Umm, no, getting your agents impregnated by your enemies doesn't actually stop them from fighting you.
It’s a joke.
Umm, no, getting your agents impregnated by your enemies doesn't actually stop them from fighting you.
"So we don't get to see the borders of the different factions in Russia?"
Because they're changing all the time!
One continent versus another. The two brothers raised at birth now stare at each other from across the gulf of the Atlantic and the abyss of what in tarnation are the horrors are going on in Drakia.
Lets uhh, lets defeat all the dragons. That sounds like a good idea right now.
Also we get a map! Nice! It is almost as horrifying as I expected. Let us hope that the poor people under them can get free, in the worst case, at the very least by emigration. Hopefully by Independence.
Something tells me though that it will get worse though and it will only be an if! that it gets better.
What is the likelihood that this ends with Drakia creating a superbug that as it turns out affects them just as much?
Once again, Awesome update, this is probably the most fascinating and horrifying one yet!
Now the Dragon has marooned itself around dangerous waters- Ethiopian emperors, Ashanti amazons, and Sufi zealots oh my. I mean the Rif War with American freedom(tm) aiding the Republic of the Rif? I shudder to think what hell the Drakians are putting their military system through trying to swallow all this down.
Shit, even in this high-water mark of a quasi-civil war within Britain's empire the Drakians have basically been forced to let the Kurds do whatever they what behind the lines of this arrangement with their new... "Martial Race". If they could choose not to I doubt many of the Drakian generals would willingly stomach having to legally treat Johnny-come-the-last-five-minutes the same as the guys whose grandparents knew their grandparents. Now imagine the same scenario with Drakian soldiery spread to the breaking point in 6-7 different ongoing conflicts.
The Drakian political system needs to buckle down and consolidate, last week.
What about single men?
Also, Poland's back does it control Warsaw?
What is Germany like ITTL government-wise? Is it more or less democratic than OTL's Imperial Germany?
Another lovely update, but I must say I'm suprised the Drakians got North Africa (with anything short of a nat 20). The logistics are a massive pain even with rail/air connections and should be easily countered by anglo-american naval dominance, and are close enough to France and Italy that some support from them should be possible (in return for protectorates). Egypt and West Africa seem reasonable, but they've got to be stretched real, real thin digesting all that clay especially after bits of it got a taste of freedom. Still, makes a lot more sense that they take over by subverting British power structures than by rolling in and enslaving everyone as per Stirling's work. How large is the white population, and how outnumbered are they now?
I take it their first and last action after proclaiming themselves a republic was to ask India for annexation, looking at the map.
I’m just surprised that Drakia holds women related or married to male political opponents hostage. I would expect a totalitarian slaveocracy to imprison and perhaps kill the political opponents instead, maybe by framing them for another crime to pretend to follow due process. Imprisoning political opponents occurred even OTL in the British Empire, after all.
So at this point Drakia is a continent-swallowing leviathan that's waged and won a bloody war against the UK......and yet they're still officially calling themselves a Dominion and flying defaced Red Ensigns from ships prefixed "HMDS". That's honestly a pretty amusing image, though I imagine it probably won't be lasting long.
Just caught up on this, it's an amazingly horrifying work. Praying that the dice favor the good old U S of A. On a random note, how's Asian immigration to the US doing? About the same as OTL, less, more?
How about making Geoist Spain green on the map?
Easily the best Draka TL on AH.com. Just wondering, will the von Shrakenbergs make an appearance at all?
ONWARD TO THE FINAL SOCIETY!Under current status, Drakia is doomed in any committed war unless it 1: gets allies or 2: reinvents itself as the superpower state that Stirling envisioned
On *that* general topic, how are Jews treated in Drakia?I can't imagine Drakians taking a favorable position towards Muslims, really. But Middle Eastern Christians might be treated as white?
I'm not saying they'd all accept it wholesale at first glance, just that it's a reasonable compromise that they can make that fits into their burgeoning world-view. They have to pick somebody to not be enemies with, and what better way than to divide the Muslims between arabs and black Africans? If they treat all muslims the same (i.e. as enemies), they can never realistically hold anything north of the Congo as a united Islamic resistance would basically screw them over. They accepted Catholics despite British prejudice at that time, so I can see them making that leap to "proper" strains of Muslims too. We've already seen the mentions of the Sedevacantist Catholic Church, it would be interesting to see a Muslim splinter sect that the Drakians co-opt as part of their new Societist super-state as well. Really, it just makes much more sense for the Drakians to accommodate the "racially similar" Arabs, especially given their worship of Classical Civilizations, so the Draka can claim that they're helping rebuild those cultures via the "actual descendants" of that legacy.I can't imagine Drakians taking a favorable position towards Muslims, really. But Middle Eastern Christians might be treated as white?
If there's one thing that racists are good at though, it's moving the goal posts and deciding on the exception of "acceptable ones" to save themselves from actually dealing with the sheer herculean task of ruling over an entirely hostile majority.Well throughout colonial conquest and (mis)government a lot of the Maghreb and West Africa and the Horn would being coming into a great Islamic revivalism and feverent change and growth under the Sufi lodges and marabouts. So if the Drakia tried to establish (probably ham-fistedly, being a bunch of white dudes interested in maintaining their power not in genuine interactions with their beliefs) an Arab-only Ummah... it's very likely that even the neutrality-leaning, left uncriminalized, conservative schools that would normally indifferently tolerate Drakian rule would rise to "rebellion" against these interlopers.
Plus like most Arabs might not even buy it to begin with, like OTL the Libyan Senussi/Sanusi order was super big on pan-Islamic missionary efforts and colonial resistance- all the way to Lake Chad against the French long before their more famous efforts against fascist Italy. Sure this may have came in part in from a paternistic idea of "civilizing" the black African with the correct form(tm) of Islam and Arab culture but it was also an authentic call for brotherhood and unity against the the imperialists conquering their homes. And the Senussi were far from alone in these sentiments, at one time their leader was exiled from Libya for a good number of years and was basically treated like a celebrity while chilling out in Istanbul.