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Atlantean Chaos:
1981: Mexico and California enter a confederation.

1985: OTL Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing more than 20,000 people.

1986: Germany uses nanotechnology to destroy the cocaine plantations in OTL Colombia.
Braseal now has had German occupation troops for 30 years, but it seems they're going to stay even longer. (The civilian German government made the suggestion to retreat, but the diplomats and the military are against it.)

1989: Germany gives independence to OTL Cuba (since WW1, they've controlled all the Caribbean islands).


Russian / Eastern European Chaos:
1980s: Russian drug lords start to produce amphetamines and other drugs which are smuggled to Germany.

1984: German spies report that the republic of Yenisseisk, the former capital of proud Novorossiya, seems to become a Chinese satellite too.

1985: An uprising in Itil (OTL Astrachan) against Choresm, which is China's ally. Ironically, the Germans have to help them, since they don't want China's influence to spill over to Europe. So Itil is now free again, but the Russian governments is split between westerners and Chunkvophiles (we'd call them Sinophiles).

1988: Centennial Olympic Games return to Athens.
An earthquake in Armenia kills 25,000 people; government has to retreat the army from Azerbaijan.


Indian Chaos:
1981: Several South Indian states decide to cooperate more. This doesn't sound like much, but in fact the cooperation goes very far - they just don't fully unite to decept the Germans.

1983: The Indian subcontinent now has more than a billion people.

1988: Followers of Chandramoorthy decide to enter the nanotech business.

1989: A stock crash in India throws the economy in turmoil.


African Chaos:
1982: Germany is caught in a costly guerilla war in the Niger delta, having to protect the oil sources there.

1984: Germany leaves the area of Kenya/Uganda/Tansania, just leaves a small presence in the harbors.

1987: A German ship is captured near the coast of OTL Liberia by an all-black pirate crew - apparently the Africans learned something from the Red pirates.

1989: Clashes between Tutsi soldiers and German citizens in Katanga.


Middle Eastern Chaos:
1981: In Greater Judea, the first brain-computer-interface becomes available.

1983-85: "Gulf War" (however, it's more of a civil war, with more than two sides) at the Arabian peninsula.

1986: Surprisingly, the various splinter states on Persian territory find together and unite.

1988: Some Irish-Catholic missionaries are killed in Yemen.