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  1. AHC: have slavery reversed in the USA.

    Geography makes this outright impossible. The conditions for cash crops were why slavery was much more important in the south as opposed to the North.

  2. Is peace possible between Germany and allies ww2

    The Allies learned from WW1 that nothing less than Unconditional Surrender was going to make peace stick,

  3. After generalplan ost

    The Nazis would have to openly scream "we are exterminating all of eastern Europe and we are PROUD OF IT!", which means that another war with the United States becomes inevitable and (see calbear)

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

    Which were pipe dreams. The confederate navy was a joke and it never had the industrial capacity to even begin to match the union, while Mexico would nope out at the idea of a slaveocracy trying to conquer them. A large chunk of the secession calculus was based around how to get out and win...

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

    The Confederacy was a semi feudal aristocracy comparable to Imperial Russia or Brazil during the industrial revolution. Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state that sought to remould society into a perpetual war model and was out to exterminate 80% of the Slavic population in Eastern Europe...

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

    The Nazis were tied far more to the German-Slavic conflicts that had bubbled since at least the 1780s, and were a very different context. It's like comparing Imperial Russia (Which practiced slavery) to Tamerlane (A genocidal rampaging empire).

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

    Semi-Feudal aristocracies surrounded by industrial/industrialising peers, a genuine Popular mobilisation, the only way to win was based around rapid strikes (Lee was no fool, and Gone With the Wind hammered it home that the South was screwed in a war of attrition). In many ways, the ACW was a...

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

    Except the confederacy was less like Nazi Germany and more like Imperial WW1 Germany.

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

    Indeed there is a disturbing amount of fantasising that if the north went full Paraguay on the south America would end up becoming nice wise and mature just like Europe. Instead it would become a broken wreck on par with post opium wars China.

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

    Indeed. Temperance is overlooked a lot in American history despite, or perhaps because, it doesn't cut cleanly across racial lines in America.

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

    And interestingly enough, the Second Klan considered Lithuanian and Polish Immigrants barely better than African Americans, especially during Temperance.

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

    A lot of the mythos comes down to the North having no idea what to do with the end of slavery. As in, many of the abolitionists were of the mindset that "The slaves are free - Our jobs are done!" that ignored how the Urban Irish, German and Slavic Immigrants, via political machines like...

  13. Twilight of the Red Tsar

    Well there was the wee issue of the Russian civil war that hammered the final nails in the coffin of Russian liberalism.

  14. Egyptian Nuclear Weapons

    Good luck getting past the PAL systems, which are designed for that specific scenario.

  15. D's more robustly adopt Cuomo's 1984 advocacy of social safety net to reduce incidence of abortion

    @Shevek23 I was referring specifically to demographic crunches that are going to be hitting Europe (and are already hitting Russia, China, South Korea and Japan) in the decade to come as more and more people enter retirement and there are smaller working generations. That kind of demographic...

  16. D's more robustly adopt Cuomo's 1984 advocacy of social safety net to reduce incidence of abortion

    The main problem the European Welfare system faces in the following years is: Can it be sustainable? Whenever you get a large amount of mass retirees, a welfare state's bills become a lot bigger as there are a lot less contributors, coupled with decades of low birth rates meaning that there...

  17. D's more robustly adopt Cuomo's 1984 advocacy of social safety net to reduce incidence of abortion

    The problem is people want the taxes of America the welfare of Sweden and the demographics of Japan.

  18. What if Hitler start to support the KKK in 1930s?

    The klan of that tine were not just anti black and anti Semitic in their hate list. They also had a strong anti alcohol sentiment, which meant that the German Americans were among their primary targets.

  19. PC: Industrial Ireland

    After the Civil War, how plausible would it have been for Ireland to become an industrial nation by 2000?

  20. AHC: prevent (or greatly mitigate) the revival of the KKK, 1915-1920

    You would have to butterfly the temperance movement as understood. Fun fact: they fuelled lost cause myths of grant being an alcoholic while exalting the straight edge lee.
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