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  1. GauchoBadger

    WI: Alawite Breakaway State in the Syrian Civil War

    In the 2012-2013 period of the Syrian Civil War, media outlets speculated on the possible outcome of the conflict, especially since ISIS was not yet an apparent threat and the US was considering an intervention similar to that in Libya. In the midst of the chaos, Alawite minority groups in the...
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    WI: no UN intervention in the Congo?

    What if the UN military intervention in the Congo in the crisis years between 1960 and 1964 had never been carried out, due to disagreements in the Security Council? What would have happened to the newly-independent Congo, then embroiled in fighting between the central government and multiple...
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    Economic and demographic impacts of no Axis invasion on the Soviet Union?

    It is well established that the Nazi German and Axis invasion of the western USSR led to a long-term demographic, social and economic hole in the areas ravaged by the Wehrmacht and the nazi imperial killing machine. The destruction was so thorough that some areas have arguably not recovered to...
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    How would an independent, neutral socialist Northern Italy affect NATO's defense strategy?

    So, basically, assume Italy splits around the late 1940's between a pro-western monarchy in the south and a socialist but neutral (titoist-like?) state in the Padanian plain above the northern Appenines. Assuming the powers agree through a binding treaty that the former state can be a NATO...
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    PC/WI: Venice has its lagoon dammed and polderized as punishment by a conquering state?

    The Republic of Venice had its capital territory inside the Venetian Lagoon, a half-enclosed body of water at the northern edge of the Adriatic Sea that provided the city with protection from invaders, easy access to the sea, and economic sustenance. But let's assume some power (Visconti...
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    WI: pro-western united Korea, PRC-controlled Taiwan?

    What if, with a PoD sometime around 1950, the geopolitical situation in East Asia had resulted in a sort of swap between North Korea and Taiwan, with the former being fully conquered by the US-backed southern regime while the latter is taken over by the PRC?
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    WI: Greek Army reaches Bitola/Monastir in 1912

    So, apparently, the Greek Army, during the First Balkan War, set its eyes on the Macedonian city of Bitola as its northernmost military objective against the Ottoman Empire. They ultimately failed to take it, however, and the Serbians reached it first. But what if the Greeks had reached Bitola...
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    WI: Republic of Ragusa restored after 1815?

    What if, instead of being annexed into the Austrian Empire following the Napoleonic Wars, the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) was restored at the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state? How would Ragusa/Dubrovnik maintain its sovereignty in the face of, Austrian, Italian, and eventually Slavic...
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    1940 WI: the French armed forces escape to North Africa

    Reading up on the events surrounding the 1940 German occupation of France, it seems that prime minister Paul Reynaud, in the midst of Fall Rot, severely bungled his country's situation, wavering in his commitment to a continued fight and ultimately allowing himself to be outmanoeuvered by...
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    WI: the Tisza as Romania's western border

    So, what if the post-WWI territorial settlement in the Balkans had been slightly less favorable to Serbia and even harsher to Hungary, with Romania's border extending to the Tisza due to interests for a more defensible border being fulfilled?
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    AHC: Austria-Hungary goes to war with Germany and Russia... and survives

    So, basically, how can we make it so that Austria-Hungary waltzes into an alternate WWI against a Russo-German alliance to the north and survives? The main criteria should be having A-H not be partitioned and lose some outlying territories at the most. Such a conflict can be part of a wider war...
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    WI: No 1957 repatriation of the Soviet Caucasian minorities?

    (serious disclaimer: i abhor any and all genocide and ethnic cleansing and do not intend to portray these phenomena as any good, i only wish to speculate on a scenario that involves them specifically and want no trouble with anyone.) In the midst of WW2, Josef Stalin and his Soviet state...
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    WI: Magyars in Poland?

    What if, after traversing the Ukrainian steppe, the Magyars had for some reason decided not to traverse the Carpathians, and instead invaded the territory of what in our timeline would become Poland? What would have been the consequences of the Magyar confederation concentrating its raiding and...
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    Why was 12th century Byzantium so corrupt and unstable?

    Whenever one studies the historical period between the 11th and 12th centuries in the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire, they come to face with not only a long list of usurpations and palace plots, but also treacherous and opportunistic aristocrats disobeying their superiors, putting the...
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    WI: British Togo and Dahomey

    What if, in the colonial scramble for Africa, Britain had managed to snatch what would become Togo and Dahomey/Benin from Germany and France, thus creating an uninterrupted strip of territory from Sekondi to Calabar that could form the basis of a colonial federation? How would this affect local...
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    West and Central Africa in a WWI without Britain

    Generally, in scenarios where a WWI without the Schlieffen Plan and British Entry are discussed, people tend to focus on German operations and movements in Europe against France and Russia, which would be the main theater of the war. But there were other places where the German and French...
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    AHC: Divide Germany along the Aldi supermarket line

    People often talk of the division Germany still sees in the form of the west-east line that once divided West Germany from the GDR in the Cold War, but there is another, more subtle, sinister, even more potentially destructive division that could plunge Germany into civil war: the line that...
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    No Pakistan: what happens to Balochistan and the NWFP?

    So, basically, assume that WW2 either never happens or never reaches Asia in any meaningful manner besides the ongoing conflict between Japan and China. The Muslim League, as a result of butterflies from it, fails to attain as much of a following as it did IOTL and loses momentum, forcing the...
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    Gaming AH - Tribes: Ascend survives and thrives?

    Reckoning some memories from a game i was fond of, but somewhat frustrated about. Tribes: Ascend is/was a first-person shooter game developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios in 2012. The premise is clear: every player controls a soldier with a jetpack to fly and hover around with, "skating...
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    WI: No Italian trusteeship for Somalia, British support for a Somali Ogaden?

    In the aftermath of the 1941 agreement between Britain and Ethiopia, Fascist Italy's former holdings in the Horn of Africa were partitioned. Ethiopia regained almost all of its holdings prior to 1936, with the exception of the far-eastern territories in the Ogaden which were occupied by Britain...
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