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  1. Drunkrobot

    Domestic effects of Britain losing in World War I?

    My wonder about Ireland is that while the people overall might be exhausted by war, those in government, and that section of the populace most concerned with Britain's apparent imperial decline, might react to the confirmation of a continental hegemon with a strong navy with a redoubling of...
  2. Drunkrobot

    Domestic effects of Britain losing in World War I?

    With Austria-Hungary and the Ottomons as allies Germany does have a continguous land route to the Middle East, so it does have much more leverage in that department, with the biggest being over the Suez Canal. But again, it's relatively minor compared to at least some concessions Germany had to...
  3. Drunkrobot

    Domestic effects of Britain losing in World War I?

    I didn't imagine a huge exchange of territory, just some border changes and annexations in Africa and the Middle East for example. As for what Britain gets, it gets Germany not sinking ships heading to Britain; having access to Europe and now France for plunder allowed Germany to alleviate the...
  4. Drunkrobot

    Domestic effects of Britain losing in World War I?

    For the sake of the discussion, I defined 'losing World War I' as Germany overcoming the Entente on the Western Front in around 1917-1919, with no involvement by the Americans, leading to an overrunning of Paris and and surrender by the French. Basically out of money at this point and with no...
  5. Drunkrobot

    Wealthy UK post WW 2, How & Consequences

    Could you elaborate in this? Is this an acronym for something, or are you referring to mechanicisation of labour (robots)?
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    Plausibility check: British civil war in the 1920s/30s?

    What I like in concept about AVBCW is it has a three-way split at its core; a democratic, constitutional faction looking to make Prince Albert/George VI King, an autocratic faction with royalists and Mosleyite fascists as its two heads, and a far-left faction calling for socialist revolution...
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    Plausibility check: British civil war in the 1920s/30s?

    I've been thinking about A Very British Civil War and the concept of the British government collapsing in authority some time in the '30s. I find the setting interesting, but I had the feeling that a PoD of Edward VIII insisting on marriage to Wallis Simpson and being able to appoint Moseley PM...
  8. Drunkrobot

    Realistic Invasion of the USA by a victorious WWI German Empire (and allies)?

    Yes, a US that has fallen to authoritarian government, so captured by corporate interest that the majority of people are excluded from the benefits it provides or any sense of inclusion within it, and which suffers from endless domestic insurrection, is much more vulnerable to invasion (at least...
  9. Drunkrobot

    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    @OtterArmyPutsch The counterargument is that this rural black population would not have to contend with Jim Crow. Black churches were essential in the organisation of the civil rights campaign, and the all too frequent failure of white liberal and leftwing groups to make solidarity with black...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I see it less in terms of overall productivity and more in terms of who the 'winners' and 'losers' are. Of course, the freed population who gets land are the obvious immediate winners, but who else benefits from such a large population moving up from total poverty? Framed a certain way, it...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    A complication I'm sure has been mentioned before is the dilemma that not every Freedman actually wants land, and there's a chance that if the government tried to give everybody those plots they just would not be of viable size. The Reconstruction bureaus might facilitate exchanges between...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    So, stabbing them with Morton's Fork? Either they concede, and allow concessions that are in the interest of the working class, or they attempt to stop it, and provoke a conflict they couldn't hope to win. This could translate into more leftwing interest in the advancement of direct methods of...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    On a local level, it gets the South's economic base up and running again, more in the hands of people of unquestionable loyalty to the Union. A black farmer will put the land back under the till (and he knows all or most of what to do, from the work he had to do as a slave), would provide...
  14. Drunkrobot

    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    It might have been said before, but depending on how the war and reconstruction pans out it could have a significant effect on how Marx develops his ideas. I understand if a Marxist looks at how the civil war and reconstruction developed and decided it was evidence that liberal democracy was no...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Whether Lincoln always wanted to end slavery in the South or not, he understood that Rule 0 was to keep the South in the Union if the Federal government was to ever end it. Lincoln specifically resisted and countermanded abolitionist decrees early in the war that he was afraid would spook the...
  16. Drunkrobot

    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Yeah, that I named this character Samuel was not supposed to imply he is anybody famous. It being a side-story to someone else's timeline I thought it would be improper to invent details that @Red_Galiray would then be forced to either accept or conflict with. I knew the timeline had established...
  17. Drunkrobot

    How would the USA and CSA fit into the great power alliance system after a Confederate victory?

    It's a common prediction in counterfactual fiction that a divided US would not be able to isolate its home continent from the great power as it was able to when united, indeed that was an early argument among the first generation of political leadership for a stronger federal union; the moment...
  18. Drunkrobot

    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    And if Grant still becomes President (and OTL he was smart enough to know that as the most famous and celebrated living American he just had to wait to be asked), then he too might still write his own memoirs. With a less troubled presidency, a more successful reconstruction, and if somehow he...
  19. Drunkrobot

    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    An observation on the TTL historiography; presumably a surviving Lincoln would mean that at some point he would be able to write his memoirs of his presidency. That in itself would be a huge change in the primary sources for the period of the civil war and Reconstruction, the guy right at the...
  20. Drunkrobot

    WI Sherman captured the Army of Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign?

    @Ulyanovsk I'm also ready to concede some of the premise down to the Army of Tennessee being ruined enough to not recover in time to contest with the Union force over Atlanta.
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