Last time we established the overall framework we're trying to work with. Now, in response to feedback, I'll be slotting individual countries into the mold.
Couple comments:
-There's a lot of Jamaicans of African descent.
Small nation(~3 million) but lotta black people. And an outsize presence for its size in international culture, especially out on the African continent.
Just putting it out there, in the event you want or need complications.
-Bahamas is ~400k.
I wonder why they're being so carefully mentioned by our devious GM....
-Cuba is being set up as a miniboss.
Fortunately they're not much of a naval power, and at ~11 million people they dont really have the resource base to project hundreds of thousands of soldiers anywhere.
But they have always been much more competent than the Vics. And they have a very good intelligence service; they've run agents high up in the US intelligence services(Ana Montes) and the State Department(Walter Kendall Myers) for years before getting caught.
This will be an issue. And not necessarily a military one.
-*looks suspiciously at the Central America writeup*
Yeah, I think Russia is going to lean on them to supply "volunteers" to go help the Christian nation of Victoria.
Poor bastards.
-Columbia is likely to be the nation that Russia is going to pressure to fuck with us in the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico.
Historically American allies, but theyre the only ones on this list with a Caribbean shoreline and a significant navy.
-French Guiana is only 300k people.
Worth remembering.
-Its worth remembering that there is a significant ethnic Indian population in the Caribbean. To quote Wikipedia:
Indo-Caribbeans are the largest ethnic group in Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. They are the second largest group in Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and other countries. There are small populations of them in Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, French Guiana, Grenada, Panama, Guatemala, St Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and the Netherlands Antilles.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Not counting the US, there's over a million Indo-Caribbeans in the region,. Just in case you need to complicate the area further.
-Also worth noting:
Russia pushing Argentina to make noises at Brazil gives both sides a reason to arm up. Which might be a spectacular own goal when talking about two nuclear threshold states with domestic missile program capability (and in the case of Brazil, a domestic nuclear submarine program)
-The status of those overseas territories are kinda important to us.
Some of them
used to belong to the US(US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico), some to UK(British Virgin Islands, Montserrat et cetera), some to France(Guadeloupe et al), some to the Netherlands(Aruba, Sint Maarten et al). In the event they are currently occupied by Russia/Russian interests, it makes for a visceral reason why, in addition to France, the UK and Netherlands might have reason to hold personal grudges as well as professional ones.
Knowing who else holds personal grudges in the region other than France helps us know who else to approach for financing and technical support.
Who else benefits from our putting the screws to Russian proxies and stretching Alexander's resources, and can be persuaded to pay while we bleed.
I mean, we already have China and France.
We have to finance the war somehow.