeks respond to Greek genocide

    I always thought it was unusual restraint at best the way that during World War I, the nation of Greece did essentially nothing (besides making a series of diplomatic complaints to the Ottomans, Germany, etc. that had nil effect) while the Anatolian Greeks were experiencing genocide. To be fair...

  14. WI: Lincoln Chafee challenges Bush in 2004

    In his autobiography Against the Tide, Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee mentioned how he considered mounting a late challenge of President Bush in the Republican New Hampshire primary under the philosophy that "it was cowardly to oppose the president on so many issues and then not oppose him...

  15. DBWI: Different 'birther' rumors

    I hate to bring up such conspiracy trash in a dignified serious history forum, but we all know that in 2008, one of the presidential candidates was shamefully attacked with rumors that he was supposedly born outside of United States territory, and actually originated from a certain third world...

  16. Unpopular figure endorses politician to prevent him from winning?

    Has there ever been a case where an extremely unpopular figure endorses a politician (or something similar), intending to actually help his opponent win via reverse psychology? I can only think of one semi-sort-of-example in real life: Osama bin Laden's 2004 tape, which CIA experts quickly...

  17. Question to the community: Strategic importance of Roki tunnel?

    It's often asserted that the Roki tunnel is crucial for Russia to assert power in South Ossetia. We've had, for instance, timelines examining 'What if Georgia destroyed the Roki tunnel in 2008', and timelines (e.g. Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire) where Georgia is indeed able to keep South Ossetia...

  18. WI: John Nance Garner accidentally shoots and kills Harry Truman in 1938

    The above 1938 photograph shows then-Vice President John Nance Garner, 'playing' with two six-shooters that formerly belonged to outlaw Jesse James, who hailed from then-Senator Truman's home state. What if it turned out that one of the guns had not been unloaded, and accidentally misfired...

  19. AHC/WI: SYRIZA supports leaving Euro

    We had another thread up about what would have happened if SYRIZA had won the election in 2012. I'd like to ask a different question: - What would it take for SYRIZA to support Greece leaving the Euro? Would a worse Eurozone situation and the realization that they would not be able to...

  20. DBWI: Standards of beauty different

    I was pretty aghast the other day to read in the news that an illegal gavage camp had been discovered in Montana, where girls were force-fed to gain weight. It's kind of ridiculous how inured we've gotten to these sorts of discoveries - and yet, it's symptomatic of our destructive culture that...
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