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cpip reacted to Fulano's post in the thread AHC: Create the Largest Naval Battle you can sometime after the start of WW1 with
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How realistic do you want this battle to be? I could actually see the Pacific Ocean seeing some action if Operation Unthinkable, or some... -
cpip reacted to RousseauX's post in the thread Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war? with Like.
Or Bashir Assad, who was an unassuming eye-surgeon living in London, and was described by his colleagues as "geeky IT guy" and had no...
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cpip reacted to Don Corleone's post in the thread Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war? with Like.
And if you have a dictatorial system, it favors the cruelest people. Someone who has moral lines he isn't willing to cross will end up...
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cpip reacted to EasternRomanEmpire's post in the thread Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war? with Like.
I think it also depends on how they come to power, they get more paranoid more their path to power was bloody.
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cpip reacted to RousseauX's post in the thread Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war? with Like.
Not really, this sort of armchair psychology is pretty common but oversimplifies things. Plenty, even most people, back then have what...
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cpip replied to the thread YF-23 chosen by Navy.So an F-22, F-23, and an A-12?
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cpip reacted to Giant Man Eating Rabbits's post in the thread AHC: Create the Largest Naval Battle you can sometime after the start of WW1 with Like.
War Plan Red???? War Plan Red kicks off and both USN & RN fleets meet north of Bermuda!
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cpip reacted to YYJ's post in the thread AHC: Create the Largest Naval Battle you can sometime after the start of WW1 with Like.
A thread earlier this year talked about a victorious and revanchist Germany trying to retake some of its Pacific colonies back from...
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cpip reacted to rfmcdonald's post in the thread What if China's transition from a centrally planned economy to a Free market one lead to it's Collapse, like in Russia? with Like.
I would note that China politically would evolve rather differently from the Soviet Union, not least because China was arguably a...
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cpip reacted to rfmcdonald's post in the thread What if China's transition from a centrally planned economy to a Free market one lead to it's Collapse, like in Russia? with Like.
It did need to do that. Weak productivity growth could be traced, for instance to the very heavy military spending needed to retain the...
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cpip reacted to Wr1t3r's post in the thread What if China's transition from a centrally planned economy to a Free market one lead to it's Collapse, like in Russia? with Like.
China's Communist Party maintained control and guided reforms from a centrally planned to a free market economy, but in Russia, the...