21st century

This is something of a storage and showcase thread for military-related things from my Sparrow Avengers universe. These all come from a 19th to 21st century timeline by me, inspired by the Crimson Skies setting, and inspired by a question I posed years ago. That question, aimed at frequent...

So we all know what happened to Mexico in the 1980s to Present : Under the PRI Dictatorship, it became embroiled in corruption and the wars with the Cartels then Vicente Fox and his successor made it worse, then we had the return of PRI with Npeto or whatever his name was, and now we have AMLO...

In OTL history, Russia's relationship with the Christmas holidays and the Christmas festive season has been complex. Especially in more recent modern history, of the last ca century or so. Traditionally, most Russian Christians have been Russian Orthodox, so it's no surprise that they celebrated...

The 2002 Brazilian presidential election had four main candidates: Lula (PT), who would finally become president after failing to do so three times in a row, José Serra (PSDB), senator for the state of São Paulo and the incumbent administration's candidate, Anthony Garotinho (PSB), the then...

So Saddam in 1978 expelled Khomeni from Iraq after Iranian agents notified him of a pro-soviet coup being attempted. I'd imagine this didn't go well with Khomeini and influenced him to call on Iraqi’s to overthrow him. What if say Saddam didn't expell him and Khomeni after taking control of Iran...

The world in which we live today has been nearly completely and totally shaped by two transient events that occurred both in the 20th century, the first obviously being the period of the world wars and the second being the collapse of the Soviet Union. The world war's importance to the direction...

Okay, so I'm planning on starting a... less ambitious timeline than the ones I've tried and miserably failed in the past. It's going to be called "The 21st Century - The Most Cursed Century in History". I intend to have a POD in the 1990s but I only want it to start getting really cursed in...

So I got this a bit of challenge that it would be interesting see to happen. Basically make the 1930-1940 world feel like the early 1900's to 1910 with same technologies, fashion, values, etc. Then from that point advance it really fast and make the current present-day feel the same with modern...

(I sincerely hope this is the correct place to post this.) Most WWIII TLs I've found on this site mainly use a POD that has the Cold War go hot with NATO and the Warsaw Pact duking it out in continental Europe. What I'm looking for are TLs about a WWIII that kicks of in the modern day and the...

Not sure is this should go into this forum, Non-Political Chat, or even Regular Chat, but here's how it goes: (Mods are free to move it if they feel like) I'm a Hungarian, born in 1990. Back in the 1600s, one of my distant ancestors, the Báthory family, (one of its infamous descendants is...

I've been lurking around the forum for a couple years now, and read a lot of space timelines here. I bit the bullet and made an account today because I've been privately mulling over this timeline idea for a while, and think I need some help. The basic idea here is that instead of cancelling...

In the early 1900s, and for a time even into the years of World War 1, there was a sense in various cultures that the 20th century has the potential to go off in a very positive and novel direction, compared to past eras, coupled with a certain sense of uncertainty. For example in Hungary, a...

So this is an idea I've had in my head for a while and posted parts of in the alternate wikibox thread. I suck at consistent posting schedules, but I'll try to keep updates pretty frequent Part 1 “I want to finally get something done on Social Security. I want younger workers to be able to...

The Yugoslav and Ukrainian wars were pretty bad already for Europe post-Cold War. However, could it been possible for Europe after the Cold War been more violent? Realistically of course. The scenarios can have roots during the protest movements of the late-80s if needed (e.g. armed conflicts in...

IOTL, the Cold War was a global gridlock between the democratic, civil liberties-supportive United States and the authoritarian, utopia-fixated Soviet Union. Through espionage, propaganda and political power plays aplenty, they sought to determine which way of life the world would ultimately...

Supposing that Ronald Reagan and the New Right never comes to power in America, how would US society (economy, social policy, politics, etc) be different today? I'm not focusing on how the 1980s would have been different as we already have a plethora of TLs on that. Instead this thread is meant...

From 1947 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union were the reigning superpowers of the world. One was a republic that championed free market capitalism, the other a far-left polity that sought global communism. Naturally, this brought the two colossi into a multi-decade standoff; proxy...

28th August 2017 She was waiting to go on stage, the whole high-cultural world at her feet. With a sly grin on her face she glanced at the Daily Telegraph's birthdays column, a sure sign that she had Made It: "Miss Florence Welch, ballerina, 31". All young women were still addressed as such...

Prologue - When the Bell rang Thrice Not many are sure how or when this happened. Some historians say it was 1977 while other proclaimed the early 90's. But the fact remains, we are here. Thanks to people, many normal like you and I, we saw the drastic fall from grace that was western democracy...

As I'm working on a story that involves the Cold War still continuing into the 21st century, I need to know about some projects that got cancelled by the OTL end of the Cold War. Already I know of two projects that got canned, namely the G11 Caseless Assault Rifle something and the A-12 Avenger...