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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    That one is kinda tragic. Curse you for making me care.
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    Own Goal: How the BEF destroyed the balance of power by winning WWI too fast for the Entente

    As mentioned earlier, France has very few reasons to play against Russia and quite a few to play with them. The Tsarist regime is still not very stable but it gets a stay on execution. Britain is the most likely to poke at the bear but I'm not sure how likely it is to play the revolutionary...
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    Own Goal: How the BEF destroyed the balance of power by winning WWI too fast for the Entente

    As usual, I'm looking for the leftist angle. In Britain, I don't think much changes. Labour is still going to rise slowly but it didn't stake its fortune on the war. It could go either way over the loss of position. Maybe Britain overextends in trying to keep its imperial prominence and they...
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    The Thirty-Seventh HoS List Challenge Thread

    Dunno if it's made stronger or weaker by clearly being divergent rather than future history, but it sure works.
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    WI : The Vivaldi brothers successfully circumnavigate Africa

    The main issue is that (from my admittedly limited knowledge), you need to swing out at sea to round west Africa due to local currents, which is what stopped sea traffic going that way for the longest time. If you make that swing, you can probably have free range of the western coast, at least...
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    AHC : Have a strong Communist Party in interwar/post-war Britain.

    Imagining a socialist or independent labour party that contains only the OTL labour left and further left while being welcoming to communist members is a lot easier than imagining a proper 3rd internationale party, I guess. If the moderate end of the labour movement remains with the liberals it...
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    This is neat, can you link to the discussion this is based on?
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    AHC : Have a strong Communist Party in interwar/post-war Britain.

    I think your best hope is to not have the vast majority of organized labour welded to the Labour Party already. If you could get the unions to adopt something like France's federations on ideological lines rather than craft/industrial groupings based on domains, you'd have union blocks able to...
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    Norse Greenland survives and Danish-Norwegian colonization of North America

    I don't envision large scale settlement right away, since the pool to draw from is fairly limited. But the fur trade is very profitable in that era, and unlike greenland and iceland, north America has a lot of trees so they can build more good quality ships. It's far enough away they're still...
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    Make the UK less London heavy?

    How much do you want to challenge London? Right now, adding the second to fourth metro areas don't beat it, but that'd be reasonably easy to get to with a fairly late POD leading to the big industry cities remaining popular and growing rather than taking a turn for the worse. If you want any...
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    Chilean Polynesia

    Well yes, but the Philippines were part of a trade route, as the last Spanish controlled port before trading with China. If polynesia gets folded into that route it's likely Mexico will muscle in on it too.
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    Chilean Polynesia

    I have to second the above, the most likely case is Spanish colonization remaining attached to its South American colonies. But I'm not sure how likely that is, it's starting to be pretty distant and they might try to administer it from their position in the Pacific in the Philippines instead...
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    WI: Ho Chi Minh Leads Unified Vietnam

    One thing people miss about a China style economic opening is that unlike the NEP comparison, it's not a self contained internal policy, it's an attempt at capturing international capital. If there's no Nixon, Deng would have been a boring internal market in planning reformist, not a full return...
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    Alternate Careers of Notable People Thread

    Mao as Kissinger living to a ludicrous age would be very good too.
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    Crypto, but as a tankie thing

    I think it will always hit a wall of corporations ultimately being the ones controlling and profiting from that technology. You may get a few shills in the same way you get red painted campists championing very much non socialist dictators but those people have never really been relevant outside...
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