Clearly, then, the Allies have the opportunity to do the funniest invasion: Land further south (say, IDK, Mo i rana, a quick google maps suggests that Norway is fairly 'thin' at that point) as so to cut off the more northerly German garrisons.
Now, I am assuming that most of the German...
...Do you know of any good books on the Marder program? Because (absent the fact that, well, feeding the Nazi war machine) that sounds like something of a lark.
As for how to get the ball rolling in the first place: There is, of course, always the old reliable that is Corruption. Someone on the committee had been on a Kenyan Safari once and really really wanted to go back. Or had an interest in a local construction company or railway line. Or just...
Did you know Mount Kilimanjaro has a large crater at the top of it, on account of it being a dormant volcano?
Consider! The Commonwealth could have a Space Launch Facility situated A) on top of a volcano B) in a crater C) at the top of a mountain.
AKA: The Commonwealth could have a literal...
Wait wait wait. This implies (eventually) a rather healthy Commonwealth Space Program, because Telecoms Satellites will be a godsend.
This opens the possibility of a CW Apollo (Moon Landing) program.
Which means that, in a sense, the Commonwealth is decentralising in order to Centralise (or rather, consolidate.) An interesting perspective I hadn't considered!
Oh, oh, I can answer this one!
DeLeonism is secretly a Bourgeois ideology presented as a Socialist one and then propped up in order to undermine Leninism, the TRUE SOCIALISM.
Well, if sufficient Bushido Spirit can overcome any material inferiority, then clearly, the IJA is simply demonstrating insufficient Bushido Spirit.
Or, to put it another way, it's a skill issue.
I could see that ending up with the Imperial Government (Begrudgingly) acceding to Nationalist terms, especially with an assumption that the Nationalists will be able to Co-opt many defecting Federalists.