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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...

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...

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...

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...

Thinking of how millions more Irish live in America than in Ireland, I wonder: Suppose an anti-semitic English King were to take power in the 17th century, forcing English Jews to, like Puritans, flee to America make a colony there. And then we can go further and have them become a dominant...

How could the spread of Orthodox Christianity be akin to the OTL spread of the Eastern Bloc? What would the consequences be of Eastern Orthodoxy in the modern day Baltics, Poland, Czechia etc.?

In the midst of neoliberalism, globalization, and declining birth rates, western countries realize that they are in need for a foreign work force. However at the same time they are nationalistic enough to where they don’t want those foreigners to have a say in their affairs. How could a Western...

A common right-wing talking point is that the Cold War was merely a struggle between two opposing leftist factions. What if that was true? What if the Western bloc countries all adhered to one form of Communism and the Eastern bloc countries adhered to another? How will this impact religion...

Could a "Union State", consisting of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus emerge? Don't cheat by doing something like "Russian Empire survives/becomes Russian Republic" or "USSR survives/becomes Union State" we are assuming that this proposed state consists only of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, whereas...

You can ignore the names (though having a continent called “Hyperborea” is based). Let’s assume that in spite of this human evolution and the makeup of species is the same. Assuming the continents had emerged in a way where there is a near reverse situation of OTL as far as land and sea goes...

What if America had taken over Canada at some point in history? How would this change American politics, culture, identity, and overall world history?

Following the collapse of the Russian Empire all the states that, would eventually become independent after 1991, would either briefly become independent or be in the verge of doing so (with the exception of Moldova which became a part of Romania). If one posits a POD in which the Russian Civil...

I consider the near extermination of the native races in Americas to be one of the biggest tragedies in human history, as it constitutes one of the biggest, if not the biggest, genocides in human history. Is there any way this could be prevented with a POD after the arrival of Christopher...

This was a post I did on AH.com a while back and was disappointed that people were more concerned about the plasubility of the premise rather than the premise itself. Here are the posts made showing what I had in mind:

Sort of thinking how three of the biggest non Muslim countries (Russia, India, and China) all have a large and historical Muslim minority but America doesn’t. Suppose the POD is that Islam spreads to the coastal areas of West Africa and eventually supplants the polytheistic faiths there for good...

I don’t know too much about the inner workings of the Chinese government nor the political history of the Communist Party but from the little I’ve read it seems that a leftist faction always remained within its ranks, and I wonder what would happen had they took over after the year 1991 and made...