I was thinking about how past and present events in Chechnya impacted and tarnished Russia's image in the world when an idea came to me:
In Afghanistan and Iraq, USA had to support, deal with and work along side people just as despicable as Kadyrov but the actions of the Iraqis and Afghans...
…and Kim Jong Un, the grandson of the nation’s founder, has been re-elected to the office of Premier.
In this latest election he received ~60% of the vote; the nationalist candidate from the New Ch'ŏngu Party and the Front For Reunification candidate each got about ~15% of the vote while...
OK, let's say that Japan refuses the offer presented by the Perry Expedition. Let's even say that they kill the American delegation, thus ensuring there would be a military confrontation between USA and Japan. In this scenario, rather than letting USA have free reighn over the islands, would the...
So I was thinking for some time about doing a TL. It would be more on the fun side rather than some of the uber-detailed and analytical TLs out here (read: I’m too lazy to do very in-depth research). One of the things in the hypothetical TL I’ve been thinking about is an ATL WW1 analog fought...
So I was wondering, why didn't Russian Empire annex the Korean peninsula? And is there any way it could do so in an ATL (preferably in the early parts of the mid 19th century)?
So lets say Italian peninsula is united by the Papal States rather than the Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy. Do you think there would be any push in this Papal Italy to obtain a colonial empire (Libya, other parts of Africa, etc) like there was in OTL Italy?
Also, as an aside, does anyone know of any...
So I have been reading about USA's problems concerning illegal immigrants from the CSA. Poverty, violent crime, riots, drug abuse -- all of it goes up sharply in areas with high concentrations of CSA expatriates. Now I know what some of you are going to say -- these problems arise because USA is...
What if Muhammad is viewed by adherence of his beliefs not only as a prophet but as a manifestation of God like Jesus is for Christians? How could this belief come about and what would be its ramifications?
Your challenge is to have the Russian Empire annex the territory of Prussia. Preferably this should take place after the Napoleonic Wars. Bonus points if its post 1850.
At minimum to fulfill this challenge, Russia should control the dark blue territories on this map:
Challenge: with a POD no earlier than mid-19th century, by 1920s-1930s have European powers (France, UK, Spain, Germany, Portugal, etc) loose their colonies and become dictatorships or unstable corrupt democracies.
Oh, and it can't be an Ameriwank.
Basically a reverse of this thread. Have American’s view of Regan be so polarized that his death bring simultaneously mass morning and celebrations (complete with spontaneous street parties and songs of “Ding-dong the witch is dead”) across the United States.
It maybe be ignorance on my part, but it seems the various Islamist movements all associate in the mind of the public with Saudi-style Islam and all have similar political platforms differing only in just how far they want to carry things out.
I was wondering if it would be possible to have a...
This site has a number of “revers” timelines – e.g.: ones where Arab world becomes dominant while Christendom lags behind, or ones where USA becomes a communist dictatorship while Russia is the “leader of the free world”, etc. In One such recent timeline where USA goes communist and Russia...
Inspired by several alt-movie challenges posted recently.
With a POD after the release of the 1st The Terminator film in 1984, turn the subsequent Terminator films into gory horror movies rather than sci-fi thriller action flicks. Basically, when people in the ATL think of famous horror movie...
Inspired by recent Scientology-related threads on this site.
The challenge here is to create an influential (if relatively small) religious movement based on Cuthulu-mythos and works of Lovecraft that would be just as (in)famous as OTL Scientology.
Bonus points if H.P. Lovecraft himself...
Inspired by this thread. Your challenge is to come up with a post-1900 scenario where an ethnic Arab is elected to the office of President of the United States of America. Although the person has to be an Arab, he/she does not have to be a Muslim.
You get silver metal if you create a...
Create a TL based on this song where the list of nations (in chronological order) that develop indigenous atomic bombs is as follows:
1) U.S.A.
2) Russia/U.S.S.R
3) France
4) China
5) Indonesia
6) South Africa
7) Egypt
8) Israel
9) Luxemburg
10) Monaco
11) Alabama (which in TTL must become...
This thought occurred to me since the time when I read Peter Parker’s September 11, 2006 TL. Suppose that there is a U.S.-Pakistan war. Suppose U.S. thinks it neutralized all of Pakistani’s nukes but the assumption turns out to be wrong. Suppose that before the Pakistani leadership is defeated...
As the title says. With a POD that doesn’t butterfly away the 1st gulf War, have the U.S.S.R. join the military coalition against Iraq.
How can it be done? Would warmer U.S.-US.S.R. relations do it? Or maybe Soviet Union decides to replace Saddam with someone more amiable to Soviet control...
Inspired by Suicide bombers as resistance tactic in WW2 thread. The thread asked an intriguing question but, unsurprisingly, quickly turned into a flame-war (pardon the unfortunate pun).
However, one interesting conclusion that I think everyone seemed to agree on was that prior to the use of...