I found this thread literally today, and I have something to share.
I had been writing up a continuation to Rumsfeldia from where it lasted off. Here is what I have wrote up in mind so far:
The first phase Second American Civil War lasts until early 1992, where the CV are defeated in Georgia after being ejected from DC in fall 1991 and getting overwhelmed by the Northeastern resistance (with assistance from Canada, the UK, and France), the Cubans, the western Bozeman Communes, Texas (with some assistance from Mexico), and local resistance. CV holdouts still remain in various parts of the US after the war though, launching a guerilla campaign against the USA.
Much of the US falls into warlordism and anarchy, with various cities and parts of the country being controlled by local paramilitaries. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain states would form their own country, (which I am calling Bozemania at the moment) and Cuba would annex the southern tip of Florida. Needless to say, the Second Reconstruction is going to be a long and painful as the US has to deal with the humanitarian and economic aftershocks of the war and the warlords, militias, and terrorist groups that want nothing to do with the federal government.
A Second Constitutional Convention is held later in the year that replaces the 205-year-old Constitution with a more modern code of laws. Richard Nixon is elected President of the Second United States Republic, having led the Northeastern states in the civil war, being seen as the only person capable of the job. Spiro Agnew takes office following Nixon’s death in 1994, and proceeds to make a mess of things in the reconstruction process like he had done in ’73. The 1996 presidential election looked sure to be a victory for the We the People party, only for Agnew to die in office, and is succeeded by Vice President Lowell Weicker, who gets narrowly elected basically for now being Agnew. The major parties in the new political system are the center-left Second American Alliance (a merger between the Democratic-Republican parties), the left-wing populist We the People party, the Libertarian Party, and a reemergent Communist Party USA.
In 1990, much of Southern Africa gets turned to glass by Magnus Malan as he increasingly loses his grip on South Africa. Between this, the CVs’ nuking of American cities, and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the early 1990s would see global temperatures plummet and bring a new set of problems to a world stressed by civil conflict and warfare. Areas of Southern Africa would be rendered inhospitable, the rest would be governed by warlords who would constantly clash with each other over border disputes. The Indian Civil War ends at some point in the decade, and leaves India in a balkanized state.
The global situation would be dominated between the liberal democratic Western European nations + Canada & Australia, and the communist, authoritarian Soviet Union and its satellite states. Both factions would continue to treat each other like kids’ gloves going into the 1990s and 2000s, with those relations souring in the 2010s as the Soviet Union slowly reverts back to its authoritarian pre-Rhyzkov self. There are rays of hope though. Some nations, like South Korea and Israel, would eventually democratize by the year 2000. The nuclear disasters in China, India, the USA, and Southern Africa would convince the remaining nuclear powers to disarm.
What do you think so far?
I had been writing up a continuation to Rumsfeldia from where it lasted off. Here is what I have wrote up in mind so far:
The first phase Second American Civil War lasts until early 1992, where the CV are defeated in Georgia after being ejected from DC in fall 1991 and getting overwhelmed by the Northeastern resistance (with assistance from Canada, the UK, and France), the Cubans, the western Bozeman Communes, Texas (with some assistance from Mexico), and local resistance. CV holdouts still remain in various parts of the US after the war though, launching a guerilla campaign against the USA.
Much of the US falls into warlordism and anarchy, with various cities and parts of the country being controlled by local paramilitaries. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain states would form their own country, (which I am calling Bozemania at the moment) and Cuba would annex the southern tip of Florida. Needless to say, the Second Reconstruction is going to be a long and painful as the US has to deal with the humanitarian and economic aftershocks of the war and the warlords, militias, and terrorist groups that want nothing to do with the federal government.
A Second Constitutional Convention is held later in the year that replaces the 205-year-old Constitution with a more modern code of laws. Richard Nixon is elected President of the Second United States Republic, having led the Northeastern states in the civil war, being seen as the only person capable of the job. Spiro Agnew takes office following Nixon’s death in 1994, and proceeds to make a mess of things in the reconstruction process like he had done in ’73. The 1996 presidential election looked sure to be a victory for the We the People party, only for Agnew to die in office, and is succeeded by Vice President Lowell Weicker, who gets narrowly elected basically for now being Agnew. The major parties in the new political system are the center-left Second American Alliance (a merger between the Democratic-Republican parties), the left-wing populist We the People party, the Libertarian Party, and a reemergent Communist Party USA.
In 1990, much of Southern Africa gets turned to glass by Magnus Malan as he increasingly loses his grip on South Africa. Between this, the CVs’ nuking of American cities, and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the early 1990s would see global temperatures plummet and bring a new set of problems to a world stressed by civil conflict and warfare. Areas of Southern Africa would be rendered inhospitable, the rest would be governed by warlords who would constantly clash with each other over border disputes. The Indian Civil War ends at some point in the decade, and leaves India in a balkanized state.
The global situation would be dominated between the liberal democratic Western European nations + Canada & Australia, and the communist, authoritarian Soviet Union and its satellite states. Both factions would continue to treat each other like kids’ gloves going into the 1990s and 2000s, with those relations souring in the 2010s as the Soviet Union slowly reverts back to its authoritarian pre-Rhyzkov self. There are rays of hope though. Some nations, like South Korea and Israel, would eventually democratize by the year 2000. The nuclear disasters in China, India, the USA, and Southern Africa would convince the remaining nuclear powers to disarm.
What do you think so far?
