The Articles of Deconfederation: A World Without America
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1. The Party of '05 is a coalition of left-wing and left-populist parties in the American Union, with most being Amerisceptic and anti-immigration, but also simultaneously very anti-centralist and anti-fascist. The name denotes the date of founding, with the party being formed in 2005 as a successor to an objectively more radical "left-wing umbrella party," the Alliance of American Marxists and Democratic Socialists.
2. The Coalition of Regions and States is a regionalist party, and has its strongest support in northern Louisiana, where most of the country's English speakers live, and in south-central Tecumsia, which holds extremely concentrated of communities of Anglo-Americans. The party is mostly right-wing, although most groups that seek independence for their region (from both their home country and the AU) are welcomed into the coalition. Many of the party's critics jokingly call it the "Coalition of Afraid Whites."
3. Major centralist parties seeking to contend in the 2019 American elections are the Legion of Cooperating Classes, which is more hardline Centralist (led by Jeff Schoep), and the New-Right Party, which has a softened out Centralist platform with more emphasis on isolation and autarky as opposed to excessive labor and war. Their support comes mainly from the suburbs of inland cities, although as a whole this support is minimal.
It would be the latter of those. "Hellenic Republic" is simply the official name of a Greece that is relatively similar to the one in OTL. The key difference between the two is that TTL's Greece fits, like most of Europe, into a more conservative continental order.
Republic of Tripolitania
Tripolitania (Arabic: طرابلس), officially the Republic of Tripolitania, is a country in Northern Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya to the east, Tunisia and Algeria to the west, and Chad and Niger to the south. The country is made up of two main regions; Tripolitania Proper in the north and The Fezzan in the south. With a land area of 667,223 square kilometres, it is the 16th largest country in Africa, and 41st in the world. Tripolitania has a population of just under 2.5 million, roughly half of the 5.3 million living within Libya, the country's former administrative authority. Tripoli, Tripolitania's capital and largest city, is home to 900 thousand Tripolitanians, accounting for nearly a third of the entire country's population. Tripolitania is also home to several large oil reserves, including the Al Hamada-Jabal field range, which is responsible for the production of 57 percent of all of the country's oil.
Tripolitania was established as an independent entity in 1981 after a five year civil war in which Tripolitanian Catholics and the descendants of original Italian settlers, along with Tripolitanian and Fezzan separatists and republicans, battled against the Shi'ite Muslim government of the Libyan Arab Republic. This split was associated with the coup that had been carried out by Muammar Gaddafi seven years prior, which resulted in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Libya and its king, Idris I. On 14 August, 1981, the United Nations intervened in the war, and negotiated a peace between Libya and Tripolitania-Fezzan. The northern portion of the border between the two was administered as a highly-militarized UN mandate until late 1990, and Tripolitania adopted its current name in 1991, removing "Fezzan." Tripolitania was administered as a pseudo-Catholic dictatorship, led by the young general Gianfranco Fini, an Italian-Tripolitanian who tied the country very closely to Italy, its former colonial master. However, after the 1994 Italian elections, which ended with a near total collapse of neo-fascist influence in Italy, the two countries cut ties. Fini continued to crack down on expression of dissent and any possible proliferation of civil liberties for the remainder of his rule until being shot dead by an Arab nationalist in 2000.
With Fini's death, there was a struggle for influence within the Tripolitanian National Social League (LNST). The party's leadership office was left without a clear successor, and two camps, one supporting hardliner Ignazio La Russa and the other backing the relatively more moderate 'Umran Burweiss, battled for the post. La Russa eventually won out, becoming president of Tripolitania in September of 2000. However, many who had supported Burweiss, with the hopes that he would lead the country through a process of gradual democratization like that undergone by Venezuela in the 1970's, became agitated, leaving the party or actively attempting to undermine La Russa's government from within. In response to these efforts, La Russa purged numerous anti-government spies from his cabinet and the national legislature, killing or imprisoning over 50 government ministers and secretaries.
By 2012, Tripolitania had become a total police state. Several attempts at peaceful protest, between July and December of 2012 and January to March of 2013, were met with government violence, resulting in the deaths of 1,250 Tripolitanians. Despite this, protests only became more common, often escalating to full-scale riots in cities and large towns. The bombing of government facilities was a staple tactic of resistance groups during this period, with one resulting in the death of president La Russo on 28 June, 2014. The following month, LNST rule ended with few casualties in relation to government-ordered killings in 2012 and 2013. Since then, Tripolitania has had one of the most successful transitions to democracy of any African country, and is classified as a flawed democracy by the International Democracy index, with the second highest democracy rating on the continent after Tunisia.
The country does still experience instances of terrorism and LNST-inspired attacks, although the movements associated with this violence are generally accepted as radical and fringe. The anti-La Russa revolution is now viewed as a time of "necessary violence" by most Tripolitanians.
Tripolitania was established as an independent entity in 1981 after a five year civil war in which Tripolitanian Catholics and the descendants of original Italian settlers, along with Tripolitanian and Fezzan separatists and republicans, battled against the Shi'ite Muslim government of the Libyan Arab Republic. This split was associated with the coup that had been carried out by Muammar Gaddafi seven years prior, which resulted in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Libya and its king, Idris I. On 14 August, 1981, the United Nations intervened in the war, and negotiated a peace between Libya and Tripolitania-Fezzan. The northern portion of the border between the two was administered as a highly-militarized UN mandate until late 1990, and Tripolitania adopted its current name in 1991, removing "Fezzan." Tripolitania was administered as a pseudo-Catholic dictatorship, led by the young general Gianfranco Fini, an Italian-Tripolitanian who tied the country very closely to Italy, its former colonial master. However, after the 1994 Italian elections, which ended with a near total collapse of neo-fascist influence in Italy, the two countries cut ties. Fini continued to crack down on expression of dissent and any possible proliferation of civil liberties for the remainder of his rule until being shot dead by an Arab nationalist in 2000.
With Fini's death, there was a struggle for influence within the Tripolitanian National Social League (LNST). The party's leadership office was left without a clear successor, and two camps, one supporting hardliner Ignazio La Russa and the other backing the relatively more moderate 'Umran Burweiss, battled for the post. La Russa eventually won out, becoming president of Tripolitania in September of 2000. However, many who had supported Burweiss, with the hopes that he would lead the country through a process of gradual democratization like that undergone by Venezuela in the 1970's, became agitated, leaving the party or actively attempting to undermine La Russa's government from within. In response to these efforts, La Russa purged numerous anti-government spies from his cabinet and the national legislature, killing or imprisoning over 50 government ministers and secretaries.
By 2012, Tripolitania had become a total police state. Several attempts at peaceful protest, between July and December of 2012 and January to March of 2013, were met with government violence, resulting in the deaths of 1,250 Tripolitanians. Despite this, protests only became more common, often escalating to full-scale riots in cities and large towns. The bombing of government facilities was a staple tactic of resistance groups during this period, with one resulting in the death of president La Russo on 28 June, 2014. The following month, LNST rule ended with few casualties in relation to government-ordered killings in 2012 and 2013. Since then, Tripolitania has had one of the most successful transitions to democracy of any African country, and is classified as a flawed democracy by the International Democracy index, with the second highest democracy rating on the continent after Tunisia.
The country does still experience instances of terrorism and LNST-inspired attacks, although the movements associated with this violence are generally accepted as radical and fringe. The anti-La Russa revolution is now viewed as a time of "necessary violence" by most Tripolitanians.
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Why would inflict that upon us?!!! Have my people not already suffered enough?!
The alt Taoiseach are neat though
Must be a different Kennedy. If I recall correctly, Kerry Kennedy's dad Bobby was President of NY.
Honestly I haven't been thinking about TAoD too much lately. I've been working on a lot of graphics for things outside of this timeline, but once I'm done with those I'll take a look at making something new for the timeline.
The issue there is that when I switched to my new desktop, I lost the log-in info for my imgur account, which I had had for about four years and had always relied on auto-fill to get me into. I'm assuming that something happened to that old account in the four months or so that it was inactive, and I unfortunately don't have backups for most of those images. If I can find any, I'll restore them, but I think it's safe to say that most of them are lost.
Also, I'm aiming for an update this weekend. It's just that I've been busy for the past few weeks, and I've got a bit of a side project going on that's distracting me.
Oh, that’s really sad, I loved this timeline, can’t you recover your password or have you even lost your mail account?
Shit thay’s Really unfortunate.
Really? Does imgur delete images after a period of inactivity? Or was the account more likely hacked or something?
I really can't say I have any idea what happened. That account was connected to an email that I hadn't used in years, so I doubt there's any way for me to restore what was on it.
Have you tried to send an email to incur to try to get back your account? If you can give some proof that it was yours maybe they could recover it.
This is a great loss for this subforum, I loved many of the infoboxes and pages you made.