Russo-Islamic World War III

The Russia-Caliphate War, Russo-Islamic war or even the Russo-Turkish War of 2041 was fought between the Russian Federation, and a coalition of Eastern European and Balkan countries, against the Holy Islamic Caliphate, let mainly by Turkey.

Prior to the war, Russia and the Caliphate were military, political, spiritual and econonmic allies, causing a huge shock among citizens of the Caliphate when Sultan Selim Ali-Erdoğan of Turkey decided to fire the first shot.

However, secretly, both leaders were already planning to overthrow one another, using the various Russo-Turkish wars of the 1600s through 1800s as their rally cries. Sultan Selim Ali-Erdoğan felt that the Caliphate was ready to "take over the world" and become the new global superpower, to spearhead the Islamization of the globe, President Mikhail Budayev of Russia hate a secret hatred of Turks and of Islam, and already had a suspicion that the Caliphate would back-stab Russia some day, and had been making secretive war plans of his own.

On August 28, 2041, Sultan Selim called for the Caliphate to "rise above all", and thus, began the war with an invasion of the Caucasus, and an invasion of the Balkans. However, like in past wars, Russia reversed the invasion, and pushed the Caliphate's forces all the way back into Turkey.

In addition, news of the Caliphate's invasion of Russia angered Russia's Indian and Iranian allies, therefore, both India and Iran declared war on the Caliphate, causing the Sultanates of Arabia and Pakistan to have to fight two fronts, and forcing them to pull back forces fighting with Turkey, to fight their own defensive operations against India and Iran. The war also caused civil wars within Russia's predominantly Muslim republics, such as Chechnya and Dagestan.