Nine Nations Stand in America

Prime Minister Baldwin naturally understood that reporting to George V was merely something said for form's sake. Let alone Prime Minister Raul—even he himself did not always take George V that seriously.

The British Royal Family's position might have been secure, but the King of Britain's power had long since been dismantled. Recovering it would not be easy.

However, the attitude of the Australasian people still made Prime Minister Baldwin sense that something was unusual.

Perhaps from the moment the United States was defeated, the relationship between the United Kingdom and Australasia had already ceased to be what it once was.

The British people had become so powerful that they no longer had any opponents—or rather, all the remaining great powers were their opponents.

The shifting world situation had forced Australasia and the United Kingdom to move toward vigilance, and they might even turn to confrontation in the future.

Fortunately, relations between nations had always been complicated. Such a change was easy for politicians to accept.

After adjusting his mindset, Prime Minister Baldwin had someone bring him a map of the United States and began carefully studying the areas where Britain could make concessions and the areas where it absolutely could not.

Regarding the partition of the United States, not one of the three countries—Britain, France, and Australasia—wanted to annex the American mainland as part of its own homeland.

The reason was simple. Britain and France lay in Europe, while Australasia lay in Oceania. The American mainland was either separated from them by the entire Atlantic Ocean or by the entire Pacific Ocean.

If the land of the American mainland were turned into their own homeland, the problems involved in administering it would be enough to bring an entire government crashing down.

Moreover, the conflict between white and Black Americans,