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  1. The eagle's left head

    I generally think your argument has merit, but I wanted to quibble on this point. From what I understood, lascaris was dismissing the idea that the Vatatzes must follow a faultless strategy. So, them being the protagonists doesn't make them immune from making mistakes. With that out of the way...

  2. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Since the events of these wars will apparently become part of local folklore, does that mean the peoples of the Miyamee, the Three Waters, etc will consider this period of their history as a cultural lodestone, much as the greeks and romans were (and often still are) for Europeans? Is this a...

  3. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    I like this update! I was really curious what the southern plains would be like, since it's the key link to mesoamerican and aridoamerican trade, and from my very limited reading of the history of the region, there were so many migrations, possible changes in tribal affiliation (and thus in...

  4. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    With the Muskogee and Tsalagi, does this close out the tour of TTL's version of the Hopewell trade network? Do you have additional peoples that would share enough trade and cultural similarities that future archaeologists would consider the TTL "Hopewell" sphere to extend even further? Or do you...

  5. The eagle's left head

    Yeah, hopefully Asen decides that the interests of the Empire would be best served by taking the matter before a court rather than deciding it on the field of battle. The problem then, of course, is that the authority to preside over such a court would only be vested in the Basileus, who has...

  6. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    With our thoughts turning to the postwar (and anarchism!) I'd like to engage in my own wishful thinking predictions. By the 1890s: The Republican party is a coalition of black Americans, protestant progressives (strongest in the Midwest and West), the new England WASP old guard, and big...

  7. Communist Germany 1918

    1. Necro, this thread is from June 2019 2. There are TLs still active now that explore a socialist revolution in Germany in the late-war chaos. Personally, I'd recommend https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/nothing-to-lose-but-your-chains-a-german-revolution-tl.493884/

  8. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Immediate counterattacks to retake trenches would be commonplace as part of defense-in-depth. And I'd be inclined to agree that the Midlands front seems too long to turn into a perpetual grinding mess. Trenches, sure, interlocked defensive positions ranging the whole length of the line, maybe...

  9. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Looking forward to the Confederate NazBol revolution, sure to promise yet more interesting times!

  10. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    Taking advantage of the thread being randomly revived ( :P), I'd like to join in the earlier discussion on international relations. The way I see it, the outcome of the Great War will lead to new sources of conflict. Germany has a leading position in Europe, but not total hegemony. Minor powers...

  11. The Fire Never Dies: Labor's Star Ascendant

    If this is a modern list, then what union represents workers that manufacture plastic products? Or is this a hint that by the modern day, manufacturing of plastic goods (besides textiles and electronics) isn't really a significant sector of American manufacturing? Eg, maybe a syndicalist...

  12. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    Glad to see this continue! Sounds like it isn't lasers, but just extremely concentrated sunlight.

  13. Cinco de Mayo

    I gotta say, I love this phrase. It exemplifies one of the things I love in this TL - the utter degeneration of the confederate state, as a takedown of the idea of the sustainability of the system. Can't wait to see them march headlong to their destruction! I wonder if, in a best case scenario...

  14. The Popular Will: Reformism, Radicalism, Republicanism & Unionism in Britain 1815-1960

    Just finished reading, this is a brilliant TL! I'm really impressed by your clear depth of research, and how you've managed to weave so many political ideas and political thinkers from OTL into your tale, and how everything subtly changes in the context of a new political system. It's all very...

  15. Crimson Banners Fly: The Rise of the American Left

    To me, it seems more like the opportunists seeing "a nation in need of a savior" are more of the proto-fascist kind, demagogues ready to speak to the fears of an uncertain middle class.

  16. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    Just came across this solar desalinator article from last year: https://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207 And the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/c9ee04122b#!divAbstract A design with multiple stages, to get useful work out of the heat...

  17. AHC: Japanese sponsorship of successful Philippine independence before 1940?

    How large or early of a PoD would you need, to have a successful Filipino independence movement with substantial Japanese backing? And would such a scenario be possible in a world where Japan has an opportunity to occupy Indochina as OTL, whether it be from WWII in Europe as OTL, or alternative...

  18. Spector and Spirit - A TL on if Alexander II was never assassinated

    Nice TL! With this retcon, I'm not sure how France could have been ground down hard enough, in only one year of trench warfare, that the soldiers would mutiny like in late spring 1917 OTL, when OTL they withstood almost 3 years of trench warfare, and were ordered to make several bloody...

  19. Crimson Banners Fly: The Rise of the American Left

    Yeah, after all he was a bit of a dark horse as Pyro's written it, and he could just have the support of some players who are fine with him but rivals with each other. If he manages to gain the presidency, then I can see his administration being full of figures that can't stand each other, and...

  20. Crimson Banners Fly: The Rise of the American Left

    And so we come to the prologue, and to a future unfettered by preordained events. We already know that this martyrdom is a unifying force, but as a self-proclaimed anarchist, an anarchist of the deed, as it were, I suspect Lufkin has furthered the divide between socialists and anarchists, common...
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