I've actually decided to never read your AAR because you've spammed it so much.
No need to be like that about it... and 3 posts is spamming? Have you seen what Laurence and Vince get up to? Hypocritical values system much?
I've actually decided to never read your AAR because you've spammed it so much.
No need to be like that about it... and 3 posts is spamming? Have you seen what Laurence and Vince get up to? Hypocritical values system much?
New Weltreich never got off the ground because of creative licencing issues.
I want to know if the "Revolution" mini-game would extend to causing revolutions outside of Germany. Here's my logic here:
1) The Center won the 1936 election on the basis of anti-Syndicate and anti-"Far Right" rhetoric. This anti-Syndicate rhetoric, plus the fact that the Conservatives control 'foreign affairs', strongly suggest that The Center will do much to bungle relations with the Syndicates. Even if the Left makes a comeback, it is unlikely the damage will ever get repaired.
2) The French themselves are an obstacle to peace. They have their own elections, right? The 'radical' Bolsheviks versus the 'moderate' Syndicalists, right? If the Bolsheviks get into power, I'm betting that peaceful co-existence isn't going to happen at all. They'll be war, no matter who's in power. Furthermore, the French will continue to possess a claim on Alsace-Lorraine, and will likely hold onto this (giving the claim up is going to offend nationalists...and Germany isn't going to go Syndicalist for the next 2 years). This grants the French government an easy excuse to wage war, even if Germany becomes a Syndicate Utopia. In fact, I worry that moderate Syndicalists will be pressured into a war with Germany just to make sure Bolsheviks don't win at the polls.
3) Regardless of how the War with France begins, Germany will win this war utterly and the Syndicate will collapse. But then Germany must establish a puppet government to run France. If the Conservatives have it their way, it'd be a reactionary monarchy, and if the Liberals have it their way, it'd be a capitalist democracy. But no matter what...it will not be Syndicalist. This will be a big blow to all the freedom-loving peoples, even that of the Germans. France must remain 'liberated'.
Therefore, I want to prepare a revolution in France to prepare for this eventuality. Of course, I hold the right to cancel this plan if it turns out that the Center can manage to make France happy, but I'm not going to hope for that.
Covertly, I want to assemble a group of French opposition parties into a common alliance, and then assist these opposition parties in waging a war against the French Syndicate. All opposition parties are welcome to join this alliance on TWO conditions:
A) They will give up the claim on Alsace-Lorraine.
B) They will embrace (or pay lip service to) Technocratic ideas (spreading the Weltreich ideology).
I am not betting that this revolution would succeed. I am betting however that The Center would be more tempted to rely on this on establishing a Technocratic Puppet instead of a Capitalist Democratic Puppet. If that is the case, socialism would still survive. (Of course, a Far Right government will just smash the Technocratic Puppet into the ground, but there's really no way to reason with them. Unless...the opposition renounces its Syndicalist roots...nah...)
It may even be possible that this revolution would create a rump revolter state that Germany would then decide to protect as a buffer state against the French Syndicate proper. If I play my cards right, I could use this revolter state as a way to claim a moral victory for the party, although it could lead to a division in the Left over which French government is the legitimate one. The ensuring feud within the Left would, more than likely, "alienate" the Weltreich from the rest of the Left, losing potential allies, but also possibly gaining support from the Center.
I understand that if I get caught, I'd end up causing the very war I was preparing against. Still, saving the French population from the horrors of liberalism is worth the price.
Do not mistake silence for inaction.But the Left is inactive, busy ranting about anthems than liberating the workers.
If we can convince the French Left to leave Alsace-Lorraine alone, then we may have peace in our time.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
(OOC: read that last part of that sentence again...VERY unfortunate connotations :rofl
I saw in the Channel Pact Group a comment about a New Weltreich party. Are there new parties allowed?
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