Images of The Death of Russia

[Whiteshore]

Current flag of Serbia, adopted after the Bulldozer Revolution and the subsequent abolition of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as part of Belgrade's normalization strategy with the wider world, with the blue color being a compromise between the shades of blue traditionally used by Serbia and Montenegro.

(OTL context is that this was a proposed flag for Serbia and Montenegro)

 

[ThePinkRabbit]

Picture of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien meeting President Bill Clinton to discuss NORAD and defence.

 

[ThePinkRabbit]

Canadian Prime Minister Peter MacKay arriving in Rideau Hall for the swearing-in of the Progressive-Conservative government after their victory in the 2003 Canadian election and getting a confidence supply deal with the Reform Party.
(OTL, the PCs could never recover their position as the opposition party. I imagine they could have done that here in 1998 if the Liberals had never called a snap election in 1997.)

 

[finnyboy665]

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Photo of an empty store shelf, somewhere in Canada, ca. late 2000s.

During the Pakistani Civil War, there were fears across the world over the war possibly turning nuclear, much like the Second Russian Civil War. Those fears increased when India and Afghanistan moved troops into Pakistani-controlled Kasmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Many people began to stockpile food and other items in case the worst had happened. The fears had cooled down when Punjabistan was declared and promised to surrender its remaining nukes, and Afghanistan, under international pressure and threats of an invasion by China, surrendered the nukes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the United Nations.

Pakistan wouldn't have nuclear weapons in this timeline. The collapse of Pakistan was a direct result of the US and its allies bombing Pakistani nuclear facilities for to a brief military government refusing to stop their nuclear programme

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

To flag the differences in the world, consider this one:

Following the death of Pope John Paul II in Rome in April 2005, the College of Cardinals considered many candidates to demonstrate the international appeal and diversity of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Sarah of Conarky, Guinea (a.k.a. Pope Benedict XVI). He has been described as largely sympathetic to liturgical practices of the era before the Second Vatican Council, but has also proposed that partisans of different liturgies learn from each other and seek a middle ground. In 2016 Sarah called for priests to face the same direction as the congregation while celebrating Mass (ad orientem), although facing the congregation had become the prevailing practice since the Second Vatican Council. His advice was seen by some as a direct challenge to Pope Francis, a claim that Sarah rejects. An advocate of traditional Catholic marriage doctrine in opposition to same-sex marriage, he has denounced "Western homosexual and abortion ideologies", suggesting that both are of "demonic origin", and he has compared them to Nazism and Islamic terrorism. Embraced by social and religious conservatives, until his death on November 23, 2014.

 

[Alpha-King98760]

Interesting, I can see Cardinal Sarah opposing the Menist Russian Orthodox Church’s views.

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Interesting, I can see Cardinal Sarah opposing the Menist Russian Orthodox Church’s views.

Also consider that he would a vocal critic of efforts to divide the Russian state. If anything, he would also be a vocal about efforts to make massive social changes in relation to human rights and gender politics.

 

[Jett-Power]

Photo of the funeral service for Joe Liberman, Vice President of the United States (2001-09).

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the fate of one of the historical analogues:

Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner George W. Bush, son of former U.S. President George H. W Bush. After baseball commissioner Fay Vincent resigned his post in 1992, Selig became the de facto commissioner when his fellow owners selected him to be chairman of the Major League Executive Council. In that capacity, he presided over the contentious 234-day strike by players in 1994–95 that led to a precipitous drop in game attendance and the cancellation of the World Series for the first time since 1904. He formally assumed the title of baseball commissioner in 1998 after league owners unanimously voted to give him a five-year term. This marked the first time that a team owner had been chosen for the commissioner’s post.