American Pere Housh wrote:Union Princes wrote:Well unlike Yugoslavia, Germany is your immediate northern neighbor with a warmonger as its head of state. Do you really not understand how untenable the situation you have put yourself in? Germany is panicking because you are rushing in with your Anti German stance. You did
this without spending any effort building up support from within your country nor found allies in Europe.
I never said anything that was Anti German.
Leaving the EEC is a sudden, radical move that is certainly interpreted as anti-German. Accepting US financial aid - as you've suggested in the OOC thread - will essentially be a red flag. So it will be if Italy suddenly purged fascists. As I've said, doing so will lead to an Event which will coup (successfully) the Italian government. Many in the Italian government - due to both ideological reasons and fear of Germanic prowess - are opposed to such sudden moves, and will especially be mad if the King begins purging fascists.
If your goal is to make Italy more liberal, your moves should be more gradual. Undermine fascist influence by coopting fascist elites and gradually sidelining the more hardcore elements. Placate Germany while at the same time building up influence in Middle East and Mediterranean and building up your economy and military industry (perhaps even using German financial assistance to do so - I don't know if you have played the HoI4 mod The New Order, but if you have think of China and how it uses Japanese aid to become more powerful at Japan's expense). Use a time of crisis for Germany to assert greater independence.
What I am saying is not that you should make Italy a puppet of Germany or not try to liberalize the regime. What I am saying is that to do so you need to spend more time than one post. This should be a long term process taking weeks and many posts, instead of something you do in twenty minutes.