That's a surprisingly quick end to this timeline. Do you plan to add more content when you publish this as a book?The next update will be the final chapter of the timeline on this site (my final ever chapter written on this site), ending with the 2012 US President Election. I will add an extra chapter when I self-publish the story which will fill in some of the post 2012 material.
That's a surprisingly quick end to this timeline. Do you plan to add more content when you publish this as a book?
Umm, that's nice and all, but we Poles have absolutely zero appropriate infrastructure to build a nuclear program on such short notice. We don't even have nuclear power plants, let alone any reactors bigger than those for medical use. If we got a nuclear arsenal, it's because either the French, British, or Americans gave us one. Most likely Americans, since they have the most to spare, plus here in Poland we unconditionally love every US President since Nixon, but it could be the Brits too maybe.Poland would announce on November 10th that they had developed nuclear weapons, throwing the European order into yet further bedlam.
Good luck. We really love your work.The next update will be the final chapter of the timeline on this site (my final ever chapter written on this site), ending with the 2012 US President Election. I will add an extra chapter when I self-publish the story which will fill in some of the post 2012 material.
So basically North Korea's status is like OTL Northern Ireland or the Golan Heights in Syria??
Umm, that's nice and all, but we Poles have absolutely zero appropriate infrastructure to build a nuclear program on such short notice. We don't even have nuclear power plants, let alone any reactors bigger than those for medical use. If we got a nuclear arsenal, it's because either the French, British, or Americans gave us one. Most likely Americans, since they have the most to spare, plus here in Poland we unconditionally love every US President since Nixon, but it could be the Brits too maybe.
Oh fuck I hope not. With any luck, the same kind of partisan backstabbing that led to the downfall of the first Law and Justice government in 2007 would happen in this timeline as well, meaning the Civic Platform would be in charge of the Prime Minister's office, so they would be the ones getting the political boost from the nukes. Which, don't get me wrong, I don't like Tusk at all, but at least his party has basic respect for democracy, so at least we wouldn't devolve into a Putinist dictatorshipIn the next chapter, will you discuss how Poland's possession of nuclear weapons will change its internal situation and the situation in Europe? Because I would expect, among other things, the "new Sanation" in power for the next decade
You may be right, but I would advise you to think twice. The Civic Platform government acquires nuclear weapons? Apart from all the Polish prejudices and accusations of submission to Berlin and Brussels, Tusk does not seem to me to be a politician capable of doing this. Poland rather needs its own equivalent of Prime Minister Abe or President MB.Oh fuck I hope not. With any luck, the same kind of partisan backstabbing that led to the downfall of the first Law and Justice government in 2007 would happen in this timeline as well, meaning the Civic Platform would be in charge of the Prime Minister's office, so they would be the ones getting the political boost from the nukes. Which, don't get me wrong, I don't like Tusk at all, but at least his party has basic respect for democracy, so at least we wouldn't devolve into a Putinist dictatorship
Maybe. I agree that he might not be willing to get nukes, preferring to use diplomatic channels to pressure EU into action than doing such drastic unilateral action. That said, if Poland started going nuclear at the start of the War on Terror, i.e. the SLD government, and it carried on throughout the rest of the decade as Law and Justice took over, then perhaps it would just be too expensive and too difficult to discontinue it?You may be right, but I would advise you to think twice. The Civic Platform government acquires nuclear weapons? Apart from all the Polish prejudices and accusations of submission to Berlin and Brussels, Tusk does not seem to me to be a politician capable of doing this. Poland rather needs its own equivalent of Prime Minister Abe or President MB.
With all due respect, no, not both. First of all, the author seems to have already mentioned that the nuclear program began after the occupation of Ukraine. Plus, no matter what costs it would incur, it could and would be suspended by the reluctant Polish government. This was already the case with nuclear power plants in the 1970s, shipyards and coal mines. Secondly, you probably have less knowledge about Polish politics than me and certainly too much optimism if you think that SLD would stay in power until 2010. Factors in the Rywin affair were already in motion, so it had to leak out. Due to the economic crisis and the increase in Euroscepticism, TTL have a poor chance of re-election.Maybe. I agree that he might not be willing to get nukes, preferring to use diplomatic channels to pressure EU into action than doing such drastic unilateral action. That said, if Poland started going nuclear at the start of the War on Terror, i.e. the SLD government, and it carried on throughout the rest of the decade as Law and Justice took over, then perhaps it would just be too expensive and too difficult to discontinue it?
Or, though that is just my personal fantasy, we prevent the Rywin affair (since it's after the PoD) and allow SLD to survive, so that they, rather than the Civic Platform take over after the 2007 snap election (or in 2009 if there is no snap election). I mean, it was the SLD gov't that dragged us into Iraq both in OTL and TTL, so that's got to count for some hawkishness, right? And then we would have a hawkish government that gets us nukes and respects democracy and basic human rights! Win-win!