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Alexander I's son Milan II. He continued the expansion of Serbia, securing the hegemony of Serbia over the southern Balkans. Most likely WWI still happened as Europe was a collision course for war regardless of what happens, but is vastly different as the Obrenović dynasty held close ties with Austro-Hungarian Empire as opposed to the Russian aligned Karađorđević dysnasty.I saw thread where King Alexander I of Serbia didn't marry Draga Masin, and I wanted to make a wikibox about it. In this he married a German princess from a family his father Milan was trying to secure a marriage with.
Something for the evening.
The Ostland Civil War was a violent conflict between the national socialist, Third Reich-aligned Federal State of Ostland and pro-democratic rebel forces desiring national self-determination and a revolution against the tyrannical government of Ostland.
In the wake of economic decline that the Third Reich went through, civil unrest all around Nazi-ruled Europe sprang up, particularly in France and Poland. As the Third Reich found itself unable to control all of Europe and found itself suffering from all the partisan uprisings and massive sanctions by the "Free World" (USSR, China and USA), an all-out war of liberation began as pro-German governments were overthrown.
Ostland was no exception. Created from the old Reichskomissariat in the late 1950s, Ostland was practically handed over to former SS members. Dominated by a German and Baltic collaborationist elite, Ostland was notorious for the brutal crackdowns on rebels claimed to be "Bolshevist spies" and many, many border incidents. As it became steadily clear that the tyranny of the Third Reich over the rest of Europe was not long for this world, the Baltic citizens, tired of Nazi despotism, rebelled. In 1981, the Federal State of Ostland effectively collapsed, its authority limited to some cities, but they continued to fight, aided by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Third Reich. The fourteen year-long conflict would end in 1993, when Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and (West) Belarus, aided by the USSR, China, Finland and America, finally liberated themselves from the State of Ostland.
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The Ostland Civil War was a violent conflict between the national socialist, Third Reich-aligned Federal State of Ostland and pro-democratic rebel forces desiring national self-determination and a revolution against the tyrannical government of Ostland.
In the wake of economic decline that the Third Reich went through, civil unrest all around Nazi-ruled Europe sprang up, particularly in France and Poland. As the Third Reich found itself unable to control all of Europe and found itself suffering from all the partisan uprisings and massive sanctions by the "Free World" (USSR, China and USA), an all-out war of liberation began as pro-German governments were overthrown.
Ostland was no exception. Created from the old Reichskomissariat in the late 1950s, Ostland was practically handed over to former SS members. Dominated by a German and Baltic collaborationist elite, Ostland was notorious for the brutal crackdowns on rebels claimed to be "Bolshevist spies" and many, many border incidents. As it became steadily clear that the tyranny of the Third Reich over the rest of Europe was not long for this world, the Baltic citizens, tired of Nazi despotism, rebelled. In 1981, the Federal State of Ostland effectively collapsed, its authority limited to some cities, but they continued to fight, aided by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Third Reich. The fourteen year-long conflict would end in 1993, when Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and (West) Belarus, aided by the USSR, China, Finland and America, finally liberated themselves from the State of Ostland.
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Since Cheju is like OTL Taiwan, does that mean the DPRK is a lot more modernized and industrialized after transitioning to a more free-market system since the 80s?
Royal Yugoslav Air Force from Pax Imperium. RYAF was founded from a mixture of the Serbian Army Air Division and rebel Austro-Hungarian air units during the Yugoslav War of Independence, formally founded on June 1, 1920, mere weeks after the Treaty of Copenhagen ratifying Yugoslav independence. All 3 services have Russian, indigenous and Western equipment, latter usually being French and more recently, American. It is the service least dominated by Serbs, with the current Chief of Staff being a Croat and his deputy a Bosnian Muslim (Tri-Service Act mandates inter-ethnic rotation for service chiefs), with Muslims a significant presence among officers and enlisted men. Western aircraft fielded include aging Jaguar attackers of the Reserves, bought in the mid-1970s when tensions with St. Petersburg were still high, modern F-16J Vipers acquired in the late 2000s, and C-130 transports whose shortfield capabilities are deeply valued in mountainous Balkan terrain. Today RYAF is one of Europe's most powerful air forces, a seasoned veteran of 2 European wars and several overseas deployments.
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Kim il-Sung's personality cult never got to OTL bizarr-o levels, he actually retired from power in 1968, and the DPRK became a relatively normal Soviet aligned state, especially after he died in 1985. The DPRK today isn't that bad of a place to live, and it's a middling economy with a powerful military. The ROK has problems of its own with economic inequality and the astronomical cost of living most capitalist East Asian states have, while until recently the country was a rather gloomy military dictatorship. The DPRK won the war after Sino-Soviet intervention resulted in the Americans being forced to fall back to Pusan, which would be overrun by the start of 1952 following the full commitment of the Red Army.
What is the general political situation in the USSR. How liberalized is the economy? How democratic is the government?
The Soviet Union has went through a period of intense anti-German nationalism and militarization before mellowing out. The Soviet state is experiencing a transition to a market economy (very successfully), and is actually quite democratic.
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Born to an suicidal alcoholic gold miner father and a mother who did laundry for brothels, Harry Reid would certainly be no stranger to the seedier side of Las Vegas. An amateaur boxer and one-time police officer, he would get involved in politics at the remarkably young age of 28 when he was elected to the Nevada State Assembly. In 1970, he became Nevada's youngest Lieutenant Governor (with the support of Howard Hughes), where his blunt personality made itself clear. As President Kennedy noted in his later years after meeting with the young man on the campaign trail, Reid followed a long line of southwestern politicians with his use of inappropriate language.
He stood for the Senate in 1974 against the cowboy-boot wearing conservative icon Paul Laxalt. His age proved to be ample fodder for the Laxalt campaign, but Reid hit back, suggesting that his youth would allow him to garner what some would consider 'pork' for the state and undo federal lordship of Nevada land. Reid was also willing to play dirty, subtly accusing Laxalt of irregularities with his gambling license and demanding financial disclosure from his entire family. It was a bitter campaign, and one that resulted in a three point win for Laxalt, closer than it had any right to be in hindsight considering that it was taking place during a testy midterm for President Kennedy. The year following, he ran for the officially nonpartisan mayor of Las Vegas. He faced an uphill climb, facing the ridicule of running for office just after recovering from a defeat. He just about pulled through, winning by close to 356 votes in the runoff against his opponent Bill Briare.
While in power, Reid would spend his time taking a fight to the pervasive Las Vegas Mafia, who held strangleholds on many casinos throughout the city. He used the Gaming Commission to the fullest extent, often attempting to exert control over it, something that rankled with the current commissioner Peter Echeverria. In spite of allegations regarding his own corruption, Reid did not take the mob lying down. In one incident in July 1978, prominent goon John Gordon offered Echeverria twelve grand to construct two gaming devices. Echeverria immediately informed Reid, who organized a sting operation with the FBI. While in the room with Gordon as the agents burst in, Reid lost control of his temper and pinned Gordon to the wall and grasped his neck, yelling "You son of a bitch, you tried to bribe him!". Gordon would be jailed, while Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro would be barred from casinos in the area. Reid's tough on crime attitude would win him re-election as the conversation turned to statewide office. Many thought that Mayor Reid would almost certainly make the transition to Governor Reid (after rejecting a rematch with Senator Laxalt), with the first 'Schlafly midterm' coming up. Reid himself considered Schlafly deeply unpleasant, and frequently disparaged her plans to store nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
On the 9th of August 1981, Reid would enter the Flamingo Casino, which in the past had been owned by mobster Bugsy Siegel. A man, believed at the time to have been paid off by Gordon but later revealed to be on the payroll of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, went up to Reid and drew a Colt M1911. Reid clocked the goon in the nose, using his old boxing skill. Guards intervened, but not before Reid was shot point blank in the heart. He bled out on the floor, medical aid coming too late. Law enforcement also spotted a crude device grounded to the bottom of Reid's car.
Harry Reid died a hero in a city lacking in them, and became a legend in Nevadan history. Today, Harry Reid roads can be found in both Las Vegas and his hometown of Searchlight, while a overbearing statue of him stands tall outside the Clark County Government Center. His son Rory would go into law enforcement, eventually being appointed FBI Director in 2011.
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1972 Presidential Election
1976 Presidential Election
1980 Presidential Election
1976 Labour Party Leadership Election and 1978 UK General Election
1980 Georgia Senate Election and 1979 Scottish Assembly Elections
1974 French Presidential Election
1972 North Carolina Senate Election, 1977 Virginia Gubernatorial Election, 1975 New Zealand General Election, 1978 Conservative Party Leadership Election, 1976 Missouri Senate Election
1979 Canadian Election
Superman II
1973 Massachusetts Special Election
Richard Nixon, 1974 New York Gubernatorial Election, 1978 New York Gubernatorial Election, 1977 New York City Mayoral Election, 1980 New York Senate Election, 1976 Pennsylvania Senate Election, 1978 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election, 1980 Arkansas Gubernatorial Election
1980 Arizona Senate Election, 1978 Massachusetts Senate Election, 1976 Utah Senate Election, 1979 Utah Special Election
1980 California Senate Election, 1980 Florida Senate Election, 1976 Indiana Senate Election, 1980 New Hampshire Senate Election, 1979 Louisiana Gubernatorial Election
Born to an suicidal alcoholic gold miner father and a mother who did laundry for brothels, Harry Reid would certainly be no stranger to the seedier side of Las Vegas. An amateaur boxer and one-time police officer, he would get involved in politics at the remarkably young age of 28 when he was elected to the Nevada State Assembly. In 1970, he became Nevada's youngest Lieutenant Governor (with the support of Howard Hughes), where his blunt personality made itself clear. As President Kennedy noted in his later years after meeting with the young man on the campaign trail, Reid followed a long line of southwestern politicians with his use of inappropriate language.
He stood for the Senate in 1974 against the cowboy-boot wearing conservative icon Paul Laxalt. His age proved to be ample fodder for the Laxalt campaign, but Reid hit back, suggesting that his youth would allow him to garner what some would consider 'pork' for the state and undo federal lordship of Nevada land. Reid was also willing to play dirty, subtly accusing Laxalt of irregularities with his gambling license and demanding financial disclosure from his entire family. It was a bitter campaign, and one that resulted in a three point win for Laxalt, closer than it had any right to be in hindsight considering that it was taking place during a testy midterm for President Kennedy. The year following, he ran for the officially nonpartisan mayor of Las Vegas. He faced an uphill climb, facing the ridicule of running for office just after recovering from a defeat. He just about pulled through, winning by close to 356 votes in the runoff against his opponent Bill Briare.
While in power, Reid would spend his time taking a fight to the pervasive Las Vegas Mafia, who held strangleholds on many casinos throughout the city. He used the Gaming Commission to the fullest extent, often attempting to exert control over it, something that rankled with the current commissioner Peter Echeverria. In spite of allegations regarding his own corruption, Reid did not take the mob lying down. In one incident in July 1978, prominent goon John Gordon offered Echeverria twelve grand to construct two gaming devices. Echeverria immediately informed Reid, who organized a sting operation with the FBI. While in the room with Gordon as the agents burst in, Reid lost control of his temper and pinned Gordon to the wall and grasped his neck, yelling "You son of a bitch, you tried to bribe him!". Gordon would be jailed, while Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro would be barred from casinos in the area. Reid's tough on crime attitude would win him re-election as the conversation turned to statewide office. Many thought that Mayor Reid would almost certainly make the transition to Governor Reid (after rejecting a rematch with Senator Laxalt), with the first 'Schlafly midterm' coming up. Reid himself considered Schlafly deeply unpleasant, and frequently disparaged her plans to store nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
On the 9th of August 1981, Reid would enter the Flamingo Casino, which in the past had been owned by mobster Bugsy Siegel. A man, believed at the time to have been paid off by Gordon but later revealed to be on the payroll of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, went up to Reid and drew a Colt M1911. Reid clocked the goon in the nose, using his old boxing skill. Guards intervened, but not before Reid was shot point blank in the heart. He bled out on the floor, medical aid coming too late. Law enforcement also spotted a crude device grounded to the bottom of Reid's car.
Harry Reid died a hero in a city lacking in them, and became a legend in Nevadan history. Today, Harry Reid roads can be found in both Las Vegas and his hometown of Searchlight, while a overbearing statue of him stands tall outside the Clark County Government Center. His son Rory would go into law enforcement, eventually being appointed FBI Director in 2011.
1972 Presidential Election
1976 Presidential Election
1980 Presidential Election
1976 Labour Party Leadership Election and 1978 UK General Election
1980 Georgia Senate Election and 1979 Scottish Assembly Elections
1974 French Presidential Election
1972 North Carolina Senate Election, 1977 Virginia Gubernatorial Election, 1975 New Zealand General Election, 1978 Conservative Party Leadership Election, 1976 Missouri Senate Election
1979 Canadian Election
Superman II
1973 Massachusetts Special Election
Richard Nixon, 1974 New York Gubernatorial Election, 1978 New York Gubernatorial Election, 1977 New York City Mayoral Election, 1980 New York Senate Election, 1976 Pennsylvania Senate Election, 1978 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election, 1980 Arkansas Gubernatorial Election
1980 Arizona Senate Election, 1978 Massachusetts Senate Election, 1976 Utah Senate Election, 1979 Utah Special Election
1980 California Senate Election, 1980 Florida Senate Election, 1976 Indiana Senate Election, 1980 New Hampshire Senate Election, 1979 Louisiana Gubernatorial Election
Damn @spookyscaryskeletons that's some hard stuff right there. Love to see that this is back by the way! 
The Popular Wars can be said to have begun in 1936 with the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, though its seeds were lain in the revolutions of 1919 and the violence of the Great War that preceded them. The Spanish Civil War caused ructions in the democratic states of Western Europe, especially as it saw von Papen and Mussolini's regimes in Germany and Italy reveal their attentions through their enthusiastic support of the Fascists. It brought an end to John Simon's unstable National Government and allowed Stafford Cripps to take power.
It was British intervention in the Spanish Civil War that tipped the continent back into warfare. Cripps urged Leon Blum to support the ailing Republican war effort and his moves led to a military coup, eerily mirroring events in Spain. The Fascists lent their support and so began the Second Great War. The International Brigades, ostensibly at the command of Moscow soon found themselves fighting in France as well as Spain and Cripps' Popular Front became their primary benefactor, leading in 1939 to the establishment of the Workers' International, at the time composed the United Kingdom, the Spanish Republic and the French Popular Republic.
With the liberation of France, so began the hard slog into Germany and Italy. In 1942, the International Brigades, now dubbed the International Legion were granted by the Treaty of Paris, signed by all member states of the Workers' International, the right to hold and govern all land they seized in the states of Germany and Italy. This founded the International Legionary State, capitoled in Munich, and spanning Southern Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. As well as this, the Legion was granted sovereignty over the city of Albacete.
In 1947, Legion forces shook hands with Red Hungarian soldiers and the Anti-Fascist War was considered concluded. But their business was not yet done as the Anti-Stalinist War soon broke out, with the Legion taking a leading role in the liberation of the Danube and the march into the Ukraine. After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Civil War broke out and his successors chose to treat with the Workers' International. The Treaty of Danzig brought the Popular Wars to a close, leading Prime Minister Blair to declare that the 'Fires of Europe, so long snuffed out by the cold wind of war, have now been relit'.
As of 1961, the Legionary State continues to govern a swathe of Central Europe, which causes tensions with the German Workers' Republic and the Italian Maximalist Republic. The International Legion maintains sovereign bases scattered over Europe including a ceremonial one in the city of Paisley in the United Kingdom. The International Legion is the most famous of the socialist military orders which emerged during the Popular Wars. Less well-known but almost as large and arguably more active is the Strangers' Legion, which emerged out of the French Foreign Legion and operates mostly in Africa and under the auspices of the Workers' Decolonisation Administration.
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So the International Brigades as a sovereign military order? Cool!
Oh man, I just realized this is like a Socialist crusades. Mumby, your originality never ceases to astound me.
So after the Soviet Civil War, has the USSR broken up or has a new government merely come into power?
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The USSR is still about, and while they were defeated in the Anti-Stalinist War, their rebuilding is running along and they'll soon be a big noise in the Workers' International, possibly bigger than the Anglo-Franco-Spanish leadership will be entirely comfortable with.
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The Global Economic and Climate Council is an international organization made up of the United States, China, India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, the East African Union, Brazil, and the European Union. The Nine, as they're known, collectively control 68% of the global economy and are home to half the world's population. The GECC is responsible for the current Geoengineering efforts to control the Earth's climate and harness the power of the Earth for the betterment of humanity (or the enrichment of the wealthy, if detractors are to believe.)
The GECC has tremendous power over the economies of non-member states, with enforcement power owing to its position of power over both the UN and the WTO. If the GECC demands sanctions against a sovereign state, the UN will comply without hesitation (it helps that half the GECC members are on the Security Council). In one notable instance, the GECC declared that the Congo rainforest is an asset which is too important to the wold's climate (and by extension the economy) for any one nation to be caretaker of, and so it deposed Congolese President Lucius Degouillolu in a coup d'etat.
The GECC also has power over the oceans, as all waters outside of the EEZs of sovereign nations is the property of the GECC. In 2073 Russia attempted to claim the entire arctic ocean as its exclusive economic zone. The GECC responded by moving naval assets including the aircraft carriers USS Philippine Sea, USS Stephen Palmer, PLAN Deng Xiaoping, PLAN Long March, and INS Priya Vilakapathnam into the Arctic ocean. Russia ultimately backed down.
The United States Ambassador to the GECC is a Cabinet-level position appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. One holder of that office, Saumya Kathri (R, MI,) won the 2092 Republican Presidential nomination and subsequently served two terms. The position is immediately behind the Secretary of Defense and ahead of the Attorney General in the line of succession. Since the 2071 State of the Union, no Ambassador to the GECC has been selected as the Designated Survivor owing to the importance of the office. Instead, apart from the 2077 SOTU when the GECC Ambassador was undergoing cloned bowel replacement, the GECC Ambassador has been in attendance at every State of the Union.
In 2110, the GECC's massive bureaucracy and resources are the largest employer on Earth. Corporations relevant to the maintenance of the Earth, such as the American conglomerate SpaceX, are "globalized" in order to direct their resources to the repair and restoration of the Earth.
The GECC has been responsible for a massive improvement in quality of life throughout the world. The resources of the Asteroid Belt make it possible to maintain a Western standard of living in every corner of the Earth under GECC control. In developing nations, GECC-backed coups d'etat establish control one by one. A ring of solar satellites and microwave receiver stations provide the world with power, and carbon mined in the atmosphere of Venus may soon be used to build the world's first space elevator near Manaus. Desalination plants around the world produce drinkable water and floating pipelines transport it to water-stressed communites
The Director-General of the GECC is the most powerful person on the planet, with the full resources of the militaries of The Nine at their disposal. Naturally, by convention the sovereignty of any one of The Nine may not be violated. the rest of the world, however, is not so fortunate, as Saudi Arabia found out in 2081 when King Faisal III was deposed by the GECC and his country occupied because he attempted to build nuclear weapons to prevent The Nine from seizing his country's desalination plants and solar farms after he refused to lower the price that the Saudis were charging for desalinated water and power.
Carbon scrubbers keep CO2 levels around the 2071 average of 631 PPM, and extensive soil engineering and bioengineered bacteria turned Canada and Russia into the world's breadbasket. Cloud seeding and the occasional use of aerosols and shade satellites divert hurricanes away from inhabited areas or major shipping lanes. Those shipping lanes, as it so happens, are becoming obsolete as suborbital cargo transport take materials from one place and send it halfway around the planet in only fifty minutes.
The Earth is now a tame world. The weather is humanity's plaything. The environment has been bent to our needs. This is the price we paid.
The Global Economic and Climate Council is an international organization made up of the United States, China, India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, the East African Union, Brazil, and the European Union. The Nine, as they're known, collectively control 68% of the global economy and are home to half the world's population. The GECC is responsible for the current Geoengineering efforts to control the Earth's climate and harness the power of the Earth for the betterment of humanity (or the enrichment of the wealthy, if detractors are to believe.)
The GECC has tremendous power over the economies of non-member states, with enforcement power owing to its position of power over both the UN and the WTO. If the GECC demands sanctions against a sovereign state, the UN will comply without hesitation (it helps that half the GECC members are on the Security Council). In one notable instance, the GECC declared that the Congo rainforest is an asset which is too important to the wold's climate (and by extension the economy) for any one nation to be caretaker of, and so it deposed Congolese President Lucius Degouillolu in a coup d'etat.
The GECC also has power over the oceans, as all waters outside of the EEZs of sovereign nations is the property of the GECC. In 2073 Russia attempted to claim the entire arctic ocean as its exclusive economic zone. The GECC responded by moving naval assets including the aircraft carriers USS Philippine Sea, USS Stephen Palmer, PLAN Deng Xiaoping, PLAN Long March, and INS Priya Vilakapathnam into the Arctic ocean. Russia ultimately backed down.
The United States Ambassador to the GECC is a Cabinet-level position appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. One holder of that office, Saumya Kathri (R, MI,) won the 2092 Republican Presidential nomination and subsequently served two terms. The position is immediately behind the Secretary of Defense and ahead of the Attorney General in the line of succession. Since the 2071 State of the Union, no Ambassador to the GECC has been selected as the Designated Survivor owing to the importance of the office. Instead, apart from the 2077 SOTU when the GECC Ambassador was undergoing cloned bowel replacement, the GECC Ambassador has been in attendance at every State of the Union.
In 2110, the GECC's massive bureaucracy and resources are the largest employer on Earth. Corporations relevant to the maintenance of the Earth, such as the American conglomerate SpaceX, are "globalized" in order to direct their resources to the repair and restoration of the Earth.
The GECC has been responsible for a massive improvement in quality of life throughout the world. The resources of the Asteroid Belt make it possible to maintain a Western standard of living in every corner of the Earth under GECC control. In developing nations, GECC-backed coups d'etat establish control one by one. A ring of solar satellites and microwave receiver stations provide the world with power, and carbon mined in the atmosphere of Venus may soon be used to build the world's first space elevator near Manaus. Desalination plants around the world produce drinkable water and floating pipelines transport it to water-stressed communites
The Director-General of the GECC is the most powerful person on the planet, with the full resources of the militaries of The Nine at their disposal. Naturally, by convention the sovereignty of any one of The Nine may not be violated. the rest of the world, however, is not so fortunate, as Saudi Arabia found out in 2081 when King Faisal III was deposed by the GECC and his country occupied because he attempted to build nuclear weapons to prevent The Nine from seizing his country's desalination plants and solar farms after he refused to lower the price that the Saudis were charging for desalinated water and power.
Carbon scrubbers keep CO2 levels around the 2071 average of 631 PPM, and extensive soil engineering and bioengineered bacteria turned Canada and Russia into the world's breadbasket. Cloud seeding and the occasional use of aerosols and shade satellites divert hurricanes away from inhabited areas or major shipping lanes. Those shipping lanes, as it so happens, are becoming obsolete as suborbital cargo transport take materials from one place and send it halfway around the planet in only fifty minutes.
The Earth is now a tame world. The weather is humanity's plaything. The environment has been bent to our needs. This is the price we paid.
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