1575: Chapter 1571: The Spectators Eating lon 1575: Chapter 1571: The Spectators Eating lon “Has the Aus Continent fallen?
When did this happen?!”
Is this sothing personal now?
The news spread quickly throughout Lu Ping’an’s team and caused intense discussions and close attention from nearly everyone.
Except for Lu Ping’an, who was still enjoying watching the drama unfold and was a bit confused.
“Uh, why are you all so worked up?
Isn’t it just the Aus Continent (Australia)?
Even if it’s lost, what does it have to do with us?”
Lu Ping’an was a bit baffled until he saw the shocked expressions on everyone’s faces.
“…We thought you were just pretending not to understand politics, as you are clearly strong with major policies.”
“Oh, oh, I get it, you want to hear our opinions?”
Seeing this situation, soone provided a way out, and Lu Ping’an had no choice but to honestly listen.
After hearing a few sentences, Lu Ping’an understood; this was totally a deviation between two world lines.
Since the “Contamination Prosperity” in the 1950s, those deviations had been continuously amplified.
The butterfly effect had stirred up a typhoon, gradually altering the two worlds, and a slight difference eventually transford into a fundantal difference in the geopolitical nature of the two worlds.
“Red Star didn’t disintegrate, but contraction was inevitable; the Huaqi Federation remains strong, but its influence is mainly in the Arican Continent and Oropa, with limited…
on the Asian side.”
These changes, actually, boil down to one thing— “external pressure”.
When the world was filled with massive “Pollution,” public order naturally beca a problem, thereby significantly increasing the cost of expansion, and the major powers could only manage issues within their imdiate vicinity.
A world overlord?
Who would fight for such a ss?
It’s better to focus on surviving well.
Red Star could still exist because it did not blindly expand, without stepping into the quagmire of the Middle East, Central Asia…
Huaqi didn’t strategically insert itself much in those regions either, because there was no necessity to fiercely compete with Red Star.
You withdraw, I naturally withdraw too; you’re not interested, I’m not interested either—It’s that simple and straightforward.
Although Red Star inevitably declined later due to so reasons, it didn’t fall to the extent of disintegration like in the other world.
Of course, this is also because those Western countries in Huaqi had constant internal strife, lacking both the capability and the mood to interfere too much abroad.
The two powers still exist, but they remain only two strong powers, not two overlords, which naturally gave the Eastern Continent more freedom to survive; after its developnt, it quite naturally brought the surrounding powers more into its sphere of influence…
This is also why, after the Nirvana Plan was launched, the first batch of full support ca from Southeast Asia, Sakura Island, Red Star, and other surrounding powers, and now the Eastern Country has naturally beco the local core of power.
The Cold War, or the confrontation between the two sides still exists, but because of the external pressure, it’s less acute; when humanity is fighting for survival, infighting naturally can’t beco the main the.
Looks pretty good?
No matter how good the situation and changes are, there are still those who suffer, but probably only ti traveler Lu Ping’an knows that in this world line, the biggest victim is Australia.
“The Aus people, who were originally the Western exile land and not well-regarded, had quite an average developnt afterwards…”
This confused Lu Ping’an a bit, but after looking at history, he realized the fundantal difference.
In fact, Australia is closer to Asia…..
it is an overseas island, and although it belongs to Western powers, when even the leading power Huaqi is restricted to its surroundings in Arica, it naturally does not receive much attention.
In a confrontation between two sides, the frontline naturally receives attention and investnt, but when the montum of the confrontation significantly weakens, the front becos a land of strategic insignificance and persistent risk.
“…..The more tragic thing is that marine transport in this world is extrely dangerous, and air transport…..
only has Airships and lacks faster airplanes.”
A lone island, under such circumstances, naturally finds it difficult to develop.
They indeed have very good natural resources, and also have very high-quality agricultural products, but with transport being not smooth, they can only produce and sell locally.
Naturally, there is overproduction, food prices collapse, no one plants crops, food prices skyrocket, corporate monopolies rise, famines and a series of cycles occur several tis, tornting itself like another world line’s South Arican Free Country.
Also, due to the inconvenience of transportation, its suppressive effect on Asia has greatly reduced, and it has not received military and industrial investnts…..
even the local overlords prefer to go to safer places like Arica and Europe, why would they go to a penal colony to see kangaroos baring their teeth.
The final result is that it has never developed much, and along with it is the “Official” weakening, the power vacuum allowed “corporate politics” to rise massively.
These local super companies in Aus have beco the de facto controllers of authority, naturally only fighting for their own interests, the local public order has severely deteriorated.
This ti, it shows that Lu Ping’an, due to his laziness in paying attention, has “misunderstood” “modern states” and “geopolitical” concepts.
He has always failed to realize that due to Australia being too weak, it led to a lack of influence over the island countries to its north, South Asia, and consequently Western Countries couldn’t exert their power there, leaving this region as a vacuum…
Power naturally abhors a vacuum, thus a certain Great Eastern Nation to its north naturally incorporated it into its economic and trade sphere, making it its periphery of influence.
In different world lines, the Australia and Southeast Asia that Lu Ping’an thinks of belong to others, are the traditional spheres of influence of the West, and if they rot, they rot, perhaps Lu Ping’an even has reasons to open champagne to celebrate.
If a real disaster occurs?
Shouldn’t it play out like a grand Huaqi movie, with Western allies coming to the rescue?
He just needs to enjoy the show.
And the Australia that Hua Xueyi and others think of is a mix of rotten land and lawlessness, a peripheral area of the West, while further north, the Archipelago and Southeast Asia are the spheres of influence that Eastern Country has held in recent years.
Now that Australia has fallen, the most panicked are Southeast Asia and the Island Countries, because if they collapse too, then Eastern Country will surely be dragged down afterwards.
“…Look, if Australia really falls completely, they will definitely move northward, and then the Archipelago Alliance (Indonesia and Pacific Islands) will be the first to suffer, followed by South Asian countries, Ba Federation, and up further, Sakura Island (Sakura Kingdom) and Leduc Peninsula…..”
This ti, Lu Ping’an understood.
In this world line, Australia has completely collapsed, and Huaqi on the other side will probably pretend not to see it, and when the wounds of this world begin to fester and bleed, the only ones who must take action to control it could only be the surrounding nations, and if they cannot solve the problems, the Great Eastern Nation being pulled in is just a matter of ti.
“Uh, uh, uh, it seems like I will definitely be dragged into this too…”
After looking around, Lu Ping’an is also stumped.
Really, if that position is lost, what is even more troubling is not the land and the islands, but the vast ocean.
In this world line, the island chain is not a containnt line of the West against the Eastern Country, but a defensive line and sphere of influence of the Eastern Continent itself.
Once it collapses, the coastal areas of the Eastern Country will also face threats.
And the Eastern Country coastline….
Lu Ping’an points, and points right to the southernmost point on the map, a place he is familiar with.
Or rather, the “old ho” of the faction he belongs to.
“Dragon Moon Island…”
Wailong State is one of the southernmost states of the Eastern Country, and at the sa ti, it is also the southernmost island area of the Eastern Country.
What is most helpless is that it is also, in essence, the main territory of Lin Nu’s Church’s southern faction, including the holand of many Big Shots like Elder Liu.
“Oh my, I’m literally watching this drama unfold in my own backyard!!”
“You, just realized it?!”
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