DBWI: Different Caliphate Successor States?

When the Caliphate collapsed in the 1920s, it was at first a mishmash of ethnic and linguistic states that quickly pulled together into the Coalition of Islamic States. So what if the Caliphate stayed that way, as a confused jumble of states? It technically is that today, but the CIS has centralized enough that it can be counted as one country, IMO.
 
When the Caliphate collapsed in the 1920s, it was at first a mishmash of ethnic and linguistic states that quickly pulled together into the Coalition of Islamic States. So what if the Caliphate stayed that way, as a confused jumble of states? It technically is that today, but the CIS has centralized enough that it can be counted as one country, IMO.
OOC: Before Pervez sees it... this isn't a DBWI, altough I'm not quite certain what the term is...
Incidentally, it shouldn't be that hard to delay the collapse of the Caliphate to 1920 with a post-1900 POD.;)
Altough that was more of a forced collapse then what the OP here implies...
 
OOC: This is a DBWI. The CIS doesn't exist IOTL.
OOC: No, this isn't a DBWI, because the Caliphate didn't collapse in 1920 in OTL. Neither, for that matter, was there a mishmass of ethnic and linguistic states in OTL.
DBWI being about how asking about how things would have turned out as they did in OTL.
The OP doesn't do that.
I'm just saying that so Pervez doesn't have to.
Personally, I'm not so strict.
 
OOC: Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that. I thought you meant that the CIS was real.

Then it's a TBWI.
 
OOC: Okay, okay, it's not a DBWI. It's a TBWI, my bad. Would you care to participate in the thread now?
 
OOC: Okay, okay, it's not a DBWI. It's a TBWI, my bad. Would you care to participate in the thread now?
OOC: I haven't got any ideas.
And as I said, if Pervez saw this thread, you would have had that rant in any case!
IC: Well... how do we hinder them from pulling together? Maybe we can just weaken the CIS so it isn't effectively one country?
 
I say have a major war occur after the collapse of the Caliphate. If it goes the right way, the CIS will never come to be, and the Caliphate will stay a mess.
 
OOC: No, this isn't a DBWI, because the Caliphate didn't collapse in 1920 in OTL. Neither, for that matter, was there a mishmass of ethnic and linguistic states in OTL.
DBWI being about how asking about how things would have turned out as they did in OTL.
The OP doesn't do that.
I'm just saying that so Pervez doesn't have to.
Personally, I'm not so strict.
OOC: Ahem...Ottomans

[Scurries out of thread]
 
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