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  1. Most Anglophile US possible.

    Well, one thing that could help make Americans more anglophilic than they are already are would be to have some way of ensuring that British popular culture is more prevalent in America than OTL. For instance, maybe in this timeline, somehow, the center of the film industry is somewhere in the...

  2. How would the Morgenthau Plan have killed people?

    For the same reason that millions of people would starve today if you suddenly dismantled an entire country's industrial base and purposefully set them back to an agrarian existence. If you cannot pay for food, you do not get food, and if you do not get food, you die. And when food is already...

  3. What's the REAL reason Polynesians didn't colonise Australia?

    Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm no expert on maritime navigation), but human migration by sea before the advent of things like engines was essentially at the whims of the winds and currents. Looking at maps of ocean currents and prevailing winds, you can see that Australia is in a bit of a...

  4. Was Japan really in an "unwinnable" war?

    Essentially the only way for ANY country to defeat the United States is to make them get tired of fighting. Invading the continental US, hell even raiding it to try and disrupt industry, is effectively impossible. Even if Japan somehow managed to gain control of every Pacific island including...

  5. Would the Cold War still have existed if China didn’t fall to the CCP

    The Cold War would certainly be less tense in this case, but I think it would still happen. While the expansion of communism in east/southeast Asia is curbed, the Iron Curtain still exists, and there are parts of Africa, South America, western Asia, etc. still with the potential to fall into the...

  6. Bush vs. The Axis of Evil - TL

    For sure. "What if Assad didn't pull out of Lebanon?" would probably be a fairly frequent thread. A land war extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean to the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan would be an even worse nightmare than what America has already gotten into ITTL. Add in...

  7. Bush vs. The Axis of Evil - TL

    True, we haven't heard much about them yet. Assad is obviously out of the picture (unless something truly crazy happens that brings him back onto the anti-American side), but Gaddafi especially is an interesting factor. I wonder if this TL will have an Arab Spring equivalent, or if that will be...

  8. Bush vs. The Axis of Evil - TL

    This is shaping up to be a brutal (and fascinating, well-written) TL. At least they aren't fighting the "Beyond the Axis of Evil" countries too.

  9. Unbuilt Canada

    How about the "Mid-Canada Corridor" plan from the 1960s? It was an idea to encourage development in the more northerly areas of the provinces and the southern parts of the territories. It's something I honestly think would have greatly benefitted the country if it had been implemented. It...

  10. What if Japan gets to keep Formosa after 1945? How will this affect future PRC-Japan relations?

    If Japanese-Chinese relations are strained, I could see Japan claiming parts of the South China Sea that are strategically relevant to the defense and support of Taiwan, if not simply to prevent China from claiming the waters as their own. I think Japanese fishing around Taiwan would be subject...

  11. Who'll play the indians? We'll let the gooks play the indians. John Company plays Vietnam.

    Was there really no way you could've made this thread without using a racial slur multiple times?

  12. A victorious Imperial Germany overthrows the Bolshevist regime

    Nobody is saying the Tsar was good. The Bolshevik regime was horrific, and so was the Tsar's. They likely would try, as many anti-Bolshevik partisans did even after they won the civil war. But like with those partisans, I doubt they would have all that much success, unless Russia breaks up into...

  13. Effects of the development of pure fusion nuclear devices?

    Atoms, yes - because atoms are uncharged, they can't be contained nearly as easily or reliably as charged particles like ions. CERN could keep antihydrogen around for 17 minutes, but they managed to store antiprotons (or in other words: ionized antihydrogen) for 405 days with a Penning trap. You...

  14. AHC: Could humans have colonized Antarctica?

    The challenge here is to give Antarctica an indigenous human population. Obviously, OTL, it doesn't have one, and is the only continent on Earth to never have an indigenous population of human beings. It makes sense that it doesn't; it's a barren, hostile land devoid of most important resources...

  15. The Province of Alaska

    This level of national self-loathing is weird. Yeah, our military isn't huge, but have some national pride. As it stands, we don't need carriers, and even if we had Alaska we wouldn't either. Carriers are far better suited for offensive operations, and unless we're talking about some kind of...

  16. WW1 German Aircraft carriers break blockade

    The first powered flight was only 11 years before the start of WW1 (and the first military airplane was only built in 1909). The technology wasn't there yet, and neither was the doctrine. Any aircraft carrier built in this era would be a waste of money, manpower, and materials.

  17. Nuclear German Empire conquers the world

    Why would they? Contrary to the beliefs of most 12 year olds, Germany never wanted to "conquer the world." I'm pretty sure no great power or even superpower has ever considered such a thing. Nukes or not, conquering the world isn't in the cards for any nation in history. It's not feasible to...

  18. AHC: Prevent a hated fictional character from becoming hated

    I feel like they wanted Wesley to be relatable to younger fans, but they ended up taking his character into Mary Sue territory to the point where he's not really relatable to anyone. He's basically a child prodigy, has a time-space-mind-bending alien tell him how incredibly important and special...

  19. AHC the US turns into a police state in the early 20th century

    Essentially, to do what you want, you need the police to be respectable. They'll need to avoid the image of being corrupt, unfair, untrustworthy, racist and unnecessarily brutal. Either they can do this by more successfully covering up their misconduct (but that just makes the backlash against...

  20. AHC the US turns into a police state in the early 20th century

    Anyone who thinks America is a police state has never experienced an actual police state. Even the kind of "benign" police state that OP describes is not what the US is.
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