Recent content by Ridwan

If it's Soverihn he'll pull USSR to overstretch and eventually collapse onto itself to give room for plethora of MAXIMUM DEVELOPMENT across Asia-Africa

An old map of mine that I changed a bit here and there. First is to make more sense of what's basically me ranting about Front Mission's lore, and then to give this world a bit of glimmer of hopeful future because eternal neoliberalism is just terrible and dystopias shouldn't last in the end...

Guys, sorry I just saw all the birthday postings. Thanks :">

It's been a while since the last time I made a map or signing in here, so might as well post it here while visiting : Source: Above The Clouds, Below The Winds

More like it's not in a Caliph's role to commit to ulema functions such as casting a fatwa, engage in ijtihad and oversee day to day running of the justice system. A Caliph is, ever since the rise of the Umayyads, an emperor, and was capable of simply forcing his political will onto the ulema...

This is pretty much the root of perennial conflict in Islamic world over secularism. It's really Europe that is unique for having a sprawling bureaucratic church spanning over the entire continent in parallel with secular polities, and the model of power that originate from there don't...

I'd prefer Eastern Orthodox autocephalous platform, which would be straight forward for Islam's state/nation building context. This is technically easy enough, as all it requires would be getting the muslim countries on board. Though I'm thinking it'll might only be limited to the Sunnis, but...

It means agreeing to an integrated multinational ulema community from which a supranational sharia court and spiritual leadership will be drawn, which is.... weird. Interesting, but sadly unprecedented since caliphate has always been established through legitimacy drawn from military conquest...

A half joke, half actual prediction on the future of American politics based on the current political aligning.

This is semi-lamenting, but what if HDP had "won" 2015 Turkish General Election? In other words, if Erdogan had failed to mobilize state apparatus to suppress them through terror. So say that AKP loses its majority and forced to form coalition government with HDP. Solution Process continues...

An idle curiosity I'm having at the moment Could have post-Soviet Russia re-elected the communist Party instead of Putin? How would that have gone down? Aside from finding the idea of Dengist Russia kinda funny, I wonder how will it confront the west and take on Chinese rise to power.

Technically still a WIP. This all started from me pondering about an ATL Indonesia ruled by Heinleinian-style Libertarian Junta but it got all over the place that I haven't come up with a coherent description. I'll might have to actually develop this beyond mere one shot if I want to continue.

Thanks, Sumeragi. Your input has been very helpful. Now the next PoD that draws my interest: WI no Vargas regime in Brazil? I asked this once before back in AH.com but didn't really get satisfactory answer. The general conclusion that the seat was open to everyone with Communists being the...

So umm... I have a frivolous idea. I have an idea for the next map I'd like to do. Basically I'd like to combine two scenarios together in one timeline: 1) US colonization of Indonesia, and 2) Second American Civil War around the 40s/50s which would enable Indonesia to seceed. The thing is, I'm...

WI: Socialism and Globalism(a.k.a. "The Left") were pro-nationalism?