Recent content by Juan Vogel

Guess there are two parts to that. One is how important Nick's debate performance was to the final result and two - would have Ming run a tighter ship during the campaign and not wasted effort (party resources, activists) on long shots? Assumedly @iainbhx has thoughts

Even just mobilising further would be an interesting POD. If say they were a week further ahead on their mobilisation that would slow Germany down a fair bit, better weapons or nor.

Interesting! I have to wonder how sustainable it was as a long term economic prospect, given the county itself tho. One large employer small rural towns are nervous places to live, after all

There wasn't really a strong island identity either, at least contrasted to the provincial identities of the time. Probably still isn't today, although perhaps more so than then. I do identify as a South Islander, though, but it is pretty low level compared to other self identifications I hold.

I love the idea of SSP somehow getting a lot of money, ala someone winning Lotto and they end up going a bit nuts in the 03 election. Not convinced it would help a huge degree, but it would be a laugh

Pretty much. I would be interested to see some sort of study on the economic impact/integration of the early colonies/NZ. An old flatmate sort of works in this field and if anyone would know it would be him or his colleague in the department. Anyway, I get the feeling that there was a fair...

I think there are too many variables. It could even be there isn't an Australia, so big the POD is.

The key problem is that whilst it is reasonable to assume that a 19th century settlement might be more willing and able to try and control impact of humans on a virgin territory, the settlement would likely be quite slow and sporadic anyway. So in the first wave of settlers there could be many...

The more I think about it - this specific ISOT is interesting because of the DMZ

I find these ones quite interesting - because you have a really strong mismatch. 1. Finland 2021 is strong, with powerful 21st century military. 2. USSR 1939 is actually pretty strong, with vast strategic depth. Finland's military advantage is brittle and hard to keep at that edge. Far more...

This is very easy, just butterfly the Great Depression and WW2. That way you can slow/stop London's depopulation and also not disrupt the various expansion plans

Slightly tweaking the mayoral voting system might make things more interesting, although probably not. Swapping SV for a more normal ranked system might end up with more interesting election campaigns anyway

Ahh yes, the good ship Kaskowiski which visited* Auckland in 1875 and helped cause a Russian scare.

I guess it just seems unlikely given the long gestation of the federation. Maybe in one of the states in the 1850s?

Well NZ had a sort of similar situation, with the Provinces, where for various reasons it became possible to create new provinces quite easily. Maybe include something similar in the federal constitution