Hey, Britain! Remember when you tried to do this in the leadup to the GAW not that many years ago?
Do you remember how that ended and how everyone in the Western Hemisphere reacted to that?
What makes you think that this will be more effective this time?
;)
In some sense Russia could also be argued to be playing the role of UK/Canada in the GAW as a large non-aligne power. Other than that only other ones who care could maybe be Netherlands, Romania, or Spain (all of which I imagine are varying levels of cheering on Berlin but not wanting to join)...
I was spending some time recently thinking about how exactly the Japanese were going to seize Taiwan, and how the rest of the French far eastern possessions were going to go down.
Is it "Vietnam revolts again, allowing an opportunistic invasion a la the run up to the Spanish-Japanese war"?
Is...
Bolivia seems to have caught victory disease from Chile...
We have seen Bolivia, how is Peru doing in the meanwhile? IIRC they also had a few border disputes with meighbors at this time...
Would any of these states gain full statehood rights following the 1990s desegregation? I could maybe see some of them wanting to push for it to guarantee more influence in national politics. Though the CSA government may not necessarily want to do that.
So, to summarize what I expect most of the CS states to look like:
Virginia: War-devastated and lost quite a bit of its state territory. Probably has a heavier US presence now, and will for quite a while. I expect whatever politicians from here are left to fall in line with the government in NC...
I largely agree that Lee would probably never run in 1867 if given the chance, even if people think he would at the time.
Of course this leaves the 1867 election wide open. I have seen quite a few depictions of a CSA election of 1867 over the years here on the board and one thing most of them...
...Harding is going to die in office at the most incconvenient time, calling it now.
President Albert Fall during the *Great Depression. I see absolutely *no* way that ends well.