If things had turned out different, they might be better

Day 1,210, 08:03 • Published in USA USA • by Emerick
It's happening. Not how I predicted it at all, but we're about to face a full-scale assault.



Here's Poland's plan: as we know, Poland has been trying to get at Brozil's throat. To block them, we took Azores from Portugal, which borders both Southeast of Mexico and North of Brozil. That forces Poland to declare war on us, rather than Portugal, a much easier target, in order to get to Brazil. However, a workaround has been figured out. Now, Mexico will take Spain's Canary Islands, and Poland will move through Mexico's only 2 regions to hit Brazil. At the same time, Spain still has holdings in Venezuela, though it only borders NoB. Still, If Poland loses the first battle, there's a good chance that Spain will use their Venezuelan holdings to attack NoB. The inability of anyone outside of South America(and even then, only certain parts) to double-team Brazil really showcases NoB's excellence as a strategic region. Brazil is truly lucky to have NoB.

On our own coast, Indonesia is still trying to be relevant. They had Hawaii for about a week, but we got it back last night. While it would have been a more permanent region for them, had they signed peace, they screwed up when they failed to remove us as their Natural Enemy. Their explanation to us was hilarious. According to their best diplomats, 28 of their 40 congressmen voted "no" because they thought that an NE proposal needed 50% + 1, like most other proposals. And that makes sense, if you think that Ostin is a genius writer. I guess that their congress made the same mistake when they tried to impeach their president.

There should be a picture here, but the map suddenly stopped working for me

China moved through the Philippines to get to Indonesia, apparently paying them back for their visit to China not too long ago. Since we have the initiative, we've attacked Indo.

Now there's a mild diplomatic issue here. Brazil and Argentina like Indonesia. However, they're both also committed to Panam, just as we are. When Indo originally attacked us, Argentina pledged neutrality(and have an MPP with Indo), and Brazil pledged to support our defense, but not any attacks on Indo. Their reaction to a full-scale assault on Indonesia, which we have in front of us, is not the most enthusiastic. There are many people in those countries who still support Indonesia over us. I can't particularly condemn people for choosing a long-time partner over a newfound friend (especially considering our Greece-Turkey thing up until Turkey left Panam), but as a citizen of the US, I know that we're owed retribution from Indonesia for their attack on us. For their attack on our allies in China. For their occupation of our long-time ally Australia.

It's not easy for Americans to see Indonesia as allies, but we were working towards it. However, it's apparently even harder for Indonesia to see us as allies, and because of them, we probably never will be. It's up to us to make Panam relations strong enough to hold together during a difficult diplomatic time, and that means troops when Panam needs them. Since we owe them for a diplomatic issue, we should send more than they need, JCS.

All diplomatic issues aside, I wouldn't call this a world war. If Servia decides to plow through the UK to attack us, and if Poland/Spain are successful, then we'll want to talk. Irregardless, these will be fun and important battles.