Descanse en paz, Padre de mi Patria.
Maximilian started this journey and, just as with his Mexican Empire, the timeline must go on without him now. The one silver lining I can find is that he didn't live to see Austria implode.
Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)
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Maximilian started this journey and, just as with his Mexican Empire, the timeline must go on without him now. The one silver lining I can find is that he didn't live to see Austria implode.
Hard to believe that Maximilian is dead after so many years reigning as Emperor. He will be miss. Any chances of the European monarchies going to visit his funeral? If not to pay respects for the man, but to find an off-ramp for their problems with the Belgian prince?
Hey KingSweden24, for some notes on Russia's political future something you might consider though this may sound very bizarre Finnophbia, a trend that lasted for a little while.
The concept is quite simple in theory, the Russian far/populist right began to agitate and build their base around by attacking the Dutchy of Finland politically, a process that began in early in the 1900s but really accelerated after 1905. This could happen for a couple of reasons one it's union status meant it began to be perceived as a parasite not being subject to conscription being protected by the Russians and state efforts at developing say the railways were seen as taking resources that could have been used in actual Russia on disloyal people meanwhile that the mostly loyal or at least willing to work with senate felt increasingly persecuted both internally and in the greater empire. Add in some hysteria about potential Finnish insurgents attacking the Capital you can see how this became both a bugbear of the right post 1905 till bigger concerns like world war one replaced it.
Granted would be different here for a couple of reasons, one think something that might trigger it would be Petersburg's growing so big starts creeping over the Finnish side of the border, triggering legal disputes that the Russian right tries to capitalize on.
Mainly because I think a big source of tension in Russia's future won't be entirely minorities seeking autonomy as much as the rather poor majority of the population seeking more feeling neglected after decades of well neglect of much of Russia at the expense of the minorities.
That and and the state having set a bit of a trap for itself, by that border regions for a lot of reasons would receive a lot of development, it's natural that say Ukraine with it's ports allowing trade with the outside world and a lot of resources would be more built up than say Orenburg by the state however that leaves a bit of a problem.
One, if the Russian interior stays undeveloped it's natural people in overpopulated rather poor provinces they would migrate to say the Baltics for work creating communal tension with the locals acting as a recruiting factor for both nationalists and Russian far right who would profit from it.
Two begin some redistributive development of Russia, in theory this would be a solution that satisfies most people but the industrialists and nobility belonging to the traditional right would resist the process throughout not wishing to see another power base in the country made unless they got most of the pie. Then you also have the issue of satisfising the now to be neglected border regions which after the recent central European war would be one of Russia's highest priorities.
The concept is quite simple in theory, the Russian far/populist right began to agitate and build their base around by attacking the Dutchy of Finland politically, a process that began in early in the 1900s but really accelerated after 1905. This could happen for a couple of reasons one it's union status meant it began to be perceived as a parasite not being subject to conscription being protected by the Russians and state efforts at developing say the railways were seen as taking resources that could have been used in actual Russia on disloyal people meanwhile that the mostly loyal or at least willing to work with senate felt increasingly persecuted both internally and in the greater empire. Add in some hysteria about potential Finnish insurgents attacking the Capital you can see how this became both a bugbear of the right post 1905 till bigger concerns like world war one replaced it.
Granted would be different here for a couple of reasons, one think something that might trigger it would be Petersburg's growing so big starts creeping over the Finnish side of the border, triggering legal disputes that the Russian right tries to capitalize on.
Mainly because I think a big source of tension in Russia's future won't be entirely minorities seeking autonomy as much as the rather poor majority of the population seeking more feeling neglected after decades of well neglect of much of Russia at the expense of the minorities.
That and and the state having set a bit of a trap for itself, by that border regions for a lot of reasons would receive a lot of development, it's natural that say Ukraine with it's ports allowing trade with the outside world and a lot of resources would be more built up than say Orenburg by the state however that leaves a bit of a problem.
One, if the Russian interior stays undeveloped it's natural people in overpopulated rather poor provinces they would migrate to say the Baltics for work creating communal tension with the locals acting as a recruiting factor for both nationalists and Russian far right who would profit from it.
Two begin some redistributive development of Russia, in theory this would be a solution that satisfies most people but the industrialists and nobility belonging to the traditional right would resist the process throughout not wishing to see another power base in the country made unless they got most of the pie. Then you also have the issue of satisfising the now to be neglected border regions which after the recent central European war would be one of Russia's highest priorities.
Yeah, you'd have a *very* difficult time shrinking Pittsburgh to that point. *maybe* after the battle of Pittsburgh in TL-191. Heck, Erie (or even Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton) might be enough to keep that from happening in Pennsylvania.
Certainly not major league sports level city but cities none the less. In Maryland, while the city of Baltimore is equal to a county, everything else from Annapolis and Baltimore to "Chevy Chase, Village of, Section 5" is treated the same https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/mun.html
And Annapolis wasn't fought over, but was occupied, so figure some damage on the way out when they had to retreat with the rest of the Confederates to behind the Potomac.
Unfortunately, the calculation becomes "How easy is it to move all Finns to Yakutsk?"
Definitely strange to bid adieu to this man, but I think it's time, and time marches on relentlessly, whether one dies out of nowhere (Forrest, Custer), are cut down to die slowly (Chamberlain, Nappy IV) or finally get to go in peace (Max).
Indeed. I have a title for the next Part picked out that might be... a bit on the nose.
I was indeed fond of the idea proposed earlier that his funeral be something of a last-ditch effort by some aspiring diplomat to solve a problem.
I like how you've collected your thoughts here. Finland is, like Poland and central Ukraine around Kiev and the Dnipro (the areas around the Don I figure will be stably colonized by Russians as the Donetsk Basin rises in importance and is already semi-Russophonic at this point in time, but I'm going to leave it there to avoid any subjects from current pol), going to be a problem long term for St. Petersburg.
Of course these problems are orders of magnitude different - I liked the suggestion somebody gave in the old thread of Ukraine being something like Russia's Scotland in many senses, so there's probably less of an independence movement for Ukrainians sans anything like the Holodomor, WW2, and then the very specific circumstances of the USSR's collapse.
Very happy that Max got to die in peace! As the MC of the TL he deserved such an end.
My guess: the US, Mexico, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, China, and Japan. Brazil is another possibility depending on how their experiment with integralism goes. I dont think A-H is gonna retain great power status after the war, and IIRC its been implied in the EU thread that the Ottomans wont survive to the present, so I don't see either of them getting it.
The biggest question mark is the present-day status of the Indian subcontinent. If the Raj ends up shaking out into a united majority-Hindu India and an alt-Pakistan akin to OTL then both of those states should end up with nukes. But its not clear whats going to happen there.
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TBH, I haven’t entirely decided which direction I want to go on nukes ITTL. There was a chance they’d never be invented even OTL, after all.
But if I do do nukes. This is probably what the list would look like. Maybe Argentina and Iran, too.
Indeed. The plan is United India, without any immediate Pakistan equivalent.
Saving that psychopath for BCM, since the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty won’t play much (if any) role in this alt-India
