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This American Century-Part 1
The great realigning event that would define the 21st century may have technically began with the victory of John McCain in the 2000 election. McCain was something of a maverick among Republicans, having a more moderate set of beliefs than his main rival George W. Bush. McCain worked with Democrats on things like education and campaign finance reform and negotiated a tax bill focusing on cuts for the middle class while doing less for the wealthy. The moment that would define his presidency, however, came on September 11th, 2001. Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House with hijacked airplanes, killing around 3,000 people. Among the dead were First Lady Cindy McCain, Vice President Tommy Thompson and several cabinet members. McCain was enraged by this and vowed to hunt the ‘scum behind this atrocity to the ends of the earth.’ Thus marked the beginning of the War on Terror.
McCain declared there was no room for the usual petty partisanship in the post-9/11 world. Now was the time for the country to unite. And unite it did. McCain boasted 91% approval in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and few in Congress objected when the McCain administration made its demands. First, McCain shocked many by announcing a ‘new National Union coalition’. He selected Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman as his new Vice President and appointed a number of Democrats to fill cabinet vacancies as a show of bringing America together. It wasn’t all just these overtures, of course. The National Union coalition in Congress passed sweeping expansion of government surveillance powers, gave McCain’s administration to detain suspected enemy combatants indefinitely (albeit with some protections against torture or other abuses) and empowered McCain to pursue the terrorists behind the attacks by almost any means necessary. McCain launched an invasion of Afghanistan in 2002. By 2003, the war had expanded to include Iraq and Libya. In 2004, an attack on a US naval vessel in the Persian Gulf led to the U.S. launching a war in Iran. The wars were not without critics, but the National Union coalition, while not fully formalized, helped stifle much dissent and were broadly supported going into 2004.
The 2004 election saw the new National Union truly formalized. McCain entered both the Democratic and Republican primaries with support from the vast majority of party leadership. Only a few candidates emerged to challenge McCain in the primaries. In the Republican field, McCain was challenged by right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan and businessman Herman Cain. In the end, the two failed to make much of a dent in his support on that side. In the Democratic field, meanwhile, McCain faced more organized opposition from Senator Paul Wellstone, who challenged McCain on foreign policy, civil liberties and economics. Wellstone managed to crack 20% and even won 5 states, but McCain still ended up the official nominee of both parties. Wellstone encouraged his supporters to vote their conscience, but this did not mean that McCain would go unchallenged.
Texas Representative Ron Paul was one of McCain’s only vocal critics among elected GOP officials. He had endorsed Buchanan’s challenge, but when it failed announced a bid for the Presidency as an independent. As his running mate, Paul selected fellow Representative Dennis Kucinich-a left-wing Democrat likewise disgruntled by the National Unionists. Ironically, the Paul/Kucinich ticket built a party coalition of their own-getting cross-endorsed by the Libertarian, Green, Constitution and Reform Parties alongside a few even more minor ones. The ticket had the support of 2000 Green nominee Ralph Nader, former Governor Jesse Ventura, San Francisco Mayor Matt Gonzalez and the majority of antiwar activists. This was not universal, however. More fundamentally leftist antiwar figures were completely unwilling to rally around the paleoconservative Paul and instead chose to rally around the Socialist Party nominee David Cobb (a failed Green Party candidate left disgruntled by what he claimed was Kucinich interfering in the nomination process).
As a result of this unprecedented development, the Commission on Presidential Debates originally announced the cancellation of any official debates with their replacement by a townhall-style event featuring McCain. However, amidst backlash from Paul and Cobb supporters as well as Paul cracking 15% in multiple polls, the CPD restored their original debate schedule, albeit only inviting Paul to debate against McCain. The first debate was a brutal one, with Paul attacking McCain as a warmongering tyrant and McCain at one point losing his temper and threatening to physically fight Paul. The second debate was a comparatively more muted affair, though generally agreed to have been a win for McCain. The Vice Presidential debate, however, was seen as going well for Kucinich compared to Lieberman, though topline numbers didn’t move very much. The third debate was canceled, however, following a civil disobedience action spearheaded by the Cobb campaign that disrupted logistics at the original planned debate site. The event led to Cobb’s arrest, which ultimately may have helped his popular vote total.
In the end, the election’s final results were never truly in doubt. While Paul managed to animate a decently sized antiwar coalition and achieved a better electoral performance than Ross Perot in 1992, his 21% of the popular vote was nowhere close to McCain’s 76%. While Paul did win the states of Idaho, Wyoming and Vermont and was within Cobb’s margin in Hawaii, West Virginia, Alabama and Minnesota, McCain still won over 500 electoral college votes. Paul did not win a majority of any demographic, with the closest being winning 46% of white men aged 18-29. Cobb’s 2.5% was respectable for a third party as well, but still quite weak overall. In the aftermath of the 2004 election, the National Union Party’s dominance seemed quite stable. Paul and Kucinich both narrowly lost re-election against National Union-backed rivals. And yet, a small hint of what was to come could be seen with the formation of the Coalition for the Constitution bloc in Congress by those Democrats and Republicans who rejected the National Union Party and the McCain administration
The great realigning event that would define the 21st century may have technically began with the victory of John McCain in the 2000 election. McCain was something of a maverick among Republicans, having a more moderate set of beliefs than his main rival George W. Bush. McCain worked with Democrats on things like education and campaign finance reform and negotiated a tax bill focusing on cuts for the middle class while doing less for the wealthy. The moment that would define his presidency, however, came on September 11th, 2001. Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House with hijacked airplanes, killing around 3,000 people. Among the dead were First Lady Cindy McCain, Vice President Tommy Thompson and several cabinet members. McCain was enraged by this and vowed to hunt the ‘scum behind this atrocity to the ends of the earth.’ Thus marked the beginning of the War on Terror.
McCain declared there was no room for the usual petty partisanship in the post-9/11 world. Now was the time for the country to unite. And unite it did. McCain boasted 91% approval in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and few in Congress objected when the McCain administration made its demands. First, McCain shocked many by announcing a ‘new National Union coalition’. He selected Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman as his new Vice President and appointed a number of Democrats to fill cabinet vacancies as a show of bringing America together. It wasn’t all just these overtures, of course. The National Union coalition in Congress passed sweeping expansion of government surveillance powers, gave McCain’s administration to detain suspected enemy combatants indefinitely (albeit with some protections against torture or other abuses) and empowered McCain to pursue the terrorists behind the attacks by almost any means necessary. McCain launched an invasion of Afghanistan in 2002. By 2003, the war had expanded to include Iraq and Libya. In 2004, an attack on a US naval vessel in the Persian Gulf led to the U.S. launching a war in Iran. The wars were not without critics, but the National Union coalition, while not fully formalized, helped stifle much dissent and were broadly supported going into 2004.
The 2004 election saw the new National Union truly formalized. McCain entered both the Democratic and Republican primaries with support from the vast majority of party leadership. Only a few candidates emerged to challenge McCain in the primaries. In the Republican field, McCain was challenged by right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan and businessman Herman Cain. In the end, the two failed to make much of a dent in his support on that side. In the Democratic field, meanwhile, McCain faced more organized opposition from Senator Paul Wellstone, who challenged McCain on foreign policy, civil liberties and economics. Wellstone managed to crack 20% and even won 5 states, but McCain still ended up the official nominee of both parties. Wellstone encouraged his supporters to vote their conscience, but this did not mean that McCain would go unchallenged.
Texas Representative Ron Paul was one of McCain’s only vocal critics among elected GOP officials. He had endorsed Buchanan’s challenge, but when it failed announced a bid for the Presidency as an independent. As his running mate, Paul selected fellow Representative Dennis Kucinich-a left-wing Democrat likewise disgruntled by the National Unionists. Ironically, the Paul/Kucinich ticket built a party coalition of their own-getting cross-endorsed by the Libertarian, Green, Constitution and Reform Parties alongside a few even more minor ones. The ticket had the support of 2000 Green nominee Ralph Nader, former Governor Jesse Ventura, San Francisco Mayor Matt Gonzalez and the majority of antiwar activists. This was not universal, however. More fundamentally leftist antiwar figures were completely unwilling to rally around the paleoconservative Paul and instead chose to rally around the Socialist Party nominee David Cobb (a failed Green Party candidate left disgruntled by what he claimed was Kucinich interfering in the nomination process).
As a result of this unprecedented development, the Commission on Presidential Debates originally announced the cancellation of any official debates with their replacement by a townhall-style event featuring McCain. However, amidst backlash from Paul and Cobb supporters as well as Paul cracking 15% in multiple polls, the CPD restored their original debate schedule, albeit only inviting Paul to debate against McCain. The first debate was a brutal one, with Paul attacking McCain as a warmongering tyrant and McCain at one point losing his temper and threatening to physically fight Paul. The second debate was a comparatively more muted affair, though generally agreed to have been a win for McCain. The Vice Presidential debate, however, was seen as going well for Kucinich compared to Lieberman, though topline numbers didn’t move very much. The third debate was canceled, however, following a civil disobedience action spearheaded by the Cobb campaign that disrupted logistics at the original planned debate site. The event led to Cobb’s arrest, which ultimately may have helped his popular vote total.
In the end, the election’s final results were never truly in doubt. While Paul managed to animate a decently sized antiwar coalition and achieved a better electoral performance than Ross Perot in 1992, his 21% of the popular vote was nowhere close to McCain’s 76%. While Paul did win the states of Idaho, Wyoming and Vermont and was within Cobb’s margin in Hawaii, West Virginia, Alabama and Minnesota, McCain still won over 500 electoral college votes. Paul did not win a majority of any demographic, with the closest being winning 46% of white men aged 18-29. Cobb’s 2.5% was respectable for a third party as well, but still quite weak overall. In the aftermath of the 2004 election, the National Union Party’s dominance seemed quite stable. Paul and Kucinich both narrowly lost re-election against National Union-backed rivals. And yet, a small hint of what was to come could be seen with the formation of the Coalition for the Constitution bloc in Congress by those Democrats and Republicans who rejected the National Union Party and the McCain administration
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The Anarchy refers to the period in German history directly after WWII and the establishment of the Morgenthau Plan by the Wallace administration. The Morgenthau Plan, which had been criticized by some, including former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, for its "starvation policies". However, the plan would go ahead in 1946, as the allies, following the nuclear bombings of Berlin and Nuremberg(1), would divide Germany into "East" and "West", with the United Kingdom and U.S.(2) controlling two "occupation zones" in the West. Eventually these zones would be "united", where Anglo-American efforts would lead to the pasteurization of Germany.
As industry was dismantled in Germany, mass starvation began, as thousands to millions of Germans went hungry during 1946. This was further complicated when Nakam, a radical Jewish group attempting to "get revenge" for the Holocaust, would poison the water supply in Munich(3), leading to the deaths of untold thousands along with the thousands of people already starving to death. Germans, living in bombed-out former cities, or starving in the countryside, or terrified of the drinking water, would flee the nation. Those that fled East into Soviet-controlled East Germany would by utilized as a workforce, being used as forced laborers by the Soviets to help "build up" the nation. Those who fled into the West would scatter. Many would escape to the American continent, where large German pockets had existed for almost 100 years, others to the burgeoning "white states" in Africa, where they were welcomed by Kenyans, South Africans, and less so by Rhodesians for "bolstering" their numbers. The ensuing refugee crisis would lead to the Swiss Bio-Attacks, where Switzerland, the fifth nation to develop nuclear weapons (behind the US, Soviet Union, Japan, and United Kingdom), would utilize mustard gas on German refugees in 1953, causing international condemnation.
The Anarchy would lead to the development of new types of states formed across western Germany. With the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Spain(4) terrified of a united Germany or even a strong West Germany, would create several "city states", while Bavaria, furious about the remaining effects of Nakam, forming a constitutional monarchy. Many of these city-states, in particular Hamburg, would see "economic miracles", as they would go from extreme poverty to wealthy in years, and eventually join the Euro-American Trade Convention. However, the continued anarchy would also lead to the re-formation and dominance of the Ringveriene, a type of German organized crime that would eventually spread to the Americas, Africa, and other parts of Western Europe.
(1) Japan is on the allies side ITTL and a slightly more drawn-out conflict leads to the United States exerting its nuclear strength on Germany as they had originally planned.
(2) FDR's plans for occupying France go through under Wallace (pushed by the Japanese, as French overseas territories would be placed in a UN trust). Brittany is independent ITTL, and a small chunk of north Flanders is Belgian.
(3) OTL planned for Nuremberg, the nuclear bombing of Nuremberg causes Nakam to target Munich
(4) Franco removed from power.
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The Mongolian War was a conflict that took place between the Mongolian People's Republic, allied with the Soviet Union, Republic of China, and Warsaw Pact, against the Japanese Empire and its allies in the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a small number of "Free Mongolian Forces", joined by American mercenaries warring against both sides. The war began on June 13, 1952, when, after a vote in the State Great Khural to have Mongolia join the Soviet Union as the "Mongolian Autonomous Oblast", Japan announced an invasion to "protect pan-Asian sovereignty". The fighting ended in 1959, with a compromise established where Mongolia would remain independent (although still under Soviet influence with a Communist government), and a DMZ would be established between Mongolia and the Japanese puppet-state of Mengjiang.
In 1950, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal would rise to power in Mongolia after Khorloogiin Choibalsan's death from cancer. Tsedenbal was a noted ally of the Soviet Union, and viewed advancing Soviet communism as significantly more important than nationalism, to the point that even celebrations of Genghis Khan were suppressed due to "nationalism". As such, he became an advocate for Mongolia, a client-state of the Soviet Union, to be fully annexed into the Soviet Union. Although under Stalin his proposals fell on deaf ears, Stalin's death and the rise of Lavrentiy Beria would lead to Tsedenbal attempting to join the Soviet Union as an Autonomous Oblast.[1]
Japan had long attempted to influence politics in Mongolia, and before the conflict, border conflicts between Mongolia and Japanese puppet-state Mengjiang had been a semi-regular occurrence in the years between WWII and the Mongolian War. The attempted annexation of Mongolia into the Soviet Union was a direct threat to Japanese and CPS interests, and as such Japan would invade, declaring in front of the United Nations that the annexation was a "threat to Asian sovereignty". Along with Japan, their puppet states in the area, Mengjiang and Manchuria would join forces and invade alongside the Japanese military. Vietnam and Burma, both members of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, would join the conflict as allies, sending troops alongside the Japanese.
The Soviet Union saw the intervention of Japan as part of a long list of conflicts between the two states and blocs that had been occurring since WWII's end. Almost immediately after the war, the two former allies nearly broke out into war over the Soviet Union backing the establishment of a rump Chinese state south of Japan's sphere, which would be created only out of Soviet-American collaboration to establish a state led by Carsun Chang. Along with this, the Soviet Union had allies in East Turkestan, which, while not of any real interest to the Japanese, had complained of "Japanese interference" in their affairs. Although the entire Warsaw Pact would back the conflict financially, only the Soviet Union, China, and the Soviet puppet states of Tuva and East Turkestan would send troops into the conflict.
In response to the Soviet Union's attempted annexation and Japan's attempted interference in Mongolian affairs, a third army was founded by Altaniin Kuchar [2], a former solider in the joint Mongolian-Soviet-Japanese intervention to defeat the Nazi-aligned Kuomintang in World War II. Kuchar's military, the Free Mongolia Forces, advocated nationalism, which was antithetical to both the Soviet and Japanese goals for Mongolia. The FMF would gain financial support from the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Philippines, all of whom had interests in the greater Chinese area against both the Japanese and Soviets. Stories of the brave FMF fighters, warring against oppression from both the Soviet Union and Japan would garner interest from Americans, which would lead to several mercenaries, led by former Navy commander and congressman George Lincoln Rockwell, who had served in the war against China, going to Mongolia to join the FMF. Rockwell's participation in the conflict would lead to the perception of him as a "freedom fighter", leading to him being elected to the senate from Illinois in 1960, and later President in 1964.
The Mongolian War would terrify observers across the war, as both the Soviet Union (1949) and Japan (1951) had successful nuclear weapons tests. Although the fear of nuclear weapons would lead both sides to avoid using them in the conflict, both sides would utilize chemical weapons, leading to long-term negative health and environmental effects in Greater Mongolia.At the beginning of the war Japan would see great success, largely owing to Mengjiang troops attacking through the south, they struggled to get through the Khangai Mountains, which largely protected Mongolia's population centers. The result would be an offensive from Soviet-Mongolian forces, which pushed out Co-Prosperity Sphere forces. As the war went on, the conflict would largely come to a standstill, with most of the war being focused on border conflicts, where mass atrocities were committed by both sides. The FMF would largely fail to make much of an impact, and seven years into the war, after a minor rebellion amongst Mengjiang troops, an armistice would be signed, establishing a DMZ between the two nations and keeping Mongolia as a nominally independent country.
[1] Tsedenbal was a major advocate of this OTL, but his plans fell on deaf ears. ITTL, with Japan bordering Mongolia through Mengjiang, and a paranoid Soviet leadership in the east, his plan has more appeal.
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How much of China does Japan control in this timeline?
Manchuria + Mengjiang with de facto control of borderlands of neighboring states
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The 1864 National Union National convention was the nominating convention held by the National Union Party to select a ticket for President and Vice President of the United States. The Party was formed by the majority faction of the Republican Party and a minority of War Democrats. President Hamlin was easily renominated by the assembled delegates. Some votes were cast for 1856 Republican nominee John C. Frémont and the ineligible Italian-born general Giuseppe Garibaldi. For Vice President, the leading candidates were from the upper south and Midwest. Ultimately, delegates chose the assassinated Abraham Lincoln’s rival, Stephen Douglas, a former Democrat. The ticket of Hamlin and Douglas went on to win every state in the general election.
The Radical Party was a short-lived political party in the United States that was founded and disbanded in 1864. It was formed by Radical Republicans who hoped for an even more radical alternative to Hannibal Hamlin in that year’s presidential election. Party leaders held hopes that they could attract a national figure to their banner but ultimately nominated pastor and college president Jonathan Blanchard alongside Brigadier General John W. Phelps. The party’s platform called for the expropriation of all land held by men holding elected office or serving in the military of the Confederate states and its redistribution to freed slaves. The party’s platform was considered too radical and the ticket performed poorly in every state.
The Radical Party was a short-lived political party in the United States that was founded and disbanded in 1864. It was formed by Radical Republicans who hoped for an even more radical alternative to Hannibal Hamlin in that year’s presidential election. Party leaders held hopes that they could attract a national figure to their banner but ultimately nominated pastor and college president Jonathan Blanchard alongside Brigadier General John W. Phelps. The party’s platform called for the expropriation of all land held by men holding elected office or serving in the military of the Confederate states and its redistribution to freed slaves. The party’s platform was considered too radical and the ticket performed poorly in every state.
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The 1864 Democratic National convention was the nominating convention held by the Democratic Party to select a ticket for President and Vice President of the United States. The convention was held in the last year of the First Southron Revolt, as federal armies were occupying much of the South. Additionally, the party was still in disfavor with the general public following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. By the convention, it was all but certain that the Southron Revolt would soon come to a close but the exact nature of the peace to follow was still in question. Few Democrats had a coherent vision of the future and they defined themselves in opposition to policies proposed by the Republicans. For eight ballots, a disunited party skirmished internally. Finally, there was a surge in support for former President Franklin Pierce. Pierce was reluctant to accept the nomination but did so believing that a National Union administration would treat the South so poorly as to lead to another several war and that, as a former President, the country would be willing to vote for him than any other Democrat. Pierce is paired with an old member of his cabinet, James Guthrie of Kentucky. Hopes that the Democratic ticket will rejuvenate the party nationally are dashed when Pierce fails to win even a single state in the fall and his trouncing marks the period of steep decline in party history.
The 1864 Constitutional Union National convention was the nominating convention held by the Constitutional Union Party to select a ticket for President and Vice President of the United States. Having been formed in 1860 as a moderate party primarily focused on avoiding secession and civil war, the Constitutional Union went into hibernation between the 1860 and 1864 presidential elections. The so-called men that assembled in Saint Louis had primarily been elected to office under the label of Unionist. The Constitutional Union was similar to the Democratic Party in that its platform was defined by a concern for the post-war order of the United States, but unlike the Democrats, they were firmly in support of continuing the war and forcing an unconditional surrender. The Party sought the votes of the Upper South states and therefore was not hampered, like the Democrats were, by constituencies with varying wishes. The Constitutional Unionists hoped to nominate a Republican from the Upper South or a military man. One of their hopes was Joseph Holt but he declined to run. The nominee was Senator Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, a strong supporter of the war effort but opponent of harsh treatment for the defeated south. For vice president, the Constitutional Unionists voted for William A. Hall of Missouri, a failed congressional candidate known for his unionist views. The Johnson-Hall ticket did not receive much traction and did not receive over 40% of the vote in any state. The party disbanded after the 1864 election.
The 1864 Constitutional Union National convention was the nominating convention held by the Constitutional Union Party to select a ticket for President and Vice President of the United States. Having been formed in 1860 as a moderate party primarily focused on avoiding secession and civil war, the Constitutional Union went into hibernation between the 1860 and 1864 presidential elections. The so-called men that assembled in Saint Louis had primarily been elected to office under the label of Unionist. The Constitutional Union was similar to the Democratic Party in that its platform was defined by a concern for the post-war order of the United States, but unlike the Democrats, they were firmly in support of continuing the war and forcing an unconditional surrender. The Party sought the votes of the Upper South states and therefore was not hampered, like the Democrats were, by constituencies with varying wishes. The Constitutional Unionists hoped to nominate a Republican from the Upper South or a military man. One of their hopes was Joseph Holt but he declined to run. The nominee was Senator Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, a strong supporter of the war effort but opponent of harsh treatment for the defeated south. For vice president, the Constitutional Unionists voted for William A. Hall of Missouri, a failed congressional candidate known for his unionist views. The Johnson-Hall ticket did not receive much traction and did not receive over 40% of the vote in any state. The party disbanded after the 1864 election.
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Taking a bit of a tangent from doing more states in my US State Soccer Leagues universe to do a quick box on the first American Championship. It's been mentioned once of twice in some of the state boxes, but I've slowly been working out how I want the format to be and thought a look at the early days would be fun. A lot of the inspiration for this early format came from a mixture of the European Cup Winners' Cup, the NCAA basketball tournament, and the National Challenge Cup.
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This American Century-Part 2
McCain’s second term would end up going far less well than his first. The wars were the first front in his administration’s decline. The insurgencies in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan kept the U.S. bogged down and prevented the rapid declaration of victory. The war in Iran proved an even bigger disaster, with the death toll rapidly eclipsing all three of the other major Middle Eastern wars combined. In April of 2005, McCain announced the resumption of the draft to mass protests. Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out a brutal insurgency not only in Iran but beyond. Members of the IRGC massacred American embassy staff in Damascus, caused a massive spike in gas prices by destroying a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure and even assassinated General David Petraeus in 2007. It is little wonder that the Iran War thus quickly became the most controversial theater of the War on Terror. Protests against the war occurred on a regular basis, often leading to clashes with law enforcement. The NYPD infamously shot and killed 7 antiwar protestors during an antiwar rally in Madison Square Garden in 2007, an event which many have credited with being the political downfall of Mayor Hillary Clinton who was accused of obstructing accountability for the officers involved. The National Union Party was also criticized for lackluster domestic policy, having a poor response to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, being accused of picking repeated media fights with media critics like Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow and Tucker Carlson and pursuing policies of media censorship that many held violated the First Amendment. Right-wingers balked at the McCain administration’s support for immigration reform, gun control measures, and environmental protections while the left took umbrage at their opposition to same-sex marriage, pro-corporate and anti-union economic policies and harsh ‘law and order’ policies.
The National Union Party was weakened, but not defeated going into the 2008 election cycle. While many Republican and Democratic officeholders no longer associated with the National Union Party, a majority of both the House and Senate remained affiliated with the party even as they maintained official Democratic or Republican registration. The Coalition for the Constitution controlled 193 seats in the House after the 2006 midterm elections while their Senate presence numbered at 29. The majority of anti-National Union figures were Democrats, which was likely a factor in the events of the 2008 primary cycle. The National Union Party itself had a clear heir apparent: Vice President Lieberman, the handpicked choice of President McCain and a staunch ally of the administration. Lieberman, like McCain, sought to run in both parties’ primaries. However, he would not go unchallenged in either. On the Democratic side, antiwar activists convinced one of their earliest Congressional allies to enter the race: California Representative Barbara Lee. Lee, a progressive Democrat, ran on ending the wars, but beyond that against the legacy of Bill Clinton. Lee promised sweeping reforms: a carbon tax, universal healthcare, a minimum wage increase, student loan forgiveness and even an end to the War on Drugs. Lee was thus the favorite of many activists within the Democratic Party. As Lieberman was himself a Democrat, many more moderate Democrats sat out the race, leaving it a Lieberman vs. Lee contest on that side. The Republican Party, meanwhile, was more crowded. While McCain’s endorsement certainly boosted Lieberman, Lieberman’s more liberal tendencies and accusations he was pushing McCain left against his own instincts meant many Republicans were willing to challenge him. In the end, three would prove somewhat viable-Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, Tennessee Senator Jimmy Duncan and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Notably, two of the three also ran on a platform of ending the Iran War–Hagel and Duncan both were considered fairly dovish, while Bush simply challenged Lieberman as being too socially liberal.
In the course of the campaign, Lieberman was on a very defensive footing. He struggled to balance between the two parties and with the administration’s popularity waning, he faced challenges. Lieberman only succeeded in winning the National Union Party primary in Iowa–it went to Hagel in the Republican field and, in an upset, Lee managed to win there in the Democratic caucus. A victory in all three contests in New Hampshire was blunted by Lee winning Nevada and Duncan taking South Carolina. By Super Tuesday, many thought Lieberman would blow it–but then the results came in. On the Republican side, vote-splitting allowed Lieberman multiple wins he otherwise wouldn’t have been able to gain. Meanwhile, his performance on the Democratic side was worse, but survivable for Lieberman. In the end, after much back and forth, Lieberman managed to win the National Union and Republican nominations, but the Democratic nomination was to be decided by a brokered convention. The DNC’s superdelegates faced a difficult choice. On one hand, Lee had a majority of the popular vote. However, nominating Lee was a big risk. Lieberman had already secured the NUP and Republican nomination and given Lee was a woman, African-American and rather progressive, many Democratic leaders feared she would be quite likely to go down in defeat. In the end, the DNC handed the nomination to Lieberman, retaining the National Union Party coalition over mass protests. The 2008 DNC ended in a riot that, while thankfully less catastrophic than the one in Chicago 40 years prior, left the party embarrassed and millions of Lee voters incensed. To double down on keeping Republicans in his corner, Lieberman selected Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to be his running mate.
There were alternatives to Lieberman mobilizing, fortunately for the disaffected. Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura had announced an independent campaign and sought to rebuild Paul’s party coalition for the 2008 cycle. Ventura was able to bring together the Green, Libertarian and Reform Parties together once more, bolstered by his choice of fellow idiosyncratic antiwar politician Mike Gravel, former Senator from Alaska, as his running mate. Ventura/Gravel could not, however, bring the Constitution Party into the fold. The Constitution Party saw an opening by winning disaffected Duncan supporters and initially offered the Senator himself their nomination. When Duncan declined, they turned next to Judge Roy Moore, who accepted. Moore earned a few other right-wing parties’ support–notably the Conservative Party of New York, the American Independent Party and the Alaskan Independence Party. His running mate was Representative Virgil Goode. Notably, Moore and Goode had been for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq even while they opposed the Iran War. The Constitution Party thus focused their campaign on extreme social conservatism, nativism and right-wing economics rather than the added antiwar component from supporting Paul 4 years prior. The Socialist Party meanwhile nominated New York activist Howie Hawkins. Hawkins had sought the Green nomination, but lost to Ventura. Undeterred, he ran with the support of the Socialist Party, the Working Families Party, the Working Class Party and the newly-formed People’s Party.
Lieberman was in a far weaker position in 2008 than McCain had been in 2004. The administration’s popularity was already waning by the time the economy dipped into a recession. McCain pursued stimulus measures that passed mainly with the support of National Union Party-affiliated members of Congress, but the economy continued to worsen in the march towards election day. Emboldened Iranian resistance forces continued to attack and kill American forces overseas as protests continued at home. Insurgencies in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan likewise picked up and some pundits and politicians began calling for winding down these wars. Lieberman’s numbers began to fall–by September he was polling at 30% nationwide. With Ventura and Moore at 25% each, Hawkins at 10% and 10% undecided, Lieberman looked vulnerable. The debates seemed to validate this-facing Ventura (mostly running to Lieberman’s left) and Moore (decidedly running to the right), Lieberman struggled. The candidate did not have as much charisma as McCain, was not nearly as high-energy and it was feared by the NUP and Republicans that they may have miscalculated. The second debate and the VP debates went alright for Lieberman’s campaign, but he maintained a slim national lead even if he stopped slipping. It was sheer luck that saved Lieberman. McCain’s administration announced the capture of Osama Bin Laden just days before the final debate. This gave Lieberman a much needed achievement and paved the way for his best debate performance. Lieberman hammered Moore’s inexperience and Ventura’s isolationism as obstacles to ensuring American safety. He touted the capture of Bin Laden as proof that the National Union Party was the best option to keep the nation safe. Moore stumbled in his retort, accusing Lieberman’s ‘cosmopolitan values’ of undermining national security, a remark Lieberman and Ventura denounced as anti-Semitic. Further hurting Moore was a series of sexual misconduct allegations made against him by several women who claimed he had engaged in inappropriate relationships with them when they were teenagers. Moore denied any wrongdoing.
On Election Night, Lieberman’s victory was clear. He won 43% of the popular vote and over 400 electoral votes. His closest competition was Jesse Ventura, who won 28% of the popular vote but finished in third in the electoral college. Second place in the electoral college went to Roy Moore. Despite a comparatively dismal 21% in the popular vote, Moore managed to win seven states compared to Ventura’s 3. Howie Hawkins’ Socialists finished in fourth place with 5% of the vote. They won no states, though 1 elector voted for Hawkins in Vermont. Remaining votes largely went to local independent candidates or write-ins for Barbara Lee. The National Union Party took some severe blows, however. The NUP affiliates in the House nearly lost their majority, though they still retained firm control in the Senate. Lieberman took office trying to maintain a balanced cabinet, retaining many McCain cabinet members and adding the former President himself as Secretary of State. Many Democrats in Congress have gotten nervous about impending primary challenges from supporters of Lee and the ‘True Democratic Caucus’ emerging in 2009 from members who endorsed Ventura over Lieberman citing his seizing the Democratic nomination over the will of the majority of Democrats. Led by John Lewis, this caucus indicated plans to grow. They were not the only challenge on the horizon for the NUP. The Tea Party had formed as part of a conservative backlash to the NUP administration and several members were elected as Republicans and one (Tom Tancredo of Colorado) as a Constitution Party member. Many of these Republicans had backed Duncan in the primary and in the general either were neutral or endorsed Moore. Many of the Tea Party members have vowed to dethrone NUP aligned figures like House Speaker Eric Cantor. It is not clear if the NUP can long endure, especially as Lieberman has vowed to see the Iran War through ‘to completion.’
(Note the electoral map does not include the split electoral votes caused by Lieberman winning NE-2 or a Ventura elector in Vermont backing Hawkins.)
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King Leopold II has, in modern times, been remembered as one of the worst human beings in history. The Congo's meteoric economic rise has given many countries outside of the white-minority SARK[1] alliance pause on Leopold's actions, and Patrice Lumumba's passionate anti-imperialism has made him a continued villain. Conversely, his grandson, Leopold III is remembered as one of the more incompetent and poor leaders in modern world history.
Leopold III took power in 1934, succeeding his father Albert I, and after trying to maintain Belgian neutrality in World War II, surrendered to the Nazis. The action made him so vilified he was declared "King Rat" by the British press, and his 1944 Political Testament gave no credit to the Belgian resistance in WWII. However, he was returned to the throne after allied occupation, and a 1950 referendum approved his return. However, the referendum was split almost entirely between the lines of Wallonia and Flanders, with Flanders heavily approving of Leopold's return and Wallonia opposing it. While this caused significant controversy, Belgian priorities would soon shift, with Cold War politics and the continued Anarchy taking their eye. Then, in 1954, Belgian forces would massacre Congolese independence activists in Leopoldville. The resulting outbreak of hostility from the Congo would lead to the outbreak of the Congo War, where the Congolese would war for their independence from 1954 to 1961.
The Congo was one of many countries that would try to find their independence after WWII. Many point to the occupation of France, which effectively destroyed its overseas empire (except for Algeria), by putting its African territories in a UN trust, "giving" Indochina to Japanese influence, and creating an independent Breton state, as the moment that caused the growth of decolonization of Africa. The UN trust territories would soon gain independence, and caused a clamoring amongst Portuguese, Belgian, and British holdings. In Kenya, the Mau Mau rebellion and perceived "weakness" of the British government towards rebels would lead to a Kenyan UDI, forming a white-minority state, which was soon joined by the former South Rhodesia.
Congolese independence was strongly opposed by Leopold III, and war would become extremely brutal. Although it began a wave of Belgian nationalism, soon the war became unpopular, and the usage of ex-Nazi troops from the Anarchy, many of whom were so brutal they made the CIA operatives in Africa disgusted, only hurt Leopold's popularity. Opposition would grow to the war in Belgium, in particular in socialist-sympathetic areas of Wallonia. The result was mass labor action, as several strikes and civil disobedience would break out.
Leopold would ignore these demands, but as labor action grew more explosive, and calls for Wallonian independence came with them, he resigned to allowing for Congolese independence. In 1961, the Madrid Accords would be signed, giving the Congo its independence, although it would only begin the Congo Civil War, as anti-Communist forces (backed by the CIA) and the Lumumba government, along with Katangans (backed by Belgium and strangely, Japan), would war with each other. The Congo Civil War would end in 1966, with Lumumba only strengthening his position, and becoming an ally of the Soviet Union. This would end with Al Gore I's visit to the nation, which allowed the Congo to become "non-aligned", and begin Most Favored Nation status with the United States.
However, the end of the Congolese War would not end Leopold's troubles. Wallonia's response to the economic strife under the war and their general dislike of Leopold had let a genie out of the bottle. Wallonian forces, led by a young "New Left" would call for their independence from Belgium, and had a new backer: France. France had been thoroughly embarrassed after WWII, and wanted to regain status. Jacques Massu, the new leader of France, called for Wallonian independence in several forums, famously saying "Vive Wallonie Libre" while visiting Carleroi, which caused an explosion of Walloon nationalism. The result was a drawn-out struggle, known as the "Troubles", which ended in 1970, with Walloon independence and an embarrassed Leopold signing off.
Leopold III would spend the last 13 years of his term generally disliked by his peers. Many Belgians felt he had embarrassed the country in its various crises during the late 20th century, and he would fade into irrelevance. When Belgium joined the Euro-American Trade Community in 1975, Leopold was largely not present, and he would generally spend the next few years vacationing away from Belgium. His successor, Charles I, would serve for only two months before his death, and soon Belgium's monarchy would be abolished by a 1990 referendum.
[1] South Africa, Rhodesia, Kenya
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The Trans-Sabine theater of the First Southron Revolt refers to military actions that took place west of the Sabine River between 1861 and 1865 in Texas, New Mexico, and the Indian Territory. Unlike fighting east of the Sabine that was largely between conventional fighting forces, the Trans-Sabine Theater was characterized by guerrilla warfare and cavalry battles.
In February 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. Governor Sam Houston was deposed by the state legislature for remaining loyalty to the federal government but managed to escape house arrest and fled to Washington, where he organized against the Confederate government. Secessionist sentiment was concentrated in the southeastern part of the state, which had been settled primarily by slaveowners from the deep south. Counties in the north and west, particularly in the German-settled Hill Country, unionist sentiment led to resistance against the new government. The same year, the Five Civilized Tribes and most of the other native governments of the Indian Territory sided with the Confederacy. There, federal forces abandoned their forts and retreated to Kansas. Until 1863, they would remain largely on the defensive and fend off raids from regular Confederate army and militia units into Kansas.
Growing resistance in the hills forced the Texan government to devote men and materiel to occupying German-majority regions and therefore, an a small expedition to New Mexico was defeated by federal forces at the Battle of Socorro in June 1862. Coupled with news of victories east of the Mississippi, this was sufficient to convince unionists to counter secede from Texas and establish the State of Steuben under the German-born Edward Degener. The new state quickly opened correspondence with Sam Houston in Washington and Houston lobbied the Hamlin administration for what aid he could. The declaration of Steuben was hailed by German-Americans and over 5,000 of them would eventually make their way to the state to volunteer with its militia.
This radically changed the course of the Trans-Sabine theater. The Confederates had to abandon El Paso and were forced on to the defensive along the coast and the Brazos River. Germans, Tejanos, and unionists all cooperated to form a cohesive militia for Steuben and began to engage in mounted raids against Confederate-loyal towns. Sam Houston died in the summer of 1863, but a plan he had advocated for incessantly came to fruition in September 1863. A flotilla with 8,000 federal men under Gordon Granger landed at Galveston Bay and captured the city of Houston in February 1864. The fall of the critical port and rail hub of Houston led to the collapse of the Texan economy. Forces from Steuben marched east, linking up with Granger. By the burning of Montgomery in October 1864, most of the state was in federal hands. In the last months of the war, Joseph Weydemeyer, a socialist and the second most senior officer in the Steuben militia, had begun to arm slaves along the Trinity River and encouraged those remaining in bondage to rise up. This was heavily controversial in both north and south and Weydemeyer became one of the most detested of the South’s opponents. Fighting in the theater ended in February 1865 with the surrender of Confederate general John B. Magruder in the town of Palestine.
The state of Steuben participated in the 1864 presidential election, voting overwhelmingly for the National Union ticket. Dreams of reuniting Texas were dashed in 1869 when the Supreme Court ruled in Maverick v Steuben that the state’s secession from Texas had been legal. Steuben retained a staunchly independent political culture and its residents prided themselves on their loyalty to the union. The rump state of Texas experienced political turmoil but was finally readmitted to the union under a multiracial coalition. The Indian Territory was heavily punished for decades for its siding with the Confederacy until the discovery of oil led to a shift in political coalitions. Former Confederates from Texas were heavily represented in the ranks of the Confederados that settled in northern Mexico and their banditry would remain a thorn in the side of the United States for decades after 1865.
In February 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. Governor Sam Houston was deposed by the state legislature for remaining loyalty to the federal government but managed to escape house arrest and fled to Washington, where he organized against the Confederate government. Secessionist sentiment was concentrated in the southeastern part of the state, which had been settled primarily by slaveowners from the deep south. Counties in the north and west, particularly in the German-settled Hill Country, unionist sentiment led to resistance against the new government. The same year, the Five Civilized Tribes and most of the other native governments of the Indian Territory sided with the Confederacy. There, federal forces abandoned their forts and retreated to Kansas. Until 1863, they would remain largely on the defensive and fend off raids from regular Confederate army and militia units into Kansas.
Growing resistance in the hills forced the Texan government to devote men and materiel to occupying German-majority regions and therefore, an a small expedition to New Mexico was defeated by federal forces at the Battle of Socorro in June 1862. Coupled with news of victories east of the Mississippi, this was sufficient to convince unionists to counter secede from Texas and establish the State of Steuben under the German-born Edward Degener. The new state quickly opened correspondence with Sam Houston in Washington and Houston lobbied the Hamlin administration for what aid he could. The declaration of Steuben was hailed by German-Americans and over 5,000 of them would eventually make their way to the state to volunteer with its militia.
This radically changed the course of the Trans-Sabine theater. The Confederates had to abandon El Paso and were forced on to the defensive along the coast and the Brazos River. Germans, Tejanos, and unionists all cooperated to form a cohesive militia for Steuben and began to engage in mounted raids against Confederate-loyal towns. Sam Houston died in the summer of 1863, but a plan he had advocated for incessantly came to fruition in September 1863. A flotilla with 8,000 federal men under Gordon Granger landed at Galveston Bay and captured the city of Houston in February 1864. The fall of the critical port and rail hub of Houston led to the collapse of the Texan economy. Forces from Steuben marched east, linking up with Granger. By the burning of Montgomery in October 1864, most of the state was in federal hands. In the last months of the war, Joseph Weydemeyer, a socialist and the second most senior officer in the Steuben militia, had begun to arm slaves along the Trinity River and encouraged those remaining in bondage to rise up. This was heavily controversial in both north and south and Weydemeyer became one of the most detested of the South’s opponents. Fighting in the theater ended in February 1865 with the surrender of Confederate general John B. Magruder in the town of Palestine.
The state of Steuben participated in the 1864 presidential election, voting overwhelmingly for the National Union ticket. Dreams of reuniting Texas were dashed in 1869 when the Supreme Court ruled in Maverick v Steuben that the state’s secession from Texas had been legal. Steuben retained a staunchly independent political culture and its residents prided themselves on their loyalty to the union. The rump state of Texas experienced political turmoil but was finally readmitted to the union under a multiracial coalition. The Indian Territory was heavily punished for decades for its siding with the Confederacy until the discovery of oil led to a shift in political coalitions. Former Confederates from Texas were heavily represented in the ranks of the Confederados that settled in northern Mexico and their banditry would remain a thorn in the side of the United States for decades after 1865.
We have rebelled against all controls and religions, all laws and judgments which the mighty sought to foist upon us. We kept to our dedication and our missions. By these will the State be judged, by the moral character it imparts to its citizens, by the human values determining its inner and outward relations, and by its fidelity, in thought and act, to the supreme behest: "and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
-David Ben-Gurion
Israel in a Three-Way Cold War (1945-1975):
-David Ben-Gurion
Israel in a Three-Way Cold War (1945-1975):
After WWII, and even after Nakam poisoned the water supply of Bavaria, the post WWII calls for the establishment of a Jewish state would be loud, and lead to the formation of Israel in 1948. All three major powers and blocs enthusiastically backed Israel's formation at the beginning. The western Anglo-American bloc saw broad support for Israel, with both the left-liberal Henry Wallace and archconservative Winston Churchill being major supporters. Indeed, Wallace's loyalty (and his opponent Eisenhower's lack of enthusiasm for the state), would lead to Wallace winning the Jewish bloc easily, even as he was destroyed nationally. Soviets, who had long opposed Zionism, soon came to support Israel, with Stalin, despite his personal antisemitism, recognizing the state in 1948. Possibly the most enthusiastic of the three powers were the Japanese. Koreshige Inuzuka, who became Japan's Minister of Overseas Affairs, had read the famed antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and instead of becoming antisemitic as a result, viewed the Jews as powerful, and good allies for the Japanese Empire. As such, the Japanese Empire had major support for Japan, and would recognize the nation in 1948 as well.
Israel's independence in 1948 led to the First Arab-Israeli War shortly after independence, as the Arab League opposed Israel's formation, calling for an independent Palestine (while blocking the formation of a Palestinian government). While the Arab League expected an easy victory over the Israeli state, Israel would prevail, beginning the Nakba, where 700,000 Palestinians were either expelled or fled Israel. Alongside the Nakba came the mass expulsion of Jews from Arab nations (declared the "Jewish Nakba" by later sources[1]). As a result of this, and an exodus of Holocaust survivors, people fleeing the post-Nakam pogroms of 1946-48, and the Beria government allowing thousands of Jews to leave the Soviet Union after pogroms began in Georgia following allegations of "Jewish influence" in Stalin's death[2], the population of the state of Israel would increase to around 2.8 million[3] by 1960.
Israel-United States relations would deteriorate as Henry Wallace left power and the nation continued to grow. The Free Officers Coup in 1952 was welcomed by the United States, and as Eisenhower won a crushing re-election against the Liberals, dying Democratic party, and "Constitution Party", he was planning a Middle Eastern Defense Organization with Egypt's new leader, Gamal Nasser, although Nasser was less enthusiastic about the decision, and the Organization would fail. Indeed, when the Suez Crisis, a conflict between Anglo-Israeli forces and Nasser's Egypt broke out, Eisenhower remained neutral, angering the British and Israelis. Israel would end up occupying the Sinai Peninsula as a result of the conflict, further causing conflicts with the US.
While Eisenhower maintained a policy of trying to win over both Arabs and Israelis - based on the mistaken opinion that both sides would put aside their differences to oppose communism - his successors would become much more hostile. Israel's occupation of the Sinai would lead to Eisenhower's successor, Jack Cox, sanctioning the small nation for its occupation of Sinai[4], although said occupation would end shortly into Cox's term in 1957. The United States' growing hostility and hope of forming alliances with Nasser and other Arab regimes, especially in the face of France's "semi-neutralist" stance on the Cold War[5] after the Soviet Union promised to withdraw support for the Algerian FLN, would put Israel in a strange place. Still broadly supported by the UK, Japan, and Soviet Union, American hostility would push them further and further into support from the Soviets. In 1965, under the presidency of George Lincoln Rockwell, things would finally come ahead, with the United States and Israel conflicting over the Israel nuclear plan. Rockwell would continue to come into conflict with David Ben-Gurion over the program, which would lead to a divide in relations. When Israel would end up buying weapons from the Soviet regime, which would lead to a brief break in the Anglo-American alliance, as Rockwell would sanction the Israelis.
Soviet support for Israel would eventually lead to Eisenhower's plans for a Middle Eastern Defense Organization coming true. Nasser, along with his new allies in Syria and Jordan, would align with several other nations, largely helped by Rockwell's anger at the Israeli state. In 1967, a year after the MEDO was forged, Israel would invade the Sinai, and with Soviet and Japanese support, would retake the Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The war began the final break with the English, who were repelled by Israel's allegiance with the Soviets.
In 1968, political reform would begin in the country, as David Ben-Gurion, now split off from his Mapai party, would form the Rafi party, which soon replaced Mapai as the leading left-wing party in Israel. The party, led by Gideon Ben-Yisrael, would win the 1969 elections, promising to fix the electoral system of Israel, and would shift it towards first-past-the-post. Yisrael's premiership would see even closer ties with the Soviets, and Israel's growing influence in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Nigerian Civil War, they backed the breakaway Biafrans, in Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa they backed African revolutionaries, and in the Sudanese Civil War, a war which saw Israel align with Patrice Lumumba's Congo, Ethiopia, France, Japan, and Spain against the Communist-led Sudan backed by the Soviets and United Kingdom, they sent troops led by David Ben-Uziel.
With Al Gore I's election in 1972, Israel hoped for an improved relationship with America, hoping to once more gain support from all three major powers. However, while Gore visited the Congo and broke bread with Lumumba and forged the Euro-American Trade Community, he all but maintained Rockwell's stance on the state, and continued to heavily support Nasser. As such, Israel has only further joined the Soviet bloc, and its leadership has since been targeted by the CIA, culminating in the assassination of Moshe Dayan in 1974.
[1] OTL
[2] Based on the "Doctors Plot" allegations and 1956 Georgia Uprising
[3] Slight increase from OTL - notably the population stays much more European due to Nakam, causing Labor Zionism to stay in vogue for longer - although that's a change that effects a later period than this is covering.
[4] https://www.jta.org/archive/eisenhower-reveals-his-1957-aims-to-penalize-israel-on-sinai-issue
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis#Canal_nationalisation
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