The Destructive 2020's

The decade of 2020 was meant to be a time of prosperity for the World. With Civil Wars in Libya and Syria cooling down and events globally slowing down by the Spring of 2020 the world looked towards a bright future. Instead a minor event in the south china sea leads to the most destructive decade in human history. And so an era of destruction for the world begins.

The Trump Presidency
Donald Trump has been the most controversial president in human history. With Donald J. Trump losing the popular vote in 2016 but winning the electoral vote the American people were not pleased with the results.

International Policy
The Trump presidency and his foreign policy has been a quagmire in itself. It has been very hard to track his actual foreign policies when siding with Russia but yet at the same time blaming China for most the nations problems. Trump has been very light on Russia when compared to how Hillary could have been.

Internal Policy
Internally the Trump Administration was still a mess botching police reform and his handling of the Black lives matter movement before international destruction ensued. Despite losing the popular vote trump was looked on unfavorably.

2020 Campaign
The year of 2020 was meant to see an election with the Democratic party nominating Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard as his running mate. It was expected to be an easy win for the democratic party due to Trumps declining popularity.

Events in the South China Sea
China has always claimed that their territorial waters expanded much more south than originally said to be. The South China Sea is one of the richest areas on the planet for commerce and fishing. Meanwhile the United States has always tried to push the envelope when it comes to how far they can extend their presence without starting a war. In this case the envelope was pushed too far. In August of 2020 the United States sent a moderately sized task force to show the Chinese that those waters are international and not only Chinas.

On August 15, 2020 a US Destroyer approached a Chinese island where they were fired upon as they were thought to be foreign ships (not US). The response from the United States was immediate. Trump ordered the task force to organize a beach landing on the disputed islands. Trump also reportedly said if you cant land then just sink the island! This quote is possibly referring to bombing the island so much that using it would be almost impossible to use.

Fighting an Undeclared war
Despite acts on both sides being justification for war both sides were weary of starting a war that would surly be the end of everyone. In an attempt to not obliterate everyone off the map all diplomats of countries that used nukes came together at Banjul, Gambia to call that no nukes would be used in any upcoming wars between any superpower nations.

While the Banjul conference was going on Trump did not hesitate as the first Chinese soldiers were killed during the conference on Woody Island. This act almost lead to the collapse of the conference but the Gambian leader, Adam Barrow was able to calm down both parties before it got heated. The conference ended bitter sweet only with a verbal promise from all sides to attempt to not use any nuclear weapons. The conference was not able to come with a written consensus on international guidelines. Multiple conferences will proceed this with multiple different goals in mind.

Trump tried to pull NATO members into the debacle saying that it was the Chinese who fired first. What lead for all of the mainland Europe members (excluding the UK) to stand by was the lack of reason for why the US was there in the first place. Despite this Trump was able to convince Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Iceland to join the Oceanic Alliance stating the security of Australia and New Zealand was at steak.

About 5 days after the first incident no war was declared and there was the possibility that things could cool down. It is worth a mention that the only American causalities were those on the night of the attack in contrast to the Chinese who have lost a considerable amount of fighting force in the South China Sea.

On the 21st the nations of Portugal, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Austria, Chechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Norway, Switzerland Denmark and Croatia all convening on a mutual defense pact citing Trump as a mad man and have fun proclaiming victory. At the same time Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Sweden sighed a mutual defense treaty in the event of Russian aggression.

China's Response
Being hard pressed internally to do something about the American aggression but externally being called for restraint China responded hard by first annexing Hong Kong and Macau. This only seemed to make the air strikes worse. By the 23rd China had enough and responded by launching planes that were meant to attack the US task force before it grew in size. Due to the inferiority of Chinese aircraft and the superiority of anti air defenses of US ships almost all of 100 planes and 25 bombers were destroyed. Only 15 planes and 3 bombers were able to make it to safety before their expected demies.

China quietly withdrew what little was left on the islands in the south China Sea after the attempted response. Hoping Trump would respond Xi proposed UN control of the islands for some time. Trump declined politely.

India feeling scared for their safety created a pact with all nations in Indochina to defeat the communist menace and began a heavy bombardment of occupied Kashmir the next day. China in response created a triple pact against India and the US. Pakistan and North Korea were the only two countries willing.

Complete Collapse of the United Nations
After hearing of recent events many nations quit the United Nations to go off on their own. The Balkan nations created their own pact with basically no rhyme or reason. Turkey, Libya, Georgia, and Azerbaijan just created their own faction. Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, Armenia and Turkmenistan created a regional alliance to deter any foreign threat. Another faction was created on the Arabian peninsula.

With a world war imminent the Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-general both stepped down on the 22nd after the creation of multiple factions and immediately fled to Mexico on one of the last commercial flights where the plane was shot down by Mexican drug cartels. The Under-Secretary-Generals formed a council to oversee the formal dissolution of the United Nations.

Rise of a new Movement
The "Neutral Movement" was formed including most African and South American Nations after hearing of the plane being shot down. Any nation that did not join any factions were welcome to join as long as if no wars will be brought to their territories. The Neutral movement will have a base set up in Rio De Janeiro equivalent to the UN and mostly a carbon copy all member nations sent representatives of their respective nations to Rio.

Formal Declaration
Donald Trump stated on September 1, 2020 during an address to the United States of America."'With the United Nations gone I am now formally declaring war with China. [. . .] China has been a nuisance to the world with i-its probing in the South China Sea. While we speak I am mobilizing large amounts of forces to our bases in Japan and Korea. [. . .] The United States will not stand idle and watch China bully other nations into submission. I call upon other nations and the people of China and Hong Kong to rise up against the oppressive regime of China. [. . .] And finally a warning to The Peoples Republic of China and Xi, this is a war you CAN NOT win .' Donald Trump September 1, 2020"Xi responded mimicking the Oval Office Scene hours later. "'Mr. President, you say this is a war we can not win. You are correct but neither can you. China and its people are ready to fight a war of aggression and defend the lands to the last man. Mr. President you are a fool to think this will be a breeze. [. . .] I call upon the people of America to rise up against the oppressive 'Trump' Presidency and not to join the army.' Xi Xing Ping September 1, 2020"The Trump administration was furious of Xi mimicking the Oval Office.