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stainlesssteellocust · 10 months

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US diplomat: "Okay, so you bought some of Alaska's land from Russia, okay, okay. But...your people live on the other side of the world, and, let's be real here, we're too racist to respect you as equals. Why should we honour your deal with the Russian Empire when we can just...waltz in and annex your little home away from home?"

Tsalal Alaskan colonist leader: "Good question! Do you see this missile, this one right here, bigger than a train? Its warhead is filled with several tons of fuel-air explosives. Now, I'm not saying that we have a dozen of these things stocked on ships ready to fire at any given moment and a bunch of fanatical suicide pilots ready to fly them ludicrous distances into your nearest population centers...

"But I'm not not saying that."

#and so the alaskan enclave hangs around until maybe. 1930 ish.#writing #the entire north sphere has collapsed by 1940 due to extreme logistics issues hostile neighbours and a closing of the tech gap #at its height it encompasses a piece of alaska (peaceful)#western Ireland (hahaha not peaceful)#iceland greenland a scrap of siberia parts of west africa and some islands #but it only spans all those areas for a couple of years and in the end most of them get ethnically cleansed #still its fun to give the western world a taste of that conquistador medicine for a little while #along with some lingering cultural trauma #alaska is the beginning of the end and also results in the russian tsars coming off life support and the birth of an alt-soviet style state #they don't get scotland in this au and they certainly don't have northern holdings by the 21st century

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