Without the existence of the USSR or other anti-colonialist countries like communist China, it would likely be a lot easier for Europe to hold onto its colonies, for at least a little bit longer anyway. With no USSR/PRC/etc to fund and arm guerillas, it won't be quite so expensive in terms of...
Well, one thing that could help make Americans more anglophilic than they are already are would be to have some way of ensuring that British popular culture is more prevalent in America than OTL. For instance, maybe in this timeline, somehow, the center of the film industry is somewhere in the...
For the same reason that millions of people would starve today if you suddenly dismantled an entire country's industrial base and purposefully set them back to an agrarian existence. If you cannot pay for food, you do not get food, and if you do not get food, you die. And when food is already...
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm no expert on maritime navigation), but human migration by sea before the advent of things like engines was essentially at the whims of the winds and currents. Looking at maps of ocean currents and prevailing winds, you can see that Australia is in a bit of a...
Essentially the only way for ANY country to defeat the United States is to make them get tired of fighting. Invading the continental US, hell even raiding it to try and disrupt industry, is effectively impossible. Even if Japan somehow managed to gain control of every Pacific island including...
The Cold War would certainly be less tense in this case, but I think it would still happen. While the expansion of communism in east/southeast Asia is curbed, the Iron Curtain still exists, and there are parts of Africa, South America, western Asia, etc. still with the potential to fall into the...
For sure. "What if Assad didn't pull out of Lebanon?" would probably be a fairly frequent thread. A land war extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean to the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan would be an even worse nightmare than what America has already gotten into ITTL.
Add in...
True, we haven't heard much about them yet. Assad is obviously out of the picture (unless something truly crazy happens that brings him back onto the anti-American side), but Gaddafi especially is an interesting factor. I wonder if this TL will have an Arab Spring equivalent, or if that will be...
How about the "Mid-Canada Corridor" plan from the 1960s?
It was an idea to encourage development in the more northerly areas of the provinces and the southern parts of the territories. It's something I honestly think would have greatly benefitted the country if it had been implemented. It...
If Japanese-Chinese relations are strained, I could see Japan claiming parts of the South China Sea that are strategically relevant to the defense and support of Taiwan, if not simply to prevent China from claiming the waters as their own. I think Japanese fishing around Taiwan would be subject...
Nobody is saying the Tsar was good. The Bolshevik regime was horrific, and so was the Tsar's.
They likely would try, as many anti-Bolshevik partisans did even after they won the civil war. But like with those partisans, I doubt they would have all that much success, unless Russia breaks up into...
Atoms, yes - because atoms are uncharged, they can't be contained nearly as easily or reliably as charged particles like ions. CERN could keep antihydrogen around for 17 minutes, but they managed to store antiprotons (or in other words: ionized antihydrogen) for 405 days with a Penning trap. You...
The challenge here is to give Antarctica an indigenous human population. Obviously, OTL, it doesn't have one, and is the only continent on Earth to never have an indigenous population of human beings. It makes sense that it doesn't; it's a barren, hostile land devoid of most important resources...