Recent content by Remitonov

Yea, holding Kashmir means jack shit on Pakistan's prospects of holding Bangladesh. The only way this could happen is if the Bengalis become the dominant sociopolitical ethnic group in Pakistan, in which case, it becomes a question of how (West) Pakistan secedes from alt-Bangladesh. No way a...

That's why I said this earlier: If this were a written TL, they'd be an original character. Not sure how else to explain this better. Otherwise, I do agree with you. All the info we have on the VNQDD pretty much points to them being hopeless in challenging the Vietminh.

Help the VNQDD, maybe not with a direct invasion, but probably material support. I'm very sure the KMT would prefer not to have the French next door, almost as much as they would the communists.

Uncle Ho broke them like a twig in the immediate post-war period IOTL, all while trying to appease the KMT troops until they left. Without a CCP victory, however, the Viet Minh would have to do a lot more to placate Chiang and avoid a KMT intervention, and it may not be enough. That said, the...

I think it depends on whether the Chagatai convert to Islam. It isn't Buddhism that Hinduism would have to worry about, since it would be unlikely to regain any real prominence despite the Mongol conquest. Rather, it's the Chagatai defeat of the Muslim empires in India that is helping Hinduism...

Wang Jingwei was with the KMT from the beginning, and is a rival to Chiang due to his leftist leaning. He might be able to lead it. Of course, he also became a Japanese puppet leader IOTL, so the danger of him falling under their sway ITTL is there.

Both, probably. With the KMT remaining in control of China, and Sino-Soviet relations presumably fraught due to Soviet support of the CCP, the Viet Minh will probably be pretty hamstrung to finish off what remains of the VNQDD. Ho Chi Minh would probably have little choice but to mollify Chiang...

Probably depends on how much the Ilkhanate is willing to allow. They're just coming out of the defeat at Ain Jalut, and is looking at an incoming clash with the Islamized Golden Horde. Letting the Niceans strengthen their position and remove potentially rebellious Turks might be a useful short...

I mean, if you want the most inbred families in human history, you can try looking up the Ptolemies and Hapsburgs. They're rather hard to beat in that department.

Bad news for the Seljuks, no doubt.

I feel like the inverse would be possible, with Chinese migrants in Iran writing in Xiao'erjing (Perso-Arabic script for Mandarin) regardless of their religion. In any case, it's still a huge stretch for any Iranian dynasty to be fully Sinicised. The most likely, if still fairly distant...

Well, it depends on if the Baltic Fleet munity, either joining or forming the rogue government. If Yeltsin loses control the Baltic Fleet, his chances of putting down the renegades would plummet drastically. Also, it depends on how charitable the Baltic states and Poland would be in allowing...

I'd put better odds on the Soviet government surviving as a rogue state in Kaliningrad Oblast than a Central Asian rump USSR. The Soviet Union is dead the moment its core member and federal capital secedes. If the remaining Central Asian states band together, it won't be a continuation of the...

Chiang (or whoever replaces him) would have to think very long term on this one, and accept that defeating the Communists would take loads of time. First order of business, as other said, would be to root out the Communist spy networks and consolidate its control over the south, though winning...