The military gap is indeed the easiest to bridge. After all, surpassing East Africa in other directions is impossible. To put it bluntly, the Orange Free State is just a palm-sized place in front of East Africa, with severe restrictions on both population and land.
But if the Boers in the region are mobilized to the extreme, like Paraguay in South America, a force of hundreds of thousands of troops could also be achieved by the Transvaal.
Of course, achieving this is clearly not the intention of the Transvaal leadership present. If truly like Paraguay, the future of the Transvaal Republic would be bleak, unless they also learn from Paraguay to reintroduce a large population.
But now Paraguay is like it's been replaced, is it still the same Paraguay as before? So things definitely cannot develop in that direction. After all, people aren't little Lopez, the war maniac imitating Napoleon. Everyone just wants to gain a small piece of land in South Africa to rebuild the Boer homeland.
