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  1. Could Chinese intervention in the Korea War have been avoided?

    Not in 1950. @wiking As DavidT already mentioned above, Mao's reasons for intervening were not strictly defensive. Once the US has routed DPRK forces from the South it would be hard to stop the Chinese. You can check China's Road to the Korean War for information about internal PRC politics...

  2. WI : Death dates of Foch and Pétain swapped

    We have no idea how well Foch would have done with politics. By all accounts he is not the sort of person who had the temperament for it. France had a lot of people in WW2 that had fought in WW1, but that did not matter. I doubt Foch could bring about the needed changes.

  3. Impact of non-partitioned Vietnam post 1954

    Not unless the French do something disastrously wrong. Collectivisation everywhere. Failure of agriculture and starvation. I am not sure about Communist intentions towards Laos and Cambodia in such a scenario. Extremely worried. Expect US involvement to bolster the rest of old French colonial...

  4. Would The World Have Been Better Off If The Central Powers Won WWI?

    Ludendorff got outmanoeuvred by Hitler despite the former being a famous commander and the latter being a relatively new nobody. I doubt Ludendorff's abilities outside of fighting, he could lend support to a cause by his fame but nothing more.

  5. WI: Stalin wants to move Hungary west

    That won't be enough. You must have the allies refuse to land in strength even later than OTL which does not seem likely.

  6. PC: UK adopts the SAR-87

    Has Gun Jesus discussed its trigger ?

  7. WI: Successful Kapp Putsch crushed by France

    WW1 and the subsequest revolution proved this to be false. Each state fought on from the beginning until the last offensive. If in OTL American and British reaction was negative, then this would definitely get France diplomatically badly burnt. You could try and hand waive it away, but that is...

  8. Challenge: Make Motorcycles More Popular in the US

    They are fun to ride.

  9. WI: Successful Kapp Putsch crushed by France

    The OP has several flaws. 1. Any leader who tried to separate Bavaria from Germany would find his political tenure and life cut drastically short. 2. The French occupied as much of the Rhineland as they could get away with. Unless the US and UK are openly supporting France, which they did not...

  10. Alternative Firearm Development PODs

    Would love a source for the "thousands" mowed by Maxim's black powder gun.

  11. Alternative Firearm Development PODs

    Heating up is not the problem for a black powder auto-loading gun, fouling is. Your gun would be fouled well before it has heated up dangerously.

  12. Alternative Firearm Development PODs

    Useless without smokeless powder.

  13. Crimean war - Imperial Russia doing better

    British viceroys had an obsession with Russian meddling across Central Asia that was strangely strong.

  14. WI: multiparty Soviet Union in the 50s

    No Soviet leader would ever let that happen, and neither did anything like that ever happen. The Party == the State.

  15. Kashmir OTL

    Pakistan had better access to Kashmir valley than India did, but they are not realistically getting other bits like Jammu. Jammu and Kashmir were barely connected in those days, so Pakistani presence in Kashmir does not mean that India has lost Jammu. No Indian government would ever let Jammu go.

  16. Discussion: How Would You End The Great War

    The southern German states did not try to break away from Prussia or demand a separate peace. The Prussian-others divide in the 20th century is played up in English media.

  17. Discussion: How Would You End The Great War

    Because its constituents were happy with the status quo ( after fighting each other ) or had to contend with each other for land. Germany has no such problems. The Germans won't fight each other to stop unification.

  18. WI: Nixon administration (competently) pays off burglars, Watergate never fully revealed?

    Never going to happen.

  19. What if the FAL was an assault rifle?

    FG 42. but with a normal magwell ? Maybe a better trigger ?

  20. What if the FAL was an assault rifle?

    Gun Jesus told that too ! On to the FAL, I don't get the love it gets. A breech locking gun would have been better and lighter.
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