First stop with the millions constantly. Ukraine isn't China.
Second are you interpreting wiki in your way? Because I would point to passages that contradict to your vision but maybe it's just your view.
Then they definitely need to redo their Kaiserreich wiki page because whoever wrote it has much different idea.
Also are you really saying that Hetman isn't popular with the army?
I will give you the potato famine argument. You still overblown it a bit. But okay. But Ukraine isn't Ireland. Even if 90% of grain is to expensive for average villager, we do grow other stuff, that just means much less bread products on the table. Also how exactly are they getting 90% of all grain grown in the country?
KR tends to whitewash Imperial Germany a lot. It isn't industrial levels of murder, but it's still a callous colonial regime willing to starve and murder people for profit. The hetman government consists of military aristocrat landlords who are former tsarist officers. You misunderstand popularity with the population vs the military. The military are war criminals getting rich off German purchases. The type of people perfectly willing to sell out their own country for profit, though the junkers no doubt want to replace them as the landlords of the country.
Ukraine's population is majority illiterate peasants, since there was no industrialization and modernization that it got under the Soviets. They can seize that much grain because the German and Ukrainian military controls the country. The people with guns get access to food because they're the ones making money off the sales, or being paid by the people making money, and everyone else can suffer. I don't know why you have a rosy view of this miniature tsarist grain colony because they have the words "Ukraine" slapped across their names. They don't even like nationalists or intellectuals, the few who can actually read, because they rock the boat and want something more for the country.
Excerpt from "From the lost decade to the great triumph: the Saisei era in retrospective" - Yasuhiro Matsuda, 2014, Tokyo University, Kaiserworld
"I believe that a Japanese century is within our reach." - Emperor Saisei* of Kaiserworld Japan
With a fresh mandate from a snap election in hand following the chaotic March incident that lead to the death of a Prime Minister, a chaotic melee between the Japanese Federation of Labor and ultrarightists in the Japanese military and the fall of the shortest-ever Japanese government, Saito Takao of Kaiserworld's Japan; our Japan, would ascend to the ranks of the Prime Minister of the young Japanese democracy. With a week of violence primarily instigated by the far right's reactionary, ultramodernist, and militarist wings battling for power and a fear of the Syndicalist, Communist, and Anarchist movements present; it was deemed time to transform the constitution of Japan.
The Meiji constitution allowed for a truly dangerous amount of military influence and the sight of an Ergatocratic revolution in the Japan of the Uncrowned Earth and the Futuristic bedlam of the Raven and Bear's Japan had deeply disturbed the establishment and convinced even many stubborn conservatives that the time had come for change.
Concessions would need to be made, and weaknesses in the anti-liberal Meiji constitution would have to be dealt with. Thanks to Emperor Saisei's endorsement of progressive transformations, the shape of the new government could be quite radical. The conservative preference for an involved government, shared by the socialists, would be compromised with on the liberals who; like the socialists, also favoured the implementation of unrestricted universal suffrage, though the granting of female suffrage was a bitterly contested vote. It would take many weeks of debate, but it was deemed necessary to keep women involved in politics through legitimate channels to prevent them from seeking unsavoury means of desiring power as they did in the revolutionary Japan of one of the otherworlds.
Such logic would drive much of the progressive character of the constitution, more fear of what would occur if they did not take extreme measures than an overflowing of progressive sympathies among the conservatives in particular or a love for interventionist economics among the liberals. While the radical, revolutionary left of our own Japan would denounce the defection of many Kautskyist Marxists, reformist syndicalists, and social democrats to this constitution as an abandonment of the revolutionary potential in the country; the more moderate or conciliatory left wing saw it as a chance to solidify a number of gains without risking a destructive civil war and legitimise their political organisations.
With much of the radical rightist factions in the countryside, aristocracy, and nobility dealt with already; there was no fear of an attempted putsch, and while Takao was not himself enamoured of all the rather radical propositions for the new Saisei constitution, the sight of the chaos and strangeness gripping the alternate Japans was enough to convince him to go along with it; with Saisei's blessing. By the 12th of June Japan would settle on its new paradigm and constitution, enshrining rights to strike, form a union, universal suffrage for all adults of conscription age regardless of gender or social standing, a guarantee of land reform and fairly distributed land towards the agricultural class, and a program to adopt a devolution system for the colonies.
The much celebrated Land reform campaign would take the better part of a year, enshrining community planning to ensure a steady supply of staple crops, the establishment of farmer's co-operatives to allow for profit sharing and guided mechanisation, strict policies of rent and housing price control as well as property construction to reduce and eliminate homelessness, and a guarantee of land to certified farmers. In all, 2.3 million hectacres of land in the home islands alone, would be redistributed in some of the largest land reform campaigns in any of the three worlds to take place outside of a revolutionary government. While this would draw criticism from the landlord classes, the crises of 1936 were good at making many of them quiet down and go along with it, especially to calm both the radicalised military men and underground revolutionaries.
The colonial program would also see an alteration of Japanisation policies in Korea. Aware of the Korean republicans, communists, and monarchists in the Uncrowned Earth timeline as well as the Asiofuturist rhetoric of the Raven and Bear timeline, the Busan negotiations were undertaken with a strongly conciliatory tone towards the Korean populace. Federalism; intended as a half-way measure between the Devolution in a fashion similar to Scotland or Wales in the United Kingdoms that still stood preferred by Tokyo, and the Confederation preferred by the Busan delegation would be offered, with Korean culture being offered protections under a broad program of autonomy and self-rule, as well as an extension of suffrage to Korean denizens. While right of secession would be firmly denied, and bilingualism would be mandated in Korea.
Were there not such pressures to offer these concessions, it is doubtful that they would have ever been made, but there was an understandable risk that, to use the words of Ambassador Yoshikawa "Anything less would likely open the door for something that would endanger us all. So we will give much, and hope that the men at Busan will be pleased with it".
However it was not a wholly ideal system, as later, post-war observers would note and struggle against; the assignment of prefectures to Korea in essence served as a form of gerrymandering on a national scale to ensure that the Japanese would retain an advantage even as the Korean population expanded. The lauded Saisei land reform program would not affect the agrarian south as strongly as the more industrial north, where rational planning of land allotment was felt to be more necessary to maximise production, while producing a loyal class of collaborators in the south was thought to be more prudent. And as many of the Busan delegation were themselves of well-off inteligentsia, this logic was agreeable. With the rationalisation of farmland in the south into more mechanised plots of land under middle-holders, the redundant farmhands would naturally head to the less populous but more factory strewn north to fuel the industrialisation of those prefectures.
Saisei era flag for Royal Korea.
Such social engineering was not entirely intended, but proved highly beneficial to the powers that be during the Saisei era. Though it would feed into the Hardhat Riots of Saisei year forty**, for the time being it was lauded as an unblemished and unadulterated success of progressive legislation and a masterful work of multipartisanship. Korea would, to the present day, remain a federal constituent of the Imperial East Sea Federation***, thus vindicating the Busan conference to many, but just as many regarded it as what it ultimately was; a compromise meant to ensure that the Empire remained territorially intact even following the disruption of the Worldmerges and to ensure that the Empire would be well positioned to take advantage of import hungry markets in other worlds.
Taiwan, Sakhalin, the Kurils, and the smaller pacific islands; including recently seized Guam; would be integrated along similar lines, though with less momentous occasion due to the significantly lesser size of these add ons, but perhaps the most complicated affair would be that of Hawai'i's.
Hawaii, acquired largely through the WFRN and USN's focus on the American mainland and Alaska and the state government being overthrown by an ultimately liberal Asian and Native uprising against the white minority that saw the islands; vacated by the Pearl Harbour squadron that sought to challenge the WFRN's pacific fleet in the Alcatraz incident; become a Japanese protectorate following its declaration of independence from the USA.
The Hawaii affair would spark significant international debate and argument, but the backing of the British Empire in the hopes of securing a renewed Anglo-Japanese treaty with this world's Japan would tip the scales in the favour of a Japanese protectorate over an appendage of the Uncrowned Earth's United States and especially over a German client state in the pacific, with the USA and British Empire both regarding the Kaiserreich with immense suspicion. Such would fuel the fires of Hugenburg's nationalistic rhetoric, especially with the allegations; later confirmed to be true; that the Imperial Japanese Navy used no small degree of subterfuge to tip the vote towards Japanese Protectorate status, promising land reform while still protecting the small businesses of the community and restoring the peerage of the former Kingdom's royals.
Hawai'i would in essence, be an autonomy of Japan, won more through the inability of other claimants to agree on who should have it, than a genuine conquest. The meeting however, would prove fortuitous in another way.
Drawing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
The British Empire of the Raven and Bear Earth; high off of its diplomatic success with the Imperial remnant of Kaiserworld and its reduced counterpart in the Uncrowned Earth; sought to renew and solidify a second Anglo-Japanese Alliance, one that was destined to be remembered more fondly than that which would be made with the Asiofuturist regime of its native Earth. Almost as soon as diplomatic relations were established, the government of Baldwin, then Lord Halifax sought to woo Japan into an alliance that would remain to the present day in the continuing cold war. Offering an ample export market, triangulation against the threats of "German Hunnery" and "the Red menace, whether it be Communist, Syndicalist, or Accelerationist" and a means to settle disputes with the Uncrowned Earth's United States, the offer was taken enthusiastically by Prime Minister Saito.
The recognition of Japanese territorial claims in the Syndicalist revolution of Kaiserworld America as well as the inclusion of Thailand and the Philippines into the burgeoning "Indo-Pacific Cooperation Initiative" would prove to be significant boons to the Japanese economy and diplomatic prestige, and the calmer meeting ground with which Emperor Saisei and Showa****'s empire could meet and find just how great a divergence a mere forty years of unshared history could make served to further solidify the divide in Japans.
Other important diplomatic matters, such as ties of defence and the matter of apparated islands, which like the apparated themselves; started to appear without warning; sorting out the issue of the olympics and the world cup, or general policies of trade were all discussed in the Honolulu summit with not just the British, but the French of the Raven and Bear Earth and the Americans of the Uncrowned Earth to name the more important full participants.
In the matter of economic affairs, the end of the Lost Decade and the ignition of the Saisei miracle could be traced to, in large part, the gains made in these summits. The long economically starved territories of the Entente were ideal recipients of intensified export of goods as well as providers of raw resources such as high grade Australian coal or Canadian oil, while technological exchanges would allow for the completion of a number of major projects, such as the thousand cinema project and Kenjiro Takayanagi's television project and the experiments with "glide metamaterials" that the two would undertake.
Later unclassified documents would also reveal that the discussions, in top secret meetings between Foreign Minister Yoshizawa and his British counterpart Samuel Hoare to discuss the possibility of cooperation on research for "new and secret weapons". Which would serve as a predecessor for the joint allied "Cyclone Project" that served as a counterpart to "Project Sophia" among the revolutionary bloc during the interworld war.
*The Era name for Nobuhito's reign is "Saisei era", meaning Rebirth. A native Japanese could probably make a better name but I'm not native Japanese. It's also worth noting that in Japan, a no longer reigning Emperor is always referred to by era name.
**1972 by the Gregorian calendar.
***Renaming of the Japanese Empire in response to the hardhat Riots of '40 to reflect a more multiethnic Federal system.
****Reds! Japan, Yasuhito is a regent, but Hirohito remains the formal Emperor.
It looks like KR Japan managed to defang the militarists and make enough concessions to hold the whole system together for the most part. Britain being pragmatic diplomatically is always a surprise to see. It's easy to forget that they actually knew how to make deals and cooperate with other countries. The little line about working against RF America stood out to me. It's got its work cut out for it. It hasn't even done anything and Britain's already throwing it under the bus to sweeten the deal for Japan. It's got a great energy to it that I love. RF America turning around wondering what it did to deserve that once it learns about that particular deal.
KR Canada meanwhile gets a flood of new consumer goods, new markets to sell to, and probably a wave of anti-Asian racism in BC that the government will be embarrassed by, again. KR Australia's likely the same story. Not enough to change diplomatic directions or government policies, but it's there. They're probably just thrilled to return to a civilian peacetime economy, for the most part. The CSA is across the border in Canada, so that's going to be fun for them. I wonder when Mosley's going to show up in Reds Britain, if he hasn't already. I'm used to seeing him as head of the Franco-British Union with a massive Entente pseudo-superstate of dominions and puppet regimes, so it's almost quaint to see a regular British Empire in comparison.
It looks like KR Japan managed to defang the militarists and make enough concessions to hold the whole system together for the most part. Britain being pragmatic diplomatically is always a surprise to see. It's easy to forget that they actually knew how to make deals and cooperate with other countries. The little line about working against RF America stood out to me. It's got its work cut out for it. It hasn't even done anything and Britain's already throwing it under the bus to sweeten the deal for Japan. It's got a great energy to it that I love. RF America turning around wondering what it did to deserve that once it learns about that particular deal.
KR Canada meanwhile gets a flood of new consumer goods, new markets to sell to, and probably a wave of anti-Asian racism in BC that the government will be embarrassed by, again. KR Australia's likely the same story. Not enough to change diplomatic directions or government policies, but it's there. They're probably just thrilled to return to a civilian peacetime economy, for the most part. The CSA is across the border in Canada, so that's going to be fun for them. I wonder when Mosley's going to show up in Reds Britain, if he hasn't already. I'm used to seeing him as head of the Franco-British Union with a massive Entente pseudo-superstate of dominions and puppet regimes, so it's almost quaint to see a regular British Empire in comparison.
Norris is very unenthusiastic about expanding the American Empire as a whole and so is willing to give up on claiming KR Hawaii as long as it means that there's no chance of war with KR Japan. And future President Father Cox doesn't really campaign on foreign policy as a rule. Cox is not sympathetic to fascism, reaction, Imperialism, or right-futurism and of course wouldn't be too happy to see Communists, Syndicalists, and Left-Accelerationists on his doorstep, but his priority is the poor of America, not the world and most of the American electorate similarly regards foreign policy as a tertiary concern after economic recovery and shielding the American system from another Andrew Mellon obstructing anything positive happening in the system.
They don't completely not care, but you don't win elections on foreign policy in countries with a populace not really made to care about such things like Red Flood America unless there's a perceived direct and immediate threat or immediate benefit towards doing things one way or the other. Certainly not enough to go to war over Hawaii, especially when they're still figuring out what to do with the "United States of America (in exile in Cuba)" since reds MacArthur is also claiming the presidency but has a rather alien system and is also a transparent military dictator who rubs Norris, that gentle knight of progressive republicanism; entirely the wrong way and whose repressions of Catholic Cubans would do even less to endear him to Father Cox who is a literal Catholic Priest.
So it was something of a limpwristed "Oh I guess they're Americans so we'll put in something" and then backing down when it was clear Japan wanted Hawaii more than they did and maintaining another Pearl Harbour base didn't seem like the best usage of federal funds. Plus, the agreement lets Red Flood America step into the Legation City role that the KR USA did to benefit from the open door policy of a less shitshowish China.
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The People's Flag is Deepest Red: The Union of Britain in 1936 in brief
"The otherworlders are not a threat to our syndicalist system, but a boon. A boon that will allow the flame of revolution to grow, to enkindle, and devour the powers of reaction. Maximism is the ideal companion of Bolshevism, Spartakism, Jijinpaists, and Maximalism in this holy crusade. And only Maximism has the power to ensure that Britain, our Britain, stands on the right side of history against these Fascists, these Nazis, these Futurists, these Reactionaries, these Dominists, and these Concordists who would seek to lead the common man astray from the path of revolution." - Oswald Mosley in the 1936 emergency session of the Federal Congress
The Socialist Worker's Commonwealth of Britain was once the primary industrial powerhouse of the Socialist world which served as benefactor and benefacted of a vast sphere of influence including Free India, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua, France, Norway, and North Italy with healthy relations with Egypt, America, Russia, Iran and more. It was no longer the largely undisputed global hegemon no, but it was a major nexus for trade in and out of Europe, and the crass bullying and brutish appeals to force the German Empire made in its attempt to build itself up as a world power did little to endear itself to potential allies.
However, the strategic situation still seemed dicey. The German Empire had already proven itself to have the best army in the world and had a mighty, world-spanning fleet, and the Entente had already lost that war before; nevermind the problem of the imperial remnants staring across the patches of ocean.
1936 changed all that. The worldmerges introduced new threats and new boons. The Syndicalists would have to share space with the Communists, the Communards with the Bolsheviks and the Spartakists and even the Jijinpaists. Nothing would ever be the same again, and Britain found itself going from the hub of the revolution (even if the French would assert otherwise despite their reliance on British industry and naval power) to simply a node. A crucial, important node, but a node all the same.
The creed of internationalism had a rather different meaning when faced with the vastness of the Vladivostok Compact, the Ulanbaatar pact, and the Roftront, and the ideological hegemony syndicalism once knew among great power socialists was now diluted into merely one of the revolutionary theses, though the Ulanbaatar pact showed that Syndicalism had potential even in countries once considered on the periphery. And while there were warm greetings and exchanges between the Socialist powers, there was a sense that whatever course the Red banner would blow, it would not be Britain's destiny to command it anymore.
If anything, the nonchalant attitude the USSR, CWFE, CWFC, and UASR had to meeting what were intended to be unreasonable demands to be worked down from by Tom Mann's government instead were met with "is that all?" with regards to the INFOR's requests for oil, rubber, nickel, and other important materials. Indeed, Foreign Commissar Litvinov would crack a joke about how British society had clearly cut its expectations and demands since the revolution while working out a deal in the hopes for the machine tools and industrial technologies of the INFOR and Rotfront to supplement the exchanges with America.
As for the Americans, whereas the newborn Socialist Worker's Commonwealth of America would need time to rebuild and recover from the years of economic downturn and the revolutionary war, the UASR was mostly interested in two things; whatever technologies the INFOR may have had that they didn't, and basing arrangements. In exchange, the excess production of America would be at the INFOR's disposal, just as it would be for the Rotfront. It almost seemed to be too good to be true, and many feared that the Bolsheviks, particularly with how much the Spartakists agreed with them; were going to squash the Syndicalist system and "Bolshevise, Maximalise, and Spartakise our gallant syndicalist path to socialism until the noble trade union is cast aside in favour of party and council."
However, even the most radical of these voices recognised that with the threat of two United Kingdoms in full, as well as this "fascism" and "nazism" and "concordism", these disputes were best worked at from within the bounds of socialist diplomacy rather than with an open split with international tensions as high as they already were.
The Christian socialist Autonomists were perhaps the most concerned by the other forms of socialism present, fearing the generally bellicose attitude the Maximalists in America had towards foreign politics in particular, considering it in essence; reckless warmongering. Something that the feminist pacifists of the Congregationalists were largely in agreement on. However the Councilists of Sylvia Pankhurt surprised many by breaking from her allies of convenience in the Congregationalists to endorse a program first proposed by the "Vanguardists" to move towards signing terms of alliance with the Vladivostok Compact and the Rotfront.
"An alliance of Federationists, Councilists, Vanguardists, and Maximists may have in earlier times been an odd marriage, but in our current situation; is deeply sensible. The time has come to prepare for a true war to end all wars, a world war not of world empires, but of the world systems of revolution and reaction. However, we will not prepare for such things by abandoning our best selves, not when we may finally have our cake and eat it too." - Sylvia Pankhurst on the announcement of the coalition with the Federationists, Vanguardists, and Maximists.
The Federationists; the "centre" of the Labour Party's politics in the Trade Union Congress and the Provincial congress, had decided to make the move of endorsing Pankhurst, with surprisingly the Maximists also going along with it. The Maximist and Hyndmanist endorsement of the Councilist position despite their differences with the Councilists and Vanguardists was a major initial shock, but as Mosley and Beckett made their reasonings for it clear; was surely a product of their endorsement of the line they believed would suit their foreign policy goals.
And to be frank, it was also to get one over the Congregationalists, Parliamentarians, and Autonomists who advocated for a more conciliatory position. While the Maximists and Hyndmanists were advocates for the defence of British "national sovereignty" in the face of "otherworlder dictums", the Maximists in particular offered praise to the "achievements of the revolutions of other worlds who had kept their fires lit in the face of gale and rain", though it was clear that their understanding of the otherworld situations was not entirely coherent.
Though they did offer praise to the "proud spirit of 1848" embodied in Uncrowned Earth Goebbels' Social Republicanists, they also at the same time espoused admiration of the "20th century Americanism" of the WCPA in the Raven and Bear timeline; unaware that the Browder of that world had never really worked with such rhetoric and so desperately confused the sitting General Secretary of the WCPA. To the point of Browder sending Mosley a letter personally asking what on Earth he was referring to.
Nevertheless, the snap elections called for 1936 in response to the worldmerges and a cycle of revolution and reaction that ensued saw a complex series of agreements fire off at once. Mosley would take the position of Chairman of the Union, but the Councilist proposal of strengthening the Central Council would be approved of, with Sylvia Pankhurst as its Premier. The Maximists would however, require an agreement with defecting Federationists, Sylvia's Councilists, and the now more openly Communist Vanguardists would face opposition from the similarly oddball mishmash of Beckett's Hyndmanists who denounced the "reckless social radicalism" of the Maximists, as well the Autonomists and Congregationists who both opposed "a move towards military centralism", and the Parliamentarians who opposed "needless antagonism of wayward forces of liberty", but would retain a "wait and see" approach.
Though it was a triumph to be sure, Mosley found his power restrained by the coalition based nature of his current holding of the coveted position of Chairman of the Trade Union Congress and the fact that the cabinet had to be staffed by Federationists, Councilists, and Vanguardists to the point of pushing his own Maximists to a simple plurality position in the coalition government ensured that he would have to compromise significantly to get his program done, especially with a head of state to contend with; as well as General Secretary of the Labour Party Arthur Horner.
A troika arrangement would have to be established, and the irony of such a "Russian" arrangement would not be lost on either the members of the troika or its opposition.
The British Troika
The Troika's first order of business in terms of domestic policy was, beyond implementing the regional councils and their premier as a proper organ of the revolutionary state, was drafting the next edition of the planned economy. While Horner was sceptical, both Pankhurst and Mosley found themselves surprised by agreeing on a shared interest in the five-year plan system and its seemingly self-evident successes. With some modifications to account for the Syndicalist system, they theorised that it would allow for greater rationalisation of the response the Union would have to the economic fallout of the worldmerges to ensure that the gains would be distributed fairly and any hardships would be spread fairly.
Civilian goods would of course, be more plentiful, but there were pains to be taken to ensure that the British people were able to keep working without destructive competition, and there would be frequent diplomatic missions to both new allies and international organisations as well as even with liberal powers to secure whatever benefits that could be offered. But it was also clear that the British Empire regarded the Union quite frostily. To the point of their labour parties denouncing Labour as "Spartakists" or "Bolsheviks" depending on the world. In an effort to avoid confusion, the Labour Party renamed itself the Republican Labour Party of Great Britain*. Getting recognition from the otherworldly commonwealths was certainly not in the cards, and the influence of the British Empire on capital markets was vast, but some toeholds with those who honestly couldn't care less were definitely in the cards.
Of perhaps greater importance though, was the relation with other Socialist polities. Perhaps most pressing would be the "Mission to Moscow" in the hopes of solidifying a lasting agreement of the "Republican Lion and the Soviet bear", with the objectives being to secure permanent arrangements of trade, the provision of British technology and industrial assistance on top of what would be offered by other industrial great powers in exchange for access to the "limitless natural wealth of the Soviet, Socialist Motherland" in the words of Mosley whose wife Cynthia helped to broker the deal.
Republican British and Soviet Socialist exchanges would commence almost immediately. While it was recognised that the new American giants were important, and good relations with the Red Chinese were sought, and of course the Free Socialist Raterepublik Deutschland could only be a boon; Mosley in particular believed that Britain had a special kinship with Russia as a country on the Periphery of Europe. While the Stalin-Molotov-Kalinin troika government was willing to hear the British out, Mosley's talk of a particular special relationship between Britain and Russia was somewhat offputting to Koba, who regarded it as in essence; an appeal to a special historical spirit that he felt was not really born out either in history; with the Great Game between the Russian and British Empires not too far in the past; or in the present, where this was an entirely new Britain.
Still, in the interest of diplomacy, the address was accepted and the trade deals signed to share the INFOR's technological expertise and industries to help the five-year plans not just meet but exceed their schedules. It was in their interest to try and get their word in with the governments of the Soviet Union and other countries that were deemed as "still industrializing", such as Federal People's Republic of Brazil in the timeline of the Red Flood, where tropical goods such as Chocolate, Coffee, and Rubber were especially desirable for the British public and Brazil wanted all the help industrializing that could be offered. Brazil was not a country rich in the black and grey coal useful for coking Iron into steel that served as the bedrock of industrialisation, but Britain could offer that coal from its now seemingly inexhaustible reserves in addition to what was being shipped from two Americas, one Germany, and the USSR.
In exchange, a program of "making amends for the injustice of the informal empire" in Pankhurst's words that would operate in similar terms to the Anglo-Bharati agreements established with Free India or the Anglo-Arab treaties made with Egypt that saw those countries receive massive financial and industrial assistance as well as advice in building up militaries to deal with their regional issues.
While they wouldn't be the only, or even the largest such providers of aid now, the investments into RADAR technology developed by the Union and the Federation were of keen interest to even such giants as the Soviets or the Americans, particularly advanced Cavity Magnetron radars that were doubtlessly the best in the three worlds. It was likely that the British Empire had or would have such technology soon, so the chance to stay ahead of the curve was tantalising. Of particular import and interest, was the Union of Britain's pioneering work in computers in the hopes of devising a method of more efficient planning and information collection, including extensive work done to break the Imperial German encryption code without letting the Kaiser know they've been had. A program they've called...Gargant.
The British delegation to observe the foundation of the Combined Socialist Commonwealth of America and the process of its constitutional drafting would, perhaps unusually, include Mosley for the actual announcement of the formation of the Commonwealth by William Haywood; who would notably try his best to ingratiate himself to Premier Foster as much, if not more than he spent schmoozing with the hopeful candidates for the first post-revolution election of the new Combine that was clearly on the horizon.
Socialist Worker's Commonwealth of America flag adopted at the 1937 Constitutional Convention, Anthem: Hold the Fort.
*A reference to the concept of Labour Republicanism, and also in the specific context of Britain, Republicanism is incredibly transgressive.
Moseley gives me….very mixed vibes so far, nothing seems too bad so far but I can't shake the feeling something is wrong but if he can become Liberal Leader supreme I guess he can be just as dedicated to socialism as long as he gets power. At least girlboss Sylvia is here to keep him in charge.
In exchange, a program of "making amends for the injustice of the informal empire" in Pankhurst's words that would operate in similar terms to the Anglo-Bharati agreements established with Free India or the Anglo-Arab treaties made with Egypt that saw those countries receive massive financial and industrial assistance as well as advice in building up militaries to deal with their regional issues.
No matter the alt history timeline, Mosley stays winning. It's a constant that the funni man will survive politically. It is amusing that his attempts to proclaim a special relationship with Russia is met by confusion.
No matter the alt history timeline, Mosley stays winning. It's a constant that the funni man will survive politically. It is amusing that his attempts to proclaim a special relationship with Russia is met by confusion.
These are for flags that I can get that aren't potato quality. Countries that are also in the general socialist bloc (including non-revolutionary socialist countries that are at least generally more friendly to the Socialists than the Liberals, Fascists, or Reactionaries) but do not have their flags here either because I couldn't find a decent render or because I ran out of image slots include but are not necessarily limited to Argentina, Nicaragua, Mongolia, Revolutionary Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Haiti, Dominica, and Tannu Tuva in Reds; Norway, Greece, the Kuomintang in Fujian, Liberia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Haiti, and Nicaragua in Kaiserreich; and Iran, Norway, South China, The Socialist Republic of Hindustan, Denmark, Romania, Bulgaria, Peru, Congo, Bolivia, Cuba, Poland, Finland, West Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania in Red Flood.
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Combined Zavkoms and Mirs of Eurasia. Anthem: Wide is My Motherland
Combined Councils and Communes of Burma. Anthem: ???
Combined Councils and Communes of Siam. Anthem: ???
Federal People's Republic of India. Anthem: ???
United Communes of Gran Colombia. Anthem: ???
*Composed earlier to have a separate anthem from other Socialist polities when the USSR was no longer the only such government in the world most people could point to on a map
**Composed Earlier than OTL due to a situation for Germany to metaphorically rise from the ruins arising earlier
***Composed earlier because the Brazilian socialists actually managed to come into power and because I can't find anything else that might fit.
****You just have to pretend its about the post-world war revolution rather than the April 4th Liberation in OTL WW2.
*****Bear with me, because this song is a bop, a childhood favourite of mine, and fits the general mood of Zheltorossiya very well.
Watching with interest. I find it funny that in each world there is usually one country that looks at what happened (or is happening) to it's other compatriots and abruptly changes path towards a more sane direction, whether that be out of genuine horror or out of pragmatism. I really do hope we see more of that. The Uncrowned German communists in particular are probably losing their minds over the Nazis and the Kaiserreich.
I always did wonder how Germany made it as far as Stalingrad in the Reds! Timeline, with the USSR presumably being more industrialized and modernized from it's association with America. Not to mention the Americans being in from the start and the implications that would have for the division of Germany power.
Disclaimer: I never really read Reds! Only bits and pieces of knowledge from AH community diffusion. So if it's explained there... well, I see.
I always did wonder how Germany made it as far as Stalingrad in the Reds! Timeline, with the USSR presumably being more industrialized and modernized from it's association with America. Not to mention the Americans being in from the start and the implications that would have for the division of Germany power.
Disclaimer: I never really read Reds! Only bits and pieces of knowledge from AH community diffusion. So if it's explained there... well, I see.
I believe it has a lot to do with some not so subtle support from France and Britain (though that changes obviously) as of the result of substantially increased fears of Communism stimming from the Second American Revolution. That and a bunch of far-right White American Exiles setting up shop in Germany like Henry Ford.
Watching with interest. I find it funny that in each world there is usually one country that looks at what happened (or is happening) to it's other compatriots and abruptly changes path towards a more sane direction, whether that be out of genuine horror or out of pragmatism. I really do hope we see more of that. The Uncrowned German communists in particular are probably losing their minds over the Nazis and the Kaiserreich.
I always did wonder how Germany made it as far as Stalingrad in the Reds! Timeline, with the USSR presumably being more industrialized and modernized from it's association with America. Not to mention the Americans being in from the start and the implications that would have for the division of Germany power.
Disclaimer: I never really read Reds! Only bits and pieces of knowledge from AH community diffusion. So if it's explained there... well, I see.
It's also inspired me to really dig into often really obscure bits of Kaiserreich and especially Red Flood lore. We're talking me poking through Red Flood's event folders to trigger stuff for countries that don't have playable content yet degrees of obscure.
It was an absolute pain in the ass to find out the details of the situation of China in RF and China is a country I don't feel hugely comfortable making up a lot about to fill in the blanks since its situation is to put it lightly, bewilderingly complex out of being in essence, a semi-failed state.
I've been handling a lot of university stuff lately so my updates have slowed, but I'm looking at getting some stuff up on KR France since whatever the reality of the Federation of the Socialist Communes of France's actual geopolitical power is; France still holds a great deal of symbolic significance in the history of revolution and continental European culture.
Even, and perhaps especially because as described, French Syndicalism is the most heterodoxical challenger to the broad ideological hegemony of the generally Kautsky-descended strains of Marxism that predominate in both Reds! and Red Flood; whether through the Bolsheviks in Reds or the Spartakists in RF; to actually hold state power. And just because they can count on new sugar daddies does not mean they're going to be eager to reverse two decades worth of organisational orthodoxy and institutional tradition.
What further complicates things in an interesting way is that the Communist International and the Second International in reds and Red Flood respectively are associations of communist parties; but the Syndicalist International in KR is primarily attended to by Syndicalist Union movements rather than party organisations. Meaning that technically the Syndintern does not overlap with the Comintern and theoretically both could coexist, but they're formed of entirely different evolutionary branches of socialism and have very different ideas on how to actually organise revolution and re-organise post-revolutionary society.
All the while, they can't do this in a vacuum because there are Liberal, Reactionary, and Fascist Powers that are scrambling to get their houses in order, clamp down on the havoc done to the economy by the gold shock of the century and also ascertain who are their new potential friends and who might turn out to be enemies.
The USSR's own internal changes will also be very interesting since there's the ideological challenge of the existence of a surviving Russian Empire or a Fascist Russian state to be sure; but also differing strains of socialism. Yet at the same time there's both opportunity in having multiple industrialised great powers to count on to accelerate the five year plans while asking for a reduced cost in blood from cutting the motherland to the bone to pay for it but also danger from enemies perhaps having a chance to grow stronger or coordinate a means of further isolating the USSR.
Then there's the awkward situation of the existence of independent variations of the sister republics in the other timelines. The ones in KR are perhaps whatever; they're Imperial German client states through and through. The ones in Red Flood though present a much less easily dismissed conundrum since they're in the orbit of a Communist Germany which has supported their independence as a buffer against Imperial Russia.
Though as for KR, I really couldn't see any way for the Entente to maintain itself as-is when there's the option to just go home put in front of them. Especially since it means the locals can finally be rid of exiles forcing them to spend an obscene amount of money and industrial assets on maintaining a military meant to engage in outlandish amphibious invasions.
Canada for example, would have to do some very heavy duty industrial retooling to even think of being able to service a lot of the fleet the game gives it; even just the standard battleships, nevermind the Dreadnoughts which seem to be based off one of the designs for a British 18 inch gun equipped battleship roughly comparable to the Yamato in tonnage. Building new capital ships outright would be an even bigger ask, especially in terms of skilled personnel who have the expertise to design and build modern warships.
This is honestly even worse in National France; at least places like Canada and Australia are majority white and even South Africa had the systems of self-governance to survive the storm and the current British India lore paints it as in essence, the Southern Princes hijacking the mechanisms of the Raj to protect their lands from the Free Indian and Lahore governments. Meanwhile National France is essentially three islands of French control; the Algerian coast, Senegal, and Cote D'Ivoire; and the literal Sahara between them.
Their white manpower pools are tiny, there's not much pre-existing industry besides what was built to facilitate extraction of resources, France's entire colonial empire put together produced less money than some individual British colonies so they're not exactly swimming in capital, and based on their focuses they building of a trans-saharan railway is still a going concern in 1936. All while maintaining a bloated military not just to maintain what they still have, but try to launch a landing on the French southern coast and/or Iberia and/or Italy. While also having to ward against intrusion from Imperial Germany's colonies since Germany's African colonies in KR have a habit of trying to violently grab land from other colonial governments when they smell an opportunity.
Without actually winning WW1, Petain's clout as the "saviour of verdun" can only go so far when here comes a true and (red white and) blue Republic that can let the exiles live in at least, a France again and can take off a lot of their massive burdens. Even if Daladier is probably going to cry himself to sleep thinking of how he's going to adjust the budget for all these ships and soldiers and how he's gonna deal with trimming it down to something less insane.
Of course there's also a poison pill to be considered since that's a lot of very right-wing and very embittered exiles being invited back into the Metropole. Meanwhile you have the traditional left emboldened by a provable model of a socialist Republic that is authentically and wholly French (even if to the horror of most of the non-anarchist adjacent French left; they're F*deralists), and third positionists greatly interested in the model of the Artistic State of France.
Speaking of Avant Garde France, I do hope the left leaning figures from there are able to escape to the Commune instead of getting messily purged by the... I forget, are the right accelerationists the hypercapitalist hedonists, the retvrn to monke types, or the FASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERs?
Very interesting analysis. I'm looking forward to (non-violent and still allowing cooperation) leftist in-fighting. Two questions:
How is that smallest member of the Entente, Sardinia, handling things?
What are the ideological differences/differences in execution of communism between RF Germany and Reds America, if any?
Very interesting analysis. I'm looking forward to (non-violent and still allowing cooperation) leftist in-fighting. Two questions:
How is that smallest member of the Entente, Sardinia, handling things?
What are the ideological differences/differences in execution of communism between RF Germany and Reds America, if any?
Sardinia is such a non-entity I legitimately have not looked all that closely at their political situation in KR. Sardinia is the weirdest exile because it's not only opposed to Socialist Italy but also the Liberal Italian Republic as well as the kingdom of the two sicilies and the neo-papal state. It is very specifically the place of exile for the house of Savoy and only the house of Savoy and has put itself in opposition to any other conceptualisation of what Italy is. This makes figuring out who they'd lean towards somewhat difficult.
It seems like those French expats going from KR Nat France to Reds Metropole France may be a potential problem in the future. It's more conservative and nationalistic soldiers and officers in France than there were in real life, so I wonder if this will see a repeat of the Vichy regime or not. I don't know how it went in Reds canon, except that the Franco-British Union actually formed and was maintained post war. A prospect that I think may be entirely unpalatable to that large number of militant French nationalists, but we'll see how it plays out.
It seems like those French expats going from KR Nat France to Reds Metropole France may be a potential problem in the future. It's more conservative and nationalistic soldiers and officers in France than there were in real life, so I wonder if this will see a repeat of the Vichy regime or not. I don't know how it went in Reds canon, except that the Franco-British Union actually formed and was maintained post war. A prospect that I think may be entirely unpalatable to that large number of militant French nationalists, but we'll see how it plays out.
IIRC, in the OG Reds! TL, France basically went through a civil war in WW2, with the Germans backing an uprising lead by rightist/fiercely anti-communist generals. Needless to say... things seem poised to probably go much worse for that particular France.
It seems like those French expats going from KR Nat France to Reds Metropole France may be a potential problem in the future. It's more conservative and nationalistic soldiers and officers in France than there were in real life, so I wonder if this will see a repeat of the Vichy regime or not. I don't know how it went in Reds canon, except that the Franco-British Union actually formed and was maintained post war. A prospect that I think may be entirely unpalatable to that large number of militant French nationalists, but we'll see how it plays out.
From context clues and server chat it seems that in the latest version of Reds, France falls to a right wing coup and becomes an outright member of the Axis during the war
I forget, are the right accelerationists the hypercapitalist hedonists, the retvrn to monke types, or the FASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERFASTERs?
It's always fun to see these worldmerges! I can't help but feel like the socialists are always at an advantage due to the inherent anti-competetive nature of their system whereas capitalist countries are constantly shifting alliances and interests, which is really interesting to see play out (and a vindication of my political biases lol)
Father James Renshaw Cox was a man of many firsts, for one, he was the first Catholic to become American President, the first man of the cloth to become a holder of elected federal office in America period, he was the first man not of either the Republican or Democratic parties to win the presidency in a hundred years, he had the first woman as a vice president, and he was the first president in quite a while to be a bachelor, and a lifelong one at that as a man of the cloth. While his election was controversial given his faith and his radically progressive politics and decision to take in a Vice President from the Communist Party of America and a woman at that, he had uniquely poised to sweep into office. The Republican party had firebombed its image with Andrew Mellon's disastrous presidency and nonhandling of the dustbowl, the Democratic party was dead, the Technocrats were esoteric and strange and ultimately could be mollified with some promises, and the DSPA had a faith and credit arrangement with the People's Progressive Party of America and the American Party ultimately had broken when the Longists and other populists crossed aisles to the PPPA over internal difficulties.
The choice of Selma Borchardt, who in this timeline had gained significant credentials within the DSPA, was in essence a form of assassination insurance. Should any of the deeply anti-catholic forces in America kill him, they'd get a feminist radical and an open socialist fond of Berlin as their president instead, and behind her in line was the PPPA's chosen speaker of the house, Floyd Olson, while their President Pro-Tempore was Upton Sinclair; ensuring that no matter how many they killed they would only make things worse for their reactionary causes. And if they killed all four? If everything went to plan then the last person in line would be Elizabeth Flynn.
Cox however, had made his spiel clear to the elites "It's either the People's Progress, or the Communist Guillotine", making it clear that trying to import fascism, futurism, or whatever to this America would not work out; they could try to roll the dice, but with the war in Kaiserworld; they were kidding themselves if they thought they were doing more than just offering themselves up to the pyre. Furthermore, Cox had a plan to both create jobs for the hungry masses and keep America safe. The lend lease program of Norris had provided dividends, and Cox would expand on them, to provide with America's surplus bounty to not just fellow Americans but to the world as a whole in exchange for their trade and investment, all while ensuring that American businesses would be in a position to recover from the depression and the effects of Artaud's debt repudiation.
Key to his plans was an electrification of the rural places and the tractor provision program as well as redoubling the dustbowl relief programs that his party had fought for and instated in a more limited capacity where they held power in the country. Good soil practices, tree planting to create windbreaks, recovery of grasslands, and bringing the power of modernity to the communities of America that had long been isolated from such things were all cornerstones of his plan to build America to the potential he knew it had. As a country that could stand as a place of freedom and prosperity for all worlds and be a crowning achievement of the whole human race.
Parts of America long locked out of the bounties of the Industrial Revolution would find work and modernity brought to them, healthcare would be made widely available for a populace often dealing with sickness and living with the memories of the Spanish Flu, and hunger in a country that produced so much food would be banished. It was an ambitious plan, but smaller scale demonstrations of the concepts he was promoting were already successful in states where the People's Progressive Party and its allies had held sway. Examples such as Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and more demonstrated that what they were proposing could work not just for the big cities or the big farms, but for the little America too.
While the Republicans tried to mobilise behind Branson Cutting and Alf Landon, the New Democrats trotted out Samuel Johnson Junior from Texas and John Holmes from New York, and the American Party fronted Dan Moody and John Garner; the vote of support from the Technocrats, the Communists, and the Populists would be more than enough to get him over the finish line with a widespread majority that would see his general agenda fear only the supreme court. But for that he too had a plan, an expansion of the supreme court from nine to fifteen justices, and the institution of terms for the judiciary via constitutional amendment to end the "period of judicial monarchy where a man can stay in an office of near absolute power for life without any further verification." He'd say in his addresses to the nation.
As for the economy, he swore to protect unions, the right to organise and strike, the implementation of a minimum wage affixed to the cost of living on the account that "a business that cannot afford to pay its workers a living wage on one paycheck is not a business that belongs in a country without slaves." As well as promising the implementation of "workplace democracy and employee ownership for science has proven that when the working man has a stake in his or her company, he or she is far more willing to give their all to its success and prosperity and the business itself becomes more productive and efficient. And if the traditions of a democratic republic, which is to say a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, are good enough for this nation of ours, they are good enough for our places of work."
He also planned an institution of a "board of development that through its subsidiary organisations shall marry the powers of the working man's unions, the business man's corporations, and the common man's government towards the maximisation of our increases in prosperity, our hopes to modernise and dare I say futurise, and to ensure that America is fair for all so that none are idle nor hungry." He declared in one of his campaign trail speeches before the masses at Time Square in New York City.
Further excerpts of that speech would further elaborate on his vision for the country in counter to accusations of seeking to implement corporatism or communism, revealing an image of a man who despite being an outsider as a clergyman and a unionist, was deeply invested into the vision of America and its potential.
"For those of us who would call this a path to revolution or the instatement of dictatorship, I have this to say. One, my policy is that of the Democratic Republic, of which our founders always intended for this nation. Democracy means rule by the demos, the masses, and our creed from our founding was "no taxation without representation", and if our representation cannot have a hand in our work and business, then it is not representation at all. Republic some would tell you simply means a place without a monarchy, without a King, but it means more than that. It is a beautiful word in Latin made of two, Res meaning in this case, the Concern Of, and Publicus, meaning the People."
"In our own more germanic language we also had the term "Commonwealth" which means much the same thing, though in our admiration of Rome we went for Republic. Nevertheless, when we know this, we know that our nation was intended to be a nation ruled by its people in the interest of its people. That we are not a mere realm devoted to a sovereign, but a mass of citizens who have a common interest and belonging and operate in each other's interest. Thus, what I am doing is not the institution of dictatorship or mob rule, it is achieving what the framers of this country had always intended, a realisation of the ideals of Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln and more besides. This is not destroying the country, it is saving it and allowing our flag to fly true and proud knowing that we have lived up to the ideals of the declaration of independence." He would add.
"For if we do nothing, then we will descend into unspeakable, obscene, and devastating violence, either of the angry masses or of the frightened moneymen. To let the present course be seen through, or to just bandage the gaping holes in the ship of our democratic republic, means that our republic and our democracy will be lost to civil war, putsch, anger, and fear. I am not offering the destruction of this nation, but its salvation. We, the People's Progressives, unlike the New Democrats, unlike the Republicans, and unlike the Americanists, are concerned with you, John Q Public, so that our nation achieves what it was always meant to and we complete the work of emancipation that began more than one and a half centuries ago. Just as we were freed of imperial tyranny and then slaver tyranny, so too will we be free of poverty's tyranny."
"And doing so will not mean spreading the butter thin on the toast, for in this nation of some one hundred and thirty million persons, presuming that we get at least half employed, of course excepting the elderly, infirm, or our children, every hundred dollars added to the average paycheck of each worker means more than six billion dollars more for the nation as a whole. And we can achieve that, we can achieve far more than that. For when the majority is richer, the strength of our nation rises and our options only grow."
His election would come in with an absolute majority for his own party, and a supermajority for the network of aligned parties like the Democratic Farmer-Labour Party, the Communist Party, the Populist Party, and Technocracy Incorporated as well as progressive factions of the other parties that would let him reshape the constitution. WIth his enemies hopelessly divided and eating into each other's votes, he secured the overwhelming majority of the states in the union, and would accept the concession of his electoral rivals in stride. They had told him that becoming president as a "papist" was impossible, that America would never accept a "pinko priest", but he had shown them what for, and with the amendment pushed by Norris to contract the waiting period between election and inauguration to a single week so that his strange stint as President could be over as soon as possible.
Father Cox meeting his supporters on the road
Father Cox was not a man with a great enthusiasm for war and armed conflict, it went against his beliefs in human dignity and the awfulness of armed conflict, but as futurist organisations started to creep up across Hispanic North America from the cancer of the Caribbean Futurist Society and word of the other worlds' security threats crept into his ears, he wasn't blind either. As civil wars and smaller scale interstate conflicts were felt across the four worlds, he had a dreadful feeling that his stint as president wouldn't be as peaceful as he'd like. He wasn't prepared to commit to any foreign alliances yet, but he made it abundantly clear that he was no fan of Hitler, the Kaiserreich, Lindbergh, or Artaud.
"I have heard more than enough of the ravings of reactionary and fascist demagogues to last a lifetime, and I shall say that uniformly they are sad little men who, lacking love in their own lives, seek to fill that void by making their colour on the map as big as possible so that in the absence of the love of others, they can feel powerful by the count of those they step on." He explained in his first address on foreign policy.
"But America will not be sending its boys to the grinder unless they drag the grinder to us first. We will not let that ideal of the Democratic Republic or the Folk-Led Commonwealth perish from this earth, if there is a demand for our wares by those nations who would stand for the ideals of a Democratic Republic or a Folk-Led Commonwealth, then we shall gladly sell to them. But we shall not sell to those who would ask us for guns and butter in the name of tramping a boot on the throat of mankind. So kindly, if you would, refrain from asking us for battleships and tanks in the name of conquest." He would add in that very same speech.
He had also made the move to recognise and normalise relations with the socialists, on the account that doing so would make interacting with the Syndicalist and Communist Internationals far simpler, and that it was an embarrassing and demeaning act to pretend that diminutive governments in exile were the genuine governments of countries that were largely ruled by other administrations brought about by revolution rather than foreign invasion. Furthermore, it was possible and even beneficial to do business with them, America needed buyers for its goods and countries not mired in depression were an excellent place for America's exports to get rolling.
Perhaps the oddest relation though, would be with Ravenworld's Cuba, occupied by MacArthur's exile regime and now swollen by a second cohort of exiles too reactionary for liberal democracies but not quite reactionary enough to flee to the likes of the Nazis, the Fascists, the Federals, or the Russian Empire. There were voices calling for annexing this cuba into America, but the new President was less than sure about pulling in such a hot mess of anticommunist zealots or a country that was rather less than entirely pleased with suddenly finding itself as a part of America. Furthermore was the fact that some would accuse him of trying to bring more papists into the country, and that the people exiled there would find whatever homes they were planning to return to at best occupied by alters of themselves, quite likely by other people entirely, or at worst find they were never built at all.
Then of course, was the fact that as a Catholic Priest, he could not condone imposing an English Protestant regime atop a Hispanic Catholic country and the efforts to make Cuba safe for the business plotters who supported the two MacArthurs would mean dealing with businesses who'd see his reforms as scarcely better than revolution. Plus, in his estimation of MacArthur, there could only be one, sooner or later one would have to make the other bend the knee, and he was hardly interested in getting involved in that mess, nevermind the "Cincinnatus fantasy that the general is indulging in rankles at every institution of the democratic republic. The constitution does not give provisions for the Roman institution of dictatorship for good reason." As he would say.
However, he was somewhat concerned with the regime's firesale of excess American warships that they couldn't afford, which was quite frankly most of them. One of his first foreign policy acts in office was to commission a committee on finding a way to minimise the number of former American warships that would find their way to "despotic regimes", particularly the Integralists in Ravenworld brazil or the Chileans and Argentines in Serpentworld and especially to the Futurist regime of Manuel Acre in Mexico as the new Mexican government rose during the temporary paralysis of the government following Mellon's impeachment.
However, Cox was less willing to expand the size of the standing army for now, not when there was so much work to be done with building up the country, though he did ask Scott how much work could be done in setting up arsenals and factories that could be converted in a hurry, just in case.
Father Cox First Term Cabinet
Secretary of State: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury: Henry Morgenthau Junior
Secretary of War: George S Long
Attorney General: Robert Jackson
Postmaster General: Harry S Truman
Surgeon General: Thomas Carran
Secretary of the Army: Smedley Butler
Secretary of the Navy: Teddy Roosevelt Junior
Secretary of the Air Force: Eddie Rickenbacker
Secretary of the Interior: George Washington Carver
Secretary of Agriculture: Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Commerce: A'Leila Walker
Secretary of Labor: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Secretary of Planning: Howard Scott
Secretary of Education: John Dewey
Secretary of Social Services: Francis Townsend
Secretary of Development: Albert Kahn
Secretary of Transport: Robert Moses 1
Secretary of Defence2: Jessie B Duckstein
Secretary of Information3: William J Donovan
1: Unlike OTL, this Robert Moses invested his money into trains instead and as such is a massive train nut, on the other hand he has crank ideas like Zeppelin fetishism and monorails, the Department of transport is also founded earlier
2: Closer to Homeland security, created after Artaud crashed the economy by repudiating all debts to the United States and was found to have sponsored agents working within the art community, as well as in response to Black Hundreds connected terrorists bombing the Vanderbilt and Carnegie buildings in New York on the eleventh of September and the Klu Klux Klan's "bloody Thanksgiving" attacks in an attempt to kill Huey Long and release the Hippos he had imported into Louisiana into Black neighbourhoods as well as the "Cool Incident" where Avant Garde artists turned a gallery show into a mausoleum of Phosgenne Gas all in the same month.
3: A polite term for espionage
