West Africa's climate had always grown drier the farther north one went. Most of Upper Volta was arid and barren, which was why the New Austria Kingdom had previously received more land than the Habsburg Monarchy.
However, if the New Austria Kingdom wanted to develop Upper Volta, it would likewise need the support of a large number of immigrants. Upper Volta, which had been Burkina Faso in the previous life, had still supported a population of twenty million.
Therefore, if Upper Volta were developed, the returns behind it would also be quite considerable.
When Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies colony, the Nomonhan War had not yet ended. Without question, the Nomonhan War had inflicted enormous losses on Japan and truly beaten the Japanese until they felt the pain.
But the Soviet Union's situation was not much better. The Soviet Army, which held an absolute advantage in weaponry and equipment and had achieved a relatively high degree of mechanization and motorization, had still been ground down by the Japanese for more than ten thousand men.
Soviet Union, Moscow.
Yosef had recently been extremely worried about the Soviet Army's performance in the Nomonhan War.
He asked Shaposhnikov, the Soviet Army's Chief of Staff, and the others, "How did our army manage to achieve such a record?"
"With an absolute advantage in troop numbers and weaponry, we actually fought Japan, an island nation with a relatively low level of industrialization, to a draw!"
The Soviet Army had committed more than twice as many troops as Japan, giving the Soviet Union an absolute numerical advantage. In tanks and artillery, the Soviet Union held an even more overwhelming advantage over Japan.
Yet under such all-around superiority, Soviet and Japanese casualty figures had ended up nearly equal. Naturally, Yosef found it difficult to accept