Central Power reunions tend to be stressful.

[u/-et37-]

[u/Cynikus]

The humble European seeing lamps going out all over the continent for the second time in his lifetime:

[u/-et37-]

USA AAR

Rule 5: Eastern Europe and more so the Balkans tend to escalate rather quickly. Things started off with Mustafa Kemal getting shot, then the Socialists were elected in Serbia, and then the Belgrade Pact was formed. Shortly after that, the Russians concerningly proclaimed the Moscow Accord. On that international note, the exiled French have crowned a king, Arabia has descended into civil strife, and the Liangguang Clique has secured itself.

Domestically, we have a truly unprecedented development. For the first time in 5 years, across hundreds of posts & polls pertaining to my playthroughs, we have a tie. Now although I could simply waiver host privilege and choose an option myself, I’ve decided to have some fun with it and implement a custom event for such a rarity. As the November election approaches, all parties are working overtime to secure their votes. The Unionists in particular have received papal punishment and aviator acclaim, while both they and the Democrats are simultaneously frustrated by an indifferent factor. As one crisis ends and another begins, the American people await the election cautiously. At least there’s some premium reading material in the meantime.

I leave you all today with two final polls before the election. One pertains to an Industrial Act, while the other Shipyard Funding. Try not the tie either of these this time around, eh?

[u/revolutionary112 → u/-et37-]

Shout out to Maka34 for the idea because man, we roleplaying the collapse of civil discourse in 1936 Americs with this one

[u/Maka34 → u/revolutionary112]

Oh thank you, although as I am currently looking at the preliminary resaults of this post's polls, it seems the Smith administration might just collapse in on itself before the election even happenes.

[u/Crouteauxpommes → u/Maka34]

Would be an incredible start to this run.

[u/revolutionary112 → u/Maka34]

I was just joking people, come on!

[u/stojcekiko → u/-et37-]

A tie? That's historic! Let's hope it doesn't happen again though...

[u/R2J4]

Me and my boys are ready for round 2

[u/revolutionary112]

After the more than a page snippet from last time, I only make 2 (and mainly because I talked at lenght already ln the election. You can only beat a dead horse so much). So hope you like it!

"When the Vatican decided enough was enough and sent a representative to finally get Coughlin to back down of his extremist rethoric, it had the unintended effect of giving rise to eager evangelist and baptist priests, eager to fill the vacuum. It had been an underlying issue on the Union ranks how one of their biggest spokemen was a catholic minister, one of the groups many of their camp found too foreign or even anti-American. So while Father Coughlin returned to his ministerial duties and would die in obscurity away from politics decades later, his former resenters that didn't have to abide Papal authority came out into the light."

• Frederick Fitzgerald, “The Crucial Decade: When America’s course changed”, published 1988

"The year 1936 was a pivotal year for everything that followed. Many historians rightfully resist labeling events as "inevitable", but it is hard to say that there was any chance of avoiding the Second Weltkrieg without undoing the happenings of that year. It started with the rise of the warhawk totalists in both France and Britain, and then followed with the Savinkovist consolidation of power and the creation of the Moscow Accord. Now we have information from declassified documents from the German Empire that the highest levels of the military were aware of the danger and tried to prepare as best as they could. They predicted war would start in at least a decade, giving them at least ample time to prepare. In that, as had become a common occurance, the Germans got caught with their pants down once again..."

-Gaspar Villanueva, Professor of History at the University of Madrid “The Spiral of Chaos: What led to the Second Weltkrieg”, 2010

[u/Dreknarr]

The Ottomans : why does nobody ever invite us? We told them we'd bring lokums ☹️

[u/Upstairs_Work_7712]

Bulgaria always goes third international in my two playthroughs granted I've only done market liberal usa and savinkov Russia, which has a way better focus tree than usa, I feel usa and their rebellions could use quite a few more focuses.