Hello all, forgive me for my lateness in replying to some messages, I've decided to finally log off on April 15th (I'll still reply to pms afterwards) so I'll try answer any other questions here before then.
Yes this is extremely good and I'm very thankful for this, the only thing being the entirety of territory Armenia occupied after 1994 was annexed, not just Nagorno-Karabakh proper. There were also some minor border changes in the extended edition in the book so this is a map more so of 2019 than 2022.
It also indicates Sorairo's slow drift towards moving away from making alt-history timelines and going for writing "localized" novels based on his own interests.
I'm not sure it was - I just didn't want to reuse the same cast of characters, and my history knowledge thins out before WW1 so I felt more comfortable moving my stories further forward in time, pretty much beginning each new timeline where the other one left off. When your timelines are shorter since there would be less time to the present day, not to mention when you have an event like WW2 massive map changes are easy but when it's 2003 it's a lot harder, the butterflies of a POD don't have the time to fly as far as they could have. For what it's worth my favourite era of history to read about is generally the Cold War simply because there's so much to read about it and how truly global it was.
I've edited the Gagauz to refer to them as a Turkic group, Crimea doesn't leave Ukraine but the whole territory is occupied by Russia, the ROK still claims the Chinese occupied territory, Central Pyongyang is like Chernobyl with limited access sealed behind a wall but tourists are allowed in after signing a lot of forms and ordered strictly not to wander off.
I would also really like to know how the carpet bombing of Pyongyang in the First Korean War would be seen and taught in both Korea and the US, because even if you remove the parts of North Korea committing Nanking levels of mass rape, mass hostage takings and kidnappings of children, and the normalization of South Korean ultra-nationalism, which would obviously obscure atrocities perpetrated by the West and South Koreans against North Korea, it seems that very, very few North Koreans who experienced it between 1950-1953 would still be living in TTL 2024.
It's portrayed no differently from the bombing of Nazi Germany - a utilitarian moral payoff.