A new AHC

Skippy you got Free Antarctica vs. Samoa

Okay, after a bit of thought and some research, here's a off-the-wall scenario.

In 1994, for a final tune-up match before the Rugby World Cup, the Samoan rugby team traveled to Free Antartica. Tensions between Free Antartica and Samoa had been on a slight downturn after a large number of Samoan citizens were deported from Free Antartica. On November 20, 1994, eight members of the Samoan rugby team were killed after Antartican security forces stormed the hotel where they were staying after discovering evidence that the hotel was a front for a terrorist organization. In the aftermath of the slayings, three Samoan citizens attacked an Antartican on the streets of Tuasivi. Both governments demanded reparations and an official apology, but as both governments viewed the other as being in the wrong (the attack in Tuasivi occured before news of the slaying in Cape Murdo), tensions escalated. Two weeks later, a small group of Samoans attacked the Antartican embassy in Apia. After the attack, Antartica revoked all Samoan residence cards. Samoa then declared war on Antartica, but no military actions were untaken after the United Nations, Australia, and New Zealand were able to defuse the situation through a combination of threats of a trade embargo and a offer of aid. The 3 hour war ended with neither side actually gaining anything, and in fact, the Free Antartican President was impeached two months later, in part because of the damage to the economy from the loss of the Samoan workers.

(This is my first time trying to write any about alternate history, so...)
 
Major POD when Gran Colombia fails Colombia still controls what would have one day been Venezuale's oil.

Colombia- a country that since it's birth in the 1900's had been striken with poverty, civil war and unending food shortages. However it had just recently discovered oil.
Syria-A land of promise and of antiquity. Since it's independence it's military forces had been building up yet they lacked one simple thing...oil.

The War- a Syrian company had first discovered the oil, and so when Colombia's provisional government had nationalised the wells. Syria decided to use it's armed forces. The Syrian army nvaded from friendly Panama and Columbia's weak government quickly fell. Syria then took over the oil wells and left Colombia to the rebels.

Numbers 87 & 15 please. Also what did people think about my Zimbabwe timeline?
 
Incidentally, Colombia, in OTL, has a fairly substantial and well-settled Arab population. Not sure how that would affect Syria, if at all...
 
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