South Asia War

The South Asia War, sometimes referred to as the South Asia Campaign or the War in South Asia and considered part of World War III, was a conflict between China and India through various proxies such as Pakistan from China and Afghanistan from India, over control of the South Asian region. It was an overlapping conflict with the aforementioned WWIII, with China also participating as one of the main CSTO powers in the war, and India as a replacement UN permanent security councilor for Russia, which had little involvement in South Asia.
The South Asia War's relation to WWIII is congruent to the Anglo-Somali War's relation to WWI, in that they both were waged regionally and at the same time as each World War, but continued long after it had ended. The similarities don't end there; Pakistan and Ethiopia fought on both sides of each war, alongside co-belligerents such as the Ottoman and British Empires in WWI, and the Chinese and Indians in WWIII. Iran saw minimal involvement, as they were skeptical of both the Allies and CSTO, the former due to sanctions and Israel's potential use of nuclear weapons, as well as wariness of Russia's growing closeness with Israel and Saudi Arabia. 
==Indo–Pakistani Cold War (1947–2026)==
:See Also: Kashmir conflict, India, First Kashmir War, Indo–Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971, Kargil War, Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir and Indo–Pakistani Nuclear War of 12 June 2027
The Indo–Pakistani Cold War was, in many aspects, similar to its Persian–Saudi counterpart, but on a much grander scale. The Civil Wars in 1990’s Afghanistan, and the subsequent Taliban regime and 2001 World Trade Center attacks, were largely collateral damage as a result of a heavily-militarized Pakistan in response to decades of conflict and war with India over Kashmir. Regimes in both countries carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity, with India’s treatment of Jammu & Kashmir’s populace described as oppression, and Pakistan’s backing the People's Republic of China and remaining silent on its Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang even as the PRC's Islamophobia reached into its very own borders, and backing of Islamist insurgents in J&K as well as its acts of aggression which led to all of its major wars with India in 1947, 1965 and 1971. The successful testing of nuclear weapons by both countries in the late 1990’s led to two major standoffs in 1999 and 2002 respectively.
In 2019, renewed fighting between Indian Government and insurgent forces in J-K results in a state of emergency and the stripping of the region’s autonomous status later that year. After the lock-down ends in early 2020, pandemonium and chaos ensues, resulting in a brutal crackdown and near-complete isolation from the international community. China largely distances itself from the situation, in the midst of a domestic crisis of its own at this time. The strongest opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and support of Kashmir comes primarily from the North and East of India and in more liberal and Marxist regions. This movement spreads, however, and within a few years a demonstration consisting of roughly 50 million people had skyrocketed to comprise nearly half the country by 2024, including military and public officials. Amid increasing government crackdown and terrorist attacks in Kashmir increasing to almost daily by late-2025, Modi is forced to resign due to crushing unpopularity. The resistance remained firm in North and East India and the military, and they were soon considered to be compromised by Communists. The culture of fear and paranoia results in full-scale Afghan–Indian Invasions of Peshawar and Gilgit in 2026, ceasefire violations and invasion of Aksai Chin in April 2027, culminating in the nuclear bombings of Kashmir and North Waziristan on 12 June 2027 and an Indian Civil War later that month. India and Japan would also launch attacks on mainland China during this time, resulting in the deaths of over 37 million Chinese.
==BRIC==
:Not to be confused with BRICS
:For other uses, see: Bric (disambiguation)
BRIC is a grouping acronym for the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, largely considered to the next-nearest competitors of the G7 (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States).
The term was coined by Jim O'Neill in 2001 as an acronym for four countries that were all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development, but in 2009 the leaders of BRIC countries made the first summit and in 2010 BRIC became a formal institution. 
The BRIC thesis recognizes that Brazil, Russia, India and China had changed their political systems to embrace global capitalism. Goldman Sachs predicted that China and India, respectively, will become the dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services, while Brazil and Russia will become similarly dominant as suppliers of raw materials. Of the four countries, Brazil remained the only polity that had the capacity to continue all elements, meaning manufacturing, services and resource supplying simultaneously. Cooperation is thus hypothesized to be a logical next step among the BRICs because Brazil and Russia together form the logical commodity suppliers.
In the early 2020s, NATO officials gathered in Brussels to formulate a plan on how to exploit the growing unrest in Hong Kong to ‘punch a hole’ in the BRICs by bringing China into the fold of democracy. Already faith was plummeting in the Communist Party over its handling of North Korea and India – the latter being one of the two largest countries on the planet (second only to China itself), mass internment of Xinjiang’s Uyghur populace, and the various power-grabs in Hong Kong, Macau, and most recently in Tibet, followed by horrific ‘organ farming’ operations using prisoners as human test subjects in the City of Shanghai led to a movement there headed by Shanghainese Mayor Yin Yicui, and the autonomy of the newly-established Special Administration of Shanghai after facing NATO-spearheaded international pressure.
Shanghai would later collapse into civil war between those backed by the independence/democratic movement, and those backed by Beijing and the Kim Dynasty of North Korea.
[[File:India-V-China.png|center|thumb|450px|Until the commencement of hostilities within her borders, the China-Pakistan alliance was largely winning in its cold war against India. As the two largest countries on the planet, any war between China and India would need to be won quickly by the former, and by the Indian invasion of Balochistan and uprisings in Tibet and Xinjiang, and Indo-Vietnamese Invasion of Hat Yai in 2022 from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in response to growing relations between the Thai Monarchy and the People's Republic of China it became clear human civilization was on course to be split largely down the middle between the more imperialist ‘China Bloc,’ and the more globalist ‘India Bloc,’ the former spearheaded by the Belarusian-Russian Union State, North Korea and Serbia, and the latter by the United States, Australia and Japan.]]
What grew from a tiny minority within China of roughly 11 million consisting primarily of Tibet and Hong Kong had exploded by the end of the year in; Xinjiang, Shanghai, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, India, the Philippines, Australia and across Asia and even the West reaching 100 million across the world calling for the end of authoritarianism and ethno-nationalism in China. With the full backing of the United Nations; the Tibetan people collectively declare independence with the full backing of Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing and Guizhou of a collective population of over 201.6 million along with a parallel nationalist movement among the Cantonese communities of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macau which thereafter sign into law with the Republic of China (Taiwan) a founding document to create the Cantonese Republic – population: 202.7 million. But still, the People's Republic of China possessed no need to recognize these territories and continued to claim them, with the ability to mobilize a population of nearly twice that of the Cantonese, with over 389 million in populace. Nevertheless, this results in Turkey and Pakistan effectively freezing their relations with China and India, with the latter accusing India of attempting to weaponize the Uyghurs and Kurds, as Turkey and Russia had their own skeletons with regard to the latter. Notable Pakistan ally Turkey would accelerate ties with traditionally-Chinese-aligned Pakistan, even as it supported its NATO allies and Ukraine against Russia, and invoking the ire of the U.S. government regarding opposition to a sale of F-16s to a country that had recently purchased Russian S-400 missile systems and maintained ties with the Taliban.
==Burmese–Thai War (2026–2031)==
:See: Myanmar civil war, Rohingya genocide, Rohingya conflict, Conflict in Rakhine State, Spillover of the Myanmar civil war into Thailand
Believed to have unofficially begun as early as 21 April 2024 with hostilities usually believed to have commenced by August 2025, would result in nearly 2 million deaths when including the Rohingya genocide perpetrated by the Burmese state. Although its closest ally was considered to be Israel, Israel's own allies, the United Kingdom and United States, would also come to be allies of the Burmese regime against Thailand which they considered to have "fully drifted into China's orbit". Whether or not this was true, the inevitable siding of the West with the genocidal regime in Myanmar in 2025 would be the final nail in the coffin for many UN loyalists and proponents of international law with regard to the legitimacy of U.S.-British foreign policy. 
Most of the fighting would unfold along the Burmese-Thai border, and is largely considered to be a Thai victory. Although the Myanmar military junta was found to have committed genocide and other atrocities, the Burmese were largely protected from the international community by the United States and the United Kingdom political establishments due to their geopolitical designs against China in Southeast Asia, although the Thais would also be responsible for atrocities in Laos during the Thai occupation of Laos between 2026 and 2029. The rampancy of war crimes in Southeast Asia by authoritarian regimes going unpunished would result in a metastasization of corruption in the region - primarily within the regimes of Thailand and Myanmar, and result in a fresh era of Thai imperialism decades later and anarchocapitalists seizing power in Myanmar and delivering the country to lawlessness and occupation by Neo-Imperialist China and other events that would cause ripple effects throughout the region for centuries to follow.
The Chinese–Thai "double axis" would represent one of the largest defense and political organizations on the planet and emblazon a Chinese–Thai special relationship that would endure on the face of geopolitics for centuries. 
==War in Afghanistan (2001–2098)==
:Main article: War in Afghanistan
The War in Afghanistan followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of 7 October 2001, when the United States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from power in order to deny al-Qaeda a safe base of operations in Afghanistan. Since the initial objectives were completed, a coalition of over 40 countries (including all NATO members) formed a security mission in the country called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF, 2001–2014), of which certain members were involved in military combat allied with Afghanistan's government. The war has afterwards mostly consisted of Taliban insurgents fighting against the Afghan Armed Forces and allied forces; the majority of ISAF/RS soldiers and personnel are American. The war was code named by the US as Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–14) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–2021); it was the longest war in US history.
Following the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the US, which President George W. Bush stated was carried out by the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden, who was living or hiding in Afghanistan and had already been wanted since the 1998 United States embassy bombings, President Bush demanded that the Taliban, who were de facto ruling Afghanistan, hand over bin Laden. The Taliban declined to extradite him unless they were provided clear evidence of his involvement in the attacks, which the US refused to provide and dismissed as a delaying tactic. On 7 October 2001 the United States, with the United Kingdom, launched Operation Enduring Freedom. To justify the War, the Bush administration claimed that Afghanistan only had "selective sovereignty", and that intervention was necessary because the Taliban threatened the sovereignty of other states. The two were later joined by other forces, including the Northern Alliance – the Afghan opposition which had been fighting the Taliban in the ongoing civil war since 1996. By December 2001, the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies were mostly defeated in the country, and at the Bonn Conference new Afghan interim authorities (mostly from the Northern Alliance) elected Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan Interim Administration. The United Nations Security Council established the ISAF to assist the new authority with securing Kabul, which after a 2002 loya jirga (grand assembly) became the Afghan Transitional Administration. A nationwide rebuilding effort was also made following the end of the totalitarian Taliban regime. In the popular elections of 2004, Karzai was elected president of the country, now named the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. NATO became involved in ISAF in August 2003, and later that year assumed leadership of it. At this stage, ISAF included troops from 43 countries with NATO members providing the majority of the force. One portion of US forces in Afghanistan operated under NATO command; the rest remained under direct US command.
Following defeat in the initial invasion, the Taliban was reorganized by its leader Mullah Omar, and launched an insurgency against the Afghan government and ISAF in 2003. Though outgunned and outnumbered, insurgents from the Taliban and other groups waged asymmetric warfare with guerrilla raids and ambushes in the countryside, suicide attacks against urban targets, and turncoat killings against coalition forces. The Taliban exploited weaknesses in the Afghan government to reassert influence across rural areas of southern and eastern Afghanistan. From 2006 the Taliban made significant gains and showed an increased willingness to commit atrocities against civilians – ISAF responded by increasing troops for counter-insurgency operations to "clear and hold" villages. Violence sharply escalated from 2007 to 2009. Troop numbers began to surge in 2009 and continued to increase through 2011 when roughly 140,000 foreign troops operated under ISAF and US command in Afghanistan. Of these 100,000 were from the US. On 1 May 2011, United States Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. NATO leaders in 2012 commended an exit strategy for withdrawing their forces, and later the United States announced that its major combat operations would end in December 2014, leaving a residual force in the country. In October 2014, British forces handed over the last bases in Helmand to the Afghan military, officially ending their combat operations in the war. On 28 December 2014, NATO formally ended ISAF combat operations in Afghanistan and officially transferred full security responsibility to the Afghan government. The NATO-led Operation Resolute Support was formed the same day as a successor to ISAF.
At the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency in early 2017, there were fewer than 9,000 American troops in Afghanistan. By early summer 2017, troop levels increased by about 50%; there were no formal plans to withdraw. In August 2019, the Taliban planned to negotiate with the US to reduce troop levels back to where they had been when Trump took office, but Trump canceled the negotiations after a Taliban attack. On 29 February 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed a conditional peace deal in Doha, Qatar, which requires that U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan within 14 months so long as the Taliban cooperates with the terms of the agreement.
Despite the peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban, insurgent attacks against Afghan security forces were reported to have surged in the country. In the 45 days after the agreement (between 1 March and 15 April 2020), the Taliban conducted more than 4,500 attacks in Afghanistan, which showed an increase of more than 70% as compared to the same period in the previous year. More than 900 Afghan security forces were killed in the period, up from about 520 in the same period a year earlier. Meanwhile, because of a significant reduction in the number of offensives and airstrikes by Afghan and U.S. forces against the Taliban due to the agreement, Taliban casualties dropped to 610 in the period down from about 1,660 in the same period a year earlier. The Pentagon spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said that although the Taliban stopped conducting attacks against the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, the violence was still "unacceptably high" and "not conducive to a diplomatic solution." He added: "We have continued to do defensive attacks to help defend our partners in the area and we will continue to do that."
On 22 June 2020, Afghanistan reported its "bloodiest week in 19 years," during which 291 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) were killed and 550 others wounded in 422 attacks carried out by the Taliban. At least 42 civilians, including women and children, were also killed and 105 others wounded by the Taliban across 18 provinces. During the week, the Taliban kidnapped 60 civilians in the central province of Daykundi.
On July 1, 2020, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly voted in favor of a National Defense Authorization Act amendment to restrict President Trump's ability to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
After a contested 2019 presidential election results in a spike of Western-backed instability from 2020 to 2022, the Uzbek nationalist Junbish organization along with the Afghan National Army - both led by pro-Western Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum at the time - install the former Vice President in a bloodless coup through threat of force and violence. Afghan President Dostum immediately after, with assistance from Pakistani nationalists - declares war on Pakistan, with massive troop buildup along the Durand Line over the next several years. Pakistan, facing a conflict from within akin to the Western-backed Chinese autonomous regions, calls upon the assistance of Turkey. The resultant conflict - escalating at a time that Russia was claiming more territory in Europe, China was collapsing and India was expanding - would involve Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and result in the deaths of between 5.3 and 6.1 million and set the region back decades. The timing of the start of this row between Afghan and Pak governments is key, as not only does it uncover Dostum's potential role as a Russian spy, it also exposes the entire Uzbek military-industrial complex as a Russian shell organization posing as a national security state apparatus.
Various governments and regimes both authoritarian and democratic, and everywhere in between, would come to rule Afghanistan between 2030 and 2100. The effects of the climate singularity crisis of the mid-21st-early-22nd century would see the population plunge from over 45 million to under 20 in less than a decade between 2055 and 2063, and the following decades would see its government further radicalize, particularly with the inevitable rise of Turkish-Eurasian influence in the region by the 2090's, Allied member-states are forced to abandon their campaign against the extremists in Afghanistan, as the country's further and further reliance upon Eurasian economic ties effectively shuts the West out with brute force. The Afghan War is a failure of massive proportions, lasting for just shy of a century, and results in the irreversible disappearance of the United States, Russia, Europe, China and Asia as they were once known to our planet.
==2024 Attacks on Bangalore==
The first attack by CSTO-aligned insurgents occurred in April of 2024, a bombing in Mahadevapura destroys part of the district and destroyed several businesses, killing 400 people, most of them passersby. Twelve hours later, the BBMP announces the capture of five individuals on their way out of the state. Two Chinese citizens and three Azeri-Bukharans including a Russian-Azeri dual national, an Uzbek and a Turkmen are captured by the authorities and interrogated before being imprisoned. The attacks kill 10 prominent business leaders from 4 countries, including 3 Israeli Jews, 4 from India, 2 from Cyprus, and a single Japanese citizen. All four countries are angered at and blame Russia, China and Azerbaijan-Bukhara for the bombing. Relations deteriorate rapidly from there, with the 'Bangalore 5' and the attacks of 4/10 seen as India's 9/11.
Twenty-four hours later, a second attack kills another 300 people, this time it was entirely the responsibility of China. The attacks seemed to be an attempt by the Communist Party of China to incite fear in the Indian population, and potentially extract concessions from India regarding disputed areas. The attacks only serve to rally the citizens of India, Japan, Cyprus and Israel against the emerging Azeri-Bukharan–Chinese Axis, although it does result in a lot of Indians losing their freedom in the name of fighting terrorism and its state sponsors, so it is - unfortunately for India - a Pyrrhic victory.
==Endgame==
2028-2029– Despite Tibet’s ostensible political victory, the Communists – led by the imperialist and hypernationalist New People's Liberation Army (NPLA) – via Russian support hold out for several more years within the walls of the Forbidden City as the de facto headquarters of a Chinese-led Security Council dominion. Field Marshal Xi attempts open totalitarian rule over the United Nations – the Security Council that includes Britain, France, India and the United States of America – and by extension, ruling the known world. By 2027 the IF led by Tibet is able to mount a successful assault on the Palace of Heavenly Purity and capture Marshal Fang, destroying a hidden second Gun Dragon in the process, thus ending the incessant hostilities fomenting within Beijing over the last year. Shortly after this, Tibet's allies in India are aided by France, Japan, the Americans, Arab League and United Kingdom in an Invasion of Himachal Pradesh. Before Allied forces can make it to Lahore and Faisalabad, the Pakistani nuclear bombardment cripples India via Kashmir - but takes the near-1,000,000-strong invasion force with it. 
After this, Pakistan would switch sides and go to war with the Communists in China, although by this time its ability to wage war had all but evaporated due to sustained conflict with India over the years. Like Ethiopia and Italy c. World War I; Pakistan, Iran and Turkey were on the verge of forming a third major alliance, against both the UN and CSTO alike, but Pakistan's weakened state and Turkey's apprehension toward Iran over Azerbaijan would be the two major factors preventing this alliance from coming to full fruition, although all three would wage regional wars of aggression against their neighbors. The collapse of India into roughly three independent republics would result in the formation of the South Asian Federation, a lose union of Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, in 2033.