Ooops, I did not mean to imply that China, as a whole, would still become a Japanese colony following a defeat in the Russo Japanese war.
Rather, Japan continues colonially minded "business as usual" in China: Manchuria is still broken off and becomes a Japanese colony / protectorate. The...
I think this is too sweeping. Rather, Japan seemed to have two expansionist goals in mind:
A- Establish their own colonial Empire where ever possible. China was really the only large scale possibility. All other areas had been claimed by European colonial powers.
B - Develop enough...
Sweden would see the Red Army on its borders as a direct threat to their existence. Then factor in the historic Swedish community in Finland (ala Mannerheim) and the Swedish speaking Aaland Islands, an autonomous part of what was Finland.
I am thinking that Sweden joins the Axis- well not...
The Soviets and now, Russians evidently consider that their finest military accomplishment of the war was the counter blow that followed after they stopped the Germans at Kursk in July 1943:
- Non stop Red Army blitzkrieg takes them all the way from the Kursk area, through the Donbass...
Winning the war could be a stretch, but a better prepared Spanish military could have given the US some nasty surprises that could lead to Spanish keeping Cuba. In the end, the US' last experience in peer to peer warfare was thirty years earlier. Likewise, Native Americans lacked machine guns...
My guess is that the declare anti colonialist sentiments of British socialist / Communists verse the Zardust's "exceptions always exist- well, for us" concept are going to collide in ...... Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland has imagery that could move the Socialist / Communist hearts of the...
Maybe give the British some reinforcements....
- Coastal tribes in what is now Washington State are all staunchly pro British from early contacts with charismatic British missionaries. The missionaries distribute copious quantities of weapons. Then, they paint a picture of a relentless...
The House of Lords would get gently purged and the new chamber is the "House of the People". The people in the house then get issued alot of rubber stamps.
I agree with your concepts. But.... the required conversion of a significant majority may be too high.
For example, the Ottoman Turks initiated Islamic conversion campaigns backed by a "carrot and stick" approach.
Yet, the Ottoman convert batting average in the Balkans was probably about...
The 80% Muslim figure probably included a fair number of indigenous locals whose conversions to Islam were not that deep and who had converted as a requisite for social advancement or.... out of pure, unadulterated pragmatic desire to be on the dominate side (well, dominate at the time)...
Maybe.... A double punch of:
A- Judaism goes officially and actively multi ethnic- then mega ethnic with an expansion campaign of their own. They even develop their own versions of Peter and Paul.
B- Indo European paganism goes Hindu / Ghost Dance with the help of a religious genius and...
Sure it would. "Separate but Equal"-right?
This would create a double irony of southerners experiencing the inequalities of separate "equality" and northerners applying a soft discrimination against both white southerners and blacks equally.
As a side note.....
As you noted, there was a decline in performance of the Red Army in late 1944 and early 1945. This decline over the broad average in finesse probably continued all the way to the fall of Berlin. By late 1944 / early 1945, Stalin knew that WWII was won and was...
I am thinking.....
They go smorgasbord with soupy mix of anything that Himmler was attracted to. But.... they stop short of a religion as they know that the SS (soupy smorgasbord) is simply not going to replace Christianity groups.
Rather, the Nazis present the beliefs as a "philosophy"...
I "like" the concept of going over regulatory on D&D and related games.
Maybe go "tobacco" and declare D&D to be inherently psychologically harmful? It can then only be purchased by adults. But wait, there is more....
- Vendors would need licenses. These could be difficult to get...