Recent content by raharris1973

Hmm, MEK Iran turns Beijing favorable pretty early, and doesn't waste any time feeling sore over Beijing's coziness with the Shah in the 70s? Iran did not take too long into the 80s to get over it, as Beijing was a promiscuous arms seller who did not ask a lot of questions during the Iran-Iraq...

If the Chinese, through the reactions of others (western and Japanese), or their own exuberant decisions do basically "take on the world" in 1920, they can help the Soviet cause a bit in Europe/Poland eventually, and the western fringe areas around Russia, but they can probably do the most, the...

Here's how I see some intra-national, intra-Communist discussions/debate on strategy going. Mao, possibly Lin Biao, and Lenin, and possibly Zinoviev, may find the concept of universal, omni-directional Communist offensives and revolutionary promotion the most appealing to them. This "all of...

@ChrisNuttall's bringing up of the 1940 possibility, and @HJ Tulp's bringing up his view about "lost fantastic opportunity" of a Japanese move on the DEI in August 1940, which I quote above, is a great segue or transition to my own concept for Japan taking action against the DEI 1940, just a bit...

Most certainly another possibility! Japan could certainly have more chances of acquiring a motive for such a move on the East Indies, and sensing an opportunity, after the fall of the Low Countries in May 1940 than at any earlier point, it just stands to reason. Also, while not under strict...

Thanks for the recommendation - What did he have as the timing of the Japanese move into the DEI? August-December, 1940? Some earlier point in time?

Which was all talky talk, no walky walk Which they really didn't do. Delusional Japanese told themselves that's what what western, particularly American mediators were doing, because Japan's leaders were putting on a brave face during the war, acting cocky to keep morale up at home and keep...

Here are some reference maps, relevant to the thread

Here is a map of the Russian Civil War situation a little before this time (November 1, 1919): https://omniatlas.com/maps/northern-eurasia/19191101/ ....and a little after (January 3rd, 1920)...

What if the PRC from 1 December, 1949, is ISOT'ed back 30 years to 1 December, 1919? This is the entire territory sovereignly controlled by the PRC, so the only exceptions are the remaining foreign leasehold territories, which in 1949 were the Portuguese leased Macau, British leased Hong Kong...

Do you have anything to present on Anglo-Dutch or American-Dutch mutual defense treaties existing in 1936 or 1937? Or is your concept that British Borneo, Australian Papua New Guinea, and the American Philippines Commonwealth cast an automatic protective force field on adjacent Dutch...

But I also accept that third party intervention is a real possibility, and a quite interesting one. The idea of all the other powers standing aside while Japan lifts the East Indies from the Netherlands may turn out to be fatal miscalculation for Japan. Under pressure from imperial interests...

I don't know what it is you don't understand about the Mandates being forward basing. Do you think the Mandated islands Japan owned from WWI through the entire interwar era, especially the Palau islands in their southwestern portion, did not exist, or somehow could not stage air or naval forces...

Ghana is where W.E.B. Dubois chose to settle at the end of his life/semi-exile as a nonagenarian. As an octogenarian he was harassed in the McCarthy era and subject to passport hassling through 1963, his last year.

Do you think a Constituent Assembly would be elected maybe in early July 1917(old calendar)/1919(new calendar) and seated in August 1917oc/1919nc? And would Right SRs dominate it with Kadets, liberals, conservatives all marginal, Mensheviks more substantial, nationality parties more...