Er, cold war/ww2 era and all that, yeah, but people, try to think out of those boundaries please? That era of history happend over 1000 years ago, I highly doubt its remembered.
Second, None, and i mean none of factions involved are pure representatives of either "political point of view" So keep those out of discussion.
Now on topic:
Hessians and SCRA are helping each other.
Reason is that we see things similarly. Moreso, people of rheinland are currently depressed and miserable. They lost war after war and its not doing good on morale. That is a perfect chance to spread new hope and revolutions, but in this case if Liberty takes over, maybe there will be no second chance to guide them to our ideal.
What some maybe do not understand is that we do not wish to "slaughter sirius" or "get most money" our sole purpose is to topple current govements in favor of our own idea, thus recreating power we had in Sol.
With fighting not for side, but for cause you can gain lots of respect from population, with that strengthening our foothold in rheinland.
But all this things are ideas we would like to play out more than simply undock from our base, go shoot corsairs for no good reason, go back to base, write report. Its dull and boring, serves no purpose. If it were for some "reality" Leon and Cadiz would allready be under coalition flag long ago.
Oh, and last note. Do not forget that even if [RM] as playerfaction has installed facist idea. Originally it is seen as most democratic (rigid, but just) by game master Igiss and its actually real point it should be seen as.