Recent content by Drizzt

IMHO that's the key difficulty, but also the only that really matters. People here can argue for ages about who would accept what. But that vastly underestimates just how war-weary the common soldiers were on both sides at this point. It doesn't matter what the aristocracy wants or what...

I don't remember if Mayukh is correct, but if so then that's grounds for a Papal Annullment.

The war then might start over her trial. Or over she and her boytoy successfully escaping and then Germany refusing to extradite her. Cue Charles de Gaulle raising a French Republican Army aka Free France in exile to overthrow the Empire.

Well the OTL split is the key IMO. In TTL they reabsorbed them, which in due time meant that the "former" Communists together with the extremist wing of the SPD became the tail that was wagging the dog. It still calls itself the SPD, but is now the KPD in all but name except that people like the...

In some ways they will. At least at the beginning. For example no proper noble officer is going to lie down in the mud, just because some shells and bullets are flying around. They are going to stand straight and proud a gallant figure of.....

What makes you think they get a vote in the matter? The UK isn't some State in the United States Of Europe. No matter how much the ECHR likes to pretend otherwise they aren't the EEC equivalent of the US Supreme Court. Parliamentary Supremacy is the name of the game in the UK. As long as the...

Unless our esteemed author wrote some hints I missed, we don't really know yet if/when the OE will join in the GEW and on which side. That's going to massively influence it's fate in the 20's.

Regarding Russia I think the discussion so far has neglegted one thing of paramount importance: Money! Regardless of whether the Whites or the Reds win the Civil War they'll almost certainly default on both their pre-war debts to France as well as their war-debts to Britain as the Reds did in...

Many people in the USA were isolationist until December the 6th 1941. Then they were attacked and a few days later the American DoW passed nearly unanimously. If Swedish conservative and pro-German establishment somehow managed to join the CP with some minor PoD, then your point would stand. If...

I find that highly unlikely. With Europe being under the Nazi jackboot there wont be an international sanctions regime against Apartheid. The Nazis wouldn't care and even the Democracies might not dare to lest they drive SA into aligning itself with the Nazi Empire instead of being neutral in...

I've always envisioned a late CP victory Germany mostly akin to OTLs Britain: Looking very powerful on paper, but actually very exhausted with a very war weary population and military. If the gouvernment tried to intervene directly in the Russian Civil War there'd be mutinies and I think they'd...

You know that actually brings an interesting scenario to mind. Not that we don't already know that it wont happen, just to think about: What if after the nominations are done, the Democrat candidate is actually cought with the proverbial dead girl or live boy and Lowden wins a surprise victory...

That would look suspiciously like they arranged or aided the assassination to begin with. And since you cannnot prove a negative, there would be no way to clear that suspicion no matter what they do.

I'd like to give this story a try, but due to the lack of any paragraphs, formatting, etc I find it painful to read more than a few sentences.

Dito