P. J. Kennedy succumbs to cholera.
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Replying to @chrylis @eigenrobot
Oh fuck. . .assassination of JFK. . . I.e. no LBJ, no Great Society. . .
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Replying to @ReginaldPGrant @eigenrobot
I was thinking *more* about 1965, but the whole Kennedy timeline.
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Replying to @chrylis @eigenrobot
Or, going a complete other direction- What if Peter the Great had oriented Russia eastward (towards Asia) instead of westward (towards Europe)?
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Replying to @ReginaldPGrant @eigenrobot
Nothing worthwhile unless he conquers China and isn't subsumed.
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Replying to @chrylis @eigenrobot
I like to imagine him (or his successors) conquering Canada.
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Replying to @chrylis @eigenrobot
No, in the last 18th or early 19th centuries-- essentially, since they (in this paradigm) stay out of the Napoleonic Wars, they just continue territorial expansion Eastwar across Alaska and Canada and into the Western US, taking the American's place in some Indian wars.
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Replying to @chrylis @eigenrobot
Hmmm, I'm not sure on that really other than that was how the idea came to me. South, orienting Russia towards Turkey, and across the ME into Africa?
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They remembered what happened in 1857
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