[OOC] World in Revolution: 1861

[Maxwell500]

Pasta Sentient said
Ronald Reagan riding a Velociraptor.

Pssh :P Nixon is better!

[Pepperm1nts]

Kennedy wins:

[AegonVI]

Pepperm1nts said
Kennedy wins:

Agreed.

[Pasta Sentient]

Pepperm1nts said
Kennedy wins:

You know the French own the moon now right? Like we owned it for a good bit with our flag there, but because of UV rays and such the flag slowly turned White. So now it belongs to the French

^this was a joke/sarcasm.

[AegonVI]

Pasta Sentient said
You know the French own the moon now right? Like we owned it for a good bit with our flag there, but because of UV rays and such the flag slowly turned White. So now it belongs to the French^this was a joke/sarcasm.

Is that a surrender joke?

[Pasta Sentient]

AegonVI said
Is that a surrender joke?

Of course not. If I wanted to make a surrender joke I would have said something about the CSA....

[Pepperm1nts]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[AegonVI]

Pasta Sentient said
Of course not. If I wanted to make a surrender joke I would have said something about the CSA....

Except for the fact that I haven't surrendered in a single war yet...

[Pasta Sentient]

AegonVI said
Except for the fact that I haven't surrendered in a single war yet...

Nor have you won one yet either. :P

No worries though, keep the yanks as busy as possible please. I really don't want to have worry about Canada while we got this War going on in Europe...

[Pepperm1nts]

Why Canada? Do you think Byrd will try to annex it or something? I don't think that would be very wise given how his people are probably super exhausted, and the last thing they'd want is another war. Chances are America is going to do a lot of rebuilding after the war is over.

[Pasta Sentient]

Pepperm1nts said
Why Canada? Do you think Byrd will try to annex it or something? I don't think that would be very wise given how his people are probably super exhausted, and the last thing they'd want is another war. Chances are America is going to do a lot of rebuilding after the war is over.

Just the rhetoric from Thaddeus Stevens. Also I imagine it would be a boon to the Coaltion if I had to place troops there.

[Flooby Badoop]

Pepperm1nts said
Why Canada? Do you think Byrd will try to annex it or something? I don't think that would be very wise given how his people are probably super exhausted, and the last thing they'd want is another war. Chances are America is going to do a lot of rebuilding after the war is over.

While the border states saw the strain of war, and the South's economy became completely fucked, there are several accounts of foreign visitors coming to cities in the North during the time. The general consensus of them was that, if it weren't in every newspaper, you'd be hard-pressed to know there was a war going on.

But this is a-historical, and the South is currently doing slightly better than it did IRL, so maybe the people are more concerned.

[Byrd Man]

Yeah in reality the North really fought the war with one hand behind their back. Also with the war coming to an end maybe a nice new hat for the US would help unite the fractured country...

[AegonVI]

Flooby Badoop said
But this is a-historical, and the South is currently doing slightly better than it did IRL, so maybe the people are more concerned.

I suppose as an overall it's looking like I might make it to 1866. But looking into some of the specifics I'm doing far worse (the amount of land that is Union occupied, for example)

[Byrd Man]

The war would be over if only I had more war updates. Damn this European war!

[AegonVI]

Oh Kho you didn't!! Did the Ottomans really just call up China into this war on the basis of blood???

[AegonVI]

Byrd Man said
The war would be over if only I had more war updates. Damn this European war!

Not necessarily true, IMHO.

[The Nexerus]

AegonVI said
Oh Kho you didn't!! Did the Ottomans really just call up China into this war on the basis of blood???

Desperation.

[Kho]

AegonVI said
Oh Kho you didn't!! Did the Ottomans really just call up China into this war on the basis of blood???

Well, that's one reason, but also the fact that if we don't all do something all non-Slavs, non-Christians in Russia will be slaughtered by the rhetoric I'm reading. Just reacting in the way any right-minded leader in a war would - putting the people and their safety first.

The Nexerus said
Desperation.

Say what you will, I've nothing to be desperate about, you're the one completely blockaded, not me.

[The Nexerus]

Kho said
Well, that's one reason, but also the fact that if we don't all do something all non-Slavs, non-Christians in Russia will be slaughtered by the rhetoric I'm reading.

A nation flatly declaring a conflict between a Muslim Empire and a Christian Empire to be 'jihad' is inviting China to declare war on Russia on the basis of a non-existent blood connection between the Turks and the Chinese. I don't think there's any word that describes such a scenario better than 'desperation'.