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  1. Queen Victoria retains Electorate of Hanover?

    Why would it want to? The main reason the Brits wanted out was that they were tired of guaranteeing Hanover's safety and would just as gladly not send troops, because whatever happens to Hanover means next to nothing to the Brits. Belgium has ports on the English Channel, so Britain cares...

  2. Malê Rising

    I see numerical scores are still a thing in this TL... on the other hand, we haven't seen OTL's numerical inflation, as a game which didn't sound like utter crap managed to get a 4. Hope we managed to avoid Metacritic and some of the recent scandals. Created Worlds seems a lot more highbrow...

  3. What if the USA splits peacefully in 1788

    I don't think large confederations are particularly likely - you're reading the civil war too far back. One of the major fault lines was the representation of small states versus their bigger neighbors, and when you reduce the number of states that just intensifies the issue. Another, the...

  4. Could ISIS Exist Even Without Iraq War

    The Islamic State is a Sunni Arab movement and Saddam's powerbase was the Sunni Arab community. I can't see him getting outflanked to that degree - if Iraq does erupt into Syria-style civil war, his challengers will likely come from southern Iraq and Kurdistan. Zarqawi's organization was...

  5. Boston not the capital

    Boston's a big city, founded by the state's founders, and while it's distant from western MA, being a port on the center of the state's coastline with a makes it more accessible from most of the state's population centers, though admittedly nowhere near Springfield. That's hard to overcome...

  6. Was institutionalized human sacrifice doomed to extinction?

    I could certainly see it survive much longer intertwined with capital punishment if the dominant religion was one which accepted human sacrifices. Can't see things like retainer sacrifices lasting.

  7. Lands of Red and Gold, Act II

    I suppose "I can't wait" would be inappropriate at this point, but I'm excited to read it whenever and in whatever format it comes out.

  8. AHC: American Monarchy, British Republic

    More to the point, New England has its own militia, and Virginia's ability to conquer the place is questionable at best. Virginia doesn't even have a land border and can't get there without going through Dutch territory, and has enough problems with Maryland's puritan settlers.

  9. Opinion of the Mongols?

    Conquered extremely brutally, ruled (mostly) well as far as empires go.

  10. WI: 1983 Video Game Crash never happens?

    It wasn't so much the success of Nintendo as the success of pokemon - there aren't that many anime based on video games that were actually successful in Japan, let alone the West. (A 13-26 episode tie-in that fans of the game watch and get disappointed at is sadly far more typical.) And...

  11. AHC: Large New World colony goes independant before 1776

    The Glorious Revolution becomes a civil war. James wins, but not immediately. Which gives New England time to declare for William, imprison Andros, and declare independence (albeit under a much less centralized government - or perhaps even eight states, most of them in alliance) when it's...

  12. AHC: Two Chinese States by 1900

    A coup wouldn't work and wouldn't help for a state founded on Hong Xiuquan's personal legitimacy as a prophet-king. Now, if he died *without* foul play and with a competent successor you might get somewhere. Even better if he dies in battle and can be used as a martyr.

  13. DBWI: What if the Belgian Revolution was succesful?

    Belgian rebellion, please. I know it had some big effects on the Dutch state - the king abdicated in favor of his son, it probably hastened the transition to constitutionalism - but whatever the myth-making of modern-day Walloon nationalists, you can't be called a revolution if you lose.

  14. WI:Virginia does not plant tobacco

    Probably no more Virginia. Too high a death rate from malaria and war, not enough opportunity to make it worth the risk. The early colonists dropped like flies and I'd think it probable the Virginia Company packs it up or goes bankrupt instead of sending ten more years shipping Englishmen to...

  15. Without the Ottomans - would Anatolia be considered Europe?

    It will be culturally part of what we call the European world OTL, but that might just mean they find different terms than "Europe" and "Asia". The geographical obstacle to calling it Europe is formidable.

  16. ACH Palestinian State and Israel function in peace

    Maybe if Jordan stays out of the Six-Day War and the West Bank breaks away from them at some later point. The State of Palestine will still have a lot of bitterness to the Israelis over the Nakba, but they know they can't win a war with Israel and peace (even with major unresolved diplomatic...

  17. AHC: Dutch Calais

    Option 1: The Dutch Revolt wins decisively in the whole Spanish Netherlands, and not just the Northern half. There's no Spanish/Austrian Netherlands, no Belgium. The (greater) Netherlands later wins a war with France - likely as part of a European coalition, because even the enlarged state...

  18. Jeju, Korea's Taiwan?

    It's not just that the US is supporting monsters, it's that they'd be supporting monsters who lost the war and have a hard time holding what they have left (it'd take pulling a Taiwan - and also the US has a face-saving way to cut their losses) and giving the communists a major propaganda...

  19. Jeju, Korea's Taiwan?

    They could try, but I can't see it going remotely well, considering Jeju was OTL a Workers' Party stronghold which had rebelled before the Korean War started and was answered with mass murder. Taiwan survived the legacy of the 228 incident, but the Jeju uprising was an order of magnitude worse...

  20. Japan As A Us teritory

    To play devil's advocate, the US held the Ryukyus as a territory for 27 years, and managed to occupy Japan for seven without much in the way of armed resistance, albeit with a promise it was temporary. If they're hands-off enough regarding the territorial government (i.e. listen to them on...
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