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  1. Rinasoir

    Der Kampf: The Rise and Fall of the Austrian Führer

    You've a few instances of "Zhukov" being in text when contextually you meant "Stalin" in the first section. Most glaring to me is the airplane and after when Zhukov invites them into the city.
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    WI: The IRA assassinateQueen Elizabeth II?

    Anyone except for Gaddafi is going to hand them over the moment they know who they are. In theory they could go to Lebanon and disappear into the mess that is that area, but the British will spare no expense in finding them. If they got picked up in the RoI the first available Aer Lingus plane...
  3. Rinasoir

    For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    Listen, I get that it will probably be a good update. But I would need to have taken some serious brain damage before I use the words "excited" and "concentration camps" together lol
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Typical officer class, can't just learn when to keep their mouths shut.
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    WI: The IRA assassinateQueen Elizabeth II?

    If by the early 80's any member of the Provo's had seriously put forward a plan to assassinate the Queen the first thing that would happen would be they would be told, quite firmly "No" by everyone above them. The second thing is that MI5 would have been informed about the plan as quickly as...
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    How would a NATO invasion of Warsaw Pact go?

    ^That can not be overstated enough. Part of why Able Archer '83 scared the shit out of the Soviets and nearly got us a WW3 was because it involved a similar, but smaller, mobilization.
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    AHC: optimize Soviet performance in WW2

    I mean, with 1924 as your PoD it's not even guaranteed that the Nazis still come to power and WW2 happens in the same shape. Like, for example, one could argue that the PoD is just Stalin falling down a staircase by mistake, Trotsky taking control of the Soviet Union and his backing the KPD in...
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    For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    Long is nothing if not a canny bastard (though not exactly as canny in reality as alt-historians like to make him) so he'll hold on until the NatCorps are on the ropes, and then sell his services to the Republic at a high price before jumping in and bringing the deathblow around. I could see a...
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    For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    I mean, considering Long and the Pacific coast are still sitting pretty and neutral, there still being Socially Conservative elements after the war is a given. The North-East is probably going to be a bastion of social liberalism for a long time to come (even the conservative person from the...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Hapless now, but in 10 years the high water mark of Irish football will be in play, and after that we'll be making a whole new definition of the word hapless! (Except for the Women's International Team, they can actually play and win a game)
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    For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    2 for me. You'd have Civil Rights of African-Americans, Native Americans and other minority groups being touched by all this. Hell, with Eleanor basically running NY you'd have a strong arming of improving women's rights on the cards. I could probably make an arguement for a loosening on...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    It's mythology, the characters are supposed to be a larger than life exaggeration as they are an allegory for understanding a fundamental aspect of either humanity or nature. People's ascribing more "human" characteristics is getting away from the point of why it exists in the first place IMO...
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    Longer Irish war of independence

    For it to last into the mid 30's would require nothing less than a miracle for the IRA tbh. By the time the Treaty was being negotiated, the advantages that the IRA had been enjoying were starting to be rolled back and the supply situation was, frankly, dire. Assuming it ran another year, and...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    I don't know, personally I think it would be, at most, a polite conversation about the foolishness of their younger relatives, with someone to translate. They are simply people at the end of the day.
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    NGL, even with the advanced state of rocketry, the idea of a pub anywhere in Dublin having (presumably) satellite TV in 1980 is something that bends one's suspension of disbelief. Never mind that they would be willing to be the Yank bar to show the games, that's perfectly normal, just a hell of...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    So, that put me on a miniature idle thinking that is based around Jeff's early career and the earliest movie of his I know him from, which is Heaven's Gate (two years before Tron) and now I'm stuck trying to think how that movie and its repercussions would work out in this world. Like, it's...
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    European NATO Army alternatives: 1950 - 1990

    Generally for NATO the best that could happen would be an earlier standardization of different logistical parts (Ammunition, magazines, fuel canisters, hoses, radio parts etc) and still keeping the various regional differences. The regional differences, while they do introduce stresses on the...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Go Navy! (I have no horse in this race outside of liking Little Mike)
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    Anime is sort of underrated for how much alternate history it contains

    IIRC Lupin the 3rd is straight up an alternate history, but it just doesn't dwell on the stuff. Master Keaton could be argued to be one at times, but that could also just be the author was writing a series in the late 80's/early 90's set in a part of the world he wasn't particularly well...
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    WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    Ok, fuck it, let's do this. Taking advantage of the vagueness of the original post I'm going to create the only scenario I can see that could possibly lead to this happening, and not involve Ireland winding up invaded and overrun by teatime, and to do it I'm going to throw rationality and sense...
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