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Still People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs at that point, but I appreciate it's a technical distinction only and anyone in Britain...

Well none of this will help Mr. Gladstone with home rule.

For a fun option, Bonaparte as advisor to Ali Pasha of Ioannina? Albanian empire anyone?

And I think you mentioned there will be some presidents who will be viewed as worse than McClellan. If I didn't misremember, that's...

Apparently it does not occur to McClellan that there exist people who are not only capable of conceiving a plan, but also capable of...

I am going to say that without WWI, the Russian government will have to deal with rural social disruption due to overpopulation and...

Yes, that definitely puts in a different light. Although I really dread HBO's depictions of Napoleonic warfare. I imagine masses of...

Not sure Alexander would have ever spoken like that to another sovereign, even in private and even in a moment of serious stress...

That will make things very interesting, some sources indicate that as Nicholas was being actively prepared for the throne, he was much...

Maybe a typo here? Alexander II's second son who succeeded him OTL is also named Alexander. Here, AII is assassinated in 1866, so...

Absolutely not. Russia's nuclear deterrence is its best card and losing the boomers scuppers the deterrence value entirely. That in turn...

Realize that global power projection is done for the foreseeable future, so scrap or sell everything bigger than a destroyer. Keep the...

Seems a bit conspiratorial. Stalin in 1948 is at the height of his power, I doubt he needed to resort to complicated schemes like that...

OTL Zhdanov died in 1948, so his comeback is likely to be brief. Although there might be an argument made that without Stalin...

I question Napoleon's wisdom in giving Ney the assignment of shadowing a superior force, or really any assignment beyond "Find the enemy...