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ok so im really confused about what specifically in France is like the tatmandaw here

hmmm, if Carter does win and assuming things go basically the same in the Soviet Union him opposite Gorbachev would be incredibly interesting. they were very similar figures in a lot of ways, which could help or hurt the ability to improve relations

Wait, so why would Maria Christina have disappeared? Is there any reason her being in prison in France wouldn't be publicly known? Given that she's Austrian wouldn't the French want to use her as a hostage or something of that nature? What ends up happening to her, is she just in jail for a long...

So from the discussion of succession, is the heir to the throne a woman here, then?

It definitely seems that women in China have a lot more agency than they did in the historical Qing- I'm def curious to hear about how Chinese women's rights developed and what their position in society is these days

so this implies that Ultramodernism used to be super powerful but lost a lot of ground- if France went Ultramodernist, were the Habsburgs their main enemy? they'd make natural allies to the Qing if they could get over the whole theoretical submission to the Emperor part

given that the Qing are identified in that last update as the largest country in the world by landmass, I feel like the border might not exactly be at the 1860 frontier...

So I take it that the list of Emperors is the same as otl- does that mean that Cixi also was Empress Dowager? Otl Puyi only became emperor because she wanted someone easy to manipulate, but I guess Guangxu reigned a lot longer here So is America a dictatorship then, if the "ultramodernists" are...

Another possibility could be that the US fights the Chinese to a stalemate in the Pacific- realistically both countries would have near-limitless ability to replenish their fleets, so neither could really gain a decisive advantage long-term. For guerrilla wars, I think Indochina could give the...

I've had a timeline idea for a while where Napoleon accepts the autonomy of Saint-Domingue and Marshall Toussaint is ultimately able to liberate/conquer the Caribbean for Imperial France. France wins the Napoleonic Wars and Africans- those who embrace European culture- are somewhat equal...

Hell yes, very glad to see this- we still haven't gotten a proper Qing survival tl that actually focuses a lot on the Qing rather than just having them as an enemy of the protagonist nation, and I think that starting in the present is the right move- I feel that what makes this scenario...

Could a POD here be the US embracing colonization of emancipated slaves after the ACW? That could give Liberia the manpower to push east like this

ive decided he looks like Howard Hamlin from better call Saul and no one can dissuade me of this

ah yeah that does make sense- I'd imagine things would be a lot worse for the women generally, as they'd have been raised just to be married off and would have pretty much no skills whatsoever that are relevant in the world after the system they were raised for has been destroyed

somewhat confused by this line- why are things for Katherine Stone worse than for other planters? How are things different for most other planters? have some of their estates not been redistributed as much?