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    Plausibility Check: An extension of the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway through Persia and Afghanistan and into China?

    FWIW (and as I have already mentioned in another thread here), it appears that this one contemporary book actually did propose something like this: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37408/37408.txt
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    Plausibility Check: An extension of the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway through Persia and Afghanistan and into China?

    @raharris1973 Please tell me this: Just how much bribes would it take to get Afghan Pashtun tribesmen to permanently leave this railroad alone, especially if both the Afghan Amir and the Ottoman Sultan/Caliph will command them to do so?
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    Plausibility Check: An extension of the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway through Persia and Afghanistan and into China?

    Would it have ever been plausible (for instance, as a possibility, in a TL without both World Wars) to seen the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway eventually be extended through Persia and Afghanistan and into China? The logic behind this would be to promote trade, commerce, and economic development in...
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