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Due to worse decisions and different leaders the UK and US screw up the endgame of WW2 and the USSR falls into civil war after the assassination of Stalin.
The surrender of Germany was followed almost immediately by wholesale Allied withdrawal; this enabled a relatively small group of determined men and women, believers in the efficiency of the totalitarian nation-state, to gather in Spain and effectively decapitate the weakening government, and establishing the Trigon Republic.
That this action was possible was due primarily to quarrels that broke out among- the former Allies, a disinclination on the part of any one nation to accept the responsibility for the direct physical action necessary to suppress this new group, and finally the clever use of propaganda and slogans which freely used the terms "democracy," "the people," and other similar terms.
As soon as the new government had firmly consolidated its position in Spain and Spanish Morocco, it began to infiltrate to the north and east. A fertile field for their well planned and executed propaganda was found in southern France, northern Italy, Bavaria, and the Tyrol, where United States occupational forces were rapidly being redeployed. A strong secession movement grew almost overnight in those areas which the weakened central governments of France and Italy and the ineffective provisional government of Bavaria were powerless to prevent. The natural revulsion of these peoples toward communism asserted itself and provided a strong psychological weapon for the organizers. All races and classes were appealed to.
After a brief but violent uprising in early 1946, aided and controlled from the Trigonist capital by means of a highly trained fifth column, these two areas were granted independence, promptly applied for union with Trigon, and were admitted to the Republic.
Immediately upon the successful conclusion of this venture, the Trigonists entered upon a well-balanced and carefully controlled period of intense development and organization of all resources and phases of national life. The immediate goal of national unity and relative self-sufficiency was quickly obtained. In contrast to its neighbors, Trigon was reasonably prosperous and its people happy and contented with the new government which started fulfilling its initial promises. Of course, one distinct advantage enjoyed by the new nation was that the bulk of its lands had escaped the destruction of war which had so severely impaired the national economy of other European nations.
Trigon was in a peculiar position in the world, as the state's able leaders had foreseen. Initially backed in secret by the western allied powers as a buffer against the chaos of the Eastern and Slavic nations and the continued threat of communism, Trigon was even more secretly supported by the rump Comintern as an acceptable vehicle for the spread of communism throughout Catholic Europe and as a buffer to the wealthy western allies. Trigon engaged in a race against time, to become a well established power when the dull and war-weary former allies realized her true ambition and organised to put her down. Her leaders believed that she must strike before that day. Her blow must be against the most powerful nation. While she was doing so the others must be kept placated. The nation to be struck must not be allowed to reach her offensive potential in order to lead the strike against the new nation.
This would lead to the carefully planned campaign against the United Kingdom; devastated by the expenditure of blood and treasure needed to win the World War and now almost bankrupt. The initial states of the plan were threefold:
- To create unrest, social, political and economic within Britain, weakening the country from inside
- To create unrest in British colonies and Dominions, leading to the deployment of available British forces away from the Home Islands
- To isolate Britain from it's former ally, the United States
There were numerous facets to this plan; the support for the resurgent Blueshirt movement in Ireland, and the ramping up of tensions between Britain and Ireland, simultaneous with the building of support for Ireland within the US. The deliberate worsening of tensions and unrest in the British territories of India and Palestine, including false flag terror attacks in the latter, biological sabotage of food supplies in the former and gunrunning in both. The Labour victory in the British election of 1945 was used to instill fears of socialist and communist influence in Britain to American eyes. Soon after this the revelations of Britons within the Manhattan Project spying (like Fuchs, May, Pontecorvo and Hall) for the USSR were made public, leading to the unilateral decision of the US to terminate British access to atomic energy programmes and imprison 'suspect' persons in the US indefinitely. This cooled off UK-US relations for years to come, and began a series of tit-for-tat actions that effectively ended the alliance and ended hopes for the nascent United Nations Organisation.
To Be Continued (well maybe).