Yes, but USA was never forced to follow the interventionism path before. I always left my int slider alone, it was not required for spy actions. I always moved my hawk slider manually for increased population growth. Now the balance has changed. In order to even protect itself from other nations spies, USA must go int instead. Then there is no reason not to join the allies early, why steal british and french bp's when they will just give them to you? In return you give bp's to all the allies, and suddenly the Entente is much stronger. Of course the new patch has also changed my research paths as well, but that is a different story.I don't understand -- those slider moves were possible before and after the beta patch. What's the "unintended consequence" here?