====== Pendulum Fallacy ======

An [[alternate history:alternate history cliches|AH Cliché]]. Based around the idea that if a country/religion/ideology etc loses territory somewhere as a result of a change, it has to gain territory elsewhere to compensate. The most common example is the USA losing the Civil War (and therefore the CSA breaking off as a separate country) only for the USA to compensate by conquering parts of Canada. 

Another common example is that if the [[Byzantine Empire]] survives (so Anatolia is Christian) then Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) will also survive so Islam gets compensated.

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==== Responses to this cliché by AH.commers ====

This daft idea is known to be a berserk button for [[offtopic:Glen]], who once made a sarcastic map playing on the cliché. In it, [[offtopic:Quebec]] votes for independence from [[offtopic:Canada]] in 1995 and Canada reacts by successfully conquering the Pacific Northwest and New England from the USA. 

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==== See Also ====

**[[Balkanize... NOW !!!]]**

**[[alternate history:FH Cliches|Future History Clichés]]**

**[[alternate history:Space filling empire]]**

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