Board Thread:New on Turtledove/@comment-24402759-20150517212707/@comment-25626-20150521175056

Turtle Fan wrote: ---.

Fenrisulven, I don't have much more to say, except this: When the UK left the Lower 26 counties, they did so because they'd decided that having an independent Ireland would be less trouble than holding them in the union by force. If they'd only recently acquired the island after enduring four Irish invasions of their homeland within the span of a lifetime, they would have certainly decided otherwise. It's also worth pointing out that if the UK had had the option of dropping an a-bomb on one or more places in those 26 counties, they UK of Great Britain and Ireland might still exist today. Remember, the US threatened to do precisely this in Canada (forget which city), and that calmed down a pending rebellion pretty damn quick.