"Bez Buldırabız!"
Popular campaign slogan for newly elected President Rustam Minnikhanov
Chapter 39: June 9, 2006 (Strasbourg, Federal Republic of France)- November 5, 2008 (Petrograd, Russia)
A Miracle on Both Sides or: Why too much Tainan is not good for you!
The Summer Miracle - New Love for France
Sixty-one years after the death knell for the Nasi French regime and thirty-four years after the Olympic Games were hosted in Strasbourg and overshadowed by a radical African Supremacist terrorist attack by "Black September" against the Israeli team, France, now in its united form, was once again the host of a major sports event: The VFV Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (VFV World Cup), as it is officially called.
France had won the right to host six years earlier, even before the last, and frequently disastrously viewed, VFV World Cup which had, to the unpopularity of many, been hosted in North Italy and Greece. The VFV (temporarily?) abolished joint hostings after this.
Many people were skeptical, but many also were quite optimistic about France's ability to present itself in a positive light on this occasion, six decades after Geymere completely and utterly ruined the reputation of France and the country ended up divided.
As, contrary to the World Cup that had already been hosted in North France in 1974 which suffered a bit from constant cloudy and rainy weather (including the infamous "Battle of the Calais Rain" between China and Yugoslavia in the match for third place), the weather was sunny and hot, and stable, this World Cup became one of the best and most celebrated in history! France presented itself as, at the same time, sufficiently patriotic when their own team played and sufficiently friendly to other teams, especially to Africans and Southeast Asians, so that the motto of this World Cup, "La Monde - Bien Recevu", could become reality.
On the sports side of the event, France also did well, only dropping out in the semifinals against the winner of the World Cup, the Republic of Czechoslovakia. In the second semifinal, Scotland lost against the Ottoman Empire, meaning that France could take third place in a clear 3-1 victory over Scotland. In the final, however, for only the second time in the history of the VFV World Cup (the first time being 1994, when the event was hosted in Russia), penalties had to decide - and Abdurrahman Tasköprü's shot it was, hitting the crossbar and going out again into the field that, in conjunction with the goal after this shot by Frantisek Dzujla, made the Republic of Czechoslovakia win its third World Cup overall.
Not a Special Offer: Two Malis for the Price of Three - and 500,000 Lives on Top
TPL99 said:
Mali’s civil war had started in 2006 with the beginning showing the strongest advance of the SRAA (Social Revolutionary Army of Azawad) south. The Azawadi army had facilities and took important cities such as Timbuktu (April) and Gao (July) due to the direct fighting in the south between the Malian regimes.
The fighting continued and Moussa Traoré’s regime directly recieved Russian armed support and began to advance on Federation cities. This was confirmed by the government's victory on Diema in August.
International representatives, in late 2006, agreed to intervene in Mali, and when first soldiers went there, they for the first time saw the misery that Mali's people were living through. A Council of Nations report noted that about 300,000 people were dying of starvation and disease due to war. Such tragic statistics caused global outrage. This public outrage led to the Red Cross sending humanitarian aid, which often was interfered with by the regime of Colonel Touré, which outraged the international community even more. And so it began to demand international action.
The Council of Nations was divided, with the Russians, Ottomans and Germans in favor of invasion; and Americans and Brazilians against. The intervention in Mali was authorized by the Security Council (CoNSC) and officially declared on September 29, 2006 by President Valentin V. Pavlov. Over the North Atlantic, a series of air attacks was launched and ground invasion began at New Year's Day of 2007.
On 11 January 2007, the Malian government stated that Moussa Traoré had died of a "heart attack", which would later be confirmed as poisoning. This lead to riots in the whole country. But the new president Jacques Djaboku (Traoré’s defense minister) ensured the stability of Mali.
On February 10, the SRAA rebels in the north stated that they were busy enough in the northern territories and all those who were opposed to Azawad would be killed, but they were willing to recognize Mali's independence. Thus, on April 2, 2007 the Treaty of Abuja was signed, a treaty between the Malian government and SRAA recognizing the independence of the Azawadi separatists in exchange for Indo-Chinese economic aid.
Around the same time, on March 7, the Malian Federation was beginning to crumble at the beginning of the Battle of Kital. Two days later, trying to flee the country towards Guinea, Amadou Touré was captured. The interim regime led by Russian General Ivan Klarenko took control for a few hours, the Federation was defeated and abolished on the evening of March 10, 2007. With a blood toll of around 500,000 lives, the civil war in Mali ended with Bamako’s victory.
Azawad currently is a republic led by the Revolutionary Front of Azawadi, formed out of the former SRAA, and led by an executive board of 11 members. It is currently considered a semi-fascist regime influenced by the Chinese and Indian systems.
A new civil war was started in Nigeria when the Sino-Indian Fascist alliance began to arm discontented rebels of the Yoruba and Oyo peoples who were very much unhappy with the Islamic domination of their state exercised by the Hausa in the north.
Starnberg Brothers or the consequences of unmolested Neo-Liberalism
After, in September 2008, the Starnberg Brothers investment bank filed for what is commonly known as "Chapter 17 bankruptcy" in Russia, first the Petrograd stock market and then markets all over the world plummeted by significant margins, although the falls were never as high as those in 1929. The consequences remain to be seen, but investment banking, an outgrow of unhindered Demichevist neo-liberalism, had already cost private citizens millions of rubles and tens of thousands of Russian and other families were now bereft of their savings which they wanted to use for pension financing.
Hope, Change, or for short: "Bez Buldırabız!"
Riding on this, and on a general discontent with the government of two-termer Valentin V. Pavlov, who was seen as too hawkish, too pro-gun and ineffective regarding the lives to effect ratios of the wars in Peru, Bolivia and Mali. Another, major point of discontent was the excessive use of newly granted police and secret service powers after the 20/7 terrorist attacks. Many suspected terrorists, sometimes innocent Peruvian Quechua-speaking nationals, had been abducted into the mostly secret Tainan Bay Camp, where so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", meaning torture methods like waterboarding, were used on them. They were also many a time kept imprisoned without charges being brought and had no access to legal council. In Bolivia and Peru itself, the situation was even worse as civilians were frequently killed in operations that should be directed against Yachakuq terrorists. On top of all that, in 2006, it was uncovered that not Hugo Banzer and not somebody else was in possession of weapons of mass destruction on Bolivian territory, i.e. that the reason given by Pavlov for the decision to invade Bolivia was all fraudulent. Many people suspected that the invasion was, in fact, for the valuable resources in the northern and eastern Bolivian rainforests...
On all this discontent, the Democratic Party could once again run, with a young and charismatic senator from Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, surprisingly being the frontrunner, even leading over the husband of former three-term President Zolnerovich, Boris Borissovich Zolnerovich. Minnikhanov used the popular campaign slogan, in his native Tatar language, "Bez Buldırabız!" meaning "We can!" and, on this, won with a comfortable 60,3 % of the popular vote.
Mitt Romney vs. Brian Schweitzer and Jon Huntsman - the difference between force and popularity
In the spring and summer of 2008, several incidents involving alleged arming of Aurumian and West Shoshonan separatists on the part of the American Federation led to bad relations, and two short wars, between the American Federation and Jefferson resp. Deseret. However, as was predictable, both small nations had practically no chance and America could easily occupy the separatist republics. America recognised both of these quickly after, and by late 2008, they were stabilised as (rarely recognised) de-facto regimes. However, except in the American Federation, the people were generally on the side of chanceless Presidents Brian Schweitzer and Jon Huntsman, Jr. and saw Aurumia and West Shoshona as illegitimate separatist insurrectionists.