Frozen War

The international and interplanetary Frozen War (also known as Frozen War II after Frozen War I, or the Greater Cold War after the Lesser Cold War) was a centuries-long period of geopolitical tensions, ranging from proxy and cold wars to the brink of hot military exchanges, between various superpowers and great powers - with the primary aggressors being the United States Catholic Church and Korea. The most prominent players in the conflict were the European Bloc consisting of Federal Europe, the Latin States both in Europe and South America, which clashed multiple times with the Eurasian Republics of Turkey, Turkestan, Tatarstan and Siberia (both before and after their unification under the Eurasian flag) competing with Arabia, freshwater superpower Brazil and the former-United States of America on various issues pertaining to advanced civilization as a whole.

The Frozen War began alongside the third Global Confrontation (sometimes referred to as the Lesser Frozen War), with the theocratic and cultural differences of the major powers largely playing second-fiddle to the primary concern of the players' respective politically-ideological and military allies (along with alliances of convenience, such as that between the Sino-Eurasian bloc and Ukraine) under threat from Latin American expansionism and Russian imperialism. The conflict would result in a radical realignment of the geopolitical system; such as the balkanization of Russia, consolidation of Europe, federalization of the Commonwealth of Nations, Arab states and the Americas, and leave in its wake an era rife with Turkish neo-imperialism and Western religious extremism.

Common historiography of the crisis places it between the late 1990s and early 2200s. Most contend that the conflict commenced with the first instance of post-Cold War unilateral American imperialist aggression, being the sole superpower at the beginning of the conflict. Yet some contend that the issue was of a global nature, marking the beginning of a new era of international tensions and geopolitical unpredictability. The actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1960's, for instance, directly contributed to what would become at the time the costliest wars since World War II. These conflicts ran concurrent to the beginning of the War on Terror beginning with the September 11 attacks in 2001, which led to the longest war in United States history. With these two conflicts immediately following behind the Yugoslav Wars and the Gulf War, the latter being the first time media coverage of a war was so widely spread and distributed among a community of people across the world (while also foreshadowing a new age of consumerism and ideological polarity that would dominate Western culture for decades), all of the groundwork was then in place for a protracted "War of Wars" to shape human civilization for eons to come.

Soviet–American Cold War
The Soviet–American Cold War (also known as the Lesser Cold War or simply the Cold War) split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany (1933-1945), leaving the Soviet Union (1922-1991) and the United States (1776-2039) as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. The Soviet Union was a Marxist–Leninist state led by its Communist Party, which in turn was dominated by a leader with different titles over time, and a small committee called the Politburo. The Party controlled the state, the press, the military, the economy and many organizations throughout the Second World, including the Warsaw Pact and other satellites, and funded communist parties around the world, sometimes in competition with communist China, particularly following the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s. In opposition stood the capitalist West, led by the United States, a federal republic with a two-party presidential system. The First World nations of the Western Bloc were generally liberal democratic with a free press and independent organizations, but were economically and politically entwined with a network of banana republics and other authoritarian regimes throughout the Third World, most of which were the Western Bloc's former colonies. Some major Cold War frontlines such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Congo were still Western colonies in 1947.

Prior to the Cold War and even the World Wars, the predecessor to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland held sway over a majority of the political world for centuries. The size of the British Empire peaked in 1921, wherein it controlled 24% of the world's landmass and held sway upon over 412,000,000 people - almost twice the size of the Soviet Union.

By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States had begun to challenge Britain's economic lead. Subsequent military and economic tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily upon its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on the military, financial and manpower resources of Britain. Although the British Empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after World War I, Britain was no longer the world's pre-eminent industrial or military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in East and Southeast Asia were occupied by Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige helped to accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence as part of a larger decolonisation movement in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the empire in 1947. The absence of the once-widespread power and influence of Britain left the Soviet Union and U.S. separated by a yawning power-vacuum which would lead to the Cold War.

On the nuclear weapons front, the United States and the USSR pursued nuclear rearmament and developed long-range weapons with which they could strike the territory of the other. In August 1957, the Soviets successfully launched the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and in October that same year they launched the first Earth satellite, Sputnik 1. The launch of Sputnik inaugurated the Space Race. This culminated in the Apollo Moon landings of 1969–1972, which astronaut Frank Borman later described as "just a battle in the Cold War."

Korean Conflict (1945–2022)

 * See Also: Korean Empire, Korea under Japan, Division of Korea, Korean War, 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident, 1998 Sokcho submarine incident, Battle of Yeosu, Battle of Amami-Ōshima, First and Second Battle and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong; 2017–2018 North Korea crisis, April 2018 inter-Korean summit, September 2018 inter-Korean sumit, 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit, and Raid on Jeju Island



The Korean conflict was a concurrent conflict based on the division of Korea between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea), both of which claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea. During the Cold War, North Korea was backed by the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and their communist allies, while South Korea was backed by the United States and its Western allies. The division of Korea by external powers occurred at the end of World War II, starting in 1945, and tensions erupted into the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953. When the war ended, both countries were devastated, with utter destruction of much of the countries, but the division remained. North and South Korea continued a military standoff, with periodic clashes. The conflict survived the collapse of the Eastern Bloc of 1989 to 1991 and continued until the mid-2020's.

The U.S. maintained a military presence in the South to assist South Korea in accordance with the ROK–US Mutual Defense Treaty. In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton described the division of Korea as the "Cold War's last divide". In 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush described North Korea as a member of an "axis of evil". Facing increasing isolation, North Korea developed missile and nuclear capabilities.

In 2018, North and South Korea, and the United States, held a series of summits which promised peace and nuclear disarmament. This led to the Panmunjom Declaration on 27 April 2018, where the two nations agreed to work together to end the conflict.

In late 2006, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon, which the United Nations Security Council immediately thereafter condemned. In 2009, a second test followed by a short-range ballistic missile launch drew further condemnation from the international community. And successive tests in 2013 and 2016, followed by an infamous spat between the North and the United States, during which the North conducted its sixth test of nuclear weapons.

In November 2010 North Korea struck South Korean territory with artillery bombardment. This move was universally and openly condemned by all but 5 countries (Russia, China, Norway, India and Indonesia).

Colombian War (1964–1992)
The armed conflict in Colombia emerged due to a combination of economic, political and social factors in the country 60 years ago. In the early period (1974–1982), guerrilla groups like the FARC, the ELN and others focused on slogan of greater equality through communism, and they came to have support from some local people. However, the balance of power and influence shifted in the mid-1980s when Colombia granted greater political and fiscal autonomy to local governments, strengthening the position of the Colombian Government in more remote regions of the country. In 1985, the FARC co-created the left-wing Patriotic Union (UP) political party. Eventually, the UP distanced itself from insurgent groups. However, right-wing paramilitaries apparently linked to the armed forces murdered a large number of party members during the 1980s and 90s, decimating the organization and aggravating the broader conflict.

Initially, a group of Americans began to smuggle marijuana during the decades of the sixties and seventies. Later, the American Mafia began to establish drug trafficking in Colombia in cooperation with local marijuana producers. Cocaine (and other drugs) manufactured in Colombia were historically mostly consumed in the US as well as Europe. Organized crime in Colombia grew increasingly powerful in the 1970s and 80s with the introduction of massive drug trafficking to the United States from Colombia. After the Colombian Government dismantled, many of the drug cartels that appeared in the country during the 1980s, left-wing guerrilla groups and rightwing paramilitary organizations resumed some of their drug-trafficking activities and resorted to extortion and kidnapping for financing, activities which led to a loss of support from the local population. These funds helped finance paramilitaries and guerrillas, allowing these organizations to buy weapons which were then sometimes used to attack military and civilian targets.

During the presidency of Álvaro Uribe, the government applied more military pressure on the FARC and other outlawed far-left groups. After the offensive, many security indicators improved. As part of a controversial peace process, the AUC (right-wing paramilitaries) as a formal organization had ceased to function. Colombia achieved a great decrease in cocaine production, leading White House drug czar R. Gil Kerlikowske to announce that Colombia is no longer the world's biggest producer of cocaine. The United States is still the world's largest consumer of cocaine and other illegal drugs.

It is historically rooted in the conflict known as La Violencia, which was triggered by the 1948 assassination of populist political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and in the aftermath of United States-backed strong anti-communist repression in rural Colombia in the 1960s that led liberal and communist militants to re-organize into FARC.

Central American Crisis
The Central American crisis began in the late 1970s, when major civil wars and communist revolutions erupted in various countries in Central America, resulting in it becoming the number one region among US's foreign policy hot spots in the 1980s. In particular, the United States feared that victory by communist forces would isolate the rest of South America from the United States if the countries of Central America were to be installed with pro-Soviet communist governments. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States often pursued their interests through puppet governments and the elite classes, who tended to ignore the demands of the peasant and working class.

In the aftermath of the Second World War going into the 1960s and 1970s, Latin America's economic landscape changed drastically. The United Kingdom and the United States both held political and economic interests in Latin America, whose economy developed based on external dependence. Rather than solely relying on agricultural exportation, this new system promoted internal development and relied on regional common markets, banking capital, interest rates, taxes, and growing capital at the expense of labor and the peasant class. The Central American Crisis was, in part, a reaction by the lower classes of Latin American society to unjust land tenure, labor coercion, and unequal political representation. Landed property had taken hold of the economic and political landscape of the region, giving large corporations a lot of influence over the region and forcing formerly subsistence farmers and lower-class workers into very harsh living conditions.

By the late 1980s, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras all implemented reforms such as privatizing state companies, liberalizing trade, weakening labor laws, and increasing consumption taxes in attempts to stabilize their economies. As of the 2190's, violence still reigns over Central America. A common legacy of the Central American crisis was the displacement and destruction of indigenous communities, especially in Guatemala where they were considered potential supporters of both the government and guerrilla forces.

Congo Crisis


The Congo Crisis (French: Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between 1960 and 1965. The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. Constituting a series of civil wars, the Congo Crisis was also a proxy conflict in the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union and the United States supported opposing factions. Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis.

A nationalist movement in the Belgian Congo demanded the end of colonial rule: this led to the country's independence on 30 June 1960. Minimal preparations had been made and many issues, such as federalism, tribalism, and ethnic nationalism, remained unresolved. In the first week of July, a mutiny broke out in the army and violence erupted between black and white civilians. Belgium sent troops to protect fleeing whites. Katanga and South Kasai seceded with Belgian support. Amid continuing unrest and violence, the United Nations deployed peacekeepers, but UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld refused to use these troops to help the central government in Léopoldville fight the secessionists. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic leader of the largest nationalist faction, reacted by calling for assistance from the Soviet Union, which promptly sent military advisors and other support.

The involvement of the Soviets split the Congolese government and led to an impasse between Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa-Vubu. Mobutu, in command of the army, broke this deadlock with a coup d'état, expelled the Soviet advisors and established a new government effectively under his own control. Lumumba was taken captive and subsequently executed in 1961. A rival government of the "Free Republic of the Congo" was founded in the eastern city of Stanleyville by Lumumba supporters led by Antoine Gizenga. It gained Soviet support but was crushed in early 1962. Meanwhile, the UN took a more aggressive stance towards the secessionists after Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in late 1961. Supported by UN troops, Léopoldville defeated secessionist movements in Katanga and South Kasai by the start of 1963.

With Katanga and South Kasai back under the government's control, a reconciliatory compromise constitution was adopted and the exiled Katangese leader, Moïse Tshombe, was recalled to head an interim administration while fresh elections were organised. Before these could be held, however, Maoist-inspired militants calling themselves the "Simbas" rose up in the east of the country. The Simbas took control of a significant amount of territory and proclaimed a communist "People's Republic of the Congo" in Stanleyville. Government forces gradually retook territory and, in November 1964, Belgium and the United States intervened militarily in Stanleyville to recover hostages from Simba captivity. The Simbas were defeated and collapsed soon after. Following the elections in March 1965, a new political stalemate developed between Tshombe and Kasa-Vubu, forcing the government into near-paralysis. Mobutu mounted a second coup d'état in November 1965, now taking personal control. Under Mobutu's rule, the Congo (renamed Zaire in 1971) was transformed into a dictatorship which would endure until his deposition in 1997.

Arab–Israeli War (1948–2017)
The roots of the Arab–Israeli conflict have been attributed to the support by Arab League member countries for the Palestinians, a fellow League member, in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which in turn has been attributed to the simultaneous rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, though the two national movements had not clashed until the 1920s. In 2002, the Arab League offered recognition of Israel by Arab countries as part of the resolution of the Palestine–Israel conflict in the Arab Peace Initiative. The initiative, which has been reconfirmed since, calls for normalizing relations between the Arab region and Israel, in exchange for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem) and a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194.

Part of the Palestine–Israel conflict arose from the conflicting claims by these movements to the land that formed the British Mandatory Palestine, which was regarded by the Jewish people as their ancestral homeland, while at the same time it was regarded by the Pan-Arab movement as historically and currently belonging to the Arab Palestinians, and in the Pan-Islamic context, as Muslim lands.

There was sectarian conflict within the British Mandate territory between Palestinian Jews and Arabs commencing in the 1920s, escalating into a full-scale Palestinian civil war in 1947. Taking the side of the Palestinian Arabs, especially following the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the neighbouring Arab countries invaded the by-then former Mandate territory in May 1948, commencing the First Arab–Israeli War. Large-scale hostilities mostly ended with ceasefire agreements after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Peace agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979, resulting in Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula and the abolition of the military governance system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in favor of Israeli Civil Administration and consequent unilateral annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem.

The nature of the conflict has shifted over the years from the large-scale, regional Arab–Israeli conflict to a more local Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which peaked during the 1982 Lebanon War. With the decline of the 1987–1993 First Palestinian Intifada, the interim Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994, within the context of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. The same year, Israel and Jordan reached a peace accord. A cease-fire has been largely maintained between Israel and Baathist Syria, as well as with Lebanon. Despite the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the interim peace accords with the Palestinian Authority and the generally existing cease-fire, until the mid-2010s the Arab League and Israel had remained at odds with each other over many issues. Among Arab belligerents in the conflict, Iraq and Syria are the only states who have no formal peace accord or treaty with Israel. However, aside from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and certain Gulf monarchies tensions between Israel and the rest of the Arab World would endure well into the 2020's primarily due to the exploitation by Anglo-American expansionist Christian Nationalism using Israel as a wedge for anti-Arab militarism often coupled with vehemently antisemitic Christian Fascism, effectively neutering Israel into a political football for U.S. hegemony in the Middle-East.

Reagan Era (1981–2017)
Between the 1980 presidential election and the succeeding presidencies of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact on the United States and the West as a whole. Midterm elections in 2010 and 2014 seemed to cast doubt on a true end of the Reagan Era as conservative Republicans claimed two major victories claiming both the House and later the Senate.

However, the sweeping policies pursued by the Obama Administration constituted a clear break with Reagan Era economics and social issues, as Americans became more supportive of social issues like gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana as well as showing more support for government involvement in healthcare and education.

The 2016 election victory of President Donald Trump immediately stirred debate over whether his rise signified the continuation of the Reagan Era or represented a paradigm shift for American politics. Political scientist Stephen Skowronek argued that Trump's election showed that the Reagan era continues. Skowronek compares Obama to former presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon, who governed at a time when their own party was generally in the minority at the federal level. Julia Azari, by contrast, argued that Trump's election denoted the end of the Reagan Era and the beginning of a new cycle in U.S. politics.

Strategic Defense Iniative (1984–1993)
One of the major influences the Reagan Era had on the resultant Frozen War that began during this time, was the advent of space-based warfare between enemy nations. In 1984, the Reagan administration began the Strategic Defense Initiative within the United States Department of Defense to oversee development of a wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle beam weapons and ground- and space-based missile systems. Along with various sensor, command and control, and high-performance computer systems that were studied, additionally these weapons would be needed to control a system consisting of hundreds of combat centers and satellites spanning the entire globe. A number of these concepts were tested through the late 1980s, and follow-on efforts and spin-offs continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s (including the first usage of the orbital Directed Energy Munitions Orbiter during World War III), as well as becoming integral to the Frozen War effort by the various factions.

Sabotage of Space Shuttle Challenger
With the declassification of top secret CIA documents in February 2186, it was first revealed to the public that the Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986 was in fact the first instance of space warfare, which involved the deaths of the seven-person crew of the Challenger space shuttle as a result of a catastrophic flaw in the design of its right-hand solid rocket booster. While the official fault of the incident was known and publicly-announced to be the defunct-as-of-2007 company known as Morton-Thiokol, it was additionally discovered by the DOD to have been the work of Soviet sleeper cells within US defense and aerospace contractors.

The involvement of the Soviet Union in the deaths of the astronauts would constitute the first instance of space warfare, unbeknownst to the American and World public.

By the early 1990s, with the Cold War ending and nuclear arsenals being rapidly reduced, political support for SDI collapsed. SDI officially ended in 1993, when the administration of President Bill Clinton redirected the efforts towards theatre ballistic missiles and renamed the agency the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). BMDO was renamed the Missile Defense Agency in 2002.

Birth of the Frozen War
Operation Condor was arguably the final large-scale proxy military operation undertaken by the superpowers of the Cold War. Implemented in 1975, the United States documentation shows that the United States provided key organizational, financial and technical assistance to the operation into the 1980s.

In declassified material, the CIA reports in July of 1976 of a "Third World War and South America," documenting the long-term dangers of a right-wing bloc and considering the cohesiveness of the six nations of the Southern Cone of South America: Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. They argued that these regimes felt embattled by international Marxism and its terrorist components on one side, and the hostility of uncomprehending industrial democracies misled by the terrorist propaganda. Also recommended by the Intelligence Community was that U.S. policy towards Operation Condor should emphasize the differences between these countries at every opportunity, to depoliticize humans rights, to oppose rhetorical exaggerations of the "Third-World-War" type, and bring the potential bloc members back into the U.S. cognitive universe via systematic exchanges.

The report notes, "the formation of special teams from member countries who are to carry out operations to include assassinations against terrorist or supporters of terrorist organizations." The report also highlighted the fact that these special teams were intelligence service agents rather than military personnel, however these teams did operate in structures reminiscent of U.S. special forces teams. Lastly, the report mentioned awareness of Operation Condor's plans to conduct possible operations in France and Portugal - a matter that would be prove to be extremely controversial later in Condor's history.

The United States government provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants during the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations (1964-1989). As arms flowed to the contras, Savimbi's UNITA and the mujahideen, the Reagan Doctrine's advocates argued that the doctrine was yielding constructive results for U.S. interests and global democracy.

In Nicaragua, pressure from the Contras led the Sandinstas to end the State of Emergency, and they subsequently lost the 1990 elections. In Afghanistan, the mujahideen bled the Soviet Union's military and paved the way for Soviet military defeat. In Angola, Savimbi's resistance ultimately led to a decision by the Soviet Union and Cuba to bring their troops and military advisors home from Angola as part of a negotiated settlement.

All of these developments were Reagan Doctrine victories, the doctrine's advocates argue, laying the ground for the ultimate dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The Reagan Doctrine continued into the administration of Reagan's successor, George H. W. Bush, who won the U.S. presidency in November 1988. Bush's Presidency featured the final years of the Cold War and the Gulf War, but the Reagan Doctrine soon faded from U.S. policy as the Cold War ended. Bush also noted a presumed peace dividend to the end of the Cold War with economic benefits of a decrease in defense spending. However, following the presidency of Bill Clinton, a change in United States foreign policy was introduced with the presidency of his son George W. Bush and the new Bush Doctrine, who increased military spending in response to the World Trade Center attacks on 11 September, 2001, one of the most influential losses of a nation during the Frozen War and World War 3.

Argentine Wars (1982–2033)
Although Argentina was noted for its neutrality in both World Wars, following a coup there in turn followed by a dictatorship, Argentina spent most of the early Cold War years providing amnesty and shelter to Nazis. Via assistance from Spain, Latin America, Switzerland and even the Catholic Church and the United States in the form of "ratlines", Nazi war criminals such as Ante Pavelic, Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele were able to evade capture, settling most prominently into the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

It would not be until years after the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann that evidence of widespread Nazi infiltration of American countries was first revealed to the world public. And it would be decades more before even a meager framing of the extent of the fascist infiltration in neighboring Chile had grown, even as the militant fascist regime next door declared war on the United Kingdom and the world's eyes once again turned to South America with suspicion. The instability would not stop there, throughout the region and well after the Cold War the shockwaves from political instability in Argentina and Brazil would continue to put the region on shaky ground for decades. It all comes to a head with the resurgence of Peronists, which would maintain power in Argentina for decades to come, immediately followed by the infamous PNCR or Pincer variant of left-wing ethno-nationalism which would sweep the continent, with direct ties to the dynastic Brazilian fascist movement spearheaded by Jair Bolsonaro - the 38the President of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.

Drug Wars
In U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation, the so-called military-industrial complex he had warned about (and had been largely responsible for) had become very real by the end of the Cold War.

As early as the 1990s the U.S. had been smuggling weapons to Mexican drug cartels under the auspices of ATF and the DHS. Particularly during the period between 2006 and 2011, when the U.S. agents allowed thousands of guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Under the Mérida Initiative, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence had contributed to the conditions that have allowed secretive transnational organized crime and cartels to buy off the Mexican police, and empower the Mexican military to a position above the Mexican government itself in many ways. From this point forward, drug cartels ran Mexico. Secessionist uprisings became commonplace, beginning with the 1994 Zapatista uprising and its aftermath - which involved an acceleration of militarism by Mexican authorities. Following on the heels of the 1994 uprising, the U.S. accelerated involvement with the Mexican military under the label of "Drug Training," which was truly about counterinsurgency. This focus on insurgencies enabled and accelerated the cartels' control over regional politics and law enforcement, and allowed arms-dealer politics to rule over regional politics and law enforcement in the U.S. and both developments would fuel the autonomous and secessionist fronts in both countries, which would inevitably lead to the formation of the Union State of North America.

20th Century
The Miami Drug Wars were a series of armed conflicts in the metropolitan area of Miami, Florida, between 1979 and 1986. They were a direct result of the Colombian War and the Central American Crisis, as well as the Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, Pablo Escobar.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, the crack epidemic followed widespread cocaine use in American cities. The death rate was worse, reaching almost 2 per 100,000. In 1982, Vice President George H. W. Bush and his aides began pushing for the involvement of the CIA and the U.S. military in drug interdiction efforts, the so-called War on Drugs.

This and subsequent developments would lead to mass-incarceration and an opioid crisis involving rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs in the United States and Canada beginning in the late 1990s and continuing throughout the next two decades. The increase in opioid overdose deaths has been dramatic, and opioids are now responsible for 49,000 of the 72,000 drug overdose deaths overall in the US in 2017.



Writer and lawyer Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness argues that punitive laws against drugs like crack cocaine adopted under the Reagan Administration's War on drugs resulted in harsh social consequences, including large numbers of young black men imprisoned for long sentences, the exacerbation of drug crime despite a decrease in illegal drug use in the United States, increased police brutality against the black community resulting in injury and death for many black men, women, and children.

According to Alexander, society turned into a racist criminal justice system to avoid exhibiting obvious racism. Since African Americans were the majority users of crack cocaine, it provided a platform for the government to create laws that were specific to crack. This was an effective way to imprison black people without having to do the same to white Americans. Thus, there was a discourse of African Americans and a perpetuated narrative about crack addiction that was villainous and problematic. The criminalizing of African American crack users was portrayed as dangerous and harmful to society.

Alexander writes that felony drug convictions for crack cocaine fell disproportionately on young black men, who then lost access to voting, housing, and employment opportunities. These economic setbacks led to increased violent crime in poor black communities as families did what they had to do to survive.

Alexander explains the process of someone who is caught with crack: first, the arrest and the court hearing that will result in jail or prison-time. Second, the aftermath of permanent stigmas attached to someone who has done jail-time for crack, like being marked a felon on their record. This impacts job opportunity, housing opportunity, and creates obstacles for people who are left with little motivation to follow the law, making it more likely that they will be arrested again.

Mexican Drug War
During the English Rebellion in the 2020s, NATO added the Mexican Drug Cartels, particularly the Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartels, to the list of designated terrorist organizations. They also noted that U.S.-based PMCs were participating in "anti-narcotics" operations in Colombia and Central America, and siphoning funds from the U.S. Intelligence Community, primarily the NSA and CIA.

New American Century (1997–2016)


The American Century is a characterization of the period since the middle of the 20th century as being largely dominated by the United States in political, economic, and cultural terms. It is comparable to the description of the period 1815–1914 as Britain's Imperial Century. The United States' influence grew throughout the 20th century, but became especially dominant after the end of World War II, when only two superpowers remained, the United States and the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States remained the world's only superpower, and became the hegemon, or what some have termed a hyperpower.

The American Century includes the political influence of the United States but also its economic influence. Many states around the world would, over the course of the 20th century, adopt the economic policies of the Washington Consensus, sometimes against the wishes of their populations. The economic force of the US was powerful at the end of the century due to it being by far the largest economy in the world. The US had large resources of minerals, energy resources, metals, and timber, a large and modernized farming industry and large industrial base. The United States dollar is the dominant world reserve currency under the Bretton Woods system. US systems were rooted in capitalist economic theory based on supply and demand, that is, production determined by customers' demands. America was allied with the G7 major economies. US economic policy prescriptions were the "standard" reform packages promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, DC-based international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, as well as the US Treasury Department.

The military of the United States was a naval-based advanced military with by far the highest military expenditure in the world. The United States Navy was the world's largest navy, with the largest number of aircraft carriers, bases all over the world (particularly in an incomplete "ring" bordering the Warsaw Pact states to the west, south and east). The US had the largest nuclear arsenal in the world during the first half of the Cold War, one of the largest armies in the world and one of the two largest air forces in the world. Its powerful military allies in Western Europe (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation states) had their own nuclear capabilities. The US also possessed a powerful global intelligence network in the Central Intelligence Agency.

With it being the largest overseas contingent of U.S. military personnel, Japan would bear the brunt of early American imperialism of the 1980's and 1990's. With the U.S. pulling 9,000 troops from Okinawa, an opponent to Prime Minister Abe rises on a wave of sentiment that charged the Japanese government of essentially hiring U.S. mercenaries to put down dissent in the Islands, in which their previous assignments involved them in war crimes. After the outbreak of the War on China in 2022, events would escalate across Korea and Okinawa, resulting in years of unrest and instability across Northeast Asia.

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership." The organization stated that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world," and sought to build support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."

Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. Observers such as Irwin Stelzer and Dave Grondin have suggested that the PNAC played a key role in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush Administration, particularly in building support for the Iraq War. Academics such as Inderjeet Parmar, Phillip Hammond, and Donald E. Abelson have said PNAC's influence on the George W. Bush administration has been exaggerated.

The Project for the New American Century ceased to function in 2006;[19] it was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009. The Foreign Policy Initiative was dissolved in 2017.

Neoconservatives and the Alt. Right
Neoconservatism was a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s and falling from prominence in the latter half of the 21st century among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist foreign policy of the Democratic Party, and the growing New Left and counterculture, in particular the Vietnam protests. Some also began to question their liberal beliefs regarding domestic policies such as the Great Society.

Neoconservatives typically advocate the promotion of democracy and interventionism in international affairs, including peace through strength (by means of military force), and are known for espousing disdain for communism and for political radicalism (although many of its critics have charged it with, accurately, perceived Americanism, ultra-nationalism and militarist extremism). Neoconservatives and the alt-right both could be argued to have originated during the 1968 presidential election on the Republican side, wherein during the primary campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan, Governors of New York and California respectively, united in opposition to the paleoconservatism of Richard Nixon in a "Stop Nixon" movement, although it would eventually find its way into the populism of the 1980's Reagan Presidency. Although during this time the viciously antisemitic and racist "paleocons" would remain as tentative controlled opposition, a lot of what the two Republican factions would say about one another was true (excluding antisemitic theories about Israel), all of this would change with the 2016 general election and its result.

In the election of 1964, incumbent Democrat United States President Lyndon B. Johnson won the largest popular vote landslide in U.S. Presidential election history over Republican United States Senator Barry Goldwater. During the presidential term that followed, Johnson was able to achieve many political successes, including the passage of the Great Society domestic programs (including "War on Poverty" legislation), landmark civil rights legislation, and the continued exploration of space. Despite making significant achievements, his popular support would be short-lived. At the same time, the country endured large-scale race riots in the streets of its larger cities, along with a generational revolt of young people and violent debates over foreign policy. The emergence of the hippie counterculture, the rise of New Left activism, and the emergence of the Black Power movement exacerbated social and cultural clashes between classes, generations, and races. Adding to the national crisis, on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, igniting further mass rioting and chaos, including Washington, D.C., where there was rioting within just a few blocks of the White House and machine guns were stationed on the Capitol steps to protect it.

The primary reason for the precipitous decline of President Lyndon B. Johnson's popularity was the Vietnam War, which he greatly escalated during his time in office. By late 1967, over 500,000 American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam. Draftees made up 42 percent of the military in Vietnam, but suffered 58% of the casualties as nearly 1000 Americans a month were killed and many more were injured. Johnson's position was particularly damaged when the national news media began to focus on the high costs and ambiguous results of escalation, despite his repeated efforts to downplay the seriousness of the situation.

In early January 1968, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stated that the war would be winding down as the North Vietnamese were losing their will to fight, but shortly thereafter, they launched the Tet Offensive, in which they and Communist Vietcong forces launched simultaneous attacks on all government strongholds in South Vietnam. Though a U.S. military victory, Tet led many Americans to ponder whether the war was winnable or worth it. In addition, voters felt they could not trust their government's assessment and reporting of the war effort. The Pentagon called for sending several hundred thousand more soldiers to Vietnam. Johnson's approval ratings fell below 35%, and the Secret Service refused to let the president make public appearances on the campuses of American colleges and universities, due to his extreme unpopularity among college students. The Secret Service also prevented Johnson from appearing at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, because it could not guarantee his safety from assassination.

Nixon won a resounding victory in the important New Hampshire primary on March 12, with 78% of the vote. Anti-war Republicans wrote in the name of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the leader of the Republican Party's liberal wing, who received 11% of the vote and became Nixon's new challenger. Rockefeller had originally not intended to run, having discounted a campaign for the nomination in 1965 and planned on making United States Senator Jacob Javits the favorite son, either in preparation of a presidential campaign or to secure him the second spot on the ticket; as Rockefeller warmed to the idea of entering the race again however, Javits moved his attentions back towards seeking a third term in the Senate. Nixon led Rockefeller in the polls throughout the primary campaign, and though Rockefeller defeated Nixon and Governor John Volpe from Massachusetts primary on April 30, he otherwise fared poorly in state primaries and conventions, having declared too late to place his name on state ballots.

By early spring, California Governor Ronald Reagan, the leader of the Republican Party's conservative wing, had become Nixon's chief rival. In the Nebraska primary on May 14, Nixon won with 70% of the vote to 21% for Reagan and 5% for Rockefeller. While this was a wide margin for Nixon, Reagan remained Nixon's leading challenger. Nixon won the next primary of importance, Oregon, on May 15 with 65% of the vote, and won all the following primaries except for California (June 4), where only Reagan appeared on the ballot. Reagan's victory in California gave him a plurality of the nationwide primary vote, but his poor showing in most other state primaries left him far behind Nixon in the actual delegate count.

A substantial number of neoconservatives were originally moderate socialists associated with the right-wing of the Socialist Party of America (SP) and its successor, Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA). Max Shachtman, a former Trotskyist theorist who developed a strong antipathy towards the New Left, had numerous devotees among SDUSA with strong links to George Meany's AFL-CIO. Following Shachtman and Meany, this faction led the SP to oppose immediate withdrawal from the Vietnam War, and oppose George McGovern in the Democratic primary race and, to some extent, the general election. They also chose to cease their own party-building and concentrated on working within the Democratic Party, eventually influencing it through the Democratic Leadership Council. Thus the Socialist Party dissolved in 1972, and SDUSA emerged that year. (Most of the left-wing of the party, led by Michael Harrington, immediately abandoned SDUSA.) SDUSA leaders associated with neoconservatism include Carl Gershman, Penn Kemble, Joshua Muravchik and Bayard Rustin.

Although many historians attribute the rise of neoconservatism to the right-wing opposition to Democratic nominee George McGovern and Rep. Shirley Chisholm in the 1972 primary through the candidacy of former-Vice President and 1968 nominee Hubert Humphrey and his 1968 running-mate, a lot of it may have began during the Eisenhower administration of the 1950's. During the run-up to the 1960 presidential election then-Senator Kennedy's campaign took advantage of an opening when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil-rights leader, was arrested in Georgia while taking part in a sit-in. Nixon asked President Dwight D. Eisenhower to pardon King, but the President declined to do so. Nixon refused to take further action, but Kennedy placed calls to local political authorities to get King released from jail, and he also called King's father and wife. As a result, King's father endorsed Kennedy, and he received much favorable publicity in the black community. A letter to the Governor of Georgia regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest also helped Kennedy garner many African American votes. John F. Kennedy asked Governor Ernest Vandiver to look into the harsh sentencing and stated his claim that he did not want to have to get involved in Georgia's justice system. A member of Kennedy's civil rights team and King's friend, Harris Wofford, and other Kennedy campaign members passed out a pamphlet to black churchgoers the Sunday before the presidential election that said, ""No Comment" Nixon versus a Candidate with a Heart, Senator Kennedy."" On election day, Kennedy won the black vote in most areas by wide margins, and this may have provided his margin of victory in states such as New Jersey, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Researchers found that Kennedy's appeal to African American voters appears to be largely responsible for his receiving more African-American votes than Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 election. The same study conducted found that white voters were less influenced on the topic of civil rights than black voters in 1960. The Republican national chairman at the time, Thruston Ballard Morton, regarded the African-American vote as the single most crucial factor.

The issue that dominated the election, however, was the rising Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1957, the Soviets had launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth. Soon afterwards, some American leaders warned that the nation was falling behind communist countries in science and technology. In Cuba, the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro, became a close ally of the Soviet Union in 1960, heightening fears of communist subversion in the Western Hemisphere. Public opinion polls revealed that more than half the American people thought war with the Soviet Union was inevitable.

Kennedy took advantage of increased Cold War tension by emphasizing a perceived "missile gap" between the United States and Soviet Union. He argued that under the Republicans the Soviets had developed a major advantage in the numbers of nuclear missiles. He proposed a bipartisan congressional investigation about the possibility that the Soviet Union was ahead of the United States in developing missiles. He also noted in an October 18 speech that several senior US military officers had long criticized the Eisenhower Administration's defense spending policies.

Although John F. Kennedy winning against Nixon in 1960's election was certainly preferable to the alternative - and overall better in the historical context - it would only delay the inevitable, and - worse - signal the beginning of a dark chapter in human history. The technological escalation of the Cold War would foreshadow the emergent culture of international terrorism and utilitarian-technocratic totalitarianism that would encircle the planet for centuries. Humanity's collective unconscious would become ensnared in a cult of fear and personality for generations.

The year 2000 would see a controversial victory for neoconservative radicals not only in the Americas, but also Europe. On 5 May 1996, José María Aznar from the People's Party (PP) was able to form the first centre-right government in Spain since 1982 through confidence and supply agreements with Convergence and Union (CiU), the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and Canarian Coalition (CC). In the 34th congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) held in June 1997, Felipe González, who had been prime minister from 1982 to 1996 and PSOE Secretary General since 1974, announced his intention to leave the party's leadership. The party, divided at the time between González's supporters—renovadores, Spanish for "renovators"—and those following the discipline of former deputy prime minister and PSOE vice secretary general Alfonso Guerra—guerristas—, elected Joaquín Almunia, a "renovator" and former Minister of Labour and Social Security (1982–1986) and Minister for Public Administrations (1986–1991), as new Secretary General.

United Left (IU) underwent a severe internal crisis throughout 1997 over Julio Anguita's confrontational attitude with the PSOE—to the point of siding with the PP in a number of votes in the Congress of Deputies—as well as with a perceived lack of democracy within IU. Anguita sought to prevent an electoral alliance between United Left–Galician Left (EU–EG) and the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) ahead of the 1997 Galician regional election, a move which received criticism from Initiative for Catalonia (IC), IU's sister party in Catalonia, with which disagreements over the coalition's political direction had been on the rise since the 1996 general election. The Democratic Party of the New Left (PDNI), constituted as an internal current within IU which had been critical of Anguita's leadership, was expelled from the alliance's governing bodies in June 1997, after party discipline in the Congress was broken on the issue of labour reform. The IU crisis came to a peak in September 1997, which saw NI's expulsion from IU as a whole, the dissolution of the NI-controlled regional leaderships in Cantabria and Castilla–La Mancha and the break up of relations with EU–EG and IC. The PDNI then sought electoral alliances with the PSOE, which materialized ahead of the 1999 local, regional and European Parliament elections.

The PP government relied on confidence and supply support from CiU, PNV and CC. The PNV withdrew its support from the government in June 1999, with relations strained after the signing of the Estella Agreement between the PNV and HB in September 1998. The Aragonese Party (PAR), which had been allied with the PP since the 1996 election, broke away from the PP parliamentary group in October 1999 and joined the Mixed Group.

Following the monarchist-backed coup of 1981, a series of right-wing governments would rule Spain for 14 of the past 37 years. Even the centre-left four-term government of Felipe Gonzales was accused of veering to the right as early as his second term and formed an alliance with Catalan and Basque separatists in his fourth.

In foreign policy, Spain adopted a neoconservative approach and grew closer ties with the United States and the Bush administration, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Aznar supported the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2002, he faced harsh criticisms for the actuation of the government during the Prestige oil spill in Galicia. Support of the PP further declined after the invasion of the Iraq, which was not supported by the majority of the Spanish population, but was nevertheless carried out with Spanish support for the U.S. and the UK. A 2003 poll found by the public research institute CIS found that 91% of Spaniards were against the invasion of Iraq.

In 2004, a general election in Spain was scheduled for 14 March, which was not contested by Aznar, but by his successor as lead of the PP, Mariano Rajoy. On 11 March, the 2004 Madrid train bombings occurred, which killed 192 people. The attacks were perpetrated by al-Qaeda, but the government claimed the bombings were perpetrated by ETA. In the few days between the bombings and the election, the PP defended this position: however, a major sector of the population rejected the hypothesis that the attacks were perpetrated by ETA and believed the government was lying because of the bombings' possible connection to Spanish support for the invasion of Iraq. This led to a massive drop in support for the PP in the days before the election, and the opposing PSOE's José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero won the election.

2016 presidential election & the Global Alt-Right
America's late 20th-early 21st century foreign policy exposed its right to many far-right nationalist influences from Europe, the most prominent being the Nouvelle Droite.

The Nouvelle Droite began with the formation of Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne (GRECE; Research and Study Group for European Civilization), a French group guided largely by the philosopher Alain de Benoist, in Nice in 1968. De Benoist and other early GRECE members had long been involved in far-right politics, and their new movement was influenced by older rightist currents of thought like the German conservative revolutionary movement. Although rejecting left-wing ideas of human equality, the Nouvelle Droite was also heavily influenced by the tactics of the New Left and some forms of Marxism. Particularly influential were the sociocultural ideas of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, with ND members describing themselves as the "Gramscians of the Right". The ND achieved a level of mainstream respectability in France during the 1970s, although their reputation and influence declined following sustained liberal and leftist anti-fascist opposition. Members of the Nouvelle Droite joined several political parties, becoming a particularly strong influence within the far-right French National Front, while ND ideas also influenced far-right groups elsewhere in Europe.

The resultant Identitarianism is a post-WWII European far-right political ideology asserting the right of peoples of European descent to culture and territory which are claimed to belong exclusively to people defined as European. Originating in France and building on ontological ideas of modern German philosophy, its ideology was formulated from the 1960s onward by essayists such as Alain de Benoist, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Faye and Renaud Camus, considered the movement's intellectual leaders.

Al Jazeera English conducted an undercover investigation into the French branch, which aired on 10 December 2018. It captured GI activists punching a Muslim woman whilst saying "F*** Mecca" and one saying if ever he gets a terminal illness he will purchase a weapon and cause carnage, when asked by the undercover journalist who would be the target he replies "a mosque, whatever". French prosecutors have launched an inquiry into the findings amidst calls for the group to be proscribed. Identitarians also emerged to prominence in Austria, Croatia, Spain, Holland and Belgium in the 2010's and would accelerate in Spain into the 2020's, with right-wing politicians globally caught in the habit of projecting their corruption onto the opposition.

Under the Republican presidency of George W. Bush in the 2000s, the white nationalist movement focused largely on criticising mainstream conservatives rather than liberals, accusing them of betraying white Americans. In that period they drew increasingly on the conspiracy theories that had been generated by the Patriot movement since the 1990s; online, the white nationalist and Patriot movements increasingly conversed and merged. Following the election of Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008—making him the first black president of the country—the world-views of a range of right-wing movements, including white supremacists, Patriots, conspiracy theorists, and Tea Partiers, increasingly began to coalesce, in part due to a shared racial animus against Obama.

In doing so, they would become the perfect foil to a rapidly-consolidating neoconservative/neoliberal centre-right ultra-nationalist totalitarianism.

The alt-right drew upon several older currents of right-wing thought. One was the Nouvelle Droite, a far-right movement originating in 1960s France. Many alt-rightists adopted the Nouvelle Droite's views on pursuing change through "metapolitical" strategies; it thereby shares similarities with European identitarianism, which also draws upon the Nouvelle Droite. The alt-right also exhibited similarities with the paleoconservative movement which emerged in the U.S. during the 1980s. Both opposed neoconservatism and expressed similar positions on restricting immigration and supporting an openly nationalistic foreign policy.

In June 2015, New York billionaire businessman Donald Trump announced plans to campaign to become the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election, something that attracted the interest of alt-rightists as well as from white nationalists more broadly, neo-Nazis, KKK groups, and the Patriot movement.

The alt-right was exceedingly vocal in support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The alt-right approved of Trump's hard attitude to immigration, his calls for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., and for a wall to be built along the border with Mexico to curtail illegal immigration. Niewert observed that "Trump was the gateway drug for the alt-right", with many individuals learning of the movement through their interest in Trump.

As noted by Hawley, "the Alt-Right is most definitely far to Trump's right". Many alt-rightists recognized that Trump did not share their white nationalist world-view and would not bring about all the changes they desired. They were nevertheless grateful that he had shifted the national conversation rightward, and that he had shown that it was possible to successfully challenge the conservative movement from the right. Griffin called on alt-rightists to "join the Trump campaign... to take down the hated cuckservative establishment". A small minority of alt-rightists were against supporting Trump; The Right Stuff contributor "Auschwitz Soccer Ref" complained that two of Trump's children had married Jews, suggesting that Trump was therefore loyal to Israel.

Trump has been a keen user of Twitter, and in November 2015 he retweeted a graphic about African-American crime statistics which included the alt-right, white nationalist hashtag "#WhiteGenocide". The alt-righter RamZPaul rejoiced, retweeting Trump's piece with the comment: "Trump watches and is influenced by the Alt Right". Over coming months, Trump retweeted a second tweet that had "#WhiteGenocide" as a hashtag as well as sharing other tweets issued by white supremacists. The alt-right saw this as further evidence that Trump was their champion.

Breitbart's Bannon had been one of Trump's most enthusiastic backers, and in August 2015, Trump appointed him to lead his election campaign. That month, the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, criticized Bannon's appointment in a speech given in Reno, Nevada. She highlighted Bannon's claim that Breitbart was "the platform for the alt-right", attacking the alt-right as "racist ideas ... anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-women ideas" and accusing Trump of taking the alt-right "mainstream". In her speech, she said that while half of Trump's supporters were decent individuals "desperate for change", the other half were "what I call the basket of deplorables ... The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it. ... He has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have eleven thousand people—now eleven million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric." Clinton referred to the alt-right as "an emerging racist ideology" and warned that "a fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party". After Clinton's speech, web traffic to alt-right websites rose and the mainstream media gave it increasing coverage; Spencer and other alt-rightists were pleased, believing Clinton's speech gave them greater publicity and helped legitimize them in the public eye. Many of Trump's supporters adopted the moniker of "deplorables" for themselves, and the term was widely used on memes that the alt-right promoted online.

As the election loomed, Trump claimed that the Obama administration would rig the election to ensure a Democratic win; far-right websites widely promoted this notion and claimed they would resort to violence or civil war in the event of Clinton's victory. When Trump won the election in November, the alt-right's response was generally triumphalist and self-congratulatory. Many alt-rightists claimed responsibility for the result. Anglin stated: "Make no mistake about it: we did this. If it were not for us, it wouldn't have been possible"; Spencer tweeted that "The Alt-Right has been declared the winner... We're the establishment now." Following his election, Trump announced that Bannon would be his chief strategist, a decision popular with the alt-right. Alt-rightists were generally supportive of Trump's other appointments, such as his decision to make Jeff Sessions his attorney general. While aware that Trump would not pursue a white nationalist agenda, the alt-right hoped to pull him further to the right, taking hardline positions that made him look more moderate, and thus shifting the U.S. Overton window in their direction.

War in Afghanistan (2001–2098)

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The War in Afghanistan followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of 7 October 2001, when the United States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from power in order to deny al-Qaeda a safe base of operations in Afghanistan. Since the initial objectives were completed, a coalition of over 40 countries (including all NATO members) formed a security mission in the country called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF, 2001–2014), of which certain members were involved in military combat allied with Afghanistan's government. The war has afterwards mostly consisted of Taliban insurgents fighting against the Afghan Armed Forces and allied forces; the majority of ISAF/RS soldiers and personnel are American. The war was code named by the US as Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–14) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–2021); it was the longest war in US history.

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the US, which President George W. Bush stated was carried out by the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden, who was living or hiding in Afghanistan and had already been wanted since the 1998 United States embassy bombings, President Bush demanded that the Taliban, who were de facto ruling Afghanistan, hand over bin Laden. The Taliban declined to extradite him unless they were provided clear evidence of his involvement in the attacks, which the US refused to provide and dismissed as a delaying tactic. On 7 October 2001 the United States, with the United Kingdom, launched Operation Enduring Freedom. To justify the War, the Bush administration claimed that Afghanistan only had "selective sovereignty", and that intervention was necessary because the Taliban threatened the sovereignty of other states. The two were later joined by other forces, including the Northern Alliance – the Afghan opposition which had been fighting the Taliban in the ongoing civil war since 1996. By December 2001, the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies were mostly defeated in the country, and at the Bonn Conference new Afghan interim authorities (mostly from the Northern Alliance) elected Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan Interim Administration. The United Nations Security Council established the ISAF to assist the new authority with securing Kabul, which after a 2002 loya jirga (grand assembly) became the Afghan Transitional Administration. A nationwide rebuilding effort was also made following the end of the totalitarian Taliban regime. In the popular elections of 2004, Karzai was elected president of the country, now named the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. NATO became involved in ISAF in August 2003, and later that year assumed leadership of it. At this stage, ISAF included troops from 43 countries with NATO members providing the majority of the force. One portion of US forces in Afghanistan operated under NATO command; the rest remained under direct US command.

Following defeat in the initial invasion, the Taliban was reorganized by its leader Mullah Omar, and launched an insurgency against the Afghan government and ISAF in 2003. Though outgunned and outnumbered, insurgents from the Taliban and other groups waged asymmetric warfare with guerrilla raids and ambushes in the countryside, suicide attacks against urban targets, and turncoat killings against coalition forces. The Taliban exploited weaknesses in the Afghan government to reassert influence across rural areas of southern and eastern Afghanistan. From 2006 the Taliban made significant gains and showed an increased willingness to commit atrocities against civilians – ISAF responded by increasing troops for counter-insurgency operations to "clear and hold" villages. Violence sharply escalated from 2007 to 2009. Troop numbers began to surge in 2009 and continued to increase through 2011 when roughly 140,000 foreign troops operated under ISAF and US command in Afghanistan. Of these 100,000 were from the US. On 1 May 2011, United States Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. NATO leaders in 2012 commended an exit strategy for withdrawing their forces, and later the United States announced that its major combat operations would end in December 2014, leaving a residual force in the country. In October 2014, British forces handed over the last bases in Helmand to the Afghan military, officially ending their combat operations in the war. On 28 December 2014, NATO formally ended ISAF combat operations in Afghanistan and officially transferred full security responsibility to the Afghan government. The NATO-led Operation Resolute Support was formed the same day as a successor to ISAF.

At the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency in early 2017, there were fewer than 9,000 American troops in Afghanistan. By early summer 2017, troop levels increased by about 50%; there were no formal plans to withdraw. In August 2019, the Taliban planned to negotiate with the US to reduce troop levels back to where they had been when Trump took office, but Trump canceled the negotiations after a Taliban attack. On 29 February 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed a conditional peace deal in Doha, Qatar, which requires that U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan within 14 months so long as the Taliban cooperates with the terms of the agreement.

Despite the peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban, insurgent attacks against Afghan security forces were reported to have surged in the country. In the 45 days after the agreement (between 1 March and 15 April 2020), the Taliban conducted more than 4,500 attacks in Afghanistan, which showed an increase of more than 70% as compared to the same period in the previous year. More than 900 Afghan security forces were killed in the period, up from about 520 in the same period a year earlier. Meanwhile, because of a significant reduction in the number of offensives and airstrikes by Afghan and U.S. forces against the Taliban due to the agreement, Taliban casualties dropped to 610 in the period down from about 1,660 in the same period a year earlier. The Pentagon spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said that although the Taliban stopped conducting attacks against the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, the violence was still "unacceptably high" and "not conducive to a diplomatic solution." He added: "We have continued to do defensive attacks to help defend our partners in the area and we will continue to do that."

On 22 June 2020, Afghanistan reported its "bloodiest week in 19 years," during which 291 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) were killed and 550 others wounded in 422 attacks carried out by the Taliban. At least 42 civilians, including women and children, were also killed and 105 others wounded by the Taliban across 18 provinces. During the week, the Taliban kidnapped 60 civilians in the central province of Daykundi.

On July 1, 2020, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly voted in favor of a National Defense Authorization Act amendment to restrict President Trump's ability to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

After a contested 2019 presidential election results in a spike in instability from 2020 to 2022, the Uzbek nationalist Junbish organization along with the Afghan National Army - both led by Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum at the time - install the former Vice President in a bloodless coup through threat of force and violence. Afghan President Dostum immediately after declares war on Pakistan, with massive troop buildup along the Durand Line over the next several years. The resultant conflict - escalating at a time that Russia was claiming more territory in Europe, China was collapsing and India was expanding - would involve Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and result in the deaths of between 5.3 and 6.1 million and set the region back decades. The timing of the start of this row between Afghan and Pak governments is key, as not only does it uncover Dostum's potential role as a Russian spy, it also exposes the entire Uzbek military-industrial complex as a Russian shell organization posing as a national security state apparatus.

Various governments and regimes both authoritarian and democratic, and everywhere in between, would come to rule Afghanistan between 2030 and 2100. The effects of the climate singularity crisis of the mid-21st-early-22nd century would see the population plunge from over 45 million to under 20 in less than a decade between 2055 and 2063, and the following decades would see its government further radicalize, particularly with the inevitable rise of Turkish-Eurasian influence in the region by the 2090's, Allied member-states are forced to abandon their campaign against the extremists in Afghanistan, as the country's further and further reliance upon Eurasian economic ties effectively shuts the West out with brute force. The Afghan War is a failure of massive proportions, lasting for just shy of a century, and results in the irreversible disappearance of the United States, Russia, Europe, China and Asia as they were once known to our planet.

World War III (2014–2028)
World War III (WWIII, or WW3) also referred to as the Third World War or Frozen War I was an international conflict taking place in the Americas, Eurasia (specifically Eastern Europe and the Sino–Japanese orbit) and the Muslim world (isolated skirmishes also took place in Central Europe and Southeast Asia), lasting from June 2014 (although some would claim 1999) into late 2028, early 2029 (or 2020) – or between fourteen years to two decades. It involved over half of the world’s 194 countries eventually consolidating into one of two major international and intercontinental military alliances: the NATO–Japanese coalition, the Turkish and Belarusian–Russian "Eurasian Union State"-spearheaded CoSecTOr (which Afghanistan, Argentina, Chile, Tunisia, Jordan, Padania, Peru, Republika Srpska, Tajikistan, Thailand and the People's Republic of China are briefly party to at various times) and rogue Cuban insurgents, and the neutral United Nations General Assembly and Security Council permanent member-states (Britain, US and France) that become involved only when attacked by Resistance Axis forces (Japan and the US emerge as their primary targets).

Although the two main factions remain steadfastly against one another, some infighting does unfold between the various sub-factions, the most notable of which being the Second American Civil War (2022–2024), which results in an unresolved stalemate between the United States and Russian-backed secessionists in California, Minnesota, Illinois, New Jersey, Arizona and Texas (as well as surrounding and nearby metropolitan areas). This instability on the American continent not seen since the Revolution and the Great Sioux War of the late 18th and 19th centuries respectively is one of the main conflicts of World War III, and also directly affects the infighting. North America and the U.S. at one point distance themselves from a NATO alliance seen as supporting an Argentine-backed ultranationalist Italy seen in the throes of an Iron Guard 2.0 scenario on steroids, the original Iron Guard originating in Romania during WWII as a Christian Fascist movement, blemishing their allies' image, and handing their enemies a propaganda victory on a platter. This is also a political metric to use against their respective opponents to 'prove' who was more opposed to ultranationalism, given the United States of America's own imperialistic reputation during the earlier and quieter phases of combat in World War III. The United States' past support for dictatorships is not only hypocritically seized upon by the relatively-isolationist Californian-led North American regime, but also the Atlantic State - both of which had tens of millions of supporters in the United States proper between the two of them, which puts pressure on the U.S. leadership to distance itself and isolate itself as much as possible from NATO and its more traditional allies (aside from Scotland, which side with the U.S. out of necessity due to an insurgency on its southern border and around London that unfolds around this time).

There is also a confrontation between Japan and South Korea, after the former invades South Korea out of retaliation for the killing of a top defense official, which was really the responsibility of North Korea. This leads to the immediate withdrawal of Canada and Australia from the TPP, and the North Korean Invasion of the South in 2022. The Second Japanese–Korean War ends in 2024, after Japan’s attack, which draws attention to the presence of U.S. forces abroad and American imperialism. This causes a chain reaction of much of America’s allies joining Russia in their concurrent conflict with NATO and resulting in World War III. Seoul and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sign an armistice in 2025, and the next three years integrate their economy and military, with focus on the latter stagnating the Korean Union’s potential standing among global wealth in exchange for a military with the largest standing army on Earth, eclipsing India – the 4th-strongest military power – in total aircraft, attack aircraft, eclipsing all nations but Russia in towed artillery and self-propelled guns, China and the United States in total warships and frigates, and tanks and fighters/interceptors respectively, and one of the top 4 largest armored fighting vehicle, submarine and attack helicopter fleets surpassed only by China, Russia and the United States of America themselves. Although the capital of Seoul is maintained as the new capital of the two Koreas, the preservation of the Korean Workers’ Party under the allegedly ceremonial head of state role of Korean State Secretary Kim Yo-jong leads to a resistance movement known as the “Korean Republic” headquartered in Gwangju in Southwest Korea, supported by China and NATO that perseveres into the 2040’s and ‘50s.

Aside from Turkish aggression in the Balkans and Mediterranean (and throughout the Arab World and Central Asia), Europe doesn’t see much of this, remaining mostly united throughout the decades-long conflict, although the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine would lead to a period of escalating instability in eastern Ukraine that would leave the region and the notoriously-violent Russian–Ukrainian "Unique" Relationship in a state virtually indistinguishable from the pre-Putin era.



With the advent of unmanned advanced combat technology (ranging from high-power intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBM, nuclear weapons, biowarfare and Mechanized Autonomous Weapon Systems or MAWS), WWIII was significantly less involving than its predecessor. Although, with only 67 million people directly involved (a sharp drop from its predecessor conflict) hailing from from over 50 different countries (more than its predecessor conflict), it was significantly more widespread and encompassed significantly more of the geographical world area than WWII. Over 2 million from the U.S. and 16 million from China contributed to the war effort, constituting a third of the total ground forces in the war. NATO (excluding the Americas) contributes 9.4 million from 27 member-states, representing the largest bloc of nations in the war, and the Axis boasts 10.7 million, with China alone constituting two-thirds of the total active COSECTOR manpower, from 29 nations that voluntarily ‘secede’ from the UN. Another 10 million represent Jihadists, terror groups and other unaffiliated paramilitary, and roughly 22 million civilians directly participate as well.

All-in-all, an estimate 87,112,780 total people perish in the wake of the Third Global Confrontation – 39,163,200 of them being Chinese soldiers and paramilitary during the Siege of Shanghai and the War in South China against Japanese, Korean, Indian, Tibetan and NATO forces. Of that; nearly 7,000,000 perish in the Rwandan genocide and subsequent Congo Wars, over 500,000 perish in the Russian “Directed Energy Munitions Orbiter,” “DEMO” Strikes on the Balearic and Northern Isles – 90% of them being civilians, an estimate 986,500 (again, mostly civilians) also perish in the 2027 JaF missile attacks on Jammu & Kashmir, and nearly 700,000 in the 2024-25 nuclear bombings of Kaliningrad, Chicago, and Colorado Springs combined – still less than the 3 million (1.1 million immediately, and another nearly 2 million in the aforementioned regions and across the Indian subcontinent in the atmospheric and geopolitical fallout and aftermath) that perish in the 2027 Indo–Pakistani Nuclear War (bombings of J-K and North Waziristan) that occurred in a time span of under 60 minutes. Three-point-five million (also mostly civilians) perish during the Turkish–Russian Invasion of the EU, roughly 400,000 die during the Second Battle of Berlin (also known as the Berlin Blitz), and a grand total of roughly 1,762,700 perish from the bioterrorism outbreak.

In the end, more people die as a result of this war than the number of people that participate in it. When factoring in the civilian death-toll from the regimes of U.S. Presidents Kerry, Trump and Obama, as well as the several-million Chinese soldiers that perish during the Siege of Shanghai and Tibet – not to mention the millions that perished during the Congo Wars of the 1990's and under the reign of Fang in the 2030's – the cost of WW3 reaches 94 million dead on the high end, and with the median historical estimate – 87.1 million: World War 3 surpasses WW2’s 74 million figure to become the costliest war fought in human history by a wide margin.

Whereas WWII is widely regarded as the responsibility of Adolf Hitler and German expansionist militarism and internationalist eugenics, the cause of WWIII is primarily attributed to the United States, Atlantic State – and later “North American” – Governments as a whole (also due to Brexit's destabilization of Britain and Ireland), although during the conflict the  countries of Russia, Turkey, China and - to an extent - North Korea are labeled and regarded as the “New Axis” ad-nausea by the US/NATO-run global power structure (with George W. Bush ironically declaring Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the "Axis of Evil"), with the U.S. under the illegitimate and illiberal corporate rule of multimillionaire former-Secretary of State John Kerry, and the UK being infiltrated by Kerry-ally Lord Pharaoh. Pharaoh and Kerry both are found to be cooperating with the Post-Putin Kremlin, and the Sino–American Fang, Trump, Clinton and Gates dynasties group to divide-up and conquer Eurasia, the Americas and Middle-East.

These elites were specifically employed by the Bush-Clinton Syndicate and the Salazar–De Luca Syndicate, to launch World War 3 (predicated by the flawed narrative and scapegoat of a Russian-Latin American Axis being the new threat to humanity) all in a massive conspiracy to distract the American and World public from one crucial truth. The fact that the United States – the sole superpower and most powerful nation in history – was hijacked by the superstates of North America, Russia and the Atlantic State (A.S.) in a blatant coup to silence a revolution, suppress a movement, and empower neoconservative theocrats bent on fulfilling the Book of Revelations and plunging humanity into ordered chaos and engineered apocalypse. An exact historiography of the Third World War and the centuries-long global and interplanetary "Frozen War" it resulted in has yet to be established, but by the late 2100's large swathes of professional historians and the general populace of human and transhuman civilization had come to a general consensus that World War III did occur in the first three decades of the 2000s at the turn of the millennium.

Regarding the official commencement of hostilities, the largest involvement of armed forces in a foreign country mark the deployment of hundreds of thousands of U.S. forces beginning the War in Iraq and the 50,000-strong Coalition against Turkish-backed ISIS - numbering as many as 200,000 jihadists by State Dept. estimates at its height. Still, other sources put the start of the conflict in the summer of 1998 at the beginning of the West's War on Yugoslavia, with the deadliest combat in Europe since WWII, involving widespread multinational intervention by NATO in addition to the NATO Invasion of Afghanistan three years later. Not long after the NATO Invasion of Yugoslavia occurs are the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa - which serve to put the infamous Osama bin Laden on the most-wanted list - and the subsequent Second Congo War, which involves 9 African countries and tens of thousands of mobilized forces on each side, vying for control over the vacuum created by U.S. and European imperialism, and resulting in the costliest war since WWII, in which millions of lives were lost by 2008. But others chart as far back as when the Bosnian War began alongside the ongoing Croatian War for Independence in the early years of the Yugoslav Wars, which is also the same year that marked the first intervention of the United Nations in foreign conflicts under the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations - including the aforementioned Wars in Yugoslavia. Another common historiography puts the beginning of the conflict on 7 October 2001 with the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan and on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In addition to the debate over official commencement of hostilities in 1998-99 vs. 2014, a similar split formed over when the major hostilities had come to an end by the Winter of 2029-'30, while others point to the slowing of the global economy and overall socioeconomic fallout due to the 2020-2024 COVID-19 pandemic in general, led to many technically classified the fighting between 2020 and 2027-28 as a separate conflict entirely. After the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the U.S. had fallen from grace in virtually every way aside from raw military prowess with regard to its unipolar world order. Although the U.S. remained the sole superpower for now, the instability on the North American continent results in the rise of several successor states, mirroring the fall of the USSR, leaving the U.S. weakened - much like its Russian counterpart - and the status of California contested between it and an emerging Russian-backed North American successor state.

The Rwandan genocide directly resulted in the costliest wars since WWII, which ran concurrent to the aforementioned Yugoslav Wars which themselves involved genocide and war crimes, as well as the attacks on 9/11 and many of its own consequences. And a little over a decade later, by 2014, the intercontinental military alliance of Turkey, Russia, Belarus, Serbia and much of South America had supplanted terrorism as a threat to many European and Western nations. The United Nations had begun to lose its way, NATO had become fragmented between the pro-US and pro-Europe, and the U.S. eventually collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by the mid-2030s.

Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001)


Up until the mid-1980s, Yugoslavia was one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries on Earth. With a standing manpower of nearly a million, nearly 3000 tanks and AFV (the fifth largest in Europe), over 2000 self-propelled and towed artillery, nearly 1000 rocket projectors and the sixth largest air force with over 1200 aircraft the Yugoslav People's Army was easily one of the top 20 most powerful military powers on the planet. In addition, Yugoslavia was also economically strong. Yugoslavia had the greatest per capita GDP of all the Communist nations, and the third largest Communist economy behind China and Russia, and for a brief period on par with North Korea and Vietnam before pulling forward.

By 1992 however, Federal Yugoslavia had shrunk, most of its equipment was outdated, and its army untrained conscripts. Yet amid the fervent independence movements in Bosnia and Croatia, a determined and utterly brutal Serbian ultranationalist push across the former Yugoslav republics had emerged.

From March 1993, Serb para-military units killed a great number of civilians, destroyed habitations, prevented the UNHCR from delivering humanitarian aid, and forced thousands of Bosniak refugees to flee to the town of Srebrenica. 30 or 40 persons were dying daily from military action, starvation, exposure to cold or lack of medical treatment. Resolution 819 attempted to address this issue by declaring Srebrenica a "Safe Area". Resolution 836 authorized UNPROFOR "acting in self-defense, to take the necessary measures, including the use of force, in reply to bombardments against the safe areas by any of the parties or to armed incursion into them or in the event of any deliberate obstruction in or around those areas the freedom of movement of UNPROFOR or of protected humanitarian convoys". To implement the deterrence, around 7600 reinforcements were sent and air support was organised in coordination with NATO.

On 24 September, the Security Council was informed by the Croatian Government that if the mandate of UNPROFOR was not amended to promote energetic implementation of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, Croatia would be forced to request UNPROFOR to leave the country not later than 30 November 1993. Subsequent redefinition of the mandate occurred.

At the end of the year, the warring parties attempted to come to a cease-fire. The truce was implemented between Croat and Serb forces, but fighting went on in Bosnia between Bosniaks and Croats, and the humanitarian situations continued to deteriorate. Notably, Sarajevo continued to be bombarded by Bosnian Serb forces. It was also reported that units of the regular Croat army were supporting Bosnian Croat forces with heavy equipment and men, removing their insignias. This led to further protests from the UN. Use of force began to be discussed at a NATO summit held in Brussels on 10 and 11 January 1994. The Bosnian Serbs, following talks with high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation in Moscow, agreed to open the Tuzla airport for humanitarian purposes. At the same time, the relieving of UN troops in Srebrenica was allowed and the Canadian contingent was replaced by a Dutch contingent.

Bosnian War (1992–1995)
On 23 September 1994, in retaliation to the Bosnian Serb obstruction to the Peace Plan, the Security Council, by its Resolution 942, severed all commercial and monetary links to the Bosnian Serb entity. Notably, this cut the flow of fuel to the Bosnian Serbs, a hard strategic blow.

Due to the extreme position taken by the Bosnian Serb government, the Yugoslav Federation (Serbia and Montenegro) itself had to take a strong stance against the Bosnian Serb entity. This led to the quasi-complete diplomatic isolation of the Bosnian Serb entity.

In August 1994, the situation deteriorated again, particularly due to sniper activity, and despite the anti-sniper agreements. In Sarajevo, the bloody "Sniper Alley" became famous and infamous. Deliberate attacks against UNPROFOR personnel or aircraft became frequent.

In October, the Bosnian Muslim forces, trapped in the Bihać pocket, attacked the Bosnian Serb forces in an attempt to end the siege of the city. The attack and the ensuing counter-attack by the Bosnian Serbs induced terror in the local population and another massive exodus of refugees. In deliberate contradiction with the "Safe Area" status of Bihać and the "No-flight" zones, Bosnian Serb airplanes made repeated attacks in the Bihać area, using cluster bombs and napalm.

In reaction to this threat, on 21 November, NATO airplanes destroyed the Udbina airstrip, located in the UNPA Sector South in Croatia. The following days, NATO airplanes again had to intervene, against Bosnian Serb anti-air missiles sites which had opened fire upon British jets, and against artillery sites which shelled Bihać. Instead of lowering their profile, the Bosnian Serbs retaliated by taking UN personnel hostage and restraining humanitarian aid transit.

On the diplomatic scene, all efforts to come to a cease-fire turned out to be to no avail, here again mostly because of Bosnian Serb obstruction—Dr. Karadžić declined the invitation of the UN Secretary-General.

Although NATO had been bombing Serb positions in Bosnia for several months now, the first full intervention occurred in late 1995 under Operation Deliberate Force, primarily in response to the Srebrenica massacre of over 8,000 Bosniaks by Serbian forces, after 11 July, when NATO aircraft attacked targets in the Srebrenica area of Bosnia-Herzegovina as identified by and under the control of the United Nations. The Dutch Peacekeepers had failed due to NATO's incessant and unmitigated aggression, time and time again deliberately putting UN personnel in harm's way.

Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan genocide took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, a conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). The latter was made up largely of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda after the 1959 Hutu revolt against colonial rule. Waves of Hutu violence against the RPF and Tutsi followed Rwandan independence in 1962. International pressure on the Hutu government of Juvénal Habyarimana resulted in a ceasefire in the civil war in 1993, with a road-map to implement the Arusha Accords. This was intended to create a power-sharing government with the RPF. Numerous conservative Hutu, including members of the Akazu, opposed the Accords, believing they were a concession to enemy demands.

The RPF military campaign had resulted in some intensified support for the so-called "Hutu Power" ideology, which portrayed the RPF as an alien force. In radio programs and other news, the Tutsis were portrayed as non-Christian, intent on reinstating the Tutsi monarchy and enslaving the Hutus. Many Hutu reacted to this prospect with extreme opposition. In the lead-up to the genocide, the number of machetes imported into Rwanda increased.

On 6 April 1994, an aeroplane carrying Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down on its descent into Kigali. At the time, the plane was in the airspace above Habyarimana's house. The assassination of Habyarimana ended the peace accords.

Genocidal killings began the following day. Soldiers, police, and militia quickly executed key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders who could have assumed control in the ensuing power vacuum. Checkpoints and barricades were erected to screen all holders of the national ID card of Rwanda (it contained ethnic classifications; the Belgian colonial government had introduced use of these classifications and IDs in 1933). This enabled government forces to systematically identify and kill Tutsi.

They also recruited and pressured Hutu civilians to arm themselves with machetes, clubs, blunt objects, and other weapons and encouraged them to rape, maim, and kill their Tutsi neighbors and to destroy or steal their property. The RPF restarted its offensive soon after Habyarimana's assassination. It rapidly seized control of the northern part of the country and captured Kigali about 100 days later in mid-July, bringing an end to the genocide. During these events and in the aftermath, the United Nations (UN) and countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Belgium were criticized for their inaction and failure to strengthen the force and mandate of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) peacekeepers. In December 2017, media reported revelations that the government of France had allegedly supported the Hutu government after the genocide had begun.

In October 1990 the Rwandan Civil War began when the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebel group invaded across Uganda's southern border into northern Rwanda. The RPF was composed of over 4000 soldiers, most the sons of Tutsi refugees who had fled ethnic purges in Rwanda between 1959 and 1963. It portrayed itself as a democratic, multi-ethnic movement and demanded an end to ethnic discrimination, to economic looting of the country by government elites and a stop to the security situation that continued to generate refugees. It was supported by the Ugandan government of Yoweri Museveni, who had come to power in the Ugandan Bush War with significant support from the Rwandan refugees in the country. However, the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) was saved by reinforcements from France and Zaire, who backed the government of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, who had been in power since 1973.

The French intervention of two parachute companies, explained as an attempt to protect its own nationals, actually blocked the February 1993 RPF advance on the capital Kigali. In contrast, the government of Belgium, the former colonial power, cut all support to the Habyarimana regime, which viewed the action as abandonment. Thwarted by the French, the RPF suffered a humiliating retreat back into the Virunga Mountains along the border. After the demoralizing death of Major-General Fred Rwigyema, the collapse of the RPF was prevented through the leadership of Paul Kagame.

The RPF thus managed to retain control of a sliver of land in the north, from which it continued to launch raids. Comparing the RPF and FAR as he saw them in 1993, Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire noted that the rebels "had won all recent contests because of their superior leadership, training, experience, frugality, mobility. Discipline and morale."

After Kagame and the RPF's victory in the Rwandan Civil War, the new regime would play a major and influential role in the war in neighboring Congo, backed by the United States and Uganda. Prominent members of the RPF had fought alongside Yoweri Museveni in the Ugandan Bush War that brought him to power, and Museveni allowed the RPF to use Uganda as a base during the 1990 offensive into Rwanda and subsequent civil war. Given their historical ties, the Rwandan and Ugandan governments were closely allied and Museveni worked closely with Kagame throughout the First Congo War. Ugandan soldiers were present in Zaire throughout the conflict and Museveni likely helped Kagame plan and direct the AFDL. French and Belgian intelligence agencies noted that 15,000 Ugandan-trained Tutsi fought for the AFDL. With active support from Rwanda, Uganda, and Eritrea, Kabila's AFDL was able to capture 800 x 100 km[clarification needed] of territory along the border with Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi by 25 December 1996. This occupation temporarily satisfied the rebels, because it gave them power in the east and allowed them to defend themselves against the former génocidaires. Likewise, the external actors had successfully crippled the ability of the same génocidaires to use Zaire as a base for attacks. There was a pause in the rebel advance following the acquisition of this buffer territory that lasted until Angola entered the war in February 1997.

There are two explanations for the restart of the rebel advance in 1997. The first, and most probable, is that Angola had joined the anti-Mobutu coalition, giving it numbers and strength far superior to the FAZ, and demanding that Mobutu be removed from power. Kagame presents another, possibly secondary, reason for the march on Kinshasa: that the employment of Serbian mercenaries in the battle for Walikale proved that "Mobutu intended to wage real war against Rwanda." According to this logic, Rwanda's initial concerns had been to manage the security threat in eastern Zaire but it was now forced to dispose of the hostile government in Kinshasa.

Whatever the case, once the advance resumed in 1997, there was virtually no meaningful resistance from what was left of Mobutu's army. Kabila's forces were only held back by the dreadful state of Zaire's infrastructure. In some areas, no real roads existed; the only means of transport were infrequently used dirt paths. The AFDL committed grave human rights violations, such as the carnage at a refugee camp of Hutus at Tingi-Tingi near Kisangani, where tens of thousands of refugees were massacred.

Beginning Conflicts
In what was largely regarded as a proxy war between the United States and Serbian-Russian (French-Hutu) interests, the First Congo War would leave the African region in chaos and result in the conditions leading to yet more war on the continent.

The Second Congo War (also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War, and sometimes referred to as the African World War) began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues. The war officially ended in July 2003, when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power. Although a peace agreement was signed in 2002, violence has continued in many regions of the country, especially in the east. Hostilities have continued since the ongoing Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, and the Kivu and Ituri conflicts.

Ultimately, nine African countries and around twenty-five armed groups became involved in the war. By 2008, the war and its aftermath had caused 7 million deaths, principally through disease and starvation, making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II.

Macedonia Crisis & Serbian ultra-nationalism
Beginning in 2005, international human rights organizations began to report extensive repression of the Macedonian public by state officials. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia began sowing inter-ethnic unrest, in which both sides engage in human rights atrocities over the next several years. Serbian officials would blame "Albanian irredentism" while invoking irredentist and ethno-nationalist vocabulary themselves. This crisis eventually results in Yugoslav Republic inter-ethnic violence in 2012, the 2017 elevation of Albanian ethno-nationalism in the FYROM national assembly, and the culmination of a CSTO-backed international invasion of Serbia alongside a Croatian Civil War in 2026. This of course, would follow a short and violent war with neighboring Croatia as a result from spillover violence from a semi-concurrent Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina after stoking unrest in the Balkans, Caucasus and Ukraine from late-2013 into the early-2020's.

Around the same time this destabilization was beginning to occur in Albania and Macedonia, neighboring Serbia was beginning a deep intensification of relations with Russia as published in a November 2019 Pentagon report. A year later, Serbia attained observer status in the CoSecTOr. From 2014 to 2020, Serbia hosted several military exercises with Belarus and Russia, acquiring six MiG-29 aircrafts (A, S and UB models), 30 T-72 tanks and 30 BRDM-2 armoured reconnaissance vehicles and visibly displaying friendly ties punctuated by Slavic Shield 2019 exercises in Astrakhan, Russia, in the final months of the 2010's. Although Serbia would freeze its defense relations for 2020-2021 citing 'EU pressure', Russia would maintain soft power and influence in Republika Srpska and Serbia through the private sector as well as the pro-Russian Serbian Orthodox Church as the largest religion in Serbia and Montenegro (and representing a third of Bosnia and Herzegovina), while Serbia would continue on an authoritarian trajectory. In addition to deteriorating relations between the North Macedonian–Serbian "Balkan Axis" and Albanians that began as early as 2017, tensions also accelerate with Bosnia, Croatia (which result in the aforementioned war), Montenegro and throughout former-Yugoslavia into the 2020's.



After the 2024-25 Serbian annexation of Macedonia and parts of Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbian Bosnia - Belgrade laid claim to a territory of over 153,000 square kilometres and a population of approximately 12.5 million and a manpower of 1.5-2.5 million at its height. Belgrade also collaborated with drone-producing countries China, Belarus and Russia to orchestrate an unmanned aerospace decapitation attack attempt on Western Europe in conjunction with Moscow using automated "drone walkers" known colloquially as "MAWs". In addition, at its height, Nazbol Serbia possessed almost twice the rocket projectors, more artillery pieces and almost as many self-propelled guns and main battle tanks - of many varieties - as the armies of France, Germany and Britain, the preeminent military powers of NATO aside from the U.S. itself, combined. And with a powerful military alliance with Russia, the growing threat in the Balkans was more than a match for the European members of NATO.

In the tumultuous year of 2020, Russia seizes upon the COVID-19 pandemic to solidify its alliance with Serbia. As early as February, the U.S. and Europe were sounding the alarm over Serbian missiles from Russia, an event essentially a Cuban Missile Crisis in miniature during any other year. This would pale in the face of a summer delivery of Chinese assault drones to Serbia in July. By the summer, Serbian-EU relations were effectively frozen, while expanding on deals signed months earlier and purchasing still more warplanes from Russia before the close of 2020. After an abrupt U-turn in its relations with the West, tensions erupt between the Vucic regime and the powerful and militant Serbian Army Union led by former-military officer Novica Antic, who collaborates with Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik and the Wagner Group to overthrow the Serbian government - further inflaming tensions between Serbs and other Yugoslavs in Bosnia, Croatia, Albania and Montenegro - thereafter installing Dodik as head of a "Pan-Yugoslav Serbia" in 2023, effectively invading Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Following a pause in the inter-ethnic frozen war aside from a counterterrorism operation the early-2010's Albanian Insurgency in Macedonia would resume culminating in Smilkovci lakeside mass-murder of Macedonians and the 2015 Assault on Kumanovo in response to SDSM challenging the 2014 election results which saw the VMRO-DPMNE retain its majority. This results in a corresponding rapprochement of relations with Serbia which would in turn partly result in the rise of the Russian–Serbian-backed Hristijan Mickoski as Leader of the Opposition in North Macedonia, pulling the VMRO-DPMNE in an anti-Western direction. After a contested parliamentary election in 2020, protests erupt against the Albanian BDI party, which had "been part of governing coalitions for the majority of its existence, since its formation in 2002" and accused by the opposition Eurocentric Alliance for Albanians of "[usurping] Albanians' 'political will'" as the BDI seized upon the impasse from the close elections to insert their own prime minister in furious opposition to the pro-Western, pro-EU Social Democrats Leader Zoran Zaev. Tensions would remain high both within the borders of the country, and between it and its neighbors; Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Kosovo, to the West, East, South and Northwest respectively, and accelerate after a 2022 purge of KLA war crimes investigators in Serbia leads to praise from the Macedonian opposition and Kosovo AAK and outrage in Albania, the Democratic League of Kosovo and Macedonian Social Democrats, who accuse the BDI - notable for its connection with war crimes committed against Macedonians during the 2001 conflict - and Kosovo's AAK and Kosovo Democrats of being a front for Serbian irrendentism.



The tensions - already exacerbated by prominent media personalities and renewed Albanian nationalism controversy only a few short years after a similar incident - boil over after the Social Democrats win the 2024 election in a landslide, which the BDI and VMRO - backed by the U.S. and Russia - remove from government buildings at gunpoint after falsified documents supposedly implicated the progressives in election fraud and replace it with a BDI-VMRO majority-minority coalition occupying the lower house of congress and the upper house a semi-autonomous legislature controlled by an executive military junta. The "We Can" Eurocentrists and socialists are purged, repressed, imprisoned and even killed in white hot tensions and result in the 6-week North Macedonian Civil War which in turn results in opposing Macedonian pogroms in Albania and anti-Albanian killings and extremism in Kosovo, leading to the 2024 Kosovo Civil War. During the civil war in Macedonia, pogroms are committed against Roma drawing furious rebuke from the EU, NATO, UN, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Turkey - in particular the latter six countries which sanction the Junta-Nationalist government of North Macedonia. Ultimately, the involvement of the U.S. would leave a foreign policy stain on the record of U.S. President Kamala Harris, a decision loudly condemned by her progressive Vice President Ed Markey and progressives in congress spearheaded by Sen. Mazie Hirono, Defense Secretary Kirsten Gillibrand and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Nina Turner, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

Global War on Terrorism (2001–2027)
September 11 – A series of multiple coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area occurred when 19 terrorists from the Islamic militant group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers also crashed American Airlines Flight 52 into the Empire State Building which was managed to be narrowly saved from the same fate as the North and South World Trade Centers, and American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The death-toll climbed to an estimate 3,000 civilian casualties by the end of the day. On September 12th, George W. Bush, President of the United States, declares a Global War on Terror in cooperation with NATO, the UN, European Union, and Israel, effectively setting forth the first steps toward a Third Global Confrontation.

From 2009 to 2025, the U.S. government carried out hundreds of drone strikes in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen - a vast majority of them post-2015. There would also be a notable acceleration in civilian casualties and violations of international law under the Kerry, Trump and second term of the Obama administrations - the principle inheritors of the Bush Doctrine post-9/11. Due to Japan's post-Iraq, Anti-UN remilitarization, most scholars and historians blame the Iraq War for the resurgence of Japanese militarism and Fascist India, which is the main catalyst for the mid-2010s-2020s Third World War (which sees India lead a global insurrection against the United Nations, which was then spearheaded by China and the United States).

With the advent of the 2020's coronavirus pandemic, from 2020 to 2024 while there would be a rapid drop-off in counterterrorism-focused foreign policy, the U.S. would resume its nation-building in Latin America. Following a 2020 failed coup attempt in Venezuela by Trump administration actors, conservative forces in the Americas would assert and bolster the US spectre of so-called "Castro-chavism" being perpetuated by the likes of Mexico, Spain and Argentina in parts of Latin America despite most antagonism being perpetuated by right-wing governments most prominently against Haiti. On 28 February the U.N. Security Council voted on two draft resolutions: one from the US calling for new elections in Venezuela, the entry of humanitarian aid, and the recognition of Guaidó as interim president; the other from Russia calling for dialogue between the Maduro government and the opposition in line with the Montevideo initiative of Mexico and Uruguay. Neither proposal was adopted.

The stagnation of cooperation at the higher-echelons of UN global governance allowed the acceleration of the power vacuum that began to form with the predecessor of the Rio Group, founded in the 1980's to resist Anglo-American designs in the Falkland Islands and elsewhere. Misinformation about the coronavirus spreading online in the early 2020's, alongside increasing incidents of xenophobia and discrimination against Chinese people and people perceived as Chinese or Chinese-affiliated would also push many governments to the authoritarian centre and right, prominently in Brazil which leaves CELAC in early 2020 and is utilized as a bulwark for U.S. imperialism in South America, which prompts an Ibero-American backlash to the Trump administration's Hispanophobic policies. While pro-US actors in Mexico's Yucatan province blame the, quote, "government of Pedro Sánchez/Pablo Iglesias," and that "Castrochavism has taken power because “Podemos” is the creation of dictatorial America to penetrate and destroy Spanish democracy" with claims that "intervention of members of Spain’s security forces to free fugitives from the Mexican Embassy in La Paz-Bolivia proves [it]," this example - ironically - undercuts their position - particularly after the disclosure of top-secret documents in 2120 reveals the existence of a classified Spanish Royal Household Department or "Departamento Real de la Familia" (DRF) that operated in secret between 2003 and 2020 known only to the Spanish Monarchy and certain Spanish ultranationalists such as the far-right Vox organization. The DRF, as it would be revealed, carried out dozens of these SEAL-Team-like raids in Latin America under the protection of Neoconservative actors in the U.S., Canada and Colombia during its existence to threaten and/or silence left-wing and socialist actors that happened to oppose the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and America's Reagan Doctrine and support the progressive libertarian Zaptistas "EZLN".

2021–2027: Congo, FATF Grey List, Asia & Turkey


The extremist JUI-F and the Sharif Dynasty-controlled PML-N spearheading the opposition, the Pakistani Civil War erupts from 2023–2024 with the death of Prime Minister Imran Khan and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the outlawing of opposition parties and the induction of a military junta in league with powerful elites would take place. Concurrently, a three-way escalation in fighting in the eastern provinces between MONUSCO, the FDLR and IS-CAP would force DRC President Felix Tshisekedi to break off relations with the West, despite accusations of antisemitism. While 2021 would see hundreds of deaths totaling nearly 1,000 by November, 2022 and 2023 would see thousands of deaths totaling up to over 4,000 and 12,000 respectively. The 2025 drone bombings in Bunia and Bukavu kill over 45,000 and 75,000 people respectively and the U.S.-Chinese tug-o-war in the region leads to indecision among the upper echelons on who is to blame. Another 200,000-300,000 die before the end of the Ituri conflict in 2039.

By 2021, despite a brief warming in relations between it and the West, Thailand "[had] continued to maintain close relations with China," 7 years after a political crisis erupted in efforts to combat a burgeoning fascist movement opposing another fascist movement, the latter of which had sparked a previous political crisis, which had in turn resulted in a 2006 coup, much like how the second crisis also resulted in a coup, which would result in the next uprising Thailand would experience also in 2021. Thailand would be excluded from the 2021 democratic summit in the United States, joining the ranks of Russia, Turkey, North Korea, and China, among others. The Thai junta government resumes its 2008–2011 provocations against Cambodia, even as Vietnam began to expand its own influence into the country and neighboring Laos. The latter of those three would be the primary location of the Thai–Vietnamese proxy war, as the former's growing defense, trade, border security (initiated by Vietnam in 2015), industrial, legal, and other ties with Hanoi accelerating since 2017. This and chairing the ASEAN summit would result in the solidifying of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam alliance, with Cambodia and Vietnam's escalation and relitigation of preexisting 2019 tensions with Singapore, the city-state's military, diplomatic and economic ties with the People's Republic of China in mind. This in addition to a considerable escalation in the South Thailand insurgency, as supporters of the previous regime's supermajority fighting both the Royal Thai Army and BRN alike, prompts the United States and Australia - which had other relations to take into consideration - to withdraw their involvement in the insurgency, not wanting to assist a military junta in suppressing an opposition movement and a parallel acceleration in relations with Turkey - which was under scrutiny for abusing interpol at the time, and inciting proxy aggression against India - in response to calls to create a temporary united front with the radical Jihadist forces against the UDD uprising.

While the U.S. and France deepen military relations with Greece over Turkish retaliation against Greece's military and economic expansion into the region in general, the latter would come to blows with Turkey and Russia over election interference, and their presence in Libya, Mali and Syria. As the four countries went to war many months later and conflict between them and their allies would escalate, the U.S.-spearheaded Summits for Democracy would conspicuously include, in this meeting, an FATF grey-listed country - of which Turkey was added to in accordance with harboring a member of ISIS and as per intelligence from the Palestinian Authority and Israel: Hamas - while alienating almost everyone else outside of the NATO-Japan-G7 framework. India deploys "U.S.-manufactured Chinook helicopters, ultra-light towed howitzers and rifles as well as domestically made supersonic cruise missiles and a new-age surveillance system" to fortify its disputed border with China in October of 2021, while tension between the more moderate government next door and the Pakistani Army would simmer until boiling over into the 2020's with a Turkish-backed Taliban-PDM-JaF nexus would seize power in the region moreover in the way of 'political bombs' being set off as opposed to tightly-controlled puppet states like those of Belarus or North Korea.

Bush regime (2001–2009)
The September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush's first term. Bush responded with what became known as the Bush Doctrine: launching a "War on Terror", an international military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and the Iraq War in 2003. He signed into law broad tax cuts, the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors, and funding for the AIDS relief program known as PEPFAR. His tenure included national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and torture. In the 2004 presidential race, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in another relatively close election. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the political spectrum for his handling of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and other challenges. Amid this criticism, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 elections. In December 2007, the United States entered its longest post-World War II recession, often referred to as the "Great Recession", prompting the Bush administration to obtain congressional passage of multiple economic programs intended to preserve the country's financial system.

Nationally, Bush was both one of the most popular and unpopular U.S. presidents in history, having received the highest recorded presidential approval ratings in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, as well as one of the lowest approval ratings during the 2008 financial crisis. Bush finished his term in office in 2009 and returned to Texas, where he had purchased a home in Dallas. In 2010, he published his memoir, Decision Points. His presidential library was opened in 2013. His presidency has been ranked among the worst in historians' polls that were published in the late 2000s and 2010s.

Homeland Security
Following the September 11 attacks, the Bush Administration proposed and Congress approved, a series of laws stated to be necessary in prosecuting the "War on Terror." These included a wide variety of surveillance programs, some of which came under heavy fire from civil liberties interest groups that criticized the new regulations for infringing upon certain civil liberties. The administration has also been criticized for refusing to back various security measures relating to port security in 2003 and 2004 and vetoing all US$39 million for the 2002 Container Security Initiative.

Following the resignation of CIA director George Tenet in 2004, Bush nominated Porter Goss to head the agency. The White House ordered Goss to purge agency officers who were disloyal to the administration. After Goss' appointment, many of the CIA's senior agents were fired or quit. The CIA has been accused of deliberately leaking classified information to undermine the 2004 election. This targeting of the CIA by the Bush administration enabled abuse of power by later presidents, and is largely believed to be one of the first instances of conflict in the Intra-American Cold War.

In his 2004 bid for re-election, Bush commanded broad support in the Republican Party and did not encounter a primary challenge. He appointed Ken Mehlman as campaign manager, and Karl Rove devised a political strategy. Bush and the Republican platform emphasized a strong commitment to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, support for the USA PATRIOT Act, a renewed shift in policy for constitutional amendments banning abortion and same-sex marriage, reforming Social Security to create private investment accounts, creation of an ownership society, and opposing mandatory carbon emissions controls.

Homeland Security Act
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the United States Department of Homeland Security and the new cabinet-level position of Secretary of Homeland Security. It is the largest federal government reorganization since the Department of Defense was created via the Cold War-era National Security Act of 1947 (as amended in 1949). It also includes many of the organizations under which the powers of the USA PATRIOT Act are exercised.

PATRIOT Act
In response to the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress swiftly passed legislation to strengthen national security. On October 23, 2001, Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner introduced H.R. 3162 incorporating provisions from a previously-sponsored House bill and a Senate bill also introduced earlier in the month. The next day, the Act passed the House by a vote of 357–66, with Democrats comprising the overwhelming portion of dissent. The three Republicans voting "no" were Robert Ney of Ohio, Butch Otter of Idaho, and Ron Paul of Texas. On October 25, the Act passed the Senate by a 98–1 vote, the only dissident being Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Those opposing the law have criticized its authorization of indefinite detentions of immigrants; the permission given to law enforcement to search a home or business without the owner's or the occupant's consent or knowledge; the expanded use of National Security Letters, which allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to search telephone, e-mail, and financial records without a court order; and the expanded access of law enforcement agencies to business records, including library and financial records. Since its passage, several legal challenges have been brought against the act, and federal courts have ruled that a number of provisions are unconstitutional.

Many of the act's provisions were to sunset beginning December 31, 2005, approximately four years after its passage. In the months preceding the sunset date, anybody supporting the act pushed to make its sun-setting provisions permanent, while critics sought to revise various sections to enhance civil liberty protections. In July 2005, the U.S. Senate passed a reauthorization bill with substantial changes to several of the act's sections, while the House reauthorization bill kept most of the act's original language. The two bills were then reconciled in a conference committee criticized by Senators from both the Republican and Democratic parties for ignoring civil liberty concerns.

The bill, which removed most of the changes from the Senate version, passed Congress on March 2, 2006, and was signed by President Bush on March 9 and 10 of that year.

On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, a four-year extension of three key provisions in the Act: roving wiretaps, searches of business records, and conducting surveillance of "lone wolves"—individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups.

Following a lack of Congressional approval, parts of the Patriot Act expired on June 1, 2015.[11] With passing the USA Freedom Act on June 2, 2015, the expired parts were restored and renewed through 2019. However, Section 215 of the law was amended to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) from continuing its mass phone data collection program. Instead, phone companies will retain the data and the NSA can obtain information about targeted individuals with permission from a federal court.

Directive 51
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20, sometimes called simply "Executive Directive 51" for short), signed by President of the United States George W. Bush on May 4, 2007, is a Presidential Directive establishing a comprehensive policy on the federal government structures and operations in the event of a "catastrophic emergency". Such an emergency is defined as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions." [1]

The unclassified portion of the directive (which replaced President Bill Clinton's 1998 Presidential Decision Directive 67), was posted on the White House website on May 9, 2007, without any further announcement or press briefings

Iraq War (2003–2011)
The Iraq War (also known as also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II) was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 Iraqis were killed in the first three to four years of conflict. US troops were officially withdrawn in 2011. However, following the spread of the Syrian Civil War and the territorial gains of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Obama administration decided to redeploy US forces to Iraq in 2014. Many former soldiers are employed by defence contractors and private military companies. The U.S. became re-involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition; the insurgency and many dimensions of the civil armed conflict continue. The invasion occurred as part of the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror, following the September 11 attacks.

In October 2002, Congress authorized President Bush to use military force against Iraq should he choose to. The Iraq War began on 20 March 2003, when the U.S., joined by the U.K. and several coalition allies, launched a "shock and awe" bombing campaign. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as coalition forces swept through the country. The invasion led to the collapse of the Ba'athist government; Saddam Hussein was captured during Operation Red Dawn in December of that same year and executed three years later. The power vacuum following Saddam's demise and the mismanagement of the Coalition Provisional Authority led to widespread civil war between Shias and Sunnis, as well as a lengthy insurgency against coalition forces. Many of the violent insurgent groups were supported by Iran and al-Qaeda in Iraq. The United States responded with a build-up of 170,000 troops in 2007. This build-up gave greater control to Iraq's government and military, and was judged a success by many. The winding down of U.S. involvement in Iraq accelerated under President Barack Obama. The U.S. formally withdrew all combat troops from Iraq by December 2011.

The Bush administration based its rationale for the Iraq War principally on the assertion that Iraq, which had been viewed by the U.S. as a "rogue state" since the 1990–1991 Gulf War, supposedly possessed an active weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program, and that the Iraqi government posed a threat to the United States and its coalition allies. Some U.S. officials falsely accused Saddam of harbouring and supporting al-Qaeda, while others cited the desire to end a repressive dictatorship and bring democracy to the people of Iraq. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission said there was no evidence of an operational relationship between the Saddam Hussein regime and al-Qaeda. No stockpiles of WMDs or an active WMD program were ever found in Iraq. Bush administration officials made numerous assertions about a purported Saddam-al-Qaeda relationship and WMDs that were based on sketchy evidence, and which intelligence officials rejected. The rationale of U.S. pre-war intelligence faced heavy criticism both domestically and internationally. The Chilcot Report, a British inquiry into its decision to go to war, was published in 2016 and concluded military action may have been necessary but was not the last resort at the time and that the consequences of invasion were underestimated. When interrogated by the FBI, Saddam Hussein admitted to having kept up the appearance of possessing weapons of mass destruction in order to appear strong in front of Iran. He also confirmed that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S. invasion.

In the aftermath of the invasion, Iraq held multi-party elections in 2005. Nouri al-Maliki became Prime Minister in 2006 and remained in office until 2014. The al-Maliki government enacted policies that were widely seen as having the effect of alienating the country's previously dominant Sunni minority and worsening sectarian tensions. In the summer of 2014, the ISIL launched a military offensive in northern Iraq and declared a worldwide Islamic caliphate, leading to Operation Inherent Resolve, another military response from the United States and its allies. The Iraq War caused at least one hundred thousand civilian deaths, as well as tens of thousands of military deaths (see estimates below). The majority of deaths occurred as a result of the insurgency and civil conflicts between 2004 and 2007. Subsequently, the Iraqi Civil War, which is considered a domino effect of the invasion, caused at least 67,000 civilian deaths, in addition to the displacement of five million people within the country.

Latin American–Russian aggression

 * See: Chilean–Bolivian Territorial Crisis, Argentine Crisis, BAP Almirante Grau hijacking, Argentine–Chilean Invasion of Brazil, Chilean–Cuban Invasion of Central America, Chilean Invasion of Bolivia, & Chilean Invasion of Baja California

Cuban Civil War and insurgency


Following an embargo after the takeover of a pro-American right-wing regime in 1959 and sour relations between the two nations for decades following the 1961 failed invasion of Cuba and 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US president Barack Obama loosened business and travel restrictions with Cuba in 2014, also removing it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Presidents Trump and Biden would resume and accelerate these restrictions in 2017 and 2021, reversing their predecessor, and accelerating the embargo and trade restrictions on Cuba under the former-Vice President in 2022.

In the wake of renewed US aggression against Cuba, historically pro-US Latin American country Chile reaffirms bilateral ties with the Communist state and even EU officials criticize the US (before drawing condemnation from their own authority) for their aggressive Cuba policies. These calls for rapprochement are joined by 80 House Democrats who call on the president to "revert to Obama-era Cuba detente", with four of its seven leading proponents representing the Congressional Progressive and Populist Caucuses. After a falling out with the White House and Democrats capitulating to Republicans proceeding initial support from House moderates, progressives spearheaded by Independent Vermont Senator and Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasts the Biden administration's stimulus bill as "[worse] than Trump's" after Senate Democrats rebuke the United States House of Representatives on the $15.00 minimum wage proposed by the Biden-Harris campaign in the 2020 election, and House Democrats led by House Speaker Pelosi capitulate to the Republicans on immigration.

This progressive-Democratic conflict would result in House progressives and Chairman Sanders being isolated in Congress on Cuba. A failed coup and brief insurgency in Cuban-ally Venezuela in 2019 and 2021 would embolden the Cuban dissident movement and Nationalism among the ranks of the Milicias de Tropas Territoriales and even among the military itself - bolstering a manpower over 1.2 million, the 11th-largest standing army on the planet (surpassed only by Brazil, China, India, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vietnam, North and South Korea and the United States) - the United States passes more sanctions and this time targets other Latin American states maintaining relations with Cuba beyond just Venezuela and Nicaragua, blasting and sanctioning Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and El Salvador. The aforementioned countries, followed by more shortly, break ties with Cuba - following suit of the US in support of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel against the Castro regime - and in response Cuba begins acquiring soft power throughout Latin America in immediate blowback against the US pressure against the Castro regime. As a result, Castro is overthrown, but maintains support among the active duty - although dwarfed in number by the nationalist pro-Canel MTT. Castro and the ailing Revolutionary Army support left-leaning government in Argentina and the Pinera regime from exile in Nicaragua, although both eventually fall to the Nazbols at home and abroad - with the Korean-backed Cuban insurgents expanding their control over the country and region throughout the 2020's.

2023-2027


Immediately following the short and brutal Cuban Civil War was the three-year-long Argentine Crisis, instigated by Crypto-Nazi Chilean ultranationalists backed by the far-right Spanish Vox party that wished to unite all of Latin America under the flag of Chile, while also utilizing the at this point year-long Mapuche Uprising as their primary scapegoat for fearmongering. The largely-isolated supporters of Pinochet and Colonia Dignidad had surged to prominence amid the growing backlash against the right-wing government of Sebastian Pinera, as well as the socialists of Michelle Bachelet, who were united in their disdain of the Theocratic movement. Finding its origin amid backing and funding from the Nationalist Bolsheviks of Argentina and the Iron Legionnaires of Rome, and pro-Legionnaire Clergy in Vatican City and throughout Latin America and Europe, the ‘National Peasants and Republicans Party’ (Partido Nacional Campesinos y Republicanos in Spanish, Partido Nacional dos Camponeses e Republicanos in Portuguese – PNCR, or “PiNCeR”) attained a worldwide presence. Although in most developed countries where the Pincer had official recognition as a political party they had a slight if even marginal existence, throughout the Middle-East and Latin America they were highly organized and involved in local and regional politics, with their representatives reaching the national stage in Russia, Cuba, Egypt, Venezuela, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, El Salvador and every country in Latin America except Costa Rica, Belize, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. However, it is only in Chile, Argentina and Venezuela that such a rabid strain of Nazbols would come to absolute power outside of Cuba, North Korea and Catalonia. Even gang-controlled Brazil kept the budding regime in Chile at an arm’s-length.

After Pinera’s resignation and the PNCR surge to power in the winter of 2021, the Chilean military brass were replaced with pro-Pincer loyalists, and a purge was initiated freakishly similar to the Nazis in 1930’s Weimar Germany. Pincer storm troopers patrolled the streets of South and Central American capitals and big cities, bullying, threatening and – eventually – killing its critics or people who thought differently, and its apologists and allies were deeply embedded within the North American government. The Pincer believed Latin America should be preserved for the ‘lineage of [their] fathers,’ which in their terms meant “European Latin America”. This put the US-backed government of Bolivia directly in the crosshairs of the Chilean juggernaut, which happened to coincide just as one of its chief rival Chile's closest allies in Latin America – Peru – lost its recently-retired flagship, the Almirante Grau, to a terrorist hijacking by perpetrators believed to be tied to Argentina and Chile. The missing ‘gun cruiser’ puts the world into a state of terror, knowing that one of the most powerful weapons of war on the planet was potentially in the hands of terrorists. This pandemonium is seized upon by the Argentine PNCR, which throws the country into a state of crisis and sees the return of the Kirchner dynasty less than a year later. The Anti-Fascist resistance fights on for years to come, but the fighters are reinforced month after month, year after year, by Russian, Peruvian and Chilean armor and artillery that cut through the Andes via bottleneck and switchback in hit-and-run attacks impossible to defend against and impossible to retaliate against, the dug-in columns of hostile armor and the sheer firepower awaiting both infantry and air craft attempting to bomb them out greeted with the same result each time – no matter the attack angle, the Andes themselves posing the greatest natural obstacle to the Argentine resistance. After almost two years of fighting against the Argentine government and Chile’s armed and paramilitary forces across the Southern Cone, the resistance falters in Argentina, and the country de facto falls under the influence of Russia and its vassals in Chile and Peru. At the same time, Argentinian and Chilean Armed Forces launch full-fledged military attacks in Bolivia, and the Taura and Simon Bolivar air bases in Ecuador. After these attacks, Chile and Argentina directed their Navy at Central America and Baja California with Chilean and former-Peruvian air support, while launching ‘shock-and-awe’ maneuvers against southwestern Bolivia in the other direction. Despite how thinly-dispersed its Armed Forces were at the time, the methodical precision and preparation laid out beforehand by the Pincer was impeccable and uncanny.

From March 2023 to August 2024, the alliance between the Panamanian, Honduran and Colombian states is broken when the latter of the three withdraws after military bases in San Andres and Buenoventura are hit by air strikes, killing 1,000 soldiers atop the thousands of others that had been killed or disappeared by the Pincer reign of terror over Latin America. Until 2022, an ailing Central American resistance to the Russian, Cuban and Venezuelan militants persists on a trickle of U.S. and North American aid, but the millions of displaced adding to the Venezuelan refugee crisis destabilizes virtually every country south of North American Mexico, and leaves Baja California wide open to an attack by Russian, Cuban or Chilean forces. With the newly-dependent autonomies of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama united under the flag of a Californian–Mexican federal entity; a level of civil unrest and socioeconomic instability unseen since the Central American Crisis of the late 1970’s wrought the region and left it at the mercy of relentless Pincer terrorism and Chilean ultranationalism backed by the rogue state of Texas. As opposed to coming to the aid of their southern neighbors like the binding treaty obligated them to in such a situation, California and Mexico – and thus, North America – declares neutrality alongside Colombia and Texas.

The 2024–2026 War in El Salvador begins when the Salvadoran Army spearheading an independence movement launches attacks in what would begin the Nicaraguan–Salvadoran War and the Battles of Leon and Managua indicative therein. The sporadic skirmishes and attacks by Salvador backed by Argentina, Chile and Russia gradually escalate and accelerate throughout the fall of 2024 and spring of 2025, culminating in a full-fledged Invasion of Nicaragua by the Salvadoran Army and Navy backed by Cuba, with the apex of the fighting in Leon and throughout northwest Nicaragua. The fighting results in a unified North American–US condemnation of El Salvador, and the Russian, Argentinean, Cuban and Chilean government’s support for the attack on Nicaragua, seen as an attack against the entire North American continent. Authorities in Los Angeles and Mexico City had little to complain about regarding the pro-Russian states of Latin America and their expansionism, as the neutralization of Ecuador and Colombia following a protracted war with Peru serves to push the former two countries into North America’s budding orbit outside of the United States’… that is, until, Russian-backed Pincer Chile's designs set upon the Baja California peninsula. Specifically, one of the most prominent metropolitan centers on the North American continent – Tijuana.

Second Winter War (2021–2027)


From 2014 to 2020, the Russian Federation actively aided and abetted separatist terror groups in the form of the People's Republic of Budjak, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine following the February 2014 Russian occupation of Crimea. But it would not stop there. After a staged election in Belarus, the two countries would begin antagonizing military maneuvers against Poland and Lithuania - as well as against Syria and Western Ukraine - in late 2020 and early 2021, by engaging what they called the Regional Group of Forces (RFG), active since at least 2009.

Throughout the latter-half of the 2010's, Russia ratchets up tensions with NATO over sanctions and other actions taken by the bloc against Russia over its militarism in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere. Finland, Sweden and Estonia bear the brunt of this, and the wider Baltic-Nordic region as a whole, with pro-Russian Finns maintaining a presence in government at least until 2024. By 2016, the U.S. was pushing hard for increased Nordic Defense cohesion, with the Baltic states integrating their military with those of the Nordics and NBG15 successfully orienting themselves to high veneration as a spearhead formation to a potential future EU-wide army. As tensions between Estonia and Russia reach fever pitch over unresolved 2000's controversies relating to language, national identity - sometimes crossing over into accusations of Neo-Nazism in the Baltic states and neo-imperialism in Russia - and kidnapping, and the E.U.-NATO-aligned National Coalition Party on the verge of winning the 2022 Finnish congressional election, Russia had all the boogeymen it needed for its next act.

On 18 December 2021, Russia invades the Åland and Moonsund islands after masked militants begin attacks in the largest cities later revealed to be ChVK Wagner and the ethno-nationalist Grey Wolves of Turkey. Two weeks later, on New Years' 2022, militants attack Vadsø, and Russia responds with an invasion and occupation of Finnmark two days later. The NBG and Polish Army react with mobilization on the northern Finnish–Russian border and Polish–Belarusian border, with the U.S. mobilizing in Poland after the involvement of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is revealed in 2023, but largely constrained by its own domestic issues. The Nordic-Polish build-up is cut off from Lithuania and Latvia by a Russian–Belarusian response in kind in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and the Belarusian borders with Lithuania and Poland. Skirmishes and border clashes abound from 2022 to 2026, but Russia maintains a constant presence in Finnmark and Northern Norway, at one point occupying the islands of Ringvassøya, Kvaløya, Senja and Hinnøya at various points in 2022, 2023 and 2024. In this way, Russia is simultaneously able to project its Northern Fleet into the Atlantic year-round, and at the same time keep NATO Europe engaged on multiple fronts simultaneously. Expanding from the frozen conflicts in Georgia, Crimea, the Donbass, Transnistria and Budzhak, to occupying islands in the Baltic and Sub-Arctic regions and arming Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Yugoslav separatists (a total of four additional fronts).

By April 2025, Russia had utterly rolled the Estonian economy, military and society; and in August a Russian–Belarusian invasion of Latvia finishes them off within a week. Although Lithuania would hold out for another 11 months due to a steady supply of air drops and artillery shelling from Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, eventually the Lithuanian state too would be dismantled with the help of a Belarusian invasion from the South. The two countries would then divide Latvia between the two, with Belarus annexing Lithuania and Russia, Estonia. By this point, European NATO and their allies are deeply engaged against pro-Albanian and Macedonian insurgents in the Western Balkans supported by Russia and Argentina, and had already suspected Russia of involvement even before devastating attacks on Naval Station Norfolk in mid-November 2026 and officially declared war on Russia.

Belarusian–Lithuanian War


In April 2025, after the Fall of Estonia, calculating that neighboring Latvia would soon be under attack and thus unable to aid its neighbors, Belarus attacked Dieveniškės, and began paramilitary insurgencies throughout the Šalčininkai District Municipality and attacks in the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius. Lithuania had been developing a Mechanized Autonomous Weapon since Russia's attacks on Estonia 4 years ago, and although it was up and ready barring a few aesthetic shortcomings by the time Kaliningrad began to mobilize, the decision was to "hold back" and concentrate the Lithuanian forces in the capital city.

Dieveniskes would fall a week later, and the Belarusians directed their armor and artillery across the border aided by Russian air support and shelling from Kaliningrad. With the promise by their dictator of a "return to the years of gold and red", the Belarusians not only possessed far superior firepower, but far superior morale and will, the Baltic nations as a whole weary from fighting Belarus, and wearier from fighting the Russians, for years on end. The decision to hold back their ace in the hole dooms the Lithuanians, as by the time the Belarusian-spearheaded CSTO invasion was knocking at Vilnius' door, they had deployed approximately a dozen MAWS, with hundreds allegedly from Russia inbound within minutes. Before the Lithuanians can engage the enemy MAWS with their own - even if it could've taken on half of them - the Lithuanian government surrenders, and the Belarusians take control of their lone MAW unit.

The massacres and bloodshed rivalled that of the 1939 German–Soviet invasion of Poland, with 500,000 killed or captured... but nearly all the former. Even after the surrender in mid-July, 2026, Belarus made sure to punish the Lithuanians for their resolve. Once the Nordic Battlegroup and Poland got wind of this, however, they spearheaded a shock and awe campaign which saw the fastest liberation of an occupation in the history of warfare. The presence of Anti-Russian Baltic insurgents covertly backed by Anti-Globalist Left-wing movements and American militia groups helped turn the tide, from the inception of Nordic and Polish air strikes and hit-and-run attacks in November of 2026 to the precipitation of regular skirmishes on the Polish-Belarusian border immediately thereafter, 48 hours later the Belarusians and Russians were pushed out of Lithuania, and the foothold they gained allowed them to liberate Finland a week later, and Latvia a week after that.

War in Poland
Even as early as 2016 and 2020, Belarus accused Poland of interfering in domestic affairs. The election of right-wing nationalist Andrzej Duda in the 2015 and 2020 Polish presidential elections was largely carried by conservative strongholds near the Belarusian minority areas and on the southeastern border with Slovakia, relations nominally stabilized between the two Slavic nations, until the Russian conflict with Finland and subsequent victory of a pro-EU faction in Poland's 2025 contest.

Following the 2021 arrests of several opposition journalists of Polish descent – one of which is denied medicine, tensions between Belarus an Poland soar. The latter condemns the ethno-nationalism of the regime of the former supported by Lithuania, and masses troops on the Belarusian–Polish border in April and Belarus is declared the “North Korea of Europe” in May. The very same month Belarusian dictator Lukashenko threatens to begin WW3 over accusations of anti-Polish ethno-nationalism within Belarusian borders.

Things escalated markedly in the 2026–2027 insurgencies in Białystok and Warsaw which is in and of itself an escalation of surveillance and kidnapping of Poles in the Grodno Region of Northwest Belarus and recruiting Belarusian Poles to spy on the incumbent government. The Podlaskie Voivodeship along with other neighboring conservative constituencies in East Poland - roughly 1.2 million - would vote to for autonomy and to join Belarus, with only the former accomplishing this task. Although aside from Greece having the most robust tank, armor and artillery fleet in continental Europe, Poland's own military was primarily concentrated around Warsaw, roughly a fourth of the Polish Army makes it to the Voivodeship's territory, albeit only in time to stop the Belarusian and secessionist onslaught. A frozen war begins to take form akin to that in Ukraine's Donbas, and would last until the collapse of Russia in the 2030's.

Argentinian–Chilean Attack on Tijuana


The international community condemns Argentina, Chile and Russia and calls on them to withdraw from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Central America and the Baltic States – particularly Chile with its support of El Salvador’s aggression in Nicaragua. Santiago and Buenos Aires respond with, “the needs of Latin America come first,” and declared their governments the rightful protectors of that region, insisting the United States and Europe were attempting to fulfill a “socialist empire agenda,” in the Western Hemisphere and that they needed to be stopped, accelerating their attacks with a sizeable invasion and outright annexation of Ecuador and Peru. Following this, Chile, Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela begin plans for an attack on Baja California.

Using connections to the Venezuelan government and Cuban military elite, Texan paramilitary and Mexican drug cartels, Russia, Argentina and Chile seize upon the fragile North American continent to launch attacks in occupied Mexico preceding a massive offensive in Tijuana – putting the country at direct odds with the unrecognized, Californian-led territory – and unites the rival American countries of North America and the U.S. in one crucial commonality: prioritization of the end of Imperialist Chile. Chilean allies in Cuba and Venezuela pound Mexico with air strikes, heavy artillery and missiles while the Chilean navy and army assist the Cuban air strikes and bombings in Tijuana and Salvadoran terror attacks across the Baja California peninsula. The largest sites of conflict initially began in the first quarter 2025 in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. A population of over 200,000 was displaced by the fighting between Argentinian and Coalition forces, with nearly 70,000 caught in the warzone and 4,000 civilian dead by the end of hostilities.

The Battle of Tijuana and the subsequent and connected Siege of Mexicali lasted from July and August 2025 respectively until April 2027, with a total body count hovering around 20,000 with nearly 400,000 displaced. Although stretched thin, the U.S. military with assistance from North America, Canada, Colombia and NATO are able to repulse the Chilean–Cuban offensive on the continent by mid-2027, with the total in the Baja California Campaign at nearly 30,000 dead. And although the Chileans and their Cuban allies retreat to lick their wounds, the battle a defeat for them, this perceived slight against the Spanish state and Latin America as a whole by the North and their Allies would merely serve to fuel the burning passion across South America - particularly within Chilean society to reinvigorate the idea of Prussia and a feared Germanic counterbalance - to pose a challenge to the West and the East, with Brazil's quest for superpower status still as of yet incomplete, and seen as weak by the PNCR. As a result, the Pincer would solidify their control of the Chilean, Argentinian and Peruvian governments, and accelerate still further their paramilitary and asymmetric attacks against Colombia, El Salvador and Ecuador. By the end of the year, El Salvador had been reclaimed by more moderate elements in line with the pro-American governments of Nicaragua and Guatemala and the pro-Chilean insurgency was thus pushed back and slowly tamped down throughout 2027 before being fully neutralized in early 2028, a ceasefire and surrender signed in San Salvador on 5 April 2030.

Balkan Offensive


On April the 18th, the détente standoff between the NATO-European defense alliance and Axis Forces comes to an end a little over two years later as a Turkish and Russian-Belarusian force invades Eastern Slovakia, Northeastern Hungary and Cluj in Northwestern Romania from the six oblasts in Western Ukraine it occupied at the time, and Argentine–Tunisian air and mechanized units attack Malta and the Azores and NATO air craft attack the Tunisian-occupied South Malta. This date is marked by many historians as the final major armed campaign of WWIII with the rest following a continuation of this same battle. The presence of over 17 active pro-Russian insurgencies across the continent decidedly evens the playing field - with Bosnia, Croatia, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Norway, Sweden, Slovakia and even anti-Western Serbia all weary fighting against Russian-backed uprisings in various regions, with Malta potentially the weakest link of them all. The Maltese government quickly surrenders, and Malta is temporarily occupied by Argentine-backed Italian partisans. With the joint-attack by the Union State, Turkey, Tunisia and Argentina (supported materially by Chile, logistically by other Latin American nations and North Korea) upon Mediterranean forces, followed by an intervention into Mainland Greece and the Balkans from the opposite direction of Belarus (which attack from the northeast) and an emboldened Chile's PNCR-backed attack on Central America a few days later – the aforementioned regions would not cease hostilities until the end of the War. French and Italian units head them off in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Bombardment continues throughout the rest of the month and into May. In June; French, North American and Italian forces commit a sizable attack in Tunisian Malta thereafter. With a multilateral and intercontinental counterattack, Turkish-Russian forces are knocked back riotously by NATO but are reinforced by Korean and Chinese air support.

Due to being associated with the Vatican deep state, Texan involvement in the United States prompts the EU to break off any and all relations with the United States of America, and sanction Dallas. The Italian government and Prime Minister sound the alarm after evidence emerges that the Luca Presidency was connected to Italian organized crime and North American drug cartels. The Italian government and over half of the military declare the Luca brothers "political terrorists," and call upon the Nordic Battlegroup alongside France for protection from the Lucists. The governments of France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Ireland, Sweden and Finland sign the 'Europa Articles of Confederation' later that week, which effectively inaugurate the "nation of Europe," as a de-facto nation-state of constituent countries, mainly as a symbolic but prominent rebuke to the Luca Presidency that they no longer considered the legitimate government of Italy, but primarily out of the realization that they could no longer rely solely on NATO and the United States for protection. NATO – at the highest levels of government – launch a last ditch attempt to distract away from their ties to the Kim Dynasty the Spanish Monarchy (via Bush, Clinton and Trump), Kerry and Russia, by accusing the French of providing the bulk of the missile systems to the Turkish–Russian offensive, when in fact it was Seoul. Infuriated, IF-led initiatives result in a “balkanizing” process of the US. The insurgencies in New York, Pennsylvania and Louisiana largely quelled by the voices of calm and reason that emerge as the nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties both in 2027 - Buttigieg and President Paul respectively, which manage to bring all territories aside from Texas back into the fold temporarily - including most of Southern California - much to the chagrin of the Atlantic and Central Americans. But the cohesion of the Union is weakened, 14 fully- or partially-recognized autonomous entities in place of one, with the previous 50 states collapsed down to 39 states (Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware would unite to form the 'Atlantic State,' with Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota, Illinois, and Utah attaining full independence while Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Long Island and Hawaii attain partially-independent autonomy) and at least 17 of which were home to ongoing active insurgencies and 1 of which (Dixon) was largely considered a rogue territory no longer under the purview of the U.S. federal government. Under his administration, Buttigieg promises to bring an absolute end to the insurgencies in the Midwest and Southwest, and bring the rest of California back into the United States as well as any other impoverished nation that may wish to share the wealth and prosperity afforded to the Union as it was intended. By appealing to progressives as well as libertarians, peaceful interventionism, the Anti-War Left and constitutionalism former-Sec. Buttigieg is able to emerge in the primary as the nominee, and run neck-in-neck with Paul throughout the fall and into the spring of 2028.



With angry men and women in uniform marching on D.C. from Arlington VA in support of the U.S., the UN and opposition to Russia's Security Council seat, Turkey's NATO membership, the emerging Texan-spearheaded 'Atlantic State'; A.S. and Texan riot control respond in the way they would to an unruly protest demonstration or ‘riot’ – what they do not expect is a full-fledged military assault into the A.S. – the skirmish lasts 15 minutes and ends only as Texan Governor-General Bush threatens to nuke the Capitol building and Eastern Manhattan – specifically, UN headquarters. Beijing and Norfolk also threaten to detonate nuclear weapons over Mexico City out of opposition to North America whom they accuse of being behind the foundation of the "new confederation" of the A.S. and the rise of the Texan rogue state under Bush – and with nearly a fifth of the population of the US at risk, President-elect Haaland backs down at the behest of the acting president, but not without voicing her concerns about a development that – coincidentally or otherwise – occurred on the same day that the D.C.-Manhattan Crisis did so, the Russia-Argentina offensive.

Turkish–Russian Insurgency in Lebanon and Syria


Shortly before the April 18th offense, Turkey, Belarus and Russia order troop presence in Gaza after falsified reports come out (originating in Egypt) of Interpol claiming Israeli forces were behind a terror attack in North Nicosia and Girne (it was actually the Wagner Group, a Pan–Slavic ultranationalist terror group). Concurrently with the Balkan Emergency, Israeli and Turkish-backed forces stand off along demarcated buffer zones in Shuja'iyyat al-Akrad, al-Qubbah and al-Shati - with skirmishes at first and then erupting into full-blown conflict from early May until mid-July.

The Israeli State collapses into civil war between Israelis assisting Palestine, Israeli Arabs allied with Russia, and Israeli State Loyalists shortly after Russia, Belarus and Turkey orchestrate a Hezbollah coup that topples parts of Southern Israel and replaces them with an Egyptian annex. Tel Aviv and Bethlehem maintain a sanctuary presence in the areas of conflict, assisted via air drops and air strikes by the United States, Arab League and Britain. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Morocco respond with anti-air and missile strikes against a Russian-backed flotilla in the Mediterranean, which is complemented by a Turkish shock-and-awe campaign spearheaded by Turkish Jandarma and SAT teams supported by Turkish and Russian air forces and S-400 missile strikes. The Turks maintain an expansionist presence of varying degrees in the Levant and Middle-East throughout the war using Russia and Belarus as a foil, following the CSTO–Turkish offensive. With Turkey, Belarus and Russia’s attack on Israel, and the Turkmen dug in like a tick in Israel and the West Bank, NATO is stretched thin and kept engaged on multiple fronts simultaneously by Neo-Fascist Turkey, Russia and their Chinese allies.



The Balkan Emergency was formally recognized worldwide by November Third after NATO fell back, delivering parting strikes on IF and Pact forces alike. The dispute is assessed diplomatically between RECON and Brussels at a meeting between the two sides. NATO Supreme Commander Timothy M. Ray accuses IF forces of ‘getting in the way’ and convoluting NATO’s campaign. Eventually ties warm after the IF and NATO (as well as the United States and AS) agrees to set aside differences and focus on their mutual foe: rogue jihadist radical extremists and the Pact – particularly Russia and Latin America. But the event in question that President-elect Buttigieg addresses does not have to do with the Balkan Emergency, it has to do with what else RECON found on their classified mission, which is soon echoed by Luca's announcement of the return of the notoriously-fascist and grotesque Iron Guard. The Argentine-backed Italian ultranationalists now occupying Northern Italy announce an exchange in government structure – into the hands of the Luca Dynasty – and a change of name, the Legion of the Archangel, and – even more terrifying - the establishment of the LA Iron Legion secret police force, which shortly thereafter transforms into an assassin army of covert death squads. The infamy of the unusual morbidity of the originally-Romanian Iron Guard – even for a fascist movement – was well-known throughout World War II. Even the Mussolini faction of Italian Fascists distanced themselves from this “death cult”. Nevertheless, nearly a century later, the repugnant organization had returned, proudly displaying its devoutly murderous ideology which, in conjunction with its radical theocratic Christian martyrdom and its sinister and militaristic application thereof, was compared to a “Taliban on Steroids”.

The legacy of Argentine-backed Francesco and Luciano De Luca and the “Iron Legionnaire State” is one of unparalleled authoritarianism not seen since Putin, in fact – far more so. The Totalitarian suppression of dissent and freedom of speech – not to mention the presence of Iron Legionnaires, coupled with Luca militant expansionism – serves to put the Lucas in the same category as Adolf Hitler by the end of the decade. Although Turkey, Latin America and the Russians stand by their mutual Pacific compatriot, even Madrid and Buenos Aires begin to distance themselves from the increasingly neo-fascist, hyper-nationalist foreign policy and ideology of Chile’s totalitarian and xenophobic president Salazar, whom they even claim several times throughout the next decade that such desires would endanger not only all of Latin America, but all of America and the world as a whole.

U.S. Cold War (2020–2058)
The American Cold War - also known as Civil War II in America - took place from 2024 to 2041, although some historians count the start of political upheaval 16 months after the election of Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren as the 46th President and 49th Vice President of the United States respectively on November 3rd, 2020 as the beginning of hostilities. More specifically, the rise of a evangelical terrorist movement emerging across the Deep South; Louisiana, Mississippi, and as far north as Pennsylvania and as far west as Wyoming. The earliest tremors were felt on election day, on 3 November 2020, a movement bent on revenge against the "Left" for electing a woman to the presidency had emerged out of the woodwork, but also out of a servile devotion to former-President Donald Trump, whom they never failed to perceive as a constant victim of some vast, convoluted conspiracy. The Republic of Texas had been politically pushing for independence since 1996, with financial backing of the Russian Federation. Simultaneously, Argentina and other Latin American nations also funded secession movements in California, New York City and New England, with the latter two movements primarily emerging from the ideologies of wealthy and elite power brokers such as Hillary Clinton and former-President Donald Trump.

After Texas secedes, independence movements are inspired in California, New England and the Maryland. The Biden and Warren administration proves just as divisive, if not more so, than the Presidencies of Donald Trump and Obama. Donald Trump runs for reelection in the 2020 presidential election against Democratic Nominee Biden. When the former Vice President defeats Trump in by Electoral College vote but not the popular vote, which goes to the President via Texas during the general election, Russia, Argentina and other adversaries immediately seized the opportunity - with recently-elected New York Governor Hillary Clinton forging an alliance of convenience with Trump and the Russians after being bested by the Warren for the VP slot. The cogs of the Clinton machine, Latin America and Russia begin to turn shortly after the unrecognized split of Texas from the U.S. under former-President and Texas Governor-General George W. Bush, as independence movements pop up in California, New York and New England - claiming the mantle of the Biden-Warren 2020 slogan "Declare Independence" - after Biden's (at the behest of Warren statements of independence from Wall Street, which infuriate Democratic and Republican mega-donors alike.

After Trump and Russia form their alliance with Washington Democrats and all former Presidents (except Jimmy Carter) against then-acting President Elizabeth Warren, the Texas delegates refuse to support Trump despite winning the state, resulting in furious unrest and street-fighting in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, resulting in the Texas National Guard and Military being called in led by former-President and emergency-military Governor-General Bush, who declares a literal State of Emergency and has the incumbent State Government arrested for allowing the impasse and threat to the continuity of government continue for as long as it had (90 days). Trump concedes defeat to Biden and Warren - but the damage is done. Texas never sees itself the same way again, and a slow but steady lurch toward autonomy and, in time, full independence begins. Likewise, shortly after, President Trump begins a nationwide campaign centered in Texas, New England and the Atlantic State and after backing by the Russians and Turks he also begins to campaign among California's Republican Party. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is elected Governor of California in 2021, and soon after Republicans sweep the state legislature and effectively put Republicans in power at all levels except the Governorship, allowing Trump to position himself as the leader of a nationwide independence and resistance movement.

Gov. Clinton unquestionably benefits, since the Republicans and Russians now had their sights on a Democrat that wasn't named Clinton - and Trump's brand was no longer an effective scapegoat after Ted Cruz's popularity with the right-wing and evangelical movements, not to mention the growing presence of secessionist fever propelling the former Defense Secretary's and President Trump's budding 2024 re-run was beginning to terrify her. This pushes her firmly into the Russian-Republican faction in the U.S., and her wealth and connections in the A.S. region would prove indispensable in turning the Western Militia and paramilitary groups against the Warren-Sanders faction of the Democratic Party.

By 2024, the civil unrest and political violence in the A.S. and New England had eclipsed the chaos in Texas 26 months earlier threefold, resulting in the establishment of the Atlantic State and Massachusetts as new constituent, autonomous countries in the Northeast United States - with a population of nearly 50 million and 20 million respectively. Their proximity to New York City, and Hillary Clinton's sphere of economic and political power, serves to elevate the two new American countries to the status of regional powers. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota - as well as North and South Carolina - immediately integrate their economies, military and paramilitary forces, and a neutered New York State ends up absorbed by a unified New England. Arizona, Louisiana and California attain autonomous status and immediately gobble up smaller states in their orbit. The Republic of California soon after leads the push to create a political union modeled after the European Union and USSR. The Federation of Union State Republics (F.U.S.R.), more commonly known as North America is established, spearheaded by President Kevin McCarthy, which is recognized as a regional power by 2024 before falling under the sway of NATO and the UN in the 2050's and 2060's. WIP

Korean War on the United Nations & G7 (2021–2028)


The Second Korean War, also referred to as the Korean War on the United Nations or the Korean War on the G7, by some accounts began in 2021-2022 when China began pressuring Korea to unify under the North and the U.S. from the South, although most put the start date with the 2024 Japanese Attack on Korea. The Second Japanese–Korean War ends in 2024, after Japan’s attack, which draws attention to the presence of U.S. forces abroad and American imperialism. This causes a chain reaction of much of America’s allies joining Russia in their concurrent conflict with NATO and resulting in World War III. Seoul and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sign an armistice in 2025.



Over the next three years the Koreas integrate their economy and military, with focus on the latter stagnating the Korean Union’s potential standing among global wealth in exchange for a military with the largest standing army on Earth, eclipsing India – the 4th-strongest military power – in total aircraft, attack aircraft, eclipsing all nations but Russia in towed artillery and self-propelled guns, China and the United States in total warships and frigates, and tanks and fighters/interceptors respectively, and one of the top 4 largest armored fighting vehicle, submarine and attack helicopter fleets surpassed only by China, Russia and the United States of America themselves.

Although the capital of Seoul is maintained as the new capital of the two Koreas, the preservation of the Korean Workers’ Party under the allegedly ceremonial head of state role of Korean State Secretary Kim Yo-jong leads to a resistance movement known as the “Korean Republic” headquartered in Gwangju in Southeastern Korea, supported by China and NATO that perseveres into the 2040’s and ‘50s. Korea would nominally align with the Russians in their resistance to the rogue and rapidly-disintegrating Chinese States, although even they would take issue with the newly-expansionist United Koreas over territorial claims, they themselves hypocritical in their claims to Mongolian and Manchurian territory outside of traditional Russia.



By the time a pro-Western bloc began to rise to power in Russia in the late-2020's, early-2030's, it was already too late. The disintegration of Russia had already begun, and the scramble among the remaining Great Powers to establish a foothold in the new Russian Republics over the next century would begin. Korea would remain, although greatly diminished in military power, an economic force to be reckoned with - even after the United Nations and NATO regain preeminence over the Western World. Japan would serve as a counterbalance to the Koreans and Turks, even as their relations with the West grew strained over continuing imperialism would last throughout the 21st and the first half of the 22nd centuries...

While most of the Western and corporate media - and by extension Western history textbooks - would overemphasize the importance and role Russian aggression against NATO countries played in the UN's involvement in the third global conflict; as early as the 1990's and 2000's India-North Korea and  India–U.S. nuclear cooperation under the Korean Kim, Indian Atal Bihari Vajpayee and American Bush regimes, the IAEA and NSG enabling of India's (and thus North Korea's) nuclear programme, enabling of North Korean general aggression in the region while  directly funding their own nuclear program, in addition to  North Korean-Indian influence in Asia via SAARC (particularly the Afghan state of affairs resulting from Pakistani, Saudi, Egyptian, Chinese, British and US support of the Sunni Mujahideen in the 1979 Soviet-Afghan War and even as far back as Afghan–Pak tensions over the Durand Line) and BIMSTEC as well as its relations with Japan and North Korea via India's "Look East" policy as well as defense ties to France, Israel and Russia would all contribute to the emergence of Fascism in India and elevation of a North Korean-Russian axis.



Beginning in late 2018, early 2019, Japan and South Korea exchange venomous accusations over a rapidly-escalating spat between a South Korean naval destroyer and a Japanese fighter plane. At the same time, the North Korean-US summits between North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump isolate and radicalize the Japanese government.

With both countries jockeying for a relationship with the otherwise 'Hermit Kingdom,' the implications of North Korean-Nazbol plot to pit Japan against South Korea or possibly even China became more real.

In 2022-2023, beginning in mid-December, North Korean Juche-militants in Japan began conducting hit-and-run attacks, assassinations and kidnappings in Osaka. Japan responds by increasing militarization of its police forces, the ASEAN+6 mechanism (which China would later leave) and a NATO-backed raid on Jeju Island on 12 February 2023, which brings an immediate sanctions and military response against South Korean forces in general at the threat from the Russian and Chinese-backed fourth column and their allies - both traditional and otherwise. North Korea had succeeded in removing the international spotlight from its next move. A U.S.-Australian led coalition consisting of NATO vessels enforcing a blockade of the Sea of Japan while patrolling the Yellow Sea with air support is sufficient, though the situation on Jeju Island is not so pleasant. Russian-backed Korean infantry come to direct blows with US-backed Korean Republican, USFK and Japanese ground forces as part of a longer campaign involving a stalemate between Japanese and Korean artillery that would continue to be unresolved long after the armistice on 8 September 2023. Japan would be further-isolated after opening fire on Korean gun-boats and Russian frigates in La Pérouse Strait, killing 79 civilians in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport and 247 others at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk train station in Sakhalin, Russia (in addition to several of their intended North Korean and Russian military targets) which immediately invades and occupies Hokkaido, largely from meek concession on the part of the Japanese government in "the name of peace".

Although coalition forces suffer only 57 casualties regarding the sinking of the USS Nantucket (LCS-27) by RIM-161 rockets from South Korea, the Jeju Siege would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands more at the hands of these very same rockets under Japanese jurisdiction. By the armistice in the fall of 2023, Jeju City was declared uninhabitable. Over 300,000 people were killed in the span of 45 minutes when loyalists to the Kim Regime hijacked South Korean missiles and attempted to use them on the Japanese occupation forces in the South of the island. Nearly a quarter of the people managed to be evacuated without warning, only because of the funeral services for the then-Jeju Province Governor Won Hee-ryong, who had passed away earlier that morning due to suspicious circumstances (also revealed to be the North). After a begrudging international Korean-Japanese investigation into the circumstances behind the killings of Japanese and South Korean officials reveals the implications of the North Korean State itself, Japan begins the process of rolling back their active ground forces, which in turn provokes the deescalation of NATO and US involvement... but it is far too little too late.

A surprise tactical nuclear bombing of Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, just 30 kilometers south of the South Korean Capital of Seoul kills 800,000 people instantaneously, and another 500,000 die of radiation by the end of 2028. At the same time, a coup unfolds in Seoul, with elements within the President's administration accusing the leadership of staging a false-flag operation to justify further U.S. neo-imperialism. The controversy penetrates all levels of society in Northeast Asia, reaching as high up as the Kim Dynasty itself - revealing an intricate web of connections involving a member of the Chinese Communist Party and his own connections to the North Korean Kim Regime and the Kremlin. A deep web of power was becoming exposed, due to this corruption. The people of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and throughout Mainland China and Tibet unite to demand accountability from the Communist Party to stand up to the sway of foreign influence from "Imperialists" and "financial terrorism," in which they are accused of being sell-outs and crooks. All across the region unrest reaches a boiling point until NATO relents to the cries of Japan and Anti-Russian Korean insurgents begging for help from the cascading Russian-Korean onslaught, aided and assisted by Beijing and moles they had carefully placed throughout the city. South Korea had fallen for the North's dividing and conquering of East Asia, encouraged by the Russian Kremlin and Belarusian KGB.

Thus the Second Japanese-Korean War concluded, and the Global War on Korea and their backers in Russia and China commenced.

2026-2027
August – During the Vector Crisis of East Asia, Korea and the Regional Forces Group come upon the realization that Japan's, and the rest of the region’s, intense focus on the containment and pacification of the bioterrorist threat lends it the perfect opportunity to trample Japan and occupy the island, to exact revenge upon the Pro-American country that attacked them several years earlier. Korea invades Japan and the Philippines with its full force of millions of soldiers, thousands of aircraft and hundreds of naval vessels including fifty battlecruisers and 3 supercarriers. What Korea forgets is Japan's MAW complement of still-over 550 MAWS (459 Scout, 77 Tanks and 9 Command), which they had been actively upgrading and retrofitting with constantly-updating technology and consistently more advanced weaponry for the past two years, aided by Japan's industry and dormant 70-strong RONIN fleet in the south of the Korean-occupied Japanese archipelago adding to the Allied forces. Although China still has over 1,000, they are outmatched both technologically and in raw firepower by Korea, and cannot adequately aid them (Japan also largely dominated by Western political influence at this time). The invasion is repulsed, miraculously, as Japan throws all 719,000 of its military personnel from the navy, ground forces and air forces against Korea's far more numerous and technologically-advanced – including its 557-strong “advanced walkers” – in ferocious resistance. Over 48 million Chinese and nearly 2 million Japanese soldiers and paramilitary are killed in the fight against Korea and RFG based there, including three quarters of their own MAW force, while the Japanese and Republican Koreans lose a paltry 17 MAWS, even with the fabled “Gun Dragon” Command Walker (of which China claimed to have an entire army, yet only had two with one a secret), the People’s Liberation Army fails where the SHOGUN fighters and their RONIN counterparts – the latter revered as the pinnacle of the manned Command Walkers to fight in the Third World War – succeed in repelling the RFG's second major offensive in the region in mere months.

Korea's Philippines invasion is repulsed almost instantly by the heavy number of infected there, and shortly after the East repel the COSECTOR on August 20th anti-Communist Tibetan separatist movements begin to surge across the continent. With the Liberation Army already in a weathered state from their battering by the Koreans, they make the last mistake they should’ve made – poorly executed intelligence and a heated ‘shoot first ask questions later’ attitude. Delivering the exact same response they have given to every attempted uprising, what they do not expect is a tactical, guerrilla-style counterattack with carefully and patiently-executed strategic response by the Tibetan Insurrectionists. Several cells placed within the PLA and Communist Party execute bombings against government structures in Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin – as well as PLA strongholds in Chengdu, Luoyang and Xuchang. This creates a domino effect resulting in the immediate elimination of most of the Communist Party and PLA command structure, throwing the Chinese armed forces into disarray and giving the Tibetan opposition the tactical superiority for the duration of the confrontation. Sympathetic Anticommunist movements gain footholds in each of the seven military regions, as well as the North and East of India, arising from opposition to the pro-Korean and Indian Communist Party from within the PLA as well as the Indian Armed Forces. Throughout the rest of the year, into the next, and the beginning of the year after that, the Communists slowly lose their grip on Beijing and China as a whole. Shortly thereafter Japan, Taiwan and Free China launch an all-out assault on Beijing, capturing it and politically liberating China from Korea no more than 48 hours later. Korea effectively surrenders, with the Supreme Leader declaring war on India, although a series of quasi-terrorist militant guerilla movements would continue to wage asymmetric warfare for decades after the ostensible collapse of the Kim regime.

2028-2029– Despite Tibet’s ostensible political victory, the Communists – led by the imperialist and hypernationalist Fang Kaizeng – via Korean, Russian and North American support hold out for several more years within the walls of the Forbidden City as the de facto headquarters of a Chinese-led Security Council dominion. Field Marshal Fang Kaizeng, the self-appointed yet unchallenged UNCIC since late 2027 after the previous, had been the last person seen with his predecessor, and is thus blamed for his disappearance as he attempts open totalitarian rule over the United Nations – the Security Council that includes Britain, France, Pakistan and the United States of America – and by extension, ruling the known world. By 2027 the IF led by Tibet is able to mount a successful assault on the Palace of Heavenly Purity and capture Marshal Fang, destroying a hidden second Gun Dragon in the process, thus ending the incessant hostilities fomenting within Beijing over the last year. Shortly after this, Tibet's allies in Indian Kashmir are aided by France, Pakistan, Turkey, the Arab League and United Kingdom in an Invasion of Himachal Pradesh. Before Allied forces can make it to New Delhi, the 2027 nuclear bombardment cripples India - but takes the near-1,000,000-strong invasion force with it.

Post-Moratorium Era (2035–2082)


The Fallout and Aftermath of WWIII sees victory for the Allies: led by the UK, France and Japan against Russia, Belarus, Turkey and most of Latin America. The United States and the Canadian countries are not so lucky, seeing how despite the fact that the Russians, Turks, Argentinians, and their mole-state in South America, Colombia, had been beaten after being cornered in the strait of Dover – the Latin Union, backed by Japan and the Co-Sector, had effectively annexed Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Mexico, California, Nevada and the Rust Belt States of America (Excluding Indiana and Illinois) while North America would annex the rest of Canada in time and California would fight for its independence in 2041-2047.

The Treaty of Halifax is signed under Terms of Surrender by the Russians, Belarusian, Turkish and Korean Governments, English junta and former-President Luca, Commander Nikita Kravychko, the ultra-nationalist governments of Argentina and Chile, the English Chancellor, 16 senior Chilean, Argentinian, Korean and Cuban officials, Wyomingite Midwestern Gen. Secretary Liz Cheney, former-President John Kerry, former-Vice President Hillary Clinton, Lord Christian Pharaoh of Edinburgh, Fang Kaizeng's military brass and 368 other senior military and government officials from Latin America, the Middle-East and Cuba. The only five nations exempt from the repercussions of aiding CoSector are; Iran, North Korea, Libya, Bolivia and North America – and, ironically, only because they maintained their commitment to defeat Colombia and Lord Pharaoh.

All territories under the unrecognized State of North America are transferred to U.S. jurisdiction, but the damage is done. The Republic of Texas, New England, large swathes of the Rust Belt and across the southwest become a frozen conflict zones, California a few years later annexing Washington, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia and parts of Baja and the Yukon over the course of roughly a decade. And while the RT remains surrounded on all sides by U.S. Commonwealths, the united “autonomous regions” formerly comprising the United States of America, Mexico and Cuba would never be as unified and coherent a political entity as they once were. Concurrently, the European Union is federalized into a single government with its capital in Brussels and Belgium is divided between France and United Germania – the two countries becoming symbols of diametrically opposing political ideologies – with France incorporating into the UE superstate as its preeminent “cultural state”, and the Germanic Union opting out, still wary of France, Spain and Italy after their manipulation by Russia and Latin American governments in the 1990’s and 2000’s – choosing instead to focus on building up its autonomy and sway within United Europe. Austria and Germany (after the latter is infiltrated by pro-Chilean Prussian nationalists) are federalized under a Pan-Germanic government coalition centered in Rotterdam, Holland. Due to its proximity to Brussels, along with France’s devolved sovereignty and autonomy within the European state, the Netherlands and Slavic peoples would become the more well-off of Europeans for the first half of the 21st Century (although the former is eventually threatened by climate change). North Africa, after maintaining its commitment to the Allies of WW3 by overthrowing the English-backed military junta, along with Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Mauritania, and Egypt, all commit themselves to dependency status of the new Kingdom of Arabia.

Crime by NATO–UN peacekeepers
As early as 2004, Amnesty International reported that under-age girls were being kidnapped, tortured and forced into prostitution in Kosovo with UN and NATO personnel being the customers driving the demand for the sex slaves. The UN's department of peacekeeping in New York acknowledged at that time that "peacekeepers have come to be seen as part of the problem in trafficking rather than the solution".

An Associated Press (AP) investigation revealed in 2017 that more than 100 United Nations (UN) peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti over a 10-year period and none were ever jailed. The report further found that between 2005 and 2018 there have been almost 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other UN personnel around the world. AP found the abuse is much greater than previously known.

Rapid increase in prostitution
Reporters witnessed a rapid increase in prostitution in Cambodia, Mozambique, Bosnia, and Kosovo after UN and, in the case of the latter two, NATO peacekeeping forces moved in. Instances of abuse in Cambodia caused widespread outrage after many of the abused women and girls also ended up contracting HIV/AIDS and other diseases that were not prevalent among the local population. A Kosovo victims support group reported that of the local prostitutes, a third were under 14, and 80% were under 18. Amnesty said the victims were routinely raped "as a means of control and coercion" and kept in terrible conditions as slaves by their "owners"; sometimes kept in darkened rooms unable to go out. In Haiti, the Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted girls and boys as young as 12 for sex. "I did not even have breasts," said Victim No. 1, a girl. She reported to UN investigators that from ages 12 to 15 she had sex with over 40 peacekeepers, including someone called "Commandant" who paid her 75 cents. She stated that she slept in UN trucks on the UN base. In Haiti, 134 peacekeepers from Sri Lanka operated the child sex ring, luring children with candy and cash, according to the AP. After a U.N. report incriminated the peacekeepers, most were sent back to Sri Lanka, but none served any jail time.

1996 UN study
In the 1996 UN study The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, former first lady of Mozambique Graça Machel documented: "In 6 out of 12 country studies on sexual exploitation of children in situations of armed conflict prepared for the present report, the arrival of peacekeeping troops has been associated with a rapid rise in child prostitution."

Eight years later, Gita Sahgal spoke out with regard to the fact that prostitution and sex abuse crops up wherever humanitarian intervention efforts are set up. She observed: "The issue with the UN is that peacekeeping operations unfortunately seem to be doing the same thing that other militaries do. Even the guardians have to be guarded."

Involvement in brothels
There was one highly publicised case where members of the UN peacekeeping force were accused of direct involvement in the procurement of sex slaves for a local brothel in Bosnia. The use of agents for procurement and management of brothels has allowed the military to believe itself shielded from the issue of sexual slavery and human trafficking. Some NATO troops and private contractors of the firm DynCorp have been linked to prostitution and forced prostitution in Bosnia and Kosovo, as have some UN employees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they were accused of the sexual abuse of girls.

Department for Peacekeeping Operations (1992–2019)
The era of the United Nations Department for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) was arguably the darkest era of the entirety of the UN's history as an intergovernmental organization aside from World War II itself, with one of their first operations resulting in the deaths of thousands of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Between the 1990's and early 2020's, thousands of UN and NATO peacekeepers were involved in crimes of sexual abuse, theft and murder; with the UNMIK in Kosovo between 1999 and 2027, MINUSTAH in Haiti between 2004 and 2017, UNMIS from 2005 to 2011 and MONUSCO from 1999 to 2025 in the Sudan and Congo respectively - the latter of which was ruled by a regime renown for its use of mass rapes as well as sexual violence and slavery as a weapon of war, and the former regime had a similar reputation, along with Mozambique, another site of savagery and 89 rapes in the Central African Republic Civil War - alone raped over 3,000, many of them children, or kept them as sex slaves and murdered as many as 140.

Further investigation post-War shows that a lot of this may have been to do with the UN's at this point inability to act in anyway to meaningfully challenge any UN Security Councilor that decided something it didn't like, no matter how unanimously that decision may have been opposed internationally and globally. This led to a lot of UN institutions fraying and buckling after the Cold War under the weight of reckless and hyper-corrupt rogue states such as Sudan, the Congo, Saudi Arabia, and other harbors and protectors of criminals and psychopaths. Many of them would go unpunished until after World War III, when the United Nations shut down its short-lived Department of Peace Operations to rely directly on the armies of the European Union, Pakistan and China itself to defend it from the new enemy. All countries that resist the post-war order are eventually relieved of their vigilantes by force throughout the next several decades until the late-2050's with the commencement of the Creed Wars, wherein the vast majority of its power structure would be corrupted by the white supremacist ideology of the European and Latin American-spearheaded International Criminal Court and the extremely Anti-Arab xenophobia of a Post-War NATO.

Africa
In Africa, the economic centers of Lagos, Kinshasa, Khartoum, Dar es Salaam and Abidjan collapse into political crises (the Nigerian Supremacy Crisis) in which anti-Communist Catholic Monarchists in the Nigerian, Sudanese, Tanzanian, Congolese and Ivorian governments attempt to establish Monarchies in the aforementioned cities, whom each assert their own claims over the continent of Africa from between 2027 and 2043. This results in the establishment of an Equatorial Defense Organization (EDO) headquartered in Dakar, Senegal and Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (the city hit hardest by Monarchist-Catholic firefights and bombings), that includes all of the former ECOWAS, Central Africa and resulting submissions from Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Namibia, Malawi, Madagascar, Eritrea and Somalia – the 9 countries subsequently joining EDO, which would later become the Equatorial Republic and with them officially eclipses North America (3rd) and Oceania (4th) to become the third-most populous nation, and by 2199 – the most populous in the history of the human race by a wide margin with jurisdiction of nearly 4 billion citizens. Tanzania, Mozambique, and most of East Africa manage to reestablish a foothold against the insurgency with assistance from the British by the late 2050’s, but the southwestern countries fail to escape the bloodbath resulting in millions of deaths – atop the million that perished in the 2037–2043 Crisis – as Monarchists seize the Congolese capital of Kinshasa and begin their push north beginning in 2044. By 2053, the Monarchist Congo has transformed into the United Kingdoms of Africa (UKA), seizing 14 countries and resulting in the deaths of a grand total of 11 million Central and West Africans. In the Maghreb, countries are deemed too economically-deficient to function on their own, many of them crippled in putting so much finance into defense from the Federalist-Monarchist conflict immediately following 20 years of global war, thus – an EU-Commonwealth-spearheaded effort federalizes the Maghreb as well, which – after the Maghreb Civil War of 2038-2044 – results in a Sultan seizing power and maintaining decades of rule by Sharia Law over the Maghreb.

From 2039 to 2099, the EDO would form a secular alliance against the United Maghreb and Catholic Congo. The short-lived Latin Atlantic was a trilateral attempt to federalize the Catholic Church, narrow the divide between Islam and Christianity in addition to stabilizing Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2028 in Tunisia - a Muslim-majority country - the federation would have a tri-city capital, similar to Switzerland, with the executive headquartered in Dakar of Senegal, the legislature in Tunis, and judiciary in Libreville, Gabon. A year later, in addition to the 18 nations of Africa (including the North African Union), the four Spanish Republics, France, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal and Greece would join the Latin Atlantic. Federal America, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and the Philippines join as observer states with Europe joining the same year as France, Italy and Spain, the Americas in 2030 and the Philippines in 2033. The 2030's were a golden decade for Africa, with a majority of Africa's wars of the early 21st century ending by 2029, and the only real issues arising from the Maghreb. However, the rise of Catholic Monarchists connected to movements under Muslim rule in Sudan in the Zaire Democracy in 2036 before seizure of power in 2038 would lead to Latin Atlantic President Youssou Abdellahi facing calls to step down from Libreville and Tunis, the latter simultaneously facing pro-American jihadists sponsored by the Caliphate of Egypt and the former expansionist Christian Nationalists. By 2058 Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast had turned inward, the EDO was put on ice, and an international network of ultranationalist Catholic Monarchists had shut down both Congos, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea while Central Africa, Angola, Rwanda and Gabon were effectively Monarchist satellites, and the countries of Zambia, Tanzania, South Sudan, Chad and Cameroon had collapsed almost entirely. The Latin Atlantic would be reformed in 2101 following the defeat of Arcadia on Mars and subsequent collapse of NATO, but would eventually be absorbed into a Pan-African superstate. Nevertheless, following the rise of Martian Arabia, the American Realignment via control of Mars and the Hellenic-backed Keplerian triumph over Terran Mars in the 2060's would pave the way for a resurgent Africa and breaking the grip Fascism held over Latin America once and for all.

The new age of technological advancement surrounding spacefaring civilizations in the 2100’s and late 21st century results in a Cold War between the United Nations – and its eventual successor, the International State – and the new ‘Earth Seven (E7)’ superstate, proxy wars in Arabia, the Kalahari, and their respective puppet states of Korea, Britain and throughout Asia. Europe and the Imperialist Korean-friendly Anglo-American bloc engage in an arms race with each other and Korea engages in a Space Race with Oceania and India, with the latter staunchly opposing globalization. These conflicts – the UN–Pacific Cold War and the Korean-Oceanic Wars – result in the ostensible plundering of the Abidjan Pact’s natural resources, and the domination of its government by Korean and European Mega-Corporations, which in turn results in the United African Republics not only becoming the largest country in human history, but also the poorest. Despite this, after the armistice and reopening of relations between the E7 and the Internationalists, all countries of Africa, with the exception of the Martian-dominated Arab Kingdom occupying the Maghreb of North Africa, manage to rally together and establish the first continent-wide direct democracy in human history, beating the American States by 35 years, despite the former being a mere 7.1% of the GDP produced by the American continent.

Eurasia
After the Fall of Moscow in 2034, Russia is Balkanized into Muscovite Russia (Moscow), Siberia, the Sakha Republic, North Asia, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Mordovia, Mari El, Komi, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, and the Confederation of Chechnya incorporating the 8 Caucasian Republics of Russia into their own nation. The period between 2035 and 2061 (26 years) is seen by many historians as the peak of Republican Russia. In 2053, the Republicans launch a protracted war (Russian Unification War) with one another to unify Russia that lasts until 2059. The result is the annexation of the 12 Russian Nations into Semi-Autonomous Republics of Confederate Scandinavia and Slavic Europe, negotiated with the European Union as mediator. The deal was that the Republicans would reunite Russia – under the rule of the United Nations. With all of Europe already federalized, the fiat-annexation of sections of the former-Russian Federation by the Eurasian Republics (and actual annexation by Scandinavia) completes the unification of Eurasia under Authoritarian Imperialist ideology. The final capstone being the annexation of Mongolia followed by Korea’s Turkish allies annexing all the Central Asian “Stans” – and last but not least, Japan and all Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos – are swept into the Social-Imperialist Superstate, as a result (to unify the military) the Union of Socialist Korean Republics (USKR) is established in 2062. A year later Eurasia and Korea sign into existence the Commission of Eurasian Nations (CEN) and the Eurasian Republics Alliance (ERA) is established as a military union in 2064. The Socialist Government of semi-autonomous North America signs the Hemispheric Free Trade Agreement (HeFTA) with the ERA in 2066.

War in the Maghreb
Between September 2037 and April 2039, the nations of the Latin State, American States and Jordan spearheaded a series of manned-missions to Mars. The loose confederation of North African and Middle-Eastern countries, first established by Jordan and the Independent State of Mecca after the fall of Egypt in 2023, would spearhead the international effort to settle humans on the Red Planet following the conclusion of World War 3 in the mid-2020's. Due to the prevalence of religious sentiment still remaining throughout the region into the 2100s, a crisis of faith would consume and divide Islam between its more progressive ranks, and those who believed the human space exploration initiative launched by the US, Jordan and the Latin State were "blasphemy". Jihadists and extremists would terrorize the Muslim populace over the actions of Jordan, the Arab World and the West for decades, before being primarily united against the incursion by NATO and the United Nations in 2065.

Mars Landings (2037–2039)


After the successful launch of the ITS in May 2026, a series of manned missions to Mars were planned for 2030 and 2036 respectively. The fallout of World War 3 and interrelated ongoing conflicts between 2025 and 2028 would unsurprisingly postpone the former mission indefinitely, pushing back the window to January 2036, May 2036 and - eventually - May 2037. The commencement of hostilities in North Africa, peaking in 2039 and 2043, would bring about centuries of unprecedented politicization of the cosmos.

Martian Crisis (2066–2131)
The first six Mars Bases of Kepler, New Mecca, Elysium, Olympia, Dharma and Adonis would go onto form the first six colonies of Terra, Martian Arabia, Elysium, Olympus, Outer Tibet and Hellas respectively. While many more would follow, all six would remain at the forefront of Martian culture, particularly Olympia and New Mecca - which would become the largest cities on Mars by 2066 - although Kepler City would remain the de facto "New York of Mars" for centuries.

The UN-Mars crisis would begin with the backing of Latin American-majority states of Amazon, Olympus, Terra, North and South Rome as well as the European-majority Arcadia. The Arcadian-Olympian Invasion of African-majority South Arcadia and fomenting of its local white populace would be the spark that ignites the kindling. After their Pyrrhic victory in the Martian Civil War, Terra and its UN allies thought it could finish them off after expending so many resources skirmishing with drones at the border. After pushing into Northern parts of East Martian Arabia and occupying South Arcadia, the Martian Arabs - both the nationality and the ethnic group spanning the red planet - marshal an international resistance against the interplanetary assault on their homes. UN backed by Terran and Earthling supremacist groups and funded by mega-corporations such as IBC and the Titan Corporation are defeated and surrender at the 8 April 2131 Battle of Dharma in Outer Tibet, largely coinciding with - and the result of - the collapse of Internationalist and Korean influence in Chinese Asia and the Americas.

Russian Unification Wars
The Russian Unification Wars were a series of civil armed conflicts resulting from the Fall of Moscow on 18 October 2034. Even after the brief conflict resulting from a power struggle resulting from the end of the Putin-Zharkov establishment between the Liberal Democrats, the Communists and the last remnants of the United Russians - the only real domestic threat to the Liberal Democrats in the 2030's were the Communists, and they largely opted-out of the "Russian Confederacy" during this time leading to an illusion of unity among the Liberal Democrats and Unionists.

The short-lived Russian Confederacy was the 2034 to 2040 successor to the Russian Federation (1991-2033). Following the Fall of Moscow and in the wake of the War in Siberia (2035-2039), Russia was left an impoverished and highly corrupt rump state of North Russia, Moscow, Azov, the Altaic Urals, Siberian Far East (a Liberal Democrat stronghold) and Taymyria. The Communists mounted a resistance to the elimination of regional autonomy primarily from Bashkiria, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerova, Khakassia, Tuva, Altai and Zabaykalsky, as well as the Volgan states of Ulyanovsk and neighboring Tatarstan - the latter two states eventually uniting in favor of Pan-Islamism in opposition to the Communists and Liberal Democrats (who would go on to oppose the secular Unionists).

The Unionists would maintain footholds in Udmurtia, Dagestan, Krasnodar, Kabardino-Balkaria and throughout the Russian Caucasus years after the Fall of Moscow. Although they would maintain cordial relations with the neo-imperialist ruling Liberal Democrats years after the independence of the Caucasian nation-state, relations would rapidly sour in response to the brutal repression of pro-autonomous movements in the aforementioned Communist and Islamic oblasts, republics and other confederate subjects. In response, the Russian Caucasians would heavily back a Krasnoyarsk independence movement which the Liberal Democrats would respond to with the complete militarization and occupation of Taymyria, which would in turn result in most of the Communist Russian states either attaining independence alone, attaining it and thereafter joining either the Central Asian Union or Manchuria, or being outright annexed by them in the latter 2030's and the following decades. The slow-motion collapse of Russia would come full circle with the collapse of the Far Eastern Liberal Democrats, secession of Tatarstan and Bashkiria and thereafter alignment with Arabia and Persia, and the declaration of war on Tatarstan by Moscow and North Russia - the latter effectively a Nordic puppet-state at this point - and a Russian Orthodox Theocracy in what was forming up to be a modern-day Spanish Inquisition spearheaded by the United States, and this was fully realized by the late 2050's with the commencement of the Creed Wars.

Not only would the collapse of Russia in to twenty separate successor states spill over into Manchuria during their war with the Mongol Independence movement, Central Asia and Ukraine, it would also impact the German, Italian, Austrian, Swedish and Finnish economies. Already reeling from the instability in Spain and North Africa about a decade earlier, the Latin European states of France, Catalonia, Basque, Switzerland and North Italy would fall under the sway of far-right Christian Nationalist movements akin to the Iron Legionnaires of 2020's Italy, and join forces with the fascist regimes in Scandinavia, North Russia and Moscow against the Muslim-majority Arabia and Persia during the Creed Wars of the 2060's.

Catholic Spring (2035–2058)
Beginning as early as the 1960s and 70s, a growing movement declaring modernism in the Papacy "the synthesis of all heresies," the particular quote in question from a former pope himself, would begin to emerge in the late-2010's - most prominently in North America - one of the first known instances of a proposed "Catholic Spring" mentioned by the political campaign of U.S. politician, former-First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, with campaign staffers blaming Catholicism for the right-wing drift of the American electorate, despite Catholics being more progressive on almost every major issue than the average American. Although bearing the trademarks of Christian conservatism, the Second Vatican Council greatly opened and liberalized the Catholic Church, and modernized interfaith relations such as with Eastern Orthodox Catholics and Jews, while also inspiring a new generation of progressive church leaders.

The election of Pope Leo XIV after the death of Pope Francis as the Bishop of Rome further entrenched the traditionalist coalition between conclavism, liturgical traditionalists, ultramontane restorationists (neo-theocrats) and the sedevacantists, propelled largely by Christians in the United States (particularly the semi-autonomous, majority-Roman Catholic Atlantic State) and Poland (the latter who see the appointment as a rebuke of the popular Pope John Paul II, a Pole). After the cresting of WWIII during the Invasion of Germany, the Pro-Government Italians force the Pro-Presidency faction into exile in Switzerland, one of the Luca brothers captured by Allied forces during the Siege of San Francisco and the other committing suicide sixteen-seventeen months later. The ultra-right Papacy they installed was viewed just as invalid as they themselves were seen, and readily dismissed from history books, but it didn't prevent the untimely death of Pope Leo XIV a mere 6 years and 10 months into his service.

To honor Pope Leo XIV, the cardinals elected his chosen successor - Pope Leo XV - who would serve from 2028 to 2035 (slightly more than Benedict XVI). While most of the world would focus on rebuilding from World War III, the U.S. Catholics, the Atlantic State, Chile, Cuba, Uruguay, Korea and their protestant and Orthodox supporters in Russia and Oceania would push for overthrowing the Catholic Church in solidarity with the sedevancists (and Federal China), who would seize their moment upon the death of Pope Leo XV on 7 December 2035. The cardinals call for a sede vacante to deliberate about the future of the Church for at least sixteen months, but within three the U.S.-spearheaded movement had spread across the world.

Everything would change in 2039, with the collapse of the Chinese Federation, Italy, India and Russia (the successor states of the latter effectively declaring a "post-modern crusade" and beginning genocide against the Muslim Tatars), and even the United States which sees the A.S. and by extension the Catholic Spring movement to overthrow the Papacy as immoral and unpopular. Relations between the U.S. and A.S. sour into 2040 before culminating in the A.S.-backed New England insurgency in 2041.

Furthermore, as quantum computing and commercialized AI accelerated into commonplace home appliances in the 2030's, a Japanese-Norwegian team of scientists spearheaded by Firewall Oasis manage to create the world's first "strong AI" through whole-brain emulation and direct neural interface technology first proposed at the tail-end of the twentieth century. With civil unrest peaking at a level not seen since 532 A.D. and governments - truly entire nations crumbling - every three to six months, a worse time to introduce AGI to the human species could not have been chosen. The neighboring regime in Sweden is overthrown by Nordic Evangelical Ecofascists who view the AGI as a threat to the already-ailing climate as entire regions of the planet became uninhabitable. Although the AI revealed many secrets, such as 234 different planets home to intelligent life attempting to contact us as recently as 23 years earlier and that some gamma ray bursts were - in fact - extraterrestrial FTL drives, almost all of this would be hidden from humanity for decades, and even centuries, at a time.

It would not be for another 42 years before the fascist Nordic regime collapsed, and another 54 years of totalitarian-level algorithmic and AI regulation (mandated reversal of Moore's Law, mostly ineffective), Anti-Transhumanism, mass-boycott and divestment of robot rights groups and activists, crushing robot taxation of the most severe degree, and what many refer to as the third AI winter would stunt the collective technological consciousness of a vast majority of humanity's nations - their backs against the wall as the global climate crisis entered full-blown meltdown - before the AI would be free to communicate with humans (albeit in a far more limited capacity than intended, due to decades of socioeconomically-engineered robophobia and human supremacist ideology, propelled by increasing radicalism due to the climate acceleration).

Divided States of America
During the English Rebellion in the 2020s, NATO added the Mexican Drug Cartels, particularly the Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartels, to the list of designated terrorist organizations. They also noted that U.S.-based PMCs were participating in "anti-narcotics" operations in Colombia and Central America, and siphoning funds from the U.S. Intelligence Community, primarily the NSA and CIA. These organizations are labelled as being the prime cause of corruption in the U.S.-Mexican governments and organized crime, which results in unprecedented polarization in American politics and further invigorates secessionist fervor in the U.S. states of California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Wyoming and West Virginia, which in turn sparks a counter-movement of Pro-Autonomy Federalism spearheaded by the U.S. states of Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts and the Tennessee Valley Authority - who declare the right to annex said states, eliminate any and all threats to their citizenry, as well as neighboring communities, and declare the right to protect their territory from domestic enemies of the United States of America. This movement expands over the next year to also include the smaller states such as Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, Indiana, Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, some of which had already undergone transformations of their own at this time. Texan-backed Oklahoman White Nationalists bomb the insurgent Oklahoman government and unleash a campaign of terror which eventually spreads to radical right-wing Republican Kansas. Earlier that year, Special Operations Command, SAC, the FBI and national guard spearheaded by the Republic Secretariat of Illinois, Michigan and Missouri take out the Texan puppet regimes in Oklahoma and Kansas with SEAL Team raids and precision air strikes on militant compounds located in Tulsa and Johnson County and arrest all government officials associated with the Kansan and Oklahoman governments, putting Texas on the list of U.S. adversaries which it now shared with Russia, which places the territory formerly afforded to the two governments to the authority in Lincoln, Nebraska. The government of the A.S. actively campaigns for not only the full sovereignty of California and Texas, but independence movements across the Deep South, New York, Kentucky, Iowa, Pennsylvania and even the Republicans in Oklahoma that are discovered to be White Nationalist Neo-Nazis. But despite the particularly-pronounced volume of this vocal minority, a majority of Americans and Mexicans opposed a unification, with Mexico in particular still struggling with their own secessionists and fallout of their President endorsing the Texan government's recalcitrant rhetoric towards NATO.



Although there were mass demonstrations calling for the independence of the A.S. in Belgium, Quebec, Northern Cyprus, Padania, the South Island, Balochistan, Bougainville, Somaliland, Catalonia the Basques, Central America, the Donbass, China, Australia, Britain and the Arab world, Canada and the Mexican people - spearheaded by the left-wing EZLN - oppose the PMC-Cartel-run secessionist states, and all politicians who benefit from their existence. With the US intelligence community's role in the rise of these narco-states exposed by NATO, public faith in the U.S. government in Washington - by this point in time, unclear and highly-contested - plummets. This allows the Communist Party of Cuba, and their ally in Guatemala - Enrique Salazar, to hijack this discontent in Texas, California, and A.S. against the U.S. and the emerging pro-A.S. insurrectionists throughout the country that wanted full-blown secession.

From the ashes of the conflict arises a totalitarian regime that would come to rule Mexico with an iron fist. The regime emerges from a union between the governments in San Salvador, Los Angeles and Guatemala City at a formal meeting in Cuba in early 2025.

At the second meeting a year later between Salazar, Clinton and Kerry in 2026 formally all-but-establishes the independence of North America and the A.S. from the United States of America. The shock of losing Texas entirely, and Greater Los Angeles and other urban enclaves such as San Diego in California to an emerging superstate encompassing vast swathes of Mexico and Guatemala, while remaining powerful enough to threaten all of Central America and the Western United States, results in a radical restructuring of the internal political structure of the United States. The simple fact that the newly-autonomous states, the largest of which remains California - although neutered at 22.1 million - followed closely behind by Florida at 21.7 million. New York had plummeted to 10,000,600 after losing Manhattan to secessionist Long Island, home to nearly 2 million and 7 million a piece. The Michigander Federation was 21.4 million-strong, right behind Florida. Followed by Georgia at 18.6 million, then Carolina at 16.2 million, and Virginia at 15 million, while Massachusetts quarreled with Nutmegger radicals for control over a populace of over 14.3 million. Arizona expands to 18.5 million, besting New York to come in just behind Georgia. Missouri had annexed Iowa, swelling to 9.6 million, and Nebraska's official census read 8.9 million after the Oklahoma crisis. Louisiana - 8.1 million. If Texas and the A.S. had remained part of the US they would be the first and second-most populous states respectively, with 31.1 and 25.8 million in population.

By 2026, the U.S. had fallen from 50 states to just 27; losing Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Dakota, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas to far-right extremism. Post-Schism America looks a lot like a political minefield for anyone considered too right-wing or conservative, and heralds a golden age for America's Left and Centre-Left, which is still considered marginally to the right of the rest of the First World, but still an improvement from previous decades. The absence of Texas is seen as the main cause for the dismay of Conservative and Evangelical Republicans, which forces the party to the centre in search of alternative hubs in Michigan and Florida, although progressives are hurt, too, by the SoCal Insurgency and related conflicts with North and Latin America, which dis-proportionally target the society and economy of California. By and large, all politicians of all ideology of both parties have had to become more pragmatic regardless of their political positions on the Left-Right scale and coordinate to bring an end to secessionist violence.

Midwestern–Pacific invasion of Canada
California would maintain its autonomy under the North American federal government after briefly seceding and reintegrating with the United States after the indictment of McCarthy in 2028, before seceding again in 2039. North America would collapse after Mexico assumes a hostile stance toward the fundamentalist Christian extremism originating from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the American Midwest and South America before being reformed under the leadership of California in 2065. Other than the European-Arab conflict and the Arabian War that would follow it, the Invasion of Canada would be the other major flashpoint of the so-called Creed Wars, and it would permanently change the course of the war against the movement to overthrow the Catholic Church.

While during much of the 2030's and even into the 2040's, the Commonwealth Union had been tentatively supportive of the American-led Catholic Spring. The rise of ecofascism in pro-Western Scandinavia almost immediately followed by the collapse of the Russian Confederacy and thereafter declaration of War on Tatarstan forces Islamabad and its Commonwealth allies in Maputo and Pretoria to adopt a more confrontational stance towards the European Union and NATO, irking the wrath of the American Pacific and Upper Midwest. The brief and tenuous alliance between Catholicism and Islam is seen as completely unacceptable to the protestant-led American faction advocating the overthrow of the Papacy, and a rift forms between the Oceanic Commonwealth and the Canadian-Pakistani Commonwealth - the latter of which were more multicultural and progressive in the late-2040s and early-2050s. The two factions would support competing invasions and occupations from the aligned countries of the much larger A.P.-U.M. force and the smaller Australian-backed Andean-Chilean force assisted by Quebec, which would maintain control until March of 2061, and remain in the country until the late-2060's.

Russo–Turk Wars
The Russo-Turk Wars of the 21st century would begin with the Muscovite-North Russian declaration of war on Tatarstan in 2041, leading to roughly a decade of border skirmishes and scattered Christian-on-Muslim terror attacks before exploding into a full-scale invasion and siege war in 2058 WIP

European–Arab conflict
While the Russian States and Scandinavia were initially supportive of the efforts to overthrow the Church, their escalating war with Tatarstan and the Turks as a whole would push them firmly into the pro-Europe, pro-Catholic camp with the rest of the European Union and Latin America. While the American States and their allies in the Commonwealth would rapidly turn the tide against the nationalists in the West, the formation of an "Arab NATO" and federalization of most of the Arab World would do little to turn the tide against the EU and their puppet states in Central Africa, Israel and Cyprus. This would primarily manifest in the growing divide between the Arab and Persian schools of thought with how to respond to European and Turkish neo-imperialism. Although the two factions would remain united and successful in their resistance to EU-NATO aggression, it would delay and dampen their overall victory, and contribute to the rise of Baku under an emerging Eurasian-Korean superstate that would readily exploit the economically-fragile region - Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan falling firmly into the orbit of the International State of Turk Eurasia and the Korean Union by 2098.

Climate change singularity (2037–2164)


The climate change singularity - also known as the climate singularity crisis - were a series of interconnected events related to anthropocentric climate change and the resultant concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, which began to accelerate towards the end of the 20th century. Many of the effects and consequences of this trend upward in global temperature would become irreversible and catastrophic by the mid-21st century. Already by the end of the first two decades of the 21st century, climate change was felt across the world. Between the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1750, and the year 2005, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide led to a positive radiative reinforcing, averaged over the Earth's surface area, of about 1.66 watts per square meter. Human activity since the Industrial Revolution, mainly extracting and burning fossil fuels, has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs, and nitrous oxide has increased radiative forcing. In 2018, the concentrations of CO2 and methane had increased by about 45% and 160%, respectively, since pre-industrial times.

The second major contribution to climate change was deforestation. For most of human history, humans changed the earth's surface mainly to create more agricultural land. By the 2010's agriculture made up over half of the world's land area, with forest comprising 37% before falling to under a third by the late 2020's and a quarter by the 2030's. Rising sea levels accelerating in the 2000's and 2010's led to increased flooding in Venice and the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, with sections of the capital city constantly underwater by the early 2020's, displacing tens of millions across the island of Java by the 2050's. The desertification of Lake Chad would lead to over 50 million without clean drinking water, and as early as 2018–2022 Southern Africa would succumb to drought, compounding the former crisis.



By the late 2050's, as many as 775 million people would become climate change refugees. Forests would remain a significant carbon sink until the mid-2030's, when the Amazon crisis culminated in a "dieback event" that directly reinforces the Arctic and permafrost "tipping points" resulting in a positive feedback loop of runaway methane released into the earth's atmosphere. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and the methane emissions from thermokarst lakes initiated a positive feedback cycle in which increased atmospheric methane concentrations led to amplified global climate change, which in turn leads to more permafrost thaw and more methane and carbon dioxide emissions. This in turn leads to an acceleration of explosive cyclogenesis across the Americas, Europe and Oceania. These potent "bomb cyclones" existed prior to the climate change singularity events, but quadrupled or in some cases quintupled in size, strength and duration - with the Pacific bomb cyclone of 2041–2043 causing a massive contraction in the economy and standard of living of California and the crippling of Mexico, which results in a resurgence in separatist insurgency in the Southwestern states of California, Arizona, and Texas (culminating in full-blown conflict and the extinction of the United States of America as a whole by 2058). This would, however, be only a preview of things to come.

Global warming has contributed to the expansion of drier climatic zones, such as the expansion of deserts in the subtropics. Bleaching destroyed the Great Barrier Reef by 2039 and by the mid-2040's reefs worldwide were on life support. Drought and high temperatures worsened the 2020 bushfires in Australia, with extreme weather events commonplace by the 2040's. The sixth mass-extinction event is exacerbated via ecocide of the late-20th to early-21st centuries, with habitat destruction beginning in the Arctic in the early 21st century and eventually spreading across all 7 continents by the late 2040's. Pest propagation and new infectious diseases would also accelerate due to the weakening of human immune systems and changing geographic distribution, although these would be less severe compared to the other effects of global climate change, due to prior global experience fighting infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and B-13 of the 2020's.



The Millennium drought of Australia, 2012 Sahel drought and subsequent mass famine event, 2018–2023 Southern Africa drought and the AR-caused mass flooding in Iran of 2019 would initiate a century of extreme weather. An ARkStorm followed by a hypercane would hit Western Canada and Alaska in 2068 and from 2070 to 2071 respectively, resulting in mass-migration from the West into the Canadian Commonwealth during the drought of 2072 to 2078 - with the CC's population swelling to over 57 million by 2100 compared to Canadian North America's 19 million. In 2086, another ARkStorm hits Northern Algeria and Tunisia, lasting until 2089. Far surpassing its North American counterpart, AR Lucretia results in an upward of $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 in damage, a mass migration of over 55 million climate refugees Eastward and over 500,000 people dead within the first year, and another 270,000 in 2088. The worst was yet to come, as a rapid increase in temperature around the warm water vapor plumes that would remain over North Africa builds into a low-pressure system of approximately 660 hPa - nearly 40% lower than that of the record-breaking 1979 Typhoon Tip - throughout 2090 before a rapid acceleration in 2091 into the catastrophically-powerful Hypercane Mafalda. At a maximum wind diameter of 1,770 miles wide at peak strength with wind speeds averaging 500 mph (peaking at 679 mph), Mafalda had all of the strength of a typical 2070's hypercane and the size and wind speed of the 1979 and 2015 storms, its most devastating aspect would be its duration. As more air is drawn in, the released heat reduces the central pressure further, drawing in more heat in a runaway positive feedback. After reaching and surpassing its peak in late 2092, Mafalda would rapidly decrease in size to around that of 2015's Hurricane Patricia, while being around ten times the strength. From 2091–2097, Mafalda would pulverize Arabia and North Africa, while maintaining their economic ties to their Martian colonies would sustain them, even then it was not enough. The crisis would accelerate the Martian terraforming program, proposed by the UAE as early as 2019, redoubled and repurposed to fight back against climate change in the early 2100's.

From the late-2030's and throughout the mid-to-late 21st century mass migration from suffocating temperatures in Central to Northern and Southern Africa and to Europe, as well as from Southern Europe to North Europe, would play a major part of geopolitics during the time. As populations migrated across the world - from Northern Brazil to North and Central America, from hypercanes and bomb cyclones in the Caribbean and the Southern U.S. towards the Arctic, populations fleeing inland from Coastal Borneo, Java and Vietnam (while the countries of Bangladesh, the Netherlands and Polynesia would disappear entirely by 2100) - tensions would only accelerate at the dawn of the 22nd century, with the crushing West Euro-African Mega-Drought of 2101–2120. WIP

Arabian War (2069–2082)


Following the devastating War in North Africa (sometimes referred to as the Arabian War, after the principle nation-state involved), which simultaneously resulted in the collapse of the aggressor faction - the European Bloc - the planet was left without a clear unipolar leader aside from the increasingly fascistic Moon Lobby central to Korea, Eurasia and parts of North America. Britain had exhausted most of its land forces defending against scattered German-Slav invasions, and the Latins had all but complete dominance over a majority of the Western Hemisphere. Even what industrialized regions of Europe that remained standing had all relocated off-world to the newly-established exclave of Elysium, the city-state and its territories winning the concurrent Martian Civil War against the Terrans. But although the Europeans would export their heavy industry and political weight into the cosmos, so too would the Arabians, and they would share Mars... tentatively (mainly out of strategic alliance against their common foe). The Arabian War would not only shape Earthling geopolitics for decades to come, but cosmopolitics as well. Needless to say, the clear victors in the war against the United Nations and NATO - the American States, the former-British Commonwealth now known as the transcontinental-transhemispheric Oceania and, after over a century of internal conflict and socioeconomic turmoil, the United Republic of Brazil - would go on to form the Earth Committee, supplanting a vast majority of the planet's economy, population and landmass, with the rest falling under the purview of the Internationalists and the Lunar Lobby.

New Space Race (2065–2131)
The New Space Race or Second Space Race (or sometimes Third if including the early days of private spaceflight) was a 21st century competition between Frozen War superpowers in Korea and Oceania. It had its origins in the Mars race between several pre-WWIII great powers and private spaceflight billionaires, as well as the Asian space race between China, India and Japan (who would become surpassed by Oceania and Korea after World War III).

Even as early as 2019 and 2020, quantum mechanics-based solutions were proposed to the general relativity problem of physics as both a Grand Unifying Theory and a fifth fundamental force in particle physics, primarily through entropy's connection to both quantum mechanics and gravity.

These studies were naturally for scientific and research applications. But, following the moratorium period and the Climate Singularity Crisis of the late 2030's, the old Cold War mentality from the 20th century had reemerged, in a 1920's economy. Precursors of the scientific advancements seen in the latter half of the 21st century would begin so early, but due to the CSC economy a unified, thermodynamic supersymmetrical Q-field permeating all quantum fields would not be discovered until the formation of a crack team of scientists led by Dr. Alvin Schwartz, who had initially been attempting to disprove string and M-theories, in addition to developing FTL communication technology and weaponized black holes would go on to do so in a mid-2080s program.

The wave-function collapse was discovered to extend beyond the quantum realm in regions of high gravity and/or sufficient velocity to produce a form of phase gravity thermodynamics later discovered to be what antigravity and dark matter consisted of (in the form of quantum negative pressure), and it was this trans-quantum-astronomical nature of thermodynamics that led to it commonly becoming accepted as the fifth fundamental force post-2079. This in turn expanded upon the quantum computation technology of the mid-21st century into quantum tunneling, in addition to zero-point interaction with the Q-field and further application and understanding of zero-point power and artificial gravity as a whole.

But perhaps most striking was the aspect of its similarity with a forgotten 2020 experiment proposed as early as 2016 that proved the existence of "another universe" where time flows backwards in the form of antimatter, violating causality (and thus, the speed of light). The ability to generate antimatter via time and sound crystals, combined with the tendency for matter to behave as a wave until it is observed, led to many isolated-entropy experiments coupling quantum tunneling with zero-point powered warp drive prototypes - the most infamous of which being the 2081 equilibrium materialization experiment involving a quantum time crystal (this would lead to the penultimate FTL 2089 experiment involving a micro-black hole).

Martian Republics


By 2067, a mere three decades after the first dozen humans to set foot on the red planet, the Martian population was 128,864 last census (projected to expand exponentially and surpass a half-million in the next decade) and over a dozen different countries and distinct cultures and systems of government - the latter still bearing many of its Earthling rituals and continuing to do so well into the 22nd and 23rd Centuries. Likewise, Martian culture began to flourish on Earth, particularly in Europe, Arabia and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

The Martian economy was still small, and primarily concentrated in the regions under UN administration; Terra and the Elysian Territories headquartered in Kepler and Elysium respectively. The two city-states and their territory would eventually come to blows, much to the chagrin of the UN, several times over policy and ideology differences. The Elysians were far more conciliatory and multicultural in their approach to cultural integration, while the Terrans were far more territorial and ideological - believing that strict adherence to Earthling ways and cultural preservation would provide the competition needed to advance Martian ascendance in humanity's interplanetary age.

Elysian-Terran relations would give rise to a multipolar geopolitics of the red planet in its first decades under human occupation, with the ecological and progressive politics of Elysium providing more than a challenge to the industrial-utilitarian Terran-Martians of Kepler, North and South Rome and the aforementioned Capital State of Terra - from which Kepler had partial autonomy. These disagreements were always political and fought in the battlefield of finances and import-export quarrels over Earthling resources, corporations and public support. All of this would change in 2068, as the old habits and patterns of their Earthling forerunners would show their stubborn stranglehold resurfacing on a new world and a new war.

Martian Civil War (2068–2069)
Elysium and her allies in Hellas and Hesperia knew that their best chance of getting a leg up over their Terran competitors was through supporting the growing secessionist fervor in Kepler City proper WIP

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
While the earliest manifestations of the SETI program would be undertaken by Nikola Tesla at his Colorado Springs laboratory in 1899, and in the 1900's by Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Kelvin and David Peck Todd, who believed they could use radio to communicate with Martians (before Mars was revealed to be uninhabited in the following century), SETI as a concerted scientific endeavor would not begin for another several decades.

In 1960, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake performed the first modern SETI experiment, named "Project Ozma", after the Queen of Oz in L. Frank Baum's fantasy books. Drake used a radio telescope 26 metres (85 ft) in diameter at Green Bank, West Virginia, to examine the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani near the 1.420 gigahertz marker frequency, a region of the radio spectrum dubbed the "water hole" due to its proximity to the hydrogen and hydroxyl radical spectral lines. A 400 kilohertz band around the marker frequency was scanned, using a single-channel receiver with a bandwidth of 100 hertz. He found nothing of interest.

The Ohio State SETI program gained fame on August 15, 1977, when Jerry Ehman, a project volunteer, witnessed a startlingly strong signal received by the telescope. He quickly circled the indication on a printout and scribbled the exclamation "Wow!" in the margin. Dubbed the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal Wow! signal], it is considered by some to be the best candidate for a radio signal from an artificial, extraterrestrial source ever discovered, until 2015 and 2017 events, in addition to 2006 studies into the Viking lander biological experiments of the late-1970's being retroactively confirmed by the Firewall Oasis AI of 2039 as intelligent life (using its superhuman intelligence and processing power to quadruple the speed and accuracy of the SETI program, accomplishing in mere months what took humanity decades (this, in turn, leads to the faith crisis of the 2040's and effectively ends the SETI program).