A bit like Ashin Wirathu's wet dream.What was the Ultranationalist regime in Arakan like?
How world populaiton is that high? Yes, there is probably lesser genocides and wars but it is still stangerly high.
No single child policy and no Mao in China, Russia being spared communism (and Stalinism), Germany and Central Europe being spared the Shoah, natalist policies being conducted worldwide, Armenia not having to deal with a genocide, better health and development, mostly in Africa... So even with its shares of genocides and wars, it's much more populated than OTL. Still, climate change is growing rapidly and China is on the verge of ecological collapse.Holy crap! How is the world like with 8.7 billion people?
Germany, Russia, the United States and China had their large share, it shall be revealed from time to time. As of air disasters, I can think of some, but it's more on the scale of the Smolensk Polish government crash.So, aside from the Vladivostok nuclear attack, any prominent acts of terrorism in the "developed world" ITTL? And on that note, any prominent air disasters in this world like Tenerife, TWA 800, or MH370 IOTL?
I think it's mostly China. They have more people than all of South Asia, here.
Is this right? Seems like Australia is the largest Oceanian country and they have only around 69 million. Are you counting some Southeast Asian countries as part of Oceania?
Indonesia has 120 million.
OTL Indonesia (a larger country) has 273 million, so I think the number checks out since we can assume the rest of what is Indonesia OTL probably has at least another 100 mil
Okay. At least in my country Oceania only refers to Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. I have never heard of anybody calling Indonesians Oceanians.
*googles* Huh. TIL. I stand corrected. Seems a really weird choice by whoever decides these things, but probably some tectonic plates nonsense.
I see it as more of a cultural thing, a division between societies that had regular contact with the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere versus societies that were pretty isolated until a few centuries ago.
I thought that would be a detail no one would notice, not sparking such a debate ! ITTL, as Australia has included some parts of Eastern Indonesia (up to Timor), Oceania includes the Indonesian archipelago. Hence the large population, reflecting Australia's larger geopolitical power ITTL.That's even sillier, but okay.
Who assassinated him?As of Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Takemura, his victory over Hokkaido would prove fruitless as he was assassinated three months later.
A disgruntled nostalgic of the ultramilitarist regime.Who assassinated him?
The early 20th Century saw its share of claims towards Antarctica, but now, control of the continent is devolved to a commitee overseen by the World Council, that has scientific exploration and resource exploitation (yes, it is a thing here) among its prerogatives.Another nice update! This timeline has a lot of moving parts, but it manages to fit very smoothly together. Every update feels worth it.
A few questions that I have…
What is the Antarctica policy of major countries, and what nations if any lay territorial claims to the frozen continent?
Will World Fairs be covered or do you not intend to?
How bad was SARS in 2002?
Is Sokoto dangerous to other countries (funding terrorism) or do they keep to themselves?
Thank you for your remarks, I had thought that they would be unwise given that I am not an American... So, yes, some Justices have still enough merit to get on the highest court and Alger Hiss has never been a subject, as communism is not a thing, he passed as a bona fide liberal.Holy shit! That Supreme Court list! I'll comment on the most interesting judges only but this must have taken some time to assemble! Hiram Johnson is an interesting one, you can definitely understand why Roosevelt would want to put him into power. Roosevelt's choices on the whole are quite interesting, particularly Mr Hand and Merrill Hough given that he was the judge who refused to grant Roosevelt the right to sue a critical paper. Stone, Hughes, Jackson, Frankfurter, Stewart and Burger always seem to end up in the Supreme Court no matter what butterflies, or so it seems, not that this is a complaint necessarily! Kenyon finally gets a look in too!. Sadly, Lowden and Smith's picks are a little depressing to read about, though Smith at least manages to put Stiles Cummings! La Guardia balances that out with his picks, though Acheson is an interesting one and no mistake.
Taft's picks actually seem to make a lot of sense, particularly with Tuttle. Driscoll also does well though he loses points for Burger! Reading about Alger Hiss managing to stay relevant is interesting, though given the state of Russia that is hardly surprising, I suppose. Scranton's picks are interesting enough though I don't have much to say about them, and I did cheer at McGovern's picks. Ashbrook and Robertson's choices are definitely of a more conservative bent, as to be expected. I do have to wonder what caused Richardson to die two years ahead of schedule though. The rest are pretty standard with the exception of the latest judge and, in what I'm sure is quite a nomination in this timeline, the first gay justice!
This is terrific work, a lot here starts fitting together!
Is he still a radical Eurasianist ITTL or is his ideological insanity different ITTL? Also, the co-author of his manifesto leading the coup is a nice touch,intellectual Alexandr Dugin.
I hope that she will be alright and for the coup fail so she remains in power.Alexandra, a Tsarina under siege
By Marleen Brown
The circumstances of the recent military coup attempt in Russia are getting better known, and the evidences of a planned assassination of the Tsarina are compelling. It only stresses the paradox of Alexandra, one of the most powerful monarchs in Europe, yet targeted by the far right.
In the night from 21 to 22 February 2022, as rogue military units were attempting to seize the government buildings in Moscow and Petrograd, along with military bases and communication networks across Russia, a small putschist commando entered the parks of Tsarskoye Selo, in the outskirts of Petrograd, where Tsarina Alexandra had decided to recover from Wuchang Pneumonia. A first wave of special forces broke into the Alexander Palace, as other soldiers waited outside in case of emergency.
Their mission ? The assassination of the Tsarina, in order to bring on the accession of her uncle and the putschists’ favourite, Grand Duke Andrei Alexandrovich.
The Empress was sleeping in her bedroom when she woke up, hearing gunfire in the palace hall : her Imperial Guard, put in high alert due to rumours of an ongoing coup, was fighting the 12 commandos who had entered the palace premises. As she approached the heavy noise in her nightgown, she was quickly seized by her bodyguards and taken to an underground bunker ; the Imperial Guard, in spite of heavy losses, managed to shoot the attackers down.
One of the guards most certainly saved the Tsarina’s life when he heard one of the commando’s radios sizzle, as the other assassins, standing by the gardens, asked if they needed backup. The guard quickly seized the radio and shouted “Retreat, mission accomplished, the dyke is dead !” The commando then withdrew, believing that the coup had been a success.
This anecdote was revealed last week on news netzsite Gazeta.rus, among stories that began to be revealed in the aftermath of General (ret.) Leonid Ivashov’s coup attempt, that took three days to be defeated, from 21 to 24 February. The news of an assassination attempt on the Tsarina herself is already chilling, given its symbolism, and only taking precedent in the assassination of Tsar Paul during the Napoleonic Wars, yet it only emphasizes the conflicted sentiment towards Alexandra.
Reviled by the far right
On one hand, you have the Sovereign of All the Russias, an almost sacred position reflected in the Constitution, that makes the Empress one of the most powerful constitutional monarchs, holding power to appoint the government, dissolve Parliament, command the armies and nuclear weaponry and veto laws. Alexandra was able to showcase her skills during the crisis, appearing the day following the assassination attempt in full military dress, taking precedence after Prime Minister Vladimir Milov had been taken hostage, and calling all loyalists “to stand against false patriots” and “fight to get Russia back”. The counter-coup, led by provincial military units, was ultimately successful, and Tsarina Alexandra instructed the government to postpone the elections, scheduled initially for March, 20, to initiate negociations with moderate Ukrainian, Kazakh and Ruthenian nationalists and to launch a wide wave of arrests against pyrist-minded military officers and officials, such as Okhrana Director Vladimir Putin or intellectual Alexandr Dugin.
On the other hand, you also have old Russian machismo : even if the country rose to greatness thanks to female monarchs, such as Catherine the Great or Olga, many see a young woman, barely 28, as a liability for Russia that has still not recovered from the Vladivostok Incident, the very same that propelled Alexandra’s father to the throne, its empire humiliated by Iran, Japan and Germany and regularly shaken by terrorist attacks, independantist activity and riots for stronger democracy. The monarch’s youth is not an issue in strong constitutional monarchies such as Germany, nationalists would have preferred the Tsarina’s uncle, Grand Duke Andrei, an old-style aristocrat and first in the succession line, or former Prime Minister (and coupster), Grand Duke Mikhail, to have ascended.
From autocrat to GRSM icon
What became an issue was the disclosure of Alexandra’s homosexuality on 23 January 2021 by an anonymous Netzdiarist (rumoured to be artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky), after her engagement to her cousin, Grand Duke Valentin Konstantinovich, had been unexpectedly cancelled after a very concise press communiqué. Even if the Imperial Household vehemently disputed the claims, the general public, weary of Wuchang Pneumonia, went wild over the private issue, with interviews of past lovers of the Sovereign of All the Russias being traded by tabloids at premium prices. The outed autocrat became overnight a GRSM cause célèbre but for the Russian ultranationalists, who view homosexuality as a Western degeneracy discordant with Slavic values, it was an outright evidence that something was rotten in the state of Russia.
What does the Tsarina think of all that ? Even if she knew how to deal with the challenge of a military coup, with plotters inside her own close circle, she is reportedly shy and secretive. It is said that she thought many times to abdicate since she began her reign in 2008, the closest having been after her outing. What’s not to blame her ? She became heir apparent when she was a few months old, with her cousins being wiped out in the nuclear fire of Vladivostok and the country in shambles. The sheer pressure of the throne threw her unprepared father to an early grave ; the Dowager Empress, worried herself, waited until the Tsarina’s 25th birthday to declare her of age. Many think she would have preferred to live a hidden life : even if insiders noticed a young woman by her side during the coup, the identity of her current companion is still the subject of rumors.
It is too early to make an assessment on Alexandra’s reign. Should she not have the same strength of Olga, also a young woman first ridiculed by her seniors before restoring Russia to greatness, she at least feels the duty to do so, as her behavior during the crisis showed. Yet, as she is close to the tenth anniversary of her accession, the overview remains dire : every year, Russia has her share of terrorist attacks, riots, dissent and inflation. After the coup attempt, it is the second time in less than six years that a general election is delayed and political repression remains high : that is certainly not the image of a modern monarch. But to the nationalists, Alexandra sent the message that she didn’t recognize herself in ultranationalism and that Russian generals wouldn’t have the luck of a Villiers in France. “Let them hate as long as they fear”.
Eurasianism has had its success in Russia during the 20th Century, although it was more under the influence of Lev Gyumilov, with Russian-Chinese cooperation in full motion and expansion into Central Asia. The failures in Iran and the rise of China as a large economic rival put an end to these developments. Dugin is more of a modern Black Hundredist, a chauvinistic, ultranationalist and monarchist Slavophile.Is he still a radical Eurasianist ITTL or is his ideological insanity different ITTL? Also, the co-author of his manifesto leading the coup is a nice touch,
The coup was defeated on February 24 2022, as it is said in the article.I hope that she will be alright and for the coup fail so she remains in power.
So, they will be covered from time to time, but here what can I say :With the recent update having Putin be the head of the Okhrana who got arrested after the failed coup, what became of the following ITTL (assuming they aren't butterflied away):
Volodymyr Zelensky
Alexei Navalny
Yulia Tymoshenko
Petro Poroshenko
Sergey Shoigu
Mikhail Mishutin
Sergei Lavrov
Valery Gerasimov
Dmitry Medvedev
Alexander Lukashenko
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Grigory Yavlinsky
Boris Nemtsov
Emilia Slabunova
So, Zelensky plays TTL's Frank Underwood? Who plays TTL's Claire Underwood equivalent, then?even if his career took a darker turn thanks to his role as a scheming and ruthless politician in the TV show Kartenhaus.