Who are these investors? Isn't this a socialist America?
The same kind of investors that invest in OTL China. Think of it in those terms.
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Who are these investors? Isn't this a socialist America?
Did not expect Nixon to appear like that.America's Top Cop
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Richard Nixon (1982-1993)
American Socialist Party
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Richard Nixon was a historic selection to be Prime Minister. Having never been a proper member of Congress, many were hesitant at the decision, but the NBI Director was able to twist enough arms to outmaneuver the "dangerous reformer" Eddie Brown.
The real mystery lies in why the NBI Director sought to become Prime Minister. Some claim he had wanted the position to lead the nation his whole life, others claim the idea first sparked in his mind when his mentor and predecessor John Hoover had orchestrated the take-down of Prime Minister Wallace or when John Hoover almost sought the position himself in the wake of McGovern stepping down, and still others think that it was merely to prevent the radical Brown from ascending to be Prime Minister.
Nixon's rise was slow, being nearly seventy years old upon becoming Prime Minister. It had started in the thirties, after he became a special agent for the Bureau of Investigation. In the forties, he proved his worth by tracking down reactionaries and fascists such as actor Ronald Reagan and MacArthur sympathizer Barry Goldwater. After testifying several times to CASIC, his actions saw him promoted to an office based job in New York, where he quickly impressed NBI Director John Hoover with his genius and capability in handling massive amounts of information. He was taken under Hoover's wing and was the obvious successor when he died in 1971.
As Prime Minister, Richard Nixon was given an honorary seat in Congress and place on the Executive Council (eventually seeing McGovern step down as Chief Director in 1985 and allowing Nixon himself to fill the position). Despite the differing backgrounds, Nixon proved to be similar to Prime Minister Jackson before him, focusing his efforts on foreign policy and national stability more than anything else, especially after he gutted much of NSEA after American astronaut Jon Huntsman landed on the Moon in 1988.
His first mission was to oversee Brazil's victory in the Argentine-Brazilian War without letting the conflict flesh out into a conflict between Germany and the USSA. He negotiated for Angola, which had come under Communist rule during the Jackson Era, to be used as a staging ground and thus prevent Argentina from using South Africa as a base to attack from. As the war continued, Argentina continued her march northwards, but a dirty bomb used in 1983 stopped the Argentine Army in her tracks. Germany went to the ICN to get a condemnation of Brazil's use of nuclear material, but it was vetoed by America and Iran. A second dirty bomb detonated in Buenos Aires crippled the Argentine Government and allowed Brazil and the USSA to sweep in and install a puppet regime in 1985.
Prime Minister Nixon quickly had to turn his attention to the Middle East. Something which had only really been noticed when Germany tried to condemn Brazil's use of nuclear material was the growing rivalry between supposedly neutral Turkey and American ally Iran - which seemed to be driving Turkey into the hands of the Third Reich. And so Richard Nixon began funding Communist and Kurdish rebels in the country, a process overseen by Minister of Defense Oliver North. Turkey would erupt into Civil War in 1988, with semi-socialist Greece taking advantage of the chaos and taking some previously Turkish land. While Germany was angered by this, American hands were clean, and a united ICN force went into Turkey in 1989 to ensure stability. However, this forced Turkey out of the Permanent Defense Council, allowing it to be replaced by Brazil.
It was around that time in which Prime Minister Nixon began ardently funding Russian rebels based in the Urals who opposed the puppet state that Germany had installed in the country. While it wouldn't come to much during his tenure, when the funding was discovered to be coming by selling nuclear secrets to Egypt, a nationalist and capitalist state, it caused what today is known as the Cairo-Urali Scandal, which would cause a the first ever Vote of No Confidence to be made on a Prime Minister in 1991. Although it would fail, it made Prime Minister Nixon increasingly paranoid and saw him increasingly listen to Deputy Chief Director of the Executive Council Richard Cheney.
It was not soon after that the economy collapsed and investors pulled out of America. Although there were fears that this might lead to another Civil War as it had in the 1930s, Prime Minister Nixon exerted the remaining influence he had over the NBI to crack down on riots and ensure foodstuffs were distributed fairly, as well as to ensure workers kept performing their job, even with their wages diminishing. He would not have the country collapse on his watch.
Ultimately his last two years in office would prove uneventful due to his loss of much support after the Cairo-Urali Scandal. He would leave office in 1993, his retirement proving to be very well timed as he died in 1994, with people forever having a mixed opinion of him.
When shall the USSA come to a end?
Did not expect Nixon to appear like that.AROOO!
(Sorry, haha, couldn't resist.)
America is certainly feeling the Bern...
When shall the USSA come to a end?
It is possible that it may reform into something elese, but i think unless the next premir is a really bad one it wont collpse soon
Interesting that Congress actually matters - sure, members who get too far out of line can be hanged, but power struggles and policy debates play out there rather than in some smaller politburo or central committee, and political disputes seem to be conducted very openly for a Soviet-style regime. Are there actual competitive elections for Congressional seats, at least within the party? If not, what power bases do individual Congressmen have that enables them to do something other than toe whatever line the current leadership draws?
It's also ironic that civil rights happened later in the USSA than OTL, which is something I can very easily see happening.
It was Nazi Germany, though.![]()