What is your favorite alternate history scenario, for the best possible outcome as of 2008, that is not ASB, starting before 1900? Ideal scenario for the best possible 2008? (By best I would mean the greatest standard of living for the most people, more freedom economically and politically for people; etc.); for example, what would the best thing for Cuba be - being annexed in 1848 by the US to become a state in the US, or leaving as is? Would it have been better for Germany to nurture ties to Britain before WW1, and fighting with the British?