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Pro Patria Vivere | An Avoided Great War Nation Game

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Feel free to tag me for setting questions. This scenario is really old and was written when I was 16, so keep that in mind. Don't care if you dispense with stuff.
 
Orwelans III said:
These things cost a lot of money and Austria is a relatively fragmented federal monarchy where each state would have a plethora of projects to fund. The Ottomans are the only country poorer than Austria to have the bomb in development, but they aren't a federation.

Plus, Austria's only major opponent is Russia, which doesn't have the bomb yet either. The completion of the Russian program would likely help the case for an Austrian atomic bomb too.
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True, but the USA is federal too and it has developed the bomb with a partial Manhattan project team already.
 
A federal system doesn't really preclude cooperation on a project of national importance. If it's in secret, as an atomic programme is likely to be, there's much less ability for different constituencies to influence the process. And even if it were known, Wien could just appease different regions with concessions: lucrative manufacturing contracts or the like.
 
DonFitz said:
@ChaoticGenius you tease lets get this on the road.
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The game cannot go on without a United Kingdom player, unfortunately, as they are one of the major nations in this world. As soon as we do get a player for the nation, however, I assure you I will be on top of it!

Sealy said:
Is Ireland available?
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The Irish Free State is indeed free, but perhaps I might interest you instead in the United Kingdom instead?
 
I asked someone I know if they wanted to claim the UK but am still waiting to hear back.
 
I think it's worth saying that in a world with no Soviet Union and attendant Red Scares that things like radical leftism, while probably seen as a threat by more conservative governments, is probably often to be seen in realpolitik terms. France would probably back Spanish leftists over the Spanish right since, IOTL anyway, a lot of rightist movements in Spain were very Germanophilic. Carlists ITTL would probably have strong admiration for Germany.

Not to mention, having one of Europe's larger socialist parties, France probably couldn't be wholly hostile to a leftist regime in Spain and ITTL is probably one of the few European states not to be openly hostile to it.
 
I don't agree. While it is true this world will be tolerant of the far-left, France being no exception to that, having a large far-left dictatorship on my back porch is not a comfortable situation.
 
Not getting into a war with the Syndicalists is one thing, but one would expect that the colonial authorities in places like West Sahara would either defect to another power or form an exile government. I don't remember giving much thought to it.
 
Ceslas said:
I don't agree. While it is true this world will be tolerant of the far-left, France being no exception to that, having a large far-left dictatorship on my back porch is not a comfortable situation.
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The problem is France has really large socialist and communist movements of its own. A lot of players treat syndicalism and socialism/communism as interchangeable, which isn't true, but we also underestimate the degree of cooperation that existed between early leftist movements, especially between anarchism* and communism. The French right would of course hate the Spanish regime, but I don't imagine that the French left would simply sit still as they tried to strangle the Spanish revolutionary government. It's the kind of thing that is awkward for a government because two separate parts of the political spectrum have really diametrically-opposed views about it.

Plus, if it comes down to a choice between an isolated far-left dictatorship or a Germanophilic far-right dictatorship, even the French right would probably choose the former.

*That's probably a much more prominent ideology ITTL*
 
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