Klein is back in America?
That's right boys and girls. He didn't get to be America's Caesar, but "America's Alcibiades" is back in town.
Hopefully he doesn't last long...
There are Americans in-universe who share that opinion, they're a minority at the moment however.
Anyways, we've just found ourselves an another gay hipster America that's also militaristic AF, and another that make use of LTTW's Historic Points of Controversy. Moderated riots when?
Who's using Heritage Points of Controversy ITTL?
Man.
Xerxes won that election fairly.
Rigged. How anti-Elephant is this America!
I was so sad to hear that his win was given to someone else.
He ran in a district in California where most of the population had either died or been evacuated due to Japanese biological weapons and local politics were so disorganized that the only options were the Utopian (Communist) candidate, a joke candidate, and a write-in, and the joke candidate won.
I was gonna do a write up involving something that resembles the Hobbit if it was co written by Robert E Howard. But i forgot to ask if it was cool and then forgot it completely.
I think it sounds pretty cool.
I mean, he's probably a very old man right now.
Not that old. The timeline in my notes has a spot labelled "Arthur Klein's Last Act" and we haven't gotten there yet.
Klein returned from abroad, huh?
After all the new anti-Drakia sentiment, President Perdue is probably despised worldwide for cutting the First American-Drakian war loose
Yeah, Perdue is not popular.
On gas masks I'm wondering if later models in the coming decades might be able to supply front line soldiers with a "berserker cocktail". Since high casualty rates would probably be considered the norm in most engagements in future engagements. So you'll probably be seeing a focus more on getting the most use out of your troops in the now instead of worrying about their long term health.
Drakia does have a "berserker cocktail" they use with their Bonded conscripts. You have to inject it separately though, it isn't built into their gas masks or anything like that.
You know considering all of the troops returning back homr after spending nearly a decade at war probably won't be able to adjust back to civilian life very well or at all. With them basically returning to different country then the one they left to defend all those years ago and well the first fascist organizations of OTL were made up of veterans from WW1...
Veterans are playing a major role in the tumultuous American political scene; they helped put Iyaa Nacuaa over the top and a lot of lost vets are being drawn into the new political movements.
Klein is probably going to be quietly retired after his pardon, I doubt even with him helping the Europeans, after losing two wars to Drakia, Americans won't look kindly on anyone who served them.
Oh, he's not allowed to rejoin the USN. He's being pardoned and permitted to come home as a private citizen, nothing more.
Klein for President!
Why? Because us readers need to hear more tales of our favorite scoundral admiral screwing around in the white house.
The presidency
has always been his long-term goal.
I still don't get how any POTUS could pardon a literal traitor whose actions prior to and during the First Drakian-American not only undermined civilian control over the US Military but also revealed him to be completely and utterly self-serving with absolutely no qualms about switching sides to save his own skin and being completely uncontrollable. Furthermore, his actions in service of the Drakian regime with his significant experience within the US Armed forces and access to massive amounts of classified and otherwise confidential information likely directly led to the deaths US Servicemen and when combined with his actions in improving the Drakian armed forces as a whole one could lay hundreds if not thousands of American dead at his feet.
While his actions in service of the Rex powers could serve to rehabilitate him somewhat the man remains guilty of committing treason of the highest order whose actions directly lead to the deaths of countless Americans which would lead to the Nacuaa's administration granting him a Presiditional pardon to seem utterly absurd. Washington wouldn't give Benedict Arnold a pardon if he found himself fighting with French against the British why would Nacuaa a leatherneck who fought in the Sinai and the Levant and would see first hand the results of Klein's treachery do the same?
Anti-Drakian sentiment is at an all time high in the states- while Japan is reviled also, the way the Empire' jumped in to stab America in the back means that it's difficult to say which country Americans genuinely hate more. President Perdue is widely despised for ceding victory in the First Draco-American War, while Klein's image has been rehabilitated as "a far-seeing military genius who identified the Drakian threat early and was on the verge of winning when the politicians stabbed him in the back" by his supporters. He's also put about that he predicted the Drakian invasion of Italy (kind of) and that he was the reason why the Pan-Europeans won on that front (lol) and claims that his defection to Drakia was merely a ploy to infiltrate the Empire and learn its secrets so as to take it down (not remotely true, although he is bringing a fair amount of intelligence on the inner-workings of the Drakian Navy and its leadership with him- plus some more recent intelligence on the Pan-Europeans) and the American people are in a mood to believe him. The degree to which he assisted the Drakian regime during his defection isn't obvious to the general public, and most aren't aware of it.
Those Centro Americans would fare better inside the US. Electing Nacuaa would probably have appeased them in some measure. Can't understand why would they want independence if they are getting the right to vote and to be a state.
It's like Alexander the Average said. The Centroamericans never forgave the United States for conquering them and trying to force them to become Americans, nor were they keen on fighting in America's wars. Plus the state governments they were given weren't truly democratic- when they held free elections the separatists won and so the US basically banned anyone in favor of secession from holding office in the Central American states.
Thank you!
And? Leaving aside the fact that they're an entirely different ethnicity from a different region entirely, just having a minority leader doesn't resolve the many structural and historical grievances that the Centroamericans will have towards the United States. If the British Empire had a Nigerian Prime Minister would that make Kenyans more happy to be part of the British Empire?
Very much this.
Another great update! Centroamerican secession was a painful issue (the population movements and ensuing violence reminded me of the India/Pakistan partition of OTL) but ultimately one that had to be dealt with at some point, and it's probably better to have ripped off the bandaid with a veneer of constitutionality than let it keep festering. Unfortunately, the situation with Guatemala may keep things pretty contentious in the region for a while, and the provisional Centroamerican government isn't really in the best position economically or geopolitically. They're sandwiched between territory of their former overlords and may be in significant debt to them as well once all the lawsuits are through, so it's likely they'll remain an American client-state simply due to having no other choice.
Also, the hints of the developing Situationist ideology are sounding very intriguing. Its role in China is particularly worth considering, since the country has had a very different experience in this timeline. Even though it's cliche to speculate on what happens to historic figures in alternate history scenarios, you have to wonder how folks like Chiang and Mao have been doing under Imperial Democracy. What ideological conclusions would Chinese intellectuals draw from their nation's progress from the Qing to the Tian to the Japanese?
Thank you! I based Centroamerican secession partly off of the Partition of India and partly off of the Partition of Ireland. Things will be unsettled in that part of the world for a while to come, but it's still an improvement over fighting forever.
As for China, we'll be getting there soon. I haven't done much with China yet ITTL, but it will be playing a larger role in the future.
Wonder if the US had some type of jet powered equivalent to the flying fortress considering the lack of rocket technology.
They did. Cannon.
Anyway's I picture the tank technology of this world will be a bit different from OTL especially long term. Since in OTL the line of tank development was mostly centered around the planned idea of a Soviet thrust into the fulda gap during the Cold War. While here with the multipolar nature of this world it will probably be a bit different. With the United States and Japan planning for an island hopping campaign against each other, while Draka would be planning for both fighting India in the deserts of the middle East & another campaign into the Balkans, personally I'd expect Europe to be the closest to the tank development of OTL. Interestingly it probably wasn't until after the various wars of the 40's that the nations switched over to the mbt model even though mechanical they were all closer to post ww2/early cold war styled tanks, so you probably saw light, medium and heavy tanks in action.
As for some other stuff they might of explored with.
Holy cow, that's some cool stuff there. I might actually end up using a picture of that upgraded Stuart in the TL just because it looks so futuristic.
