OTL events that would be considered ASB

It’s probably good for them, though. How many of them suffered tragic deaths with lives cut short?
I don't know for sure but this is just a guess I don't remember ever hearing about untimely death of FDR's descendants. That doesn't mean it didn't happen but I would think they would be more well known if they did died in a tragic accident or unusual death.
 
The attack on Taranto. With just 20 planes, of which 11 were armed with torpedoes, they heavily damaged 3 battleships, for the loss of two planes, in a nightattack.

I've read several timelines where, as in the original plans, they had two carriers in the group, and even though those timelines adjusted the successrate downwards, they were accused of being totally ASB.
 
The fact Australian Aborigines never once tried to make a civilization similar to Mesoamerica. Screw the climate, they could of very well made cities if they just tried.
Actually they couldn't. They lacked easy communication with other societies, over half their country is inhospitable desert, they have a sever lack of domesticable animals and plants that are suited for agriculture, low rainfall, extremely dangerous wildlife. To make it worse, the majority of most habitable areas in the country are on the Pacific coast, the side farther away from potential visitors. Some areas/people get lucky (Middle East, Mediterranean Europe, East Asia) and some don't (Americas, Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa)
 
Singapore, the only nation in history that was given independence against its will (expelled from Malaysia).
Well, there is also Danzig, Slovakia, the Bantustans, (already mentioned) Gabon, Cyprus, and with a pinch of salt also Austria (do nations established by force by powerful third parties count?)
 
Hollywood is kind of ASB: a series of bad laws makes it impossible to develop the film industry in the East so filmmakers travel across the continent until they stumble upon the perfect location and then redefine their country's culture, its like some bizarre version of Exodus.

The tsetse fly seems like a cruel idea an ASB came up with to screw tropical Africa

Having North and South Korea side-by-side seems like an over the top parody of how bad communism is.

Most of the Americas is filled with space filling empires, the same goes for Russia, China and India
 

samcster94

Banned
Iran being a nation comparable to India(but a monarchy and more Muslim but tolerated Israel) turn into an insane theocracy that saw Israel's very existence as unholy.
 
Iran being a nation comparable to India(but a monarchy and more Muslim but tolerated Israel) turn into an insane theocracy that saw Israel's very existence as unholy.

And theocratic government survives to this day.

And couple ASB thing yet.

- Cuba being Communist right next of USA to this day and is succesful despite US embargo. And CIA is totally unable to assassinate their leader despite several attempts and he dies naturally at age of 90 on 2016.
. Argentina invades islands which belong to great power so the country went to unwinnable war. How someone is so stupid?
 

Lusitania

Donor
As one reader of my TL stated the iOTL history of Portugal in which a peripheral European country is able to establish its culture and language around the world many times its own size and population.
 
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