G O L D W A T E R Z O N E
Barry Morris Goldwater was born in the Austro-Hungarian colony of Arizona, falling in love with it's long ranges and vast skies. He would do well in school before getting a job at his father's store named after him. In 1929, Goldwater would migrate to Japan as a teaching job at a relatively poor elementary school, quickly picking up Japanese and studying under several Japanese professors which pushed conservative thoughts into his head. It was also during this time that he would come into contact with the high echelons of Viennese society that had vast estates in the Japanese countryside, going on game trips with them frequently with the Kaiser of the Empire himself, Otto Van Hapsburg.
On one of these hunting trips, Hapsburg had just bagged a duck when he made a nonchalant comment about wanting a governorship within Shikoku. Being good friends with one another, Hapsburg took this one off comment as an opportunity of him to manage bigger fish, with his new assignment being the colonial governor of German Shikoku. While he was in office, literacy rates would increase from 70% to 90%, public drinking water would be installed and the bandits that had once plagued the road networks were finally snuffed out by the firm hand of their new leader.
The leadership in Vienna was impressed by the work he did in the position, eventually promoting him to manage all of Manchuria, which had been stuck with several resilient warlord pockets. In his tenure at the new position, the navy was strengthened and the police force was rooted out for corruption, arresting nearly 124 officers of local police stations and replacing them with more honest (and loyal) cronies and competent officials. However, he would face difficulty in pushing through large scale sweeping reforms which the territory needed thanks to the entanglements of Vienna and Budapest. With the frustration reaching a climax by 1940, he would move to Australia from his temporary home in Korea, running for President of the nearly independent autonomous territory of the dual monarchy. which officially would declare separation from the crowns the same year.
His tenure as the first semi-independent President of Australia would see friendly ties remain with the old empire and increased anglophobia from the british republic and the Boer east indies. He would construct a large navy during this time, officially leading the country into a war on the side of the Austro-Hungarian,German,American alliance against the Confederate-Franco-Soviet Entente. While not officially a diplomat to the Italian dictatorship, he would be able to pressure their leadership to rally behind the Austro-Hungarian forces, allowing a second front to be opened up against the French in the south, proving to be a key turning point in the war. By 1946, he would win a landslide victory with the end of the war, though there would be internal turmoil such as the late 40's economic "sadness" which had come as a result of the expense of the war and difficulties in negotiating with the Populist-Freedman Coalition in the House of Farmers. Despite later internal problems and difficulties,Goldwater would go down as one of the more favorably ranked politicians of the last 20th century in Austro-Hungarian Australian politics.
He would soon find his dream position of governing the place of his birth to be less than he had expected from such a colony. The Boer system of segregation that had sprung up during the reign of the sneeze in leadership occurring when the president and deputy chancellor had been killed in an automobile accident would still linger deep within the political bureaucracy of integration and leadership of the parties within Arizona, with himself refusing to budge despite the unpopularity of Farmer-Hunter within the colony itself, with more support going to the rival Socialist Party in the local elections. He would be recalled shortly after opening the Grand Canyon as an Imperial Spot of the Crowns to find himself thrust into the leadership of one of the most powerful countries on the earth.
By far his most famous role was that of the longest serving (27 years) Minister Presidents to his friend Otto Van Hapsburg. Succeeding the radically different George Wallace in his duties, he would restructure the empire from top to bottom, starting with large electoral reforms which would shrink the size of the Imperial Council of 516 to just 117 seats, separating them out into 33 seats for farming districts, 35 for city districts, 40 for community districts and 9 for nobility voting districts of local princes and members of the royal family.
He would then tackle various corruption scandals that had broken out or had attempted to have been buried by the iron gripped Wallace,openly talking about the scandals and vowing to fix the country. He didn't just do this to win the 1965 election, but also to show the people he actually meant well. In foreign Affairs, he would push back on the german encroachment within the armed forces, promoting a fully Austro-Hungarian Identity between the various ethnicity and religious groups, wishing for them to rely less and less on religion and more and more to rally behind the flag of the country.
In the 1970s, he would come under threat from the radically religious pastor Jimmy Carter, who would openly fund several terrorist attacks within the empire throughout the 70s and early 80s, leading to three total military interventions into Egypt, with a formal annexation of the autonomous region in 1975 with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Company of the Levant's charter and absorbing it's vast funds into a country needing money at the time.
He would also turn his time to the stagnating Austro-Hungarian Nuclear Arsenal, with the supervision of Emperor Otto Van Hapsburg, the first nuclear test would occur in 1977, nicknamed the
"Silver Balloon" for it's shape in the Egyptian deserts. This would be one of his most controversial acts as Minister-President, as it unlocked the atomic era for the Austro Hungarians, but also prompted an arms race between them and it's former war allies of the United States and alarmed Germany, which previously was the only Central Powers nation with nuclear weapons. In 1980, he would sign the Protocol on Ending Proliferation-armed Projectiles Earmarked for Ranges, or PEPPER treaty between all the nuclear armed powers (except the CSA).
Throughout the 1980s, he would see determined and confident leadership that would further emphasizes the Austro Hungarian identity which had originally been promoted when he first took office. He would lead the nation to a quick war with the Italians over a diplomatic snub during an official visit to Rome as a head of state in 1983. The power of the incumbency would soon doom the Farmer Hunter party during the 1990 election,seeing shocking losses to the rival Freedmen party, officially usurping the Minister-Presidency from the Arizonan born austro Hungarian head of government.
During his last decade alive, he would make several political endorsements to various Farmer Hunter candidates as he saw the party sputter and faint several times, mostly being regulated to the waste bin of nationalist populism that the Military and Rancher parties took the mantel up from.
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If you had asked Barry Goldwater if he had any plans on fighting under the Bonnie blue flag for his service in the army, he would have probably wanted a governorship or senate seat more than anything to do with the army save from his mandated script of service in the south. Yet with his rejection from the Jefferson Davis Institute of Politics would see him enrolled into the armed forces and quickly increase through the military ranks in the 1930s.
During this time, the Confederate leadership wished to seize back territories it thought were stolen from them during the second war of northern aggression. Spurred on by the vehement propaganda from the forces yet repulsed by the antisemitism, as he had Jewish family members, he would fight for the confederacy in hoping to retain territories lost, in particular he would hope to garner Deseret as a morale boost for the mostly Arizonan Mormons under his command.
It was during the Third War of Northern Aggression that he would meet one of his greatest rivals, a Pennsylvanian born aviator named Carl A. Spaatz. Apart from being north of the Mason-Dixon line, Goldwater and Spaatz would hold an antagonistic relationship throughout the war, only when the last gun was fired and the war being over did they share a sundae at a local Kentucky diner with Confederate President Elvis Presley.
His first chance at operation greatness was his assignment to General Patton's Army of the Rio Grande, comprised of mostly Texans,Arizonans,New Mexicans, Coloradans and Missourians, officially whipping them into a fighting force. He would send most of his duties involving supply chains and tactical information reports to his most trusted second in command, Jimmy Doolittle. Operation Lucky 7 was the not so secret code name for the seizure of the Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, it being a prime target during the war for it's access to the rivers in the area and gateways to better bolster confederate California, which was nearly isolated due to the lack of communication.
He would envelop the union commander in Las Vegas and see to the destruction of two entire Union armies within three weeks, brainstorming ideas of rapid troop movement via armored assaults, with independent operation. With this victory under his belt, He would move on to the seizure of Utah in mid 1941, with both a drive towards the Green River and Moab taking place simultaneously to tie up enemy reserves to allow for a mass push into Colorado and Kansas respectively. By June 25th, Salt Lake City's temple square was flying the confederate flag.
By May of 1942, his western adventures would be overruled by the confederate high command, which would see him transferred in an attempt to break the embittered general Patton's 6th Army in Pittsburgh by general Bradley and Spaatz's combined armies. The Battle of Pittsburgh would be one of his first defeats of the war, contributed by long supply lines, break down of communication and a lack of armored forces along the entire line, forcing the operation to be called off in September of 1942. Throughout the rest of 1942 he would hold the Ohio River spectacularly, constructing defenses known as
"Goldwater's Glasses". While avoiding many of the later battles due to a bad bout of pneumonia and recovering from several injuries sustained in combat, he would be notable as the last confederate commander to surrender with the siege of Houston, officially ending the war. Throughout the remainder of his life, he would go to universities and lecture about armored warfare, being nicknamed the "southern guderian".
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Born in 1909, Barry Goldwater seemed to have a promising life, a track star at his local high school and a fascination with political science that all but proved a career as a representative or a senator, only for that to be squandered in a life of violence, depravity and crime. Throughout the 1930s, he would assist in the trafficking of cocaine and booze shipments thanks to the efforts of his mentor Ronald Reagan, who while holding differing political opinions, could seem to hold in his booze the longest. It was during these roaring years that he would form a close relationship with both Reagan and the boss of the Nixon Criminal Empire that monopolized politicians within California, a man creatively called Richard Nixon.
Marrying a tall Texan in a civil union that would not be recognized as a marriage until 1989, the couple would work hand in hand with the criminal underworld of the south, executing several hit and runs until he would come encroaching of the territory of southern crime boss George Wallace and Martin Luther King Jr, who would engage in the well known Cotton Cartel Wars of 1963-1965. Utilizing as much political influence he could muster behind the scenes, his hit men would run rackets throughout the deep south, garnering him pretty pennies which were understated on his IRS bribes to the government.
However, by the turn of the 1950s, the stress of the many
"Johnson treatments" which he had endured with loss of his personal space would lead him to order the assassination of his husband, who just so happened to "lose his balance" while fishing in Texas. Scarcely a year after his death, he would marry the aging Herbert Hoover, one of the more respected gentlemen of Illinois society next to the young Ronald Reagan and almost rivaling in importance to the criminal gangs led by the Yankee boys of Hubert Humphrey.
By 1964, he was estimated to be nearly 300 million in worth with his dozens of assets and mansion styled safe houses which he would move from place to place to, finding a love for one in Paradise Valley. While in talks with the New Chinese Triads which began to set up in California, he would be gunned down walking out of a meeting, leading to many conspiracy theories thanks to the lackluster FBI report, which chalked it up to a lone wolf assault on
Cactus Goldilocks.