Recent content by Valena

That's as OOC as they come, I'm with Kellan on this. Also, I don't see Catherine being like her mom. Also, Cat as a regent would go for Austrian alliance especially after her brother's marriage. So I can see OTL Princess Sobieski happening to be a Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (a nice...

Agree to this.

Though "Christian Ulugh Beg" situation is still a risk, a Cardinal has more time to be occupied with science and no need to meddle in Italian politics (to which he would be a stranger with all issues this entails).

Mary II is of the same degree of relation as what he did marry (just a switch of second cousins around). Though Mary has some commoner blood and no inbred grandparents.

In the scenario when the Prince of Asturias to ATL Carlos II is born in 1657, a designated wife for him for Austrian alliance would come from Tyrolean Habsburgs. Claudia Felicitas of Tyrol is the only Habsburg in the market. Ferdinand III was fine with a single alliance, so Leopold or Ferdinand...

A favorite WI of mine (Cusano is overlooked in favor of J.Bruno who plagiarized A LOT of Cusano ideas but can be sold to Enlightment crowd as a martyr or some BS; I'm a big fan of Cusano). Though it may end up a "Christian Ulugh Beg" situation (a great scientist whose greatness is diminished by...

It was in a TL when he died in 1697:)

I agree to this match. Though if Anne's issue is as OTL, this would be an OTL problem brought up a generation later.

Better health definitely means longer life.

And creating HUGE Galicia and Lodomeria encompassing Poland and Ukraine (and probably Belarus) would not be the independence. This would be hugely rewarding Austria and changing one "prison of nations" (c) for another.

Especially Austrians. If Belarus can into independence, Bohemia can as well.

Teaching a Belarusian a history of Belarus. Self-government movement demand WAS there in 1863 (see Kalinouski rebellion) but finding foreign backers for this (other than PLC restoration)? Independent Ukraine can be sold as bigger Galicia and Lodomeria, but why would Austrian government try to do...

That. The POD amounts to restoring PLC and Swedish Empire to early 17th century borders, which at least Prussians would not like for obvious reasons.

We had no "wholesome" partitions dated back to 17th century and no strong West-East division, speaking as Belarusian to you.

Restoring PLC and Sweden in its 1650ies borders would require ASBs with hypnobeams. That's contrary to real politics of the time. And concepts of independent Belarus and Ukraine separate-from-PLC identity are anachronistic as of the time.