I noticed and I am nervously waiting to see whether Finland will be bombed to pieces in a way that will make sense at least little or if it will be senseless wholesale slaughter like DrakonFin's P&S spin-off Land of the Sad Songs.
It makes absolutely no sense for the Soviet Union to bomb Finland because for the northwestern Soviet Union, Finland was theoretically their first line of defence.
While Finland was officially neutral during the Cold War, the Soviet leadership didn't see it that way and officially Finland was...
It's both half numbing and half understandable to look at the Soviet actions concerning Finland.
Numbing because the Soviets appear to be dead set in pushing Finland to the German sphere of influence through idiotic foreign policy, just like they were in OTL.
Understandable because if the...
How can Argentina not compete with Chile? Larger population, far better geography and signifcant amounts of untapped natural resources. I could possibly see the rearmament effort mentioned by juanml82 if it were limited to conventional weapons. But going ahead with nuclear weapons program will...
Let me clarify. By "significant other", I meant another nuclear power which already had nuclear weapons. Chile doesn't have any. India did have weapons and had them for over 20 years before Pakistan tested their first weapon.
Also, while I'm aware of the Condor program of missile construction...
All of this still hinges on series of bold assumptions:
- Argentina is able to build a nuclear weapon in secrecy in six years. In 2005 IISS estimated that Iran could get the bomb before 2010 if it threw caution in the wind.
- Argentina is able to build not just ballistic missiles, but MRBM's...
Argentina is not Pakistan. The latter has value for China not just in economic terms, but also for geopolitics. They've also been allies to China since the 1970s.
This is early-to-mid 2000s that we're talking about. For China, an era of fantastic, yet pragmatic state capitalist growth and ever-deeper relations with the West. The Belt and Road Initiative that has now resulted in multi-billion dollar investment deals in Argentina didn't start until 2013...
Understandable.
By the way, is Berlin the capital of Federal Republic of Germany or is it somewhere else? I'm curious because in OTL the United Kingdom, United States and France never recognized East Berlin as the capital of East Germany and refused to recognize East German authority to govern...
Will there be postscripts for other countries which had a drastically different fates than OTL (divided China, divided Italy, former Czechoslovakia, united Korea or even with Finland, with its mostly prewar borders with the Soviet Union)?