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The Stern Gang was willing to work with the Germans, perhaps they wouldn’t have to choose.

Very well put and comprehensive. Wang is perhaps an analogous figure in that his anti-colonialism and mistrust of Western imperialism allowed his leftism to coexist with Japanese collaborationism. As with the Belgian/French examples, it was a willingness to work with the currently winning party...

Why did it happen, is it like how so many U.S. ex-Trotskyists became neocons? To accept either worldview requires some acceptance of the same principles, e.g. the current order must be overthrown, mass movement by the people is good, and so on? Curious to consider fascists who became leftists...

Vichy France was led by some odd turncoats if you think about it. Petain was a national hero whose claim to fame was smiting Germans. Laval was a former Socialist - though admittedly, he perhaps he was as ambivalent about it as Mussolini was. Wang Jingwei and the Reorganized National Government...

I'm idly wondering if Iranian adventurism since Iraq has been to their own detriment as much as American adventurism in Iraq and since has as well. Military operations, even covertly, ain't cheap, and in Syrian it hasn't been much covert. Have to wonder if absent those interventions, the...

I don't think the Arab Spring would happen when it did OTL, if it does at all, because absent the chaos of the Iraq War, the Mideast's fortunes would be different. But if something like it did happen, one wonders if the Baathist government would go the way of Libya, or Syria. Okay, upon reading...

Maybe if Josiah Tongogara had lived he could have defeated Mugabe as a political rival.

Nkomo Georgist Utopia

The Brits held on to Canada all of this time, and the Portuguese made do with Brazil for quite some while. So it's not impossible. That said, the Spanish monarchy was ruled by a lot of dummies at this time, from what I understand, so I dunno how they could improve things. That said, maybe...

It would be funny if New Spain ended up the Canada to the rest of Latin America. Though Peru was the true royalist stronghold.

The POD might be the Battle of Baguashan going the other way, including if the leader of Japanese forces, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa was killed by battery fire before the battle.

What if instead of imposing a foreign monarch he instead swooped in to negotiate a diplomatic end to the civil war, offered a royal figurehead in the spirit of whatever led the Mexicans to crown Iturbide in the first place, and sweetened the pot to Juárez and the Liberals by forgiving some of...

Well, I generally like to see how far Bonapartist expansion can go, and I'll all for him playing it smart (which I don't know how historical that would be, but maybe he gets smart advisors), so absorbing Wallonia quickly while getting the blessing from everyone else seems the right approach, and...

I think it might take some time between getting away with A/C and consolidating those gains before turning on the Germans to do B. I'm not sure how time-intensive it would take to accomplish those campaigns, though admittedly defeating Belgium and intervening in Italy doesn't take too long. It...

What if he gradually pursued the more aggressive options, in the order of A, C (including taking Savoy and Nice), and B (while courting the Danes to serve as distraction from the north)?