The new chapter on the Balkans and Eastern Europe should be up tomorrow! Those places are definitely messier than the West and North thanks to the proximity of the UOCS and their allies.
Speaking of the UOCS, I have a couple questions regarding their future that I would love some input on:
- When should the Union collapse? Given its smaller sphere, more narrow appeal to outsiders, and the presence of an incredibly powerful Germany (even after India) and a much more powerful, industrialized, and hostile China, the UOCS is poorer and even more encircled than the OTL USSR. On the other hand, the presence of multiple oil-rich client states in the Middle East means that the UOCS can sustain itself for a bit by plundering their wealth (using massive military force as an explicit threat to ensure cooperation) but this has a limited lifespan.
- What replaces the UOCS? How badly does it fracture? I'm imagining that the various Central Asian territories, etc break off into their own nation states like OTL, and we could have a Nationalist Socialist Russia that is keen on reclaiming at least some of these territories, but is restrained by its more powerful Indian benefactor. That being said, I'm open to other ideas.
Finally, I've decided that the definitive endpoint for TTL is going to be 2020, ie roughly the present day. However, in an idea inspired by
@Napoleon53 making a new and improved version of WMIT (my favorite TL on this site, no contest) I'm also going to dedicate myself to a LTES 2.0. This is my first serious TL on this site, and while I like a great deal of what I've done, I want a chance to go back and go more in depth, as well as fix things I don't like about TTL.