Spartakrod
Judeo-Spartacist Bolshevik-Kabbalist
- Location
- Sanctum Arcanorum
- Pronouns
- Fae/Faer/Faers/Faerself
Also regarding the Franco-British Empire; America being socialist and not being connected to the British market as well as not having the sword of damocles that is interest on extended credit to be repaid to America makes the UASR much less able to strongarm western Europe into decolonising than OTL. Throughout the 40s and 60s, America would repeatedly twist the arms of their now entirely dependent allies whenever they got into colonial conflicts to encourage them to back down and pull out so that America could gain access to that market and also further reduce western europe's foreign policy independence. Britain was the third superpower up until the Suez Crisis (Britain and America were in fact, deeply at odds over Israel until the JFK presidency or thereabouts) and France even without its empire was repeatedly able to piss in America's cheerios through eliminating financial and materiel dependence on the US unlike most of the rest of European NATO.
And America had this power over the empire of western Europe because they had all found themselves trapped in a mountain of debt to America over the course of two world wars and the Marshall Plan as well as the Bretton-Woods system. Which let America essentially take over most of their economies and make it very difficult for them to meaningfully oppose American policy unless they found some way to break dependency. Which was something only France really managed out of the NATO countries and they only fully broke away after switching from overt imperialism to French economic neocolonialism. Though France maintaining neocolonial economic suzerainity over much of its former empire has contributed a lot to France weathering the post-imperial era better than the UK which in OTL seems to be in an inescapable continual downward spiral of increasing global irrelevance.
It's worth noting that Britain and France outright lost only a few colonial conflicts without being strongarmed into giving up first. Britain outright crushed the Malaysian Communists and annihilated the Mau Mau and the UK was as a rule; far more practiced at rooting out and destroying insurgencies than the USA was. Very few colonial insurgencies against the British Empire actually succeeded and in a very large portion of cases that the UK withdrew from a colony; it was largely on their own terms and very often with a spiteful parting gift.
The British Empire lasted for centuries because the British state is quite good at the task of globalised malevolence and it took a very specific set of circumstances for it to fall apart the way it did without having to have the Empire pried out of its bloodied claws with force from a greater power.
Indeed in Reds!, the British Empire ascends even farther now that its most significant inter-imperialist competitor in the USA is no longer directly competing with it for a share of the world's markets and economy or domination over global financial systems. London now controls all the rules for capitalism and there's no one who can question it and the number two capitalist country; France; has essentially been annexed into the UK along with all of her imperial territories.
Western Europe's economy is now dependent on Britain's the same way it was on America's OTL; and having cut away the shackles of American debt; the British economy can thrum back to life, while Attlee's wartime and post-war changes to the system do much to ensure the house remains in order.
Britain is, for the first time in its history, a continental hegemon with western Europe now essentially vassalised to the British Empire. And it rather likes the power that comes with it. The immediate post-war period is regarded as a British golden age as Britain enjoys economic supremacy over western Europe, virtually the entirety of Africa, and most of South Asia as well as re-asserting itself over Brazil. British culture dominates western Europe and the matters of the most populated band of Europe, nearly the whole of Africa and a massive chunk of Asia and South America are heavily influenced by London.
And of the countries granted independence of sorts such as the dominions created out of Nigeria, the Raj, Egypt-Sudan; and so on; they are all too happy to help the Metropole keep the Empire in check so they get a piece of the spoils.
With the fall of the Black Eagle of Germany and the death of the bald eagle in America as the crow bursts from its corpse; the Lion's roar has never been louder. Though many of course, prefer to depict the FBU as a Griffin (an Aquilian Griffin at that; as it'd be a bit more dignified than a Rooster/Lion griffin).
And America had this power over the empire of western Europe because they had all found themselves trapped in a mountain of debt to America over the course of two world wars and the Marshall Plan as well as the Bretton-Woods system. Which let America essentially take over most of their economies and make it very difficult for them to meaningfully oppose American policy unless they found some way to break dependency. Which was something only France really managed out of the NATO countries and they only fully broke away after switching from overt imperialism to French economic neocolonialism. Though France maintaining neocolonial economic suzerainity over much of its former empire has contributed a lot to France weathering the post-imperial era better than the UK which in OTL seems to be in an inescapable continual downward spiral of increasing global irrelevance.
It's worth noting that Britain and France outright lost only a few colonial conflicts without being strongarmed into giving up first. Britain outright crushed the Malaysian Communists and annihilated the Mau Mau and the UK was as a rule; far more practiced at rooting out and destroying insurgencies than the USA was. Very few colonial insurgencies against the British Empire actually succeeded and in a very large portion of cases that the UK withdrew from a colony; it was largely on their own terms and very often with a spiteful parting gift.
The British Empire lasted for centuries because the British state is quite good at the task of globalised malevolence and it took a very specific set of circumstances for it to fall apart the way it did without having to have the Empire pried out of its bloodied claws with force from a greater power.
Indeed in Reds!, the British Empire ascends even farther now that its most significant inter-imperialist competitor in the USA is no longer directly competing with it for a share of the world's markets and economy or domination over global financial systems. London now controls all the rules for capitalism and there's no one who can question it and the number two capitalist country; France; has essentially been annexed into the UK along with all of her imperial territories.
Western Europe's economy is now dependent on Britain's the same way it was on America's OTL; and having cut away the shackles of American debt; the British economy can thrum back to life, while Attlee's wartime and post-war changes to the system do much to ensure the house remains in order.
Britain is, for the first time in its history, a continental hegemon with western Europe now essentially vassalised to the British Empire. And it rather likes the power that comes with it. The immediate post-war period is regarded as a British golden age as Britain enjoys economic supremacy over western Europe, virtually the entirety of Africa, and most of South Asia as well as re-asserting itself over Brazil. British culture dominates western Europe and the matters of the most populated band of Europe, nearly the whole of Africa and a massive chunk of Asia and South America are heavily influenced by London.
And of the countries granted independence of sorts such as the dominions created out of Nigeria, the Raj, Egypt-Sudan; and so on; they are all too happy to help the Metropole keep the Empire in check so they get a piece of the spoils.
With the fall of the Black Eagle of Germany and the death of the bald eagle in America as the crow bursts from its corpse; the Lion's roar has never been louder. Though many of course, prefer to depict the FBU as a Griffin (an Aquilian Griffin at that; as it'd be a bit more dignified than a Rooster/Lion griffin).
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