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  1. Chris Triangle

    No Prohibition/Volstead Act

    No 18th amendment means no 21st amendment either and that raises a question when I the dry states, frustrated as alcohol flows across state lines, tries to restrict the flow. The Supreme court is going to run into the issue of just how far they can go under the interstate commerce clause, which...
  2. Chris Triangle

    The Jaguar's Roar - An Aztec Timeline

    So it looks like Rio de Oro is where OTL Dahlonega is.
  3. Chris Triangle

    Nakajima 'army fighters' after the Ki-27

    The Kinsei certainly had more potential than the Sakae, though admittedly, by the time the A6M needed a serious upgrade, it should have been in the form of a whole new aircraft. Would a wider engine by three inches have really been that big of a challenge to accommodate and still meet the...
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    Nakajima 'army fighters' after the Ki-27

    On the other hand, who was it who made the engine that so limited the Zero's capabilities?
  5. Chris Triangle

    WI: US Government didn't bail out GM & Chrysler

    You have to pick up those marques at least for the pickup trucks. These are ultra profitable cash cows with huge brand loyalty that sell in insane numbers in a market utterly dominated by US brands complete with a massive protectionist tariff to top it off. You absolutely need to be able to...
  6. Chris Triangle

    What if America was founded in the High Middle Ages?

    They got both OTL but of the two, smallpox always posed a much greater threat.
  7. Chris Triangle

    FDR introduces mandatory retirement at age 80 for federal judges

    To strike down an amendment as unconstitutional* would be at least as beyond the pale as the court packing scheme was if not moreso. You need a really, really good argument for that kind of decision. Without that, the opposition narrative that this is a dangerous power grab by the legislature...
  8. Chris Triangle

    Neutral Italy during WW1: Fate of the Dodecanese?

    The treaty would have them return the islands to the Ottomans so Greece had no legal basis for its claims other than pure self-determination. Italy would not have too much trouble getting the Ottomans to eventually cede it to them because they knew they'd never get it back and they'd rather...
  9. Chris Triangle

    WI: Expulsion of Sudetenland Germans 28 years earlier in Treaty of Versailles

    And WWI Germany and Austria did not do anything to provoke such a response. Are the Czechs really going to be all that excited about fighting such a brutal campaign to essentially wipe out people they lived next to and often fought alongside just a few months earlier? Maybe, but that's a big...
  10. Chris Triangle

    Neutral Italy during WW1: Fate of the Dodecanese?

    To the Greeks? If Italy is neutral, it won't be cutting deals with them during the war like they did OTL. It can decide to return them at some time, which is likely, but it can always be on Italy's terms. Alternatively, they could arbitrate it with a third power or whatever supranational...
  11. Chris Triangle

    Was Japan able to successfully establish democracy in the early 20th century?

    What other powers exactly? In what way would Japan's will and ability to fight be sapped such that it could not deter or repel an invasion? Some of these PODs are big enough that we can't even be sure decolonization would look anything like it did IOTL.
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    World War 1 no Belgium Invasion what does the Belgian government do?

    Now obviously, as soon as the belligerent enemy troops arrived there without being detained or engaged (as required of a neutral state under international law) Belgian neutrality is voided thus giving Germany the legal right to invade Belgium if it so chooses. Which it immediately would because...
  13. Chris Triangle

    PC:Axis Victory-Nazi economic miracle

    And by the fact that under no circumstances will they be able to operate within the world economy in the way that West Germany did post war. You won't see American capital flowing into such a state after what they would have done. By this point, the US and everyone else surviving will expect...
  14. Chris Triangle

    Which cities could have been much, much bigger?

    What about Pensacola in such a scenario?
  15. Chris Triangle

    WI: Soviet 'supercarrier' was built?

    Regarding the carrier battle, I think the odds would definitely favor the Americans. Even if the Soviets build a supercarrier, they are not going to be able to develop carrier warfare capabilities as serious as what the USN can do. Besides lack of experience, it seems that the carriers they...
  16. Chris Triangle

    What if Poland went fascist in the early 1930s?

    If anything it would be even more unpopular and the Germans wouldn't care about the hypocrisy of that. Unlike modern fascists, who as a political fringe movement tend to stick together, the Nazis or any other German nationalist party hated Poland because of its existence, not because of its...
  17. Chris Triangle

    The Skin of Sepharad: a Spanish nightmare.

    I'm curious as to what territories France, Prussia and Austria actually include at this point. That will certainly indicate what some flash points would be.
  18. Chris Triangle

    Islands that lacked indigenous populations?

    The Cayman islands are surprising because my understanding is that Jamaica was discovered by people who got there from mainland South America directly (as opposed to the much closer greater Antilles). As such, it is interesting that nobody seems to have stumbled upon the Caymans or if they did...
  19. Chris Triangle

    Spain takes Georgia in 1742?

    I think Spain didn't see this as a conquest and chip to play but as an affirmation of the actual border and more buffer for St Augustine against British settlement. If they take Savannah somehow, that's more significant. I'm not sure if it would be enough for Menorca and of course is still not...
  20. Chris Triangle

    What would Cuba be like today if the US didn't conquer it in the Spanish American war?

    A but of a tangent but I'd really like to see those tariffs go away. The state of the Everglades would benefit immensely from the collapse of Florida's subsidized sugar cane industry.
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