Recent content by MildSeven

Agreed. You might even see a VNQDD-led Vietnam aligned with China, giving them the buffer state they wanted.

I think that you are fundamentally misunderstanding the process of industrualisation and modernisation. Real life is not like a Hearts of Iron game and conditions in the 19th century were very different from that in the 20th century. There is little reason for Western countries to import massive...

I think that your experience as a modern day American, even in the South, is quite different from that of a European in the 1500's, with no experience of the Enlightenment, Scientific Method, Rationalism and the technological amenities that came with those things. Even the most religious...

We must look closely at Singapore's history in the 1950's and 1960's, and not simply extrapolate from trends in 2023. Singapore was not always an oligarchic capitalist paradise inhabited by an apathetically apolitical populace. Due to its urban character, Singapore had more radical politics...

I live in Vietnam and I can assure you that most Vietnamese are very unaware of their own history. I have even met Vietnamese whose impression of the Vietnam War was, and I quote, "two sides doing some bad things to each other, one side was supported by foreigners". The vast majority are not...

Pretty much this. China, since at least the Song Dynasty, seems to have had a deliberate policy of preferring a weak and compliant military to a strong and potentially independent one.

It dominates the south due to Western colonialism and proselytising. With no Christianity in Europe, this will be very different.

At first, I wanted to reply to this point by point, impartially and systematically, until I saw the final paragraph which was when I realised that this was a Kaiserreich wank. If you want to read a more plausible CP win scenario, I highly recommend TheReformer's current TL: To the Victor, Go the...

This was my understanding of Islam as well and also why I was a bit confused by OP's question, because, by that line of thinking, Christianity already IS an offshoot of Islam.

I cackled.

This TL sound suspiciously similar to "Reds!" by Aelita, including the POD and America being radicalised by an early entrance to WW1... https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/reds-a-revolutionary-timeline.122672/

Populist uprising in Singapore in 2022 due to resentment from the recently-announced GST hike. PAP government retreats to Sentosa Island and holes up in the casino Integrated Resort while the rest of Singapore becomes a Socialist Utopia under the Workers' Party and Pritam Singh. Lim Chin Siong...

And there's your problem right there. If you perceive the UN to be some sort of world police that's made up of the militaries of developed nations to keep those pesky third worlders in line, then the rest of the world is likely to perceive it in the same way. This means that no sovereign...

Even then, they suffer massive casualties for little territorial gain. It seems that they do best when shooting at unarmed civilians. Pardon my contempt for them, I lived in Myanmar from 2015-2020 and it is heartbreaking to see what is happening to the people I know and love.

He was certainly revered in both the PRC and ROC, but I wouldn’t exactly call him “one of the greatest political leaders in modern Chinese history”. He was chosen as president of the newly formed Republic of China because of his political impotence. Having spent most of his career as a...