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  1. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Map Thread XXII

    The population of the Istanbul Vilayet in 1914 was between 900k and 1 million, of which 55-60% were Muslim and a quarter Greeks, which is not even remotely close to "more Greeks than there were in the entire world." You're back projecting Istanbul's population in the present day to an era where...
  2. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Map Thread XXII

    It would not be anywhere near majority Turkish. There's a bizarre tendency in scenarios discussing the plausibility of these kinds of scenarios to drastically overestimate the demographic problems (by retroactively applying the demographics of the area in 2020 to the area in 1920) while also...
  3. Kohlticus Euraleth

    WI: Choibalsan manages to annex Inner Mongolia

    No, Manchuria would make Han Chinese the overwhelming majority of such a state. Even without Manchuria, there would be a Chinese majority because Inner Mongolia's population was 80% Han and several times greater than Outer Mongolia.
  4. Kohlticus Euraleth

    State/City Populations in a US without the South?

    I'm not really seeing why it makes "more sense" for the Union to become more insular or inward looking, and it makes even less sense why any Catholics or Jews would prefer the CSA when it won't have any more draw to them than the South did otl. The hypermajority (95% or more) of immigration to...
  5. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Wallies reach 1938 Soviet borders -- what do postwar borders look like?

    The following map is the only one I know of and this is from the late war OTL, where the Soviets performed well and were already assumed to end the war holding the eastern part of Poland's 1938 territory no matter what. Possible the proposals look quite different if they can't manage that.
  6. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Wallies reach 1938 Soviet borders -- what do postwar borders look like?

    Poland is getting some territory from Germany, although nowhere near Oder-Neisse, since Oder-Neisse was a combined result of Poland being shorn of land in the east and Stalin wanting to ensure he had as much of a buffer from the West as possible given that the future existence of East Germany...
  7. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Wallies reach 1938 Soviet borders -- what do postwar borders look like?

    I doubt the Western Allies have any reason to consider Operation Unthinkable, or any analogue, in this scenario. They would have full control over Germany and all the Central - Eastern European nations that ended up in the Pact, and the existence of the Soviet Union in its 1938 borders isn't...
  8. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Tellurus: a worldbuilding project

    Having been an observer of this thread for ages I just want to say I appreciate all the astronomical knowledge being shared in this thread. It's helping myself with figuring out how to plausibly get a terrestrial, livable world with two moons without having to say "magic lol."
  9. Kohlticus Euraleth

    WI: Byzantine Victory at the Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) ?

    It's definitely a helpful buffer on top of the wealth, but only once the Romans are able to reclaim atleast the 9th century frontiers in Anatolia. Anything less than that and you don't have the defensive depth to handle a third frontier to worry about.
  10. Kohlticus Euraleth

    AHC: Haitian Revolution Spreads To New Orleans

    I don't think there's any chance it ends up held by the Haitians. Louisiana is surrounded by powers hostile to any potential slave rebellion and even then, the area where they're concentrated is just a small sliver of the land which makes up the territory, cut off without any means to really...
  11. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Aside from mass immigration was there anything Japan could have done to keep its economy growing from the early 90s?

    Nope, sorry. Like I said, this is just an effort to derail the topic from the patently absurd claim that developed nations are forcing economic migrants to move with two articles about the economic benefits of refugees of which one isn't even about the EU. I'll leave aside the fact that two...
  12. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Aside from mass immigration was there anything Japan could have done to keep its economy growing from the early 90s?

    I'm aware. There were millions of Ukrainians in the EU before that as well, I brought them up as the first example that came to mind given that they make up the largest group of migrant workers in Poland and are a perfect example of what I mean (this predates the Russian invasion). Of course...
  13. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Aside from mass immigration was there anything Japan could have done to keep its economy growing from the early 90s?

    Dig deeper into those statistics. A significant number of those non-EU individuals are from other European non-EU member states, the most notable one in 2023 being Ukraine - not to mention not all of those are migrant workers, many are refugees. You're talking about refugees now when your...
  14. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Aside from mass immigration was there anything Japan could have done to keep its economy growing from the early 90s?

    Nope, nowhere near a majority, not even a plurality. The plurality of migrant workers in the EU come from other European nations. Is this a serious question? The migrant workers are choosing to go and live in the West so yes, it is voluntary.
  15. Kohlticus Euraleth

    Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

    Such as?
  16. Kohlticus Euraleth

    The umpteenth "Byzantine Empire survives" TL; clichés and pitfalls to avoid? Unique ideas to add?

    Yeah, I think late survival PODs are very interesting both from a writing perspective (you have a lot of issues that need to be overcome and the need to do so is far more pressing than it ever was in the empire's history) and its position in the wider world: Rome is almost certainly never again...
  17. Kohlticus Euraleth

    How long would the Confederacy survive?

    The boring answer is that there's no one answer. All of the answers given can be correct depending on the circumstances that follow and how it achieves independence in the first place.
  18. Kohlticus Euraleth

    WIP Map Thread

    Manchuria is like 98% Han so any attempted genocide there isn't even going to get off the ground, and the Han in Inner Mongolia outnumber the Mongols like 4.5 to 1.
  19. Kohlticus Euraleth

    AHC: A more populous Soviet Union

    I don't think a population of 220+ million is possible with a POD after WW2, but avoiding the demographic catastrophe of the 90s in Eastern Europe would probably result in the entire region having a few million more people. Right up until the end of the 80s most of the Pact nations, Russia...
  20. Kohlticus Euraleth

    South Africa: Part of the Axis of Evil. How would George W Bush deal with Apartheid South Africa?

    If they're not acting counter to American interests, why would he? That part has as much to do with the descriptor of "Axis of Evil" as anything else.
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