Sarderia wrote:If France is able to fuck up Russia, going to war with Arabia, and send 3 million troops against Czechoslovakia I don't see the need of Marshall Plan rn. You can always conjure more money (or godmod the hell out of it) to fuel your industry.
I mean, seriously, if you wanna play superpower so badly why don't you just take America from the start? It'd be much easier and there's a real jsutification on how you managed to project that large of an influence across the world, and it explains the economy, doesn't it?
Let me correct you, I'm not messing up Russia, I'm supporting the USSR who for the moment is the legitimate government of Russia and all other 19 Soviet Republics. If anything, supporting the Tsarists dissrupted the whole peace of Europe. Come to think of it, Iran disrupted the balance of power by creating OPEC and holding Europe and specifically ransom because France as well as Germany support the USSR for very good reasons. But we can just overlook that apparently because just cutting France out of the economic loop isn't going to have repercussions, it's just going to be lolipos and daisies.
And I'm not conjuring money, the Marshall Plan funding aided the French economic recovery, and the loans taken out where to further fuel that growth and supplement the Marshall Plan funds. I have not taken out any further loans, and the economic plan was simple alternative to what could have been a further decline, and created after 72 coffee fuled hours, so there are bound to be flaws which will resurface (maybe it was flawed for a reason, in OOC terms to cause more RP fun, and in IC terms because living off coffee is not really conducive to a good work product after 72 hours).
I couldn't take America from the start, or the USSR because it was unavailable (did you ever consider that?), and simply put, France was the next best choice (the UK was not a first choice for me for a myrad of reasons). What confuses me is why you act like France is not a global power (not a superpower, but one step below it, a global power) that is a valuable asset to have. Yes France just got out of WW2, yes France has had its issues, yes it has it's pitfalls, but it also is a cultural, economic, and artistic hub not just for Europe, but for the whole world. Soft power is just as benefitial as hard power, and I was planing to exploit France's soft power until the whole RP became death to [insert nation's name]. Once that happened, yes France is going to have trouble competing, and it's quite frustrating at times when you plan a whole economic recovery out until you're sideswipped by the truck known as the Soviet Civil War, or Czechoslovakia, or any other global issue. Then things go to sh*t as you try to adapt, but things move too quickly do adapt, then you're on the loosing side and it all seems like hell. If the world could not catch fire for the next five years in this RP, it would be perfect. Then the real skills of diplomacy and RP-ing could come out instead of the constant states of war the world in this RP finds itself in where it's all about invasions instead of trying to prove which ideology is best, or how will each side outperform the other. The Cold War is fun with actual war, but it gets a little boring when you can't throw huge international events to show which faction is best and why, or when you can't use soft power because you need to invade some country.
