The Great Millennium War

The Great Millennium War, also known as World War III, was a global conflict, and the first war to involve space battles. The conflict started with the Free American Republic invasion of Cuba, a New York Pact member, starting the war

Tensions between the Americas
After the end of The Great Succession in War in America, the Free American Republic had slowly gone from a democratic government to a far-left/right government after the embarrassing loss in the hands of the United Atheist Republic of America, the FAR had plans to invade it's northern neighbor, but with the bulk of factories being in UARA territory,  victory seemed impossible.

Planet Scramble of 2079-2085
In 2079, a new scramble happened between nations for neo-colonialism since most natural resources on Earth were used up, and scrambled for colonies on Mars the Moon and Venus. One of the major nations involved was the FAR. Due to Article IV, the United Atheist Republic of American stayed out of the scramble, but benefited economically by lend leasing with several major powers.

This scramble, resulted in tension between the U.K, France, F.A.R and Italy, all APTO members against Russia, U.A.R.A, Japan and China of the NYP.

Tensions in Europe.
Russia, a New York Pact, and the Baltic States, APTO members, were at odds as Russia wanted to expand it's space empire by taking the Baltics, but the British, French, Germans and American Empires all warned of a potential war of which the Russians would never recover.