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  1. AHC: Israel keeps the Sinai Peninsula

    Yeah. That's a fair point. I guess the other reason would be to increase their demographics. Israel is one of the only developed countries that's maintained an above replacement birth rate. Larger countries can generally support larger populations. Countries with larger populations, tend to have...

  2. What former colonies would have been most plausible for European nations to hold on to up to the modern day?

    Generally, the country that's trying to alter the status quo would be the one triggering a war. Although you're right here. I'd forgotten that Hong Kong was under lease. This isn't my area.

  3. AHC: Israel keeps the Sinai Peninsula

    I don't think settling the peninsula nullifies the strategic benefit of keeping it. One of the great strengths of Russia and why they were able to come back from initial defeats against the French and the Germans, was that they were able to trade land for time. Even though the bulk of Russia's...

  4. AHC: Israel keeps the Sinai Peninsula

    Remove Sadat? From what I remember, he faced strong opposition from other Egyptians over his peace plans with Israel. Anything that prevents rapprochement between Egypt and Israel, would mean that Israel is going to keep the Sinai peninsula and probably heavily settle it. Space. Land is the...

  5. What former colonies would have been most plausible for European nations to hold on to up to the modern day?

    Attacking a nuclear power isn't a decision people can make easily. I guess you could bring up the case of India and Pakistan, but would the Chinese be willing to risk it? They've left Taiwan alone for now. Hu Jintao believed that China should work on peacefully developing politically...

  6. What if China had joined the Axis in WW2 with Japan?

    Okinawa wasn't a colony, but a prefecture. While there were some differences, it was still part of the Japanese home islands. The Japanese treated them brutally, but I'm not convinced that they wouldn't have acted that way on the main islands had Operation Downfall gone through.

  7. WW1 Stalemate after Kaiserschlacht succeeds

    Almost every government acted duplicitously. Especially among the major powers. This wasn't unique to the Germans.

  8. What Would A Colin Powell Administration Look Like?

    No. Sorry. I meant that I don't know why he flipped on supporting the Iraq War, when he'd already outlined many of the problems of conquering Iraq in the 1990's.

  9. What Would A Colin Powell Administration Look Like?

    In the run up to the Gulf War, Powell believed that force should only be used if vital national security interests were at stake, with broad public support and using maximum force to end the war and reestablish peace. I don't know what happened in the 10 years after that. Are we even allowed to...

  10. What is a common thing or trope that always seem to happen?

    The Russians took heavy casualties even before the German intervention and Austria-Hungary contributed about half of the soldiers on the Eastern Front, only dipping during the Asiago Offensive and after the start of the Russian Revolution. Blaming Russia's leadership is a weak excuse IMO. We'd...

  11. Austro-German split in a CP victory?

    I agree with your point in general. Austria-Hungary doesn’t get enough credit for outlasting the Russians, but how would you argue they lasted longer than France. If you’re referencing the French mutineers, they were mostly still willing to fight. They just wanted to defend, rather than attack.

  12. What is a common thing or trope that always seem to happen?

    If a country at war is able to perform so well that it causes a complete political collapse in their enemy, then that counts as a victory. Germany and Austria-Hungary achieved that in Russia.

  13. Optimize Brazil for WW2.

    Eh? I'd say that being capable of manufacturing your own equipment is always beneficial.

  14. Nazi Germany in a Soviet Sphere of influence

    Economic junior by what metric and by how much? Barring the destruction and occupation of Germany, I don't see a realistic way to bring them down so far that they'd be economically dominated by the Soviet Union.

  15. Plausibility check: could a better handled Italy have become France's partner in enforcing the Versailles treaty?

    Mussolini was an opportunist and wanted to expand. With Austria-Hungary defeated, that could only come at the expense of the British Empire, the French Empire or possibly one of the Balkan countries. I don't think he'd be a reliable ally against Hitler, unless there was an overriding security...

  16. Plausibility check: could a better handled Italy have become France's partner in enforcing the Versailles treaty?

    Supporting the post-Versailles settlement would be in their interests if the German government wanted to take South Tyrol, but you'd probably have to replace the Third Reich with some other authoritarian government.

  17. the sun is rising, reverse twr challenge (japan wins ww2 but the nazis still lose)

    I don't think it's the same for the Germans tbh. Germany was an industrial juggernaut only matched by the Soviet Union and surpassed by the United States. Japan was #6 in the world. The only winning hand I can see for Japan is to not play. They got away with Manchukuo, but the United States...

  18. the sun is rising, reverse twr challenge (japan wins ww2 but the nazis still lose)

    I don't think it's possible really. Japan was seriously outmatched against America. http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm I'd go against the grain here and say that subduing China is theoretically possible (although it would be a long and bloody process), but that would inevitably bring...

  19. WI Britain & France declared war on Germany right after occupation of Prague?

    The Polish War of Independence was against the Soviet Union. Opposition to the Soviets was part of Poland's national mythos. Russian aggression was more familiar to the Pole's before 1939. I don't think they'd allow it.

  20. Plausibility check: could a better handled Italy have become France's partner in enforcing the Versailles treaty?

    If they're given what they asked for at Versailles, then that's going to remove the wind from the sails of fascism. Italy might stay a liberal democracy and in Britain and France's camp. That also probably sets back a lot of fascist or fascist-adjacent movements. Possibly including Hitler.
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