The Americans were equally unwilling to accept this. They had clearly only tagged along to make up the numbers in the war, yet they were being treated almost like the British Empire, the villainous protagonist.
So many member states of the Oceanic Alliance had taken part in this war—why were they the ones receiving special treatment?
If they could not find the reason, then the government was incompetent. Other countries all knew when to cut their losses, but they alone had followed the British down a dark road to the bitter end. If that was not incompetence, what was?
As for the Washington Government's efforts, sorry, but this was an era where success and failure defined the hero. No matter how many reasons there were, failure was still failure.
The moment the treaty's contents spread, the Union exploded. Massive demonstrations broke out in every state, and the situation was only marginally better than Japan's.
In Washington, deafening cries of protest shook the sky, clearly audible even within the White House.
Theodore Roosevelt had a terrible headache. Opposition lawmakers had already submitted an impeachment motion to Congress. Unless something unexpected happened, it would be put to a vote when the next session of Congress opened.
Judging from the current situation, if he could not properly resolve the issue of the Vienna Agreement, he would become yet another president in United States history to be impeached and removed from office.
But how could overturning the Vienna Agreement be so easy? If they had been able to refuse, the Union's representatives would never have signed it in the first place.
Before the Continental Alliance, the Union's strength was simply too insignificant. At the Vienna Conference, the Union delegation had no right to speak at all.
They had not even been notified until the