What are some things you'd like to see in post-1900 timelines?

As an alternative to threads about cliches, what are some non-cliche things you'd like to see more often of in alternate history?

One of the things I know I'd like to see more often of is Britain firmly losing a world war, in a way that is more than just having to give up.

I'd also like to see timelines in which the Russian Empire is more than just some rotting thing to be taken apart.

I'd also like to see more timelines that reach the present day, but that have a POD going back to before world war 1.

And what would you guys like to see more of?
 
I'd love to see a timeline without any global conflicts on the scale of the World Wars. Don't know if you can realistically butterfly WWI with a POD after 1900, but I'm more interested in the end result than the means of getting there.
 
I'd also like to see timelines in which the Russian Empire is more than just some rotting thing to be taken apart.
You'd probably have to start at some point in the 1800's to be honest.

I'd like to see more timelines that focus on aspects of history other than the world wars. I'd like to see timelines about events in Africa, South America, and any other place in the world other than USA, Germany, and UK.
 

Khanzeer

Banned
Attention to logistics and the other boring stuff.
Ditto
I think esp with wars / campaigns scenario those that do not follow the very basic logistical rules need to be automatically classified as " ASB" [ HINT sealion or any scenario where germans are supposed to make an opposed landing on the isles ]
 
Some scenarios where the Austro Hungarian-Empire and Ottoman Empire survive and evolve into, or towards the present day. These nations in particular because they were not Nationalist in ideology, but had to deal with a multiculturalism in a way that predates our post-modern concept of multiculturalism. What would such societies look like from the inside?
 
Some scenarios where the Austro Hungarian-Empire and Ottoman Empire survive and evolve into, or towards the present day. These nations in particular because they were not Nationalist in ideology, but had to deal with a multiculturalism in a way that predates our post-modern concept of multiculturalism. What would such societies look like from the inside?
for my part, i've been trying to work out what a surviving Austria-Hungary could be like for my ASB ATL, the current idea being that it sort-of evolves into a version of the proposed Intermarium country but, over time, becomes less Austro-Hungarian and more Hungaro-Austrian
 

Khanzeer

Banned
Kurdistan independent state
Japan occupied for 30 yrs by US and permanently demilitarized for ever and pay billions to asians they enslaved
Justice and recognition of Armenian genocide
No Afghanistan.... partitioned between pakistan and northern areas to soviet SSR
United germany after ww2 acting more like a neutral pacifist sweeden than a NATO member
Polish german russian unity and strong economic bloc post 1990
Mikhail Gorbachev remain power for 10 more yrs followed by like minded leaders
Syria israel long lasting peace
Israel egypt war in 1980s

No saudi arabia , just united Emirates of arabia motley collection of arab shaikdoms under protection of larger arab states like iraq and syria
Independent Wales and Scotland
British reparations to Ireland mounting to billions over decades and official apology from queen
Lastly not least ...abolition of monarchy in Britain.
 
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A few:

- No Nazi rise to power and European integration beginning in the 1920s or 1930s and the post-Versailles, post-Locarno settlement lasts.

- No Cold War. Although conflict over the postwar settlement was fairly over-determined, it wasn't inevitable either. A situation where there a postwar accord lasted -- and where the USSR was integrated into institutions like the IMF, Bretton Woods, and participated in the Marshall Plan.

- KMT China's effects on the rest of the world. There are many threads on a surviving KMT China (either in all or in most of mainland China). But most focus on whether it would or would not transition to democracy at some point, and how quickly it would develop. But I think the effects on the global economy are kind of ignored. There has been a spate of research on the OTL "China Shock," and the extent to which it caused manufacturing in the US to decline and shifted global trade patterns. Would a KMT China that pursued an export manufacturing strategy in the 1960s or 1970s have had the same effects but earlier?
 
original ideologies
Well that's pretty much it in the first post, huh? I'm super into it. I also like more realistic America TLs with different political parties (ie the Socialist Party doesn't lead to a Stalinist dictatorship), viable third parties, &c.

Kurdistan independent state
No saudi arabia , just united Emirates of arabia motley collection of arab shaikdoms under protection of larger arab states like iraq and syria
I'm hip
 
Independent Bavaria.
Franco- German alliance.
East Germany surviving into the 21st century, just to see how the culture would develop and how culturally distinct it could become from West Germany.
The Baltic states somehow remaining free of the USSR.
More powerful Poland.
 
A not-unified China (either de jure or de facto, doesn't matter) surviving to the modern day intrigues me. Something like the Warlord Era keeps going for whatever reason.
 
Actually caring about alternate scientific and technological progress/spread, way too many timelines just follow IRL's. Now i'm someone who generally believe that if there is a signficant worldwide educated population nearly all of IRL's discoveries, even those that happened by pure luck, will eventually be made, but a lot of discoveries and development can be delayed by decades, or made earlier by quite a few years with the right POD.
 
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A not-unified China (either de jure or de facto, doesn't matter) surviving to the modern day intrigues me. Something like the Warlord Era keeps going for whatever reason.
picture a Chinese warlords Facebook.

There being more than 1 internet
I mean like separate Internets that can't even connect.
 
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picture a Chinese warlords Facebook.

There being more than 1 internet
I mean like separate Internets that can't even connect.
In a way, the internet is already liked that of you can't speak multiple languages. And certain institutions could, if they already don't in real life, have websites that can't be searched for and are only connectable for them.
 
United India
United Ireland
Greater South Africa (OTL South Africa + Namibia + Zimbabwe + Botswana)
A multipolar Space Race (USSR, USA, surviving Imperial Germany...)
More focus on SE Asia
More focus on Africa
Greater Hungary
More focus on scientific developments
 
Expansionist Ming spread Chinese influence throughout Asia.
Henry V unites England & France. Effects on world politics?
Teutonic Order drive east to colonise Russia.
Ottomans unite the total Eastern Roman Empire with Italy.
 
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