Warsaw Pact on Alert!

SOVIET TROOPS MOVE TO POLISH-GERMAN BORDER!

Moscow denies hostile intent as second armoured division moves towards Baltic.

Speaking at a press conference in Berlin today Colonel-General Manfred Griem of the Oberkommando der Reichswehr annouced that the 8th Panzer Division and the 2nd Luftangriff Division will be deployed to Eastern Poland, while an extra infantry brigade is sent to reinforce East Prussia's existing defences.

The planned deployments will bring the number of German division stationed in Poland to eight, doubling the number regularly based in the country under the European Defence Inititive. France and Great Britain are also expected to announce reinforcements to their standing forces in Eastern Europe within the next few days.

Today's moves are just the latest in a series of events that has seen tensions and military expenditure rise through Europe. In Feburary this year Poland announced it intended to purchase a further 150 AMX 98 tanks from France and 60 Fairey Scorpion helicopter gunships, while both Romania and Finland have ordered Supermarine Osprey fighter bombers.

In related news Communist deputies in the Italian lower house have tabled a motion to abrogate the Warsaw Treaty and withdraw from what one described as "A pact of imperialist warmongers bent on started a world war!". While the current Italian coalition government is dominated by parties from the centre and the right of the political spectrum left wing and communist parties have been gaining ground since the collapse of the Fascist regime and the return of full democracy in the 1970's.
 
OOC: Is a certain Mikhail Suslov running the Soviet Union? I'm curious, because I think he may be enough of a nut to try something...
 
OOC: I tend to disagree, since I tend to use situations to reflect you've got wacko radicals/moderates/reformers in charge and then try to use the biases of these leaders to reflect the situation. But its your thread..

I find people spend too much time and effort sticking in random people from OTL because they think it's funny, and that distracts from the world building aspect of things.

IC: The situation in Asia appears to be worsening as well. The ChiComms appear to have staged a coup in Burma, removing the last pro-western regime on the Asian Mainland. An allied Buildup in Jakarta and Taipei is intensifying, and it seems that Asia, as much as Europe, will be a massive brawl.

((A bit to much, too soon I think. Rampaging Super-Commies running riot all over the place isn't where I was thinking of going with this. I'm seeing more of an extended 1920's vibe, with the colonial powers keeping a bit more of a grip on their empires, though not a perfect one, an isolationist America and a Japan trying to maintain a military backed empire in China long after it's a viable option.

Sorry if this sounds like I'm putting excess rules on a DB but recently I've seen too many of them spin out of control and lose plausibility.

Perhaps this is the start of something new, the guided Double Blind))
 
I find people spend too much time and effort sticking in random people from OTL because they think it's funny, and that distracts from the world building aspect of things.



((A bit to much, too soon I think. Rampaging Super-Commies running riot all over the place isn't where I was thinking of going with this. I'm seeing more of an extended 1920's vibe, with the colonial powers keeping a bit more of a grip on their empires, though not a perfect one, an isolationist America and a Japan trying to maintain a military backed empire in China long after it's a viable option.

Sorry if this sounds like I'm putting excess rules on a DB but recently I've seen too many of them spin out of control and lose plausibility.

Perhaps this is the start of something new, the guided Double Blind))

OOC: Sorry about that. I try to never do the random people stuff, and I'd had no idea as to your original intent. Indeed, I got the initial year wrong and indeed, I'm confused over the original post. The Headline says that Soviet Forces move to the German-Polish border, but then that Germany has placed eight divisons in Poland, which is very confusing.

I respect your attempts to guide a DBWI to greatness, I've done this elsewhere. I have removed the previous post. Let me try something like this...

IC: US Government official response to posturing in Europe can be summarized as: "It is none of our business, look at Washington's farewell address."

Leaders of the interventionalist faction, led by the senior senator of Texas, has launched a spirited effort to help "our Anglo-German cousins" in Europe, but this senator and a few other congressmen represent only a small fringe of the US Congress.

To be sure, there is a debate in Washington over what, if any, involvement the United States should play in these tense times. Some, such as the enviornmental and religious lobbies, favor strict neutrality, while business interests and consumer groups have used the opportunity to suggest modifications to tariffs. The United States own socialist party opposes these efforts, and urges "solidarity with the world's workers", but their voice is also small.

The US Chamber of Commerce is reporting a "Capital Flight" from Central Europe, and the markets are down roughly 3% on the "war scare in Europe". No word yet from the US President or the Secretary of State.
 
OOC: Sorry about that. I try to never do the random people stuff, and I'd had no idea as to your original intent. Indeed, I got the initial year wrong and indeed, I'm confused over the original post. The Headline says that Soviet Forces move to the German-Polish border, but then that Germany has placed eight divisons in Poland, which is very confusing.

((It was meant to be a red herring, as was the use of Warsaw Pact. German-Polish border refers to the German border, (East Prussia), and the Polish border with Russia, while the Warsaw Pact is still a mutual defence treaty signed in Warsaw, but it's between Western and Central European nations opposed to the Soviet Union.))
 
IC: US Government official response to posturing in Europe can be summarized as: "It is none of our business, look at Washington's farewell address."

Leaders of the interventionalist faction, led by the senior senator of Texas, has launched a spirited effort to help "our Anglo-German cousins" in Europe, but this senator and a few other congressmen represent only a small fringe of the US Congress.

To be sure, there is a debate in Washington over what, if any, involvement the United States should play in these tense times. Some, such as the enviornmental and religious lobbies, favor strict neutrality, while business interests and consumer groups have used the opportunity to suggest modifications to tariffs. The United States own socialist party opposes these efforts, and urges "solidarity with the world's workers", but their voice is also small.

The US Chamber of Commerce is reporting a "Capital Flight" from Central Europe, and the markets are down roughly 3% on the "war scare in Europe". No word yet from the US President or the Secretary of State.

So the majority of US politicians are sticking with the Soviet Union and Communism being strictly a "European problem" then?

You'd think after 90 years that sort of isolationist sentiment would have run out of steam. Perhaps if the US was prepared to join things like the League of Nations or the Permanent Court of International Justice then there'd be fewer situations like this?
 
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