Except they didn't break NOD in canon? NOD is still around and causing plenty of trouble all over the planet in canon?
Considering the state that GDI is in during the intro cinematic, it strongly implies that whilst Kane might be doing well himself, Nod itself is unlikely to be doing any better than GDI. Most likely worse because Nod's always been more vulnerable to tiberium mutation eating away at their infrastructure, industry and population. Pair that with the fact that, despite the
very strong anti-Cyborg emphasis Nod picks up due to CABAL's rebellion, C&C4 Nod's military is
extremely cyborg heavy which just so happens to be one of the 'simpler' ways of protecting against extreme tiberium exposure's lethal side effects?
Well, GDI in C&C4 does
not appear to have gone for a very strong space colonisation effort or they'd be a lot less concerned about how much tiberium's consumed the planet. They
definitely did not put anywhere near the effort we did into anti-tiberium efforts as a priority. Which just leaves the explanation that
@Ithillid went with for this quest. That being the 'canonical' path for GDI is choosing the 'tiberium abatement' path at the start of the quest but focusing on crushing Nod so they can be free to focus on tiberium abatement afterwards.
The squid has said in this thread I believe that if we'd gone down that path, we absolutely would have been able to break Nod as a rival power (at least for a generation or two) particularly when paired with tiberium's mutation wreaking havoc on everyone. It just means that we'd have been lagging behind on the anti-tiberium effort particularly when you remove just how much income and tiberium abatement our Glacier Mines gave. They also didn't get 'lucky' by having tiberium's non-stop mutation rampage roll high for the delay between mutations right at the start leaving them in a much worse place.
Note that I'm not saying Nod is dead. Because it very much isn't. But Nod as a
whole was probably left with the military and military-associated industrial capable of only a
single Warlord from the quest Post-Regency War. Probably not the Indian Warlords or maybe even Stahl as that 'one Warlord' either. As for how can that be when Nod has rebuilt so well by the time of C&C4?
Well, we don't actually see how strong each side is in-verse as a whole at that time. Indeed, the Crawler strategy suggests they probably are much weaker than you'd think otherwise because whilst it is an evolution of the 'Mobile Base' from the earlier C&C games, the way it's such a focus of both sides suggests that they both have had to make the majority of their military being the 'rapid reaction forces' that crawlers are optimised for. With only a handful of garrisons for the most critical of sites.
Compare that to us where we do have a fair few 'rapid reaction forces' which can mobilise to push an offensive or relocate to defend an endangered frontline. But the majority of our forces are either garrisons or 'frontline' standard forces who protect a given region from enemy incursions. Yet aren't meant to be suddenly pulled out, thrown halfway across the planet on a redeployment with less than a month's notice in order to strengthen that region.
I'll admit to there being some assumptions in here, along with predictions and analysis of what's suggested but not stated. However I don't believe it's inaccurate
enough to discount the probability that canon 2062 Nod was in such dire straits that it was only seven to eight years after the treaty was organised and construction of the TCN begun that the Nod Rebellion had built up enough strength to be a serious danger to either GDI or Kane.
Particularly as Nod rebels are mentioned as having attempted to delay the TCN construction effort but the way it's worded doesn't suggest they had any real success. Yet any one Major Warlord of Post-Regency War strength, even Gideon before the last quarter's 'incident', would have had enough strength to serious effect the TCN construction effort in their zone. Even if they got crushed when GDI and Kane's splinter of Nod fell on them. Yet we've been told (I think in here as well) that it was multiple of the Major Warlords we've been dealing with that Ithillid regards as having 'canonically' rebelled against Kane.
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