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  1. AHQ: Fate of Russia in a surviving Byzantine TL

    There would be heavy intermarriage between the nobility of both empires. It would resemble Western Europe a bit as more conflicts around the Black Sea would be dynastic ones and would be using a varnish of dynastic legitimacy as a casus belli. Though the nigh reverence the Eastern Slavs held...

  2. Can Switzerland be even bigger?

    Would the Protestant Cantons support adding more Catholics to Switzerland? That seems like a major hurdle to expansion. Even if so, any additions would be small regions like Liechtenstein or neighboring disputed areas like Aosta that could be given to Switzerland as a compromise. Taking...

  3. What if Kashmir was was annexed by Pakistan instead of India?

    I think so long as Nehru is in charge of India, China will be allowed to take Tibet. Then China would attack Pakistan for its claim on Aksai Chin, or start OTL Sino-Indian War, or do both of those wars at the same time. Pakistan and India would be a lot closer together and butterflies away many...

  4. How powerful could Italy have become by 1940 if it wasn't run by a strutting buffoon?

    It doesn’t matter how competent a leader is if they’re constantly on the verge of being thrown out of office. People don’t seem to understand how chaotic and volatile Italian politics and elections were pre-Mussolini (and post-Mussolini). If the average term of a Prime Minister is only one or...

  5. Was There Any Point Italy Could've Beaten Austria-Hungary In A War?

    The Alps would present formidable challenge to any land invasion from either side and a war against an aggressive Italy would make a good enemy for the minorities of Austria-Hungary to rally against. Even so, I would expect heavy fighting at the land border regardless because that’s how wars...

  6. An Iran without the Islamic Revolution and Azerbaijan

    Integration doesn’t necessarily mean unification or annexation. Unification has been rather rare. Germany was an exceptional case. Korean reunification is a non-starter and Vietnam happened at the barrel of a gun. All three of those countries are more homogeneous than Iran, which is a Civic...

  7. No Islam Byzantine dominate Middle East

    With or without Islam, the Turkic Migrations will still happen. A weakened Persia combined with the Turks on the move will have unpredictable consequences . The Byzantines will stay/be their own worst enemies, just like in OTL. This is certainly not some sort of “end of history” scenario. The...

  8. What would the impact be on Spain be if the new world was discovered much later?

    Spain becoming a European power was not decided by the discovery of the Americas but the marriages of the royal family (especially into the Habsburgs). Even without Columbus most of European history would be mostly the same up to the election of Charles V. Though after that point it would start...

  9. How would China develop without the Mongols?

    I think the reunification of China is very likely. It’s not super uncommon for there to be fairly lengthy periods of disunity before unification in Chinese history. Nothing about the Jin vs Song setup before the Mongols showed up was unprecedented I would say. Eventually either the Jin would...

  10. Bulgarian Macedonia

    Lots of Macedonians considered themselves Bulgarian back then to the point of forming several Macedonian-Bulgarian terrorist organizations with the goal of unification with Bulgaria. They assassinated many prominent figures, the most notable one being King Alexander of Yugoslavia. I think that...

  11. What else could Germany do with the resources used in the naval race with the UK? What should they have used them on?

    Germany should have spent the money on its army. We could see a case of the German army reaching Paris and possibly knocking France out of the war in the opening stages of WWI. That would have massive ramifications across the 20th century.

  12. Alternate Analogues to Pakistan

    Northern Nigeria has no reason to secede since they would be landlocked and they already dominate the country as it is. Now the Christian South of the country is a different story and OTL Nigeria has already fought a civil war in order to keep it (and its oil). Nigeria could easily be split into...

  13. What Makes Pessimistic Timelines Interesting?

    There are just more of those sort of timelines. Especially the ones that tend to run longer than a short story. From the viewpoint of a writer, I think it is partially because dystopian settings are just easier to write than utopian ones. Trying to create a timeline where things went better...

  14. No Mongol invasion of Khwarazmia

    Pretty much. The Mongols may not conquer the Song in Genghis Khan's lifetime, but the Jin could have probably been conquered sooner than OTL and that would put the Mongols on a collision course with the Song. I imagine Genghis getting sucked into Chinese politics would keep him very busy. He...

  15. No Mongol invasion of Khwarazmia

    I think otherwise. I think TTL Mongol invasions of the Middle East would not happen at all or either be much more disorganized and/or reduced. This isn’t due to goodwill or solidarity, but if Genghis Khan had devoted all his attention on the conquest and administration of China (his closest...

  16. Puerto Rico without the Spanish-American War

    Smaller is a relative term. Puerto Rico is smaller than the Philippines and Cuba. It is still an island 6000 kilometers from Spain with a population of several million people. Spain incorporating and holding on to Puerto Rico to the present day might be possible but it comes with the major...

  17. AHC: Best Possible post-Soviet Russia

    ...because all wars are inhumane by their nature. The Chechen conflict directly contributed into the election of Vladimir Putin leading to the *OMITTED DUE TO CURRENT EVENTS* and has overall be pretty terrible for Russia. So I would very much like to avoid Putin ever coming to power. Letting...

  18. Child Abuse in Past Societies

    The problem with judging historical people by our modern standards is doesn’t take long to determine that EVERYONE was an asshole. Then the analysis hits a dead end. Do we need sort people on whether they were full blown assholes, half assholes, or quarter assholes? Everything is going to be...

  19. Great Powers doomed despite the World Wars?

    A lagging GDP per capita has an important consequence for Russia. There would be a significant brain drain of Russians leaving to work in Europe. It wasn’t uncommon (and still isn’t) for Russians to emigrate for being at odds with the Russian state politically or economically (or they just want...

  20. AHC: Best Possible post-Soviet Russia

    The point I was trying to make is that letting the people of the Caucasus hate each other benefits Russia as they would be occupied with each other and not Russia. Russia does not have to expend money, manpower, and bombing cities combating terrorism. If there is a refugee crisis then those...
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