post-cold war

In our own history, the Tiananmen Square Protests erupted largely calling for a soft form of liberalization and government reform only to be brutally supressed, eventually leading to the leadership of Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, south of the Yalu River, Kim-Jong-Il had three sons - Kim Jong-Nam, the...

November 16th, 1985. Tokyo, JP. Nintendo Headquarters: Shigeru: “Electricity is the phenomena associated with the presence of motion and matter that has a property of an electric change.” Yamauchi: “What are you talking about this time, Miyamoto?” Miyamoto: “Electricity in entertainment is...

How many nuclear weapons would they have? Let's say the program started in 1955. I imagine most of them would be deployed in a submarine fleet, with a purely defensive doctrine, and also Japan would probably have to have a missile interception grid to make Israel's Iron Dome look a bunch of...

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...

I'm working on a timeline where Western Europe is a coalition of democratic socialist countries, but being a yank I don't have the knowledge to realistically bring about such a thing. I was thinking the Blair-ite approach fails, but that doesn't seem like enough. Starting after the fall of the...

Well, Monday (7th January) marked the 20th anniversary of the UN resolution that led to Transnistria firmly becoming an integral part of the then new Republic of Moldova - albeit as the Transnistrian Autonomous Region (TAR). But at least it's not separatist as it wanted to be back then. Sure...