Timeline (Cadere)

-- This timeline isn't too realistic and doesn't represent any of my personal views --

Welcome to the year 2050.

The United States is under the policy of "Inward Focus", pursues a staunchly isolationist foreign policy. The nation refuses to intervene in foreign conflicts, even when their allies are desperate or when democracy is dying. This policy, while having widespread support for the most part, has also seen a lot of opposition. Combined with the growing centralization of the nation, not a day goes by without any militant resistance from opposition forces. While the eastern portion of the country is firmly in the hands of the government, the president's influence over the western section of the country is weak.

The European Union is now considered the last hope for the free world. Now a loose federation consisting of much of Western and Central Europe, nationalist and identitarian movements threaten to tare away many of the Union's eastern provinces. Poland and Hungary have already left the Union, and anyone can see that Slovakia, Greece, Belarus, and Ukraine may be some of the next to depart.

Across the urals, the dominant power by far is the People's Republic of China, who exerts influence over much of East Asia and Africa. Even after concessions made and greater autonomy granted to the Tibetans, Mongols, and Uyghurs following the threat of a civil war, it is still considered one of the most oppressive governments in the world.

India and Japan, under the Kyoto pact with several other Asian and African nations, resist growing Chinese influence. They remain close with Europe.

After the unification of Korea, both China and Japan were combating over influence in the country. What the two powers didn't expect was for the newly-established state to pursue Isolationism and "Inward Perfection", an ethnocentric movement rejecting foreign powers like Japan which had ruled over the peninsula for long stretches of time.

Saudi Arabia has moved closer to China in the decades since the United States' "exit" from foreign relations. It dominates the middle east, and the Salafist ideology of the ruling Saud dynasty is as firm as ever. But, as Renewalism and Medditeranianism spread through the near east and north africa, the Saudis may have to face the new threat of democracy.

The once great power of Russia has seen its influence decrease drastically, humiliated by its defeats in the Balkan, Caucasian, Baltic and Ukranian conflicts and furious at China for not coming to their aid. The facade of being a world power is being torn away by frustrated citizens who long for a Russia that can stand up to both China and the EU. Iran looks to Russia for support, but little can be given in Russia's current state.

How did the world get this way, what will happen next? This is what this timeline will explore.

2021
- Israeli-Palestinian tensions escalates into open conflict

2022
- The Belarusian Crisis, results in the absorbtion of eastern Belarus into Russia as the Republic of Byelorussia and the independence of Western Belarus as a West-aligned democracy

2023
- The Balkan Crisis between Serbia (backed by Russia) and Kosovo and Bosnia (backed by US and EU)

- Bosnia-Herzegovina ascends to NATO

2024
- Kamala Harris and Andrew Beshear win the 2024 United States presidential election

2025
- The Balkan Crisis between Serbia (backed by Russia) and Kosovo and Bosnia (backed by US and EU)

- Georgia and Ukraine ascend to NATO

2026
- The Baltic Crisis

2028
- Kamala Harris and Andrew Beshear are reelected the 2024 United States presidential election

2029
- Un