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Jul 25, 2023 at 5:47 PM EDT — 2 turns United States, Connecticut fiction toxic View full conversation

USER: Can you write a short summary on the text below? For context, it is from an alternate history book called "Separated at Birth -- America and Drakia". ""Chapter 21 The First Draco-American War lasted under a month from Judea's declaration of independence until America and Drakia agreed to an armistice. It helped that both Perdue and Stoker were eager to bring the war to end. For the American President continuing the war risked elements within the US Navy acting to once again spin events out of the control of the civilian leadership. For the Drakian Autocrat continuing the war risked the full might of the Grand Alliance mobilizing to defeat the Empire. Peace thus served the interests of New York and Aurica and the governments involved were quick to make concessions. Drakia agreed to permit Bondsmen within areas liberated by the Americans, Judeans, and Arabians to emigrate freely overseas and pledged not to pursue any claims against the debts of such persons. It also agreed to allow any Jews or Arabs within the liberated areas to leave, despite the fact that both groups had no desire to abandon their homes. America, for its part, agreed to a time-table for the gradual withdrawal of its forces and stuck to it. Arabia- the only internationally recognized country to formally declare war on Drakia during the conflict- protested loudly, but had no viable means to continue fighting alone and settled for status quo ante bellum. Most of the liberated ex-Bondsmen found themselves settled...

CHATBOT: Chapter 21 of the alternate history book "Separated at Birth -- America and Drakia" discusses the First Draco-American War, which lasted less than a month. Both President Perdue of America and the Drakian Autocrat were eager to end the war due to various reasons. Drakia agreed to allow Bondsmen in liberated areas to emigrate and not pursue their debts, while America agreed to withdraw its forces gradually. The Jews and Arabs, however, did not leave their homelands willingly. They felt betrayed by the United States and believed victory over Drakia was still possible. As the Americans withdrew, the most dedicated Jewish and Arab fighters remained, armed with American weapons. They fought a long and bloody suppression of the Judeo-Arab revolt. The American handling of the war resulted in criticism and accusations against President Perdue. Additionally, the book discusses the insurgency in Central America, where the United States faced challenges in maintaining control. The Central American territories elected state governments that supported secession, leading to violence and movement restrictions. As the United States faced domestic issues and insurgency, it turned more inward and allowed several territories to gain independence. The weak great powers, Germany, Japan, and the Drakian Empire, offered themselves as alternatives to American hegemony. An alliance between the powers was impossible, but the Drakian Empire found allies in countries where Societism was prevailing.

USER: What could have the United States have done differently regarding the Judea situation? The United States can not negotiate with the Drakia because they are expansionist white supremacist slavers.

CHATBOT: Given the context of an alternate history scenario where negotiation with Drakia is not an option, there are a few potential alternatives that the United States could have considered regarding the Judea situation: 1. Increase military support: The United States could have chosen to intensify its military support to the Judean and Arab rebels, providing them with more equipment, training, and resources to bolster their chances of success against Drakia. This approach would have required a greater commitment of American forces and potentially prolonged the conflict, but it might have given the rebels a stronger fighting chance. 2. Implement economic pressure: The United States could have imposed economic sanctions or boycotts against Drakia to weaken its economy and increase the costs of its expansionist activities. By targeting Dr

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Sep 4, 2023 at 11:14 AM EDT — 2 turns United States, Connecticut fiction View full conversation

USER: Can you write a short summarySummarize "1. THE RIVALS After the eclipse of Europe, the allegiance of men gradually crystallized into two great national or racial sentiments, the American and the Chinese. Little by little all other patriotisms became mere local variants of one or other of these two major loyalties. At first, indeed, there were many internecine conflicts. A detailed history of this period would describe how North America, repeating the welding process of the ancient 'American Civil War', incorporated within itself the already Americanized Latins of South America; and how Japan, once the bully of young China, was so crippled by social revolutions that she fell a prey to American Imperialism; and how this bondage turned her violently Chinese in sentiment, so that finally she freed herself by an heroic war of independence, and joined the Asian Confederacy, under Chinese leadership. A full history would also tell of the vicissitudes of the League of Nations. Although never a cosmopolitan government, but an association of national governments, each concerned mainly for its own sovereignty, this great organization had gradually gained a very real prestige and authority over all its members. And in spite of its many shortcomings, most of which were involved in its fundamental constitution, it was invaluable as the great concrete focusing point of the growing loyalty toward humanity. At first its existence had been precarious; and indeed it had only preserved itself by an extreme caution, amounting almost to servility towards the 'great powers'. Little by little, however, it had gained moral authority to such an extent that no single power, even the mightiest, dared openly and in cold blood either to disobey the will of the League or reject the findings of the High Court. But, since human loyalty was still in the main national rather than cosmopolitan, situations were all too frequent in which a nation would lose its head, run amok, throw its pledges to the winds, and plunge into fear-inspired aggression. Such a situation had produced the Anglo-French war. At other times the nations would burst apart into two great camps, and the League would be temporarily forgotten in their disunion. This happened in the Russo-German War, which was possible only because America favoured Russia and China favoured Germany. After the destruction of Europe, the world had for a while consisted of the League on the text below?one side and America on the other. But the League was dominated by China, and no longer stood for cosmopolitanism. This being so, those whose loyalty was genuinely human worked hard to bring America once more into the fold, and at last succeeded. In spite of the League's failure to prevent the 'great' wars, it worked admirably in preventing all the minor conflicts which had once been a chronic disease of the race. Latterly, indeed, the world's peace was absolutely secure, save when the League itself was almost equally divided. Unfortunately, with the rise of America and China, this kind of situation became more and more common. During the war of North and South America an attempt was made to recreate the League as a Cosmopolitan Sovereignty, controlling the pooled armaments of all nations. But, though the cosmopolitan will was strong, tribalism was stronger. The upshot was that, over the Japanese question, the League definitely split into two Leagues, each claiming to inherit universal sovereignty from the old League, but each in reality dominated by a kind of supernational sentiment, the one American, the other Chinese. This occurred within a century after the eclipse of Europe. The second century completed the process of crystallization into two systems, political and mental. On the one hand was the wealthy and close-knit American Continental Federation, with its poor relations, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the bedridden remains of Western Europe, and part of the soulless body that was Russia. On the other hand were Asia and Africa. In fact the ancient distinction between East and West had now become the basis of political sentiment and organization. Within each system there were of course real differences of culture, of which the chief was the difference between the Chinese and Indian mentalities. The Chinese were interested in appearances, in the sensory, the urbane, the practical; while the Indians inclined to seek behind appearances for some ultimate reality, of which this life, they said, was but a passing aspect. Thus the average Indian never took to heart the practical social problem in all its seriousness. The ideal of perfecting this world was never an all-absorbing interest to him; since he had been taught to believe that this world was mere shadow. There was, indeed, a time when China had mentally less in common with India than with the West, but fear of America had drawn the two great Eastern peoples together. They agreed at least in earnest hate of that strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary, and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. China, owing to her relative weakness and the irritation caused by the tentacles of American industry within her, was at this time more nationalistic than her rival. America, indeed, professed to have outgrown nationalism, and to stand for political and cultural world unity. But she conceived this unity as a unity under American organization; and by culture she meant Americanism. This kind of cosmopolitanism was regarded by Asia and Africa without sympathy. In China a concerted effort had been made to purge the foreign element from her culture. Its success, however, was only superficial. Pigtails and chopsticks had once more come into vogue among the leisured, and the study of Chinese classics was once more compulsory in all schools. Yet the manner of life of the average man remained American. Not only did he use American cutlery, shoes, gramophones, domestic labour-saving devices, but also his alphabet was European, his vocabulary was permeated by American slang, his newspapers and radio were American in manner, though anti-American in politics. He saw daily on his domestic television screen every phase of American private life and every American public event. Instead of opium and joss sticks, he affected cigarettes and chewing gum. His thought also was largely a Mongolian variant of American thought. For context,instance, since his was a non-metaphysical mind, but since also some kind of metaphysics is unavoidable, he accepted the naively materialistic metaphysics which had been popularized by the earliest Behaviourists. In this view the only reality was physical energy, and the mind was but the system of the body's movements in response to stimulus. Behaviourism had formerly played a great part in purging the best Western minds of superstition; and indeed at one time it is fromwas the chief growing point of thought. This early, pregnant, though extravagant, doctrine it was that had been absorbed by China. But in its native land Behaviourism had gradually been infected by the popular demand for comfortable ideas, and had finally changed into a curious kind of spiritism, according to which, though the ultimate reality was indeed physical energy, this energy was identified with the divine spirit. The most dramatic feature of American thought in this period was the merging of Behaviourism and Fundamentalism, a belated and degenerate mode of Christianity. Behaviourism itself, indeed, had been originally a kind of inverted puritan faith, according to which intellectual salvation involved acceptance of a crude materialistic dogma, chiefly because it was repugnant to the self-righteous, and unintelligible to intellectuals of the earlier schools. The older Puritans trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in the increasingly spiritistic inclination of physics itself, Behaviourism and Fundamentalism had found a meeting place. Since the ultimate stuff of the physical universe was now said to be multitudinous and arbitrary 'quanta' of the activity of 'spirits', how easy was it for the materialistic and the spiritistic to agree! At heart, indeed, they were never far apart in mood, though opposed in doctrine. The real cleavage was between the truly spiritual view on the one hand, and the spiritistic and materialistic on the other. Thus the most materialistic of Christian sects and the most doctrinaire of scientific sects were not long in finding a formula to express their unity, their denial of all those finer capacities which had emerged to be the spirit of man. These two faiths were at one in their respect for crude physical movement. And here lay the deepest difference between the American and the Chinese minds. For the former, activity, any sort of activity, was an alternate history book called "Separatedend in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed. And in this respect China was at Birth -- America and Drakia". ""Chapter 21one with India. Both preferred contemplation to action. Thus in China and India the passion for wealth was less potent than in America. Wealth was the power to set things and people in motion; and in America, therefore, wealth came to be frankly regarded as the breath of God, the divine spirit immanent in man. God was the supreme Boss, the universal Employer. His wisdom was conceived as a stupendous efficiency, his love as munificence towards his employees. The First Draco-American War lastedparable of the talents was made the corner-stone of education; and to be wealthy, therefore, was to be respected as one of God's chief agents. The typical American man of big business was one who, in the midst of a show of luxury, was at heart ascetic. He valued his splendour only because it advertised to all men that he was of the elect. The typical Chinese wealthy man was one who savoured his luxury with a delicate and lingering palate, and was seldom tempted to sacrifice it to the barren lust of power. On the other hand, since American culture was wholly concerned with the values of the individual life, it was more sensitive than the Chinese with regard to the well-being of humble individuals. Therefore industrial conditions were far better under a month from Judea's declaration of independence until America and Drakia agreed to an armistice. It helped thatAmerican than under Chinese capitalism. And in China both Perdue and Stokerkinds of capitalism existed side by side. There were eager to bring the war to end. For the American President continuing the war risked elements within the US Navy acting to once again spin events out of the control of the civilian leadership. For the Drakian Autocrat continuing the war risked the full might of the Grand Alliance mobilizing to defeat the Empire. Peace thus served the interests of New York and Aurica and the governments involvedfactories in which the Chinese operatives thrived on the American system, and there were quick to make concessions. Drakia agreed to permit Bondsmen within areas liberatedChinese factories in which the operatives were by the Americans, Judeans, and Arabians to emigrate freely overseas and pledged not to pursue any claims against the debts of such persons. It also agreed to allow any Jews or Arabs within the liberated areas to leave, despite thecomparison abject wage-slaves. The fact that both groups had no desire to abandon their homes. America, for its part, agreed to a time-table for the gradual withdrawal of its forces and stuck to it. Arabia- the only internationally recognized country to formally declare war on Drakia during the conflict- protested loudly, but had no viable means to continue fightingmany Chinese industrial workers could not afford to keep a motor-car, let alone and settled for status quo ante bellum. Most of the liberated ex-Bondsmen found themselves settled in Central America where the United States government hoped to foster a loyal population hostile to the ongoing insurgency. The Jews and Arabs- whether free or bonded-an aeroplane, was a source of much self-righteous indignation amongst American employers. And the fact that this fact did not leave happily or easily. As farcause a revolution in China, and that Chinese employers were able to procure plenty of labour in spite of the better conditions in American factories, was a source of perplexity. But in truth what the average Chinese worker wanted was not symbolical self-assertion through the control of privately owned machines, but security of life, and irresponsible leisure. In the earlier phase of 'modern' China there had indeed been serious explosions of class hatred. Almost every one of the great Chinese industrial centres had, at some point in its career, massacred its employers, and declared itself an independent communist city-state. But communism was alien to China, and none of these experiments was permanently successful. Latterly, when the rule of the Nationalist Party had become secure, and the worst industrial evils had been abolished, class feeling had given place to a patriotic loathing of American interference and American hustle, and those who worked under American employers were often called traitors. The Nationalist Party was not, indeed, the soul of China; but it was, so to speak, the central nervous system, within which the soul presided as a controlling principle. The Party was an intensely practical yet idealistic organization, half civil service, half religious order, though violently opposed to every kind of religion. Modelled originally on the Bolshevik Party of Russia, it had also drawn inspiration from the native and literary civil service of old China, and even from the tradition of administrative integrity which had been the best, the sole, contribution of British Imperialism to the East. Thus, by a route of its own, the Party had approached the ideal of the Platonic governors. In order to be admitted to the Party, it was necessary to do two things, to pass a very strict written examination on Western and Chinese social theory, and to come through a five years apprenticeship in actual administrative work. Outside the Party, China was still extremely corrupt; for peculation and nepotism were not censured, so long as they were concerned, they were living in their homelands and the United States had just stabbed them in the back. Victory over Drakiakept decently hidden. But the Party set a brilliant example of self-oblivious devotion; and this unheard-of honesty was one source of its power. It was universally recognized that the party man was genuinely interested in social rather than private matters; and consequently he was trusted. The supreme object of his loyalty was not the Party, but China, not indeed the mass of Chinese individuals, whom he regarded with almost the same nonchalance as he regarded himself, but the corporate unity and culture of the race. The whole executive power in China was now in the hands of members of the Party, and the final legislative authority was the Assembly of Party Delegates. Between these two institutions stood the President. Sometimes no more than chairman of the Executive Committee, this individual was now and then almost a dictator, combining in himself the attributes of Prime Minister, Emperor, and Pope. For the head of the Party was the head of the state; and like the ancient emperors, he became the symbolical object of ancestor worship. The Party's policy was dominated by the Chinese respect for culture. Just as Western states had been possible,all too often organized under the will for military prestige, so the new China was organized under the will for prestige of culture. For this end the American state was reviled as the supreme example of barbarian vulgarity; and so patriotism was drawn in to strengthen the cultural policy of the Party. It was boasted that, while indeed in America every man and woman might hope to fight a way to material wealth, in China every intelligent person could still be possible, if only the Americans stepped up and wentactually enjoy the cultural wealth of the race. The economic policy of the party was based on the principle of affording to all out.workers security of livelihood and full educational opportunity. (In American eyes, however, the livelihood thus secured was scarcely fit for beasts, and the education provided was out of date and irreligious.) The Arab rebels who had risen up against the empire when the war began had been living under the rule of a brutal and at times genocidal regime since the end of the World War and had taken up arms with the knowledgeparty took good care to gather into itself all the best of every social class, and also to encourage in the unintelligent masses a respect for learning, and the illusion that dying for their cause was a very real possibility. They believed in freedom for their people and had nothing to lose- particularly the rebels outside of the liberated areas whose families and friends were not covered by the agreement to let the emigrate. The Judeans were a mix of refugees from Russia, from Rhomania, from other parts of the Middle East, ex-Bonded Jewish laborers, or those who had immigrated to avoid becoming Bonded, and voluntary immigrants from Germany, Poland, the United States, and a dozen other places. By definition they were true believers in the Zionist cause, either because it was that cause that had drawn their families to return to Holy Land, or because it was that cause that had saved them from death or Bondage. As the Americans and the Arabians withdrew, the children, the civilians, and the less-than-absolutely-committed evacuated with them under protest for resettlement in Central America, OTL Western Canada, or any one of a dozen other places. As the Americans pulled out the US Marines - who sympathized strongly with their former local allies- abandoned large amounts of equipment that was recorded as lost in action. So it was that within the liberated areas of the Holy Land were left the most dedicated Jewish and Arab fighters, now armed with American weapons (including a handful of landcruisers and heavy artillery pieces), their noncombatants out of harms way, and they themselves ready to fight to the death. Which is what they proceeded to do. The suppression of the Judeo-Arab Revolt proved longer and bloodiershared to some extent in the national culture. But in truth this culture, which the common people so venerated in their superiors and mimicked in their own lives, was scarcely less superficial than First Drako-American War itself. It wasthe cult of power against which it was pitted. For it was almost wholly a cult of social rectitude and textual learning; not the first time the Empire had faced dedicated, resourceful insurgents with foreign aid and sympathy,so much of the merely literary learning which had obsessed ancient China, as of the vast corpus of contemporary scientific dogma, and above all of pure mathematics. In old days the candidate for office had to show minute but there was something that made this rebellion different. A sense that if they lost, when they lost, something would be broken that couldn't easily be fixed. That this time Drakian rule would be permanent in a way it hadn't been before. And so, as the world watched and listened to the radio and television broadcasts, the Judean Army, the Hebrew Home Army, the Islamic Resistance Movement, and the Holy War Army sold their lives dearly, Zionists and Mujahedeen fighting and dying side by side. They watched the fall of Jerusalem, the desperate last stands at Haifa and Jaffa and Beersheba. The Arab rebels in Syria and Mesopotamia were crushed to less international attention, but they foughtuncritical knowledge of classical writers; now he had to give proof of a no less hard. The Drakian Army moved inbarren agility in describing the established formulae of physics, biology, psychology, and more particularly of economics and social theory. And though never encouraged to puzzle over the philosophical basis of mathematics, he was expected to be familiar with numbers and resources well beyond anything they had, followed behind by Agoge units who vented their rage and frustrationthe intricacy of at least one branch of that vast game of skill. So great was the mass of information forced upon what remained of the non-military population. There was international outrage, from the Jewish community, from the independent Muslim states, from civilized governments the world over. Letters of condemnation were issued, there were boycotts against Drakian goods, fundraisers to pay help resettle refugees, and new Jewish and Muslim communities established across the New World. But nothing was done to actual avert the massacre. For Charles Perdue the First Drako-American War was a disaster that handicapped his administration until its ignoble conclusion in 1932. While Arthur Klein's defection established for most Americans that the war had been illegal and that the US Navy needed to be brought under greater civilian control, the President would spend the rest of his time in office fending off accusations and condemnations regarding his handling of the matter. There were many who said that while the war was illegal it still should have been prosecuted to its conclusion, and even a dedicated minority who insisted that Klein himself was not actually a traitor andthe student, that he had been betrayed by Perdue, resulting in a false defection that was in some way a cunning plan to weaken Drakia. Abandoning the Judeans and the Arabs was unpopular withno time to think of the mutual implications of the various branches of his knowledge. Yet there was a soul in China. And in this elusive soul of China the one side of the political spectrum, allowing in a wave of Jewish and Arab immigration was unpopular with the other. The US Navy was emasculated- the colonies it was responsible for received civilian territorial governments, the US Marine Corps was transformed into the naval infantry arm of the US Army (much to displeasure of many Marines), and the US Coast Guard assumed all responsibility for naval home defense and the entire Caribbean Fleet (which included two active battleship divisions and a carrier group). The Navy's carriers continued to be crewed by Naval personnel, but their pilots and aircrews were part of the Naval Air Service that answered to the USCG command in New York. America's actual naval capabilities were theoretically unimpaired, just split up among multiple service branches, but in practice the reorganization plus the mass removal of senior officers with suspect connections to Klein, substantially weakened American naval power. Franklin Richardson avoided the worst of the blame for the debacle and was merely pushed into retirement, then replaced as director of the Black Chamber by a political appointee who took the organization down a far less aggressive path. To say that the United States turned to isolationism in the period betweenhope of the First Drako-American War and the Great Pacific War would be inaccurate. America had no history of isolationism in the Separate-verse, and it continued to maintain its treaty obligations overseas and keep a concerned eye on foreign developments. It would be accurate however, to say that domestic issues dominated American politics and that foreign affairs took a back seat. The fight for the soul of America continued; should it be a multi-racial nation unified by a common culture, or a multicultural nation unified by the dominance of a single race? ("Or even," said the Socialists, "a nation both multiracial and multicultural?" "But then," said their opponents "what will unify the nation?") The different cultural revival movements continued, splintering, reinventing themselves, and quarreling over their actual goals. The weakest ethnic groups politically were Asian-Americans (the Whigs considered their alien culture a barrier to assimilation, the Nationalists considered them racially inferior to Whites and Natives), followed by the new wave of Middle Eastern immigrants (less the Jews than the Muslims, although the mostly Sephardic and Mizrahi Judeans faced a chilly reception in some places), and many in those communities radicalized and became politically active. The nativists- a term that meant something slightly different ITTL- pushed back. With the Corrupt Bargain finished in Mexico there was a major movement hoping to abolish the Jim Crow-esque system in the Floridas and Arkansas, three states who found allies as far afield as Quebec, Cuba, and IxcanhaMen now lay. Scattered throughout the Party was a minority of original minds, who were concernedits source of inspiration and the growing point of the human spirit in this period. Well aware of man's littleness, these thinkers regarded him none the less as the crown of the universe. On the basis of a positivistic and rather perfunctory metaphysic, they built a social ideal and a theory of art. Indeed, in the practice and appreciation of art they saw man's highest achievement. Pessimistic about the remote future of the race, and contemptuous of American evangelism, they accepted as the end of living the creation of an intricately unified pattern of human lives set in a fair environment. Society, the supreme work of art (so they put it), is a delicate and perishable texture of human intercourse. They even entertained the possibility that limitsin the last resort, not only the individual's life, but the whole career of the race, might be tragic, and should be valued according to the standards of tragic art. Contrasting their own spirit with that of the Americans, one of them had said, 'America, a backward youth in a play-room equipped with luxury and electric power, pretends that his mechanical toy moves the world. China, a gentleman walking in his garden in the evening, admires the fragrance and the order all the more because in the air is the first nip of winter, and in his ear rumour of the irresistible barbarian.' In this attitude there was something admirable, and sorely needed at the time; but also there was a fatal deficiency. In its best exponents it rose to a detached yet fervent salutation of existence, but all too easily degenerated into a supine complacency, and a cult of social etiquette. In fact it was ever in danger of corruption through the inveterate Chinese habit of caring only for appearances. In some respects the spirit of America and the spirit of China were complementary, since the one was restless and the other bland, the one zealous and the other dispassionate, the one religious, the other artistic, the one superficially mystical or at least romantic, the other classical and rationalistic, though too easy-going for prolonged rigorous thought. Had they cooperated, these two mentalities might have achieved much. On the other hand, in both there was an identical and all-important lack. Neither of them was disturbed and enlightened by that insatiable lust for the truth, that passion for the free exercise of critical intelligence, the gruelling hunt for reality, which had been the glory of Europe and even of the earlier America, but now was no longer anywhere among the First Men. And, consequent on "Southron cultural autonomy" would lead to limitsthis lack, another disability crippled them. Both were by now without that irreverent wit which individuals of an earlier generation had loved to exercise upon one another and on themselves, and even on their own cultural autonomy. The situation sharpenedmost sacred values. In spite of this weakness, with an economic recession that began in the early thirties, and the decade wasgood luck they might have triumphed. But, as I shall tell, the spirit of America undermined the integrity of China, and thereby destroyed its one of mounting protests, political riots, and even terrorism and assassination. At the heart of the American crisis was the insurgency in Central America. ITTL the Federal Republic of Central America was conqueredchance of salvation. There befell, in fact, one of those disasters, half inevitable and half accidental, which periodically descended on the First Men, as though by the Mexican regime of Nicolas Bravo in 1831-3 before it had a chance to collapse onexpress will of some divinity who cared more for the excellence of his dramatic creation than for the sentient puppets which he had conceived for its own. The Central American territories then fought a prolonged insurgency, resisting until Bravo was forced to withdraw his troops in 1844 to fight the United States during the First Mexican-American War, resulting in the Revolution of 1845 (aka "La Eneria") when the "Centroamericanos" successfully ejected their Mexican occupiers. While attempts to reunify the region were short-lived (the new Federation of Central America managed to permanently unify only OTL Guatemala, El Salvador, and a small part Chiapas) there remained a regional identity rooted in Central America's joint experience of foreign occupation and their successful resistance to that occupation. As America annexed the sub-continent one piece at a time this legacy of resistance to external conquest had been invoked, ever more strongly as American rule became ever more entrenched, and the Centroamericanos themselves remained angry, devoted to their national and regional identities, and hostile towards the United States. The sole exception to this was Panama, which had never been independent before America acquired it from Colombia, and lacked the shared experiences of the rest of the region. America was unsure what to do with Central America. It had encountered resistance to territorial expansion before of course, there was always some resistance from the Natives when settling the frontier, and there had been resistance in Mexico, and even a small amount in Canada. The way to deal with resistance was to recruit local allies- Native American tribes who got with the program, the Mexican Criollos, the majority of Canadians and Quebecois who were pro-American- by giving those allies a vested interest in defending American rule (grant them equal rights, a role in the government, respect their land ownership, etc.). You could then partner the local expertise of your allies who knew the area with the might of the United States military, and resistance would diminish. The American experience with expansion was that insurgents could be annoying but never successful, if you just held on long enough then new territory would integrate. The post-World War backlash had challenged this view, but the fact that movements like La Mexicanidad mostly sought cultural autonomy and a greater political voice through the American political system rather than independence, confirmed for most Americans that once the United States acquired territory that acquisition was permanent. The New World Colossus had victory disease. Perdue attempted a policy of "normalization", admitting Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama as formally Hispanophone states, and pressuring Guatemala (formerly the FCA) and Costa Rica to ease their voting restrictions. The hope was that by giving the Centroamericanos their own states, with the same power and autonomy as any other American states, plus the sort of guaranteed cultural freedoms that La Mexicanidad wanted, would remove support for the insurgents and calm the situation. Normalization ended with an abysmal failure, given the freedom to vote for their own future Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua promptly elected state governments that were dominated by pro-independence parties who announced their intention to secede from the Union, and only reason why Costa Rica didn't was because the state government there had successfully resisted pressures to reform its electorate. (Panama returned Nationalist pluralities to its legislature, and elected a Nationalist governor) Faced with the possibility of the largest domestic uprising since the end of the ACW, Perdue refused to let the elected state governments take their seats, disqualifying all elected individuals who espoused support for independence and declaring their opponents victorious. The Central American governments permitted to exist by Federal authorities were thus dominated by loyalists who promptly restricted to the right to vote or run for office to persons willing to swear anti-secession loyalty oaths to the Union. Violence in the region intensified and Perdue's successor (President Seth Sandoval of the Whigs) was forced to introduce movement restrictions between Central America and the rest of the United States (and within Central American) to stymie the activities of Centroamerican terrorists, who had taken advantage of free movement to launch attacks elsewhere in the United States. To be sure there were communities within Central America that supported the United States- the Kriols and Baymen of former British Honduras, the Q'eqchi' Maya who had a history of enslavement by Hispanic Centroamericanos, the Miskito and Garifuna of mixed Afro-Native descent, the ex-Bondsmen and other refugees from Drakia who had been settled in the region, a few Anglo-American immigrants, and of course the usual collaborators and quislings who pop up whenever a country is occupied. But these groups were distinct minorities, almost universally the Centroamericanos themselves (whether Mestizo or Criollo) wanted independence. There was some hope for Panama, and for Guatemala where a plurality of the population was composed of Natives with no particular loyalty to either the United States or the Centroamerican cause, however even those states were rocked by constant violence. Compounding the problem were nationalist radicals in Old Mexico and the Mexican minority in Ixcanha who, though they lacked the broad popular support of the Centroamerican insurgents, waged a campaign of violent terror and assassination. It should be no surprise that in the face of such challenges the United States turned increasingly inward. Faced by a major insurgency on its own soil America was disinclined to spend lives and treasure maintaining its hold over the Seven Ducklings. Following the formation of the Arab Union in 1933, when a coup by Arabist officers within the Omani military overthrew the last sultan of Oman and invited King Omar I of Arabia to assume the throne of both countries, the Republic of Dubai asked New York for permission to hold a plebiscite on joining the new union. Permission was granted, and the republic peacefully dissolved itself after the vote returned a resounding yes. Borneo, Malaya, and Nam Viet were also allowed to slip their bonds and assume full independence one after the other, provided of course they remained members of the International Trade Organization and the Grand Alliance. Only Ireland, Insulindia, and the Philippines remained of the Seven Ducklings, and only in the later did major resistance present itself. Globally, countries that had long resented American hegemony and the New Order of the Ages that was designed to enrich and empower the United States at the expense of the rest of the planet began to actively seek alternatives to American ascendency. At the same time great powers began to put themselves forward as potential patrons for those countries looking for a way out. The weakest of the great powers in question was the German Confederation, which sought to create an bloc of European countries unified by the ideology of "Rex". Rex was an ultranationalist movement that had emerged in the aftermath of the World War in Italy, gaining mass popularity across the continent. Rex was not OTL Fascism, and it was certainly not Nazism, although it did share some similarities. Followers of Rex sought the "moral purification" of modern society through religious faith, and opposed Liberalism, Geoism, Socialism, Utopianism, and American Fascism. Partially descended from the conservative wing of the Red Movement, and partially inspired by Societism, Rex dreamed of a society in which labor, management, government, and the church all filled their proper roles amid a framework of traditional social values and behavior. The second of the great powers offering itself as an alternative to the United States was of course Japan. With an industrial base and the ideology of Imperial Democracy, Japan was an attractive option to those who found Drakia too distasteful and were concerned that Germany was too weak and too distant. Japanese ideas of Pan-Asianism limited its appeal however, as did its clear vision of an Asia not merely united as an alliance of Asian states, but as a single political unit dominated by Japan. The third great power putting itself forward was of course the Drakian Empire, fresh from its technical "victory" over the United States. An alliance between all three powers was impossible- Japanese anti-colonialism ruled out an alliance with Drakia just as their anti-European views prevented an alliance with Germany, and while Drakia was open to allying with the Germans, the followers of Rex were too appalled by Drakian brutality and the nature of Drakian Christianity to accept any such coalition. Fortunately (or rather unfortunately), there were three countries outside of the Empire where Societism was triumphing over its political rivals, and Stoker was pragmatic enough to accept allies anywhere he could get them. Even if those allies flew the Green Banner of Radical Geoism.""enacting."

CHATBOT: After the eclipse of Europe, the world allegiance was divided between America and China. The League of Nations gained authority, but conflict still arose as nations prioritized national loyalty over cosmopolitanism. The world eventually divided into two systems: the American Continental Federation and Asia and Africa. The Chinese and Indian mentalities differed from the American mentality, with the former valuing contemplation over action. China's Nationalist Party became the central governing force, prioritizing culture and integrity. However, China's cultural values and lack of critical thinking left it vulnerable to the influence of American materialism. Ultimately, the spirit of America eroded China's integrity, leading to a disaster that threatened the salvation of the First Men.

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