The Union Forever: A TL
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Wow, excellent comments people. It will take a while to respond to them all so please give me a minute.
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I will discuss this in more detail during future updates. Needless to say there are a number of theories regarding Mihoylve's assassination. Was it a false flag ploy by the Motherland Party? The political opposition? Was it a plot by Polish separatists? Organized Crime perhaps? Was it sponsored by the Technocratic Union?
Good questions. Germany and by extension the AES are extremely concerned as this crisis is happening on their doorstep. Generally speaking the AES and the Orthodox Council have experienced good, if not necessarily warm, relations over the past several decades so most in the German government want the whole situation to blow over. Others however might view this as an opportunity to expand German influence into Eastern Europe. I will cover the AES and other power bloc's reaction in more detail to the crisis in future updates.
Renkin's Disease is named after Gerard Renkin the Belgian doctor who first identified the disease in 1979. Renkin's is not tied as closely to homosexuality as it was in OTL. So I would say the prejudice is less towards victims.
Mitya is indeed a short version of Dmitry. Couldn't Kuznetsov simply go by Mitya? In OTL its always President Jimmy Carter never James Carter.
World Map: 2000
Looks like we have atl aids now. Hopefully nobody denies it exists for a decade. Speaking of which, this America seems more progressive than iotl, so what is the status of LGBTQ rights?
Any equivalent to y2k in this world?
Could we get a 2000 map?
Good question regarding LGBTQ rights. I haven't really touched on that yet in the TL so I am going to defer until I can include it in a proper update. What are your thoughts?
Yes, there was an analogue to Y2K known as 2KCA (2000 Computer Anomaly). As in OTL it caused only a few minor glitches. Unlike OTL it wasn't nearly as big of a deal and considerably less money was spent trying to fix it.
And see below for the map. Note that it contains the updated Canadian provincial boundaries. Cheers!
It was just divided that way when Ireland became dominio. I don't know why.
The IEF is going to explode fairly soon. The Motherland party is looking quite Putinist with the recent developments, and the nationalistic impulses of the various ethnic groups are only getting stronger. I would bet that the Technate of China is deliberately stoking violence within the IEF. When civil war erupts, they invade and get Siberia and Manchuria while the Imperial forces are too distracted in Poland, Finland, and the other western holdings.
Didn't say it wouldn't survive, but it'll lose Poland for sure, and probably some of the Caucasus and Central Asian areas. Plus, Manchuria and a huge chunk of Siberia if the Technate invades as I think it will. In that case I think the Germans and their allies will come to Russia's aid.
Why would Poland be lost if the Germans were fully on board with helping the IEF in case a civil war occurs? Would they not oppose an independent Poland?
East Timor, if I remember correctly, is independent, but the Portuguese king is the official head of state.
Ryan
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I agree with Manchuria and I could see them trying to take tuva, Mongolia, Xinjiang in the chaos as they're historically Chinese, but why Siberia? is full of Russians and is a cold wasteland.
Resources. It's filled with oil and mineral wealth that the Technate lacks.
Who says they are keeping those areas? They look likely to be the big enemy of the next world war anyways.