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AFAIK, the shrinkage of the Aral Sea is in large part due to Soviet irrigation projects; it is not natural, at least not in modern times.

Kazakh %: Russian %: The German % in some parts of the Kazakh SSR was in the double-digits as late as 1989:

I honestly forgot about the possibility of Japan making a move on the Russian Far East if the Soviet Union truly does look like it's collapsing. Depends on just how badly Japan actually wants it, I suppose.

Some information about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Famine_Relief_Act#:~:text=The%20Russian%20Famine%20Relief%20Act,Russian%20famine%20of%201921%E2%80%9322.&text=An%20Act%20for%20the%20relief,and%20starving%20people%20of%20Russia...

I suspect that a lot might depend on just how much foreign aid they will get from places such as the Anglosphere. AFAIK, the US played a significant role in reducing the scale of the famine in Russia back in 1921-1922, for instance.

Very possible. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the grain in southern Russia and Ukraine helped feed the people of Moscow and Leningrad in early 1943 and beyond. That area is a very productive breadbasket, at least in theory. FWIW, IIRC, these deportations of tens of millions of Eastern...

FWIW, Michael Mills (on the Axis History Forum, Historum, and/or et cetera) said that the Nazi plans for the deportations of tens of millions of Slavs to the east did not explicitly involve starving or killing them and that Siberia apparently had enough extra food for an extra several dozen...

I quite possibly agree in relation to British interests, but I don't think that such an outcome would have been very good for the Eastern Slavs, tens of millions of whom or more would have likely been deported to Siberia or Central Asia or the Russian/Soviet Far East in order to clear Germans'...

Though there was not always free migration from one part of the British Empire to other parts even in the old days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komagata_Maru_incident The ship above involved some Indians wanting to immigrate to Canada in 1914 but being denied the opportunity to do so. Racist...

Re: Hong Kong: What happens if China decides to turn off Hong Kong's power/electricity and/or water supplies in an attempt to force Britain to return Hong Kong to China in the late 1990s or whenever else the agreed-upon date for Hong Kong's return handover is? Also, if there is ever a Jewish...

That actually sounds rather romantic. I suppose that such a British Empire could be close allies with both the US and India, right? I wonder if direct government rule will also apply to Malta, Gibraltar, and Singapore. And will Malaya (Malaysia) stay or become independent?

Especially if France is still busy with its own Revolutionary Wars much closer to home!

Representation in the British Parliament? Or a lesser kind of autonomy?

Freedom of movement within the EU is not political suicide. But of course these are all white Christian countries. With colonies, there would be a lot of non-whites and a lot of non-Christians. So, Yeah, probably a tougher sell. A merit-based immigration policy could work, but one doesn't need a...

A confederation with Britain could be advantageous to the Third World since it could mean free movement between it and Britain. But whether Britain would be interested indefinitely is an open question. There is the matter of the sustainability of the social safety net to think about, after all...

I'm not sure if the Americans would have been so eager to try again, especially so soon, after losing the first time around.

Keeping the US would certainly help since it would produce a much larger white population base for any future Imperial Federation, though it's likely to be an Imperial Confederation instead due to India's sheer population size. So, Yeah, possibly an eventual EU-style arrangement throughout the...