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  1. French Algeria in a timeline without WW2

    Algeria would remain French. They'd crush Algerians and their independence aspirations just like they crushed Bretons, Occitans, Basques, Alsatians, Provencals, etc. "We are all French! Or else."
  2. what if in 1918 Wrangel became supreme leader of Russia instead Kolchak?

    If Wrangel replaced Denikin as head of Southern Army at the day of its formation (january 1919, so you're a bit too early), it affects little whether he or Kolchak is nominal head of White Movement. Both armies operated completely independently. Denikin was not a bad military commander per se...
  3. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    Soviets had plenty of foreign investment. They had foreign concessions since 1920s. Some of their newly built industrial cities were literally designed by American industrialists. Having purged local capitalists, they had to invite foreign ones to actually be able to continue their...
  4. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I don't think the Reds will win the civil war ITTL. Germans were far more willing to provide weapons and supplies to the Whites than the Allies, but Germany's own defeat and revolutions had ended their support. Entente was unwilling to send help, even though Kolchak was willing and able to pay...
  5. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Yeah, there is no way Church would have adopted Iconoclasm, Paulicianism, and Puritanism. At the same time. Everyone just gives up and goes home, and doesn't challenge it again later. This is something that would flare up again and again for centuries. Ambitious generals would use restoring...
  6. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    I could believe that banning depiction of Jesus would went mainstream, but only if Church also went Monophysite, because they believed divine nature of Jesus had wholly swallowed and subsumed human one: Cannot depict God as a Man. Otherwise ban on graven images would have no basis in remaining...
  7. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Easy. Even great men are fallible. Bible has dozen of examples of otherwise exemplary men doing bad things. I don't think outright iconoclasm could've triumphed in the long end, because you cannot ditch all icons without ditching veneration of saints, and to to ditch veneration of saints you...
  8. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    What makes me scratch my head in confusion is the Church situation, specifically the issue of married bishops. OTL secular kings were totally cool with their clergy being married and bishoprics being effectively hereditary, it was popes who tried to stamp out the practices, and had basically no...
  9. Could you plausibly claim that the US provoked Japan before Pearl Harbor

    I agree with almost everything you said, while I disagree with just one thing that you said there. It's not perversity. It's a feature, of nearly all sophisticated civilizations, and one that worked very well, so why abandon it? Being in principle committed to peace and non-aggression while in...
  10. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    I doubt succession has been legally changed. Contrary to it's portrayal in Crusader Kings 2, succession in Roman Empire in the East was primarily father-to-son thing. When it wasn't, it was either because there was a coup that deposed reigning emperor, or because he had no viable son. But the...
  11. WI: No Sea Peoples

    An interesting theory I've read, is that Sea People weren't single group of invaders, but waves of refugees. It supposedly went like this: City falls apart. Hungry people gather into mob and go to nearest place they think has food: another city that is nearby. But that place also is near...
  12. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    Scotland resisted... back the in middle ages. Resistance finally ended after English Civil War. Both Scottish and Irish elites had assimilated and remained complaint to English rule, while remaining culturally distinct. Even the Jacobite uprisings weren't for independence, but for different...
  13. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    That's what princes/chieftains will be for. "Overthrow Draka!? Then where we would get from our liquor, cigars, and cars?!" They would keep their own tribes in line, and ordinary people do not resent their enforcers as much if they're of same ethnicity. There was a saying about late Qing...
  14. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    Umm, no, getting your agents impregnated by your enemies doesn't actually stop them from fighting you. Why not? They probably consider themselves True Britain, or British Empire in Exile perhaps. Think Kaiserreich-verse Canada, more British than Britain itself.
  15. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    Why would that be a problem? I think we've established I am talking about forced suppression of movement. Movement radicalising is bad only if it becomes more radical while it power does not diminish. But if they're radicalising as result of successful suppression, movement becomes less numerous...
  16. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    I knew of this, did not contest this, and in fact this is part of my reasoning for strengthening princely states. The point of strong princely states is not to appease Indian Nationalist. The point of princely states is to have princes. Princes with it's own military and police, who wouldn't...
  17. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    Hitler said once: "If all Indians spat at once, all British in India would have drowned". You can rule over whole lot of people, if instead of compulsive obsessive need to bureaucratise, nationalise, and modernise, you're content that some local native princes are sending you tribute of slaves...
  18. Confederate Politics after 1862 victory

    As I suspected, you were wrong. This isn't ban on internal improvements. (Although term internal improvements is not as general as I initially though, but more specific. You used it in reply to my post where I talked about industrialisation in general, implying you object to notion of general...
  19. Confederate Politics after 1862 victory

    Oh, did it? I've found no such bans in Confederate constitution. That "railways were built only because of military necessity" is hardly surprising of a country that is waging war for it's independence. Yes. That's what taxes are for. USA version: CSA version: There you go. States were...
  20. Was a North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War inevitable?

    So. Diem purged large numbers of people who were known to be amenable to colonial authority? And then was surprised that those who replaced them sympathised with anti-colonialist crusaders of North Vietnam rather than with American stooge, allowing South Vietnam to be infiltrated by Vietcong...
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