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Don't worry, I wasn't calling you an idealistic liberal. I was just comparing the Atomic Four's plans in Calbear's TL (keep everyone in line with space nukes) to Roosevelt's plan in OTL (international institutions, peace, cooperation, blah blah blah). Plenty of bad stuff still happened in OTL...

It falls apart as soon as the British Empire does, and a lingering Hindu minority survives in Iraq for a while (at least until Saddam, ISIS, or their ATL equivalent comes along).

To put it bluntly, the US would get absolutely btfo by the UK in 1895. The US Navy couldn't hope to match the Royal Navy, and the British could harass American shipping until the US sued for peace. It's unlikely that the US would make any territorial concessions in its home territory, but Hawaii...

Here you go. The pdf will download automatically, and the postwar section begins on page 140. I wish Calbear had fleshed it out a bit more, the story of a postwar order designed by traumatized realists instead of idealistic liberals is really interesting.

A Mexican philosopher wrote a paper around the turn of the century which talked about a "fifth race" in the Americas created from all others, which took in the best qualities of the rest. He called it "The Cosmic Race". We see this idea surviving in some form today among Mexicans and chicanos...

We used to not have congressional districts, representatives were elected by the entire state until the 1830s or 40s. It was changed once, why couldn't it be changed again?

Is it even possible?

Western Europe is tougher, but if you can make America so anti-Catholic that we start teaching the Crusades from a Muslim perspective, you could see "Allahu Akbar" become a rallying cry for liberty and freedom in the face of brutal Catholic oppression. Not exactly peace/tolerance/fraternity, but...

Spain wins 2008 Euro, the 2010 WC, 2012 Euro, and the 2014 WC. They would be absolutely unstoppable, it would basically be Barcelona+Ramos, Silva, Casillas against the world. Definitely the favorites for 2016 Euro and 2018 WC too, since Spain is still producing a lot of talented young players to...

Do they have concrete evidence, or just rumors?

Alexander Hamilton becoming president is unlikely. Alexander Hamilton becoming President and then staying president for 30 years is completely ASB. He was nowhere near popular enough to get that kind of support, not even from his own party or even his home state. At most, you'd have two terms of...

It's not ASB. Not too likely, but it's far from ASB. The Pope seriously considered it, and Manuel was apparently considering it too, but the Pope lost his nerve in the end. I doubt Manuel would be able to rule beyond the Alps, but I wonder if he'd be able to retake parts of Italy.

What would be the effects of Rome once again (at least de jure and/or symbolically) having dominion over the West?

You'd need to move the Iron Curtain further East, or make Russia less Western. Russia itself is too culturally similar to the West for us to see it as part of a different civilization, especially when it had so much of what was seen as the "civilized world" on its side during the Cold War.

Does anybody have a link to the amazon page for the book? This is by far the most entertaining thing I've ever read on this site, I'd love to be able to read it without needing to look at a screen.