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This Strikes Me As An Utterly Implausible Alternate History
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HemlockGrey
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This Strikes Me As An Utterly Implausible Alternate History
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It all falls apart right at the point of divergence, because he has the French bide their time and not enter the war.HemlockGrey wrote:Of course, I could be wrong.
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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.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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Big steaming load. I read about ten lines and gave up.
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Utter horseshit.
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Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
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Anyone willing to offer a thorough or relatively thorough decontruction of some of the major points?
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
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HemlockGrey
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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.
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
It happens that President Chester A. Arthur posted on the newsgroup soc.history.what-if fairly frequently, including his timelineHemlockGrey 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.
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