Every disaster like this is a tragedy, of course, but it's good to see such support for the Dutch in their hour of need, even with all that's going on in the wider world. Some matters simply transcend politics (or they should, anyway).
Every disaster like this is a tragedy, of course, but it's good to see such support for the Dutch in their hour of need, even with all that's going on in the wider world. Some matters simply transcend politics (or they should, anyway).
Valuable to see the power natural disasters still has over man even into the modern age.
Interesting that the Netherlands are developing into Japan’s main friend in Europe. If you go through a major economic boom like the OTL Japan in the postwar years, then that relationship could prove very profitable for the Dutch.
A very interesting uptade. It's refreshing to see someone writing about natural disaster in AAR.
Just a small remark: Wilhelm II's father had ruled, ever so briefly, under the name Friedrich III, not Ferdinand III. Prussia / Imperial Germany had in their history no rulers named Ferdinand, the last German emperor to rule under that name had been Ferdinand II of Habsburg whose actions led to the start of, and who ruled during most of, the thirty years war.New Blood (Part 2)[...]
The Crown Prince's pseudo-regency during his fathers bouts of illness had made him a known quantity in the circles of power. It had been the Crown Prince after all that convinced his father to give approval to the SPD lead coalition government, as the Prince saw them as the chance to reunite the German people. His tendency towards liberalism was only further confirmed when he took the regnal name of Ferdinand IV, in a visible attempt to buck tradition and establish himself as the spiritual successor to his great-grandfather Ferdinand III. Despite this however Kaiser Ferdinand IV continued to believe that this unification of the people and empowering of the people should not come through the rapid weakening of the powers of the Kaiser, something which he believed would lead to strong backlash from the Junker establishment. Instead the Kaiser supported a more gradual transition of power like that of his great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Additionally the state of Europe posed further worries for the Kaiser, who although more of an engineer than a soldier fancied himself a student of Bismarck and sought to ease the ever present tensions between the Russian and the German Empire. He did so by reaching out to his brother-in-law, who although originally little more than a puppet of his generals had begun accruing support in his own right. Although there was little the Kaiser could actually promise, as the talks the two Emperors largely circled back to the issue of Ukraine, the Kaiser conceded to recognize White Ruthenia, a German client-state that the Russians had occupied since the Syndicalist War, as a part of Russia. In exchange the Tsar would do whatever was possible to push for an amelioration between their two states.
The ascension of Prince Louis Ferdinand to the throne of Kaiser
marked a tangible end to the Wilhelmine period
Fascinating!! I have only now fully caught up with this most excellent story. Such a great read, and such immense imagination!! I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the hours of thrill, entertainment and education.
I do wonder about one thing though. With the Syndintern now renaimed Atlantic Treaty, how much of the Atlantic actually do the two main Syndie powers, CSA and UoB, control? Theoretically, if their build naval forces to their heart's content, they can turn the north Atlantic into a red ocean. The Germans can't possibly keep up, they lack the drydocks and the industrial power. What does this mean for world trade? How do the Germans feel now that their overseas trade is in such dire situation? It's quite similar to Napoleon vs the British blockade, and we know how that turned out for Napoleon.
And now the split is official. I wonder how Pertinism will continue to develop in the coming decades -- will it become a viable competitor to main-line Totalist Internationalism, or will Italy gradually be brought back into the orbit of the Mitteleuropan consensus and become "syndicalist in name only"?
That, of course, begs the question of what the German Empire may make of this development. The SPD has been gradually pulling Germany towards social democracy themselves, but I wonder if closer ties with a group of erstwhile Internationalists will be politically palatable with the voting public -- or, for that matter, with a Kaiser who is undoubtedly casting leery eyes at the leftward trend of his country.
It is pertinent to purge the Pertinists. Where's Miyamoto Kenji's BFF Enrico in all this and what is he up to?
Right, right. My mistake. Thanks for pointing it out, I've fixed it now.Just a small remark: Wilhelm II's father had ruled, ever so briefly, under the name Friedrich III, not Ferdinand III. Prussia / Imperial Germany had in their history no rulers named Ferdinand, the last German emperor to rule under that name had been Ferdinand II of Habsburg whose actions led to the start of, and who ruled during most of, the thirty years war.
They will have to do something about the misguided deviants in Mexico though.This ATO alliance looks like it could well be the world’s foremost military power - and although aimed in the Atlantic, it will undoubtedly be a threat to Japan in the Pacific too.
Found this is the OT / Polandball thread, it's oddly fitting for this most recent chapter of the AAR
Ofc the flags are off but geez, isn't that exactly what WK3 between a nuclear armed (N)ATO and Mitteleuropa would look like
Brussels, Paris or Amsterdam, more likely I thinkWarsaw is the new Sydney.
Did they really say that?? I would think that, given the militancy and totalitarianism of the CSA, the many unsolved issues between the CSA and Mexico, and the unprotected situation of Mexico as a Pertinist deviant left wing radical regime, Mexico would be certain to receive a re-education treatment at the hands ofI think that Italians might eventually unite if all goes well.
And about the ATO: the decision to abandon military expansion might be the fundamentall error, which will lead to it's collapse, just as it did with Warsaw pact IRL.
I’ve enjoyed seeing Italy become this TL’s Yugoslavia. I wonder if they will try to win some influence across the Left internationally, or if they will be satisfied with guarding their independence.
This ATO alliance looks like it could well be the world’s foremost military power - and although aimed in the Atlantic, it will undoubtedly be a threat to Japan in the Pacific too.
I think that Italians might eventually unite if all goes well.
And about the ATO: the decision to abandon military expansion might be the fundamentall error, which will lead to it's collapse, just as it did with Warsaw pact IRL.
Did they really say that?? I would think that, given the militancy and totalitarianism of the CSA, the many unsolved issues between the CSA and Mexico, and the unprotected situation of Mexico as a Pertinist deviant left wing radical regime, Mexico would be certain to receive a re-education treatment at the hands ofUncleComrade Sam's Misguided Children and the CSA Army. The whole western hemisphere, except of course those states that the CSA navy would need to teach visa the pacific, is up for grabs by the Americans, or is it not? Who's protecting them from a rebuilt, nuclear armed, totalitarian CSA? Mitteleuropa can be held in check via the threat of the ATO's nuclear bomber force, stationed on Airstrip One, and Japan has no bases from which to interfere is a grand anti-pertinist house cleaning operation?
Theoretically. But from which bases could the Reich actually launch nuclear armed strategic bombers against the CSA? Do they have anything in range?Theorethically speaking, La Plata could form a military alliance with Germany in order to receive nuclear umbrella from any CSA attack. However I agree, that Mexico has no chance of survival against CSA.