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    WI: Less Destructive Mt Lebanon Famine

    Maybe the Anglo-French go with the Alexandretta option instead of Gallipoli? Or a neutral Ottomans?
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    The plausibility/probability problem with scenarios 'saving' Reconstruction through punitive, class-based policies and racial inversion

    I think historical ignorance plays a large role in it. About concurrent with the Civil War, most Northern States started adopting Black Codes and there was an analysis a few years ago of Post-War Union commemoration statues/memorials/etcs that found almost none put up in the 19th Century...
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    Dumb What-ifs thread

    I really want to find the primary documents on it now to see what the French were thinking lol.
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    Dumb What-ifs thread

    I'm not aware of any German plans to this effect but funnily enough the French considered this a serious enough possibility that they drew up Plan H in order to counter it. In their defense it's not totally crazy; the Northern areas of Switzerland bordering Germany are relatively flat and and...
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    Soviet armies defeated, Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Baku taken - prospects for ground war Nazis vs. Allies?

    Very likely, and the general rule of thumb for occupations is a 50:1 ratio for occupying forces. Presuming as a result of the fighting and the genocidal policies of the Nazis that 50 million people die and 20 million flee over the Urals into the rump USSR, that leaves roughly ~100 million in the...
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    WI: Japan Doesn't Surrender in August 1945, Instead Collapsing After Allied Blockade in 1946

    They didn’t overcome them, they landed right before the order to surrender was issued by the Emperor and even then sporadic resistance continued into late September. Also noteworthy given Soviet prospective intentions towards Hokkaido, by the time of the surrender the Soviets had only managed...
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    Gerald Ford wins in 1976: The aftermath and effects?

    Something I never see handled in Ford wins TLs is how he handles Africa. Rhodesia and how it ends, as well as South Africa's border war in Angola and impacts on Namibia, are rife with alternate opportunities for a Ford/Kissinger team to change things. I'm less convinced Ford could make a major...
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    AH Italian Fascism Post-Mussolini?

    Really depends on the exact PoD, but I think Paolo Zerbino is a good candidate. Minister of the Interior in the RSI and, having been born in 1905, would be well positioned age wise.
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    What if Catherine the Great enacted the Greek Plan, restoring a Greek Empire?

    If you really want to play with things, the French for much of the latter half of the 18th Century were eyeing the Ottomans and had military missions in the region doing recon work that later aided Napoleon's own effort. Perhaps while the British are distracted with the ARW, you get a...
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    WI: Japan Doesn't Surrender in August 1945, Instead Collapsing After Allied Blockade in 1946

    The Blockade Plan had firmly lost out by the Summer of 1945 because American leadership was no longer convinced the strategy could work and were also increasingly concerned about domestic morale holding up long enough to see it through anyway. From Unconditional Surrender, Demobilization, and...
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    WI: Japan Doesn't Surrender in August 1945, Instead Collapsing After Allied Blockade in 1946

    While Japanese defensive preparations were focused on the South given that was the main threat, both Hokkaido and the Kuriles were heavily defended by the standards of the threat the Soviets could pose. Over 100,000 IJA troops were stationed on the island with 450 aircraft as of August of 1945...
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    Draka WI: IJN destroyed at Truk in April of 1944

    It's a great work but I've long had problems with its PoD of Admiral Yamamoto launching a coup that then makes peace with the Allies to form an Anti-Draka front. Besides being out of character for the man, the Japanese officer corp is even more fanatical in the Drakaverse than OTL; they...
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    Soviet armies defeated, Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Baku taken - prospects for ground war Nazis vs. Allies?

    The Victory Program of 1941 was drawn up specifically to consider the contingency of a Soviet collapse and its impacts on American options. The conclusion they came to is that it would be impossible to conventionally defeat the Axis bloc: Mark Stoler's Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs...
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    How early a functional nuclear weapon could have been produced?

    The Soviets were operating in the context of half of their industrial base having been occupied or destroyed by the Germans and with most of the principal cities (And thus centers of research) having been occupied or heavily damaged too, so aren't a good example. The Germans would also be...
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    AHC: Balkanized India

    Balkanized nations are a classic AH trope and common element in stories. From the United States (The Confederacy, New England, Mormons, etc), to Russia (Siberia and the North Caucasus) and China (Manchuria, Tibet, etc), among many others, its not unusual to see large countries in our own...
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