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  1. DirtyCommie

    Got my new project up. Update by Monday.

    Got my new project up. Update by Monday.
  2. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    To expand on Asp's summary, you're right that a big driver was environmental degradation. The major one, however, was Somali nationalism, as the Ogaden represents one of the biggest populations of Somalis outside its borders. One of the major causes of Barre's coup was that the civilian...
  3. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    With what money, I ask? Not only is Ethiopia vastly in debt after the war (they were IOTL even after winning), you have a government filled to the brim with kleptocrats and corruption, that, again, after winning IOTL, did little to nothing to solve the huge infrastructural issues that led to...
  4. DirtyCommie

    The Rise of the Proletariat TL:

    Probably unsurprisingly, I'm interested.
  5. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    If Somalia's annexed the Ogaden, certainly not. The only rail line to Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's second most important airport are under Somalia's control at that point. If Somalia decides to close off the border, Ethiopia starves, no ifs, ands, or buts. Any united Ethiopia with in this sort of...
  6. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    I tend to doubt this happens. It's in Somalia's best interests to have a stable Ethiopia next door, sans any Somali-majority territories of course, given that a balkanized Ethiopia is going to lead to conflict no matter what, especially if the Ethiopian successor states are specifically...
  7. DirtyCommie

    AHC: Other Singapore style City States

    Buenos Aires is one of the more likely candidates, given that one of the most significant Argentinean conflicts of the 19th Century was the struggle between BA and the rest of the country. If the conflict goes a little differently, you could easily see an independent Buenos Aires.
  8. DirtyCommie

    Swahili Empire

    Definitely against Europe, but I think you'd need to keep it a closely-held secret for it to allow a single Swahili power, so the various armies don't equalize. I don't see that happening if Kilwa gets it first; they'd want to make money with it, not hoard it.
  9. DirtyCommie

    Swahili Empire

    Kilwa is most likely, given their extensive trade empire and maritime power. I think the best POD would likely be killing off Emir Muhammad Kiwabi, as he really established a trend of ambitious emirs competing with the Sultan; a trend the Portuguese later exploited. If Kiwabi dies early and the...
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    Alternate Great People

    A poet and famed seducer of wealthy women, de Lusignan, originally from Poitou, stopped over in Venice on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the 1170s, where he fell in love with a wealthy widow. His advances spurned, he famously made it his mission to destroy the lives of other women the same way...
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    Alternate Great People

    One of Christianity's earliest saints, venerated for his attempts to save Jesus Christ from death, including his verdict of innocence in Jesus's trial. He and his wife purportedly received revelations via dreams that Jesus was in fact the son of God, and after Jesus's eventual death at the hands...
  12. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    I don't think it's feasible given how revenge-driven the Allies were towards the Axis in general after WW2 (for damn good reason, I might add), but if you can keep Italy out of the war or on the Allied side (thus making a very different war) or less likely, have the Italian government be...
  13. DirtyCommie

    WI: Maoist-Lumumbist DRC?

    Actually, IOTL the Simbas had significant support from both states. There's a possibility they might be able to balance between them. More likely though is that the new regime ends up orienting towards the USSR out of pragmatism, with China mostly powerless to stop it. They had very little...
  14. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    Okay, so I think I've identified the needed POD for Somali victory in the Ogaden. If the SNA captures Dire Dawa on August 17, 1977 (my birthday coincidentally), then Ethiopia has no chance at victory. The capture would cut off Ethiopia's only rail line to the sea and put their second largest...
  15. DirtyCommie

    AHC: A Better Somalia

    I don't know how workable this is, given that I really don't know how important the Red Sea was to the Entente at the time, but I do like the idea quite a lot. I'm a big fan of the Dervish State.
  16. DirtyCommie

    WI: Maoist-Lumumbist DRC?

    You certainly make a fair point, and it's very true that the DRC was already in great difficulty before Mobutu, but is it not fair to say that basically any government that wasn't Mobutu's would have done at least a little better? I tend to think yes, given what a disaster he really was. But...
  17. DirtyCommie

    Nicotine withdrawal feels like my brain is covered in fog but somehow every sound is like a damn...

    Nicotine withdrawal feels like my brain is covered in fog but somehow every sound is like a damn siren?? send help
  18. DirtyCommie

    I personally identify as a Spartacist rebel, so I'm sorry we can't be friends. :(

    I personally identify as a Spartacist rebel, so I'm sorry we can't be friends. :(
  19. DirtyCommie

    WI: Maoist-Lumumbist DRC?

    The DRC is largely the way it is because of Mobutu. He drained the country's economy for decades, murdered political dissidents, and let national infrastructure fall apart. Before him, the DRC was one of the more urbanized post-colonial African countries, and of course had vast natural resources...
  20. DirtyCommie

    WI: Maoist-Lumumbist DRC?

    No takers? Personally, I think it could be really interesting; it might even be better for the DRC despite having an unpleasantly Maoist government since a. the Maoists are only one faction and b. Mulele and his folks actually seem to have genuinely cared about the people of the Congo, and would...
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