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  • Italy
    • Part 1.) End of the Monarchy.

Hey folks,
I'm machinekng. You may know me for my (hibernating) sci-fi wikibox series 2064, the ideology questionnaires I used to do, and the other occasional maps i've made. In short, it's been a while since I've been active on the forum, and I've never written a real TL.

I felt like changing that today.

While I still plan to make wikiboxes and focus on alt-ideology, I do want to tell a fairly grounded cold war timeline. The big question that I want to ask is what if the Washington consensus, that is the economic and ideological institutions that defined the "West" in the second half of the 21st century, failed to take root? What if the North Atlantic alliance fell apart following the World War 2, and the United States faced the Soviet Union in a unilateral fashion? In part, I'm writing this because I'm interested in the aesthetic of a anti-Ameriwank, where the expansionist ideas concerning the U.S. are realized but lead to negative outcomes. I'm also interested in ideas like a multipolar Europe in the cold war, different sequences of decolonization, ideological variances in the absence of American hegemony.

Note that while the PoD is in Italy, and I'll be revisiting the peninsula frequently, this isn't really an Italian history TL. Butterflies will radiate out from the PoD over both time and distance. More dramatic changes will thus start in Europe and ripple out from there.
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