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  1. AHC: the Franco-Prussian war Escalates

    All I think you'd really need to do would be to have the Austrians go to war with the Germans - easier said than done I understand, though a big help would be to not have Beust as the Austro-Hungarian Foreign minister. The Russians IOTL offered the Prussians their support if Austria joined the...

  2. Deep South sugar?

    Hey guys, I was wondering, why wasn't sugar grown in the Deep South of the 13 colonies? Why was it an overwhelmingly Caribbean crop? I've read that Georgia did grow some sugar, but clearly the islands of the Caribbean were the dominant ones in the industry. Was it just that the climate in those...

  3. WI: PM George Brown?

    First I'd read of it, probably this, "Barbara Castle thought him 'emotion- intoxicated, not drunk', she also recorded that when she had gone through the division lobby with him at 10 o'clock he had unbuttoned the back of her blouse and 'grinned like a schoolboy'."

  4. Q: How to keep Brittany, Burgundy and Lorraine independent until nowadays?

    There are a few ways I can see this happening, though it's far easier to just have one or two happen than all three, especially the later you go in history. Firstly a POD around the Hundred Year's War or something where England wins, at least to some extent, and so France is weakened severely...

  5. Poll: Bismarck's preferences of territorial annexation from France

    From what I've read, Bismarck only annexed Alsace-Lorraine to satisfy the German populace, the King and the generals because, when peace was made with Austria, no lands (like Bohemia and Saxony) were annexed as the King desired.

  6. Al-Qaeda in a Saddam-less Iraq?

    Bump......

  7. Al-Qaeda in a Saddam-less Iraq?

    Let's say that Saddam Hussein is dislodged from power during the 1991 uprisings, say Bush Snr. supports the rebels far more and the rebellion lasts for a year or two when Hussein is shot by a rebel - much like Gadaffi. The government that appears afterward is Shia dominated, but it is fairly...

  8. Incas meet the French instead of Spanish

    Indeed, let's be frank about it, the reason the French never did any kind of huge 'conquering campaign' in North America was because there wasn't a single, relatively unified 'state' against them with a big-ish population.

  9. AHC: Save Alien Resurrection.

    As a fan of Joss Whedon I am tempted to believe what he says: I don't know how you could change that though, perhaps have Whedon as Director so his vision gets across? I mean whether that would've made it better is a different matter, and he'd be new to directing.

  10. WI: Iranian Invasion of Afghanistan, 1998

    True, but let's just say that, as can happen so often, the discussions fail hard between Afghanistan and Iran, leading to war, just for the sake of this scenario. Would Pakistan and US help each other here? I get that neither like Iran, but on the flip-side they're not really friends either...

  11. WI: Iranian Invasion of Afghanistan, 1998

    In 1998 the Taliban killed 8 Iranian diplomats, this incident led to public furor in Iran and almost led to war between Afghanistan and Iran, with the Iranians putting 70,000 troops along the border. The UN managed to defuse the situation though and, despite relations never being positive again...

  12. American Politicians Stand For Two Parties

    I've noticed that US politicians sometimes defect to a minor party, stand for them (usually in Presidential elections), then defect back to their original parties and still carry some clout and stand for their original party again. I was wondering if it was possible for a US politician to...

  13. Fate of Libya if Tunisia is Italian?

    Hey Guys, IOTL the Italians missed out quite heavily on the Scramble for Africa, as France got Tunisia and Italy had to fight the Ottomans for a colony in North Africa - Libya. A part of the reason was the desire to not give Italy that much influence over the Strait of Italy, another was...

  14. AHC; Belgiumwank

    Yes, perhaps Napoleon succeeds in the Battle of Waterloo, but then is inevitably anihilated afterward by the Coalition of Russians, Austrians and Prussians coming from the east. This could lead to overall more punitive measures against France, though the substantial British influence means...

  15. AHC; Belgiumwank

    Indeed. The only way I could see the 'French Flanders' being Belgian would be if in the Treaty of Paris the Coalition forces France to give up the area to the United Netherlands, then, assuming no major butterflies, when Belgium gets independence from the Dutch it keeps the territory.

  16. 1997: Would a different Labour PM have abolished the UK monarchy that summer?

    Not without radical changes to the party and nation, even with the tabloid bull about Diana, the public mood would have swung in favour of the status quo. The only way I could conceive a republican (as in an open republican) becoming leader of Labour would've been if Tony Benn had become...

  17. a different USA

    No, I mean when the French Republic abolishes slavery in Saint Domingue, have the USA support the slave-owners as they were considering IOTL. The slave-owners wanted to create an independent nation away from France if slavery was abolished, but needed the support of the USA to do so, otherwise...

  18. AHC: Scandinavian microstates

    Maybe in Scania the Danes and Swedes come to an agreement for an independent Dano-Swedish state? Heavily unlikely though.

  19. a different USA

    The two main ways I envisage a larger army and navy would be: Some Caribbean islands rebel alongside the 13 Colonies and so a navy is required to defend the island states and territories of the USA - though this might change the USA politically so-much that it's unrecognisable, though I doubt...

  20. Surviving East Prussia

    I didn't even realise I'd necromanced this, I searched the topic, found the thread and kept it in a tab so when I went back to it I forgot... Oops...
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