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  1. WI Clinton had guts over gays in the military

    This is a very good phrasing of a conventional argument--good enough to make me actually consider accepting the argument. It seems there's no good solution. The utilitarian solution is: Gays can join the army if they barricade themselves in the closet, in order to keep the overwhelming...

  2. World War I what if Motlke didn't screw up?

    They're still beaten easily. The space they don't get back, and as soon as the Germans set down railroads they're more or less immune to serious logistical issues. OTL they conquered a rather large swath, up to something like the current Russian frontier (except for the Ukraine) by 1916...

  3. 400 BCE: Haman's Final Solution succeeds

    The same as if the Jews were eliminated at any point before 33 AD. The historical importance of the Jews is their nature as the first, and for a long time only, group to believe in a single, omnipotent God. If they were eliminated before Christianity could take inspiration from them, the...

  4. 1859: California joins the Confederacy

    Not at all. This wouldn't change the fact that if Virginia fell, the Confederacy was dead. The Confederacy would conquer California while the forces that otherwise could oppose them were dying in the Wilderness, and after Lee surrendered Lincoln would send troops west to retake anything that...

  5. No Pacific Theatre

    [EDIT] misread the original post. The Communists take over after a long guerilla war. If the war lasts until after 1945, the Nationalists get anticommunist aid--otherwise, they just are beaten.

  6. World War I what if Motlke didn't screw up?

    The Russian plan for if the Germans had their main focus on them was to send 2 of the armies they OTL sent against Austria against Germany. This would have been a disaster--4 armies instead of 2 getting stuck in the sands and swamps of Masuria and annihilated by German mobility while the...

  7. 1859: California joins the Confederacy

    A civil war in California would probably induce the Spanish population to rebel as well. OTL, they had an abortive one which was defeated by the Union garrisons.

  8. Multi-lingual France acknowledged

    A later union. Louis XIV had a strong bureaucracy which passed pretty much unchanged to Napoleon, who was the real administrative centralizer. If by 1789 France was more fragmented and Napoleon was unable to push through his centralizing plans, regional dialects would be less threatened.

  9. Japanese options in case of Anglo-French victory in 1940

    nervous about taking on Russia, England and France offer Japan a free hand in China in exchange for being threating to Russia so it can't commit all its troops to Europe. Japan, having been handed its political goals on a silver platter, gives America the finger, makes England throw in trade...

  10. World War I what if Motlke didn't screw up?

    The Battle of the Marne would have been less decisive, but Von Kluck's men were still sleepwalking. The Western Front would form deeper in France. More interesting is if he followed the Moltke (senior) plan: avoid Belgium, have Schlieffen's left wing sit there and massacre attacking...

  11. Uber-Denmark

    A POD of 1624 or so would give that--the Danish throw back the Habsburgs. The Burgundians from my Oceania 10 POD would gladly help--Denmark is stronger longer in that POD.

  12. The Glen Canyon Dam bursts in 1976

    Depends how he handles it. If he's seen as heroicly obtaining funding, has photos laying sandbags, sets up quality temporary housing, sets up a resettlement/compensation fund, and has some idea of how to rebuild the region, he wins reelection by a landslide. Otherwise, he falls like a rock...

  13. Sultan Selim Unchains His Guns (Chaldiran, 1514)

    The Safavids would be very overextended if they tried for Egypt--that would be a bad move for them, though they'd be more likely to do it, as they'd border the Mamelukes. Especially since they'd be Shi'a and the Ottomans and Mamelukes Sunni, I think it'd be in the Ottoman interest to feed Egypt...

  14. Japanese options in case of Anglo-French victory in 1940

    Japanese stay in China and eventually drift into conflict with the Soviet Union, as Stalin demands concessions in Europe (i.e, keeping its 1940 conquests and having a subservient Poland) in exchange for support in the West. America sides with Russia out of interest in China, while England and...

  15. A Draw at Poitiers (732)...

    Novgorod and Muscovy have Christian princes; the people of Novgorod are mainly Christian, Muscovy is divided more evenly, but with a Christian minority (the Muslim minority will be swiftly expelled and flee to Kiev, which will ruin Moscow for a while but preserve its Christianity). The...

  16. A Draw at Poitiers (732)...

    Alternate History: the 2nd big POD (Muslim Kiev) PODs in Russia: 800s: Khazars accept Shi'a Islam (and in the 900s-1000s help produce the Buyids) 922: Volga Bulgars accept Shi'a Islam as well (I couldn't find which branch they accepted in this world, so that may not be a POD) (Note...

  17. AH Challenge: make lincon's prediction true

    "He did something he knew would start a shooting match..." Yeah, get elected. The South seceded before he did anything, raised an army before he did, fired the first guns...the Union army advanced first, but by that time there'd already been Southern aggression. Lincoln would have certainly...

  18. Sultan Selim Unchains His Guns (Chaldiran, 1514)

    -Something- would have happened to the Mamelukes if the Ottomans didn't take them over, and it's unlikely they'd fall to a European power. While they could decay still further, I think it's likelier that they'd see a renewal of some sort, possibly extremely violent. Oh, and they owned Syria...

  19. AH Challenge: make lincon's prediction true

    You'd also have more overcrowded, stinking slums than Europe had. Oh, and Lincoln didn't start "Lincoln's War."

  20. Charlemagne and Irene: The Reunification of the Roman Empire

    This is the 3rd thread about this in as many weeks. Is there something in the air?
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