Recent content by Chris Triangle

No 18th amendment means no 21st amendment either and that raises a question when I the dry states, frustrated as alcohol flows across state lines, tries to restrict the flow. The Supreme court is going to run into the issue of just how far they can go under the interstate commerce clause, which...

So it looks like Rio de Oro is where OTL Dahlonega is.

The Kinsei certainly had more potential than the Sakae, though admittedly, by the time the A6M needed a serious upgrade, it should have been in the form of a whole new aircraft. Would a wider engine by three inches have really been that big of a challenge to accommodate and still meet the...

On the other hand, who was it who made the engine that so limited the Zero's capabilities?

You have to pick up those marques at least for the pickup trucks. These are ultra profitable cash cows with huge brand loyalty that sell in insane numbers in a market utterly dominated by US brands complete with a massive protectionist tariff to top it off. You absolutely need to be able to...

They got both OTL but of the two, smallpox always posed a much greater threat.

To strike down an amendment as unconstitutional* would be at least as beyond the pale as the court packing scheme was if not moreso. You need a really, really good argument for that kind of decision. Without that, the opposition narrative that this is a dangerous power grab by the legislature...

The treaty would have them return the islands to the Ottomans so Greece had no legal basis for its claims other than pure self-determination. Italy would not have too much trouble getting the Ottomans to eventually cede it to them because they knew they'd never get it back and they'd rather...

And WWI Germany and Austria did not do anything to provoke such a response. Are the Czechs really going to be all that excited about fighting such a brutal campaign to essentially wipe out people they lived next to and often fought alongside just a few months earlier? Maybe, but that's a big...

To the Greeks? If Italy is neutral, it won't be cutting deals with them during the war like they did OTL. It can decide to return them at some time, which is likely, but it can always be on Italy's terms. Alternatively, they could arbitrate it with a third power or whatever supranational...

What other powers exactly? In what way would Japan's will and ability to fight be sapped such that it could not deter or repel an invasion? Some of these PODs are big enough that we can't even be sure decolonization would look anything like it did IOTL.

Now obviously, as soon as the belligerent enemy troops arrived there without being detained or engaged (as required of a neutral state under international law) Belgian neutrality is voided thus giving Germany the legal right to invade Belgium if it so chooses. Which it immediately would because...

And by the fact that under no circumstances will they be able to operate within the world economy in the way that West Germany did post war. You won't see American capital flowing into such a state after what they would have done. By this point, the US and everyone else surviving will expect...

What about Pensacola in such a scenario?

Regarding the carrier battle, I think the odds would definitely favor the Americans. Even if the Soviets build a supercarrier, they are not going to be able to develop carrier warfare capabilities as serious as what the USN can do. Besides lack of experience, it seems that the carriers they...