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  1. AHC: US stays in Vietnam, and goes into Angola too

    Didn't Morocco's King Hassan II and Zaire's President Mobutu provide some assistance to UNITA also?

  2. Operation unthinkable - was it really unthinkable?

    That's a good point, there was Communist activity in other European countries too. Both sides would have had to struggle to put down armed resistance movements behind their lines.

  3. Operation unthinkable - was it really unthinkable?

    The Soviets had to deal with widespread guerrilla activity behind the Iron Curtain all the way into the 1950s anyway; it only tapered off when the insurgents realized the West wasn't coming east to liberate them. If war had broken out between the USSR and the West these uprisings would have...

  4. AHC: Cuthulu-mythos/Lovecraft-based Religion

    Don't they all, ha ha ha!

  5. AHC: Cuthulu-mythos/Lovecraft-based Religion

    We will live forever in the sea, with Dagon!

  6. AHC: An Independent Corsica

    The idea of a sovereign Corsica is interesting. What if Pascal Paoli had been able to withstand the French and Genoese (of course this could never have happened without continued British support) and maintain his island's independence? It's unfortunate that Corsica's more famous native son...

  7. Ron Paul as president 2012

    I've heard a lot of Republicans say they'd support Ron Paul if he'd bring his foreign policy views into alignment with the rest of the party. It's not his support for federalism that turns people off, it's his anti-interventionism. If we no longer maintained fleets at sea or bases overseas, how...

  8. Transatlantic invasion and occupation of Europe?

    It would be extremely hard. Maybe we could move up through Canada and leapfrog over to Greenland, and from there to Iceland, and from there to Ireland, and so one. I don't know, though - it's one hell of a long and vulnerable supply line.

  9. WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?

    Sadly, there was really nothing the West could do to protect the Poles, Finns, Estonians, Latvians or Lithuanians from aggression. They were entirely on their own, precariously caught between the talons of the black eagle and the claws of the big brown bear, a continent away from any help the...

  10. No moon landing

    If we'd never made it to the Moon, maybe there'd be a crazy conspiracy theory, with some people saying NASA really did put astronauts on the Moon, but covered the whole thing up!

  11. NBC's "Revolution" Starts September 2012

    What do you think about NBC's postapocalyptic "Revolution"? It takes place fifteen years after the end of the Age of Electricity. But don't worry - firearms still function! I wonder what caused the loss of electricity? Unlike William R. Forstchen's "One Second After", this catastrophe doesn't...

  12. WI: Spanish Introduce Camels to Americas

    There's been a proposal to introduce camels, elephants, and some other animals of the African plain to parts of the United States, which is kind of interesting. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0817_050817_animal_park.html Maybe if North America had been colonized not by...

  13. AHC: Have the Congo claimed by powers other than Belgium

    I'd like to read more about the Congo's "nosedive", can you suggest a good article?

  14. How many people can live in Alaska?

    Do you mean, before or after it melts?

  15. AHC: Have the Congo claimed by powers other than Belgium

    Of all the colonial powers, the Belgians in the Congo Free State certainly behaved the worst. Having known a few Belgians, it's hard to understand. They don't really seem like the kind of people who could have done the things that were done in the Congo, in the name of profit. On the other hand...

  16. Peshawar Lancers Redux: North America

    Wow! I winced, just from reading that. Maybe Laforge can get his hands (hand, I mean) on a bottle of laudanum!

  17. Why Was Mordechai Rumkowski Killed in The Holocaust?

    I found this interesting Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBagiew This is the first I've ever heard of this collaborationist "Freedom Guard." The Nazis actually permitted them to carry a gun.

  18. Confederate gray.

    If the CSA had survived until the present day, its soldiers would probably be wearing some sort of camo by now. But its urban camo could include shades of gray.

  19. Why Was Mordechai Rumkowski Killed in The Holocaust?

    He kept the ghetto running smoothly for them. He encouraged people to believe that the Nazis intended to get rid of the sick, the infirm, and above all, those who dared to resist, but those who obeyed their regulations, and made themselves useful by working in their factories would be spared...

  20. Guillotine used in the United States

    Imladrik, I didn't mean to insult you, or your country. Nor do I consider the campaigns of the French Revolutionary regime to be comparable to the Holocaust. My words were poorly chosen. Most countries have done shameful things, my own included, and I won't pretend otherwise.
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