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I see. So you mean that to succesfully help the Mitanni, the pharaos need to pacify Canaan earlier. If they don't, then the situation is bad enough that Egypt and Mitanni might lose by a lot. Akhenaten needs to be more present internationnaly far earlier to even see a chance. I had not seen it...

So I have been reading George Roux La Mesopotamie (1997) (the french version of Ancient Irak (1992), as far as I can tell (see http://uruk-warka.dk/mathematics/Ancient-Iraq.pdf)). In the chapter that preceed the "confusion period", i.e. 1200 B.C to 900 B.C (the bronze age collapse, as far as I...

Congratulations for this first year. I found this timeline recently, and I liked a lot (though it was too late to vote for the Turtledoves...). Take your time to find inspiration.

My condolences.

You are optimistic about such a scenario, and I am certainly pessimistic here. For me, your arguments are sound, if you consider everyone to be logical, and if Germany act magnanimously in victory. I don't think it would. You think there would be no changes on the western border except...

I will renew my point about Africa: do you truly believe that a Germany with a larger portion of Africa will become less brutal than the French? I highly doubt it. It was one of the most brutal colonizer, and I don't see them stop even if they become more democratic. Democracy and brutality can...

I find you all very optimistic. Why would it be necessary better for the world? Why would a more powerful Germany, controlling more lands, and having control over more people in total can't do as much damage while being "far better" on each one of those people than Nazis? Nazism didn't just...

"Not all Germans were Nazis" "Yeah, I know this theory" OSS117, common view in this TL.

Why would he? Now, he is the king. He will do what is in what he perceives is his insterest. This is as expected of a king. Henry IV converted to get the crown ("Paris is worth a mass"), so as long as the interest of the Devot and of the crown are aligned, he might do some (if not all) of the...

So you created The Times and called it The Guardian? Brilliant! Though a bit playing with our culture here. If you refer to it with conservatives-like article, I bet it will confuse a lot of people, and especially me.

So you have a newspaper called The Guardian one century early? And more conservative?

This sounds as if something is going to backfire horribly. Sending the same guys that tried a revolt in your own country? The guys that killed your own brother? It doesn't sounds like a great move. It might go horribly wrong... or horribly right.

If you know french, there was a radio show on De Gaulle intervention during the May 58 crisis recently. What I understand from this is that without De Gaulle, the crisis will be completly different, as many people supporting De Gaulle directed that crisis in such a way to enable De Gaulle to...

I personnaly think that a Nappy Sea Lion (pre-Trafalgar) is far more plausible than a CSA victory (which is, by the way, far more likely than the post-1939 or even 1936 Sealion). For me, I think that it is actually "a succesfull long term crusade state" anywhere far away from Europe, due to...

Maybe you could have the Burgundian Valois to inherit France? I mean, France + Burgundy is pretty much unstoppable, and is almost as big as Napoleonic France. After a few years, they will certainly dominate Europe in a way never seen in OTL.