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  1. How easily could the Pacific War have flopped for Japan? And to what results?

    It's a generally accepted fact that, as strategically doomed as it was once it launched its Pacific Offensive, Japan had a string of remarkable victories that enabled it to last as long as it did. While a lot of people have asked about 'what if they had done better', I'd like to ask the...

  2. America loses the Spanish-American War

    Oh, rest assured I got it, Grimm. Sadly, there was once a time I would have taken it in eagerly. Tis most embarrassing. Speaking of embarrassing things, did anyone else realize that the Little Mermaid came out closer to the moon landing than the modern day? And that Toy Story came out 15...

  3. America loses the Spanish-American War

    God, Americans, and all you funny foreigners, I'd like to sincerely apologize for the days of my mis-spent youth in which I found such Amerwank in anyway enticing.

  4. WI: Cuba Invaded and Occupied in the 1960's?

    Which doesn't mean that the Soviets won't do it, merely that it might not work out well for them. What they think the West will do might not match up with what the West would do.

  5. No Cold War

    A potentially far more devastating WW2 that breaks up the Soviet Union. Thing is, 'isolationist' America was always going to be intact, and 'isolationism' really just applied to not being involved in the Western European affairs. But WW2 rather made Western European affairs an American affair...

  6. how long can colonialsim last

    In reference to the classical empires of Europe: decades longer, had WW2 been avoided (the colonies were probably destined for freedom anyway, but the war broke control, and the banks, for most of Europe), and quite possibly the end of this century had WW1 been averted (where the potential...

  7. Colombia without Uribe?

    It's always going to include a question of 'what would his replacement do?' It'd be a hard match, however, to make as much improvement in Colombia as Uribe managed. Expanding, focusing, and breaking the back of FARC, and bringing a number of rightwing militias to bear, and all involving a...

  8. Venezuela without Chavez?

    Why equally? While certainly a possibility, a decade is plenty of time for differences to emerge, and there's always the argument that more even democracy has its own anti-corruption effect.

  9. Venezuela without Chavez?

    A lack of certain subversions of the democratic process would be a strong sign. Venezuela wasn't a great democracy, but like most of the continent it was improving a dozen years ago. Yes. Significantly: Chavez is having to beg back the foreign oil companies he kicked out years ago because, with...

  10. Challenge: Videogaming in North Korea

    Wouldn't this require, I don't know, widescale electricity?

  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I can't say I see a united, prosperous Europe in this TL's future. I can, however, see a continent in which future generations across the Greater Germany have perverse 'we were powerful, once' neo-nazi nostalgia while faced by indefinite Anglo-American occupation to never let there be a united...

  12. DBWI: Should the People's Republic of China get it's port?

    Your posts are as helpful and constructive towards the purpose of this topic as always, Douglas.

  13. DBWI: Should the People's Republic of China get it's port?

    Your thoughts on the international issue of the year: should the world's largest and most populated landlocked state finally get it's own port on the Pacific?

  14. DBWI: Alright, ten million chinese ladies are coming over... what next?

    Edit: Been to long, forgot the newer DBWI/ no RP rules. Ignore.

  15. Turtledove Superlative Run-Off Links 2010 Ends April 1st!

    I'll sell my vote of Grimm re-instates my Social Security information back into the government mainframe and clears me of all those pending charges he arranged...

  16. British California

    That would assume that Mexico knew, expected, or thought they would lose the war. They didn't, and had little reason to. The Mexican Army was much, much bigger, and pre-war newspapers and editorial-generals expected to go through Mexico, fighting around New Orleans, and possible marches through...

  17. British California

    By the by, anyone mind explaining why Britain would want to shat on its own reputation and relations interests with Latin American countries by helping dismember one of their own? A good part of British interests in the Americas were defined by keeping good and profitable trading relations with...

  18. British California

    Yes, they did. It should be pointed out that in the run-up to the Mexican-American War, one of the negotiating offers from Santa Anna was the possibility of Selling modern-day California and east to the US, while settling the Texas border in Mexico's favor.

  19. DBWI: Tour of the Ottoman Empire

    Hey, how long do you intend to hold that against Canada, Keenir? Give it a rest already. :mad: Come to think of it, where's Abdul? You'd think he'd have all the best spots to suggest.

  20. US buys Greenland

    Why did French and Indians like mass migration into the Louisiana purchase region? Why did former Mexicans in California take in hundreds of thousands of gold rush immigrants? It wasn't because the wanted to per say, but because once it becomes a federally administered territory, the native...
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