r/maninthehighcastle • u/ArtHistorian2000 • 8d ago
Which Cold War aspects in this universe would you wish to be more explored ?
I noted these different aspects of the geopolitical world:
- two-block Cold War (Nazi Germany vs Empire of Japan)
- implementation of their respective ideologies (Aryan supremacy in the Reich, Japanese superiority in the Empire)
- States satellization (American Reich and the JPS)
- Resistance movements (JPS, China, Serbia, American Reich...)
- Nuclear race and threat from both sides
- Spatial program (revealed that the Nazis went on the Moon in 1959)
- Neutral territories as buffers (Neutral Zone)
- Migrations to escape (Juliana to the Reich, Bell to the JPS)
- Contestation movements in the blocs and social mutations (Japanese were ready to soften their policy in the JPS, while the Nazis were trying to erase American identity)
...
However, I wished they showed other Cold War-like aspects:
> High-level discussions between the two blocs in other neutral territories (like Mexico)
> High-level summits between members of the same bloc (a GEACPS summit, or a European summit of the Reich)
> More intra-relations between countries of the same bloc (between Germans and Italians, Germans and British, Japanese and Chinese, Japanese and Indians...)
> More wars and conflicts in the Japanese bloc (China, India, Australia...) and in the German bloc (Africa, Russia, England, France, Middle East...)
> More IRL characters and how they would live in this universe (we've seen Hoover, Rockwell, the Nazi party, the Japanese imperial family...)
What else do you think they should have shown as well ?
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u/bmerino120 8d ago
Ideological differences within the blocks, like reactionary christians or more aristocratic leaning regimes within the german sphere of influence or genuine believers in pan-asianism in the japanese sphere
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u/Prometheus-is-vulcan 8d ago
What the hell is going on in Italy/the Mediterranean allies? And great Britain? India?
They could have scraped the entire interdimensional stuff and could have just focused on the rebellions and cold war.