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Chapter 6: The New World in a New World
The war was technically over, yet fighting was not. A ravaged Old World still proved chaotic, yet the New World remained stable. Canada still rested comfortably with Britain, easily the safest of all the dominions. This relative security came from the sheer distance away from the Commonwealth's potential enemies. Inevitable German acquisition of African and Asian lands from France did little to ease worries of those in say South Africa or the Raj, regardless of whether or not those fears were reasonable. The Americas were left untouched by the Kaiser for obvious reasons, and it was safe to assume no war between the United Kingdom and Imperial Germany would take place soon.

They certainly were not under any pressure from the south. The United States nearly always had a policy of keeping out of European politics, especially now that Europe had been won by a nation they were technically still warring with. In fact the majority of Americans wanted nothing to do with matters across the Atlantic, feeling that the successful protection of their trading ships was all which needed to be done going into the future. Not that trading with the outside was particularly encouraged during the postwar era. Rather America found itself recoiling from outward exchange in favor of internal development and a sort of self-sufficiency through increasingly high tariffs. Woodrow Wilson continued on with his second term, scorned by many as the man who threw a ludicrous number of dollars towards a now defunct Allies. Most cynical of all was Theodore Roosevelt, who famously stated in September of 1918 that "We wouldn't be in this mess if only that damn Wilson had a spine in his back!" There was seemingly only one option for the U.S.A., get paid its due.

Latin America, as always, proved a complex matter. Numerous European-controlled islands continued to dot the Caribbean. The independent states inside and along the sea were effectively now free of Europe's aggressive demands for debt payment, in exchange for further domination from a paranoid America, a trade off whose impacts would simply have to be seen. Further south Brazil was in a similar situation to the United States, a late comer to the Great War and one that had done next to no ground fighting. It is therefore unsurprising that they too opted to close themselves off from much of the globe. As for the rest of South America, they proved far more willing to interact with the outside world, often out of economic necessity, and it remained to be seen how exactly they were to fit into a world where Germany was top dog.

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