Hapsburg
Banned
An old worlda-style one, but something I whipped up from tweaking borders in the course of revising my earlier posts in the 1967+ Mk.III timeline. Just fixing issues that stemmed from my ignorance of geopolitics when I was uhhh in my early twenties. So this has spun out of it.
The World, circa 2077, on eve of the Third World War. The global interlocking diplomatic games have coalesced into four alliances, some of which overlap. NATO is the oldest, once thought to be a 20th century relic, but reinvigorated in the 2050s and 2060s as the new Russian Empire; its charter was amended to include operations north of the equator, allowing Caribbean nations, Venezuela, and Guyana to join, along with certain Mediterranean states, though it is led by a US-EU partnership.
It overlaps somewhat with the Indo-Pacific Oceans Security Alliance, or IPOSA. This is a defensive alliance anchored by the US and China, focused on security in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, with an emphasis on Oceania, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa.
This, in turn, overlaps slightly with the Asian and African Cooperation Commission, a primarily economic alliance and mutual defense pact led by China. It is a successor to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and is a vehicle for Chinese economic assistance and soft power across Africa, South Asia, and recently Brazil. While a name-change was being considered, the looming global war is deemed bigger threat, and the alliance pivoted in the 2070s to allowing joint basing of Chinese troops alongside their host country's military. This has given China a military foothold in the Sahel, and a naval presence in the South Atlantic.
These three alliances are roughly united, though perhaps tensely, in opposition to the rising threat: the Samarkand Development Union, a military and economic alliance led by Imperial Russia. Ever since the Tsarist seizure of power in 2037, Russia contributed to the proliferation of far-right movements and instability in neighboring states, and formed alliances with similarly-minded traditionalist right-wing dictatorships. The resulting SDU has been gearing up for war against both the capitalist west and socialist east, at least according to its own internal warped logic (in reality, China had pivoted to social democracy in the 2040s, aligning it ideologically with most of the EU and the US). The SDU is thus a motley collection of nations across Eastern Europe, central and southern Asia, South America, and western and southern Africa, all bound together by their agreement on national-conservative and authoritarian governing models, and economic cooperation to uphold security measures. Its harshest critics refer to it as a neo-fascist alliance, especially in light of its funding of far-right insurrectionaries in Europe and political disinformation campaigns in America.
These competing interests run headlong into war come December 2077.
The World, circa 2077, on eve of the Third World War. The global interlocking diplomatic games have coalesced into four alliances, some of which overlap. NATO is the oldest, once thought to be a 20th century relic, but reinvigorated in the 2050s and 2060s as the new Russian Empire; its charter was amended to include operations north of the equator, allowing Caribbean nations, Venezuela, and Guyana to join, along with certain Mediterranean states, though it is led by a US-EU partnership.
It overlaps somewhat with the Indo-Pacific Oceans Security Alliance, or IPOSA. This is a defensive alliance anchored by the US and China, focused on security in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, with an emphasis on Oceania, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa.
This, in turn, overlaps slightly with the Asian and African Cooperation Commission, a primarily economic alliance and mutual defense pact led by China. It is a successor to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and is a vehicle for Chinese economic assistance and soft power across Africa, South Asia, and recently Brazil. While a name-change was being considered, the looming global war is deemed bigger threat, and the alliance pivoted in the 2070s to allowing joint basing of Chinese troops alongside their host country's military. This has given China a military foothold in the Sahel, and a naval presence in the South Atlantic.
These three alliances are roughly united, though perhaps tensely, in opposition to the rising threat: the Samarkand Development Union, a military and economic alliance led by Imperial Russia. Ever since the Tsarist seizure of power in 2037, Russia contributed to the proliferation of far-right movements and instability in neighboring states, and formed alliances with similarly-minded traditionalist right-wing dictatorships. The resulting SDU has been gearing up for war against both the capitalist west and socialist east, at least according to its own internal warped logic (in reality, China had pivoted to social democracy in the 2040s, aligning it ideologically with most of the EU and the US). The SDU is thus a motley collection of nations across Eastern Europe, central and southern Asia, South America, and western and southern Africa, all bound together by their agreement on national-conservative and authoritarian governing models, and economic cooperation to uphold security measures. Its harshest critics refer to it as a neo-fascist alliance, especially in light of its funding of far-right insurrectionaries in Europe and political disinformation campaigns in America.
These competing interests run headlong into war come December 2077.
