Thunder in the Deep

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In mid-2011, Boer-led reactionaries seized control in South Africa amid social chaos, and restored Apartheid. In response to a U.N. trade embargo, they began sinking U.S. and British merchant ships. Coalition forces mobilized, with only Germany holding back. Troops and tanks drained from the rest of western Europe and North America, and a joint task force set sail for Africa — into a giant trap.

There was another coup — in Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm's closest heir was crowned, the Hohenzollern throne restored after almost a century. A secret military-industrial conspiracy planned it all for years. The Kaiser was their figurehead, to legitimize the new order. Ultra-nationalists, exploiting American unpreparedness for all-out war, would give Germany her "place in the sun" at last. The conspirators were brutal opportunists, who hated the mediocre silliness of the European Union as much as they resented the U.S.'s smug self-infatuation. Coercion won over citizens not swayed by patriotism or the onrush of events.

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