The Rise of Australasia

Discussions about the United States continued for a long time, as a common concern for both Australasia and the United Kingdom, Arthur and King George V still showed the United States much respect.

Although they were clear that such preparations could never completely dismantle the United States, weakening it even slightly was a sure gain for Britain and Australasia at the time.

After finishing the discussion about the United States, Arthur and King George V naturally turned their attention to the current European situation.

With the independence of Finland and the Three Mediterranean Countries, the situation in Europe had become much livelier.

Although there were no longer superpowers on the European continent, the overall situation was one of strong countries standing side by side.

The most powerful country on the European continent was France, but Germany still had a certain power of resistance.

The most powerful country in the far east should be Russia Nation, and it was being restrained by Poland and Soviet Russia. Neither of these two powerful countries could play their advantages.

Looking at the currently most chaotic Central Europe, the internal situations of the two powerful Germanic countries were not very good.

The Bohemia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also clamoring for independence; although its overall situation was a bit better than Germany’s, the independence and unity of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were the most difficult to maintain. Discover more stories at

No single country could maintain comprehensive leadership, which was the real reason for the complicated and chaotic situation in Europe.

"Arthur, what do you think of the newly established Republic of Turkey?" King George V asked with a smile.

"Clearly, the new Turkey doesn’t have the potential to become a power," Arthur replied.

"The establishment of Turkey might not be a bad thing for us. At least the expansion of Soviet Russia in the Caucasus Region can be curbed, and the Balkan Region will become easier to control," Arthur said with a smile.

The previous Russia Nation was the controlling country of the Balkan Nations. But with the outbreak of the Civil War in Russia Nation, it had lost control over the Balkan Region.

As Europe’s infamous powder keg and the direct instigator of World War I, the situation in the Balkan Region was always unclear, with conflicts occurring frequently.

Currently, the strongest country in the Balkan Region should be Serbia. After swallowing the whole of Bosnia, Serbia’s population surpassed Bulgaria and Romania, and it also had the strongest industrial and economic level in the Balkan Region.

As for Romania, a previously strong Balkan nation, it gained very little territory from World War I and did not see rapid growth in its overall strength.

The remaining two former Balkan powers, Bulgaria and Greece, both suffered failures in war and had lost hope of contending for dominance in the Balkan Region.

Bulgaria, as one of the defeated nations in World War I, had little hope of rising again unless it could take advantage of another massive war.

And Greece, having just failed in the Greco-Turkish War, even saw its Monarch dethroned. Although Greece currently had the largest Land Area in the Balkan Region, it was impossible to return to its peak without about ten years to recover its vitality.

King George V nodded, and, mentioning Greece, which had just lost Monarchism, said with a laugh, "After George was deposed from the Throne, did Charlotte come to you in tears?"

Charlotte was Arthur’s younger sister, and also the youngest daughter of old Arthur. Arthur had another older sister, Patricia. Both of his sisters had married into European royal families, though one was in Sweden and the other in Greece.

Compared with Charlotte, who married into the tumultuous Greek throne, Patricia, who married into the more stable Swedish throne, was relatively more fortunate.

Although Patricia’s husband, Gustav Adolf, had a father who was quite long-lived, at least his father’s throne and his own position as Crown Prince were stable, and Patricia’s life was without any problems.

But Charlotte was not so fortunate. Although she too married into the Greek royal family and her husband was also the previous Crown Prince George of Greece, the fate of Greece during this period was not good, and the Greek throne and political scene had gone through many ups and downs.

Before World War I, the King was still George’s father, Constantine I, who, because he had been educated in Germany and married Queen Sophia, daughter of William II, did not wish to join the Allies in the war and strongly ordered the Greek government at the time to remain neutral.

But clearly, following the propaganda of many Allied Nations, the Allied Nations had already been portrayed as the big villains.

Constantine I, who favored the Allied Nations, naturally faced opposition from all walks of Greek life and even caused actual divisions between Athens and Thessaloniki, nearly leading Greece to become two countries.

The end result was naturally Greece joining the Allied Nations, and Constantine I, who supported the Allied Nations, was forced to abdicate in favor of his son Alexander.

It’s worth mentioning that Alexander was not the Greek Crown Prince at the time but the brother of Crown Prince George, Constantine I’s second son.

The main reason for this was that Crown Prince George had once served in the Prussian military for the German Army, which also made Crown Prince George seen as a supporter of the Allied Nations.

After Alexander ascended the throne, he immediately became the puppet of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, who was controlled by the Allied Nations.

Constantine I, the former King, and George, the former Crown Prince, were forced into exile in Switzerland, where they received assistance from the United Kingdom and Australasia.

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