The World Turned Upside Down - A 20th Century Nation Game (HIATUS?)

heres the background info from the scenario

Republic of Palestine
Yet another country where the British attempted to export the Hashemite royal family to, the Palestinian experience has been much calmer and far less violent than that of its Syrian and Mesopotamian neighbors. Having kicked the Hashemites out in a peaceful, democratic referendum in the mid-80s, Palestine has remained close to both Hashemite Arabia and the United Kingdom, mostly as a bulwark against Egyptian and Syrian aggression. With a rapidly developing economy, Palestine has a bright future if it plays its cards right. Unfortunately, with waves of Anti-Semitic moods coming and going in Europe, and spouts of outright violence against Jewish communities in countries like France, Prussia, and across Eastern Europe, Jewish migration to the Levant has steadily increased over the years, leading to friction between Jewish and Arab populations. While the more education, urban elites see no problem with similarly educated, and at times fairly well off, Jewish migrants from Europe, many of the lower classes and rural populations don't see eye to eye. And then there's the whole problem of Zionist militant groups, often times using terrorist tactics to fight against the British-armed Palestinian National Army, occasionally acting out in violence against the state and the general public…

So how the hell did Egypt bypass a clear British aligned state and send there Navy through Palestinian waters without raising the alarm of both the Palestinian Government in Jerusalem, the Hashemite Government in Jeddah and Westminister itself?
 
So how the hell did Egypt bypass a clear British aligned state and send there Navy through Palestinian waters without raising the alarm of both the Palestinian Government in Jerusalem, the Hashemite Government in Jeddah and Westminister itself?

Miscommunication between the Palestine governments, London, and the Admiralty?
 
When will be the elections in Australia by the way? And do I get to control it or will you the GM handle election results?

All elections in the Confederation of Australia are done at the behest of the participant.

Militaries tend to get smaller, not larger, in the modern era, not to mention the scale of that is just incredibly skewed. The army of the Russian Federation as of 2019 has around 3,5 million soldiers counting both active-duty and reservists. This is from a nation with a population of over 150 million. It's really not like the 18th-century where Prussia had huge numbers of smallholders who were free to be called up for service at a moment's notice.

Even if Northern Germany maintains a conscription-based army, there's no way it could maintain that level of troop strength in peacetime without devoting a solid fifth of its budget to military spending. That's not Prussia, that's post-1990s North Korea.

Hence my issue as head moderator with the numbers.

So how the hell did Egypt bypass a clear British aligned state and send there Navy through Palestinian waters without raising the alarm of both the Palestinian Government in Jerusalem, the Hashemite Government in Jeddah and Westminister itself?

Allow me to restate once more: the war in Mesopotamia is not over. Another report on its status will be published at the beginning of the next year.
 
right lowered the reservist number on the IC post, this is why I wanted peoples opinions EARLIER with the whole 19th century never ended + just ending cold war etc sigh meow V.V
 
right lowered the reservist number on the IC post, this is why I wanted peoples opinions EARLIER sigh meow V.V

It is my fault for not taking action earlier. To allow maximum efficiency I have begun a moderating spreadsheet that allows me to keep track of nations and their plans, diplomacy and overall status.
 
ANYHOW @Demonic Spoon looking over the whole current house tree again there is space/time for the late Kaiserin to have had a daughter who would the Crown Princes (and Kaiser in 1992) younger sister but the age would be more or less fixed at 21-22 years old. Also I would probably give them a twin in order to have more members of the main line of the family.
 
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@Arrow just so we're clear, should I carry over the implied threat of CSA nukes to IC, or keep it to OC for now?
 
would really depend on if US military thinks the CSA will respond to act as if being invaded or not, and what they believe the CSA policy with nukes is.

I mean, right now the only party that's threatened invasion is Virginia; Kentucky's told them to back off, and the US is backing Kentucky. The CSA (presumably, I can't speak for @Arrow ) maintains that both countries are still subject to their jurisdiction (Virginia would be a weird case, since from the CSA's point of view it's a breakaway province but Virginia has legally recognized the CSA over the SSR and oh no I've gone cross eyed), and that this is a purely internal matter between states that the US is butting into.

So, technically speaking, it's a clusterfuck.
 
This was not back-pedalling. It was a geopolitical repositioning of our strategic diplomatic status.
 
nah, would rather continou exploiting the region for profit.

I mean, at this point Southwest Africa is probably an overseas region of Germany with either representation in the Reichstag or self-government. It was also a settler colony IOTL so it likely has a not-inconsiderable German population.
 
End colonialism, replace with Afrikaans Neocolonialism. :V

What gets weird to consider is that after nearly a full century of German rule, Southwest Africa is likely majority or plurality German. So there are probably German-speaking towns and settlements that find it completely odd when Afrikanse go on about the need to maintain white rule in Southwest Africa and the like.
 
What gets weird to consider is that after nearly a full century of German rule, Southwest Africa is likely majority or plurality German. So there are probably German-speaking towns and settlements that find it completely odd when Afrikanse go on about the need to maintain white rule in Southwest Africa and the like.
pretty much, I've been going with the assumption that around a 3rd of the population is German or mixed possibly some of that immigration moving on to nearby non-german territory as part of natural migration for employment, opportunities, etc.
 
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What gets weird to consider is that after nearly a full century of German rule, Southwest Africa is likely majority or plurality German. So there are probably German-speaking towns and settlements that find it completely odd when Afrikanse go on about the need to maintain white rule in Southwest Africa and the like.
I mean, I'm explicitly loosening white rule by adding the Afrikaans-speaking Kleurlinge to the Baaskaap.
 
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