Chapter 1184: The Conscience of Politicians

  Chapter 1161 – Politician’s Conscience

Equally unwilling are the Americans, who obviously just followed the soy sauce once, but actually have to enjoy the treatment of the British Empire, which is close to the villainous protagonist.

Ocean Alliance so many member states, all participated in this war, why should they enjoy special care?
If you can’t find the reason, it’s government incompetence. Other countries know how to stop losses in time, but they follow the British to the black, what is not incompetence?
As for the efforts of the government in Washington, sorry, this is an era of success and failure. No matter how many reasons there are, failure is failure.

No sooner had the contents of the treaty been circulated than the United States exploded. Vocal demonstrations broke out in every state, and the situation was only marginally better than in Japan.

Washington, D.C., the deafening protests rang through the heavens, as clearly audible as if they were in the White House.

Theodore Roosevelt is in a huge headache right now, opposition congressmen have submitted impeachment to Congress, and if nothing else, the next time Congress opens, it will be voted on.

Judging from the current situation, if the issue of the Vienna Agreement could not be resolved, he was about to become another president in American history to be impeached and removed from office.

Just how easy would it be to overturn the Vienna Agreement? If it could be rejected, the representatives of the United States would not sign it at all.

In the face of the Continental Alliance, the power of the United States was too small. At the Vienna Peace Conference, the delegation of the United States had no say whatsoever.

It was not until the treaty was finalized that they were notified to sign. Failure to sign was war, and the Japanese learned firsthand the consequences of refusal.

Rather than accept the reality of the situation after a social beating, the delegation of the United States was forced to sign at the Peace Conference.

Looking at the content of the treaty, as if it weighed a thousand pounds, Roosevelt’s hands trembled. With the exception of the cession of colonies, which was acceptable, all the other clauses were potholes.

The huge war reparations, needless to say, is an astronomical sum, the United States of America all together without food and drink, will have to struggle for three years.

These days the United States is a large cottage factory, industrial technology is far behind Europe, the military industry is no exception.

Airplanes, tanks and other advanced weapons, although they can be built, but the military refused to use, the performance of how pit, can be imagined.

Anyway, advanced weapons have to be imported from abroad, the closure of the military industry, seems to have little impact.

Obviously, this is just the opinion of ordinary people. As a politician, Roosevelt knew very well the consequences of not having a military industry.

If you really agree, then the United States will obediently be a second-rate country, in the international arena to be a respondent, the development of the economy on the line.

But the problem is that the current situation, simply can not allow the United States to refuse. War is easy to say, don’t look at the outside slogans shouted amazingly, really if the fight, is another kind of end.

A little understanding of the United States know, since the independence of the South, the prestige of the government in Washington has fallen, the binding force on the states further decline.

Successive Washington administrations, have been trying to find ways to integrate the domestic states. Including participation in this war, in addition to the promotion of domestic interests, there is also the intention to take the opportunity to integrate the domestic states.

It is a pity that the United States was unlucky, and before it had time to integrate the domestic states, the World War ended first.

How could a scattered United States be a match for the Continental Union?

As far as Roosevelt knew, the pocket army of the United States was not even as strong as the militias of some of the states in the country had the strength to fight.

If the government in Washington dared to go to war, the states below would dare to play neutral. Don’t think that southeastern self-preservation is the preserve of the Far Eastern Empire; it’s been around in the Western world for a long time.

If push came to shove, they might even go straight to independence. The big thing is to collude with the Continental Union, and don’t expect everyone to go along for the ride anyway.

Expecting the bourgeoisie at this time is a dream. For the capitalists, the most important thing is always their own wealth, not the preservation of the sovereignty of the United States.

The interest groups can’t be counted on, and the people likewise can’t be counted on. Patriotic youths can still chant slogans, but if they really want to go to war with the Continental Union, they should first find out what the United States is made of.

They are European immigrants, and God knows how many of them have ties to their home countries.

Ask anyone on the street and they may tell you they are English, Irish, Austrian, Russian, Belgian …… just won’t say they are American.

The original United States of Time really came to unity after World War I. Everyone was a foreigner before that.

Expecting a bunch of foreigners to defend the United States of America is obviously unrealistic. As long as the Continental Union is willing to pay the price, there is no fear of not having a bandwagon party.

It can be said that now ninety-nine percent of the Americans, are not willing to break out in war with the Continental Union.

Including President Roosevelt himself, this time also do not want to break out in war with the Continental Union, because it means that the guillotine is not far away.

This world war did not pursue war criminals, that is because the British government surrendered quickly, if a little slower France is a warning.

French emperors and nobles dodged a bullet, that’s because everyone is a political circle to play. Outside the circle of war criminals, as long as they are caught that can be on the guillotine.

“Is there no room for maneuver?”

Roosevelt asked helplessly.

“No!”

Secretary of State Pitt replied affirmatively, then explained, “According to top-secret information from Vienna, Franz the Great intends to abdicate early.

With his style, he will surely leave a stable world for his son, and will inevitably clean up any hidden dangers that may cause trouble before then.

Unfortunately, we happened to bump into it, giving the Vienna government the opportunity to capitalize on it. This armistice treaty is a phallic plot to divide the United States.

There are already whispers that if the states don’t want to bear the huge war reparations, all they have to do is secede from the United States.

In my personal judgment, this news should be true. According to the Vienna Settlement, the Holy Roman Empire took nearly four-fifths of the war reparations, so it’s not a big deal to be exempted from some of the war reparations.

The war reparations were too large for our central government to bear and had to be apportioned among the federal states.

Once we start distributing it, the sky’s the limit. No matter what way it is distributed, it will not satisfy everyone.

Especially for the economically backward federal states in the center-west, which have already been suffering from fiscal deficits for years, and then another war reparations, I simply can’t dare to imagine the consequences of this!”

Secession, this was a topic even heavier than defeat. The United States had never been less internally conflicted since its inception.

The same immigrants were also divided into three, six, nine classes. Overall it still followed the chain of contempt of the European world, with Western Europe looking down on Central Europe and Central Europe looking down on Eastern Europe.

As for Southern Europe and Northern Europe, they have never had much of an existence, and are considered to be between Central Europe and Eastern Europe, and are often ignored.

With the revival of the Holy Roman Empire, the European world’s chain of contempt gradually changed, but the United States of America’s social hierarchy still continues.

Now the highest social status is naturally the English, and then the Shen Luo immigrants, French immigrants, followed by Spain, Portugal, Holland and other countries immigrants, at the bottom of the society is the Italian immigrants, Eastern European immigrants, and the Irish.

The colored immigrants further down, not to mention, have no social status at all.

Because of the different times of immigration, each ethnic group was unevenly distributed in the United States, for example, English immigrants were concentrated in the eastern states, while the proportion of the Midwest was relatively small.

Such a division of the population is not noticeable in normal times, but can be a major problem in critical times.

Once the Continental Union hooked up with these ethnic groups, it would be a matter of minutes before things got out of hand. At least the Irish, who are at the bottom of the social ladder, are not willing to mix with the English in the same pot.

Just as in the Civil War, several states that were neutral fell to the South after the European powers intervened.

Now there was even more trouble, the European world was already a single power, and the Holy Roman Empire had basically completed its integration of the continent.

Looking out the window, Roosevelt sighed before slowly saying, “Pacify the Confederate states as much as possible, no matter what, we can’t allow the United States to secede again, or we’ll be the sinners of history!”

Talking tough, his heart is not bottomless. The scary part of a yang conspiracy was knowing the enemy’s plan and wanting to stop it but being unable to do anything about it.

“Tolerating each other as a nation” is not suitable for the United States of America. Since it was founded because of interests, it can naturally be separated because of interests, and the independence of the South is the best proof.

Along with the economic development, the difference between the east and west of the United States of America is also becoming more and more obvious, without the Panama Canal to boost the economy of the western states of the Union has not been able to take off.

The eastern consortia regarded the Midwest as an economic colony, and the Midwestern states were equally unwilling to show weakness, playing tit-for-tat to protect local trade.

Together with the provocation of international forces, the relationship between the eastern states and the Midwestern states has never been good. Washington, which was supposed to harmonize the conflicts, was very powerless in the face of the domestic “vassals”.

With the failure of his plan to integrate the nation, Roosevelt had no hope for the future of the United States. Trying his best to maintain the unity of the country was the last “virtue” of a politician.

Secretary of State Pitt shook his head: “Mr. President, I don’t think we need to consider these issues now. Perhaps next week, this place will change owners.

The opposition party should be unaware of the enemy’s plot to split the United States, and is now busy ousting us from power so that they can realize their own political ideas.”

For some reason, it felt like Pete was “gloating”.

They were already unlucky enough to have been sent to war by domestic interests, losing their lives and their names, and being nailed to a pillar of shame.

It did not occur to them that at this dark moment, there were actually people who took the initiative to jump into the pit.

They had taken the blame for the war, but compared to the division of the United States, the responsibility for the defeat was still a little lighter.

Just as the worst president in the history books of the United States right now has always been the unlucky Abraham Lincoln, not some other asshole who really messed up.

After staring blankly, Roosevelt nodded slightly. After a string of bad news, there was finally good news.

“Hmm!”

“The matter involves the Holy Roman Empire, we must respond carefully. Before we are sure if the matter is true or false, everyone must keep it strictly confidential.

Let’s gather relevant information first, if we are really impeached and step down, then hand over the information to the next term, never let the United States split ……”

Man is not for himself, someone rushed up to take over, Roosevelt naturally will not stop it.

If behind the support of his interest group, does not allow him to retreat, Roosevelt has long given up and quit.

Now the opposition party is going to seize power, it would be perfect. Impeached and stepped down, all parties are accountable.

As for enemy conspiracies, well, that’s left for the next term to sort out. It’s a tradition in the United States anyway that almost every administration leaves more or less trouble for the next one.

Roosevelt was conscientious enough to at least gather information, if he had just played dumb, the next administration wouldn’t even have had time to react.

……

Canada, along with the Vienna Accords, the Autonomous Dominion governments had to face the dilemma of retreat.

“The government in London has been urged again and again to begin our retreat as soon as possible, and if we are late the enemy will be hitting us.

I simply can’t imagine how to explain this to the populace. Once the news spreads, I’m afraid they’ll hate to tear me alive!”

Prime Minister Mackenzie Powell complained.

Resisting orders?

People don’t mind having a good theory with the London government if the armies of the Holy Roman Empire won’t call.

Unfortunately, not now. The Great War was lost, the British government was left to fend for itself, and the Canadian Home Rule became a pariah.

It’s okay for our own family members to make a fuss, but in the face of the ferocious armies of the Holy Roman Empire, the government of the self-governing territories really doesn’t have the courage to do so.

The more people know, the more they know awe. The British Empire can not even resist the enemy, the Canadian autonomous territory with what to resist?

The war is a good thing to say, but it’s hard to do. With Canada’s population of a few million, going up against the world’s dominant power would undoubtedly be like hitting a rock with an egg.

Besides, there are orders from the government in London. The responsibility of losing Canada doesn’t even need to be borne by the people present.

“Rest assured, Prime Minister. Abandoning Canada was an order from the London government, not your idea, and I’m sure the people will understand.

It can’t be delayed any longer anyway, so we can settle it sooner and we can retire sooner. I haven’t been back to the country for some years, and I don’t know how the country is doing now.

I guess it’s not too good, and I’ve heard that the enemy’s bombing is very heavy, so hopefully things won’t be too bad!”

Charles said slowly.

Unlike Mackenzie Powell, who had lived in Canada for decades, Charles was a civil servant directly appointed by the London government, and had just come over for a few years, so he naturally did not have a strong sense of belonging to the Canadian autonomous territories.

It was just a colony left and right. The colonial empire has collapsed, even India is gone, not to mention Canada which is not a bird.

As a qualified civil servant, Charles has made enough money in the past few years, and without this job, he can return to his home country earlier to join his relatives.

“Sir, it’s too cheap for the Austrians if we just leave! Or else ……”

Not waiting for Mackenzie Powell to finish his sentence, Charles immediately interrupted, “Your Excellency the Prime Minister, times are different now, the world is not the same as before.

The Holy Roman Empire has just become the hegemon of the world, and any small maneuvers we engage in at this time may trigger unforeseen risks.

A bad maneuver will not only bring disaster to ourselves, but will also bring endless trouble to the country, the current Britannia can’t afford to be tossed around.”

The matter of insider trading, even though it was not spread out, the London government’s repeated strict orders were received by everyone.

Although the Canadian self-governing territories have been established, but far from the latter day so much autonomy, distance from the independent state is even far from the gap.

It may seem that Prime Minister Mackenzie Powell is the local supreme leader, but in fact Charles, a civil servant appointed by the London government, has no less say in the government than he does.

If you really insist on refusing the orders of the London government, Mackenzie Powell today can not get out of this door, are a question mark.

In any case, having decided to abandon the Canadian autonomous territories, the British government now no longer needs to take into account the feelings of the Canadians.

(End of chapter)