frustrated progressive
SLPing Through the Cracks
I regret I have but one like to give for @Catalunya’s amazing post!
The nations involved in helping the Government of Vietnam were: Australia; Belgium; Republic of China; Denmark; Japan; Federal Republic of Germany; Republic of Korea; France; Laos; Greece; Malaysia; Ireland; New Zealand; Italy; Pakistan; Luxembourg; Philippines; The Netherlands; Thailand; Norway; Spain; Switzerland; Iran; United Kingdom; Turkey; Canada; Liberia; Morocco; Argentina; South Africa; Brazil; Tunisia; Costa Rica; Honduras; Ecuador; Uruguay; Guatemala and Venezuela.
This look at international support for South Vietnam doesn’t offer many surprises, but it might be useful fodder for a TL with a broader intervention: https://www.psywarrior.com/AlliesRepublicVietnam.html
I dare you to create a scenario where all those countries send combat troops to South Vietnam.
Yes, even France.
Why wouldn't Vietnam still go left? There's no USSR to back them, but without the OTL PRC, the Americans won't have domino theory...Speaking of which…
I’m starting to think more about East Asia in my In and Out of the Reich setting (Nazis conquer European USSR and bring UK to the negotiating table, don’t ask how), specifically what the impact of thr Nationalists winning the Chinese Civil War will have on Vietnam. I haven’t gotten much farther than “Sucks to be a Communist here” and I picture three possible outcomes.
1) Vietnam, like OTL Taiwan and South Korea becomes a prosperous liberal democracy.
2) Vietnam, like OTL Vietnam with a few differences in details, becomes a not-so-rich authoritarian regime.
3) Vietnam falls in the middle, kind of like OTL Thailand.
What do people more informed about the region think is most plausible?
Why wouldn't Vietnam still go left? There's no USSR to back them, but without the OTL PRC, the Americans won't have domino theory...
Much depends on how the period post-Japanese surrender goes.Speaking of which…
I’m starting to think more about East Asia in my In and Out of the Reich setting (Nazis conquer European USSR and bring UK to the negotiating table, don’t ask how), specifically what the impact of thr Nationalists winning the Chinese Civil War will have on Vietnam. I haven’t gotten much farther than “Sucks to be a Communist here” and I picture three possible outcomes.
1) Vietnam, like OTL Taiwan and South Korea becomes a prosperous liberal democracy.
2) Vietnam, like OTL Vietnam with a few differences in details, becomes a not-so-rich authoritarian regime.
3) Vietnam falls in the middle, kind of like OTL Thailand.
What do people more informed about the region think is most plausible?
Don’t know if this is the right thread for it, but I was looking for an Irish-themed vignette-y thing and can’t find it. It’s told through the story of an old man, describing his long, sad life, including Ireland’s brief independence, its genocidal occupation by what seems like an ecofascist British regime, and then apparently a final cataclysm that he escapes, free but forsaken and alone on the point of death.
Does this ring a bell for anyone else?
Haunting as ever.It's a list Time Enough did for the List Challenge (the current one of which is still ongoing, with five more days to get an entry in!), and here it is.
Don’t know if this is the right thread for it, but I was looking for an Irish-themed vignette-y thing and can’t find it. It’s told through the story of an old man, describing his long, sad life, including Ireland’s brief independence, its genocidal occupation by what seems like an ecofascist British regime, and then apparently a final cataclysm that he escapes, free but forsaken and alone on the point of death.
Does this ring a bell for anyone else?
Oh yeah, put a lot of effort into that one.It's a list Time Enough did for the List Challenge (the current one of which is still ongoing, with five more days to get an entry in!), and here it is.
It really is very good-and honestly quite a bit better than most dystopian AH around. I totally get why you don’t like writing in the genre, but you definitely spun gold with it here.Oh yeah, put a lot of effort into that one.
Think it’s one of my better works, even if I tend to not go into ghoulish dystopian stuff on a regular basis because it makes me feel bad.
I should probably post it on here or on the main list thread at somepoint.
Why thank you kindly, amusingly I thought I was being a bit harsh with my brief mention of Richard Hunt, but nope, he’s pretty fucking bad.It really is very good-and honestly quite a bit better than most dystopian AH around. I totally get why you don’t like writing in the genre, but you definitely spun gold with it here.
Frankly I’d never heard of half of the British people in this list, which I suppose isn’t too surprising given how fringe blood and soil anarchism is OTL.Why thank you kindly, amusingly I thought I was being a bit harsh with my brief mention of Richard Hunt, but nope, he’s pretty fucking bad.
But yeah, occasionally dipping the toe into dystopia can produce some excellent stuff.
Yes, I read an interview from him today from an obvious crank magazine (it was deciding to talk about Kabblahism which, umm) where he rambles about some real weird primitivism shit and reducing the population etc.Frankly I’d never heard of half of the British people in this list, which I suppose isn’t too surprising given how fringe blood and soil anarchism is OTL.
Is Hunt this guy?
Richard Hunt (editor) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Obviously gentile people talking about Kabbalah is nearly always a red flag.Yes, I read an interview from him today from an obvious crank magazine (it was deciding to talk about Kabblahism which, umm) where he rambles about some real weird primitivism shit and reducing the population etc.
Folks like Jorian Jenks have emerged progressively often in AltHist throughout the years, Hunt was found during an occasional skim for stuff on Third Position and National Anarchism (they’re all weird).Obviously gentile people talking about Kabbalah is nearly always a red flag.
How do you even find these types?
Interesting.Folks like Jorian Jenks have emerged progressively often in AltHist throughout the years, Hunt was found during an occasional skim for stuff on Third Position and National Anarchism (they’re all weird).