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  1. juanml82

    King Charles Gay?

    Morbid thought: Prince Charles, closeted gay, married Diana. He fools around in secret during the 1980s and contracts HIV. Diana doesn't, as they stopped having sex after the second children. How does it develop from there?
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    Spanish conquest of the Pampas

    But trade with what? As long as the entire idea is to ship silver from Potosi abroad, Buenos Aires works in a similar fashion as having a port in Bourdaux to export Polish goods, but with a barely populated region in between. That's why I think development needs to come first: start sheep...
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    Spanish conquest of the Pampas

    AFAIK, they didn't care. They didn't bother to develop the region. Cattle and sheep ranching was a development post independence, started by importing/smuggling more economically profitable cow and sheep races from Europe. Cows, during the colonial era, were hunted, not raised. So prevent the...
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    Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    Isn't Russia using those in Ukraine? They are not "towed", but dropped from fighter jets, but it's the same principle
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    WI: San Martín dies in 1813

    Argentina lacked well trained (or trained at all) officers, so the death of San Martin will cause significant problems to the independentist cause. There were European mercenaries serving within the patriot armies, but they wouldn't be trusted as leaders. And the local officers simply lacked the...
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    WI: Unitarian Argentina in 1820

    San Martin dies during the liberation of Chile, one of his officers assume command of the army of the Andes. Lavalle perhaps? He was unitarian, dumb but also a brave and good officer I don't know if he was high ranking enough at the time, though. So when the order to return to Argentina and...
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    Carrier based kriegsmarine

    They probably can rebuild based on machinery designs for shipyards elsewhere
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    Carrier based kriegsmarine

    The British, at the start of the war, had the Gloster Gladiator and later the Fairey Fulmar as carrier based fighters, neither of which would stand a chance in combat against the Bf-109. They could rush the naval conversions of the Hurricane and the Spitfire, and those had similar issues as the...
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    Net zero by 2000

    Offtopic, but Nixon wanted both public health care and 1,000 nuclear reactors? Did the Americans impeach their potentially best president?
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    España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    Unlike CANADA, right?
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    Net zero by 2000

    Widespread use of nuclear power for electrical generation (economically possible, it's more of a political problem), nuclear powered ships (they may be economically inefficient vs. oil powered ships even in a pro-nuclear world), massive use of natural gas rather than oil or coal for heating as...
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    WI: Arturo Frondizi resists the 1962 coup?

    I don't know the specifics of the coup, but I'll toss an idea: suppose everything goes as in OTL, Guido takes over but rather than assume the Executive, he gets the Supreme Court to annul Frondizi's "resignation" as it was done under duress and, with the same stroke of a pen, they annul the 1930...
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    President Huey Long in the 30s-50s, does America become like Argentina?

    I've yet to update this, it doesn't cover the Macri and the Alberto Fernandez administrations, but the gist remains: in the last 50 years, Argentina has seen only two periods of economic growth: under Menem in the 1990s and under the Kirchners between 2003 and 2011. The last period of economic...
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    President Huey Long in the 30s-50s, does America become like Argentina?

    You do know that, in the last 50 years, Argentina has only experienced economic growth under peronist administrations, right?
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    Refusing to Retaliate: Nuclear War

    No. The remaining American SSBNs still constitute a credible deterrent. That quandary would be far more pressing in the case of France, the UK and Pakistan (under Indian attack). The remaining nuclear forces (specially for Pakistan) may or may not be a credible deterrent. Yes, a single French...
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    Military tactics ( that were never developed or employed )

    With the all the fuzz about the Chinese antiship ballistic missiles I wonder if an intermediate alternative is possible: a land based missile flies to about 50,000 feet and some 1,000-1,500 km away from it's launch platform, and launches a cruise missile at the target. Kind of a high flying...
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    Asian Theater of a Cold War Hot Scenario

    Can SSBNs in the vastness of the Pacific even be hunted? The American submarines can scatter easily. The Soviets need to break out of the Sea of Japan, but even then, the Sea of Japan is still big enough for submarines to hide there. Also, when in the 1960s? If it's the 1962 Cuban missile...
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    For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

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    What if these 2 aircraft meet in combat ….

    To make it a fight both need to be carrying missiles and with the British using all aspect sidewinders, it's a foregone conclusion. Now, if both have similar missiles, you have two airliners dogfigthing each other (!) The pilots are unlikely to have fighter pilot training (and the Lear Jets...
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    For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    Mining it from the Martian surface may also reduce the amount of ships that needed to be designed for the task and, despite the additional energy needs, end up being cheaper than mining it in orbit
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