Oh my God, I genuinely got chills reading this update. Space Chernobyl was genuinely not what I was expecting.
A salute to the brave cosmonaut who died to save the world (and the other 3 brave cosmonauts who will suffer health risks and potential death likely only a little while later).
Sorry if I'm miremembering but wasn't one of the big reasons confederate trade with Europe collapsed during the OTL Civil War was because the latter (especially the British Empire) ended up sourcing things like cotton much more cheaply from places like India? Wouldn't that still apply here?
Yeah, Victor is at Pershing levels of frontal protection. In fact, if I'm not misinterpreting the figures it might have better frontal protection than even the Tiger (100mm, but unsloped).
Given that the latter two are heavy tanks that'd astonishing capability on what is essentially a...
C. The threat being posed by the Axis powers is too great to be ignored.
We can always use this alliance to embargo the nazis, but we've already seen ittl (and otl, but trying to not be too meta) that appeasing dictators just encourages them to seek more. The time for velvet gloves is over.
The thing is, do we really want the message of the League of Nations to be "we will gladly sell your sovereignty if it means we don't have to suffer?"
The League's reputation is already that of a body that is if not tacitly supporting, then turning a blind eye to the actions of far-right...
I vote for 'H-B', aka tell Mussolini exactly where he can shove it. If he wanted to participate in international diplomacy he shouldn't have pulled out of the LON.
I am well aware this will fully drive him into the arms of the Axis, but that is a net negative to them than a positive.
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I wonder if the Nazi rule is going to make parts of African populace now under their control nostalgic for French/British rule.
"It wasn't great before but it was better than this."