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* Schlafly's response to the Oil Crisis would be detrimental in the long term. As a developer explained, her OTL counterpart claimed that the 1973 Oil Embargo was to sell all federal parkland in Alaska, subsidize oil drilling, and remove "onerous and costly" environmental regulations. Now becoming the most powerful individual in the United States in this timeline, who knows how much damage she will do to the landscape, especially with her general stubbornness and lack of moderation.
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* Schlafly's response to the Oil Crisis would be detrimental in the long term. As a developer explained, her OTL counterpart claimed that the way to solve the 1973 Oil Embargo was to sell all federal parkland in Alaska, subsidize oil drilling, and remove "onerous and costly" environmental regulations. Now becoming the most powerful individual in the United States in this timeline, who knows how much damage she will do to the landscape, especially with her general stubbornness and lack of moderation.
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* Schlafly's response to the Oil Crisis would be detrimental in the long term. As a developer explained, her OTL counterpart claimed that the 1973 Oil Embargo was to sell all federal parkland in Alaska, subsidize oil drilling, and remove "onerous and costly" environmental regulations. Now becoming the most powerful individual in the United States in this timeline , who knows how much damage she will do to the landscape, especially with her general stubbornness and lack of moderation.
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* Schlafly's response to the Oil Crisis would be detrimental in the long term. As a developer explained, her OTL counterpart claimed that the 1973 Oil Embargo was to sell all federal parkland in Alaska, subsidize oil drilling, and remove "onerous and costly" environmental regulations. Now becoming the most powerful individual in the United States in this timeline , timeline, who knows how much damage she will do to the landscape, especially with her general stubbornness and lack of moderation.
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* Schlafly's response to the Oil Crisis would be detrimental in the long term. As a developer explained, her OTL counterpart claimed that the 1973 Oil Embargo was to sell all federal parkland in Alaska, subsidize oil drilling, and remove "onerous and costly" environmental regulations. Now becoming the most powerful individual in the United States in this timeline , who knows how much damage she will do to the landscape, especially with her general stubbornness and lack of moderation.
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* The [[TheRemnant Redeemed Black League]] has survived Taboritsky's regime by hiding out in their bunkers as part of Plan HYDRA, reemerging after the Holy Russian Empire's collapse and ready to [[GenocideFromTheInside wage a Great Trial against the Russian people]]. However, the most terrifying part of the Redeemed Black League is arguably not its ideology but the fact that they survived Taboritsky's regime in the first place. In a scenario where a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure relatively moderate/sane government reunifies Russia]], the spectre of the Black League could still hang over both Russia and the world with the remnants of the Black League remaining a dangerous threat to the world [[RenegadeRussian as a terrorist organization]].
** This is slightly dampened if you realise the Redeemed Black League only harboured beliefs so extreme due to them facing the sheer horrors of the Holy Russian Empire. It is possible they might mellow down should Russia be prosperous and powerful following reunification under a different path, and if such a government manages to defeat Moskowien and Germany in war, they may dissolve entirely and possibly assimilate back into Russian society.
** This is slightly dampened if you realise the Redeemed Black League only harboured beliefs so extreme due to them facing the sheer horrors of the Holy Russian Empire. It is possible they might mellow down should Russia be prosperous and powerful following reunification under a different path, and if such a government manages to defeat Moskowien and Germany in war, they may dissolve entirely and possibly assimilate back into Russian society.
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* The [[TheRemnant Redeemed Black League]] has survived Taboritsky's regime by hiding out in their bunkers as part of Plan HYDRA, reemerging after the Holy Russian Empire's collapse and ready to [[GenocideFromTheInside wage a Great Trial against the Russian people]]. However, the most terrifying part of the Redeemed Black League is arguably not its ideology but the fact that they survived Taboritsky's regime in the first place. In a scenario where If the Black League can survive the functionally permanent second collapse of Russia at the hands of an esoteric Nazi nightmare state, its spectre could still hang over both Russia and the world if a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure relatively moderate/sane government reunifies Russia]], the spectre of the Black League could still hang over both Russia and the world comes to power]], with the remnants of the Black League remaining a dangerous threat to the world [[RenegadeRussian as a terrorist organization]].
** This is slightly dampened if you realise the Redeemed Black League only harboured beliefs so extreme due to them facing the sheer horrors of the Holy Russian Empire. It is possible they might mellow down should Russia be prosperous and powerful following reunification under a different path, and if such a government manages to defeat Moskowien and Germany in war, they may dissolve entirely with no continued raison d'etre, and possibly assimilate back into Russian society.
** This is slightly dampened if you realise the Redeemed Black League only harboured beliefs so extreme due to them facing the sheer horrors of the Holy Russian Empire. It is possible they might mellow down should Russia be prosperous and powerful following reunification under a different path, and if such a government manages to defeat Moskowien and Germany in war, they may dissolve entirely with no continued raison d'etre, and possibly assimilate back into Russian society.
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* Suslov is clearly the Russian unifier who moves the restored Soviet Union closest to what it was in the 70s in our timeline, with a more bureaucratic style of collective leadership while shying well away from outright liberalization. The move away from Bukharin-era (read: Stalin-era) personalism is reflected in the fact that he's the only Soviet restorationist to put a plain hammer and sickle on his flag and have it be the post-Stalin version rather than the version with a rounder and more prominent sickle used in both TNO and OTL during the war years, which is what Stalinists and Bukharinists favor in TNO.
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* At the direction of Japan, Manchuria will cede almost all formerly Soviet territory it owns north of Primorsky Krai to Konstantin Rodzaevsky's fascist, Nazi, and of course rabidly antisemitic government. This area includes Rodzaevsky's hometown of Blagoveshchensk...and ''the entirety of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast''.
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* At the direction of Japan, Manchuria will cede almost all formerly Soviet territory it owns north of Primorsky Krai to Konstantin Rodzaevsky's fascist, Nazi, and of course rabidly antisemitic government. This area includes Rodzaevsky's concession is requested mainly so that Rodzaevsky can reclaim his hometown of Blagoveshchensk...and but then there's also the fact that ''the entirety of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast''.Oblast'' is included in the deal as well.
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* At the direction of Japan, Manchuria will cede almost all formerly Soviet territory it owns north of Primorsky Krai to Konstantin Rodzaevsky's fascist, Nazi, and of course rabidly antisemitic government. This area includes Rodzaevsky's hometown of Blagoveshchensk...and ''the entirety of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast''.
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* Martin Bormann's policies, superficially, could be almost as successful as Albert Speer's Fascist route, thanks to a combination of gradual, albeit piecemeal reforms and pragmatic considerations. Unlike Speer, however, he ''doesn't'' purge National Socialism of its worse excesses, and eventually doubles down on upholding some form of ideological orthodoxy, meaning that he would need much more time to stabilize the Reich. Given his cancer diagnosis by 1972, and the rise of Ulrike Meinhof's Red Army Faction, he would never have that chance. While it's still possible for the Reich to limp on after his death, it nonetheless underscores the point that Nazism, in its "historical" and orthodox form, is doomed from the start.
** Bormann's change of tune during the Opulence, in which piecemeal reforms and pragmatic concessions meant to prop up the regime give way to ridiculously ambitious excess (from polygamy to crazy megaprojects), might seem wildly inconsistent. But why ''would'' he do otherwise, when by the logic of orthodox National Socialism, they're simply the next step towards a Thousand Year Reich? It's unsurprising, then, that this sort of hubris and short-sightedness are ''precisely'' why they're purged from Speer's Reformed Nazism, realizing that these would be ultimately impossible to sustain in the long run. Bormann simply finds out the hard way.
** Bormann's change of tune during the Opulence, in which piecemeal reforms and pragmatic concessions meant to prop up the regime give way to ridiculously ambitious excess (from polygamy to crazy megaprojects), might seem wildly inconsistent. But why ''would'' he do otherwise, when by the logic of orthodox National Socialism, they're simply the next step towards a Thousand Year Reich? It's unsurprising, then, that this sort of hubris and short-sightedness are ''precisely'' why they're purged from Speer's Reformed Nazism, realizing that these would be ultimately impossible to sustain in the long run. Bormann simply finds out the hard way.
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* Martin Bormann's policies, superficially, could be almost as successful as Albert Speer's Fascist route, thanks to a combination of gradual, albeit piecemeal reforms and pragmatic considerations. Unlike Speer, however, he ''doesn't'' purge National Socialism of its worse excesses, and eventually doubles down on upholding some form of ideological orthodoxy, meaning that he would need much more time to stabilize the Reich.Reich as he envisions it. Given his cancer diagnosis by 1972, and the rise of Ulrike Meinhof's Red Army Faction, he would never have that chance. While it's still possible for the Reich to limp on after his death, it nonetheless underscores the point that Nazism, in its "historical" and orthodox form, is practically doomed from the start.
** Bormann's change of tune during the Opulence, in which piecemeal reforms and pragmatic concessions meant to prop up the regime give way to ridiculously ambitious excess (from polygamy to crazy megaprojects), might seem wildly inconsistent. But why ''would'' he do otherwise, when by the logic of orthodox National Socialism, they're simply the next step towards a Thousand Year Reich? It's unsurprising, then, that this sort of hubris and short-sightedness are ''precisely'' why they're purged from Speer's Reformed Nazism, realizing that these would beultimately impossible difficult if not nigh-impossible to sustain in the long run. Bormann simply finds out the hard way.
** Bormann's change of tune during the Opulence, in which piecemeal reforms and pragmatic concessions meant to prop up the regime give way to ridiculously ambitious excess (from polygamy to crazy megaprojects), might seem wildly inconsistent. But why ''would'' he do otherwise, when by the logic of orthodox National Socialism, they're simply the next step towards a Thousand Year Reich? It's unsurprising, then, that this sort of hubris and short-sightedness are ''precisely'' why they're purged from Speer's Reformed Nazism, realizing that these would be
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* If Bormann dies of lung cancer ingame after the end of his path (which happens if you wait up to a decade or so after the path ends), he gets replaced by Collapsed Authority. This [[CivilWar won't bode well]] [[HereWeGoAgain for Germany]]. It might even be the end of the Reich itself given how a Germany under Collapsed Authority can be sufficiently vulnerable for a unified Russia or rebellions.
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* If Bormann dies of lung cancer ingame in-game after the end of his path (which happens if you wait up to a decade or so after the path ends), he gets replaced by Collapsed Authority. This [[CivilWar won't bode well]] [[HereWeGoAgain for Germany]]. It might even be the end of the Reich itself given how a Germany under Collapsed Authority can be sufficiently vulnerable for a unified Russia or rebellions.
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* America's strength in relation to its Fascist and Nazi rivals isn't just in terms of economic might or nukes. This extends to how fundamentally stable the United States is, even with its myriad deep-seated social tensions and military interventions. It would take ''significantly'' more domestic turmoil and a breakdown of trust in its democratic institutions to elicit a something remotely similar to what happens in Italy or Japan. Conversely, for someone like Yockey, Hall or Schlafly to seize power is indicative of just how bad things in the US have become that its very foundations may soon be beyond repair.
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* America's strength in relation to its Fascist and Nazi rivals isn't just in terms of economic might or nukes. This extends to how fundamentally stable the United States is, even with its myriad deep-seated social tensions and military interventions. It would take ''significantly'' more domestic turmoil and a breakdown of trust in its democratic institutions to elicit a something remotely similar to what happens in Italy or Japan.Japan. Thus, it speaks much of the power of liberty that regardless of who's in charge, the American people will either rebound from setbacks or build on successes more effectively. Conversely, for someone like Yockey, Hall or Schlafly to seize power is indicative of just how bad things in the US have become that its very foundations may soon be beyond repair.
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* Martin Bormann's policies, superficially, could be almost as successful as Albert Speer's Fascist route, thanks to a combination of gradual, albeit piecemeal reforms and pragmatic considerations. Unlike Speer, however, he ''doesn't'' purge National Socialism of its worse excesses, and eventually doubles down on upholding some form of ideological orthodoxy, meaning that he would need much more time to stabilize the Reich. Given his cancer diagnosis by 1972, and the rise of Ulrike Meinhof's Red Army Faction, he would never have that chance. Further underscoring the point that Nazism, in its "historical" and orthodox form, is doomed from the start.
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* Martin Bormann's policies, superficially, could be almost as successful as Albert Speer's Fascist route, thanks to a combination of gradual, albeit piecemeal reforms and pragmatic considerations. Unlike Speer, however, he ''doesn't'' purge National Socialism of its worse excesses, and eventually doubles down on upholding some form of ideological orthodoxy, meaning that he would need much more time to stabilize the Reich. Given his cancer diagnosis by 1972, and the rise of Ulrike Meinhof's Red Army Faction, he would never have that chance. Further underscoring While it's still possible for the Reich to limp on after his death, it nonetheless underscores the point that Nazism, in its "historical" and orthodox form, is doomed from the start.
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* It's not just Speer's bio as a puppet of the Gang of Four, with a single, blood-red WhamLine at the end, that hints at a potential comeback and his loss of power being only temporary or insincere. While his portrait as a puppet of Oberlander has him in civilian garb and despondent, his portrait as the Gang of Four's stooge is the same as his autocratic one, albeit also in a civilian suit in tie instead of the Party brown - far from a miserable man who has lost all control over the Reich, he's alert and aware of what's going on, ready to seize the chance to exert his presumably still prodigious influence and twist events in his favor, if only one last time.
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* It's not just Speer's bio as a puppet of the Gang of Four, with a single, blood-red WhamLine at the end, that hints at a potential comeback and his loss of power being only temporary or insincere. While his portrait as a puppet of Oberlander has him in civilian garb and despondent, his portrait as the Gang of Four's stooge is the same as his autocratic one, albeit also in a civilian suit in tie instead of the Party brown - far from a miserable man who has lost all control over the Reich, he's alert and aware of what's going on, ready to seize the chance to exert his presumably still prodigious influence and twist events in his favor, if only for one last time.
* America's strength in relation to its Fascist and Nazi rivals isn't just in terms of economic might or nukes. This extends to how fundamentally stable the United States is, even with its myriad deep-seated social tensions and military interventions. It would take ''significantly'' more domestic turmoil and a breakdown of trust in its democratic institutions to elicit a something remotely similar to what happens in Italy or Japan. Conversely, for someone like Yockey, Hall or Schlafly to seize power is indicative of just how bad things in the US have become that its very foundations may soon be beyond repair.
* America's strength in relation to its Fascist and Nazi rivals isn't just in terms of economic might or nukes. This extends to how fundamentally stable the United States is, even with its myriad deep-seated social tensions and military interventions. It would take ''significantly'' more domestic turmoil and a breakdown of trust in its democratic institutions to elicit a something remotely similar to what happens in Italy or Japan. Conversely, for someone like Yockey, Hall or Schlafly to seize power is indicative of just how bad things in the US have become that its very foundations may soon be beyond repair.
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* It's not just Speer's bio as a puppet of the Gang of Four, with a single, blood-red WhamLine at the end, that hints at a potential comeback and his loss of power being only temporary or insincere. While his portrait as a puppet of Oberlander has him in civilian garb and despondent, his portrait as the Gang of Four's stooge is the same as his autocratic one, albeit also in a civilian suit in tie instead of the Party brown - far from a miserable man who has lost all control over the Reich, he's alert and aware of what's going on, ready to seize the chance to exert his presumably still prodigious influence and twist events in his favor, if only one last time.
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** Even if Heydrich succeeds in defeating Himmler should the former wind up triumphant, Germany collapses into a nigh post-apocalyptic, anarchic void not long after his death. And unlike Burgundy, this chaotic zone encompasses ''much of Central Europe''. With the former Reich's nuclear arsenal either in the hands of various warlords or conveniently missing, it not only turns the aforementioned prospect of nuclear terrorism up to eleven, but could potentially ''destroy the entire Continent.''
* While Taboritsky's regime is already horrifying enough, the international reprecussions of its collapse is probably going to be horrible in unexpected ways as the collapse, with how it utterly and completely destroys the idea of a united Russia, means that Germany, with a united Russia permanently destroyed, has its eastern flank secured [[TheBadGuyWins and possibly win the Cold War]] [[PragmaticVillainy under competent and pragmatic leadership]], especially if America and Japan find themselves having their own troubles in this period. In fact, one could argue that in a world where Taboritsky unifies Russia and Dengist Speer takes over Germany and defeats his opponents, a Chinese victory in the Great Asian War could ultimately end up a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, especially if the newly independent China aligns itself with Germany in the aftermath of its victory.
* While Taboritsky's regime is already horrifying enough, the international reprecussions of its collapse is probably going to be horrible in unexpected ways as the collapse, with how it utterly and completely destroys the idea of a united Russia, means that Germany, with a united Russia permanently destroyed, has its eastern flank secured [[TheBadGuyWins and possibly win the Cold War]] [[PragmaticVillainy under competent and pragmatic leadership]], especially if America and Japan find themselves having their own troubles in this period. In fact, one could argue that in a world where Taboritsky unifies Russia and Dengist Speer takes over Germany and defeats his opponents, a Chinese victory in the Great Asian War could ultimately end up a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, especially if the newly independent China aligns itself with Germany in the aftermath of its victory.
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** Even if Heydrich succeeds in defeating Himmler should the former wind up triumphant, Germany collapses into a nigh post-apocalyptic, anarchic void not long after his death. And unlike Burgundy, this chaotic zone encompasses ''much of Central Europe''. With the former Reich's nuclear arsenal either in the hands of various warlords or conveniently missing, it not only turns the aforementioned prospect of nuclear terrorism up to eleven, but this could potentially ''destroy the entire Continent.''
Continent'', truly making such a scenario the [[TitleDrop last days of Europe]].
* While Taboritsky's regime is already horrifying enough, the internationalreprecussions repercussions of its collapse is probably going to be horrible in unexpected ways as the collapse, with how it utterly and completely destroys the idea of a united Russia, means that Germany, with a united Russia permanently destroyed, has its eastern flank secured [[TheBadGuyWins and possibly win the Cold War]] [[PragmaticVillainy under competent and pragmatic leadership]], especially if America and Japan find themselves having their own troubles in this period. In fact, one could argue that in a world where Taboritsky unifies Russia and Dengist Speer takes over Germany and defeats his opponents, a Chinese victory in the Great Asian War could ultimately end up a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, especially if the newly independent China aligns itself with Germany in the aftermath of its victory.
* While Taboritsky's regime is already horrifying enough, the international
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** Even if Heydrich succeeds in defeating Himmler should the former wind up triumphant, Germany collapses into a nigh post-apocalyptic, anarchic void not long after his death. And unlike Burgundy, this chaotic zone encompasses ''much of Central Europe''. With the former Reich's nuclear arsenal either in the hands of various warlords or conveniently missing, it not only turns the aforementioned prospect of nuclear terrorism UpToEleven, but could potentially ''destroy the entire Continent.''
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** Even if Heydrich succeeds in defeating Himmler should the former wind up triumphant, Germany collapses into a nigh post-apocalyptic, anarchic void not long after his death. And unlike Burgundy, this chaotic zone encompasses ''much of Central Europe''. With the former Reich's nuclear arsenal either in the hands of various warlords or conveniently missing, it not only turns the aforementioned prospect of nuclear terrorism UpToEleven, up to eleven, but could potentially ''destroy the entire Continent.''
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** Worse still, the game makes many references to not only deliberate deforestation but increasingly ferocious defoliation agents and deployments of said agents - [[DeadlyGas among other chemical weapons]] - to the point that there is literally no fauna for miles around many German patrols. In fact, the usage of chemicals could be easily compared to ''Sergey Taboritsky'' himself, writ large over a far more diverse ecosystem. Given that this includes regions such as the INCREDIBLY-important-for-the-world's-oxygen-supply Congolese jungles, it's entirely within the realm of possibility that when global warming becomes an issue in the public consciousness like our own timeline it'll [[YouAreTooLate already be too late to do anything]] since so much of the so-called Earth's Lungs are dead by this point. In short, Huttig's utterly maniacal quest for racial purity in Afrika will doom the entire planet to a slow inescapable death march to a [[GaiasLament barren toxic wasteland that nothing can inhabit]]. At least Earth ''recovers'' from nuclear war...
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** Worse still, the game makes many references to not only deliberate deforestation but increasingly ferocious defoliation agents and deployments of said agents - [[DeadlyGas among other chemical weapons]] - to the point that there is literally no fauna flora for miles around many German patrols. In fact, the usage of chemicals could be easily compared to ''Sergey Taboritsky'' himself, writ large over a far more diverse ecosystem. Given that this includes regions such as the INCREDIBLY-important-for-the-world's-oxygen-supply Congolese jungles, it's entirely within the realm of possibility that when global warming becomes an issue in the public consciousness like our own timeline it'll [[YouAreTooLate already be too late to do anything]] since so much of the so-called Earth's Lungs are dead by this point. In short, Huttig's utterly maniacal quest for racial purity in Afrika will doom the entire planet to a slow inescapable death march to a [[GaiasLament barren toxic wasteland that nothing can inhabit]]. At least Earth ''recovers'' from nuclear war...
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** Worse still, the game makes many references to not only deliberate deforestation but increasingly ferocious defoliation agents and deployments of said agents - [[DeadlyGas among other chemical weapons]] - to the point that there is literally no fauna for miles around many German patrols. In fact, the usage of chemicals could be easily compated to ''Sergey Taboritsky'' himself, writ large over a far more diverse ecosystem. Given that this includes regions such as the INCREDIBLY-important-for-the-world's-oxygen-supply Congolese jungles, it's entirely within the realm of possibility that when global warming becomes an issue in the public consciousness like our own timeline it'll [[YouAreTooLate already be too late to do anything]] since so much of the so-called Earth's Lungs are dead by this point. In short, Huttig's utterly maniacal quest for racial purity in Afrika will doom the entire planet to a slow inescapable death march to a [[GaiasLament barren toxic wasteland that nothing can inhabit]]. At least Earth ''recovers'' from nuclear war...
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** Worse still, the game makes many references to not only deliberate deforestation but increasingly ferocious defoliation agents and deployments of said agents - [[DeadlyGas among other chemical weapons]] - to the point that there is literally no fauna for miles around many German patrols. In fact, the usage of chemicals could be easily compated compared to ''Sergey Taboritsky'' himself, writ large over a far more diverse ecosystem. Given that this includes regions such as the INCREDIBLY-important-for-the-world's-oxygen-supply Congolese jungles, it's entirely within the realm of possibility that when global warming becomes an issue in the public consciousness like our own timeline it'll [[YouAreTooLate already be too late to do anything]] since so much of the so-called Earth's Lungs are dead by this point. In short, Huttig's utterly maniacal quest for racial purity in Afrika will doom the entire planet to a slow inescapable death march to a [[GaiasLament barren toxic wasteland that nothing can inhabit]]. At least Earth ''recovers'' from nuclear war...
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