Recent content by Holy Mackerel

No matter how well Korea develops 'tall' it would have to expand to some extent to have a chance. There are really two viable options in that instance. North to Manchuria and be a land-based power. Difficult with China next door and Steppe nomads to contend with. South, become a maritime power...

Here is my attempt. Country names/history is extra, the borders are what's important.

Here's mine which is pretty arbitrary and more about what pleases the eye than world peace or writing historical wrongs.

Thanks for the suggestion, I guess it's a viable option. I would think it would fail ITL as a politically viable solution that doesn't fundamentally tackle the issue of a single federal subdivision that is much larger than the others. (The remaining post-Mercia still seems too large and...

I'm making a world map here and I'd like some advice. I have a Republican Unified British Isles with some Anglo-Saxon romanticism influencing administrative boundaries. How can I divide this Mercia into a North/South or East/West Mercia that makes sense? On the verge of copping out and saying...

I would only support this if it had a snazzy name like Bosnia and Herzegovina *cough*

It would be difficult to change the preprogrammed targets of any Balistic Missiles but with enough determination anything is possible.

That's two surnames you've put together there. How about 김성철? Kim Sŏng Chhŏl

I will concede as it's your TL so don't feel pressured to change the numbers further. But even that is a ridiculously large number. "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" After a point the size of the number becomes meaningless. (Emotionaly)...

NK Artillery capabilities and the effectiveness of chemical weapons seem to be massively overblown. Seoul is a massive city and NK has apparently manufactured enough chemical weapons to cover that area with a lethal concentration of it and also has the capability to deliver those massive...

What happens to these guys in TTL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Tunisians

Well it's going to be hard to argue that the nukes were to force a surrender when the nukes themselves preclude any organized surrender from happening. TTL there is going to be a massive argument that the US should have stopped after the first few bombs didn't make Japan surrender. Some people...

I'm going to guess the occupation plan is going to have US-protectorate Japan have de jure control of most of the inland but de facto control of nothing more than a few city sates. Basically control of Shikoku, and the Seven Cities (Ariake Sea, Kagoshima Bay, Hiroshima Bay, Osaka Bay, Ise Bay...

Something you can answer with common knowledge doesn't seem like a good codeword/password. Or am I just not getting something?

The situation in Japan seems impossible. It's going to be hard to do anything other than occupy some 'safe zones' and then let the rest of the islands wallow in death, despair, and the absence of civilization. It's just going to be a physical impossibility to effectively manage the humanitarian...