DBWI: How will we stop the menace of Sternberg's Mongolia?

Oweno

Banned
We all know the Original mad Baron ruled from 1921-1941? And than his son ruled until 1997, but i fear that the newest Sternberg has been the worst. What are your opinions?

OOC: To tell you this Mongolia is a Hermit State like North Korea. Also in this timeline China, excluding Manchuria is under Nationalist Control.
 
Well, the Glorious New Imperium of Outer Mongolia is unlikely to go away any time soon. It seems to be a threat to no one but its own people, who must, certainly, have their faces all trapped in a rictus of terror. On a geopolitical level, however, Mongolia serves as a useful buffer state between the Soviet Union and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. That way, there is only the (relatively stable) in Transbaikal. I can assure you that, were the border to extend further, war would become much more likely between those rivals.

You can say a lot of bad things about the Sternbergs, but they seem to be reliably neutral in world affairs. I like to think that, if the West continues to bring humanitarian aid and assistance there, the situation may change - but who's to say? Perhaps, someday, totalitarianism in Mongolia will fall like it has in some of the crazier socialist states of Europe - actual democracy may be too much to hope for, but at least some kind of more enlightened dictatorship.
 
Personally I think there ought to be some kind of humanitarian intervention into Mongolia, the Sternbergs have been a human rights disaster from the beginning and they're only getting worse. That's not to mention that they're supposedly trying to get nuclear weapons; I don't know about you but I'm not comfortable with one of the world's most mentally unstable dictatorial families having their finger on the button.
 

Oweno

Banned
Well, the Glorious New Imperium of Outer Mongolia is unlikely to go away any time soon. It seems to be a threat to no one but its own people, who must, certainly, have their faces all trapped in a rictus of terror. On a geopolitical level, however, Mongolia serves as a useful buffer state between the Soviet Union and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. That way, there is only the (relatively stable) in Transbaikal. I can assure you that, were the border to extend further, war would become much more likely between those rivals.

You can say a lot of bad things about the Sternbergs, but they seem to be reliably neutral in world affairs. I like to think that, if the West continues to bring humanitarian aid and assistance there, the situation may change - but who's to say? Perhaps, someday, totalitarianism in Mongolia will fall like it has in some of the crazier socialist states of Europe - actual democracy may be too much to hope for, but at least some kind of more enlightened dictatorship.

OOC: When i said Manchuria I meant that it was under the Control of Communists
 
All the Ungerns have been insane. They still have that official policy of 'holy euthanasia', or whatever they call it, which basically gives them the 'right' to kill anyone they want with the justification that those murdered will be reincarnated as stronger beings. The sick thing is that after so many decades of indoctrination the majority of the population actually believes it!
 

NapoleonXIV

Banned
OTOH they do have the most secure Internet server farms in the world. Bloody hell if I'm going in there just to find out who downloads illegal mp3
 

Oweno

Banned
Just to say its the Big Three really. The DPR Korea, DR China(Manchuria) and the Imperium of Greater Mongolia that are just buffers between the USSR and the Republic of China. But who's Side is Mongolia on? The have had problems with the Communists we all, know that, but they also hate Republicanism. What an unusual World we live in. With the Sternbergs and the Kim Jong-il. And than Manchuria under Chairman Chen for so long. And now their power struggle that has been going on.

ooc; Chen is supposed to be Chen Pixian
 
With the Sternberg regime currently in place, their sale of nuclear weapons to the rogue states of Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Indonesia have served as a major destabilization force in post-Cold War politics since 1991. The United States and Coalition forces might not have had to send troops into Damascus in 2003 or Tehran in 2004.

One thing that is certain is that without the Sternberg regime in place, the United States and the members of the SEATO Pact members would have allowed P.M. Shintaro Ishihara's rearmament of Japan starting in 1989. Also, you probably wouldn't have had the assassination of President Ferdinand Marcos in Manila in 1972...
 
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