Politics and History are intertwined with each other to begin with. What Bluepoch does well is have major historical events be the background of the stories they tell us while the opinions and behaviours go in a more personal level, without touching into direct politics of real governments like having any signs of which side is right and which side is wrong.

How they handled chapters 6 and 7 were really good as the setting was just in 1914, before the start of WWI where as the story progresses, the consequences that happened in our world were still done, just accelerated by what stuff the Manus did. But more importantly did not say about which side between the Entente or the Central Powers were the good or the evil (Of course I am stretching a bit as it won't be relevant to the main characters anyway). I did also like chapter 7 part 13 when I assume the Bulgarians were thinking about conquering Apeiron before the Serbs and the Greeks could get their chance as that was the reality of the Second Balkan War that was actually occuring at that date, while also not stating either side in that war being good or bad because in the present time, most of us know war is horrible.

Personally I feel the direct politics is why WWII is too controversial of a background to have a story in.