Chinese nationalist logic: Anywhere an emperor pissed has been part of China for 100,000 years.
Or.
Chinese Emperor: Takes a dump somewhere.
Chinese dictator: Hippity hoppity, it has always been my property.
The Footprint of Mussolini - TL
Chinese nationalist logic: Anywhere an emperor pissed has been part of China for 100,000 years.
Or.
Chinese Emperor: Takes a dump somewhere.
Chinese dictator: Hippity hoppity, it has always been my property.
I wouldn't be surprised if there would be massive anti-Turkish revolt and lot of terrorist groups through 2020's. There has been already lot of local mutinies but on some day there is going to be nationwide revolt. And that would become really ugly event.
Also in the previous WorldA 2020 map, Syria is marked as a Turkish puppet, so should I put Syria as a Turkish puppet or under Turkish influence on an updated FPOM map that I am working on, or no?
I apologize for my very long reply in advance.
Turkey is bound to descent into civil war between Kemalists, Islamists, Junta Loyalists and Grey Wolves (Radical Turkish Fascists) considering that Turkey is the sole survivng Fascist dictatorship which hasn't restored civilian rule since 1942. As for the hazardous containment zone that is FoM!Syria, it's been mentioned few times that Turkey blitzes Syria as soon as Syrians rebel against their abhorred "monarchy" and that there's been general chaos even before 21st century.
However, Syrians won't stop after liberating themselves from Turkey upon destroying it and reclaiming their lost lands. They acknowledge that most of the World didn't lift a finger for their aid and that the desolate infrastructure and 'living' standards remains the same because of this. As Sorairo stated:
FoM!Syrians may be lost-cause insane schizos, but they don't have short-term memories. Do you think they'll let the above fact slide? The fact that the post-Samson devastation of Syria hasn't been rebuilt since 1956 would cause massive psychological damage to their psyche,knowing that the apocalyptic environment stayed the same, and the Ciano Plan ensured that Syria isn't allowed to develop anything or heal itself. As if pre-2AW Nakba rage wasn't enough, three consecutive generations were poisoned and per each cursed generation, younger generations would get even worse than previous ones (think how Palestinians in Gaza were radicalized since 2005 but far, FAR worse. One hundred-fold worse). Syrians have been radicalized beyond the point of no return that it's futile to deradicalize them and restore their sanity,and they looked to no other solace but Aflaq.
They don't want "better treatment" anymore, they want the complete destruction of the planet.
While it's technically occupied by Turkey, I have a theoretical headcanon that Syria is ruled by the unrecognized "Council of Six" (located in the ruins of Deir ez-Zor) representing six major extremist factions of six different ideologies controling six portions of Syria with six warlords per each,whereas Faisal dynasty is the figure that represents "Turkish Occupation Government" and are probably somewhere in Turkey because all Syrians hate their guts. 5 are ideological and 1 is non-ideological,which are: Salafists (westernmost Syria with Hama as their capital while Homs is left a ghost town due to being too close to Turkish border. Why? Because they still regard Damascus as their real capital and not what the Treaty of Budapest selected for them), Ex-SSNP pagan "Palmyrans" (Palmyra/Tadmor), Satanists (Raqqa. They exist because many Syrians among some Arabs were so disilisiomed with the post-2AW state of Islam that they've turned to Iblis over Allah who has "turned against us" during Operation Samson (Sorairo implied that in one of his comments) and cause the latter "speaks Turkish"), Ba'athists (northwest Syria, aka former northeast Iraq, and Al-Hasakah. Their capital is Tal Afar), Nazis (Tikrit. They occupy southeast Syria in-between central Euphrates and Tigris) and Mayadin Cartel (Deir ez-Zor plus south Syrian border. Unlike the hostile five, these drug cartels are the most pragmatic of the six and "voice of reason" who know which rethoric are they picking when talking to Jews and Israeli NGOs. They are responcible for providing an alternative form of non-industrial economy based on drugs and are also trading within Black Market so as to give Syrians proper goods to their hellish life, albeit with 90% of that wealth controlled by the Council of Six while 10% are handed to the people)
If not, then just recolor it into black-ish color to represent anarchy. TTL Syria has decayed for far too long. It needs to dissapear so that it can be put out of its frustrating misery.
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*China proceeds to annexate Aluma*
Hey you are extra-territorial now. Enjoy your diplomatic impunity
*China proceeds to annexate Aluma*
Hey you are extra-territorial now. Enjoy your diplomatic impunity
Cue 95-year occupation that goes on long enough that people only remember it when it ends.
Invincibility cheat!Hey you are extra-territorial now. Enjoy your diplomatic impunity
Since Sorairo will be going off in April, I would like to make him, and every fan of this TL aware that Sifangwuhai, a very obscure animated history YouTuber made a cartoon recap video series of The Footprint of Mussolini on his channel up to until the Battle of Trieste!, he deserves more support and views!
Here is the complete playlist of this series with 10 videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWbdwr7cGxiQnBlScoPcuRBuvmOQF15K
I feel kinda sad about how so many fantastic stories on this forum remain a thing secluded to within itself and other alternate history forums, even when they get published on paper, looking up "The Footprint of Mussolini" online only brings up this thread, other threads on this forum, TVTropes, and some few DeviantArt maps with very little engagement outside of this forum, I recall stumbling upon only a single reddit post about this timeline.
I know that alternate history is a niche subculture and literary genre, even Harry Turtledove, despite his popularity and prominence, having been a writer for decades, is still a quite obscure figure, with only this forum and DeviantArt talking about his very big and complex worldbuilding works in-depth as far as I know, but stuff like Kaiserreich and TNO have a much bigger internet presence for example.
Sure, alternate history is a niche history genre that attracts a niche audience, but some alternate history timelines go way above that, being similar to the techno-thriller and political drama genres that do have a big appeal in media, but well, Kaiserreich and TNO are video game mods instead of stories, so I dunno if it is fair to compare a game that you directly interact with and choose your own plot and worldbuilding, instead of a written story written by a specific author.
Here is the complete playlist of this series with 10 videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWbdwr7cGxiQnBlScoPcuRBuvmOQF15K
I feel kinda sad about how so many fantastic stories on this forum remain a thing secluded to within itself and other alternate history forums, even when they get published on paper, looking up "The Footprint of Mussolini" online only brings up this thread, other threads on this forum, TVTropes, and some few DeviantArt maps with very little engagement outside of this forum, I recall stumbling upon only a single reddit post about this timeline.
I know that alternate history is a niche subculture and literary genre, even Harry Turtledove, despite his popularity and prominence, having been a writer for decades, is still a quite obscure figure, with only this forum and DeviantArt talking about his very big and complex worldbuilding works in-depth as far as I know, but stuff like Kaiserreich and TNO have a much bigger internet presence for example.
Sure, alternate history is a niche history genre that attracts a niche audience, but some alternate history timelines go way above that, being similar to the techno-thriller and political drama genres that do have a big appeal in media, but well, Kaiserreich and TNO are video game mods instead of stories, so I dunno if it is fair to compare a game that you directly interact with and choose your own plot and worldbuilding, instead of a written story written by a specific author.
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"Sane Syrians" of FoM are Syrian Christians who were expelled to Lebanon, Alawites and Syrians Muslims who were lucky to live in their newfound territory or those that've fled to Kurdistan, Druzes and those who died from Operation Samson. And no, not even Syrians of abroad are sane. These mfs make the rest of Diaspora Arabs blush in shame for them causing so much trouble that they were eventually deported back to Syria.
By 2100, either "Syrian Territories" are partitioned between Turkey, Alawitia, Assyria and Kurdistan, turned into a giant lake, or the FoM World has had died from Syrians' apocalyptic attacks against every country on Earth (including Israel) with launched underground antrax missiles at October 31st 2056 (100th anniversary of Aflaq's death). Cause at this point, the term "Syrian" in FoM is a severe mental disorder than nationality.
The distinction between "Accursed Ones" and non-Syrian Arabs in FoM is that one worships Aflaq and regard him as their God, Messenger, Führer, Messiah, Prophet, Hero, "Daddy", etc... while the latter regard him as polar opposite and that the former should disappear already.
Similarly,the difference between non-Zulu Eastern Bantustan and Syria is that the former is tortured mangled puppy whereas the latter is damaged frothing rottweiler that took bullets without dying.
Sorairo has had put enormous effort to turn an alternative history into HoI4 mod-esque thriller without ever becoming a mod on its own. However, Kaiserreich and TNO do have huge storyline tied to gameplay, as are all popular HoI4 mods.
Sifangwuhai deserves to be credited for being the first Youtuber to bring attention of FoM to YouTube.
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The good news is this: thanks to AI making video production easier, the ability for individuals to make their own alternate history scenario with broader reach will become much easier within the next decade or so.
Hopefully AI will make producing such things much easier.
Indeed. Making movies or live-action clips for alternative histories would be real.
But what's exciting to me is that if this is what we can do NOW, what will AI create within ten years, especially since the logic of AI is compounding technological acceleration and complexity.
10 years later, the AI will make their own media to compete with humans.