Recent content by raharris1973

Are readers in general agreement with my discounting of the the idea that at these early stages there would be a particularly large risk of sustained cross-colonial rebellion, much less a successful one?

What if instead of the policy or non-policy of 'Salutary Neglect' toward the 12 (and later 13) North American colonies, and lax enforcement of the existing Navigation Acts, Parliament and Crown (King William and Queen Mary) from 1690 on, strictly enforced the Navigation Acts* and steadily added...

What if Catherine the Great tells Frederick the Great, 'nope' when the latter proposes the first partition of Poland in 1772? She tells Fred to pound sand. Maria Teresa joins in telling Fred, 'we're not into this' and 'you should back off.' The core logic of Catherine's opposition is, "We in...

By 1453, and the Ottoman final seizure of Constantinople, the Ottomans had besieged the city for a long time, and had surrounded it, in depth, ruling its Thracian and 'Rumelian' hinterlands in Europe for hundreds of kilometers beyond the city for a generation and a half. A couple generations...

Doesn't this risk the SA 'winning' and then becoming politically 'untouchable' for Hitler?

And maybe Poland would be one of those nations, in addition to Ukraine, Russia-in-Europe, Belarus?

Why did/would the Austrian Habsburgs object to Spanish Habsburgs sending ships to help in the Baltic?

This is an interesting endgame you propose for the Wallensteiner 'Kleinreich' and you illustrate it nicely on the map. Just a thought or a quibble though - do you think that the Habsburg side annexing Pomerania (and the 'connective tissue' of eastern Brandenburg-Oderland) would retain the naval...

My oh my, quite the change. Don't forget, in addition to the flight of English Puritan diehards, the flights of Scottish Presbyterian diehards. Presumably pretty much all to New England. But OTL Puritans went to Maryland and by the late 1600s swamped Catholic political power. Of course we've...

I definitely detect the undertow of the Wallensteiner Uber-Mecklenburg state in this discussion being 'not long for this world' in your opinion as a Habsburg-aligned, Catholic regime. Is Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, with all his limitations, the candidate for succession that the Emperor would...

Interesting set of projections @Skallagrim: These lines, in particular: .....make me wonder, are you supposing that fixed geopolitical alignment of English interest with the Habsburg interest, against the French and continental Protestants would 'proof' Britain against its parliamentary...

I think in the spirit of having “shit roll downhill” in the social and political status hierarchy, in the overcrowded remaining Protestant domains of the German speaking HRE where Lutheranism and Calvinist Churches, and only those Protestant churches, are given legal recognition and standing...

You missed the point entirely. Even if the 1945 French Communist Party members, to a man (and woman) are determined to be spies for the the 1940 Soviet Union and Stalin, and help him out, and even if Stalin and COMINTERN people from 1940 remind them, whenever they are in contact 'remember...

You're drawing a distinction between uptime French officers and downtime politicians here. But, I think for the French, all the officers, citizens, and politicians would be uptime, 1945 people, none of them 1940 people. -- @Vadim , the OP can clarify for us- 1945 France is replacing 1940...

@ShadowArxxy - by when would the 1945 French forces (with 1945 French leaders, tactics, equipment, and industry, but not allies or 1945 level international backing) be able to turn their smashing of German invading ground and air forces into a counteroffensive wrecking German defensive capacity...