György Friedman is an Austro-Hungarian geopolitical author whose main focus is on international relations. In the Counterfactual community, he is mainly well known for his (often questionable) predictions of the future. His first book written would be The Coming War with Britain, which predicted a war between Germany and Great Britain as the United States entered a decline. This was would never happen, and many would go on to accuse Friedman of cashing in on the rising Anglophobia within Austria's northern neighbor at the time of it's writing, as well as simply copypasting tensions from the early Wilhelmine era onto the then present.
Later, he would go on to write the equally well known (at least, among the counterfactual community) Next Century Which was an attempt by Friedman to predict the course of the 21st century from the year 2009. The TL;DR of that one was that Germany's European Order would remain dominant, even as the former US fragmented and the Empire of Japan finally began to buckle, with the former seeing various new states arising from the ashes while Mexico retook it's territory lost centuries beforehand. To fill the void, a South American federation would form in patagonia and Britain (again) would rise to challenge Germany. The Third Great War would see Germany team up with Mexico to take on Britain and Patagonia (who would get the recently independent Confederate States on their side somehow) and eventually win. The book would end with the rise of Eastern Europe into a new intermarium to challenge their old overlords in Berlin, potentially teaming up with the French to threaten Germany's formerly secure position dominating the European Continent.
Overall, while many find Friedman's predictions fascinating, most see them more as bad political thriller writing, especially his longterm predictions. Many also accuse him of being an anglopobe for his views regarding the United States and Great Britain, as well as his seeming distrust of Germany's French neighbors.
I'd love to read a Reputation Report by Alterwright from multiple perspectives about John Brown.
Gorgo: Minus One (2023)
The most recent installment of the Gorgo Franchise, Minus One is set in 1946 where a recently awoken (and irradiated) Gorgo would launch it's rampage upon a war torn Britain after defeating a German-American attempt at stopping the monster. Which would leave what was left of the British Army, as well as the Royal Air Force and Navy to try and stop the beast dead in it's tracks, using various wartime weapons (such as the battleship HMS Warspite and the A-34 Comet tank) along with a device made from Tallboy bombs that are towed to the monster by a flotilla of minesweepers and destroyers, accompanied by a modified Gloster Meteor fighter.
The most recent installment of the Gorgo Franchise, Minus One is set in 1946 where a recently awoken (and irradiated) Gorgo would launch it's rampage upon a war torn Britain after defeating a German-American attempt at stopping the monster. Which would leave what was left of the British Army, as well as the Royal Air Force and Navy to try and stop the beast dead in it's tracks, using various wartime weapons (such as the battleship HMS Warspite and the A-34 Comet tank) along with a device made from Tallboy bombs that are towed to the monster by a flotilla of minesweepers and destroyers, accompanied by a modified Gloster Meteor fighter.
Why the offensive term?(Oh no, this wasn't edited at all, this is an actual news article headline from 1987/1988, I just thought it would fit here and in the World of TL-191...)
i'd assume because it was a different time and they probably needed to conserve page space
Which one? (Since there allegations that Jacko is a racist term)
But as for the Jap thing, IRL I have no idea dude it's pretty messed up that such a term was even used up until the late 80s. But in the context of TL-191 I figure that "Jap" would still be a common and popular slur to refer to Japanese people during a Japanese-American cold war.
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Netflix's The Crown Season 1 = Follows the early life of Wilhelm IV, portraying his life in college and him meeting and falling in love with Dorothea von Salviati and the drama between him and his father and grandfather. Season 1 ends around late 1941 with the death of Wilhelm the II and the ascension of Wilhelm III. The penultimate episode is widely considered to be an audience favorite as Wilhelm II redeems himself by having a change of heart acknowledging his love for his great-granddaughters and declaring Wilhem IV's marriage as legitimate and his daughters as legitimate heirs/members of the House of Hohenzollern, reinstating Wilhelm as the Crown Prince and second in line to the German throne.
Scene of the Māori battalion doing traditional haka before deploying to the defense of Fiji prior the Japanese betrayal.
The scenes of the obscure underrated Second Great War 1998 film, “Kaiwawao o Fiti” which translate as the defenders of Fiji. Tell the story of the Maori battalion and their journey throughout the Pacific front for the British empire, but most notably, Maori home back in Aotearoa. The Battalion experience great sacrifices and hardship throughout the war, All accumulated to facing over 50,000 Japanese-Moro soldiers during their last breath of the defense of Fiji, with many of the character, we grew to love died fighting off the Banzai horde before getting captured by the enemy. The film is also noticeable for having a good portrayal of the Japanese, and Moro soldiers during the campaign as just regular men fighting, who is right to control the Pacific Ocean which was head of his time with the potrayal as many movies even today have Anti-Asian sentiment because of the bitter rivalry between the Japanese and American.
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