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  1. Lincoln lives Seward dies.

    Now this has possibilities, especially in South Florida. We know that Lincoln favoured some form of Grand Apartheid for freedmen as the only viable way that Freedmen could retain their liberties. And we know that Lincoln knew by wars end that the British were unenthusiastic about resettling...

  2. March 1918. Germans just defend.

    All of the above except that Belgium gets Lorraine instead of German reparations and Mulhausen is returned to Switzerland. In this way, Germany is protected in the West from Franceby a belt of neutral nations.

  3. WI: Independent & surviving Manchuria

    Why do we buy into the idea that China has to be "Ein Reich"? There is no more reason why there has to be "one China" in the 1930s than there has to be "one Germany" in the 1930s. Or now. By the logic of One China, Austria and most of Switzerland and Alsace, the Sudetenland, Silesia, Pomerania...

  4. A more powerful Curtain Call - The Australasian Federation and World War 2

    It surprises me that Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands are not part of this federation as colonies. Also, Hawaii. Queen Liliokalani would have every reason to try to get Hawaii into the Australasian Federation to thwart the American planters that wanted to take over Hawaii and make a US...

  5. 21st Century Ottoman Empire

    The Ottomans can retain their Empire. But besides building railroads, they need to reach the same kind of reciprocal ethnic cleansing "deal" with Russia that they did IOTL in the 1920s with Greece. To fully damp down the forces of Arab nationalism, the Ottomans need Turks to settle in Mosul...

  6. The Falcon Cannot Hear: The Second American Civil War 1937-1944

    Any UK intervention is either going to be extremely limited (to states adjacent to Canada that want to join the Canadian Confederation as Provinces) or will have to be massive in order to suppress the civil war. Massive enough to require not only conscription but the recruitment and deployment...

  7. AHC WI: Goldwater Wins In 1964

    It would have taken A. Kennedy deciding at the last minute to put down the bubble top on the Presidential limo on Nov. 22, 1963 and B. The exposure, after Goldwater was nominated, that Kennedy was being kept going despite his Addison's Disease and other ailments, with Dr. Max Jacobson's...

  8. A Blunted Sickle

    What Japan really needs is what it finally got after 1945, and that is for the West, particularly the United States to realize that Western nations must play by the rules of free and fair trade and not raise tariffs against poorer nations simply because they think they can save the manufacturing...

  9. A Blunted Sickle

    What Japan NEEDS is unchallenged control over Manchuria and Inner Mongolia (and perhaps a free hand in Kansu and Sinkiang). Japan needs the resources OUTSIDE the Great Wall. Japan does not need the millions of Chinese that it cannot control INSIDE the Great Wall.

  10. fate of Hungary

    If anything, Hungary would federate with Austria, because of pre WWI affinity--and thereby draw Austria , already largely occupied by Russian troops into the Soviet bloc. We would be looking at a larger Soviet bloc anyway. Greco-Yugoslavia (which would include Bulgaria ) would likely be all...

  11. Ideas for a Lysergacide Scenario Reboot

    No. Actually I had in mind turning Freud into Stanislav Grof. Look him up and you'll see what I mean.

  12. Ideas for a Lysergacide Scenario Reboot

    Which is why it might be even more interesting if for this TL, LSD was discovered, say, in 1900 and in Europe. That way, LSD makes it into German culture in time for the Wandervogel (wandering youth) and the Italian youth movement at the end of WWI (which apparently at least looked just like...

  13. Dreams of the High Frontier

    How does a MALE sar geant get the female name Ivanova? Shouldn't it be simply Ivanov?

  14. A Blunted Sickle

    Or on the black market. These rifles are totally unregistered and may not even have serial numbers stamped on them.

  15. AHC: bigger Russian population base in Siberia

    I didn't think so. The Q'ing didn't even try to hold the mouth of the Amur River or Sakhalin IOTL.

  16. Where Hearts Were Entertaining June: An English Brazil

    Staying north of the Rio de la Plata isn't going to work in the long run. Sealskins are simply too lucrative of a resource for the East India Company or the British Crown to ignore. So are the whales and whale oil farther south. And finally, the wool that can be grazed south of the Rio Negro...

  17. WI: Longer Sengoku Period

    subscribed. A longer Sengoku period should be VERY interesting. A longer Sengoku means greater opportunity for different Daimyo and factions to grant concessions to different European nations. Spain and Portugal in Kyushu. Maybe England through Anjin Miura (Will Adams) if he survives. Someone...

  18. AHC: Rome goes northeast

    Gaul and Brittania were heavily forested too. That did not stop the Romans from conquering or ruling both places. Let's consider a POD in which Varus does NOT allow himself to be double-crossed by Arminius. Maybe getting his legions strung out three abreast in a forest makes him smell a rat or...

  19. AHC: Rome goes northeast

    It may not have made ECONOMIC SENSE for the Romans to conquer Germanica. But it certainly made STRATEGIC and DEFENSIVE sense for the Romans to conquer Germanica. The Germans were expanding fairly rapidly during the period 100 BC-300AD at the expense of their neighbours (see...

  20. Alternate Merchant states

    I've always wondered if a Venice type merchant state could have developed near Tulcea on the Danube Delta. It would be directly on the Danube and the Silk Route and protected by marshes from steppe nomads. And it's terra firma would be in very fertile soil.
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