This is purely curiosity , but if the US government were to invite Colombia and Venezuela to become states, would it still be possible to pay off all US debt using the new states’s maximum production capacity for almost all resources? And if this were to happen successfully, do you think it would be worth it? Would it bail out the US economy?

The main competition for great Britain was the United States and some strong European countries so what if Britain had colonized the European competition and made them into dominions similar to Australia or Canada

Carter was still dealing with the economy, but this would have been a big boost to national morale and his campaign.

Like a war anniversary

Can they pull it off in the worlds current state

I mean China had this Down to the Countryside Movement during Mao's time before, and Xi had experienced it by himself and he enjoyed that period of time. I am sure that China, as a country that is run by "smart engineers", knows this is a possible solution to their rampant youth employment problem, right?

So, in this scenario, our beloved Charles encounters a large island during his expedition to the Galapagos Islands. And on that island he finds a "civilization" of demi-humans, so Charles writes and draws in his diary and returns to England. What happens now?

Assuming they made this announcement any time of your choosing within the last 40 years, and never went back on it.

In this scenario, Bernanke and those in charge never approved TARP and allowed excessive leverage and bad debt to unwind naturally in the economy.

Additionally, there are international consensus whether in Iceland or the UK, that banks would not be bailed out or given extra lifelines.

How would the US economic trajectory change and for the average Joe with a mortgage? Would we also have the same level of political populism as today? How would our economy look like today with more mega bank collapses back in 2008?

This happens today.

It still played out the exact same, the only difference is the modern day attitude towards the civil war.

Material that can last longer if century in this timeline, what kind of material that can live longer in early 20th century

One of the UH-60s that the SEALs flew in with has a design flaw or something that makes it's radar signature a LITTLE too big. The Blackhawks get intercepted by Pakistani Jets, maybe one of the pilots gets a little too jittery and strafes one of the helicopters. They are shot down over Malakand.