What If Everything Went PERFECT For The United States

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  • @shaunrosenberg4568
    @shaunrosenberg4568 Год назад +5664

    I feel like it's hard to make a "what if everything went perfect for America" story without just repeating the current timeline.

    • @SteveInLava
      @SteveInLava Год назад +574

      Well, there were some mishaps that were addressed here in the video that were modified to favor America.

    • @toddhoward1892
      @toddhoward1892 11 месяцев назад +309

      That's why the map didn't change too much.

    • @bananasplit4391
      @bananasplit4391 11 месяцев назад +273

      @@toddhoward1892 its also pretty hard to quantify and visualize soft power on a map

    • @peaceleader7315
      @peaceleader7315 11 месяцев назад +47

      The US dollars 💸 have been the Murica since France 🇫🇷 unsuccessfully send their warship to collect their sovereign gold unsuccessfully from Murica.. 😂..

    • @mrdollyman5675
      @mrdollyman5675 11 месяцев назад +98

      well we did stalemate the war of 1812 and also ended reconstruction far earlier than we should have

  • @akimgranada7239
    @akimgranada7239 Год назад +3701

    It would be cool to see this with a weaker/smaller country
    if everything went perfect Bulgaria taking the First Balkan War as the starting point, how strong could this small nation realisticially become? And stuff like that

    • @polishgamer3503
      @polishgamer3503 Год назад +73

      Amazing idea!

    • @cgyoboi
      @cgyoboi Год назад +130

      Takes Prussia of the Balkans to a whole new level

    • @possiblehistory
      @possiblehistory  Год назад +878

      Sounds perfect! I'll schedule Bulgaria next, always had a soft spot for the Balkan underdog.

    • @staskesenpai5577
      @staskesenpai5577 Год назад +43

      LETGOOOOOOO 💪🇧🇬
      Bulgaria #1
      im bulgarian

    • @cdcdrr
      @cdcdrr Год назад +20

      One major change might be that they take Macedonia before Serbia does, and therefore see no reason to join the Central Powers to get back at Serbia, allowing them to feel out the way the conflict goes, before finally choosing the Entente in order to snatch up Constantinople and Thrace before Greece can, and they keep Dobruja as they fought on the same side as Romania. During the interwar years, while everyone is malding over Bulgaria having lands their neighbours want, they have little reason to gamble it all away by provoking conflict. Though they might become the victims of their own success when Funny Moustache Man has to bail out Bald Ego Man as he chokes on a Greek campaign after he bit off more than he can chew, as Bulgaria stands nothing to gain from bullying Greece or Yugoslavia for land. And Funny Moustache Man decides they're behaving like a roadblock.

  • @sufi5416
    @sufi5416 5 месяцев назад +288

    "In 1914 the best case for the United States actually came true. Europe had decided to set itself on fire." lol 🤣😂

  • @Red_Moon13
    @Red_Moon13 4 месяца назад +196

    The funny thing about this is that it changes very little overall. The only modern day differences are that the U.S. has more territory in North America, China doesn't go communist, and North Korea collapses. Shows how the U.S. in our timeline still essentially had everything go right for it.

    • @uhohhotdog
      @uhohhotdog 2 месяца назад

      If things went perfect for the US it would have gone communist

    • @Nerdvanna98
      @Nerdvanna98 2 месяца назад +2

      And yet they've still managed to screw it all up now.

    • @ggunter2730
      @ggunter2730 Месяц назад +29

      @@Nerdvanna98nope, believe it or not it’s still the most successful “empire”. Politically tho I’m sure both sides are probably going to say America is doomed

    • @KoopstaKlicca
      @KoopstaKlicca Месяц назад +7

      But china not going communist is a huge deal, considering that's probably America's great military rival currently

    • @infamous_richard8732
      @infamous_richard8732 Месяц назад

      @@KoopstaKlicca Economic rival* China's military power isnt catching up anytime soon.

  • @hs5312
    @hs5312 Год назад +645

    The US did attempt to purchase Cuba in the 1850s this seems like a change that could be easily achieved

    • @eidoneverchoosen1171
      @eidoneverchoosen1171 Год назад +112

      Or the USA could have annex Cuba in the Spanish American war. No communist so then no missle crisis.

    • @hs5312
      @hs5312 Год назад +38

      @@eidoneverchoosen1171 i think that was assumed in this scenario

    • @osheridan
      @osheridan Год назад +28

      Looking back at countries just being purchased is very strange lol

    • @hs5312
      @hs5312 Год назад +69

      @@osheridan Cuba was not a country in the 1850s back then the US made offers to purchase Cuba from Spain

    • @osheridan
      @osheridan Год назад +18

      @@hs5312 you're right, I mean looking back in context

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... Год назад +3281

    Isn't the story of the US already one where they did things right and/or were lucky?

    • @Mahhistory
      @Mahhistory Год назад +784

      yes this is just more luck

    • @GwainSagaFanChannel
      @GwainSagaFanChannel Год назад +567

      Basically they had no competition in their own region allowing then to exert influence outside of the Americas

    • @craig7405
      @craig7405 Год назад +359

      the only thing that could've gone better for them and had a significant impact on history after it would be the war of 1812.

    • @vreonix2592
      @vreonix2592 Год назад +85

      Luck is the strongest force in life.

    • @deiansalazar140
      @deiansalazar140 Год назад +67

      Yes but this is going FURTHER BEYOND

  • @elianes5505
    @elianes5505 Год назад +819

    I'd like to see one with Spain starting from the 1700s to the 1900s. Poor guy couldn't get a break at the end.

    • @Vlain-hc5sb
      @Vlain-hc5sb Год назад +37

      It could be a based timeline

    • @YaBoiBaxter2024
      @YaBoiBaxter2024 Год назад +10

      Greater Spanish Empire!

    • @Mf_Slimeee
      @Mf_Slimeee Год назад +8

      Naw from the 1400’s

    • @elianes5505
      @elianes5505 Год назад +25

      @@Mf_Slimeee That'd be amazing. But I believe it'd be too much time to cover.

    • @NewYorkBall559
      @NewYorkBall559 4 месяца назад +2

      honestly it would be cool to see if Spain could continue staying a super power, and sure while they were struggling, I think one way to change this is basically make spain unaffected by the napoleonic wars, because that’s why Spain lost a lot of it’s colonies and began becoming weaker and weaker, but if Spain avoided that then they could’ve been in a better situation

  • @Kromiball
    @Kromiball Год назад +499

    3:40 If I'm not mistaken the Northern Mexican states were underpopulated at this time so I reckon the USA could've possibly got Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nueva Leon and Tamaulipas too.

    • @donaldtrumplover2254
      @donaldtrumplover2254 Год назад

      There was one problem with that, slave states.

    • @fernandojosegonzalezolguin3481
      @fernandojosegonzalezolguin3481 Год назад +26

      Ew but you’re right

    • @eidoneverchoosen1171
      @eidoneverchoosen1171 11 месяцев назад +55

      Those states would had been economically developed at the least.

    • @Walker-ow7vj
      @Walker-ow7vj 11 месяцев назад +31

      @@eidoneverchoosen1171and no heavy cartel control

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 11 месяцев назад

      Polk and others wanted all of Mexico, the counter argument was racism.
      Racism saved Mexico.

  • @Maurcusj777
    @Maurcusj777 10 месяцев назад +89

    It's crazy just how close this timeline is to ours.
    1 loss turned to a win (and some ofthe natural consequences of it)
    And 1 civil war breaking in a different direction, seems to be all seriously separates them from us.

  • @BeaglzRok1
    @BeaglzRok1 11 месяцев назад +106

    The crazy thing is that 1812 is probably the only real improvement to the USA's standing, since taking Canada would lead to taking more of Mexico. Everything past that is either relatively minor gains or delving into the realm of semi-historical fanfiction. As fun as it is to imagine the entirety of Latin America and Europe steadily offering themselves to become states following the Spanish American War and WWII, or Liberia actually being a foothold in the scramble for Africa, or a complete annexation of Japan and later Korea and Vietnam as an overcharged hegemony, disbelief needs to be suspended and that doesn't usually include Australia hopping on the bandwagon of former British colonies joining an alternate history USA.

    • @restitutororbis964
      @restitutororbis964 6 месяцев назад +8

      I actually disagree. Northern Democrats and Republicans absolutely hated the idea of annexing half of Mexico because it’d give more power to the southern states. With Canada under the union, I feel the Mexican American war would have obviously still resulted in an American victory, but the US wouldn’t have taken as much land due to cultural reasons and the political climate in the US.

    • @mrsillytacos
      @mrsillytacos 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@restitutororbis964Republican party didnt even exist then lol

    • @fawkewe
      @fawkewe Месяц назад +2

      Even an Imperialist USA wouldn’t annex Japan, Korea, Or Vietnam. It was never in there interest to do so. These places have WAY more native populations than the Philippines, infact, Japan only had around 50 million less people than America proper at the time. Not to mention all 3 (well atleast Japan and Korea) were industrialized. Everything else is atleast plausible, even if unlikely.

  • @idontdeservesubs2637
    @idontdeservesubs2637 Год назад +359

    This series has so much potential

    • @YaBoiBaxter2024
      @YaBoiBaxter2024 Год назад +8

      Agreed and yes, you do deserve subs.

    • @spaceracer6861
      @spaceracer6861 Год назад +2

      @@YaBoiBaxter2024 OMG PHILOSORAPTOR I LOVED YOUR MEEMS FROM 2010 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @blueguy5714
      @blueguy5714 Год назад +2

      ​@@spaceracer6861me too bro

    • @Chadius_Thundercock
      @Chadius_Thundercock 9 месяцев назад +3

      Gran Columbia and Austria seem like the two that would led to world domination

    • @YaBoiBaxter2024
      @YaBoiBaxter2024 9 месяцев назад

      @@spaceracer6861 Thanks, I kinda got bit by a spider and now I can launch webs 🕸 😀

  • @DGAMINGDE
    @DGAMINGDE Год назад +744

    I think its always interesting to think about how nations would perform if they integrate more territory than in reallife. Just to look at election maps and results.
    Also 95% of all people, no matter their ideology would probably love TR winning in 1912.

    • @familiescharf4207
      @familiescharf4207 Год назад +6

      Du auch hier?!

    • @familiescharf4207
      @familiescharf4207 Год назад +3

      By The way, wie machst du das eigentlich in deinem Video, wo du Parteien &. Länder getauscht hast? Ich habe das jetzt zwei Tage lang versucht und weiß nicht wie das geht.

    • @herrforesight-Satanisking
      @herrforesight-Satanisking Год назад +1

      @@familiescharf4207 ich bin über alles

    • @orangfriut1994
      @orangfriut1994 Год назад +53

      What are the Germans planning in here

    • @DGAMINGDE
      @DGAMINGDE Год назад +5

      @@orangfriut1994 They a just a viewer of mine asking questions here for some resason lol

  • @FieldMarshallWeeb
    @FieldMarshallWeeb Год назад +541

    This is a great series, can't wait for UK, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Spain, and the like.

    • @not_even_known_yet3167
      @not_even_known_yet3167 Год назад +44

      Austria-Hungary was already everything going wrong, really the Scenario where everything goes right would be Austria centralises the HRE, the Spanish keep there Empire together, the Habsburg Houses reunite, the French be given a Habsburg Monarch, the Western Roman Empire reborn, expanding into the east, World Conquest.... or along those lines.

    • @Euthenon
      @Euthenon Год назад +6

      Colombia with Gran Colombia would go crazy

    • @olatsby2497
      @olatsby2497 Год назад +9

      Spain with their viceroyalties already would be awesome

    • @kartang
      @kartang Год назад +3

      ​@Not_even_known_yet yeah, facts man, a world where everything goes right for Austria-Hungary is crazy

    • @TheAustrianAnimations87
      @TheAustrianAnimations87 Год назад +3

      @@not_even_known_yet3167 I would've also said Austria under Charles V would be a much better scenario. A world where everything went right for Austria-Hungary would be basically a partitioned Serbia, full Austro-Hungarian influence in the Balkans, and Italy being defeated (A-H had plans to attack Italy). However, A-H was an already declining country.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +134

    What if Napoleon III won the Franco-Prussian war and the Second French Empire survived into the 21st Century?

    • @NelsonDiscovery
      @NelsonDiscovery Год назад +15

      Now that's an interesting story.

    • @YaBoiBaxter2024
      @YaBoiBaxter2024 Год назад +7

      No German empire and Napoleon's legacy carries on.

    • @blizzard1198
      @blizzard1198 Год назад +10

      He'd be seen as a higher being or god and people would mostly listen to him with no question.

    • @BinInABin
      @BinInABin 11 месяцев назад +9

      that war was pretty much doomed from the start tho, napoleon had basically no proper army since they all died in russia and he was forced to spread his already poor army very thin, he had no chance. a better what-if would be what if he hadn't invaded russia at all
      Edit: nvm wrong napoleon and wrong war thought you were talking about 1813

    • @aircoolguy5218
      @aircoolguy5218 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@BinInABinwrong Napoleon

  • @salutic.7544
    @salutic.7544 Год назад +100

    Not too different from our own timeline, even though the changes you made at the beginning could’ve butterflied into radically different timelines.

  • @merp9610
    @merp9610 Год назад +105

    Dang, great work as always! In only a month or so, you have managed to become one of my favorite Alternate History channels! I think one of my favorite things about you is your separation of internal and external politics. It helps keeps biases under control, and lets the scenarios become even more possible. All in all, phenomenal work!

    • @dallas9397
      @dallas9397 Год назад +8

      God bless the Enclave

    • @UndertaleGoon
      @UndertaleGoon 11 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@dallas9397 and God bless the United States of America!

    • @Capdukeymomoman
      @Capdukeymomoman Месяц назад

      I dont mean to be that one guy, but you're Enclave Symbol is wrong. You have 12 stars instead of the 13 from the Pre-war Star Spangled Banner

  • @Writer_Productions_Map
    @Writer_Productions_Map Год назад +15

    =United States of North America=
    Capital: Washington, Columbia
    Largest City: New York City, New York
    Official Languages: English, French, Spanish
    Demonym: North American
    Government: Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic with Liberal Representative Democracy
    Area: 316,910,071 m²
    Population: 527,361,667
    Density: 1.7 people/m² (jeez)
    Changes:
    1. Changed name from USA to USNA
    2. Inhabitated territories + D.C. are now states
    3. Added Official languages
    4. Added the Philippines

    • @thelorddarthvader7264
      @thelorddarthvader7264 2 месяца назад

      DC was purposefully not made a state due to it being the capital, they didn't want one state to have the capital
      Also some of our (USA) territory has a population of 0

  • @bitcoinzoomer9994
    @bitcoinzoomer9994 Год назад +49

    Do best case scenario for Paraguay next! I really want to see how far Paraguay could've gone if they won the war of the tripple alliance!

    • @mike7671
      @mike7671 Год назад +14

      Best case for Paraguay is to attack Argentina only and unify La Plata. Considering how many years Paraguay managed to face off against the Alliance, it's not unreasonable to imagine a scenario where Solano Lopez marches on Buenos Aires and declares himself President of La Plata with the help of Argentinian Federales, assuming Brazil stands neutral.

    • @taza257
      @taza257 Год назад +7

      he already made a video about Paraguay: What if paraguay became the Prussia of South America?

  • @shamsishraq6831
    @shamsishraq6831 Год назад +20

    What if when the US realized that Britain and France were increasingly unable to pay their loans after WW1, US decided to simply cancel the loans? In return for a lot of real estate, obviously. Maybe France having to give up Indochina, W Africa etc. while Britain giving up S Africa, Rhodesia, Gibraltar, etc.

  • @S3rp3nte
    @S3rp3nte Год назад +116

    Do it with Italy (or the Roman Empire).

    • @ryannathaniel9296
      @ryannathaniel9296 Год назад +6

      Do the Roman Empire one but only after the empire was split by Theodosius the Great.
      That scenario might much more interesting since the Romans would have to face much more challenges than say having the scenario start from Augustus

    • @DeanmC261993
      @DeanmC261993 Год назад +9

      No, do it for mussolinis italy, and then africa will become a big brazilian style melting pot :v , I wanna see jolof rizotto rice darn it!

    • @ghostramen7002
      @ghostramen7002 Год назад +3

      ​@@DeanmC261993 bro, he makes alternate history videos, not completely impossible history videos.

    • @Kaiser_von_Europa
      @Kaiser_von_Europa Год назад +2

      Do whichever one you think best, P.H.

    • @Cornbread658
      @Cornbread658 Год назад +3

      i think he should do it with napoleonic france

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +86

    Yes! I love this new series of yours. For the next one do what if everything went perfectly for Austria following Franz Joseph's ascension in 1848😊😊😊

  • @chriscooper654
    @chriscooper654 Год назад +10

    Interesting. Good point about "soft power" having a significant impact geopolitically.

  • @hatchmaster_5745
    @hatchmaster_5745 10 месяцев назад +8

    It's kinda like "what if everything went perfectly for the roman city state" it's basically what happened, but maybe slightly better

  • @generaluser5378
    @generaluser5378 Год назад +27

    In other words, basically every game of Victoria II I've ever played.

  • @thatretrofellow5001
    @thatretrofellow5001 Год назад +84

    I love this series! I think an interesting country to do this with would actually be Greece. I think having a Greece which completely wins the Greco-Turkish war establishing Megali Greece could have some really interesting impacts, especially during World War 2.

    • @alejandromaldonado6159
      @alejandromaldonado6159 Год назад +3

      Greece becomes a great power with the annexation of Anatolia and established relationships with Armenians and Assyrians and possibly wage war against Arabs Muslims to support the Eastern Christians

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 Год назад

      If greece would achieve megali, germany would probably invade what's left of turkey as a way to strike at the middle east and caucasus.

    • @oyungogdfrust4136
      @oyungogdfrust4136 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@alejandromaldonado6159 even for a “everything goes perfect” video thats MEGA delusion

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@oyungogdfrust4136 Yeah I can see them annexing the western Anatolian coast and later Cyprus, plus having all of their neighbors significantly weakened in some way, making them a regional power, but I just cannot see them becoming a Great Power, at least in the 20th and probably 21st century.

    • @user-yw1nl6sk7y
      @user-yw1nl6sk7y 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@KaiHung-wv3ulThere's actually three points of history you could use:
      1) mega Alexander doesn't die
      2) The Byzantine empire doesn't get involved in the Eichonomachy .
      3) The modern one where Benizelos doesn't lose in the elections
      And the thing is that it's possible to imagine that since most of the time it was bad luck that lead to the downfall (Alexander dying and Benizelos losing) as opposed to actual bad descicions (Eichonomachy)

  • @loyc12
    @loyc12 Год назад +105

    I wonder what a “What if everything went TERRIBLE” video on the US would look like

    • @gregoryturk1275
      @gregoryturk1275 Год назад

      The Usa doesn’t win the independence war and Poseidon skins the entire American continent into the sea almost certainly causing America to never rise to power.

    • @DOSFS
      @DOSFS Год назад +142

      US lost to the British, the end

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul 11 месяцев назад +27

      If they kept the Articles of Confederation and broke up soon after.

    • @peperoni_pepino
      @peperoni_pepino 11 месяцев назад

      I mean there would just never be a USA. Without French support and propaganda, any attempts at independence would be quickly shut down by the UK.
      Even if we start in 1812, in the worst case the USA pisses of France enough that the English and French temporarily stop fighting to instead take care of the USA. Then quickly the USA is attacked from multiple sides by different colonial powers and divided between them in a scramble for North America.

    • @michaelbruvolt4221
      @michaelbruvolt4221 10 месяцев назад +7

      😅
      Britain would now be the largest nation on Earth🇬🇧 🇬🇧

  • @PSIRockOmega
    @PSIRockOmega Год назад +12

    A fun contrast to your Three North American Superpowers video.
    I think the only thing that would make the US more dominant would be not if the nationalists won in China, but it came to more of a draw with the nationalists in the south and the PRC in the north. They could both industrialize and become more capitalist while still having tense relations, but maybe the US could play the diplomat and keep peace between the two while reaping good trade relations from them both, but neither could become a superpower.

  • @dominicadrean2160
    @dominicadrean2160 Год назад +47

    Can you do this for Russia England and France as well in the future😅😊

    • @GwainSagaFanChannel
      @GwainSagaFanChannel Год назад +10

      I mean the same happened to the British you forgot about Pax Britanica being a thing? Also about Russia it basically unlike British and Americans tried to convert people into becoming Russian which never succeeded like the Belarussians and Ukranians are seperate identities and might share similarities but are not Russian in the slightest.

    • @user-pn7jz9vr2z
      @user-pn7jz9vr2z Год назад

      ​@@GwainSagaFanChannel what the fuck are you talking about lol

    • @zars1324
      @zars1324 Год назад

      @@GwainSagaFanChannel That's communist propaganda, Ukrainian and Belarussian weren't a thing until bolsheviks came to power.

    • @piebit101
      @piebit101 Год назад +4

      @@GwainSagaFanChannel russia got so unlucky, russian empire, ww1, soviet union, nato

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 Год назад +1

      @@GwainSagaFanChannel Not everything went perfect for britain. If we won the hundred years war, won the american revolution, won the first boer war, kept hannover, took more land from china, prevented germany from existing etc then things would have went perfect.

  • @drksideofthewal
    @drksideofthewal Год назад +82

    The remarkable thing is, this doesn't even change very much. You could say that things already went 90% perfectly for the US, aside from getting large swaths of mostly frozen wasteland.

    • @hcab1479
      @hcab1479 10 месяцев назад +6

      Yes. Besides what was stated in this video I would have also added America having a nuclear monopoly for an extra several years.

    • @gameragodzilla
      @gameragodzilla 10 месяцев назад +11

      The only major changes I can think of here are the US gaining Canada from the War of 1812 and China being under control of the Nationalists. And really only the latter has major consequences for today given Canada and the US are enough allies that whether Canada was under direct US control or not doesn't really matter. China being under the Communists is what allowed the occurrence of the Korean War (and the 38th parallel split still there today), Vietnam War (and the fall of Saigon), and the current looming second Cold War with China and Russia.

    • @kaizer3847
      @kaizer3847 10 месяцев назад

      ​​@@gameragodzillahe new cold war between China and US will happen even in this timeline simply because of china's sheer size and manpower. They still will want to be the ruler of Asia and will not like America's dominance in asia.
      What might be different is a democratic china would be less expansionist, improving it's relations with its neighbours (particularly india). Allowing it to be seen more friendly and welcomed in southeast Asia and india significantly reducing american influence here

    • @mrsillytacos
      @mrsillytacos 4 месяца назад

      I think the modern world would change since America wouldnt need to rely on Middle Eastern oil as Canada likely has a lot of oil fields too, some larger than Middle Eastern ones.

    • @gameragodzilla
      @gameragodzilla 3 месяца назад

      @@mrsillytacosAmerica produces a lot of its own oil (to the point of being the world’s largest oil producer). Europe and Asia are far more reliant on Middle Eastern oil than the US.

  • @josefdrapak1889
    @josefdrapak1889 Год назад +10

    Really nice video, very entertaining to watch lol. Btw I was wondering, could you perhaps do Czechoslovakia (starting with the Czechoslovak legions during WW1) someday?

  • @benjaminobienu5297
    @benjaminobienu5297 Год назад +34

    Here are some exciting ideas for future alternate history scenarios:
    What if the Hohenzollern were the ones to rule the Holy Roman Empire instead of the Hapburgs? Since the Hohenzollerns were Margraves of Brandenburg, a principality of the HRE from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history that formed Germany and around central Europe. And there were monarchs and Kings in Prussia ( 1701-1772). In 1701, the title of King in Prussia was granted without having a duchy title. The Duchy of Prussia is usually placed higher as a kingdom within Poland but recognized as a kingdom by the Holy Roman Emperor due to the time when monarchs were believed to be given divine right to rule their kingdoms or empires, the highest sovereign in the West. Is there the slightest chance the Hohenzollerns will win the election for HRE
    ( Holy Roman Emperor) and become the new dynasty in the HRE ( Holy Roman Empire)? If so, how could the Hohenzollerns win the election for the emperorship for the HRE, and which members of the Hohenzollern dynasty are the best candidates for Holy Roman Emperor? What would the HRE under the Hohenzollerns instead of the Hapburg dynasty be like, and would the HRE be centralized and possibly united Germany in the middle ages?
    What if Ethiopia, under the Solomic dynasty, manages to unify Africa during the pre-scamble of the African era? Ethiopia was known for resisting European colonization and was one of the first African empires to defeat a European power, Italy, during the Second Italo- Ethiopian War, resulting from the Ethiopian War winning the Second Italo-Ethiopan War. Similar to how the Japanese defeated the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War. Ethiopia was not known for that. Before Ethiopia was an empire before the Solomic ever took the mantle as Emperor, Ethiopia used to control a sizeable territorial state and access to vast trade routes linking the Roman Empire to the Middle East and India. What would be the perfect opportunity for the Ethiopian Empire to unite Africa or some of it? Is it either West, South, North, or East Africa? How could the Ethiopians unite the African kingdoms and empires to sway them to join their cause against European colonization? Would there be a united Africa under the Solomonic dynasty or a federation of African kingdoms and empires become states, similar to the German Confederation?
    What if Joan of Arc had been rescued instead of being burned at the stake for heresy and had managed to unite all of France and the French people to drive the English out of France? Could this victory and her survival in one piece make Joan of Arc Queen of France? If you don't think so, please explain to me why. But if Joan of Arc was created to become the Queen of France, what would history be like, and what France be like under Jaon of Arc as Queen of France? Would there be a royal House of Joan of Arc in France? How would it be possible with the House of Valois being the current royal house of France, and how would the nobility and aristocrats see Joan of Arc as the Queen of a united France?
    What if Novgorod became the leading power it was and could unify Russia instead of Muscovy? How Russia be like under Novogord as the capital, and what type of government would Russia be like? Would there be a Tsar of Russia or a Grand Prince of Russia? Because Novgorod did have grand princes, they were elected. And how this change for the rest of World History with Russia united by Novgorod, and what were the consequences of it?
    What if the Marathas under the Bhonsle dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Mewar and united India during the 11th century instead of the 16th century? And is it possible for a united India to expand outside the Indian subcontinent to its next borders in South Asia or beyond its borders in South Asia? What makes this alternate time interesting is the Marathas forming an alliance with the Byzantine Empire by having one of the Chhaparti ( Emperor) marry a Byzantine princess from the Macedonian dynasty. The question is, what would be the purpose of the alliance, and how this alliance be beneficial for both the Marathas and the Byzantines? And how many people react to this marriage, and which ones will respond to it and be against it, and for what reasons?
    Would the union between the Maratha and the Byzantines form an Indo-Roman Empire, a Maratha-Byzantine Empire, or just the Byzantine Empire with a different dynasty? And would the Marthas be able to rule both Constantinople in Byzantium and India at the same time? Would there be co-rulers of this empire, or you don't think a realm like this wouldn't be possible.
    What if Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein, the mother of Catherine of The Great, had not died in exile but became a regent for grandson Paul I of Russia? There have been some speculations that Catherine the Great wasn't a good mother to her two children and only used them as a political investment and never had an emotional connection to them. If Joanna Elisbateh had returned from exile and made herself a regent for Paul or Alexi, possibly Paul? The question is, how would Joanna become the regent of her first-born grandson? Would she be the mother figure Paul wanted from Catherine, or she just be emotionally manipulative and exploit Paul's "behavior issues" to control him with her with real power or overthrow Paul and make herself the new monarch of Russia?
    Which scenarios do you like best, Mr. Possible, and which are your favorites, and which ones have you never heard of in the alternate history community.
    Also, have you ever heard of Rani Lakshimbal, aka Rani of Jhansi?

    • @ArtoriasTheAbyss
      @ArtoriasTheAbyss 10 месяцев назад

      I would love to see a video about the Hohenzollerns too but it's because they're an inside joke with my friend from an EU4 game so I think it would be funny to see a video about them

    • @chandradeepkumar7750
      @chandradeepkumar7750 10 месяцев назад

      +1

    • @aubueruser7228
      @aubueruser7228 10 месяцев назад +3

      “I ain’t reading allat” - 💻👺

    • @albertskjelmose9170
      @albertskjelmose9170 9 месяцев назад +1

      That just that’s long to scroll through

    • @Canadian-Cartography
      @Canadian-Cartography 8 месяцев назад

      Golly take it to a publisher 💀

  • @alliova
    @alliova Год назад +3

    i really like this genre of yours!

  • @mrmuffins951
    @mrmuffins951 3 месяца назад +4

    1. I think it’s interesting that you have Canada joining the US after the war of 1812. I personally think it would’ve been more likely for those colonies to join the American revolution instead because they had the option to at the time.
    2. I thought that the US made an offer to purchase Greenland in 1867 but they declined. I also didn’t know Iceland was also up for grabs at any point.
    3. The US also talked about purchasing Jamaica, Belize, and the rest of the West Indies Federation in the early 1900s, so I agree it makes sense that they might’ve bundled them with Greenland instead.
    4. When the US won the Spanish-American war, this is also when they got Guam irl!
    This is an awesome video and I’d love to see more! One thing I’ve wondered is what would statehood look like for those territories, and currently controversial territories like Puerto Rico and Washington DC.
    I’d also love to see what things would look like if “everything went right for the European Union”
    L

  • @ribspice1238
    @ribspice1238 Год назад +186

    We need a Russian version! I wanna see a mega Russian Empire that’s massive

    • @SidorovichGaming
      @SidorovichGaming Год назад

      not gonna see it IRL, lmao.
      r*ssia is going to collapse soon.

    • @Jerry-tg7zx
      @Jerry-tg7zx Год назад +30

      Found putin’s account /s

    • @xtopia9758
      @xtopia9758 Год назад +5

      Yeah lol

    • @retineyzer7906
      @retineyzer7906 Год назад

      I mean, Russian Empire sucks, USSR in the other hand is GIGACHAD

    • @yeetyeet5079
      @yeetyeet5079 11 месяцев назад +5

      Damn imagine an industrialized Russia colonizing China

  • @hamza7033
    @hamza7033 4 месяца назад +1

    This channel is really underrrated.

  • @pep-qew1977
    @pep-qew1977 Год назад +64

    What if Poland take whole universe???

  • @tusk3260
    @tusk3260 9 месяцев назад +11

    Funny thing is, in 1812, the british that arrived to "help" arrived 2 years late in 1814. The war in Canada was already over and ended with the burning the Washington DC. So, the British not willing to return without doing anything went to invade Florida and suffered a humiliating defeat.... Your version of the Florida landing was actually pretty accurate with reality.

  • @JTL1776
    @JTL1776 Год назад +9

    3 part Alternate Post ww1
    What if Imperial Federation formed.
    What if the US of Austria formed.
    What if the Ottman Empire was Partitioned, allowing for a Resurgent Byzantium.

  • @actium_ev6083
    @actium_ev6083 Год назад

    Love this new video idea 👍

  • @elmoterminator6969
    @elmoterminator6969 11 месяцев назад +9

    I could just imagine 9/11 happening and the USA just annexing most of the middle east in this story

  • @bigsillyman423
    @bigsillyman423 Год назад +26

    Subbed at 4k, seeing this channel 11 times bigger is awesome, congratulations PH keep up the growth

  • @olatsby2497
    @olatsby2497 Год назад +21

    Wha if everything went perfect for Mexico (since their independence in 1821), I think is a very good scenario because Mexico had too many troubles on the 19th century, so it could be quite interesting

    • @eidoneverchoosen1171
      @eidoneverchoosen1171 11 месяцев назад

      Well their be no Hollywood I feel that be great. But would Mexico go for a gold rush in California? And use its oil resources when discovered?

    • @thekommunistkrusader3921
      @thekommunistkrusader3921 11 месяцев назад +9

      Yeah honestly it is surprising how much went wrong in Mexicos history and it shows to this day

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@thekommunistkrusader3921 It went from being seen as an equal power to its northern neighbor by European observers to… well, now.

  • @talbot9255
    @talbot9255 Год назад +12

    I would love a video on a really small country like my country Iceland.
    Basically a video on a country which could never become a super power or evan influencial irl but in a perfect world could become a great power.

  • @kirilovkobracars2477
    @kirilovkobracars2477 Год назад +10

    Can you consider the following scenario: "Alternate United and Peaceful Balkan nations in the 19th and 20th century"
    For example:
    -No Bulgaro-Serbian war in 1885
    -The Second Balkan war doesn't happen, because there are slight border changes of the treaty(Serbia gets Adriatic coast, Bulgaria gets undisputed part of Macedonia promised in the Treaty, Greece gets Southern Albania, Albania gets parts of southwestern Kosovo) and thus the Balkan union is preserved
    -In ww1 the five Balkan nations fight on the same side and vecause of that we get a different treaty, that means Trianon is not so harsh and Hungary keeps parts of Southern Slovakia and Northern Transylvania, Bulgaria gets the entire region of Macedonia and Eastern Thrace, Greece gets the part of Western Anatolia(which it didn't preserve in the OTL), Serbia makes Yugoslavia without Macedonia and parts of Kosovo(as discussed earlier) and Romania gets Banat, Southern Transylvania and Besserabia;
    -In ww2 the only possible candidate for the Hungarians Might be Hungary, hungry for old land, but I digress, because they don't want a repeat of ww1, four against one, so the borders will probably remain the same after electric boogaloo;
    -If Hungary didn't join the Axis, the only communist nations in the Cold war might be Hungary(75%) and Romania (99%, and they will be stripped out of Moldova), because the Soviets will bring Communism to the closest nationa to them, while Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia join Nato(now that I think of it, Hungary might become the Yugoslavia of our timeline, the neutral state together with Austria, very funny😂)
    -After the cold war we get the same picture, no bloody conflicts on the Balkans hopefully in the 21th century and everybody lives happily ever after, for now!

  • @inspectorsupremoelecto9291
    @inspectorsupremoelecto9291 Год назад +5

    Nice video. I would like to see the same happening to Austria in a future video. It would be great as Austria was pretty much the great power with the worst luck ever.

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Год назад +10

    Cool series. You could do one for the Byzantine Empire

  • @ethanflorer8373
    @ethanflorer8373 Год назад

    great video PH!

  • @mark9152
    @mark9152 11 месяцев назад +17

    In this scenario, wouldn't it be better for the US to keep the Philippines just in-case they needed a forward base in Asia? Two of the largest nation, population-wise, are in Asia, so surely a huge territory there would be nice to contain the possible rise of competition.

    • @CrossBreedTacoHD
      @CrossBreedTacoHD 9 месяцев назад +8

      In reality the US already has ports and bases in several countries in East Asia.
      Not saying owning the Philippines would be bad or good, just realistically the US wouldn't need to own them to build up a substantial force in that area, as our reality being the proof.

    • @kitkat47chrysalis95
      @kitkat47chrysalis95 9 месяцев назад +2

      my brother in crist... the us does keep the Philippines, the us navy, airforce, army, marines all have their own bases in Philippines.

    • @riderchallenge4250
      @riderchallenge4250 9 месяцев назад

      And that two countries are the only countries that would probably beat USA in every field. Russia is gone case. EU is already a puppet. Japan not powerful enough same for Indonesia and Brazil

  • @IdealKangaroo
    @IdealKangaroo Год назад +13

    Scenario: what if Churchill’s confederation of the Danube succeeded?

  • @Godslayer5656
    @Godslayer5656 Год назад +6

    5:50 Bit of a correction, but there actually has been at least one proposal from the U.S to buy at least Greenland from Denmark. It was after WW2 where the U.S occupied Greenland, and the U.S offered about $100 million for it, Denmark refused.

    • @keegansmetanko3755
      @keegansmetanko3755 3 месяца назад +2

      There were discussions in 1867, 1910, and 2019. With an actual proposal in the amount of $100M ($1B inflated) in 1946 that was denied. So you are correct there.

  • @Gameinger16
    @Gameinger16 Год назад +1

    I really like this series.

  • @andertaler3579
    @andertaler3579 Год назад

    like the series love your content hope you do a Germany superstate video soon

  • @vihaankaushal7452
    @vihaankaushal7452 Год назад +7

    I really like this scenario! I kinda want to see one for the british empire as it would be intresting to see if they would maintain their hegemony. hm perphaps one for china too, where it advances technoglocially speaking just as fast as the europeans

  • @catalyst9955
    @catalyst9955 Год назад +12

    i’d say the russians would actually probably be allied to the united states, assuming gorbachev does what he needs to do

  • @kizrgd
    @kizrgd Год назад

    great video

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +14

    2:13 you captured the american spirit perfectly man! 😂😂😂😂

  • @LouisMcK
    @LouisMcK Год назад +5

    I fucking love these kinds of videos please do one for each country on this entire planet MEGA SERIES

  • @RandomOrthodoxMan
    @RandomOrthodoxMan 6 месяцев назад +6

    6:48 French Arabian desert isn’t real it can’t hurt you.
    French Arabian Desert:

  • @Hatsuzu
    @Hatsuzu Год назад +3

    I have a request, could you do an alt history on what if one of the Slovenian states in history managed to survive, Cilli being the preferable and most realistic one, as they even managed to get control over Hungary via controlling the Hungarian boy king. Nobody else has made a what if video on Cilli creating a slovene empire yet, despite the possibility they had.

  • @bmobmo6438
    @bmobmo6438 8 месяцев назад +4

    I like how this timeline is mostly just "what if the war of 1812 wasn't a draw"

  • @sashavasilyev3000
    @sashavasilyev3000 Год назад +12

    this is just real history with a couple very minor changes

    • @Alex-vx5zs
      @Alex-vx5zs Год назад +2

      True, bascially how it is today but with small changes in the past like the war with Mexico, the outcome is the same today

  • @ardvarkvv2718
    @ardvarkvv2718 Год назад +8

    Would love to see a British Empire episode! I know they had their Pax Britannica in our TL but... it can always be better ;)

  • @waltuhgoodman3427
    @waltuhgoodman3427 Год назад +2

    Are you reading my mind, this was exactly what I was thinking about yesterday

  • @RedRomanov
    @RedRomanov Год назад +4

    AKA. "What if countries had autosaves" series

  • @DeanmC261993
    @DeanmC261993 Год назад +50

    Omg a timeline where reconstruction went well and they completely fixed all the souths institutional problems, land redistribution would be great for improving wealth and the standards of living

    • @kyckrox1
      @kyckrox1 Год назад +4

      It’s an alternate scenario chill

    • @merp9610
      @merp9610 Год назад +1

      Hey, that's actually something I've been thinking about too! I wonder just how far something like this could go?

    • @yesatitsfinest
      @yesatitsfinest Год назад +3

      Distribute all the land to me

    • @monetizedyay6827
      @monetizedyay6827 Год назад

      Racial issues in the U.S. wouldn't be as bad as a result. President Johnson really fucked things up.

  • @liamaspholmer3255
    @liamaspholmer3255 7 месяцев назад +4

    Would love one about the UK, just feels like there’s a lot of possibilities where world history could change completely. :)

  • @j.37
    @j.37 Год назад +2

    a video like this for argentina would be really cool to see

  • @TodaysAnalysis
    @TodaysAnalysis 4 месяца назад +1

    Nice!

  • @ritasanchez773
    @ritasanchez773 10 месяцев назад +6

    As an americaN I say that I loved this video

  • @SirDriperHat
    @SirDriperHat 7 месяцев назад +5

    The rest of the world: Dude... Uncool

  • @stephenwilliams2421
    @stephenwilliams2421 7 месяцев назад +1

    Very interesting - I totally agree with most of your assumptions. One thing that I would change in your rosy history is the time of acquisition of Cuba. During the lead-up to the Civil War, there were several groups who wanted to annex Cuba and make it another state. In the real timeline, one of the main reasons for rejecting that proposal was it would upset the balance between slave and free states... this was also why we didn't acquire more of Mexico during the 1840s. Since your timeline shows us expanding farther into Mexico and having all of Canada (presumably as free states), I think the chances that we would annex (or just buy) Cuba would be near certain.

  • @lewisbean4250
    @lewisbean4250 Год назад +4

    Nova Scotia joining the 13 colonies, not to mention Florida and the Bahamas may be within the realm of possibility too as there were sympathies there to the rebels

  • @Maltheus_
    @Maltheus_ Год назад +5

    I want to see a scenario like this for France starting maybe before the Seven Years War.

  • @redjackel6161
    @redjackel6161 Год назад +7

    Surprised you didn't touch on the Filibusters in Central America, or William Walker's near conquest of the area.
    If the US Congress had given Walker troops, then the region would have been, if not US territories, then under the US sphere.

  • @justforfun9780
    @justforfun9780 Год назад +1

    This is great

  • @user-ze5pf3sv4i
    @user-ze5pf3sv4i 4 месяца назад +2

    i will write my comment in german: ehrenhaftes Video, es macht mir Spaß deinen Kram anzuschauen :D

  • @kongtsang2022
    @kongtsang2022 Год назад +3

    Do one for the Qing Dynasty next!!!

  • @silverwarrior8142
    @silverwarrior8142 11 месяцев назад +7

    Very cool video, however I'm disappointed you haven't considered US influence after WW1 possibly turning WW2 on it's head. The US supported the idea of deciding borders based on ethnic lines. This would make a possibly stronger Germany probably still falling to a political extreme over Alsace-Lorraine but most likely putting Hungary on the Allied side for WW2 and other stuff I'm too braindead to think of. This american WW1 peace ideal would be more easily achieved if the US was a colossal power like in the video. I get it though that these are super hypothetical and unnecessarily complicated concepts which is why they are not explored, but would've appreciated if you mentioned the wacky possibilities.

  • @masterchief1843
    @masterchief1843 9 месяцев назад +2

    We have to see one for italy! Please!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @Jared401
    @Jared401 10 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting perspective and the timeline doesn’t require a major shifting of events. Though, two important events I think would have gone differently.
    First, the annexation of Canada. While I know domestic affairs were kept the same, the incorporation of Canada would have greatly impacted the domestic politics and the fate of the civil war. A different set of possibilities would have appeared, first anti-slave states would have gained political advantage in the legislature to not only prevent the expansion of slavery, but also start passing laws to outlaw or restrict aspects of slavery impacting other states (I.e. abolishing fugitive slave laws, imposing taxes on goods produced by slave labor). The South at this point would be outvoted on everything by the late-1820s when the Canadian states would be admitted. Either a peaceful resolution would have been worked out (such as gradual emancipation) or it would have forced a conflict by the late 1830s. The annexation of parts of Mexico would be too far off in the future to be used as a compromise for maintaining the North-South legislative balance. If, according to the video’s scenario with Mexico, the result of the Mexican-American War is getting more slave states in former Mexican territory, it would be a lot harder to impose. Mexico abolished slavery gradually starting in 1821 and then fully by 1837, the population that the US is inheriting would not only not be super welcoming of the new rulers, but bringing back slavery would not go over well. The new Mexican possessions would be rebellious despite their sparse population, and those regions are known historically as being a great place for rebellious activity.
    The second major even that would have played out differently is the post WWI settlement. The interwar period had a lot going on and if the US were to roll 20 in every geopolitical scenario, then the US would have joined the League of Nations. This would have put more power behind the organization and might have prevented aspects of the rise of fascism in Europe. This would warrant an entire video for just this situation.
    Otherwise a great thought experiment and very interesting.

  • @countryballsandstuff447
    @countryballsandstuff447 Год назад +3

    I love these vids even if theirs only 2

  • @CMVBrielman
    @CMVBrielman Год назад +4

    Counter-proposal for the “best case” scenario for the US, regarding post-WW2 China.
    Mao is able to establish a communist regime in Manchuria, but not push beyond there, and an armistice is reached, with a red “North China” and a western-aligned “South China.” The conflict also results in Chiang Kai Shek being unable to secure Xinjiang or Tibet, so those regions are independent.
    As the Cold War goes on, Mao leans into a Manchu identity to help distinguish his regime from the rest of China. By the end of the CW, its obvious there is a “Republic of China” and a “Republic of Manchuria” and, even if Manchuria liberalizes, nobody seriously thinks about them rejoining China.

  • @adoremorekat
    @adoremorekat Год назад +2

    You should make a video about what if everything for Mexico went perfect anyways great video

  • @mohadk3022
    @mohadk3022 Год назад

    Nice video !!
    Could you do a what if France had the same population growth as the other great powers in the industrial revolution

  • @greeneanimations3660
    @greeneanimations3660 Год назад +4

    Do this for the Kingdom of Italy from unification to the late 20th century

  • @Sander_van_de_Reep
    @Sander_van_de_Reep Год назад +4

    Please do what if everything went good for the Netherlands! Dat zou erg leuk zijn!

  • @T_Playz42
    @T_Playz42 Год назад +1

    Please make one of these about Brazil

  • @fadhilahzaidan4946
    @fadhilahzaidan4946 Год назад +5

    I would like too see this scenario for North Korea,the Qing Dynasty,Roman empire,and Yugoslavia. :)

  • @Very_Silly_Individual
    @Very_Silly_Individual 10 месяцев назад +4

    It honestly went pretty perfectly. Or at least as good as you could expect without cheats

  • @sirmagnifus7350
    @sirmagnifus7350 Год назад +3

    Hope you do this for britain or france

  • @God_Save_The_King
    @God_Save_The_King Год назад +5

    This video - allthough it is very well made - is just excruciating torture for me to watch...
    You should do Britain or Austria next! :D

  • @kuroazrem5376
    @kuroazrem5376 Год назад +2

    Please do this scenario for: Japan, Spain, Hungary and Morocco.

  • @shronkler1994
    @shronkler1994 Год назад +5

    4:43 i kinda dislike just saying they'll blockade it. In our timeline, a combination of Union excellency, superior industry, telegraphs, railroads, a manoower invasion and blockade came together to defeat the South in 1865, especially as the Union got its shit together in the last 2 yrs of the war. i do think it's a bit more complicated than just "a blockade," but what you're saying does get the point across, that the South will just eventually fall without external aid

  • @SrMikicas
    @SrMikicas Год назад +16

    As a bachelor degree on East Asian Studies, do you think you can do a "What if everything went perfect for china" i wonder how would it work and what year would you take to start changing things.

    • @user-pn7jz9vr2z
      @user-pn7jz9vr2z 11 месяцев назад

      Would be quite difficult to determine

  • @juamont
    @juamont Год назад

    Omg its true that every alternate history channel has the same voice xD nice video

  • @siyacer
    @siyacer Год назад

    amazing

  • @ramennoodle4783
    @ramennoodle4783 Год назад +3

    Do it for France, they had so many opportunities to become the sole superpower but obviously wasted those opportunities

  • @UraNAHge
    @UraNAHge 6 месяцев назад +3

    I’m waiting for what if everything went perfect for Brazil

  • @danisagoodman4294
    @danisagoodman4294 Год назад

    Great video. Can you do a What if Canada got everything it wanted

  • @Ayaan1386
    @Ayaan1386 Год назад +1

    Interesting scenario