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This Strikes Me As An Utterly Implausible Alternate History
Posted: 2004-05-02 11:34am
by HemlockGrey
Of course, I could be wrong.
World War I
War War II
Re: This Strikes Me As An Utterly Implausible Alternate Hist
Posted: 2004-05-02 01:00pm
by Pablo Sanchez
HemlockGrey wrote:Of course, I could be wrong.
It all falls apart right at the point of divergence, because he has the French bide their time and not enter the war.
Re: This Strikes Me As An Utterly Implausible Alternate Hist
Posted: 2004-05-02 01:09pm
by Tsyroc
Pablo Sanchez wrote:
It all falls apart right at the point of divergence, because he has the French bide their time and not enter the war.
That's kind of what I was thinking. Part of the problem with WWI is that so many of the European powers were in secret alliances with each other. So even in this case as soon as Germany and Russia go to war it's going to cause other nations to follow.
Posted: 2004-05-02 01:41pm
by darthdavid
A fun read but most implausable.
Posted: 2004-05-02 01:42pm
by Nathan F
He also talks about British neutrality. That's another big no-no. The British wouldn't even consider being neutral in a conflict that had so much to do with the future of the islands.
Another thing he fails to discuss is how the heavily fortified border didn't seem to stop the Germans from entering France in WW2, they simply went around. The French could do that through Belgium or possibly attack Austria.
But yeah, from the point of divergence it completely falls apart.
As for the WW2 scenario...that's so screwed up that I don't know where to begin.
Posted: 2004-05-02 01:46pm
by Sea Skimmer
It falls apart at the point of divergence and a couple other points; I'd have much preferred not to have wasted any of my time reading the part I did.
Posted: 2004-05-02 06:12pm
by Howedar
Big steaming load. I read about ten lines and gave up.
Posted: 2004-05-02 07:38pm
by Patrick Degan
Utter horseshit.
Posted: 2004-05-02 07:49pm
by HemlockGrey
Anyone willing to offer a thorough or relatively thorough decontruction of some of the major points?
Posted: 2004-05-02 07:54pm
by Joe
Jesus, I've got things more intelligent than this in my stool.
Posted: 2004-05-02 09:12pm
by HemlockGrey
By the way, does anyone have a link to the dystopian alt-history For All Time? I did a Google and Wiki search and all the links I can find are dead ones.
Posted: 2004-05-02 09:33pm
by Raxmei
HemlockGrey wrote:By the way, does anyone have a link to the dystopian alt-history For All Time? I did a Google and Wiki search and all the links I can find are dead ones.
It happens that President Chester A. Arthur posted on the newsgroup soc.history.what-if fairly frequently, including his timeline
Google groups search link
Putting the posts in the proper order is left as an exercise to the reader.