AHC: Make Moscow the capital of the USA

Somehow make the US balkanize (possibly as a result of nuclear war?) and in the process,multiple groups of warlords and 'provisional governments' are set up. In Idaho,there is a warlord based out of Moscow who was strong enough to unify Idaho while expanding into Washington. The Warlord would declare their new nation to be the 'United States of America' with the capitol out of Moscow.

Sorry if thats too ASB,I am not sure how else to get such a small town to be the capitol though.
 
That title freaked me out for a moment there. Damn you and your plagiarism of town names, America!

In all honesty, barring nuclear apocalypse and evac of the cabinet to Idaho!Moscow, this is very hard to pull off.
 
That title freaked me out for a moment there. Damn you and your plagiarism of town names, America!

Because of that habit, the U.S. capital could be...

  • Paris, Texas
  • Rome, Georgia
  • Vienna, Illinois
  • Ottawa, Illinois
  • Cairo, Illinois
  • Dublin, Ohio
  • Toledo, Ohio
  • Alexandria, Virginia (That one is almost easy - DC gets nuked and contaminated, and the government is reconstructed across the Potomac, around the Pentagon.)
  • Memphis, Tennessee
  • St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Syracuse, New York
  • Aberdeen, South Dakota
  • Florence, South Carolina
  • Damascus, Oregon
  • Odessa, Texas
 
Because of that habit, the U.S. capital could be...

  • Paris, Texas
  • Rome, Georgia
  • Vienna, Illinois
  • Ottawa, Illinois
  • Cairo, Illinois
  • Dublin, Ohio
  • Toledo, Ohio
  • Alexandria, Virginia (That one is almost easy - DC gets nuked and contaminated, and the government is reconstructed across the Potomac, around the Pentagon.)
  • Memphis, Tennessee
  • St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Syracuse, New York
  • Aberdeen, South Dakota
  • Florence, South Carolina
  • Damascus, Oregon
  • Odessa, Texas

Melbourne, Florida (Melbourne was the original capital of Australia).
 
Alexandria, Virginia (That one is almost easy - DC gets nuked and contaminated, and the government is reconstructed across the Potomac, around the Pentagon.)

Even easier - a budget-conscious Congress decides to establish the capitol in a preexisting town on the Virginian side of the Potomac, instead of establishing a new city in a swamp on the Maryland side. (Not wanting to leave behind creature comforts might also be involved.) After all, Alexandria was in the District of Columbia until the 1846 retrocession...
 

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Make US lost the War of 1812. The US government will run to chilly north-western mountains, and may at some stage quarter in Moscow, Idaho. The location of Moscow (large flatland surrounded by vast mountain massifs) resemble a bit Chinese Chongqing - which was a capital of China for some years during WWII.
 
Because of that habit, the U.S. capital could be...

  • Paris, Texas
  • Rome, Georgia
  • Vienna, Illinois
  • Ottawa, Illinois
  • Cairo, Illinois
  • Dublin, Ohio
  • Toledo, Ohio
  • Alexandria, Virginia (That one is almost easy - DC gets nuked and contaminated, and the government is reconstructed across the Potomac, around the Pentagon.)
  • Memphis, Tennessee
  • St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Syracuse, New York
  • Aberdeen, South Dakota
  • Florence, South Carolina
  • Damascus, Oregon
  • Odessa, Texas

Berlin is another possibilty.
 
Let's not forget Copenhagen, New York, the Amsterdams in New York, Missouri, and Ohio, Brussels in Illinois or Wisconsin, among others, I'm sure.
 
What if in May 29, 1861, Jefferson Davis, after gaining weapons from Russia, moves the Confederate capital to St. Petersburg, in Florida, where the capital stays until 1918, after the third civil war, where Georgian politican, Joseph Steel, born from Russian immigrants moves the new communist central government bodies to the newly built Moscow in Georgia (OTL Atlanta)
 
Make US lost the War of 1812. The US government will run to chilly north-western mountains, and may at some stage quarter in Moscow, Idaho. The location of Moscow (large flatland surrounded by vast mountain massifs) resemble a bit Chinese Chongqing - which was a capital of China for some years during WWII.

The US didn't own any of Idaho in 1812, so apart from the silliness of America being reconquered in 1812, this still doesn't work.
 
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