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Almost happened in 1784-1785 because of disputes related to the Mississippi River.

Liaohe alone, at 350,000 barrels a day, is 114,975,000 barrels per year. With a deficit of 11.1 million compared to that...

Sakhalin in 1945 was producing 750,000 to 1,200,000 tons per annum; sources differ. The former, being the conservative figure, still equates to ~5.5 million barrels per annum while the latter is over 10 million. The WWII Databook by John Ellis shows the Japanese deficit in 1941 was 11.1 million...

The article is about "Case Blue" going after Moscow in 1942, not the 1941 Operation Typhoon. Specific to the issue of logistics: The fundamental problem facing the occupying Ostheer during its time in Russia was that everything it needed, apart from food and fodder, had to come from Germany...

If they wait until 1989 or such to intervene, sure, but a USSR that is stable over the course of the 1980s is one that can preclude such by stabilizing its puppets. A lot of the root cause was Poland, Hungary, etc took on loans that over the course of the 1980s they could no longer make payments...

I'm increasingly realizing just how old I am, based off this thread.

The budget cuts the Russian Federation enacted in the 1990s certainly were out of Gorby's means, and Yeltsin was able to achieve them because of the collapse of the Communist Party, through which the three industries previously exercised influence. Price Reform and Gorbachev's historical slate...

Interesting factoid I learned recently, which I think fit this point well: Russian language publications had surpassed Ukrainian publications within the Ukrainian SSR in the mid 1980s, for the first time since the 1920s. Same had happened back in the 1970s with Belarus which, taken together, I...

Specifically, I said decreasing but not pullout. I was going off this earlier post:

I phrased it weird, my bad; I meant it would enter those places (Indonesia, Cham, etc) earlier and more thoroughly, like Indonesia being closer to 100% than the current 87%. As for the issue of Theravadda, my understanding of that argument ("Transcendentalist Intransigence") is that it extends...

Saw this from Twitter and thought it relevant.

Taking it as a given that you could, gradually with time, Islamify India, what would be some of the outer ramifications? Seems likely more of Southeast Asia could trend towards Islam; Burma, Cham, and Indonesia. One idea I've had is Indian Muslim traders and explorers spread Islam into...

I doubt this changes much in the Pacific; the specifics of the strategic situation necessitated the contours of the way the Axis offensives played out in that region. It is in Europe that this presents the most possibilities of change, as Italy was constrained in its actions against Malta due to...

I thought I remembered a scheme in the 1920s or 1930s to settle Jews in Liberia, ultimately using them as a bloc to make Liberia a Polish Colony.

I agree, but I think with a PoD over a year in advance of something that happened historically, with world changing implications given the status of the U.S. as the sole superpower in 2004, is one of those cases it can be done.