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  1. Prepare the U.S. Military better for the Korean War Period

    Can we give Douglas MacArthur Spanish Flu in 1918? Or maybe he gets thrown from his horse during the Bonus Army incident immediately after giving the order to cross the bridge into Anacostia flats? Or maybe just have some hazing incident involving a banana and ten pounds of pudding happen and...

  2. Could you plausibly claim that the US provoked Japan before Pearl Harbor

    Could it not be argued that the American actions which "provoked" japan were in turn provoked by Japanese actions in China?

  3. What were the worst Allied mistakes after 1942?

    Task Force Baum; of the over three hundred men who left for the operation, only 35 returned. It stands as a testament to the hubris, ego, and vanity of General Patton and feels more like something that idiot MacArthur would have come up with.

  4. Could've Chris Christie beaten Obama in 2012?

    The last two incumbents to fall to a challenger were hit by a double whammy of bad circumstances making them look bad and a charismatic challenger. Carter had a shitty economic situation and the hostage crisis to hurt him with the public and Ronald Reagan made everybody feel better about...

  5. Motherland: Fort Salem

    Well, the implication is that only women can be witches, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that future episodes will feature male magic users, which would kind of negate that, so I dunno.

  6. Motherland: Fort Salem

    Watched the first two episodes today. I'm kind of disappointed. The world building feels lazy. There doesnt appear to be any real magical elements beyond the terrorists and the witch army. The area known as the Cession has virtually no characterization beyond being a shitty place to live...

  7. What if China joined the Axis and Japan joined the Allies in WW2?

    This is tricky on the geopolitical front. The Japanese sure do have ambitions in mainland China, however US opposition to those ambitions is what led to the embargoes which motivated the Japanese to go after the Dutch East Indies and Siberia. I suppose if you get someone other than FDR into...

  8. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    I'm not talking about what was widely accepted at the time. I'm talking about what he said at the time. He said he opposed slavery, he said he thought secession was wrong, he said he thought the war would be bloody and long. Yet his actions indicate that he either didn't believe his own words...

  9. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    My point being that Lee used his unwillingness to fight against his home state of Virginia as his primary justification for choosing to fight for the Confederacy, and failed at that spectacularly. Robert E. Lee has almost pathologically held up as the quintessential example of "my country...

  10. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    Robert E. Lee couldn't bear to raise a sword against his fellow Virginians and he wound up doing just that anyway. If there is a hell to go to, Robert E. Lee is burning in it. He deserves to.

  11. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

  12. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    Let's sum things up with regard to the Confederacy: -It seceded because of slavery and said as much via various state constitutions and proclamations of a number of its political leaders -slavery is bad, mkay? -it cared nothing for "States Rights" when sending slave retrieval squads into free...

  13. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    Slavery was widely considered a bad thing in 1861. The United States was one of the last Western nations to abolish slavery.

  14. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    A gilded cage is still a cage. Being really nice to someone even as you treat them like a possession might make you better than someone who rapes/beats someone while treating them like an object, but does not make you a good person, or even an okay person.

  15. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    So let me see if I get this straight. OP starts the thread arguing that the "Lost Cause" myth didn't really exist, this being a myth that includes the assertion that the war was not fought over slavery, and now OP is arguing that the war wasn't really about slavery?

  16. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    I am skeptical that numbers 3 and 4 were part of the "Lost Cause" myth. By it's very nature, the Lost Cause was specifically meant to downplay the role of slavery in the war, this runs contrary to the notion of defending the institution. As for unity; the South kept the war going for four years...

  17. WI: The powers of ww1 had today's weaponry

    Do they have the industry needed to produce more equipment/weapons/ammunition? Are the militaries of each nation somewhat disposed like they were back in WWI? IOW Britain as the largest naval power, the US with massive industry but a tiny army, etc.

  18. WI: The powers of ww1 had today's weaponry

    Well, that include nuclear weapons, so....

  19. Japan Dodges WW2?

    IIRC, the KMT was the stronger faction before the war, but Mao manipulated things so that Chiang and the KMT were bled dry fighting the Japanese in stead of the communists.

  20. WI: US insists on the demilitarization of Japan?

    Weren't there a number of movers and shakers in American politics/the military who thought that they US didn't need much of a standing military because of nukes? Wouldn't it be possible that if the US decides to rely more on the nuclear deterrent than IOTL that the rationale for keeping Japan...
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