If the world of Confederate takes place *during* a Third American Civil War, that implies a century or more of near-constant US conflict.
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If the Union has been fighting a bitter land-war on its own continent against an aggressive neighbour, how much meddling can they have done?
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Which is, yes, a fascinating question. But NOT one that I trust a team of American writers to answer in a non-UScentric way.
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By which I mean: unless Confederate's Union north has nowhere NEAR the US's current global status? That is terrible worldbuilding.
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Unless the parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia that have been DIRECTLY FUCKED UP by US intervention are altered? BAD WORLDBUILDING.
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If the Union somehow ~magically~ has pursued exactly the same foreign policy agendas as the real US to create an identical outside world? NO
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By its very nature, this type of alt-history fucks with US participation in both world wars, never mind shit like the Iran Contra Affair.
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Also: name me a modern nation where, regardless of *actual* practice, slavery is openly condoned by the government to the int'l community.
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Now imagine a nation where white ppl enslave POC in an alt-world where the US never totally fucked the Middle East, Asia or Africa -
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- and tell me that NO OTHER POWERFUL NATION would've invaded, gone to war with them, or otherwise taken hella aggressive steps.
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Does it sound like Confederate, a show set to focus characters "on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarised Zone", will encompass that?
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My money, right now, is firmly on NO, unless it's as a vague background gesturing without any real explanation. And that pisses me off.
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Because even when Americans tell stories abt the apparent destruction of the "real" US, they're still UScentric to the point of narcissism.
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