Counterfactual Corner – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:45:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Counterfactual Corner – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Ides That Failed: What if Julius Caesar Had Survived? https://brewminate.com/what-if-julius-caesar-survived-ides-of-march/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:45:47 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279864 Surviving the Ides of March could have given Julius Caesar years to consolidate his rule. But defeating a

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]]> The Empire’s Bargain: What if Japan Had Won the Second Sino-Japanese War? https://brewminate.com/what-if-japan-won-second-sino-japanese-war/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:33:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279754 A negotiated Japanese victory in 1938 could have ended major fighting while entrenching imperial control. China’s political future

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]]> What if Athens Had Won the Peloponnesian War? https://brewminate.com/what-if-athens-won-peloponnesian-war/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:12:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279686 An early peace in 425 BCE could have secured Athens’s empire and spared years of war. Its citizens

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]]> What if France and Spain Had Stayed Neutral in the American Revolution? https://brewminate.com/american-revolution-without-france-spain/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:46:17 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279662 Without French and Spanish aid, the American Revolution would have faced a stronger Britain. Could colonial resistance still

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]]> What if the Black Death Had Killed 90 Percent of Europeans? https://brewminate.com/what-if-black-death-killed-90-percent/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:47:31 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279431 If the Black Death had killed nine Europeans in ten, abundant land might have offered little security. Europe’s

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]]> Aging the King: What If Alexander the Great Had Lived into His Sixties? https://brewminate.com/what-if-alexander-the-great-lived-longer/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:16:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279424 Alexander’s death left an empire without a secure succession. Another three decades might have given him time to

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