The Iron Eagle - The History of the Cold War

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jasper the spectator

xrom said:
Kill Long,If the fool lives he will not help Russia and the fall of Russia might start an snowball effect.How long will Britain will oppose Germany if USA is not willing to defend an ally from german agression,how long till the british public and politicians decide that is better to improve relations and secure trade with germany.The Germans are willing to improve relations and open to trade while the americans are isolationist and unwiling to help allies.

Honestly if the american president is unwilling to do anything about nazi influence, an military coup is preferable than allow an idiotic leadership in charge.
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A. It is heavily implied that whoever is president in the US during the Ural War is gonna help Russia. If Long is still president he probably is helping Russia.
B. The first chapter on the Ural War explicitly says that it crushed any remaining hope in Britain for a detente with the Germans. It also states it crushed "a Prime Minister and the entire British establishment" which probably implies a more anti-Nazi government is currently in power. And it doesn't seem like the Germans are willing to give the concessions needed to make Britain an ally anyway.
Kaiser of Brazil said:
Huey Long's "Here I stand" Speech
June 5th, 1956
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Great little speech. Here's to 4 more years!
Also based on these teasers why do i feel like this is gonna be your longest chapter yet? (as in more than 12k words).
 

comrade cat

Kaiser of Brazil said:
Huey Long's "Here I stand" Speech
June 5th, 1956


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"My dear Americans, I am afraid due to medical impediments I cannot stay for long so I shall be brief. I must thank the medical team and those who cared for me in these hard weeks, above all I thank God for granting me the opportunity to do much more with my life. When I was shot twenty years ago, I remember praying to the creator that I live longer, so I could do more, so I could give more. That mercy was granted once and it was granted again this last month. I feared for my life, as any human does, even Christ himself sweat blood on the night before his judgment, I feared that this could be the end and America would be mourning. There were many who wanted me to quit, I ran two terms, they said, I gave America far more than was expected of me and I had earned a retirement back in my home in Louisiana. A third term? So many asked me why to continue this effort, why I continue to put myself as a target of slander and bullets. I wondered that myself, I was waiving off from deciding to run again until that day. In this time I realized what is at stake, Americans, it is no secret that I anger many, those in power who have been shaken and broken, great giants like the Rockefellers and Fords all around have done everything to bring me down long before I was even in Politics back in my home. The Democrats and Republicans for a century have controlled the politics of the country, playing us off one another while on the background they party together, while they are paid by the same corrupt bosses, while they play the same dirty tricks, there are very little differences between them. I was a threat to those who play off the people against one another, blacks and whites, silver and gold, dry and wet, liberal and conservative, they made labels for us to forget our common roots as Americans, picking up teams and distracting us with politics while they exploited us.

I was one of the many who was exploited, who was deluded, I used to call myself a Democrat, I used to give myself labels and think politics was about who sits in the White House and does magic to help the people. But when I got to Congress I realized that they were all alike, I saw a congress bribed, I saw a Callous White House who cared little for the people who put them in there. George Washington and the Founders have created a nation with all liberty and opportunity a man needed, but this dream was taken from us along the way by the wealthy, who created an establishment who used Tyranny that would make men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson faint in horror at what they created. America was being crushed, which is why I joined politics, which is why I wanted to break this engine who crushed the common man under the tyranny of the wealthy. I reject socialism, those ideals are inherently against the American Spirit, their system crushes the individual. I reject Nazism and their autocracy, of believing a race above others and a leader above them all. I rejected the establishment, the corruption and bargaining that for so long has crushed the common American. Which is why I became their target, because once I was in the White House I was able to do something about it. We have crushed the Monopolies like Roosevelt, we have crushed the Aristocrats like Lincoln and freed the American people, we crushed the Financial system and the debt slavery like Jackson. No more would you spend your life working for a meager of the gains of your boss, now you have the money to prosper by yourself, to be your own boss, to raise your children in this beautiful God-given land. No more do you have to fear that a burn would make you broke in medical bills you could not afford. No more you have to fear your children will go through your difficulties, now they have studies, now they have transportation, teachers, schools, meals, they have a brighter future that we could never have.

That is why I became a target, my dear Americans. I represented to them the rise of you, I was to them this brighter future where we no longer have to toil for them. I repeat, we are not socialists, if you create a company and grow thanks to the Lord's blessings, it is your right to enjoy the fruit of your sweat. But just because you are cooking the meat, doesn't mean you get to keep the barbecue, just because you own the company does not mean you must keep your workers down! The greatness of America is that we are such a wealthy and free land that any man can grow, but if we have the strong crushing the weak, if we have the few smashing the many, then we are no better than those men in jackboots who trample on freedom! Because how can you be free if you must work day and night and still struggle to feed yourself? How can you be free if you must beg for scraps because you were laid off after losing a finger on a machine? How can you be free when you are taxed to the last penny while the wealthy never get to pay their due? I fought for freedom far more than any of those who accuse me, because they speak of the freedom on papers, but I speak of the freedom of reality, I speak of the freedom which you truly need to enjoy the other freedoms! That is why they slander me day and night, that is why they use their corrupt system against me and others of my mind, that is why they attack my family and now they finally resorted to attacking with bullets!

But here I stand before you, the Common men and women of America, the people who build this country, the people who toil day and night and are finally receiving their due! I stand here to tell you that they want to turn back the clock, they want to turn back to the time where they could divide us, weaken us, enoying all their benefits and priviledges while our meager rights and liberties are crushed under Corrpution and Monopolies! But I am here to announce that I will not let them do that while I breathe! They break the law, so the law will come for them, they fight against Justice so Justice will fight back, they fight dirty but we will fight clean and show them that just like our forefathers we will not give up on our Freedom! I will run for a Third Term because the country needs me, I will sacrifice again my health, I will sacrifice my life if I must, but I will fight for you! They are weakening, they are desperate, resorting to breaking the minimum decency of respecting someone's life, this may not be the last time they try it, but I will not let fear stop me from this fight as God is my witness! Thank you for your prayers, thank you for your vigils, thank you for your support, and let us give these Tyrants the Justice they deserve!"
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Every man a king!
 
Rajveer Naha

Rajveer Naha

Kaiser of Brazil said:
Huey Long's "Here I stand" Speech
June 5th, 1956


View attachment 816406


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"My dear Americans, I am afraid due to medical impediments I cannot stay for long so I shall be brief. I must thank the medical team and those who cared for me in these hard weeks, above all I thank God for granting me the opportunity to do much more with my life. When I was shot twenty years ago, I remember praying to the creator that I live longer, so I could do more, so I could give more. That mercy was granted once and it was granted again this last month. I feared for my life, as any human does, even Christ himself sweat blood on the night before his judgment, I feared that this could be the end and America would be mourning. There were many who wanted me to quit, I ran two terms, they said, I gave America far more than was expected of me and I had earned a retirement back in my home in Louisiana. A third term? So many asked me why to continue this effort, why I continue to put myself as a target of slander and bullets. I wondered that myself, I was waiving off from deciding to run again until that day. In this time I realized what is at stake, Americans, it is no secret that I anger many, those in power who have been shaken and broken, great giants like the Rockefellers and Fords all around have done everything to bring me down long before I was even in Politics back in my home. The Democrats and Republicans for a century have controlled the politics of the country, playing us off one another while on the background they party together, while they are paid by the same corrupt bosses, while they play the same dirty tricks, there are very little differences between them. I was a threat to those who play off the people against one another, blacks and whites, silver and gold, dry and wet, liberal and conservative, they made labels for us to forget our common roots as Americans, picking up teams and distracting us with politics while they exploited us.

I was one of the many who was exploited, who was deluded, I used to call myself a Democrat, I used to give myself labels and think politics was about who sits in the White House and does magic to help the people. But when I got to Congress I realized that they were all alike, I saw a congress bribed, I saw a Callous White House who cared little for the people who put them in there. George Washington and the Founders have created a nation with all liberty and opportunity a man needed, but this dream was taken from us along the way by the wealthy, who created an establishment who used Tyranny that would make men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson faint in horror at what they created. America was being crushed, which is why I joined politics, which is why I wanted to break this engine who crushed the common man under the tyranny of the wealthy. I reject socialism, those ideals are inherently against the American Spirit, their system crushes the individual. I reject Nazism and their autocracy, of believing a race above others and a leader above them all. I rejected the establishment, the corruption and bargaining that for so long has crushed the common American. Which is why I became their target, because once I was in the White House I was able to do something about it. We have crushed the Monopolies like Roosevelt, we have crushed the Aristocrats like Lincoln and freed the American people, we crushed the Financial system and the debt slavery like Jackson. No more would you spend your life working for a meager of the gains of your boss, now you have the money to prosper by yourself, to be your own boss, to raise your children in this beautiful God-given land. No more do you have to fear that a burn would make you broke in medical bills you could not afford. No more you have to fear your children will go through your difficulties, now they have studies, now they have transportation, teachers, schools, meals, they have a brighter future that we could never have.

That is why I became a target, my dear Americans. I represented to them the rise of you, I was to them this brighter future where we no longer have to toil for them. I repeat, we are not socialists, if you create a company and grow thanks to the Lord's blessings, it is your right to enjoy the fruit of your sweat. But just because you are cooking the meat, doesn't mean you get to keep the barbecue, just because you own the company does not mean you must keep your workers down! The greatness of America is that we are such a wealthy and free land that any man can grow, but if we have the strong crushing the weak, if we have the few smashing the many, then we are no better than those men in jackboots who trample on freedom! Because how can you be free if you must work day and night and still struggle to feed yourself? How can you be free if you must beg for scraps because you were laid off after losing a finger on a machine? How can you be free when you are taxed to the last penny while the wealthy never get to pay their due? I fought for freedom far more than any of those who accuse me, because they speak of the freedom on papers, but I speak of the freedom of reality, I speak of the freedom which you truly need to enjoy the other freedoms! That is why they slander me day and night, that is why they use their corrupt system against me and others of my mind, that is why they attack my family and now they finally resorted to attacking with bullets!

But here I stand before you, the Common men and women of America, the people who build this country, the people who toil day and night and are finally receiving their due! I stand here to tell you that they want to turn back the clock, they want to turn back to the time where they could divide us, weaken us, enoying all their benefits and priviledges while our meager rights and liberties are crushed under Corrpution and Monopolies! But I am here to announce that I will not let them do that while I breathe! They break the law, so the law will come for them, they fight against Justice so Justice will fight back, they fight dirty but we will fight clean and show them that just like our forefathers we will not give up on our Freedom! I will run for a Third Term because the country needs me, I will sacrifice again my health, I will sacrifice my life if I must, but I will fight for you! They are weakening, they are desperate, resorting to breaking the minimum decency of respecting someone's life, this may not be the last time they try it, but I will not let fear stop me from this fight as God is my witness! Thank you for your prayers, thank you for your vigils, thank you for your support, and let us give these Tyrants the Justice they deserve!"
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Long will bring to the American People the true freedom that they long for.

I wonder why people are so afraid of a third term of Long. No one bats an eye at FDR having 4 terms and tampering with the judiciary. If Long wins then too I believe that America and it's system of government and democracy will survive, even if in an imperfect form.
Kaiser of Brazil said:
Imagine if this reality ended with India as the model democracy while the "craddles" of Democracy died.
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Why shouldn't India be the model democracy? India managed to establish a democracy despite the British ruling the country as an autocracy and for the last three decades as an autocracy disguised as an uppercase democracy. That is no small feat by any means. People say that India is the largest democracy but it is also true that in this world India will also be among the oldest democracies. The British, the Americans and few in the Latin America are the only democracies before India (I am not counting the other democracies like France and the Scandinavians which are snuffed out and the many that never form in the first place) India is naturally placed to be the leader of the third world democracies and one of the strongest countries in the free world.
 

Fratsup

I mean people do bat an eye at FDR and his four terms, and frankly a large part of why people do ignore it was that WW2 was going on.
 

Fratsup

I mean democratic does not mean nonracisct. The US was a democracy and they practiced slavery and genocide for most of it's history.
 
Kaiser of Brazil

Kaiser of Brazil

So far I have roughly 3.7 thousand words on a Brazilian chapter and around 3 thousand for the American one. I will see which one of them will be ready first, either way there are nations which will need some "catching up" to do before moving into the 1960s. There is the Korean War and the Algerian War as large-scale conflicts before 1958, there is also Edward doing his shennanigans in Britain in late 1958, and finally a large-scale war in the middle east starting in 1959 while the Germans are fighting a grinding war in the East and their internal politics continue bitting their own tail. And of course we can always have an Italian chapter, although Mussolini will not die before the Ural War's start.
 

jasper the spectator

Kaiser of Brazil said:
So far I have roughly 3.7 thousand words on a Brazilian chapter and around 3 thousand for the American one. I will see which one of them will be ready first, either way there are nations which will need some "catching up" to do before moving into the 1960s. There is the Korean War and the Algerian War as large-scale conflicts before 1958, there is also Edward doing his shennanigans in Britain in late 1958, and finally a large-scale war in the middle east starting in 1959 while the Germans are fighting a grinding war in the East and their internal politics continue bitting their own tail. And of course we can always have an Italian chapter, although Mussolini will not die before the Ural War's start.
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I guess we’re not getting an India and Southeast Asia chapter soon? Also wonder why Japan post-Americans leaving is not included on here. And tbh, after China (before you did the chapter on them), Britain was the next nation I most wanted a chapter for. Looking forward to see how you cover 15 years of British History this TL.
 
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