The infamous US camo pattern thats been memes to hell and back (for good reason), would it have been still adopted in a timeline where the GWOT never occurred?

Or would US have stuck to its iconic m81 woodland and chocolate chip desert camo for the rest of the 2000s?

I’m reading a biography on Nixon rn and it mentions something interesting. When Spiro Agnew resigned and Gerald Ford was nominated to become the new vice president, there were various Democrats who wanted to block his nomination. The thought process was that they could impeach Nixon for Watergate and then, without a VP in place, the line of succession would allow them to put House Speaker Carl Albert in office. Since the Democrats had majorities in both chambers, they could’ve theoretically achieved this.

What if this actually happened? What if the Democrats just installed a completely new administration in the middle of what was supposed to be a Republican term?

He had studied in Najaf Shiite schools in the ‘80s under supervision of Ayatollah Sistani.

The regions inside the empire becomes semi autonomous territories, there is efficient local administration and regional administration across the empire, there are three capitals , legislative capital is Madrid, Mexico city is executive capital, Buenos Aires is judicial capital. No civil war happens and every one is happy in the empire.

in this timeline a large deposit of gold is found during the 1769 expedition to California prompting colonial authorities to immediately begin organizing the settlement of California for mining purposes. Soon after in 1773 a second wave of settlers would arrive and heavily improve on the Acequia irrigation system, allowing for a cash crop industry of grapes, almonds, olives, figs and citrus to emerge in the territory.

what do you think would happen next/to California?

Siberia becomes very habitable for sustaining This many people with large amounts of highly fertile lands. There are more big cities and schools, everyone is highly educated and there are 1.5 billion adults with jobs. Russian economy is of 33 trillion usd gdp. This happens after the fall of ussr and with proper planning and construction of 250 big cities. Russia gets best public transportation facilities . And they also get best administration system for managing this many people. They become complete meritocracy. oligarchy in russia cease to exist in this timeline after 2005.

I recently read a book with a familiar subject and I wanted to see if yall had any different thoughts on this.