Chapter 1114: They Were Played
The Netherlands had been forced to pick a side, and the Nordic Federation was not much better off. Though its reserves and strength were greater, that depended on whom it was being compared with.
All the countries of continental Europe had been dragged onto the Vienna Government's war chariot. Even if the Nordic Federation alone managed to remain neutral, it would still have to consider the reckoning afterward!
"Go into the mountains and wage guerrilla warfare if we can't win"—that was easy enough to say. Who would be so full and idle as to abandon a perfectly good life and crawl into mountain ravines?
Besides, even if they wanted to hide in the mountains, they first needed mountains to hide in. Norway and Sweden did indeed have the potential to exploit their terrain, resist step by step, and fight a war of attrition, but Denmark did not!
The flat-as-a-board Jutland Peninsula simply did not offer the conditions for a prolonged defense. World War II could serve as a reference—the fighting had ended in just four hours.
That might have been somewhat exaggerated, but facts were facts. Even if other factors had been mixed in, they could not change that.
The current situation was even worse than in the original timeline. At least back then, the Soviet Union had held up the European battlefield. Though the Anti-German Alliance was at a disadvantage, its overall national strength still gave it the edge.
Now, however, everything was utterly different. As far as the eye could see, the European Continent was filled with members of the Anti-British Alliance. The sight alone was enough to inspire dread, let alone the thought of opposing them.
Faced with the Vienna Government's final ultimatum, the Nordic Federation's central government had yet to make