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  1. Dornish Red

    If you ever get the urge to run another ME game sometime, I'd be very interested!

    If you ever get the urge to run another ME game sometime, I'd be very interested!
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    Just for fun earlier today I started rereading your old Mass Effect play-by-post game. That was...

    Just for fun earlier today I started rereading your old Mass Effect play-by-post game. That was a really fun game while it lasted, thanks for the good times! :}
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    WI: Safavid Empire collapses in 1590 (It's a weird POD I know)

    I agree with you completely. The Ottomans maintained large Christian populations in many regions that they had ruled for centuries. Christians were pretty well-integrated into the Porte's administration and economy and actually, for tax purposes, the Ottomans had an incentive to discourage...
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    Population of China if Nationalists won civil war.

    I agree, but authoritarian regimes tend to try to solve problems the way that they've solved other problems, in other words: if one problem can be solved with force and repression, other problems can be solved with force and repression. Park Chung-hee's South Korea actually forcibly sterilised...
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    Population of China if Nationalists won civil war.

    That may well be. At least in an ideological sense, we could say that Mao was at least theoretically far more committed to actively promoting women's empowerment and participation in the economy. But the historical and modern PRC has a history of making fairly grand promises to women and...
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    Population of China if Nationalists won civil war.

    We do have to remember that a lot of the Malthusian anxieties about population control were a major trend of the 1970's. It's not to say that no nations before then attempted to limit their population growth or introduce contraception. But things like the One China Policy or Park Chung-hee's...
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    PC: Soviet Military Mission to Ethiopia in the 20s/30s?

    Eh, the USSR at the time was establishing ties to Britain and France, countries which had previously refused to recognise the Soviet government. Making some minor concessions on allowing strictly economic assistance to Ethiopia isn't beyond the realm of possibility for the British or the French...
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    PC: Soviet Military Mission to Ethiopia in the 20s/30s?

    Aside from Ethiopia being an active component of the East African Campaign, I don't think it'd be much more than a regional focus. As regards the Second World War, I'd imagine that we would get more or less the same result as historically: an Italian collapse against British forces in East...
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    PC: Soviet Military Mission to Ethiopia in the 20s/30s?

    I mean, if you had a completely different Italian government in power, I could imagine there being no Italo-Ethiopian crisis to start with.
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    PC: Soviet Military Mission to Ethiopia in the 20s/30s?

    The British government at one point backed a fairly punishing proposal for peace that would have massively favoured Italy and granted substantial territorial concessions to them in return for peace. Honestly, the British government's mindset in the interwar period was effectively to avoid...
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    PC: Soviet Military Mission to Ethiopia in the 20s/30s?

    The problem is, if the nobility, as OTL, hates Iyasu, why would that extend to also hating the system of government that literally cements their power? When you don't like the king, you don't always get rid of the kingship, you just get another king. The USSR, like most countries, presumably...
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    PC: Soviet Military Mission to Ethiopia in the 20s/30s?

    But why would a coup result in a republic as opposed to just another Emperor taking the throne as per OTL? The Soviet Union wasn't averse to establishing relationships with monarchies, early on the USSR actually had a surprisingly cordial relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, though...
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    WI: United Earth by the year 2000.

    The world could be more unified by 2000, it's not hard to imagine the European Union moving towards closer integration among its members or former Soviet nations crafting a more comprehensive union. The Gulf States process of economic and military integration under the auspices of GCC could...
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    20th Century Polish Great Power

    I agree completely. Or the Polish-Soviet War that happened during the Russian Civil War (albeit at a time when it was the beginning of the end for the White Movement). Decisions like "We do not seek war with Poland", aren't exactly set in stone. I'm sure a victorious White Russia might...
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    WI: US Bombs Vietnamese Dikes

    Bombing civilian infrastructure and causing floods, disease outbreaks, and likely subsequent famine that result in millions of deaths isn't bordering on a war crime, it is a war crime.
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    What is the earliest possible date the U.S could invade Saudi Arabia?

    The US has military contingencies for everything. Someone, somewhere, probably created a plan for the US invasion and occupation of Jamaica. Not because of any dark plots against Jamaica in the halls of the US government, but simply because there might somehow in some way be a need for this...
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    Change the weather on one day, 1900-present

    There are a few districts of Florida that could presumably have had different weather around the 2000 Election and literally made the difference between Bush and Gore.
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    Indian Post-Independence Economic Miracle as told in NYT articles

    North Korea has some areas of self-sufficiency, but as a whole it is actually perilously dependent upon foreign food aid to survive.
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    Indian Post-Independence Economic Miracle as told in NYT articles

    This sort of thing is a very nice repudiation of the imports bad/exports good fallacy. The United States economy produces and exports automobiles, and has the industrial capacity to produce significantly more, but the economics of doing so would be unsound. Foreign automobiles have a comparative...
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    Indian Post-Independence Economic Miracle as told in NYT articles

    I don't see India's emergence as a major power being like that of a traditional great power. India today is by no means a weak state and traditionally Indian diplomacy has emphasised non-alignment, non-intervention, and attempting to stay on the right side of international opinion in various...
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