Springtime of Nations II: A European Republic Quest

[X] Leave the saber in its scabbard.

I'm surprised so many vote for attacking, I'm kinda worried but it's true that waiting too long or waiting for them to strike us first for higher moral ground might bite us in the heart.

Edit: I'm still waiting for a better moment.
 
Tbh, this was almost certainly a complete accident and the ship blew up on its own. But we don't need a casus belli here, they're a reactionary state.

[X] Draw the saber and strike first.
 
[X] Leave the saber in its scabbard.

I'm surprised so many vote for attacking, I'm kinda worried but it's true that waiting too long or waiting for them to strike us first for higher moral ground might bite us in the heart.

Edit: I'm still waiting for a better moment.
Real talk - how could the moment be better?

Like, seriously. We have in our hands a casus belli that will get both domestic support for a war as well as our allies. We have more troops. We have better gear. We have better morale. Hell, we even have a network of partisan rebels in Poland and Austria!

If you're hoping for a casus belli that won't make the Entente nervous, you're going to wait until we all march into the grave. Destroying the Imperial League is always going to be a red line for London and Paris. Why not take it now?
 
After voting for war can I vote to resign so I can rush to join the advance wave that'll link up with the expected rebellions breaking out in the imperial league?
 
[X] Draw the saber and strike first.

As much as I'd like to do some investigating in order to avoid a hit to our legitimacy, having faster mobilization is incredibly important. I just hope that the blood and lives we waste on this conflict are worth it, and that it isn't as grindy as WW1.
 
[X] Draw the saber and strike first.

We should have the mobilization speed edge, Austria was always pretty bad at this and Russia is very large.

The marinewehr isn't finished expanding but it should be good enough to protect our coast and the army is doing well. The capitalist economies are also in crisis which should make them shakier. the only worry is that we just pissed off the entente, but they don't really care about the imperial league so we should be able to push for limited gains before they call on us to stop.

Onward to Vienna!

After voting for war can I vote to resign so I can rush to join the advance wave that'll link up with the expected rebellions breaking out in the imperial league?

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a few delegates doing this, really.
 
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Fundamentally the crowned heads of Austria and Russia make war every day against our comrades. The only reason we haven't already gone to war with them is that we need a pretext that will see the Entente hesitate instead of joining in on the Imperial side. This is such a pretext.

[X] Draw the saber and strike first.
 
[x] Rattle the saber.

I don't think we should strike first, because that would be bad international optics. What has happened is just not really enough to justify a war, at least given what we know, and that will affect other nations' reactions if we immediately jump to war. Also, we don't actually get that much out of it, since we mobilize faster anyways, so if we start when the imperial league makes a move, we'll still have an advantage there
 
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"Scholarship": Some Skull-Measuring Nonsense
Except from a lecture by Oxford Professor Rupert Alexander-Greenbough, given to the membership of the Anglo-American Friendship Society in September 1897:
Fundamentally speaking, as of today the Continent is split into Three Europes that are struggling for dominion over the white race.

If you would look at the map I have prepared behind me, you can observe that I have divided Europe into three camps, which I have labelled as "Roman", "Gothic", and "Byzantine".

The first and most powerful of these, which comprises the British, French, and Portuguese Empires are what I call Roman Europe. Roman Europe, much like the glorious Empire of Caesar, Augustus, and Trajan from which it descends, is above all typified by its desire to develop and spread civilization.

The second of these Europes is Gothic Europe, which includes the Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Spain. Again, like their ancestors, the Gothic peoples of central Europe who stormed over the borders of the Roman Empire in its last days, Gothic Europe is typified by aggression and a desire to size the property of others for themselves.

The final Europe, that of Byzantine Europe, is a Europe which has been hybridized with Asiatics from the East. The Empires of Austria, the Ottomans, and Russia exemplify this mixture of white blood and oriental despotism via eastern immigrants and conquerors who co-opted and toppled the rule of Rome in the East. This Europe is a Europe marked by despotism, hierarchy, and a need for total subjugation to a single ruler.

Those clever among you might have surmised that all three of these Europes have roots in traditions and inherent traits that date back to the collapse of the Roman Empire.

This is indeed the case, with Roman and Gothic Europe being siblings born in the death of the Western Roman Empire, and Byzantine Europe emerging from the death throes of the eastern empire.

Which means that tonight's story begins with two more Europes, Europes which are no more: Latin and Greek Europe. Together these Europes became the Roman Empire in which Christ was born nineteen centuries ago.

The Roman Empire was a union of a Latinized west and a Greecofied east. Alexander and his successors gave this unified Empire philosophy, art, and culture, and Caesar and his heirs brought Latin order, ingenuity, and industry. This great civilization ruled Europe, as well as portions of Africa and Asia prosperously and wisely for centuries.

Is it any wonder then that when God sent His son to mankind, He sent Him to that great civilization so that they would be the first to embrace and spread His Gospel? No other civilization would have been so capable of spreading the Word so quickly, and to so many people.

Of course, the only Kingdom which is eternal is the Lord's, so even such a great civilization such as Rome's would find itself collapsing from degeneracy within and barbarism without.

This is where the roots of Gothic and Roman Europe lie.

Led by aggressive elected warchiefs who craved plunder, the Germanic peoples beyond Rome's borders stormed over the Roman frontiers and set up the Visigothic Kingdoms in Iberia and Italia, while other bands stormed into the east, and a few stayed within Central Europe.

Of course, these Gothic Kingdoms weren't the only parts of that great empire which was so badly dismembered during the Dark Ages. What would become France and Britain were also born in that era, and these two Imperial Provinces suffered from invasions from their own germanic barbarians.

But while Spain and Italy would ultimately find their culture permanently changed by Gothic Blood. France, Portugal, and Britain would instead be transformed by a marriage between the Latin and Greek blood of civilization on the one hand and the vigorous and manful blood of the Germanics on the other. Our nations would find themselves tempering each with the other, finding a temperate harmony which has since placed much of the world under our protection and influence.

And over time these two European siblings would diverge because of the different balances of their bloodlines.

The shared temperate demeanour of France and Britain, would lead to our current worldwide empires which balance liberty with the rule of law. The understanding of civilization granted to us by our Greco-Roman ancestors is why we lead the world in the arts of science, art, commerce, and even warfare. But it is our joint Germanic heritage, which grants us the vigour to pursue those arts to the ends of the Earth, and which allows us to so firmly grasp the mantle of the Heirs to the Roman Empire. This is why we are Roman Europe, as only we have maintained true civilization.

In Germany, France, and Italy, the heirs of the Goths warred against the survivors of Latin and Greek Europe.

The endless bloodletting or Renaissance Italy showing the growing superiority of Gothic Blood over the explosion of the arts which represented the dying gasp of the old Europes.

In Spain, the aggressive spirit of the Spaniards, which attempted to conquer even our fair Islands with the Armada was driven by a similar need for aggression, but one which was turned outwards against the world rather than inwards against itself. Their attempts at Empire were aping the forms of Roman civilization but failing to understand the substance.

Germany too, underwent endless bloodletting, internal and external as called for by their Gothic Blood. And as with Spain, the so-called Holy Roman Empire was an attempt to mimic the forms of Roman Europe, but with a lack of understanding of the arts which made them work.

The weakness of those Empires were proof that Roman civilization is incompatible with Gothic Blood, and as time passed these descendants of the Goths shook off their attempts to drape themselves in the misunderstood fineries of Rome, and have now reverted to their ancient nature as socialistic war bands, led by elected chiefs who promise violence and the property earned by others.

Today when you look at Gothic Rome, Madrid, and Frankfurt you can see in the war councils they call governments the echoes of their Visigothic ancestors: raucous men and women who bay for war at every opportunity and demand further plunder ripped from the hands of those who truthfully earned with their own ingenuity and hard work.

Their blood calls on them to topple Emperors and take plunder like their ancestors once did. This Gothic Germany is just as vigorous as their ancestors, but without the tempering of Graeco-Latin Europe that Roman Europe has, they will burn themselves out. Though not after causing incalculable damage to civilization in the process.

In this way, in the West, it is the Entente that finds itself the successor to Roman Europe, while the Alliance find themselves the heirs of Gothic Europe.

And now we find ourselves in the East. For while the West found itself split between Germanic Invaders and Roman successors, the East took a different path. For while the heirs of Rome were able to beat back the Ostrogoths, they found themselves capitulating to a very different beast: Oriental despotism.

Continuing to degenerate, as is the Graeco-Roman character in the absence of Germanic virility, the Eastern Romans found themselves falling under a different class of invaders from the east. Slavs, Turks, Arabs, Tartars, and others found themselves masters of pieces of what were once the richest parts of the old Roman Empire. From Egypt to the Danube, these invaders wormed their way not just into the lands of the old Empire, but into the halls of power.

And with them they brought a despotism and autocracy which transformed the Roman empire in the east into a decadent Byzantium marked by despotic rule and a decaying civilization battered from all sides.

When Christian Byzantium proper was destroyed by Mehmed the Conqueror, both he and the Tsars of Moscow proclaimed themselves the successors of Byzantium. Mehmed having created Byzantium without Christianity, and the Tsars having formed Byzantium without Constantinople.

While neither are the successors to the Roman civilisation of Augustus and Hardrian, they are indisputably the heirs to the Byzantine tradition of asiatic despotism. A tradition that today includes not just the Russian Tsars and Austrian Emperors, but the Ottoman Sultans.

Which leads us to the conclusion that Byzantine Europe still exists, it is a Europe that suppresses liberty entirely under the weight of a top heavy court and an absolute monarch which sits at its centre in fine Oriental tradition. They have fully replaced Graeco-Latin civilization with an oriental absolutism which believes itself to be a superior form of order for none remain to question it.

Russia may not be a "Third Rome" like the Tsars proclaim, but they are certainly a "Second Constantinople" marked by lavish courts, impoverished subjects, and tyrannical priests.

Today, Europe finds herself divided between these three Europes: A Roman tradition tempered with Germanic vigour, a primal and savage Gothic Blood, and a Despotic Byzantine tradition of whose blood is as yellow as it is white.

In the East the Imperial League stands as the prison of nations, impoverished serfs and slaves who are squeezed for blood until they are dry for the distant courts of autocrats much as they have been for centuries.

This is, I believe, the weakest Europe. Dead eyed asiatic hordes ruled by white monarchs who lack that critical vibrant spark that allows for industriousness and entrepreneurship.

In the Center and South of Europe, the Triple Alliance has finally shed an ill-fitting skin of civilization and revealed itself to be wholly ruled by Gothic Blood. However their natural aggression is turned outwards, and at the moment it finds itself turned east, hungrily eyeing Byzantine Europe. I believe that Gothic Europe will drown Byzantine Europe in a tide of blood for they have that rigorous animating spark, though it be one that is uncontrolled and wild.

The Third Europe, the superior Europe, is that of the Entente. Britain, France, Portugal. The vigours of Germanic blood with the tempering of Graeco-Latin blood has created Roman Europe, the Europe of Empires. For while Byzantine Europe claims vast swaths of peasantry and Gothic Europe screams incitements to war to all the savages of the world, Roman Europe is the one who brought civilisation and Christ to the world.

The majority of the globe is ruled by Roman civilization, from Ireland to India, from Brazil to Korea, it has been our pleasure and our duty to bring philosophy, Christianity, and art to the inferior races. Our superior blood, which contains the perfect balance of the Graeco-Latin and Germanic peoples compels us to bring order to the world, but also ensures liberties.

And yet what of America, in which I am speaking? Where does America lie between these three Europes, for it is clearly a White Nation?

Well, America too is an heir to Europe's white blood, and inheritor of Rome's civilising mission. But America has also found itself rich in Gothic Blood.

Yes indeed, America is a Europe in microcosm, one in which the Byzantine American South whose autocratic planters ruled African slaves was defeated by the Gothic and Roman North.

And now America's diverging Gothic and Roman Blood is slowly tearing it apart.

That is why I endeavoured to undertake the crossing from the British Isles to America, so that I can speak to you of this coming conflict.

Like all triumvirates, the three Europes are unstable. For it is only natural that the vigorous inheritors of the Western Roman Empire will defeat the autocratic and degenerate inheritors of the Eastern Roman Empire.

But even in victory the Gothic Blood will not have been satiated, it will retain its predilection for violence and theft. And with Byzantine Europe removed, Roman Europe remains.

The coming war is inevitable. Roman Europe will not give up civilization, and Gothic Europe will not renounce war. Even now if you read the papers of Gothic Europe, they speak of conquest on a Global Scale. They talk of New World Empires made up of "International Federations" and "Sister Republics" carved from every other people on the planet.

They write of complex campaigns of theft, creating "redistributive" Communism and Socialism, where the productive few are feasted upon by the warlike many.

These Gothics also reject Christ as well, their Blood so ancient and Savage that they return to their warlike gods of old instead of the civilization of God.

These Gothics even embrace anarchism! Actual anarchy! Naturally their savage blood calls them to elder forests, war or all against all, law and order stripped away and replaced with savage primativity.

The choice we -those of you here tonight included- have is between Civilization and Barbarism. Between Parliaments and Congresses, and Socialistic War Councils.

War is coming not just to Europe, but America as well. A war between Roman Civilization and Gothic Savagery.

I trust that intelligent, civilised men like you know which side you are on.

A/N: An omake inspired by shitposting in the discord chat.

Yes, I know this is nonsense. But making up bullshit that sounds academic and corresponds to your biases then stating it confidently is basically how late 19th century brainpan measuring works.
 
Normally I'd advocate to keep a clear head and wait for a better justification so that our allies can be convinced and the french/british alliance appeased. However given our allies blank check, and the disinterest shown by the franco british alliance in intervining unless we go ham, we find ourselves in an interesting position.

Given the fact that attacking or stalling for time wont give us any mechanical advantage I'd say go for the throat and to prioritize our efforts into capitulating austria, blockading scandinavia amd sabotaging as much of the russian rail network as possible. If we manage to make the russians arrive late to the party with a poland in revolt then we can focus on double teaming austria with the italians by keeping scandinavia pinned down with a blockade.



NEVER ANOTHER POLAND!

DEATH TO THE STATIST MONARCHISTS REACTIONARIES! LET THE DANUBE RUN RED WITH IMPERIAL BLOOD!

[X] Draw the saber and strike first.
 
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