User blog comment:YNot1989/World War III/@comment-899576-20100121034934

Here is the basic TL that leads up to the POD of these TLs.

2011

 * A military coups occurs in Pakistan under the leader a group of Pakistani generals sympathetic Taliban.
 * China begins pressuring the US to repay its public debt.
 * The Great Recession officially ends.
 * China continues its military build up.

2012

 * President Obama wins his re-election with a healthy majority.
 * Vladimir Putin shocks the world when he defeats his hand picked successor Dmitri Medvedev for the Russian Presidency. He retains his position as Prime Minister of Belarus and with this duel position brings Belarus into the Russian Federation.

2013

 * The Shanghai Cooperation Organization stages a joint invasion of Europe and North America. China invades the American West Coast up to British Columbia and Baja California, while Russia invades the North East and Much of Canada; though most of Russia's troops are directed towards Poland and Germany.

2014

 * The Chinese drive the US and Canadians back behind the Rockies.
 * Mexico comes under a Chinese backed puppet government.
 * Russia's advance into the North East is halted just outside of Buffalo.
 * A group of Mexican and American resistance fighters form a small militia Air Force in the South West, they begin raiding small Chinese recon groups and camps.

2015

 * Russia breaks through to Germany, Berlin falls within a month.
 * China captures Tokyo.
 * The SAS attempt an assassination of President Putin, he is badly wounded but survives.
 * Pakistan and India engage in a limited nuclear exchange. Most missiles hit major military instillations mitigating damage to both countries. Dust and debris in the atmosphere results in record low crop yeild's world wide.

2016

 * The Mex-American Air Militia, or the Knights of Sedona, successfully capture the AMARK bone Yard in Nevada from the Chinese. They begin restoring most of the old aircraft.
 * The Russians take Buffalo and begin to drive towards Albany and New York.
 * France falls to the Russians.
 * China and Pakistan secure India. At the Mumbai Conference the SCO agrees to divide India between the two countries, and create a Kashmir Buffer State.
 * The Taliban takes back control of Afghanistan.

2017

 * The Knights of Sedona stage a daring attack on Chinese held cities on the West Coast with aircraft from the AMARK Boneyard.