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  1. City-state vs. not city-state?

    Kronstadt is occupied by Britain during the Russian Civil War. When the Bolsheviks eventually win the Civil War, they demand its return, but Britain uses various excuses to delay the return. Britain justifies its presence by signing a treaty with the White Russians, who are still recognized as...

  2. How to consolidate European overseas influence in 1870?

    At some point, there was a need for natives to serve as intermediaries between the colonial administration and the subjects. There just weren't enough English or Frenchmen to serve as low-level clerks in the colonies and who were taught the native languages. It was simply cheaper to teach a...

  3. The Death of Russia - TL

    Religion became much more socially prominent as the war escalated - I wonder what would happen after 4/10, and how society will be affected afterwards. In the Able Archer 83 TL, the entire world became much more socially conservative, with rights to abortion and divorce abolished by elected...

  4. The Death of Russia - TL

    The most terrifying thing that we in 2022 take away is that, there's a plausible chance that this TL becomes reality in the coming years.:eek: Some dictatorships have voluntarily relinquished their monopoly on power, out of self-interest. The 1980s were the most politically liberal period of...

  5. The Death of Russia - TL

    This, I don't see. IOTL, after the Soviet collapse, the chaos of post-Soviet Russia was used in CCP propaganda both within the Party and to the broader public. ITTL, especially after 4/10, even the most ardent political dissidents will be horrified at what another Tiananmen Square could lead to...

  6. The Death of Russia - TL

    I can't imagine how this turn of events would affect people my age, whose formative years were during the climate of OTL's euphoria and optimism. Just some feedback though: it's close to ASB that the Chinese leadership of the time would vocally support the Stalingrad government. IOTL, they were...

  7. PC: Wank US mainline Protestant churches

    Not quite, in Canada. The Anglican Church is still more socially prominent, and there's a tendency for important national ceremonies to have an Anglican priest to lead prayers, and for civic functions that have a religious dimension to be held in Anglican churches. Most of the elite private...

  8. How would non-Western colonizers have treated Indigenous groups?

    That's shifting the goalposts. All the nation-states that adopted Buddhism did so syncretically with their pre-existing traditions, to a much larger extent than the ones that adopted Christianity and Islam. Religion and culture might go to some extent to explain differences in how colonial...

  9. How would non-Western colonizers have treated Indigenous groups?

    The Burmese in the highlands, the Japanese in Hokkaido (and later all of Asia), and the Vietnamese in what were the Cham Kingdoms would be surprised to hear that.

  10. AHC: Smallest, most desolate rump state possible

    Broke: Rump Qing Empire and RoC in the KWC after their respective overthrows. Woke: Tiananmen Square leads to a Ceaucuescu-like mass uprising. The rump CCP leaders use their connections with the Triads to sneak across the border to British Hong Kong, and re-appear in the KWC. They insist they...

  11. WI: Pinochet Starts his own Church

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero#International_reaction But Latin America in the 80s wasn't Early Medieval Europe, where the word of the Pope (when there was one) held sway over the legitimacy of rulers. Back then, the Holy See could declare entire nations under interdict, which...

  12. Countries that could have pulled a Braganza/Taiwan

    Maybe a Soviet-controlled Åland Archipelago would be seen as a dagger pointed at the Swedish capital, and hence viewed as an existential threat? Here's an interesting one: during the Napoleonic Wars, the Dutch flag continued to fly in one part of the world: Dejima.

  13. Sino Russian war 1993

    The PLA wasn't in a position to wage any war at that point. The last war it waged was against Vietnam in 1979, and it was a stalemate against a much smaller opponent. Then, the next combat action was in Tiananmen Square. Then, Beijing looked on in horror as the US roflstomped Iraq's army, which...

  14. AHC: A Sixth Anglophone Nation

    There was a very strong possibility that South Africa could have descended into civil war with the end of apartheid, leading to an Indian-style partition. It's likely that one of the resulting states would have been a majority white and coloured state on the Cape. Whether that state would have...

  15. AHC: A Sixth Anglophone Nation

    Singapore says hi.

  16. AHC: A Sixth Anglophone Nation

    So do the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries. Would the Confederacy count if it won the American Civil War?

  17. China's Vietnam, 1979

    Official PRC rhetoric referred to a "war of self-defence and counter-attack". Deng Xiaoping referred to Vietnam as "a little kid who doesn't listen and who deserves spanking". These indicate he never had any intention of anything beyond a limited border war to consolidate his power. Also, the...

  18. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    The butterflies would seriously affect China's trajectory, which would in itself affect the rest of the world. IOTL, Hong Kong served as the go-to place for cheap manufacturing during the 60s and 70s, and Hong Kong's industrialists were the first to take advantage of China's economic reforms in...

  19. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    How did people in Britain and elsewhere comment on George Orwell's most famous work during its namesake year?

  20. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    I imagine a lot of junta-connected businessmen borrowed to the hilt in dollars, egged on by the junta itself in order to buy a few more years. Then perhaps TTL's crisis of the late 90s starts in Britain, rather than Southeast Asia. The Pound Sterling collapses, the businessmen go bust, the...
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