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* Idiot plot: Everybody likes to ignore the The Draka and pretend the problem will eventually go away until it\'s too late to change anything.
** The ostrich approach is not exactly unheard of in human history. Compound this with the fact that while the Draka were awesome to behold in combat, there weren\'t all that many of them (less than half as many Draka Citizens as Germans in 1940, throw in Italians, Austrians, plus divisions raised from French and other conquered territories, it probably looked like it\'d be a CurbStomp in the Nazi\'s favor). It was the Janissaries who turned their army into a true continent-crushing force. And for that matter, the Draka themselves were comprised of the losers of past confilcts (American Royalists, Confederates, French royalty, etc). White supremacists convincing themselves that a \'mongrel\' nation wouldn\'t be effective in a shooting war? Idiotic, yes, but not an idiot plot.
*** It \'\'is\'\' an Idiot Plot by the time the Draka attack Nazi Germany. Most of the world believed the Draka wouldn\'t turn westerners (i.e. white people) in serfs, but that\'s exactly what they did in Italy only a few years before. And by Christmas 1941 Hitler is dead and a coalition government has taken over. The Alliance members should by now realise that the Nazis (or what\'s left of them) are a far lesser evil than the Draka and should join them in their war, but the Draka threaten to align with Japan and this somehow stops any peace negotiations. If the Alliance had \'\'\'any\'\'\' intelligence whatsoever they would declare war on the Domination, because any sensible person would recognise the Draka\'s main goal is the enslavement of the entire human race. The Nazis, even at their height, had no such ambition.
**** The Allies had their hands full with Imperial Japan, which in the Draka world had been building its empire and tooling up for WW2 since the turn of the century, rather than the early 1930\'s. They not only bombed Pearl Harbor, but invaded and occupied Hawaii as well and made direct assaults against the West Coast. They weren\'t tied down by a protracted occupation in China, the Indonesian territories they captured were not undeveloped rain forests but highly industrialized nations and could be turned to support their war effort, nor presumably were they suffering from crippling resource and fuel shortages. Compounding this was the complete and total inability of the Red Army to contain the Nazis due to the need to defend the long southern border with the Domination. In short, the Allies\' job was much, much harder than in real life. It\'s easy to forget that we know a hell of a lot more about the conflict than the combatants did; Allied leaders were truly worried about losing even to the lesser real life foes. When the Draka ostensibly entered the war on the Allied side, no way, no how would they look that particular gift horse in the mouth (this was actually mentioned in MTG). Could just as easily say that the real life US and British unwillingness to continue WW2 by invading the USSR (Operation Unthinkable) was a RealLife case of the IdiotBall, seeing as how they had nuclear superiority and failing to do so resulted in the 50-year ColdWar.
** The ostrich approach is not exactly unheard of in human history. Compound this with the fact that while the Draka were awesome to behold in combat, there weren\'t all that many of them (less than half as many Draka Citizens as Germans in 1940, throw in Italians, Austrians, plus divisions raised from French and other conquered territories, it probably looked like it\'d be a CurbStomp in the Nazi\'s favor). It was the Janissaries who turned their army into a true continent-crushing force. And for that matter, the Draka themselves were comprised of the losers of past confilcts (American Royalists, Confederates, French royalty, etc). White supremacists convincing themselves that a \'mongrel\' nation wouldn\'t be effective in a shooting war? Idiotic, yes, but not an idiot plot.
*** It \'\'is\'\' an Idiot Plot by the time the Draka attack Nazi Germany. Most of the world believed the Draka wouldn\'t turn westerners (i.e. white people) in serfs, but that\'s exactly what they did in Italy only a few years before. And by Christmas 1941 Hitler is dead and a coalition government has taken over. The Alliance members should by now realise that the Nazis (or what\'s left of them) are a far lesser evil than the Draka and should join them in their war, but the Draka threaten to align with Japan and this somehow stops any peace negotiations. If the Alliance had \'\'\'any\'\'\' intelligence whatsoever they would declare war on the Domination, because any sensible person would recognise the Draka\'s main goal is the enslavement of the entire human race. The Nazis, even at their height, had no such ambition.
**** The Allies had their hands full with Imperial Japan, which in the Draka world had been building its empire and tooling up for WW2 since the turn of the century, rather than the early 1930\'s. They not only bombed Pearl Harbor, but invaded and occupied Hawaii as well and made direct assaults against the West Coast. They weren\'t tied down by a protracted occupation in China, the Indonesian territories they captured were not undeveloped rain forests but highly industrialized nations and could be turned to support their war effort, nor presumably were they suffering from crippling resource and fuel shortages. Compounding this was the complete and total inability of the Red Army to contain the Nazis due to the need to defend the long southern border with the Domination. In short, the Allies\' job was much, much harder than in real life. It\'s easy to forget that we know a hell of a lot more about the conflict than the combatants did; Allied leaders were truly worried about losing even to the lesser real life foes. When the Draka ostensibly entered the war on the Allied side, no way, no how would they look that particular gift horse in the mouth (this was actually mentioned in MTG). Could just as easily say that the real life US and British unwillingness to continue WW2 by invading the USSR (Operation Unthinkable) was a RealLife case of the IdiotBall, seeing as how they had nuclear superiority and failing to do so resulted in the 50-year ColdWar.
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