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D. Let's get some more amphibious landing practice for Britain.
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Aug 6, 2017 13:08
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D, E
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Aug 6, 2017 13:59
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EDB. We've got more important things to focus on right now.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:17
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E or D, we are definitely not going to help with the Entente's colonialism.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:52
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EDAB
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Aug 6, 2017 15:57
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D, failing that, E.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:58
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D, we can't convincingly take a stand against colonialism when we decided to align with the rump European empires, but that doesn't mean we have to let them get all the spoils. Set up friendly states in Central and East Africa, you can call them independent republics if it makes you feel better but I don't think you'll fool anybody.
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Aug 6, 2017 16:12
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Aug 6, 2017 16:51
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D E
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Aug 6, 2017 17:08
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EEurope's going to take everything we've got. We can't afford the distraction.
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Aug 6, 2017 17:10
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Aug 6, 2017 17:30
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Aug 6, 2017 17:32
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"Influence", pah! Tanikawa has the right idea but the wrong reasoning! We have struggled to free our sphere of the world from European colonial influence--why should Africa not enjoy the same freedoms? Why should we allow people to be ruled remotely, whether by hideous figures like Goering, or by Apartheid regimes like South Africa? Democracy is the way, but democracy for ALL! I vote D, but only if we can be guaranteed that we can create a free state for free Africans--if our allies will insist against it then E, and let them do their own dirty work!
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Aug 6, 2017 18:31
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D, so we can not only be good friends, but also good neighbors with Ethiopia.
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Aug 6, 2017 18:33
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Aug 6, 2017 19:41
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Aug 6, 2017 20:28
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All true Japanese should crave the African D! If we could forge closer links with the Ethiopians, it would be a major coup as well!
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Aug 6, 2017 20:47
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E, D
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Aug 6, 2017 21:42
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Aug 7, 2017 01:56
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Aug 7, 2017 03:40
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D - Africa is a vast continent that could become rich beyond imagining if only given the opportunity. In the short term, friendly powers mean access to raw resources. In the long term, it means friendship and brotherhood. Neither of our allies there really need our help, and it would not be prudent to aid their colonial adventures, but by engaging in East Africa we draw more German forces from their fronts, liberate a vast mass of humanity, and ensure neither Mitteleuropa nor the Internationale can use the continent for their own ends.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:49
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Aug 8, 2017 02:50
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D / C
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Aug 8, 2017 18:54
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Aug 8, 2017 19:43
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First round votes: A: 1 B: 0 C: 0 D: 22 + 1 non-SA = 23 E: 13 Invading Africa wins!
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Aug 10, 2017 06:02
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Just posting to say that I think this LP has turned me into a syndicalist.
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I was already walkin' down the road to leftism, but this LP definitely helped.
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This thread is the refreshing reminder of how the world could be, from the vantage point of the Black Mirror episode we're currently living in.
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Part Fifteen: Kenya Give Me A Hand, Canada? (June 1 – September 4, 1940) Part of Mackenzie King had always known that admitting Japan into the Entente would result in Japan overtaking Canada as the de facto leader as the Entente. Even if Japan had been the desperate one when the decision was made, finding itself in a war against Germany and Qing China, King knew that Japan was going to win in Asia. What he did not know was how close his own nation would come to falling to the syndicalist menace. The timely intervention of Japanese forces in both India and North America had prevented the second and third most important members of the alliance falling to the Internationale, and it had brought the industrial might and the tremendous resources of most of North America into the fold. For the rest of the leadership of the British Empire in Exile, it was more of a bitter pill to swallow.  However, King’s popularity had grown every time that his pro-Japanese foreign policy worked out for Canada. It was hard for any of his political rivals to complain about Japan when images spread through the press of the Japanese liberating Halifax and putting an end to the nightmare of the Nova Scotians. There were many racists in the Imperial command structure, but they were all forced to admit, however begrudgingly, that they needed the Japanese. And so, when the Imperial Japanese Navy made it clear that there would be no invasion of Britain unless the Royal Navy was put under an umbrella command led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, King acquiesced without much consideration. The time for imperial rivalry was long past, the fight to preserve liberalism against socialism was well underway. Canada would stand behind Japan until the bitter end.  Yamamoto’s first directive was to pull the Royal Navy back from its base of operations in Newfoundland. The Royal Navy had three major naval bases on the Atlantic: Halifax, St. John’s and Quebec City. The base in Halifax had been levelled by the British in the days before their surrender, and the base in St. John’s had been a target of frequent British carrier raids. Quebec was the largest and most intact of the three.  The Imperial Japanese Army similarly acquiesced to the leadership of Admiral Yamamoto. The war against China and in India had been largely an Army affair, and obviously a war against Britain was to be a naval affair. While Japanese ground forces marshalled in Nova Scotia, both the Navy and Army Air Services sent squadrons to Canada.  The next British raid on St. John’s found the Royal Navy there more mobilized and determined than before, and dozens of British planes were shot down, at the cost of no Canadian lives or ships.  The British were smart enough to recognize that something was going on, and so they stuck around the area. Four light cruisers and two destroyer groups had fallen behind the main body of the Canadian fleet and were beset by the Republican Navy.  The main body of the Royal Navy, which had just arrived in Quebec, scrambled at the opportunity. The Republican fleet had been located, and there was only limited time until they obliterated all the Royal cruisers and disappeared again.  The Republican Navy flotilla, too consumed by their desire to sink the stragglers, did not detect the approaching Royal armada until Royal bombers ambushed the RNS Formidable. The surprised Republican flotilla was already beginning to steam away when one of the last Royal bombers in the attacking wave got in a tremendous hit, igniting the bomb storage on the Formidable and sending it directly to the bottom of the sea. The engagement had cost the Royal Navy two cruisers and eight destroyers, but the sinking of a British carrier was a great success.  Not wanting to be outdone by the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy Service scrambled its land-based bombers from Newfoundland.  With the British carriers’ air wings badly damaged from the failed raid on St. John’s and the sinking of the Formidable, the second attack also took the British by surprise. They had never accounted for Japanese naval or air assets in this theater before.  The Japanese attack was even more devastating. The Victorious, which had been hit by two Royal bombs during the battle with the Canadians, was sunk by Japanese dive bombers, and the battleships Hercules and Agincourt as well as the heavy cruiser Edinburgh were also sunk. The Republican Navy had lost two carriers, two battleships, a heavy cruiser and thousands of lives while managing to sink just two light cruisers and eight destroyers while downing a handful of Japanese planes. The British public, already angered by the disaster in Nova Scotia, was now beginning to panic that the Republican Navy, which was supposed to provide an impenetrable defense for the homeland, was faltering in its duty.  The victories silenced any apprehension about the Canadians joining the Sphere command structure, and it provided political cover for the Japanese to invade East Africa. South Africa and National France had been assuming they would divide the center of Africa amongst themselves, but they did not even know that a Japanese squadron was departing Burma towards Mombasa. This was going to complicate their ambitions significantly.  The Republican Navy was smarting, and so the Imperial Japanese Navy set about a more aggressive strategy. Internationale commerce raiders had been wreaking havoc in the Caribbean more or less unchecked for months, and so a Japanese cruiser squadron based out of New Orleans was tasked with clearing them out.  The squadron sunk destroyers and cruisers from Britain, France and the Netherlands, reducing their ability to harass shipping traffic headed for the Panama Canal.  Unfortunately, these victories further incensed the Republican Navy. British pride had been harmed severely by the losses near Newfoundland, and so they set out to exact revenge against the Entente.  A second British carrier fleet ambushed the Japanese cruiser squadron halfway between the Panama Canal and Hispaniola, and utterly obliterated it. The Japanese cruisers, accustomed to patrol duties and hunting down lone enemy destroyers and cruisers, were completely unprepared for the swarms of British planes that descended upon them. Twenty three vessels were sunk and sixteen thousand sailors were killed in just a few days.  The news of the horrific loss completely swamped news of the Japanese landings in Kenya, something that the government hoped would be good for morale.  The loss of so many men demanded further vengeance, and the largest fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which contained all of its carriers, was tasked with carrying it out.  Fierce air battles led to great losses on both sides, but only the Japanese were able to pierce the enemy’s air screens and actually sink enemy vessels. The carrier Ludd, whose planes had sunk more of the lost cruisers than any other British vessel, was downed as well as the battlecruiser Thistlewood.  The Japanese were not satisfied with just two enemy ships. They continued to pursue the enemy, even though a number of their own carriers were damaged and their aircrews exhausted by the battles with the British pilots.  The second engagement between the two fleets resulted in another bloody air battle but still no Japanese ship losses. The British instead lost the battlecruisers Tiger and Indomitable and most importantly the carrier Lilburne.  The Japanese, encouraged by the kill/loss ratios they had achieved and the sinking of two enemy carriers, decided to be aggressive and continue the pursuit. However, the British fleet managed to slip away, and the Japanese instead came across an unfortunate Dutch destroyer group.  The four destroyers were bombed into oblivion.  The Japanese had killed two all-important British carriers but it did not feel like true vengeance had been exacted on behalf of the sixteen thousand dead Japanese sailors. However, the British fleet was gone, and further pursuit into the Atlantic itself was unwise. The Japanese Navy sailed towards Norfolk for repairs.  Thousands of miles away, the IJA had successfully carried out its landings and captured Mombasa.  The twelve Japanese divisions outnumbered the German light infantry in the region by a significant factor, and so the army split up and began to fan out.  Half of the force was directed south towards Dar es Salaam, the administrative center of the German colony in Africa. Capturing the city was important not only for the purpose of cutting the head off of the remaining German forces, but to secure a port for Japanese use.    The infrastructure of the area was poor and served as more of an impediment to Japanese advance than the actual German enemy did but nevertheless the Japanese had secured the coast of Kenya and the capital of Dar es Salaam in a month.  There was an unspoken race between the French exiles and Japanese now to secure more of the German colony, and the Japanese got a bit of a boost in this race as a mainland France-supported socialist rebellion broke out across Mali and Senegal.  Africa was still a secondary front at the moment, however, as hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops marshalled in Nova Scotia. The location was appropriate, as in the wake of the recapture of Nova Scotia, Canadian forces had elected to maintain a state of martial law in the province in order to “root out British stay-behinds”.  In fact, this was intended to make it more difficult for enemy spies to realize that such a large Japanese force was marshalling in the area. Their goal was, of course, Britain, but it was a long way to Britain and so it was deemed necessary to invade and liberate their old ally in Iceland, which had been under the control of a British puppet regime since the British invaded the island in the opening weeks of the Interntionale-Entente conflict.  In the cover of darkness, one of the largest armadas in history departed from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It contained all of the Canadian and Japanese carriers.  As it steamed to the northeast, the Japanese battleship squadron broke away and moved towards Iceland. There was no intelligence on what resistance they would find, as it was deemed more important to maintain the element of surprise than to scout the area and arouse enemy suspicion.  The rest of the armada broke due east, aiming to establish a screen that would intercept any Internationale fleets that might interfere with the operation in Iceland. Instead they came across just a handful of vessels patrolling for Entente submarines.  Unfortunately, the vessels managed to get away.  Yamamoto elected to turn this failure to sink the enemy vessels into a feint, and have the Royal Navy, with the Imperial Japanese Navy not far behind, steam towards the British Isles as to make the British think they were going to attempt a carrier raid on their own ports.  The feints and distractions proved unnecessary, as the Republican Navy mostly stayed in port. A small British squadron protecting Iceland was blown to pieces by the big guns of the Japanese battleships.  The Japanese infantry landed in Iceland with no resistance.   Welcomed as liberators, the Japanese quickly arrested the British puppets in Reykjavik and proclaimed that the former government was restored. While the former government had de jure authority, the island was under de facto Japanese military administration.  Having endured months of starvation due to being the lowest priority for Internationale food shipments, the Icelandic population was overjoyed when Admiral Yamamoto announced that there would be lots of food and lots of construction jobs for Icelanders. He did not, of course, announce specifics of his plans for the island, but he envisioned Iceland as an impregnable unsinkable aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic. It was still a long way to Britain, but Iceland would be the way to secure the North Atlantic sea route to Britain. ~*~*~ Japanese Headlines During the Summer of 1940  Elections Conclude in Vietnam and Laos   Italian Federation Falls to Internationale, Pope in Exile in Spain  Angola Revolts Against Portuguese Rule  Australasia Occupies East Timor  Last of German Forces on New Guinea Surrender  Enrollments in University Science Programs Double as Companies Pay Large Salaries  Ukraine Falls to Internationale
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Hundlaser posted:Just posting to say that I think this LP has turned me into a syndicalist. Redeye Flight posted:I was already walkin' down the road to leftism, but this LP definitely helped. Excellent, now I have proof of conversion and can get my reimbursement from the Soros Fund For The Advancement of Cultural Marxism! (honestly though I'm glad that this serves escapist or inspiring purposes, it clearly wasn't my intent in the simple time of 2014, but it's become a source of motivation to see it through)
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Aug 16, 2017 21:42
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Guderian blitzkrieging with horses 
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Aug 16, 2017 21:57
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Yeah, I'm not seeing France being too impeded by the likes of the Ukraine. They're probably going to run out of enemies to fight on land by the time we get ready to strike at Britain regardless.
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Chief Savage Man posted:
How the hell many people are crewing each of those bombers? Holy poo poo.
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ArchRanger posted:How the hell many people are crewing each of those bombers? Holy poo poo. I assume the support personnel on the carrier, in accordance with this LPs tradition, die of heartbreak when they learn their planes went down.
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Aug 16, 2017 22:58
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I have this hilarious idea of the Japanese troops bringing huge sacks of rice and trying to explain to Icelanders how sushi works.
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Aug 16, 2017 23:30
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I have this hilarious idea of the Japanese troops bringing huge sacks of rice and trying to explain to Icelanders how sushi works. Kæstur hákarl sushi.
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AJ_Impy posted:Kæstur hákarl sushi.
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