I would say that the easiest places you could go to give the Untied States true equals would be China and/or Russia.
In a sense China was already there, only to be messed up by foolish policies that lead to civil war and more foolish policies. So really any point of departure that keeps China...
In all honesty slavery was to the CSA what communism was to the USSR; an ideology that dominated all levels of life. So as long as the CSA exists slavery exists, as any effort to dismantle the ideology runs the risk of bringing down the whole jenga tower.
And to be honest having Russia do as well or better than the United States doesn't require screwing the U.S.A. at all. I have a feeling that some posters are proposing such things partly because to screwing over the U.S.A. is a "hip" thing to do in alternate timelines, and partly because it...
We both speak English, so it made it very easy for people with cooler heads to find each other and let the other side of the issue know that someone was willing to negotiate. A language barrier creates more walls than most people realize. After all, it is difficult to let the other side know...
It might not necessarily be an invasion. It could just be a naval battle.
Or it could be a battle L.A. moment where a false sighting at night causes all the anti-air and coast defenses to waste ammunition before it is clear that the sighting was a false alarm.
Or we could have a few far...
Interesting. It appears that Forest moved to the UK after the Civil War and was awarded a noble title at some point. So this might mean that after the war more Confederate "Gentlemen" abandoned the United States than did in our timeline. I wonder what the effect of having fewer Confederate...
First, the Confederacy would be lucky to keep all seven of the original states that seceded, and having all eleven 'southern' states is pretty much an impossibility. Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were actually nowhere near secession in our timeline, and Missouri was such a bloodbath that the...
I believe that TMSmith's point is that the dynamics of a grudge where you are the winner of the fight are quite different from the dynamics of a grudge where you lost the fight. What the victor does to the looser also changes the dynamics of a grudge.
The United States won WWII and let the...
So you have an independent CSA due to British and French intervention? And you want to know the effects this would have on a world war several decades later?
Ignoring the details of how exactly the British and French defeat the Union (because looking at the details makes the scenario seem...
Its less childish and more an acknowledgement of Logistical reality. Quite simply the United States is significantly closer to Louisiana than anyone else who could project power into the region, which makes it much easier for the U.S.A. to lay claim to the region if ownership becomes unclear...
This. This is something that a lot of people don't seem to understand. The Abrahamic religions are successful not because they compromise and change to match local culture, but because they don't compromise and change to match local culture.
The key feature of Abrahamic religions is a central...
Cortez's conquest of Mexico was possible not because of disease, but because he arrived at a time where various native Mexican tribes were quite upset with the current state of Aztec dominance. Cortez's arrival presented an opportunity to overthrow that status quo, and so the bulk of Cortez's...
So it would appear that your point is that Brigham Young had the opportunity to try something. My point was that it would be out of character for him to do so, which the article you link to suggests by the simple fact that Brigham Young offered the Navoo Legion to federal service so quickly...
And quoting the article about Soldier's Summit: "The summit takes its name from a group of soldiers who were caught in an unexpected snowstorm on the summit in July 1861. These soldiers were Southerners, previously under Union General Philip St. George Cooke at Camp Floyd, on their way to join...
No. Just, no. Brigham Young never seriously entertained the idea of Utah being independent from the United States. At this point his primary goal is statehood on Utah's terms, and a more disastrous civil war is an opportunity he would have used to pursue that goal.
The idea that the Mormons...