[Targan]

No-one likes to think of their own nation as thoroughly beaten up. It must be even harder for US T2K players to swallow the canon timeline because you've all grown up with the idea of manifest destiny and knowing that you have the most powerful military forces on the planet.

I choose to find ways to make canon fit partly out of laziness (in that where possible I'd like to make use of all the published materials without having to comprehensively re-write them or ignore them), but also because it's a fun intellectual exercise and as a non-American it doesn't hurt my psyche so badly to imagine the USA post-Twilight War as described in canon.

I do think that the really violent rejection by US members here of the canon climatological effects of the Twilight War as described in Howling Wilderness is excessive, but I think the idea of human-caused climate change has been accepted as real by a much greater proportion of the populations of the rest of the western world than it has in America. From what I understand of climate change, I don't find the Howling Wilderness climate changes all that implausible.