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  1. WI No large scale Jewish settlement in Palestine 20th

    In part to Zionist immigration an political projects, but only in part. Part of it was also quite simply “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” alliance machinations against the mandatory powers, Britain and France. The Mufti’s strife was over Jewish Zionist migration and activity, but also...

  2. Is a successful 1918 Spring Offensive possible?

    I’m wondering if the Romanians sat out 1916, if that would really mean Falkenhayn wouldn’t be fired and Hindy and Ludy promoted, since Romanian entry was the excuse used to fire Falkenhayn. That might pull things in a few different directions: Possibly no submarine unrestricted warfare - good...

  3. Alternate Lebensraums

    No it’s not as ambitious but it could make for a motive to blot out and “erase” and “cleanse” “mistakes of history” and make “raum” for those who “should” be there. It would have been more achievable than Germans trying to fill up so much space of nearly equally densely populated Slavdom.

  4. No Nazism (and maybe no WWII) - What is the ultimate fate of the Second Polish Republic?

    Good question - would it? The Czechs and Little Entente actually never ended up doing anything to Poland nor ever hurt Poland nor contributed to Poland's 1939 downfall. Poland just picked at the bones of an already mortally wounded Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Their rivalry and lack of...

  5. No Nazism (and maybe no WWII) - What is the ultimate fate of the Second Polish Republic?

    Why? Because no matter the level of local, tactical and operational defeat, Poland would fight on and insist on having its whole territory back until its last Army or is destroyed and its last acre is occupied? The Poles won't "reduce their expectations" once they lose many battles and...

  6. No Nazism (and maybe no WWII) - What is the ultimate fate of the Second Polish Republic?

    Too bad the British spent all of 1925-through March 1939 flinching from what would ultimately be their bottom line: "no es bueno to invade-o Poland-o". But Britain made a diplomatic fetish in the interwar, right up until the guarantee of April 1939, of *not* guaranteeing the borders of...

  7. No Nazism (and maybe no WWII) - What is the ultimate fate of the Second Polish Republic?

    Which parts of OTL are inevitable in any border-changing German war with Poland? *All* of them? Step 1. War leading to complete destruction and complete partition of 2nd Polish Republic, no rumps allowed. Step 2. Genocidal occupation of Polish lands while occupation lands Step 3. Further...

  8. Alternate Lebensraums

    Any "pan" national movement - Pan-Slavic, Pan-Arab, Pan-Germanic, Pan-Turkic or Pan-Turanian, Pan-Iranian, Pan-Bantu, Pan-Malay, with an anti-minoritarian or pro-"purification" streak seeking to root out and exclude ethnonational groups not fitting properly under whatever "pan-[blank]" identity...

  9. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    OK - so west-first bias by the Great General staff, all along, consistently, since 1905, and only vagueness regarding the east. ......so nothing at all in your remarks in disagreement with @1962strat 's main points. I honestly wonder how much the alleged Moltke the Elder and Waldersee...

  10. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Maybe there would be pre-war development of armored cars and armored vehicles, several with caterpillar tracks instead of wheels and rubber tires for off-roading. And these could be designed for more speed and maneuver around potential entrenchments to try to secure and sustain victories in the...

  11. Is a successful 1918 Spring Offensive possible?

    Still waiting for an answer on Romania @Thoresby - I mean, I humbly request one, it would be cool. You're not under obligation to produce one just because I asked in post #15 about what you said in post #14.

  12. How early would you need to change American colonial history to guarantee an Anglo-American sovereign relationship close as Anglo-Canadian in 1883?

    Good points.

  13. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    I am not certain what bottom line you are arriving at: But if this is telling, if Schlieffen and little Moltke never said anything about how to beat Russia, that makes it sound very hard or impossible for Germany to have tried an east-first military approach in 1914. .... But then, you say...

  14. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    Very creative and interesting! But what is the German purpose, objective, and endgame here? Occupy the North Sea ports? - for later long-term naval use? So no one else has them? To own their Belgian and Dutch hinterlands to territorially buffer and secure most of northwest Germany including...

  15. What if Spain somehow won the Spanish-American War

    Congressmen Teller of Colorado and the people who voted for his Amendment did not get the secret memo and the secret handshake, d'oh!!! ;)

  16. What if Churchill didn't under-estimate the Turks at gallipoli?

    Say the ships alone go ahead to ride or die, and the Ottoman government skips town for inland. Inland to where? Inland to Thrace in Europe? Edirne/Adrianople? Or inland in Anatolia to Bursa or even Ankara? Flight of govt leadership, and ship bombardments and fires would lead to mass panics and...

  17. Spain during WW2 if Republicans won the Civil War?

    I do not think it is implausible Hitler might *try* immediately like that, but it would not be compulsive. But Spanish surrender certainly would *not* be compulsive and rapid like that and defeat, and German advance to Gibraltar would not be friction-free the way you wrote it, no sir. If there...

  18. Effects of Murat controlled Naples on Greece/Greek Revolution

    I think, in addition to just seeing Murat as a persona non grata for being a Napoleonic revolutionary Marshal and a rival in Italy, the Habsburgs (and Prussians) were also the great power most opposed to undermining the European status quo in principle and in practice by intervening against the...

  19. AHC: Describe the effects on the U.S. social atmosphere over the past 43 years if President Ronald Reagan had been assassinated.

    things.........not........going.........to........happen.........outside........Hinckley's.......dreams

  20. What if Spain somehow won the Spanish-American War

    ah, all super-duper late in the game.
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