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I will say, an alternate history that fascinates me the most is one where the story starts a long time ago, but doesn't really change in the present. For example, I'd be more interested in reading an alternate history like, "Confederates win - how do they handle the Cold War?" than one which is...

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(Note: I'm not trying to praise Saddam or whatever, regardless, he wouldn't be the first morally questionable person whom anti-imperialists based in the West would lavish praise on). In a sense it is a bit surprising that a person leading an ostensibly socialist state, ally of the USSR, staunch...

How could the Ottomans have been more successful in Islamizing (>75%) the Balkan areas? Going as far as Romania and Croatia may be a bit implausible but I think that OTL modern day Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and the non-Muslim areas of Bosnia are doable. Furthermore, what...

Well when Japan attacks Pearl Harbour/the Philippines and/or when the Germans keep escalating in the Atlantic to the point it can no longer be tolerated that goes away right? It wasn't America that chose to enter the war.

I don't know how you can exactly get to there but assuming that, on December 7th 1941 (or whenever butterflies has the US join WW2) the US is under a Republican President whereas the UK is under a Labour PM, then what would've happened? As for the specific politician idk, but let's assume that...

Suppose that early on after independence the political problems in the US lead to it being divided into various different statelets - Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, New England etc. What would come of this? Here there is no extant US identity, and after a while they will develop...

Serbia’s position in the Russo-Ukraine conflict is a complex one as both the pro-Russia and pro-NATO sides have criticized it for not doing enough to help their side. I don’t know how to get a pro-NATO Serbia, though an interesting hypothetical would be to ask what if Serbia had its own...

They both (so far) participate in the same global economic system so yeah. This can change though with the passage of the Ukraine War.

I suppose in a sense this is OTL but reversed - the main three powers (America, Russia, and China) are all neoliberal states.

Maybe not so much "liberals" but I can imagine libertarian socialists playing a role.

One can either make this into a Soviet Union wins Cold War or a US becomes communist one etc. but what would've happened had Marxism-Leninism, not liberal democracy, be the dominant ideology? Much as how liberal democracy still has opponents to it (religious traditionalists, nationalist...

I like switching up the religions of different countries (i.e. what if Iran was Sunni, India was Shia Muslim, China became Manichaean, Nordic Paganism survived, Catholic England+America, Protestant France etc.) along with making some countries communist/fascist when they weren't IOTL. Not wanks...

It would be interesting to see an Authoritarian America TL which just has it be run by authoritarian neoliberals. They still have things like free trade, immigration (though a bit more curbed), multiracial, maybe a few progressive areas have LGBT rights, etc. but overall it is run by a one-party...

It can't be both?

Interesting scenarios but I was more interested in what would've happened had England/Great Britain as a whole remained Catholic, and how that would've impacted America's development assuming they colonized the same North American territories as OTL. If you believe that this makes America...

Does anyone have anything more to add to this? I'm genuinely interested in how a Catholic US would differ from a Protestant US but am not knowledgeable enough to add more. A Catholic British Empire facing off against a Protestant French one is a story in and of itself tbh.

In that case it would add another layer to Irish-American history ITTL...

It’s fun to think about.

So Jewish America is apparently not plausible, so what about this for a non-Protestant America TL: Suppose an alternate series of events occur in England that has what was called Mary’s Dowry remain Catholic. It goes into the New World, colonizes much of the areas it did OTL, and eventually...