>>31827154I think you can reasonably and accurately say that Hololive's expansions all correlate with United States Defense Policy focuses.
>Early Hololive: Japan only, obviously>Move into China to get an audience in the mainland, possibly spread western influence virtually in the same way Hong Kong could physically>Expand into Indonesia/Philippines to complete the "First Island" policy>Expand into America, with the EN market also having a Korean to further shore up the "First Island Chain" defense line, and a European to have NATO representation>China cracks down further on Western influence, crushes Hong Kong: Cover pulls out of China soon after>In order to further strengthen the First Island policy, keep investing in ID above their relative weight class>HoloEN2 brings in Australia in order to fully represent the members of the Five Eyes Intelligence Initiative>War in Ukraine happens, and Russia tries to fracture EU solidarity, while also catering to unaligned South American states to support the regime economically>China and Taiwan tensions continue to raise; Cover puts more effort into the Korean fanbase, sends ambassadors over multiple times>in response, Cover puts out feelers for establishing HoloEU and HoloSAIt's not, like, IMPOSSIBLE. They're firm believers of the "Cool Japan" foreign policy, where Japanese culture being exported to the rest of the world is a part of their defense initiatives. And Japanese/American defense strategy is highly linked. It may be crazy, but if I know anything, it's that American defense policy is literally SUPPOSED to be schizophrenic, on principle.
