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This is a very good phrasing of a conventional argument--good enough to make me actually consider accepting the argument. It seems there's no good solution. The utilitarian solution is: Gays can join the army if they barricade themselves in the closet, in order to keep the overwhelming...

They're still beaten easily. The space they don't get back, and as soon as the Germans set down railroads they're more or less immune to serious logistical issues. OTL they conquered a rather large swath, up to something like the current Russian frontier (except for the Ukraine) by 1916...

The same as if the Jews were eliminated at any point before 33 AD. The historical importance of the Jews is their nature as the first, and for a long time only, group to believe in a single, omnipotent God. If they were eliminated before Christianity could take inspiration from them, the...

Not at all. This wouldn't change the fact that if Virginia fell, the Confederacy was dead. The Confederacy would conquer California while the forces that otherwise could oppose them were dying in the Wilderness, and after Lee surrendered Lincoln would send troops west to retake anything that...

[EDIT] misread the original post. The Communists take over after a long guerilla war. If the war lasts until after 1945, the Nationalists get anticommunist aid--otherwise, they just are beaten.

The Russian plan for if the Germans had their main focus on them was to send 2 of the armies they OTL sent against Austria against Germany. This would have been a disaster--4 armies instead of 2 getting stuck in the sands and swamps of Masuria and annihilated by German mobility while the...

A civil war in California would probably induce the Spanish population to rebel as well. OTL, they had an abortive one which was defeated by the Union garrisons.

A later union. Louis XIV had a strong bureaucracy which passed pretty much unchanged to Napoleon, who was the real administrative centralizer. If by 1789 France was more fragmented and Napoleon was unable to push through his centralizing plans, regional dialects would be less threatened.

nervous about taking on Russia, England and France offer Japan a free hand in China in exchange for being threating to Russia so it can't commit all its troops to Europe. Japan, having been handed its political goals on a silver platter, gives America the finger, makes England throw in trade...

The Battle of the Marne would have been less decisive, but Von Kluck's men were still sleepwalking. The Western Front would form deeper in France. More interesting is if he followed the Moltke (senior) plan: avoid Belgium, have Schlieffen's left wing sit there and massacre attacking...

A POD of 1624 or so would give that--the Danish throw back the Habsburgs. The Burgundians from my Oceania 10 POD would gladly help--Denmark is stronger longer in that POD.

Depends how he handles it. If he's seen as heroicly obtaining funding, has photos laying sandbags, sets up quality temporary housing, sets up a resettlement/compensation fund, and has some idea of how to rebuild the region, he wins reelection by a landslide. Otherwise, he falls like a rock...

The Safavids would be very overextended if they tried for Egypt--that would be a bad move for them, though they'd be more likely to do it, as they'd border the Mamelukes. Especially since they'd be Shi'a and the Ottomans and Mamelukes Sunni, I think it'd be in the Ottoman interest to feed Egypt...

Japanese stay in China and eventually drift into conflict with the Soviet Union, as Stalin demands concessions in Europe (i.e, keeping its 1940 conquests and having a subservient Poland) in exchange for support in the West. America sides with Russia out of interest in China, while England and...

Novgorod and Muscovy have Christian princes; the people of Novgorod are mainly Christian, Muscovy is divided more evenly, but with a Christian minority (the Muslim minority will be swiftly expelled and flee to Kiev, which will ruin Moscow for a while but preserve its Christianity). The...