mm bro, Russia and China are all but collapsing in on themselves. They havnt completely given in yet but it has been stated many times that their shitty economies, fruitless wars, and social malcontent have both of them facing emminent collapse.
China definitely is collapsing and technically already collapsed. That why I said it would take multiple critical successes to even win they are losing no matter what. I did forget to mention Russia though. Russia is on the brink if they don't get help or money they will also fall apart. I don't really want to help them, but if it is to help Japan end the war now I can deal with paying Russia. I doubt it will be enough to save them without a major reorganization of their Nation.
France is dealing with unrest and has a damaged military and economy thanks to our actions in Africa and seems to be held up only by German duct tape handed out only for pride and reluctant German prayers. They aren't collapsing yet but they are on a downhill slope that seems like it can quickly spiral in absense of German aid. German aid of course that we are working towards removing which our QM has confirmed is possible by being a potential ally that clearly outweighs their little europe project which we are starting down on with our oil deals and can only go further. It will take time but it is possible and without that German aid their shitty economy, shitty infrastucture, and overstretched everything can quickly lead to issues up through and including revolution and collapse but at the least becoming a non threat.
The French military took larger causalities then they wanted but is still fairly intact. The economy diffidently took a hit from their stupid war though. The resources they are getting from their conquered territory are what is keeping them and their allies afloat. The Invasion of the CAU wasn't about needing resources or anything like that. They already got what they needed when they conquered that part of Northern Africa before the war. We don't know for certain why they attacked, but I have a few ideas. Mainly they wanted to prove their military strength against a great power, to distract from possible issues at home, pure greed and any number of other reasons. They lost and now have to deal with a worse situation but should still have the resources to recover. Their home territory is still intact if it had been hit I'm sure Germany would have got involved on France's side. They also get a lot of support from their block member, but with the war failing France can't keep its promises so we will see what happens.
Germany is selling military gear to them and using the profits to keep rebuilding Eastern Europe. Germany is busy in its own sphere it is not giving out aid outside of what is needed to maintain the alliance. They aren't happy with France and its block but still believe for now in Europe. With the Electronics trade that should help push them closer to our own side. Hopefully they open up some more actions to improve our relations with them. I do think we can swing them to our side if we try.
This leaves only the UK and minor Balkainized states as potential issues. The UK doesnt seem bad from what we know but I think we should all reserve judgement pending review and those balkain states are non threats that can be safetly put off until after the major powers due to their minor non threat statuses.
Yeah hopefully the UK isn't doing anything that will make working with them impractical. I will wait until the investigation. The minor nations and regions aren't a concern for now I agree. If we do trade deals with them it would probably like how we did trade with our sphere members.
Also you forgot what is to be orbital supremacy, what will become atomic capability, and what should be if we are reasonable our strong allies as strengths because we become that much harder to scout, agress, and invade when we control the air, sea, space, economy, ability to glass places wherever and whenever we want, and have what is now three but will hopefully soon become 4 and soon after than 5 then six and soon after that 7 major and powerful allies when everybody else has all of none.
I was mostly going with what we had at the time. Once we are in space then that is another thing in our favor. We already have atomic capability the warhead we are making are cleaner and scale-able meaning we can make small weapons to only destroy what we want and not everything around it. Still not something we use to glass everything since that invites retaliation from nukes that will poison the planet. I like my planet I don't want to see it burn. Hitting military targets with controlled weapons is acceptable though.
Yeah, you think an aggressor will have a hard time with just us but think how much worse it gets when we also have space, can glass their asses whenever we want, and have Canada, and Mexico, and Australia and the CAU and Japan and hopefully Germany and far off maybe hopefully the UK with us.
For now we have Mexico, Canada, and Australia in our corner. The CAU, and Japan are the most likely next group to join us. I actually think we could get the UK on our side before Germany. The UK looks to not like France since the Alliance in the tab is in quotes. Depending on what we find out from our investigation we might have an easier chance getting them on our side.
They bring us up just like we bring them up nobody gets dragged down, nobody gets left behind.
Yeah our alliances are helping us more than most other things we have done. In the long run it is how we will succeed at least on Earth and Sol. Once we are out in the Galaxy we will need to pick our allies carefully. Still hoping to get good with the Turians. I want my Prussian Space Birds Best Friends dammit.
Not as much as you seem to think, we only really have a basic overview and general information for most countries, we don't know what they might be setting up in the background
To get more we would need to set up a intrigue network. We really haven't set anything like that up yet so we have what we have. Like
@Keani said we have a lot of info already.
