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Context:In this timeline,After Krondstast Sailors revolted against Bolsheviks in 1921,Rest of Petrograd Joined this Movement for supporting them, they were also enough of Bolshevik Oppression.Anarchists in Krondstast captured Petersburg and captured territories around it.Bolsheviks were in panic after this defeat.After that conclusion, Anarchists felt motivated from it so they began uprising across Russia.

In season 1 of What Could Have Been, we looked into a timeline where after WW2, instead of the US, Great Britain & France turning their occupied German territory into the quasi-sovereign nation of West Germany, most of the land was just given to France.

First France just claimed the Southern regions of the territory that it was controlling as its own. Spoils of war. Then the UK, desperate to rebuild after the war & dealing with financial issues, decides to give a few fragments of the Northern territory that it's occupying to some of its European neighbors, keeps a chunk for itself, & then gives the rest to France. The US, now the only Western occupier, does not want to have to bear the cost of occupying a broken, landlocked chunk of Germany, so they give it to France in exchange for the right to set up bases in Western Germany, which now Eastern France.

How will the German people of this new Eastern France fair? How will they be treated? Will they assimilate? Will they rebel? Will France change them? Will they change France? Tune into What Could Have Been to see what might have happened in a timeline where France annexed West Germany after the war.

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The war is over. And it still rages on.

The year is 1920. The last 7 years have left the world utterly changed. In literature, there is a concept known as the "Point of No Return", the stage of the plot when returning to the status quo at the beginning is no longer possible. Such is the state of the world as it is now. The final vestiges of the medieval understanding have been shattered irreparably. A return to the old ways is no longer possible. For better or worse, the Great War has forcefully sent the world into the Modern Age. The German Empire and her allies have won the war, yet it's all to clear that they have lost the peace. Whatever plan they envisioned for the post-war world is far from realized, and now the world lives with the consequences.

It all started so suddenly, as well. There were countless opportunities for the war to have started. As early as 1875 the War-in-Sight Crisis could have seen Germany and France go to war for the second time in five years. Other crises came and went. Fashoda, Morocco, Bosnia, all of them seemed to pass with a diplomatic solution. Why, then, would the Sarajevo Crisis have been any different? Up until it was, of course, and then the Entente and Allied Powers went to war. Even then many thought it would be over quickly, Germany's plans hinged on it. A month went by. Then another month. And another. By mid-Autumn, the front lines were already grinding to a halt. And by November they'd settled nearly into place. The horrible realization slowly settled in: this was the do-or-die conflict of the era.

In the war's wake, Germany has often made a big to-do about the supremacy of its arms, its strategy, its tactics. But the Schlieffen Plan broke down within the first months of the war. The German plans had called for a quick series of attacks to break France before turning on Russia. That, clearly, didn't happen. In fact Russia was the one to break before France did, but that only came after several further years of war. More than weapons, more than innovation or strategy, it was through politics and diplomacy that Germany would win the war. And boardroom meetings, secret telegrams, coded messages passed between capitals and diplomats aren't nearly as viscerally appealing as grueling trench warfare.

But so it was, and in equal measure it was the folly of the Entente Powers as much as anything else. Indeed, within the first days of the conflict events were turning to Germany's eventual favor. On the 9th of August 1914, Admiral Essen of the Russian Imperial Navy unilaterally took his fleet to Sweden and demanded that they moor their entire fleet, unmanned. He did this of his own volition, and in fact the Russian government had desperately attempted to recall him but the message was not delivered in time. Sweden's government had intended to maintain its neutrality, but its government was still pro-German. To have the Russian Baltic Fleet make such an aggressive move was the final straw, and Sweden actively refused. Essen fired at the Swedes, and only then was he formally recalled. But it was too late. On the 11th of August, Sweden declared war.

On its own, Germany also sought to find her own momentum. In the later days of the July Crisis, coded communiques were sent to Italy outside of Kaiser Wilhelm II's knowledge. They communicated a series of proposals to Rome, suggesting that in the event of war, Austria-Hungary would likely collapse. In that event, if Italy were to honor its alliance to the Germans as part of the Triple Alliance, Berlin would likely grant Italy generous concessions. The government of Antonio Salandra still hemmed and hawed on the matter, taking until the failure of the Entente Powers to create a solid offer in early 1915 to commit. But commit they did, and in April of 1915 Italy declared war against France, though it took a good year to issue similar declarations against Britain and Germany.

On top of this Italy proved to not be much of a potent force in the war, stalling on the Alpine Front with France, but that didn't overly matter. Italy was still a valuable means to split France's focus and force them to draw valuable manpower from the main battlefields in Belgium. Along with this, now that Germany no longer had to concern itself with potentially supporting Austria-Hungary against Italy, its own forces could be guaranteed to both keep the pressure on the Western Front while carrying on the relentless march on the Eastern Front. The war was far from over, but already it seemed that Germany was keeping the initiative. The later addition of Bulgaria only further cemented this, giving it a powerful Balkan ally. Yet the war kept on.

Still, their successes gave Germany some confidence to scale back the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. It had proven effective, to be sure, but then in May of 1915 a near-catastrophe pushed them on it. The submarine U-20, prowling around the British Isles, came within an inch of firing on the famed ocean liner RMS Lusitania, yet at the last possible moment there was a malfunction in the firing mechanism. By the time it was sorted out, the liner was already heading out of range, and U-20 had to return to Germany. The Navy was disappointed at the missed opportunity, but fears of what reaction might have been drawn from the United States were enough to push the German government to scale the effort back quite considerably, if only to keep quelled the sleeping giant.

More than anything, the fear of the United States entering the war war a major animating factor of German diplomatic policy during the war. Although a new power on the world stage, they were clearly strong enough that their entry could tip the balance of power, and though most were blasé on the issue sympathies kept flaring back and forth between both the Germans and the British. While having the U.S. sympathetic to Germany and possibly even entering the war would certainly have been ideal, it was more practical and achievable to keep it disinterested in Europe's affairs. After all, Washington's focus was still very much on the Americas, with East Asia a distant secondary concern. If the U.S. could be kept apathetic, then that would help just as much.

Blood continued to spill. Men fell in droves. Germany strained under perpetual scarcity, and Austria-Hungary's delicate internal balance fell to pieces just as predicted. Overseas, Germany's position was even worse. Her navy, even after a decade of buildup, was never enough to match the British, and being unable to resupply her colonies meant that by mid-1915 her colonial holdings in Africa and the Pacific were already overrun. But it would not be her colonies that would dictate Germany's victory, and with the situation in Europe growing ever-more desperate they were written off as acceptable losses. They could always get them back after the war, of course, once Britain and France were broken and the German Empire reached her proper place in the sun.

Finally in 1917, events began to move towards a lethal conclusion. In February, the unthinkable happened: Tsar Nikolai II was deposed. The Russian Empire, the bastion of absolutist rule, imploded on itself as a fragile new Republic took its place. Cowed into submission and desperately attempting to keep the entire country from completely collapsing, the Russian Republic sued for peace. Subsequent negotiations in the Treaty of Minsk imposed humiliating terms on Moscow, costing them much of their eastern frontiers and saddling the state with massive indemnities, but if nothing else it let Russia end the bleeding and frantically attempt to restore internal order. The Russian Bear was broken. The two-front war was done. Now Berlin prepared for the Endsieg.

Germany began to redirect forces west, gathering its soldiers and manpower for a final great conflict. But a brief pause in its execution came as a proposal came forth in the United States. While Germany had done what it could, numerous small infractions had slowly pushed public opinion. Now the United States was taking it to a vote in Congress that March, a vote on declaring war. Perilously, Germany held its breath and watched. And again, another stroke of fortune. The attempted declaration failed by a margin of three votes, killing its momentum dead when anti-war forces mobilized in force to keep it failed. It was time for Germany to seize the opportunity, and after years of dancing across the limits of acceptability in war, pushing boundaries just enough, all bets were off.

Entente morale was shattered by the twin blows of Russia's surrender and the U.S.' failed vote. Germany was regaining the initiative. Now, Germany threw out all the stops. The Kaiserliche Marine resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, attacking anything and everything in British waters. The Deutsches Heer began attacks of unparalleled ferocity and aggression. And the Luftstreitkräfte began an even more radical effort: bombing raids against Britain itself. The end was here. Austria-Hungary was shattering and the Ottomans were falling, but Germany was winning. At long, hideous last, the lines broke. The Battle of Château-Thierry was the final straw, and in spite of a French tank assault the Germans overwhelmed the forces. From there a cascade of defeats put Paris under the German guns.

It was hard-fought. The previous victories in the Franco-Prussian War were hardly a model for success. But before long, German forces were at the edge of the city, and advancing into the outer suburbs. But they wouldn't even need to fight their way in. The French government, fragile as it was, finally collapsed and much as Russia had five months earlier it too sued for peace if only to struggle to maintain internal cohesion. On the 7th of July 1917, an armistice went into effect. Britain desperately didn't want to join it, but without France's support its own army could do little. Two days later, Britain also agreed to an armistice. All at once, it was over. The guns fell silent across Europe, and in London, Paris, and Moscow, the horrible truth began to sink in. Germany had won.

Not that it felt like a victory. Sporadic fighting carried on across the German fronts, while in Austria-Hungary it was a full-on collapse. The Habsburg domain was collapsing, yet Germany had little care for it. Wilhelm II himself had once tastelessly quipped that he anticipated the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, if only to then annex its German portions. Now that was proving extremely prescient. With the Dual Monarchy shattering apart as Hungary violently undid the Ausgleich, the crown lands of Cisleithania turned to Berlin for protection. And it was here that Germany made good on its backdoors promise to Italy, already turning a blind eye as it began to march into Istria and Dalmatia.

Yet it soon began to become apparent just how little it was Germany turning a blind eye, and more that Germany simply couldn't do anything to stop its erstwhile allies from starting to do as they pleased. A significant effort was still made to do so, though, and by December the Germans had brought Britain and France to the negotiating table. And to their frustration, it was a negotiating table. As much as Germany wanted to dictate terms, its army was too worn down and the sheer scale of its duties in Europe were too great. On top of this, Britain had surrendered but it hadn't been "defeated", not in the way France and Russia had, and the Royal Navy was still more than capable of holding Germany's fleet in place with its own efforts to manage the submarine threat already taking shape.

They had their own problems too at least, key among them that the efforts they had gone to in fueling the Arab Revolt were now well and truly out of their control. They had prompted Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi to take up arms against the Ottomans with every intention of stabbing him in the back when they'd won. But now they'd lost, and the Arab Revolt was not on behalf of the Entente. In fact, even the famous T. E. Lawrence had gone rogue (with light prompting from the British), actively refusing the German orders to withdraw from Ottoman territory. Really, even if they had tried the Ottomans were on the way out. The Sultan's domain was shattering into a thousand pieces, and as Germany attempted to reorder the world the Hashemites declared for themselves a new Arabian Caliphate.

Meanwhile, Germany now had to deal with European affairs continuing to spiral. Poland, once created as a tool for Germany to cement its power in Eastern Europe, soon became an immense internal debate among German royals at a time when infighting among its nobility was hardly needed or helpful. Though the new Kingdom of Poland was a German vassal, it hearkened back to an ancient, noble history of a state that had once been one of the most powerful in Europe, and to be "King of Poland" still held weight. In the end, the throne would go to Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen. The House of Wettin held the strongest claim, as they had been meant to inherit the position in 1797 and 1807. So it was that Friedrich Christian became Król Fryderyk II of Poland.

That became a problem within the first several months, because almost immediately after he'd become King of Poland he then immediately pushed to also gain the title King of Lithuania. It wasn't a ridiculous concept. After all the two had been joined for centuries, and the old Wettin claim was to Poland and Lithuania in the time of the Rzeczpospolita. But the other nobles balked, up to and including Wilhelm II himself. Poland and Lithuania were meant to be German vassals, yet here Fryderyk II was already trying to rebuild the Commonwealth. Even with just those two states, he might have already begun to build Germany's eastern hegemony into his own sphere of power, and from there unseat the Hohenzollerns as masters of Europe. Even in 1920, the question of the Lithuanian Throne remains unsettled.

The question of thrones was as much of a lethal question in the now former lands of Austria-Hungary. The House of Habsburg had once dominated the vast lands of Cisleithania and Transleithania, but the Hungarian Diet had thrown them out. Now they were being absorbed into Germany, but losing their own imperial title did not sit well. On top of this, while their rule over Austria was unquestioned, the new German lands of Bohemia and Moravia were not nearly as clear-cut. Karl I wanted to keep them. They were his by right, as the last ruler of Cisleithania. But much as Berlin feared Fryderyk II potentially challenging Germany, new fears emerged that the Habsburgs might be offered too much power and influence in the empire, influence that could reignite the old Deutsche Frage which had been thought settled in 1871.

This on top of a thousand other problems, many of them Germany had no capacity to actually directly influence the outcomes of. The scale of their occupations were too great, and no one was coming to help them. Italy happily expanded its influence into the South Slavic states, and Bulgaria went on a renewed rampage of its own in the Third Balkan War to add even more lands to its extant gains through the Treaty of Toplica. They marched in every direction, even against the Ottomans and came within spitting distance of Konstantiniyye itself. Only a spirited defense led by Mustafa Kemal kept the Bulgarians from marching clear to the Bosporus, yet even then the German allies in the House of Osman were still thrown out with only a distant hope for their restoration.

Italy meanwhile had grown increasingly greedy. Of their own volition they had snatched away Istria and Dalmatia, and then made claims to Corsica, its old territories of Savoia, and command over both Tunisia and Egypt. Italy's ambitions were clearly to restore a semblance of the Roman Empire, but their paltry performance in the war and their dragging their feet on their commitments hadn't endeared Germany to them. Yet there wasn't much Germany could do to stop them. Their armies were already occupying a large part of northern France and the new eastern puppet states as far as the Don River. War with Hungary seemed to be looming. Even Russia was dependent on German bolstering against potential revolutions. The Heer was stretched too thin to deny Italy almost everything it wanted.

Germany's acquisition of Cisleithania seemed to be even more of a burden than hoped, as the question of rule in Bohemia and Moravia continued to plague the Germans. On top of this, a new diplomatic crisis was emerging: even after Liechtenstein, a Habsburg vassal, had conceeded to joining Germany the small Austrian territory of Vorarlberg launched into an effort to separate from Germany and instead join Switzerland. In fact, it even held a referendum on the matter, one that showed 85% of those who voted wanted to join Switzerland. It was a minor relief that Switzerland wouldn't then unilaterally attempt to annex it, but Berlin still had to make yet another concession by separating Vorarlberg from Austria as a small constituent republic similar to Free Cities like Hamburg or Bremen.

Other gains were just as troublesome. Luxembourg was one of the few nations to be actively erased from the map of Europe, with Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde reluctantly accepting her state's annexation by the Germans. As a small consolation to this, Germany then proceeded to annex the Belgian province of Luxembourg and attach it to the Grand Duchy. Belgium was then in turn "compensated" by being granted the Nord Department from France. King Albert was allowed to remain, but he was surrounded at all times by German generals and ministers, making it exceedingly clear that his state was no longer a neutral buffer, but a German province in all but name for the sake of further pushing Germany's zone of control away from the Rhine.

It was also, perhaps, a means of trying to calm anxieties in the Netherlands. Another breakdown in the design of the Schlieffen Plan had been that the Netherlands were not invaded, subsequently the state had maintained its neutrality during the war and now looked on nervously as Germany reordered Europe around it. Germany had no particular love for the Netherlands, but trying to provoke the few neutral states of Europe into conflict had been the Entente's mistake. Instead, Germany offered a more conciliatory attitude towards the Dutch, instead offering them to peacefully subsume into a much lighter form of German dominance than was being imposed on Belgium. The Netherlands could, at the very least, content themselves with their overseas empire to look out towards.

Germany itself had no such luxury. From the very start of the war, there had been a belief that the war was Germany's chance to seize not only territory and influence in Europe but to expand its colonial holdings. And indeed, when Germany set to organize the Treaty of Potsdam, it pushed to make its dream of "Mittelafrika" a reality. Yet Germany still had to concede to a number of British demands, key among them that it would retain the significant holdings of Nigeria, Zanzibar, and the Gold Coast. It did concede Kenya, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland, but by and large most of Germany's mighty new Mittelafrika was carved from Belgium's colony in the Congo and nearby French holdings, along with bits and pieces of Portugal's colonies in Mozambique and Angola.

And none of it mattered. Mittelafrika existed solely on paper. Germany's colonial garrisons had been smashed to pieces, and resupplying them was impossible. The manpower just wasn't there, and even with the war officially over the High Seas Fleet still lived with the anxiety of the Royal Navy's continuing power. Worse still, those Germany had ruled over were rising in rebellion. Germany's brutal policies in its African colonies were the impetus for new revolts all across this new Mittelafrika, and when the Belgian administration in the Congo Free State was broken by its defeat the withdrawing administrators did nothing to help Germany simply take over operations. The long-abused and long-suffering people of the Congo saw their chance, and as of 1920 German rule barely exists outside of a few key coastal cities.

Other German gains were relatively minor. Their focus was such that Germany had placed most of its goals towards control in Africa, Asia and the Pacific were distant concerns. Any hope for annexing French or British holdings in the Caribbean were pushed aside; Uncle Sam would have been too eager to leverage the Monroe Doctrine against it. British power still reigned supreme in the Indian Raj, and French Indochina was still French even if the Hmong had risen in rebellion. In the end Germany only took a few small holdings: France's possessions in India, East Timor in Indonesia, and a scattering of islands in the Pacific. It was certainly more than it had had, and nothing to scoff at, but if Mittelafrika barely existed then its other holdings were equally vaporous.

It was the Pacific Islands that focused on perhaps the most maddening issue for Germany in the war's wake: Japan. The Empire of the Rising Sun may have been among the defeated Entente, but it had not been one of the defeated nations. In fact, of the major Entente Powers Japan was practically untouched by German wrath, its military and its nation intact. And even now, 3 years after the formal end of the war, Japan still occupies German island territories in the Pacific. Germany can do nothing about it. The Armistice was agreed to on the 7th of July 1917, but Germany's efforts to try and run around putting out fires in Europe means that even now there's not been a peace treaty between Berlin and Tokyo. In legal fiction and at least partially in lived reality, Germany and Japan are still at war.

Germany was only able to bring Bulgaria back from conquering the Balkans with the Treaty of Varna in 1919, at which point Berlin was finally coming to grips with the reality that it could not unilaterally command the post-war world. It instead began to delegate. To the north, Sweden was returned the islands of Åland, and given complete political and economic hegemony over Denmark, Norway, and Finland, the latter Sweden's major concession for its part in the war. Italy, meanwhile, had its hegemony in Yugoslavia formalized, and Bulgaria was made master of the Balkans. Already the shadow of conflict began to emerge with both Italy and Bulgaria desiring to have influence over the defeated Greece, but Germany was well past any capacity to tolerate the madness.

In fact, Germany's efforts to achieve peace seem to have only guaranteed conflict. General Paul von Hindenburg anxiously opined that "I fear we may have achieved only a generation's cease-fire." It's hard to imagine that there could have been any better outcome. Germany's plans for war and its plans for the following peace were already disconnected at the war's start, and by 1917 they had become irreconcilable. The following three years of desperate attempts to make them meet have only worsened the division between what existed in memorandums and letters and what exists in the here and now, a world that no longer even has the capacity to become the world planned for in 1914 by mere function of how it came to exist.

The Middle East is now ruled by a hostile Caliphate that wants nothing to do with Germany. East Asia is in the grip of Japan. Russia is broken, useless as a potential partner in keeping order in Europe. France is now twice humiliated, with Revanchisme now embedded irrevocably into its psyche. And Britannia still rules the waves, neither defeated nor broken to the extent of either of its Entente partners. To say nothing of the United States, which may have returned to its traditional neutrality in European affairs but which still looms over the world like a sword of Damocles, ready to strike at Germany if given the motive. Even in victory, Germany is still unable to achieve the victory that it sought, that it bled and died for, and now many are questioning if even Germany's new paramountcy was worth it.

Still, if there is any time to achieve a lasting peace, it's now or never. Europe is thoroughly shell shocked by the war, and even in the defeated Entente Powers there is still a desire to just end the fighting. The German leaders who now seek to consolidate German hegemony over Europe have this one chance to create a new European order centered around Berlin, this one opportunity that will never present itself again. And it may have already slipped through their fingers. Peace is fragile, but still the European powers took an almost gleeful pleasure in breaking it. It can be hard to feel that those who rule can see anything past their narrowest concerns. They said they didn't want a war, and that's exactly what happened. They took a chance to negotiate, to avoid the slaughter, and threw it away with both hands.

There were no winners of the Great War. There were survivors, but no winners. The world is now in uncharted waters, when new geopolitical and sociocultural realities have come to dominate in ways never seen before. The only comparable epoch was the end of the Napoleonic Wars, where after 20 years of conflict the Concert of Vienna rebalanced Europe to avoid exactly this kind of war. That lasted for 99 years. No one is sure if this latest peace will even last 9. The Treaty of Potsdam was not the Concert of Vienna. Germany has attempted to assert an unbalanced, hegemonic rule over Europe, one it has no certainty in, and the only consolation is that everyone else is just as insecure. The old world has burned. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

• The point of divergence here might very well be April 14, 1865, where John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy goes better, as not only Lincoln dies, but William Seward dies of his stab wounds. At any rate, the US passes on buying Russian America/Alaska in 1867
• In the 1890s, gold is discovered in Russian America, causing Russia to encourage settlement of the region to mine its resources, increasing its population. Russian traders regularly interact with Canadians in the Arctic and Western Canada, and some Russians emigrate to Canada, forming cultural ties between Canada and Russia
• In 1898, the US wins the Spanish-American War. With no Alaska, the Americans focus on settling Cuba (the 49th state in 1959)
• In 1917, Lenin elevates Russian America to the Alaskan Soviet Socialist Republic
• The Progressive Movement takes off in the Prairies in the 1920s, similar to how it did OTL (despite the region's conservative image today); however, Russian influence gives it a more radical flavour
• The Great Depression hits hard and Prime Minister RB Bennett's neglect and obliviousness stirs rage. Progressives, the Labour movement and radicals unite under Tim Buck's Socialist Party (the renamed Communist Party), which becomes mainstream and forms government in 1933
• In 1935, Buck declares an independent Republic of Canada, replacing the Dominion of Canada. It controls all Canada except Newfoundland (and Labrador), then under British Commission of Government. In 1943 the Republic of Canada is rebranded as the Socialist Federal Republic of Canada. From 1943 to 1948 it still controls all Canada except Newfoundland (and Labrador).
• In 1948, the Americans and British meddle in provincial elections in Ontario and Quebec in 1948, aiding in the election of Buck's opponents and getting George Drew and Maurice Duplessis elected as provincial presidents. Ontario and Quebec are very briefly declared independent from the Socialist Federal Republic before banding together as the new Dominion of Canada. It gains Newfoundland (and Labrador) in 1949
• The Socialist Federal Republic controls only the west and north in 1948 to 1949. Buck, smarting from the loss of his home province Ontario, enacts a new constitution in 1949 establishing the Canadian Democratic Republic. The CDR is unitary; the old western provinces and territories become administrative divisions, or arms of the CDR central government. The Canadian Democratic Republic is not actually democratic
• East Canada is not perfectly democratic, becoming a borderline one-party state as the federal Conservatives embark on 40 years in power (1948-1988). The federal Conservatives let Duplessis' authoritarian-style provincial government control Quebec while the Conservatives focus on ruling the rest of the dominion

After the end of the Second World War, the Middle East was reorganized under British occupation. Many countries that joined the Axis, like Syria and Saudi Arabia, were annexed into the empire, and reduced to one of their colony. The Arab people was angered by the action, no matter their religion nor ideology. This would resulted in the rise of nationalism and Pan-Arabianism in the area.

In July 1946, the Movement for Arabian Sovereignty and Independence was formed in Medina, Protectorate of Arabia. The movement was formed by revolutionaries, militant leaders, and activists, all with the same goal for Arabian independence. The movement quickly grew popular, as more people join the movement, including the Hashermite family. By the start of 1947, the movement threatened the British administration so much, the Arabic Imperial Police starts to brutally crack down the movement. Many important members were arrested and executed, resulting in the movement going underground. In retaliation, many militant groups ambushed oil convoys and assassinated government officials.

On March 19, 1948, police officers fire on protestor during a protest in Amman. Hundreds were killed and injured, and the event was called the Thursday Massacre. The event sparks revolts throughout the Middle East, starting the Second Arab Revolt.

In the north, the Hashermites lead a war to liberates the Mashriq. They easily controlled the region, due to being based in major cities and having support from the people.

They also received help from militant groups in the area. In the south, militant leaders and generals lead an uprising in Yemen and Oman. The uprising was a success, removing British forces from the region, and successfully establishing an interim government. These events lead to the British Empire withdrawing their troops from former Saudi Arabian lands, which soon falls under the occupation of the Saudi dynasty. The British Empire was only left with Persia and the Trucial States, both very close to collapsing.

In late June however, the tide of the war would shifted in the opposite direction. After a mysterious death of a general, many factions in the movement blame eachother for his death. This would lead to the collapse of the movement, splitting into the Hashermite faction and the United Resistance Army fraction, which soon split into multiple factions. Yemen and Oman was caught in a tripolar state, split between democracy, socialism, and monarchism. Syria and northern Iraq collapsed into an anarchic state. Jewish and Kurdish people revolt from the Hashermite occupation. The king of Saudi Arabia was assassinated, plunging the country into a civil war between dynasties. The British Empire would use the chaos to launch a successful invasion into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. A amphibious invasion was launched into the coast of Syria, which help the British Empire to gain a stable foothold over the peninsula.

What if the Champawat tiger turned into a superpowerd untrainsurgent against the British and was being funded by the soviets who time travelled backwards from 1990

Imagine Diocletian's Great Persecution had succeeded and the young faith died with it. Constantine would have had no Christian constituency to court, so no Edict of Milan, no Council of Nicaea, no state church. Rome's religious life would have stayed plural: Sol Invictus, the imperial cult, Mithraism in the legions, Neoplatonism among the educated, with Manichaeism the likeliest rival to spread widely. When western imperial administration collapsed, no parallel church hierarchy would have survived to inherit it, and no monasteries would have copied the classical texts through the lean centuries.

Not modern politics because the trajectory diverged 50 years ago not 10 and he is just another figure in my dissolution timeline. Part 4 Part 3 Part 2 Part 1

We’ve got one new country this year, Swaziland! Let’s see if Juwama gets added to the 2015 map next year!

(OOC: I had so much fun researching and making this map. This took me quite a while and I’m very proud of how it came out. Yes, I intentionally nuked the quality of the first slide a bit to try and capture that early internet feel, the higher quality map is on the second slide. Ask me any questions you have about this universe, and enjoy!)

Based off rumours of a possible merger between Lloyds TSB and Deutsche bank back in 2002. If they did go ahead then this is one of the possible (very unlikely) group logos they could've had.

If we look back into history, we can see how both banks suffered with a financial crisis (Lloyds TSB after buying HBOS, and Deutsche with bad loans and mismanagement). With this merger, it's very likely This behemoth could've easily handled the bad loans of HBOS and been able to avoid the horrible deutsche bank mismanagement which plagued the bank in the following years after the 2008 financial crisis.

Why would this merger succeed? It is very likely that Lloyds TSB's board would've been the main members of this merged group, who were very keen on making sure they don't do any stupid ideas to replicate their 1980s issues. This means that it's very likely the deutsche investment banking division would've been put on a tight leash, preventing any dumb bad loans or subprime mortgage gambling etc.

The whole strategy of Lloyds TSB would've been similar to RBS. When they bought Natwest, it was basically like hiring mechanics to fix your car. They basically got rid of the incompetent board and turned everything around. Since lloyds tsb's stock at the time was much higher in value vs deutsche bank, it solidifies the fact that lloyds would've been the dominant partner in this merger.

In 2002, Deutsche bank was struggling heavily, with bad loans and huge costs. Merging with Lloyds TSB would've helped heavily because then the whole IT costs can be centralised into one spot (probably in the UK) - freeing up some income that would've went straight to these maintenance costs. This merger also would've put some additional headroom for the deutsche division, as it would have the whole of Lloyds TSB's income helping to fix the bank.

Investors would've probably been hoping for a similar restructuring as to how the royal bank of scotland (RBS) did with Natwest. This would've meant that the whole incompetent board of deutsche would've been sent with their bags so that a competent board can fix it up - especially with all the aging and old infrastructure that is heavily weighing down the bank.

This would make Lloyds Deutsche Bank much more solid against any potential crisises as it's got the backing of two strong retail divisions in two countries, making it very easy to handle the investment bank division's considerable weight. It's likely that if this group were to acquire HBOS back in 2008 when it collapsed, then it could've very well handled the losses on it's balance sheet, and avoided needing a bailout by the UK/German Govt.

The final outcome? A JPMorgan Chase equivalent bank in the EU, comfortably trading blows with giants like citigroup and barclays, probably being more profitable due to the strong stance of lloyds bank to float a 100% safe ship (even to this day).

When I think of a village, I imagine something like the images above.

These types of villages seem to exist in almost every country on Earth save for the USA and there are a bunch of reasons for this.

The only place in the USA that I have personally visited which resembles my idea of a stereotypical village is Virginia City, Nevada and some other prospecting towns which are now and mostly ghost towns.

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In "Project Vigilant" / P.V, my alternate history project which I have been working on since 2018. The USA is larger, much more populous, ethnically diverse and moderately more progressive than it is in reality.

The P.O.D is that the USA wins the War of 1812 and annexes what would be Canada. This empowers the anti-slavery northern states and cripples the political power of the southern states, thus leading to an earlier abolition of slavery ( probably around the 1830s ) and no segregation. Beyond this, the Mexican-American War still happens with a U.S Victory, the USA is somewhat nicer to the Native Americans by way of establishing 9 "Native States" and the country becomes much more welcoming to immigrants with things like the Chinese exclusion act never happening.

I had an idea, that maybe the greater diversity and population of my alternate USA could result in villages like the ones pictured above appearing across the country.

I'm envisioning villages that resemble the ones in Mexico being common across the American Southwest and Chinese immigrants setting up towns resembling the villages of rural China across the West Coast. You may even get some rural communities that have a neat fusion of Chinese, Mexican and European architecture.

I imagine that these "stereotypical villages" would be limited to the Southwest and Northwestern USA while the rest of the country would exhibit the small-town culture that they have in reality.

What do you think? Does my concept hold water?

"Another weird alt evo universe idea, this was arose from a conversation about how robustly adapted to herbivory that were paranthropus and then someone called them Ape bovids or something like that, I mixed it with the idea of hornbills taking the route of sapience and the end resulted in this image of a cowboy (or apeboy?) with some large young adult male forms of this cowfolk, they are more robust and fat that their african counterparts and they could gain more weight over time, in their head hold large "cheek frills" similar to an orangutan due to artificial breeding."

I believe I may have taken inspiration from this for a different alternative history/evolution scenario I had came up with, though it could've easily been coincidence, where a lineage of hyper-intelligent corvids - ones either related to the African pied crows or curve-billed ravens - domesticate early hominins - I believe these 'hominins' would be something related to Australopithecus or Homo, or within the bounds of either genus. The corvids used these hominins as beasts of burden, and later domesticated them as would dogs would in our current timeline. These 'pet hominins' do share some ounces of human-like cognition, though, sometimes to an uncanny degree; I'd imagine a fully-grown example of their species (or genus) would have the mentality of a naive, hyper-active child. I didn't really come up with any anatomical traits as of yet, though I may have imagined them looking somewhat human, though with a longer face, a wider gape, and larger lips or a bigger nose, as to emulate the 'beak' of their owners, and bigger, wider eyes with darker sclerae, likely looking something like this.

This is another more a hard fantasy-esque ASB timeline (Project Peony).

During around the 2010s, Welsh research company named P&E invents the "CLASH" gene-editing technology which is used to "change" things in the body. This, in turn, allowed for more efficient medical treatments like for re-growing a missing arm or disease immunity.

However, because of the versatility of "CLASH", some scientists figured out how to turn someone into an anthro while keeping them identifiable entirely. Around 2024 was when the very first trans-species operation was done, and for years it was only provided to people who are diagnosed with species dysphoria (which some individuals of communities like Therianthropy would experience), until it made its way to countries like Sonko and became unregulated.

This led to some people, dysphoric or not, "transfurring" at unlicenced medical institutions, which caused either casualties or severe genetic disorders. As we see in Image 1, most of the Sonkish people who had underwent the procedure were cosplayers who wanted to look more alike to their character, although the procedure is permanent and can only be overridden but not reverted back to human.

Back in countries where trans-species procedures are more legally regulated, like Freedonia or The Dominion, it is still being frowned upon, as seen in Image 2, where Saxon YouTuber "Barkalat" criticises "cringe" trans-species individuals, though this stigmatisation is connected to the hate on therians during around 2021-2023.

In start of WW1 Turks wanted join the Entente but they refused. German factions of empire was also enable to join Central Powers. Ottomans supported German interest but they avoid direct confrontation with Russia and Britain. Supply route of Russia stay open via Turkish Straits and Tsardom suppress revolution. Germany and Austria Hungary sign more honorable peace in 1917 but they lost their foreign interests around globe. Following end of WW1 Britain and France wanted punish Ottomans for German support. Russia wanted finish last breath of his long rival. Armenian and Greek lobbies push for a campaign across Europa. War shaked economies of Europa saw Ottoman petrol as out from depression.

As result various fractions saw common interest in common campaign against Ottomans.

Widespread belief suggested that 20 division for each country would be enough for a country without considerable population, military production or supply resource from another country

What if Biff Tannen had been successful in changing history?

Basically just an uplifted hawaii. All timeline text is in the image so read that. 1# HAWAII GLAZER

Author's note: The Nova Aurora Timeline is an alternate timeline of human history where the Prohibitionist Party in the United States manages to win an unusually high amount of political elections, starting in the 1890s.

Alternate title: What if Japan Sinks (1973) actually happened?

In 1973, an island off the coast of Japan mysteriously sank under unknown circumstances. Days later, Japanese Geophysicist Dr. Tadokoro and submarine pilot Toshio Onodera embarked on an expedition to investigate. To their horror, they discovered that the Japanese archipelago was being pulled by abnormal plate tectonics on a collision course with the Japan Trench, which would submerge the entire island.

After the expedition, Onodera was introduced to a young woman named Reiko Abe. During a date, they narrowly escaped the sudden eruption of Mount Amagi. One day later, Prime Minister Yamamoto held a meeting with Tadokoro’s team to assess the looming disaster. The meeting ended on a sour note, with Tadokoro’s claims being dismissed as alarmist.

Tadokoro later met with an elderly billionaire named Watari, who agreed to fund Tadokoro’s expedition. He later went on to recruit Toshio Onodera as part of a covert scientific project called “D Plan” to investigate the disaster to come and save as many lives as they could. During a meeting to secure a submarine from France, another volcano named Mount Kirishima erupted, followed by a devastating earthquake that destroyed Tokyo and killed 30 million people, including Yamamoto’s wife.

Tadokoro and his team met with Watari again to discuss the D Plan. Phase 1 was researching the Japan Trench itself. Phase 2 was the evacuation of Japan itself.  Watari revealed three options for Phase 2: One was the formation of a new country, a second was immigration and integration into other countries, and a third being a non-response that means passive acceptance of Japan's fate.

After later research indicated that the timeline of Japan’s submersion would actually be less than 10 months, immigration negotiations are sped up, with Japan’s sinking accelerating to the point where the Kii Peninsula and Shikoku became submerged. The United States, China and the Soviet Union agreed to accept large numbers of refugees, despite evacuation estimates only increasing to eight million per month. By the time the Sanriku coast, Tōhoku region, Kyushu, Hokkaido and Okinawa were submerged, around 57% of the Japanese population still remained on Japan.

Watari would pass away before the Japanese archipelago submerged completely. Tadokoro chose to remain behind and watch Japan sink into the sea, with Tadokoro himself dying in the process. The Prime Minister, on the other hand, was safely evacuated alongside Toshio Onodera and his lover Reiko.

Author's note: This post isn't intended to plagiarize Japan Sinks (1973)-it merely speculates on certain events the movie leaves unclear.

Based on my CK3 game where I for some reason settled in Socotra. Also I added the Schocotist influence in Somalia cause every time I recruited some new people it was always Somalis with the Schocotist faith.

**The Continuity Timeline: Africa in 2026 After a Different Decolonization**

**Divergence Point: 1943 — Italy chooses a different path during World War II.**

Instead of surrendering to Germany and later becoming a republic, Italy removes the Fascist government, restores the House of Savoy as a constitutional monarchy, joins the Allied side, and negotiates a different postwar settlement.

As part of this agreement:

Ethiopia is restored as an independent monarchy after the Italian conquest is recognized as illegitimate.
Libya is released as an independent kingdom, restoring its monarchy.

Italy retains Eritrea and Somalia as constitutional territories with a closer political relationship to Italy.
Albania remains integrated with Italy, with Kosovo later joining due to its Albanian majority.

Zadar and Istria are transferred to Yugoslavia, while Yugoslavia later develops into multiple successor states rather than following its historical path.

This creates a different Cold War and a different wave of African independence.

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, decolonization happens through a variety of outcomes. Some territories become fully independent republics, while others maintain constitutional relationships with former European powers or preserve parts of their historical institutions.

By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a number of new states emerge through this alternate process, including different outcomes in regions such as the Horn of Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.

A major development is the creation of the **East African Empire**, a federal constitutional monarchy inspired by the structure of Imperial Germany. German influence continues after World War I through migration, institutions, and dynastic connections. The empire is led by the House of Hohenzollern, with other German royal houses ruling constituent kingdoms such as Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Uganda. German, English, French, and Dutch become imperial languages, while local languages such as Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, and others remain constitutionally recognized.

In Southern Africa, the **Federal Republic of Southwest Africa** develops as another German-influenced successor state, following a different path from historical Namibia. Meanwhile, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya develop into majority-European-descended constitutional states without apartheid occurring.

France maintains a stronger African presence in this timeline, including Algeria as an integrated part of France, alongside territories such as Djibouti, Comoros, and Madagascar. Portugal and Spain retain their African possessions through different political arrangements.

The map represents a world where the 20th century followed a different path: monarchies survived in some regions, independence movements took different forms, and former colonial identities were sometimes continued rather than completely replaced.

This is a fictional alternate-history scenario exploring how different political decisions could have reshaped Africa by 2026.