Reverse-Wank

So... we all know what a wank is (and this site is full of wanks by the way, i remember that we once had a discussion on a NEPAL-Wank XD) but it seems that not many people crossed the road in the opposite sense: turning an once powerful state into something only marginally more than a color on a map, or even make a state disappear from history. Examples of powerful states who disappeared or saw their power and territory reduced, along with their reputation in modern times, can be Poland or Mongolia (from being the biggest empire in the entire human history to becoming a region of China, all in more or less a single century). So, i challenge you to turn a still existing in OTL nation-state into a geographical expression or a meaningless minnow. The POD has to happen when the state already exists, and not before its creation: killing Bismarck, Garibaldi, Washington or Ivan IV is too easy.
 
We have recently decided to call this kind of thing a "-screw" actually.

Thus, Britscrew, Ameriscrew, Ottomanscrew, etc.
 
I've never seen a proper Ottowan. A true Ottowan would have the Ottoman capital at Rome with everything from Nice to Vienna to Cherson to Baku within the immediate empire and a subordinate Russian Muslim Empire. Oh, and AFrica would be painted Otto green. :D

As for what we need, we need Britscrew, or better yet, Angloscrew! Then maybe we'll stop seeing British Argentina = 1st world country.
 
Spain-screw was certainly OTL though that immediately followed Spain-wank. Hm. I recommend Russia-screw for the lulz of no longer having a super huge Russian state.
 
Spain-screw was certainly OTL though that immediately followed Spain-wank. Hm. I recommend Russia-screw for the lulz of no longer having a super huge Russian state.
I think the same thing has to happen with Russia. Rus'-screw must follow-Rus'wank and for much the same reasons as Spain.

Let' see... Tomb's Blue Sky TL qualifies as Christiano-screw, or it did last time I checked. Any Buddhist-, Confucian-, Hindu-, or Islamo-screws happening recently? Most TLs seem to be Tengri-screws.
 
I think the same thing has to happen with Russia. Rus'-screw must follow-Rus'wank and for much the same reasons as Spain.

Let' see... Tomb's Blue Sky TL qualifies as Christiano-screw, or it did last time I checked. Any Buddhist-, Confucian-, Hindu-, or Islamo-screws happening recently? Most TLs seem to be Tengri-screws.

Someone had a Portugal-wank that basically was an Islam-screw or at least a light one in that various places that now in OTL have Muslim majorities are Portuguese Catholic. My Cortesia time-line is a Hapsburg and Otto-screw in general while wanking the Aztecs and the other Mesoamerican states.
 
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