AHC: Make two nations that have a rivalry in OTL have friendly relations in TTL.

If you avoid the Revolution, Iran and Israel could be allies (which they sorta were OTL secretly under the Shah) instead of nemeses.

I could also envision a scenario where US-Russian relations are warmer if Yeltsin does a better job and Russia this selects more pro-western leaders.

A more repentant Japan after World War II (which could likely be achieved if the US tried to go to the same lengths to denounce Japanese imperialism as they did for Nazi atrocities) would likely have friendlier relations with South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan.
 
If you avoid the Revolution, Iran and Israel could be allies (which they sorta were OTL secretly under the Shah) instead of nemeses.

I could also envision a scenario where US-Russian relations are warmer if Yeltsin does a better job and Russia this selects more pro-western leaders.

A more repentant Japan after World War II (which could likely be achieved if the US tried to go to the same lengths to denounce Japanese imperialism as they did for Nazi atrocities) would likely have friendlier relations with South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan.

A more repentant Japan was going to happen if KMT won the civil war and if the Japanese socialist parties were not gaining influence. The opposite of those 2 effects forced the US to use the Japanese militarists and right wing as allies. If the US purged the Japanese war criminals and restricted them from politics and conducted a through denounciation of Japanese imperialism, then things would be better with China as well.
 
Iran could has more friends if there never be revolution.

Shah was the lesser evil compared to Khomeini. Mossadegh was popular locally but he was appointed by the Shah, not democratically elected. Britain wanted to get rid of him because he nationalized the oil. The US was not interested in helping Britain until Britain mentioned that Mossadegh was in bed with Communists. The Communist aspect jolted the US into action to help Britain launch the coup. Shah Persia would be friendlier with the Saudis, Israel, and the US. Under the Shah, Iran would have a nuclear program going right now haha
 
October revolution fails, Russia becomes a liberal democracy. Nazism and Japanese imperialism rise as in OTL, and WWII happens more or less the same. Instead of a Cold War, Russia and the US form a deep alliance to keep Germany and Japan down.
 
October revolution fails, Russia becomes a liberal democracy. Nazism and Japanese imperialism rise as in OTL, and WWII happens more or less the same. Instead of a Cold War, Russia and the US form a deep alliance to keep Germany and Japan down.

I don't think Russia was ever going to become a liberal democracy around 1917, even if the Bolsheviks, SRs, and Anarchists failed.

It'd be autocratic, as per the usual.
 
October revolution fails, Russia becomes a liberal democracy. Nazism and Japanese imperialism rise as in OTL, and WWII happens more or less the same. Instead of a Cold War, Russia and the US form a deep alliance to keep Germany and Japan down.

If October Revolution fails, there probably not be Nazis. Fear of Communists helped them much.
 
If October Revolution fails, there probably not be Nazis. Fear of Communists helped them much.

The lack of a successful Red OctoberOctober w mean that the spectre of communism wouldn't haunt Germans. If anything it could mean a stronger effort in having a German revolution instead.
 

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England and France do hate each other, but I dunno if it is an enmity, because hating another country is a form of respect and admiration when one just looks down on all the others.
We're also neighbours, and if one considers the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks.....We're siblings and those sort of rivalries are 'built in' so to speak.
 
Germany and Russia--see the Durnovo memorandum for an argument that their interests need not have clashed: https://archive.org/details/documentsofrussi027937mbp/page/n17

"The vital interests of Russia and Germany do not conflict. There are fundamental grounds for a peaceable existence of these two States. Germany's future lies on the sea, that is, in a realm where Russia, essentially the most continental of the great powers, has no interests whatever. We have no overseas colonies, and shall probably never have them, and communication between the various parts of our empire is easier overland than by water. No surplus population demanding territorial expansion is visible, but, even from the viewpoint of new conquests, what can we gain from a victory over Germany? Posen, or East Prussia? But why do we need these regions, densely populated as they are by Poles, when we find it difficult enough to manage our own Russian Poles? Why encourage centripetal tendencies, that have not ceased even to this day in the Vistula territory, by incorporating in the Russian State the restless Posnanian and East Prussian Poles, whose national demands even the German Government, which is more firm than the Russian, cannot stifle?

"Exactly the same thing applies to Galicia. It Is obviously disadvantageous to us to annex, in the interests of national sentimentalism, a territory that has lost every vital connection with our fatherland. For, together with a negligible handful of Galicians, Russian in spirit, how many Poles, Jews, and Ukrainized Uniates we would receive! The so-called Ukrainian, or Mazeppist, movement is not a menace to us at present, but we should not enable it to expand by increasing the number of turbulent Ukrainian elements, for in this movement there undoubtedly lies the seed of an extremely dangerous Little Russian separatism which, under favorable conditions, may assume quote unexpected proportions.

"And Germany is in exactly the same situation with respect to Russia. She could seize from us, in case of a successful war, only such territories as would be of slight value to her, and because of their population, would prove of little use for colonization; the Vistula territory, with a Polish-Lithuanian population, and the Baltic provinces, with a Lettish-Esthonian population, are all equally turbulent and anti-German …

"As regards the German domination in the field of our economic life, this phenomenon hardly justifies the complaints usually voiced against it. Russia is far too poor, both in capital and in industrial enterprise, to get along without a large import of foreign capital. A certain amount of dependence upon some kind of foreign capital is, therefore, unavoidable, until such time as the industrial enterprise and material resources of our population develop to a point where we may entirely forego the services of foreign investors and their money. But as long as we do require them, German capital is more advantageous to us than any other..."
 
If Ethiopia manages to annex Italian Eritrea during the First Italo-Ethiopian War, it might result in Emperor Menelik II be willing to swear off claims to most of the Somali-inhabited lands that make up the basis of the Ogaden region in favor of ceding them to Italian Somaliland. Depending on how history progresses from here, Ethiopia could have friendly relations with an independent Somalia, albeit one that is larger ITTL.
 
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