Spain and the Philippines

East Africa's move this time had been massive, but because it had acted in Central and Eastern Europe without flying East Africa's banner, it could at most stir up some momentum. Now everyone was verbally condemning the Americans, incidentally diverting some of the social tensions caused by economic decline in various countries. The governments of those countries were actually happy to see it happen.

But for the first time, the Americans had truly realized that there was another country in the world called East Africa. After all, this had risen to the diplomatic level between two nations, and the Far East Empire government had joined in pressuring the United States. It felt like being ridden on the head and bombarded, which was extremely unpleasant. As for the Europeans talking about America, that was a minor matter instead. Too many lice did not make one itch; too many debts did not make one worry.

Yet the United States truly had no effective way to deal with East Africa. In the end, it could only strike at East African slave ships headed for North America, which was perhaps the largest form of trade between East Africa and the United States.

But East Africa did not swallow that tactic. The slave trade had already become increasingly difficult to conduct, so East Africa focused on developing the Latin American market. Aside from Argentina, which neither oil nor salt could penetrate, black slaves remained relatively popular in Latin America.

Moreover, the slave trade could not bring much economic profit to East Africa and instead ran at a loss year after year. Thus, this bit of countermeasure was neither painful nor itchy to East Africa.

There were countless ways to resolve the black population issue. At worst, East Africa could directly export them to West Africa