That all works for the backstory of Roger Guerin, including him being a fellow at Merton College. Consider it canon for TTL.
That all works for the backstory of Roger Guerin, including him being a fellow at Merton College. Consider it canon for TTL.
Thank You most kindly for this compliment!
One must admit that the HAPPY WAVE fascinates me, so I’m going to try a few character sketches for the various creative types mentioned in connection with it in your original article(s) on the subject - if you have no objection to my doing so, at least.😊
How are SGW veterans from the former CSA treated in the mid south by TTL’s 2022?
No objections at all. Feel free to continue posting them in this thread.
If the Titanic disaster still occurred IATL, was the wreck ever discovered, and if so, when and who found it? Sam Carsten Jr?
Had to split Franch collaborators from the list so you could reply to it on its own.
France
--Joseph Barthélemy
--Pierre Bonny
--René Bousquet
--Robert Brasillach
--Marcel Bucard
--Paul Carbone (Does the French Connection become a bigger state-mafia collaborative project ITTL?)
--Alexis Carrel (Nobel Prize laureate in biology who led a eugenics/euthanasia program in tandem with the Nazis.)
--Jean Chiappe
--Francois Darlan
--Joseph Darnand
--Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
--Marcel Déat
--Eugène Deloncle
--Jacques Doriot
--Philippe Henriot
--Charles Hunztinger
--Henri Lafont
--Pierre Loutrel
--Charles Maurras (Most speculated to be PM during GW2 as Action Française co-founder and leader by fans and users. Is he in your head cannon?)
--Charles Nougès
--Maurice Papon
--Philippe Pétain
--Marcel Petiot (Infamous serial killer who's alleged to have helped dispose bodies for the SS and Vichy Regime. Does he have fully-employed role ITTL for the Actionists?)
--Pierre Pucheau
--Maurice Pujo (Action Française co-founder)
--Simon Sabiani
--François Spirito
--Xavier Vallat
--Maxime Weygand
*Edit: added a few people associated with the French Connection, a couple of cops, and a serial killer.
Was Alfred Astaire in the Pacific War before becoming BI Sec.?
Looking though the first post on TTL and I have several questions, mainly around the dissolution of the British Raj in TTL.
Why didn't the Japanese expand west of Burma to include all of Bengal and the eastern part of Bharat?
Why those six nations (Bharat, Pakistan, Bengal, Burma/Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Hyderabad) instead of fracturing into more?
Is there some form of military/economic union in the former Raj eventually? Also were Nepal and Bhutan added to said union?
How are those nations doing in TTL by 2022 and 2162?
What are their diplomacy between each other and the other Great Powers (USA, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Brazil, China, the Congo, and Persia) in both 2022 and 2162?
Thanks for the answer.I’m afraid that the collapse of the British Empire in India and Southeast Asia immediately after the end of the Second Great War was not something that was well thought out in the first part of TTL. The chaotic withdrawal of British forces from the region could have resulted in greater political fragmentation than what was described.
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The Japanese ultimately did not attempt a major invasion of newly independent Bengal or Bharat due to military commitments elsewhere, especially in China and Siberia.
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This is what I already wrote about the history in TTL of Bharat and the Chennai Pact, slightly edited and expanded:
Bharat, in 2022, is the leader of its own economic and military alliance: the Indian Ocean Security Pact (IOSP), which is more popularly referred to as the Chennai Pact. By 2022, the Chennai Pact includes member states in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and in East Africa.
The Chennai Pact, which was established in 1972, was initially used by Bharat to challenge the Ottoman Empire’s leadership position in the Independence Movement, following an Ottoman-managed referendum that saw most of Kashmir placed under Pakistani rule. The Chennai Pact was also established in part as a security alliance against China and the US-led CDS.
The Chennai Pact, as of 2022, has arguably delivered mixed results for the Bharatis, as a coherent military alliance. Most member states of the Chennai Pact refused to participate alongside Bharat in the Tibetan War against China in the 1970s. In the late 1980s, the threats by member state Indonesia towards CDS-member state Singapore almost led to a wider war with the United States. In the late 1990s, several members of the Chennai Pact refused (for historical or religious reasons) to declare war against the Ottoman Empire during the Kashmir War.
By 2022, the Chennai Pact has experienced a major diplomatic setback with the exit of former pact-member Persia. Although Bharat and Persia were allied against the Ottomans during the Kashmir War, the subsequent support by Bharat for Baloch separatists (against Pakistan) and Kurdish separatists (against the Ottomans), led to a severing of formerly close security ties between the two states. By 2162, Bharat still regards Persia as a rival and enemy, though the German Empire, which maintains close military and political ties with Bharat, has cordial diplomatic ties with Persia.
Outside of the Chennai Pact, Bharat has enjoyed close security ties with the German Empire since the 1980s, when Germany assisted in the Bharati drive to modernize its military and expand its naval power. Bharat, in 2022, also enjoys cordial relations with the Russian Republic. Both Bharat and Russia cooperated in covert efforts to destabilize the Ottoman Empire by supporting certain groups with arms and funding.
Since the early 2000s, Bharat has been in a sustained period of diplomatic and security tensions with China (referred to in TTL as the “Long Drum Roll”). In 2022, diplomatic ties between the two countries have continued to deteriorate, as both Bharat and China race to test their respective first superbombs.
Bharat, by 2022, has also taken advantage of the Ottoman Dissolution and the Pakistan Dissolution to expand its sphere of influence in these different regions. The Bharatis are also engaged in efforts to limit US influence in East Africa, following the Somali Republic gaining membership in the CDS.
By 2162, Bharat and the Chennai Pact is part of one of the world’s two space exploration and colonization blocs; the Bharatis, Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Congolese Federation are the major powers of this space exploration bloc. The Bharatis, as a result, have a not insignificant presence on the Moon, in near Earth space stations, and have territorial goals of their own on Mars along with the world’s other great powers.
The Bharatis, even by 2162, have maintained a long diplomatic and military rivalry with the United Stares and the CDS, though this has not led to a major war with the USA.
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Hyderabad ultimately agreed to annexation by Bharat by the mid-2030s, after many years of diplomatic pressure from the Bharati government.
Burma is a much more wealthy and politically stable country by 2022 in comparison to our world. Military rule in the country came to an end in the 1990s in TTL, and the country has high annual rates of economic growth. The capital of Burma in 2022 is in Yangon.
Sri Lanka avoided its long civil war of OTL in this world, and also has high rates of economic growth by 2022. There are, however, continued political tensions between the Sinhalese and Tamil populations. Sri Lanka also hosts several major overseas Bharati military installations.
Bengal, by 2022, enjoys cordial diplomatic ties with the United States. In TTL, the USA was one of the first countries to recognize Bengali independence, while US humanitarian assistance in the late 1940s and early 1950s helped to prevent a major famine. Bengal also enjoys high rates of economic growth by 2022.
Nepal and Bhutan were both close Bharati military allies even before the establishment of the Chennai Pact. By 2022, Nepal is still under a monarchy; it is also a somewhat wealthier country in comparison to our world. As with India in TTL, Bharat maintains regiments of Gurkha (Gorkha) soldiers recruited from Nepal.
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Pakistan, following its catastrophic military defeat (alongside the Ottoman Empire) in the Kashmir War of the late 1990s, entered into a period of military dictatorship under Field Marshal Galal Khan. Under this regime, the Pakistani government harshly oppressed the country’s ethic and religious minorities, resulting in a large number of Ahmadi, Shia, Christian, and Hindu refugees fleeing to Bharat. The Pakistani Dissolution, which began in 2014, resulted in the political fragmentation of Pakistan into several successor states, including the republics of Balochistan, Sindh, and Punjab, as well as the the independence of several Pashtun states. The Bharatis, following the beginning of the Pakistani Dissolution, also pursued a policy of “readjusting” the former border, though the Bharati government did not pursue a policy of major annexations of territory.
David will likely respond. But my take is the following:Thanks for the answer.
Another question: Why is the world in TTL less technology and societally developed by a decade when compared to OTL? While I can think of two main reasons: America being split into two rival nations for a period of over 80 years and most of Japan basically becoming TTL's version of North Korea. Are there any other reasons for this state in society?
Thanks for the answer.
Another question: Why is the world in TTL less technology and societally developed by a decade when compared to OTL? While I can think of two main reasons: America being split into two rival nations for a period of over 80 years and most of Japan basically becoming TTL's version of North Korea. Are there any other reasons for this state in society?