What If : A Surviving Ottoman Empire in "Decades of Darkness" World ?!
As we know it already, Jared's TL "Decades of Darkness" is a very old TL. Originally dating back to before the crash, it was restarted in 2004, very, VERY long before even the first notable mindless Ottoman-wank map ever appeared on this site. People were obviously less knowledgeable about Ottoman Empire back then, and even Pasha seems to be wasn't as knowledgeable in Ottoman history back then(or at least, wasn't as frustrated with the site as more recently...
). Needless to say, Ottoman Empire was deconstructed by understandable handwaviums, and had Istanbul snatched by the Russians. Well, at least ITTL it made the later snowballed into a rather interesting-looking Imperial Democratic Continental Federation that pretty much dominates a lion share of Asia.
I'm not sure if Russia Tsardom can even be a democracy with Ottoman Empire still intact, a party that will certainly be able AND motivated to promote unrest on Russian muslim territories when given the opportunity.
Needless to say that it didn't turn off my curiosity. It will certainly create an enormous change on the DoD world, but exactly how enormous would it be ? With even an Ottoman Empire that's as large as OTL 1914 it can naturally possesses rather serious role in this alternate DoD world with minimal changes, most importantly as a buffer between Russian and German spheres, but it will certainly be more than that. India will be interesting to see here. How about Persia and Afghanistan, though ? It seems like Ottomans will be closer to Germany and firmly against Russia, with both former parties forming an axis to weaken Russia as much as possible. What will be the consequences of that and everything ?!
With an OE that's as large as Pasha's TL, I think it will shift even the general mindsets and paradigms the original DoD World has, but even this I think is still worthy of checkings and comparings, with this Ottoman Empire being in the same world as a slave-holding USA and a revitalized HRE....
As we know it already, Jared's TL "Decades of Darkness" is a very old TL. Originally dating back to before the crash, it was restarted in 2004, very, VERY long before even the first notable mindless Ottoman-wank map ever appeared on this site. People were obviously less knowledgeable about Ottoman Empire back then, and even Pasha seems to be wasn't as knowledgeable in Ottoman history back then(or at least, wasn't as frustrated with the site as more recently...
Needless to say that it didn't turn off my curiosity. It will certainly create an enormous change on the DoD world, but exactly how enormous would it be ? With even an Ottoman Empire that's as large as OTL 1914 it can naturally possesses rather serious role in this alternate DoD world with minimal changes, most importantly as a buffer between Russian and German spheres, but it will certainly be more than that. India will be interesting to see here. How about Persia and Afghanistan, though ? It seems like Ottomans will be closer to Germany and firmly against Russia, with both former parties forming an axis to weaken Russia as much as possible. What will be the consequences of that and everything ?!
With an OE that's as large as Pasha's TL, I think it will shift even the general mindsets and paradigms the original DoD World has, but even this I think is still worthy of checkings and comparings, with this Ottoman Empire being in the same world as a slave-holding USA and a revitalized HRE....