The Rise of Australasia

If the changes brought by Australasia to the world were not obvious during World War I, by now, the changes in the global situation have become very obvious.

The Georgian Soviet Republic, which should have been established in February, has not yet been established. The specific reason is that the internal war in Soviet Russia is currently intense, and Soviet Russia has no other mood to expand its power in other parts of Russia.

On the contrary, the current situation is very unfavorable for Soviet Russia. Most of the regions of Ukraine have already been captured by the World Alliance and the war could burn Soviet Russia’s most important area, Moscow.

At the moment, there are two factions in Soviet Russia’s view of the war. One faction believes that they should continue to struggle and pursue the unification of Russia.

The other faction believes that they should pursue a short period of peace. Soviet Russia itself was founded in a relatively short time, and its industry is in a terrible state, and economically, it’s even worse.

A slightly better agriculture industry has also suffered a major blow, and there is currently a serious food shortage in the country. There is an urgent need for a period of recuperation and first ensuring agricultural production.

This faction believes that if they could fight for a development time of 5 to 10 years, at any cost, the situation they face would be completely different.

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In addition to the situation in Russia, the current Anglo-Irish War within the British Empire is also quite intense.

It’s strange that the current Irish rebel forces are not worth mentioning compared to the strength of the British Empire, but the British government is unwilling to deploy more regular British troops in Ireland.

Besides the two regular divisions deployed at the beginning of the conflict, Britain has only formed a military police organization to assist these two divisions, and no other action has been taken.

This has also turned the British civil war into a spy war between both sides. Today the Irish Republican Army kills 18 British agents in Dublin, and tomorrow the British Military Police Organization goes to a square where crowds gather and launches an attack on the crowd.

This kind of retaliatory behavior has quickly increased the casualties on both sides in a short period of time, and even hundreds of innocent people have been shot.

However, the targets of the Irish Republican Army are mostly British officials and military personnel, which has directly transferred the Irish people’s hatred to the British army.

Even if the British military control law executed dozens of Irish Republican Army soldiers, it still couldn’t stop the frequent conflicts between the two sides and the rising death toll.

In the first two months of 1921, British casualties were 432 and 435 respectively; Irish casualties were 577 and 622 (including civilians).

As time reaches March, the situation between Britain and Ireland has become incompatible.

As one of the leaders of the Irish Republican Army, Tom Barry decided to take his fewer than 100 men to do something big.

Tom Barry’s so-called big move was actually to ambush a small British army unit.

Of course, the scale of this unit was not small, with a total of about a battalion, more than 1200 British soldiers.

Well, with a force of fewer than 100 people to besiege 1200 British soldiers, this was indeed an impulsive idea of Tom Barry’s, and he actually took action for it.

On March 11th, 1921, under the command of Tom Barry, this Irish Republican Army surrounded the British battalion.

Although the initial encirclement and raid were smooth, the disadvantages in numbers and equipment soon caused Tom Barry’s army to be instantly defeated.

Fortunately, not everyone in this Republican Army is a fool, and they know the importance of avoiding being surrounded by the British army as much as possible.

As long as they are not surrounded by the British army, even if the casualties are heavy, they still have a chance to escape.

But if they are completely surrounded by the British army, considering the current severe situation between Ireland and Britain, the outcome for these Irish Republican Army soldiers may only be execution.

The result is obvious; this Irish army, named the West Cork Republican Army and consisting of 100 or so people, suffered nearly 50 casualties but caused more than 20 deaths to the British army. Their record is quite impressive indeed.

Under such comprehensive disadvantages in numbers and equipment, it is quite difficult to create such large-scale casualties for the British army.

This attack seemed to open Pandora’s Box, and the Irish Republican Army began to target the British army, launching multiple attacks on them in a short period time.

First, on March 13th, the Irish Republican Army in Kerry County attacked a train at Headford Junction, which derailed directly and caused the death of more than 20 British soldiers and injury to hundreds of British soldiers.

Because of the sudden attack, the casualties for the Irish Republican Army were less than ten, along with individual civilian casualties, making it the most impressive victory in the Irish War of Independence so far.

Still in March, in Millstreet Town, the Irish Republican Army launched another attack on the British army, causing dozens more casualties.

Although most of the attacks were small in scale and only caused dozens of casualties, the Irish army favored this kind of attack. The frequent attacks left the British army defenseless, and their hatred of the Irish Republican Army escalated to an extreme.

Of course, with successful surprise attacks, there would naturally also be failures.

In the two attacks in Upton and Colonel Mart, the Irish Republican Army did not cause casualties to the British army but was caught off guard by the well-prepared British army, resulting in dozens of casualties.

In February and March of 1921, the Irish Republican Army launched 16 and 51 attacks respectively on the British army, with the number of attacks suddenly increasing.

The largest operation took place in Dublin, the largest city in Ireland. Hundreds of Republican soldiers occupied the Dublin City Center and burned down the Custom House.

The Custom House was the administrative center of the Irish local government and symbolized British rule in Ireland.

The Irish Republican Army burned down the Custom House to convey a symbol that British rule in Ireland was already vulnerable.

Attacks in Ireland left the British government with a headache. The guerrilla tactics of the Irish Republican Army also led the British government to mistakenly estimate it as a force that cannot be defeated militarily.

In addition, the Irish Republican Army was no longer satisfied with fighting in Ireland but spread the flames of war to British ports, which further caused headaches for the British government.

However, the Irish Republican Army was not united as a single force. Although the nominal Irish Republic was established, the Irish Republican Army was still under the control of various small leaders. The power of the nominal Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense of Ireland was limited too much.

It also had one advantage: Ireland as a whole was not as united as imagined.

Unlike the independent status sought in Southern Ireland, some areas in Northern Ireland wanted autonomy, not independence.

This caused a conflict of ideas between the Republican Army in the north and the Republican Army in the south. The Irish Republican Government asked the northern Republican Army to launch surprise attacks on the British army, maintaining a consistent stance with the southern Republican Army.

However, since the outbreak of the conflict, the Northern Irish Republican Army has not had any military conflicts with the British government.

This gave the British government hope of splitting the Irish forces. The British government portrayed the Irish Republican Army as an anti-Protestant force, encouraging Irish Protestant royalists to support Britain and differentiate themselves from the anti-Protestant Irish Republican Army.

Under the promotion of the British government, British media outlets would involuntarily mention the religious beliefs of the British soldiers killed by the Irish Republican Army.

Naturally, all these killed soldiers were Protestants, while most of the surviving soldiers were Catholics.

The British wanted to use this strategy to awaken the dissatisfaction of Irish Protestants with Catholics and gain the sympathy of these Protestants for the brutal tactics of the Irish Republican Army against the British army.

What was somewhat surprising was that the British government gave up the option of escalating the conflict in Ireland. Since the outbreak of the conflict, the British government has never demanded war vehemently.

The future Prime Minister of the British Empire, and current member of the British Cabinet, Winston Churchill, directly stated in response to this situation: "What is the alternative choice? It was a small corner of the Empire that was previously subjected to an iron fist of repression, with dead bodies strewn across the land.

...We can only forgive the consequences of this strategy when the nation needs to protect itself. But now, no rational person can claim that this is a question of self-preservation."

There was another piece of bad news for the British Empire: the crimes of the British Empire were exposed by the Irish Republican Army and were secretly printed and distributed to a large number of domestic and foreign media newspapers and politicians of many powerful nations.

This caused some countries to lean towards the Irish Republican Army, believing that British rule in Ireland was inhumane.

Even Pope Benedict XV, in a recent letter, encouraged both the British and Irish sides to think calmly and end the current dispute through an agreement.

Benedict XV’s statement angered the British because the British government had previously asked the Pope to make a statement condemning the Irish rebellion, influencing Catholics in the Irish Republican Army.

Unexpectedly, Pope Benedict XV openly chose to support Ireland and encouraged the rebellious Irish and the British government to communicate fairly. This outraged the British side, who declared: "The Pope places the government of His Majesty and the Irish murderers on an equal footing."

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