Sharing the Spoils

"America has surrendered!"

This was the headline in news reports around the world from late November to early December, and it also represented the formal end of a war whose scale—judging by the number of participating countries—was almost comparable to the World War.

Thinking about it, it did make sense. No matter how powerful Germany had been back then, it had still failed to defeat the entire world, let alone the United States, which was now truly fighting the whole world alone.

But what no one had expected was that it was not the Combined Army that ultimately seized Washington, but Americans themselves.

What surprised everyone even more was that the very first thing MacArthur announced after entering Washington was an order for all United States Army forces to surrender to the Combined Army.

Regardless, America's surrender was good news for the Combined Army. At the very least, its soldiers would no longer have to make pointless sacrifices.

Of course, after America's surrender came the even more important stage, the time everyone loved to see: dividing up the fruits of victory.

Since the British had been the leading force in the war, the peace conference would naturally be held in London.

After discussions among the Anglo-French-Australasian powers, the peace conference was scheduled for January 15, 1929. All the countries belonging to the United States and the Combined Army would participate.

Although the Anglo-French-Australasian powers had already reached preliminary compromises over the territories each had occupied, the current situation differed slightly from their earlier discussions. After all, Australia had occupied nearly half of the western United States, while Britain and France had each taken only two or three states.

Moreover, the sudden upheaval within the US Government would also require a new arrangement.

No one could guarantee how the current US