New Blood (Part 1)
"Thunder"
"Flash"
John had been part of the Washington Rangers for two years now, but had yet to participate in an actual battle. He would've rather it had stayed that way, but over his time there he had learned that, if the Captain said jump, he jumped.
"You got the goods?"
"Yeah, they're on my back," he said pointing to the bag on his back. He knew that he wasn't a fighter, but what choice did he have. His father had been in the Krieg, even earned himself a little farm for it in British Columbia.
"Alright, set them up here," the Sarge said handing the bag off to Charlie and Eddie. He turned back holding a Mauser in his other hand and asked "You know how to use one of these?"
"S-sure," John stuttered. When the Reds invaded his father got a tip that they were after him from a friend. So he put John and his little sisters into their car and told him to drive like the wind. They had barely gotten out before the Reds closed the way out of BC.
"Great, now get to cover. The Federales should be here in half an hour."
That's how the Sarge had found them. Just south of the border, their car had run out of gas. Although he wasn't Sarge yet then. He took them in and promised to look after them. When the Oregonites and Californians failed in 1948, Sarge and some of his old buddies decided to join the fight as well. He had asked John, if he wanted to join as well.
"Look sharp, they're here. Alright boys, standard procedure. Jones, prep that rocket."
John was shivering, his only hope was that he'd stay alive to see his sisters once more.
The United States of Mexico, perhaps the greatest winner from the Second American Civil War, had emerged into their position of regional importance from a bloody and violent civil war. Following the end to the fighting in 1920 the Party of the Mexican Revolution, a big tent left-wing party accepting everybody from Social Democrats to Leninists, had been formed with the goal of bringing peace and plenty to Mexico. Headed originally by President Alfonso De La Huerta the Mexican state began the long process of emerging from the ruins of the revolution. Although political violence continued to flare up during the 20s, society had begun to stabilize in the 30s. The assassination attempt on President Zapata shocked the Mexican populace, which was fearful of losing what little peace had been restored. Although Zapata recovered and the perpetrator was quickly caught, implicating Calles and the Totalist faction. Many however were still unnerved by the events as well as the gradual withdrawal of Zapata from public life, choosing instead to endorse his Foreign Minister Pancho Villa for presidency. The hero of the Centaur of the North was already celebrated, but following his presidency which oversaw the nationalization of the Oil Industry as well as reclamation of the territories lost to the Americans propelled him to near legendary status among the public. When Pancho Villa died on the 16th of July 1950, at the age of 73, he left behind massive shoes that, the Mexican people and indeed Villa himself thought, could be filled by no one else than Emiliano Zapata.Zapata and Villa in the Palacio Nacional, ca 1915
Villa's statues were among the first targets in Zapata's struggle
to rid Mexico of his old comrades cult of personality
Villa's fight against at the emigration of Anglos through Mexico, which the Mexican government had labelled human trafficking only further stoked tensions as refugees fleeing from the collectivization in the CSA or its invasion of Canada found themselves trapped in Mexico. Many were subsequently convinced to join the various Anglo resistances as they seemed to be the only option left. Although Villa himself would've gladly been free of the Anglo refugees, he found himself pressured by the CSA to not allow its citizens to flee. Although he largely overlooked American demands for their citizens to be returned he continued to block their emigration. In his first days in office Zapata chose to quietly drop the policy forbidding emigration by Anglos, hoping to deprive the rebels of their source of new recruits, as well as publicly declaring an amnesty to all rebels that would relinquish their weapons.
Often peaking, but not limited to, the 4th of July, attacks by Anglo guerilla groups
contributed to the massive administrative strain of the Lost Territories
The over reliance on subsistence agriculture would continue
to threaten what Zapata had envisioned with his land reform
I think you'll have to talk about Mexico at some point. On the face of things it doesn't seem terribly realistic for a Radical Socialist Mexico led by a longtime Syndicalist darling/American bugbear who has no doubt received his fair share of Phalanstare aid over the years to be awash with Anticommunist Anglo refugees.
Good point, hence without further ado.
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