Recent content by Vladyslav

Somalia will be a desert like OTL Western Sahara because it is the Canary curent analogue

Like the Golf stream prevented glaciation in the Pleistocene Scandinavia? Japan would iced firstly during warmer glaciation episodes and it will be a ice bag for Manchuria and China

During interglacials like Holocene? There is no continental ice sheets during interglacials. But there is near 33 million km2 of ice sheets during coldest glacial episodes

Yes, it would. I even say more: Seapole would have continental glaciation in the colder Pleistocene parts

Russia tried to use gas price as a leash for Ukraine

Ukraine as a part of the Russian block died in the mid 2000s. Ukraine as a neutral state died in 2014. That TL calls "Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire". It is a big and interesting thing but as i said it is more rule of cool TL Bush declared himself and the US the winner in the Cold War after the...

Ukrainian industries were even more important. Central Asia excluding Kazakhstan was less important for the "Eurasian Union" but it was came up in the set with the Soviet/Eurasian Union/USS/Great Russia until 1991. I can see the Soviet/Eurasian Union even without Ukraine but it would be very...

NATO expansion wouldn't happened during Bush41 presidency but it will return to the menu under POTUS#42. The main Russian problem is not the NATO expansion. They think that Russia us a superpower like the US or the PRC but Russia can't be a superpower after Ukrainian independence. Even...

I don't think that Persians would accept the loss of Mesopotamia, so Arabs should focus more on the defence in Zagros, like in Taurus IOTL, especially if Romans and Persians will have alliance against the Caliphate

And? Strictly speaking, everywhere the M2 money supply majority is created by private banks, it doesn't matter whether we are talking about dollars, hryvnias or rupees. The bottom line is that the Hong Kong dollar emission is controlled by the government institution. If only that were the case...

Historically, such regional money existed because the central government couldn't mint money from one center and local markets were fairly isolated from each other. Due to the growth of transport connectivity, we have come to the one currency per country standard. An analogue of regional...

So, Iowa is the only CONUS state saved OTL borders

It should be 60 degrees, not 90 ones

*Happy Pakistani noises* This is a quick way to lose the next election to the delight of the INC. India is not isolated enough to get away with this and, given the Pakistani enemies, the military-industrial complex and related industries are more useful than caste traditionalism games

It was Eridanos river before the Glatiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanos_(geology)?useskin=vector