whitecrow
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This site has a number of “revers” timelines – e.g.: ones where Arab world becomes dominant while Christendom lags behind, or ones where USA becomes a communist dictatorship while Russia is the “leader of the free world”, etc. In One such recent timeline where USA goes communist and Russia doesn’t, the author was struggling to come up with a “Perl Harbor” analog for Russia. Specifically, the ideal analog would have had some nation (other than Japan) attack the Russian Pacific fleet in Vladivostok.
Now carrying this analogy further, to be a true Japan counterpart the aggressor nation would have had to be separated by the Pacific ocean from Russia and be relatively close to ATL USSR (USA). So by that logic, it would need to have been a South American or Central American nation.
So now we come to the core of the issue: which South or Central American nation could have, in theory, 1) gone on a war spree against its neighbors in an effort to create an “[Insert the Nation’s Name Here] Co-Prosperity Sphere” (really, an “[Insert the Nation’s Name Here] Empire”), 2) try to lay claim to various Pacific Island and 3) carry out a pre-emptive strike on Russian Pacific Fleet in hopes that it would prevent Russia from interfering in their empire-building efforts?
Now if your only contribution to the thread is going to be “none of them because US stomps them! MERICA F*CK YEAH!” then I am going to preempt you right now and say that the US, due to ATL 2nd civil war and Stalin’s purges, is in no shape to go on South American adventures.
Now carrying this analogy further, to be a true Japan counterpart the aggressor nation would have had to be separated by the Pacific ocean from Russia and be relatively close to ATL USSR (USA). So by that logic, it would need to have been a South American or Central American nation.
So now we come to the core of the issue: which South or Central American nation could have, in theory, 1) gone on a war spree against its neighbors in an effort to create an “[Insert the Nation’s Name Here] Co-Prosperity Sphere” (really, an “[Insert the Nation’s Name Here] Empire”), 2) try to lay claim to various Pacific Island and 3) carry out a pre-emptive strike on Russian Pacific Fleet in hopes that it would prevent Russia from interfering in their empire-building efforts?
Now if your only contribution to the thread is going to be “none of them because US stomps them! MERICA F*CK YEAH!” then I am going to preempt you right now and say that the US, due to ATL 2nd civil war and Stalin’s purges, is in no shape to go on South American adventures.
