I've got a soft spot for the pre-Islamic Sogdians, and would love to see something with a Manichean polity in Transoxiana making some waves both to the East and West.
With a '37 POD, the best case scenario for Imperial Japan is one where Chiang Kai-shek dies before the Battle of Shanghai and China somehow implodes into another round of civil wars and Japan (somehow) avoids escalating things beyond Northern China, thus preventing that morass and the slow...
Bingo; as a new parent both my wife and I agree that the pregnancy and delivery were way easier than taking care of the kiddo after it arrived. I think that eventually we'll hit an upswing in birth rates; pre-industrial populations and birth rates naturally grew and shrank all the time. I doubt...
Yeah it'd take a lot of luck for history to go down similar enough rails to WWII, but is not impossible. It happened once after all, and the internal German communist movement is still strong and radical enough to be a bugbear. Some sort of revisionist right-wing authoritarian government of...
I think there's a very narrow but plausible window for Russia to come out of the 20th century as a global superpower on-par with the US of today. Say the February Revolution still goes down and knocks out the Tsar but instead of the October revolution you get a messy civil war between the Whites...
First, kudos for coming up with a prompt more complex and nuanced than the usual "Sol Invictus crushes all" or "Christianity inevitably triumphs" blather that usually comes into these sorts of discussions.
I don't have much knowledge on the paganism side, but a Christianity that isn't state...
Damn, hats off to him for being so far ahead of the times. I'm just surprised that there were Republicans that hostile to Reagan&Goldwater back in the day. Kuchel must have been very saddened by the time he died in the 90's OTL.
Interesting, the impression I got in the timeline was that the US...
Was he that hostile to the Goldwater/Reagan wing OTL, or is there some Authorial voice creeping through there?
It's a pretty unique take to have the US go "eh" and shrug their shoulders at the space race. Wonder how that came about; maybe if the US gets a satellite up first the 'sputnik moment'...
I wonder what impact WWIII and the loss of US & European R&D would have had on the Green Revolution TTL. Development of international and third world agricultural tech was already in full swing by '83, but with so much of the industrial world mulched I doubt we'd see similar gains in...
There's probably going to be a lot of doublethink in the US over the war and Reagan. "Reaganism" as in the sunny optimism and laissez-fair economics are gone just from the circumstances, but as you say there will be some level of rallying around the flag. Given that the Soviets invaded first and...