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  1. WI: Edward VI had an illegitimate son in early 1553?

    I feel little lets call him Henry lacks the backing to be relvent when Edward dies (if Edward had no legit sons and reigned for years maybe he could do something to set Henry up as heir) But he gets more relevant as time goes on. Particulary if he stays protestant I suspect he is seriously...

  2. WI women assured vote in papal elections?

    I agree with the general consensus it would make no sense of a mediaeval mindset, to give women votes in the papal election. However, I think the trick is how to make it so that it makes sense to give specific women votes. As noted by the OP at this point the vote was very much a...

  3. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    I agree the UK would not go south unless they absolutely had to but that's the first scenario I suggested the brief border war, if they kept annihilating everything but the republic kept pushing eventually they'd have to go south to make the stupidity stop although do agree with the issues about...

  4. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    So I'm with the consensus that this is generally an absolute disaster for everyone involved but particularly the Republic of Ireland. Thinking about how it would actually go down/the implications. I think you have roughly 2 scenarios. A brief border war and an embarrassing climbdown Republic...

  5. WI David conquered Egypt

    Okay leaving aside was David historical tangent . If David existed as effectively a warlord king with his powerbase centred around Jerusalem, There are cases in the period of effectively a warlord chaining victories together and sweeping of in a time of crisis taking a more developed...

  6. WI: Henry VIII, instead of breaking with Rome, has Catherine of Aragon executed

    if (and I accept the many many ifs) Henry pulled this off,one interesting side effect of this is presumably Mary stays legitimate, so even with her mother branded a traitor this interesting question of how Mary's life would evolve as heir butterflies accepting possibly for most of Henry's reign

  7. AHC/PC Germany keeps gains from Brest Litovsk but still ‘loses’ to Entente?

    I feel the answer here is a much more successful militant left, particularly in recruiting soldiers plus no US help,And some incredibly out of character foresight by the Germans and the French Thinking about what the near end point of this ww1 would look like. So the US doesn't join the war...

  8. What if the Holy Land was captured by the Crusaders and kept till today?

    I think this is a solid place to start/agree with a lot of this however a few additional ponderings. I'm not so sure about 6, given how far back we going, successful conquest in this period (whether we're talking about Turkish kingdoms expanding in Anatolia or the Christian reconquest of...

  9. Latest Anglo-French Union?

    Weirdly I actually think 1945 is not only the latest you're getting but probably the best bet for an Anglo-French union that lasts until today. While it's true most of the above examples could unify the English and the French under a single crown the locals have a completely different cultural...

  10. Fascists takes power in France in 1934

    1 I did consider musing about Poland but I thought the post was getting long enough! Overall suspicion it is not terribly important in the grand scheme of things, it's a minor power militarily, and to a degree geopolitically is a border between Germany and the soviets, which if the Soviets and...

  11. Latest PoD for a successful invasion of the continental United States during the 20th century?

    So if going back to the Civil War I'd say this is reasonably easy, the US is relatively weak, it's divided, and it's not got that much of a web of alliances But looking at the OP the absolute latest, with the pod date before 1900, I suspect you could manage a pod of the early 1890s, with an...

  12. Fascists takes power in France in 1934

    I agree with others that a fascist France properly means at least a brief civil war (although in a scenario where a bit like fascism in Germany they'd already made an agreement with the more reactionary and conservative elements so had a decent chunk of support of the military it might be quite...

  13. In the event of a Nazi victory, what will happen to the rest of Eastern Europe that is not included in the Generalplan Ost?

    Hitler seemed pretty obsessed with a Germany that did stretch to the urals, so in the situation where they have a more or less total Nazi win (which I suspect is one where Britain decides the best game is not to play with goes into isolation and the US lacks an unsinkable aircraft carrier to...

  14. UK joins the US in the 1960s

    I assume the British states would just put a residency requirement on it (e.g must either have been born in the state and under 18, or resident in the state X period of time possibly while also working if not born in the state), while I don't believe this was the case in the 1960s after all by...

  15. UK joins the US in the 1960s

    The nationalised industries are an interesting one to ponder While very unusual for the United States don't believe that any rule against it? And the nature of the federal system does mean states can own things fairly clearly My assumption is as part of the integration process there would be a...

  16. UK joins the US in the 1960s

    I wasn't so much thinking about social rights things like pro-choice, LGBTQ rights or even the death penalty. While today they should be really big issues in the 1960s the Tories were in a very different place (if anything the US is actually more liberal after all homosexuality and abortion were...

  17. UK joins the US in the 1960s

    Particularly in the pre thatcher era the conservites are to the left of the us center on anything short of some social issues (so tax, role of religion, welfare, healthcare all fiirimly centre left by American standards of the time) Now particularly if England get multiple states the UK is...

  18. UK joins the US in the 1960s

    I think a lot of folk are both really drastically underestimating the demographic impact/scale of the UK joining the US, and the political implications of US absorbing the decaying British Empire if this is all in the 1960s in 1960 the population of the United Kingdom is 52 million, in the US...

  19. What If: US invaded North Korea instead of Iraq

    As others have said for NK to be tarted by the USA they have to be willing to risk a war with the PRC and ideally the PRC has to see the USA is angry enough to call there bluff they don’t act on it. I think that needs an attack on the us homeland. The one thing that does make it easier is...

  20. AHC: Stable Haiti

    I think it needs a patron as early as possible who is more interested in its strategic role then as a means of economic exploitation, I wonder if perhaps you could see a soured relationship between the UK and the USA (a bit tricky in 1900 but not impossible flash points around the UK meddling in...
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