For a new member, I have to say that your ability to create alternate news articles is pretty impressive. Excellent work!
Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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Pretty much an error on my part! Thanks for reading though!! I'm also glad to have you along
After the election!
Labour candidate for Ward 15 Boston.
<3 I KNOW I've seen your name before in the like notifications so I'm glad you've decided to chime in! I'm so glad that you've joined just for this haha, I hope there's a lot other stuff on here that you enjoy!
I am moving soon, I might need to think of a new title...
Israel was unilaterally declared during the late 1940s while Britain was busy with the German Civil War. Unable to stop it, the British were forced to simply allow it to proceed. The last chance to reclaim it ended when Stalin (who had been victorious by 1950 and was invading Romania), sent troops and support to Israel to help establish the state. Thus, Israel became a Soviet-backed (but not puppet state) of the Soviet Union. Stalin had no real care about angering the British by invading "their land," he had planned on invading all of Europe. He died before this could happen, which is how the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe. No veneer of "Nazi liberation," so the term "Evil Empire" was more aptly used.
Israel and South Africa grew close recently. Israel has long had a chemical and biological weapons programme, and it has always been somewhat of a pariah, the United States does not maintain relations with it and Britain still never fully, and legally, recognised their separation. They only have an interests section in Jerusalem. The sense of fear and isolation led both Israel and South Africa to work together throughout the 1960s to the present day, but only during the past 20 years or so have they become close allies. The Soviet Union under Gorbachev withdrew from their more questionable operations, and allowed the peaceful secession of the Baltic states. With Soviet support gone, Israel needed someone. Israeli technology is used across South Africa, and South African labour and resources are used in Israel.
Much like how radical Islam OTL does not reflect Islam, Israel's state ideology is a radical interpretation of Zionism and Judaism. Antisemitism really doesn't as we know it, it petered out in the 1950s with the European depression and then rebirth of the economy.
It could be wonderfully corrupt or perfectly clean. Who knows!
It's canon now!
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It's called a purrito obviously.The highest quality of memes. Here, have a kitty burrito photo.
Now we just have to wait for the Social Labor primaries, where Donald Trump wins the delegate vote whilst losing the popular vote.
Why thank you. It took a lot of time and effort, and I’m glad to see it paid off.
Interesting. I assume that means there was greater Jewish migration to Israel before that time then?
Are there any other nasty pariah states in the world, or is it just SA and Israel?
That’s actually really interesting. I hadn’t paid as much attention to the Tri-City region as some other bits, but going back, it’s really interesting, and yeah, it must have been hard to work out the governance of a trans-national megacity. I hope we’ll be seeing more of it.
It's canon now!
*a full hour of happy dancing*
I do not deserve this honour. I hope I’m not interfering too much with your plans for the timeline.
Bipartisan cooperation? On climate change, no less?
I don’t care what’s going on in South Africa, or the USSR, or China, or the fact that we had Prime Minister Pauline Hanson.
I want to go to this world, right now.
Also, another couple of questions.
I’ve seen some thumbnails of flags in your country lists that look quite intriguing. Could we see a larger version of these flags (I’m assuming you have them somewhere), especially of Brazil, India and the Commonwealth?
Also, what’s up with Arabia and the rest of the Middle East, how’d that turn out the way it did? (Assuming alternate treaties at the end of WW1, but interested to know the how and why.)
Sorry for bombarding you with questions, I’ll go back into hiding now...
EDIT: You must have cute cat pictures.
Here you go.
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Torrington, Connecticut? Huh, that's strange considering what your OTL mayor is doing ITTL.
From a few pages back:
I hope to get more things about each candidate personally. I actually know Carbone fairly well... she's actually my mayor
Also this:
This is what you get to do when writing your own timeline. Mayor of your small Connecticut town to future Prime Minister of New England is well within the realms of the butterflies.
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