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Portuguese Southern Africa gives them access to, before even gold or silver, a lot more copper, either directly or through interior trade, this would definitely help the trade balance of portuguese merchants in Asia, make them less dependent on european copper sources and copper trade...

The Huguenot part of the colony, if not the whole thing, cannot survive the french wars of religion.

The French were already supporting them, they’d gladly recognise and become their first trading partner once their independence is secured. From there there wouldn’t be significant hurdles for wider international recognition.

Does "powerful" have to be global or can it relative (poweful for a particular region...)?

See structure of the British empire (2022), it is slightly outdated, in universe

Collapse of authority in Volga Russia in the 90s, A pagan-plurality Mari republic managed to arise out of the ethnic mess of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and radicalises, eventually enforces a revitalisation and purification/unsyncretisation process for their traditional religion, hence the...

De Gaulle never had a threatening nuclear deterrent in the context of this scenario - SLBM and IRBM were introduced after his retirement (early-72 and mid-71 respectively), and the Mirage IV force could largely be intercepted before hitting russia in the case the USSR had succesfuly invaded and...

In January 1759 (before the fall of quebec), Etienne de Silhouette (in the 1750s, at times, main royal comissioner of the French indies company, minister of finances, and main negociator (with De la Gallissonniere) of the pre-7YW North american boundary comission) Proposed to exchange Canada for...

It's unlikely to be any different, new world crop dispersion in the old world, subsaharian africa included, generally vastly preceded european settlement and conquest. It seems like maize production in the western cape is definitely not optimal without elaborate irrigation, and marginal to this day.

At their historical pace, for Cape Town, no But of course, the mfecane, environmental pressures, technological improvements and appeal of trade will means they will absolutely reach the cape in the 19th century

In the case of a long ww1, Direct colonialism would be weakened, because Germany (and the Ottoman, and AH) don't have the power projection, infrastructure, or even care to fully replace the British, Russian and French empires as they'd contract. In former Entente colonies where germany doesn't...

It could be interesting to have SpaceX as a Rocket Lab equivalent, homegrown South African rocket company eventually moving to the USA (but still keeping susbtantial involvement in SA). There would be a larger skill base coming from the defence industry to hire from in SA compared to New...

Realistically, the USSR would deport (resettlement and labour camps) a hundred to a few hundred thousands finns, in line of the proportions that happened in the balitcs and poland. If the insurgency becomes truly formidable, and if there are too much cooperation between finns and nazi, then...

Put simply, the American African foreign policy at the apex of decolonisation, under JFK, was entirely incompetent.

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