UsuriousCape

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Lt. Governor of Maritania 	
Lt. Governor of Maritania 	
Lt. Governor of Maritania	
Lt. Governor of Maritania
In office 	In office 	 	
December 16, 2020 - December 30, 2020	December 16, 2020 - December 30, 2020	 	
Preceded By 	Earthly 	 	
Succeeded By 	Knox Sora 	 	
UsuriousCape is an Adorian politician and a member of the Hellenic People's Front. Often considered to be a close advisor to tooger and Seafox, he along with Sim Belaruski and tooger, helped to shape the writing the party's manifesto. His personal political beliefs are currently unknown, but it is presumed that he harbors Third Positionist ideas with a admiration for Peronism and Francoism. As both a member of the National Assembly and as a member of the HPF, he has long advocated for the Greek-speaking regions of Adoria to leave the nation and to perform Enosis with the Hellenic Republic, but has nonetheless shown willingness to cooperate with both the right and the left on some issues. While he was present on the old Adoria before Sierpinin112 nuked the server by mass reporting it to Discord, and that he was instated by Oswald Mosley as a MP from the One Nation Union, he was mostly a lurker until the nuke by Sierpinin, and joined to help form the HPF after Seafox posted the server invite link in the old One Nation Union discord server, which he promptly joined. From then on, he was an important contributor to party policy and almost became deputy party leader, were for it not him voting for Seafox to become deputy instead of himself. Currently he sits as a member of the National Assembly after the expiration of his term as Lt. Governor of Maritania, and uses his current position to advocate for the party policy of the HPF.
== Early life and education ==
UsuriousCape was born on April 5th, 1975 to ethnically Greek parents. His mother was a native Greek from Synaro, while his father was an ethnic Greek from the Northern half of the island of Cyprus, which had been invaded by Turkey. This instilled in the young UsuriousCape, a strong fascination with the subject of Pan-Hellenism, especially considering his pro-Adorian mother. He became fascinated with not only Pan-Hellenism, but also Italian Nationalism and the dawn of the Roman Empire, while certainly not a Byzantophile, he had a strong admiration for the Roman way of governance. He was also raised in a strongly religious background, which would later impact him later in his life. He became fascinated with the idea that Adoria should be partitioned between Greece and Italy, and this caused the ire of his mother. As a result, at the age of fourteen, signed up for Greek Nationalist youth groups in Adoria. This is when he experienced a dabble with Communism, influenced by a few friends, he began to read the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and while he certainly did not become a communist, it instilled in him a sense of want to help the poor, especially since his father would accompany him in poverty-relief missions funded by his local church. On March 11th, 1991, UsuriousCape would graduate from the University of Adoria, specializing in writing and philosophy, much to the anger of his mother. For a whole year, UsuriousCape would live with his parents and publish mostly unsuccessful books about his ideas. His parents feared that he would never earn a living, and perhaps it is during this time that his Anti-muslim sentiment began to manifest itself, though it is argued that his family background planted the seeds in his head.
== Volunteer in the Yugoslav Wars ==
=== Volunteer for the JNA ===
As the fire of nationalism consumed the Balkans once more, UsuriousCape believed that it was his call to arms, to fight against the evil force of Croatia, and to aid the Greek's most natural ally, Serbia. He fought valiantly against the Croatian army and in defense of the Serbian Special Autonomous Regions (SAOs). Eventually he was even granted permission to drive a tank for the Yugoslav National Army, even seeing some brief action against the Slovenes, which proved vain in the end, as Yugoslavia formally recognized the independence of Slovenia. However, as Serbia and the SAOs began to advance on non-ethnically Serbian territories in Croatia, UsuriousCape began to grow disillusioned with the leadership of the JNA, and then defected to the Croatian National Army.
=== Volunteer in the Croatian Army ===
Whilst Nationalism had brought him to Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia was beginning to permanently change UsuriousCape, In his mind, the dissolution of Yugoslavia was a tragedy, but that the Serbs' attempts to advance on non-Serbian lands was something that needed to be halted. While fighting against other Christians was truly disheartening to UsuriousCape, it began to inspire in him a sense of proto-Christian Nationalism, the idea of the common brotherhood of all Christians, especially between the Orthodox and Catholics. His sheer brutality against his former allies however, show his determination toward the cause that he had believed that he was fighting for. His brutality was so well known that Serbs began to refer to him as the grčka ustaša or the "Greek Fascist". Ironically during that point in time, most of his economic beliefs were borderline socialist. As NATO bombers began to circle the horizon, and the Serbo-Croatian War began to draw to a standstill, UsuriousCape moved on to fight other battles. He looked towards the embattled Yugoslav state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
=== Volunteer for the Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia ===
As a result of the Serbo-Croatian War grinding down to a halt, UsuriousCape joined the HVO, which was the official army of the Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. Within this capacity, UsuriousCape utilized his notoriety within the region to great extend, often terrorizing the local Bosniaks. He was attached to the unit Apostoli and went under the leadership of Ivica Rajić. While he was serving in the unit, he was one of the main perpetrators behind the Stupni Do massacre, wherein he was responsible for coordinating the murder of 12 Bosniak civilians. As the Yugoslav Wars began to grind to a halt, it is reported that UsuriousCape returned home to Adoria a changed man, although there are varying reports of UsuriousCape being observed fighting against NATO and KLA forces during the Kosovo War.
== Return to Adoria and Career as Bookseller ==
Despite technically being a war criminal, UsuriousCape returned to Adoria a changed person, he had experienced a taste of ultra-nationalism, and had decided that he wanted none of it. He would remain a Greek nationalist, but would moderate his stances after seeing what had happened in Yugoslavia. He would also serve to write memoirs in his standard Adorian Greek about his experiences during the Yugoslav Wars.
=== List of Books by UsuriousCape ===
* Radovan Karadžić's Men
* God is a Serb
* Our Beautiful Homeland
* Behind the Enemy Lines
* The Krajina War: A True Story
* Crisis in Slavonia
* The Siege of Sarajevo
=== War Crimes Trial ===
Eventually, UsuriousCape's history with the Serbian, and later Croatian militias, and his possible participation in war crimes brought him to the attention of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Despite being a close accomplice of the Herzeg-Bosnian unit Apostoli, he was acquitted of all charges regarding his participation in the Stupni Do massacre, much to the frustration of Bosnian authorities. Even though he was acquitted by the ICTY, the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina still has a warrant on him, although this is poorly enforced, and de facto UsuriousCape could theoretically return to the country, however to attempts to stay far away from the country, perhaps as a way to seal away the complicated feelings emerging from the conflict. Perhaps for atonement...
 "War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." -Niko Belić
== Entry Into Adorian Politics ==
UsuriousCape spent much of his life oscillating between openly talking about his participation in the Yugoslav wars, while also keeping a relatively low profile. Eventually things came to a head during the chaos of Adoria, with the imminent collapse of the One Nation Union, and the splintering of the parties, UsuriousCape was left in a period without much political direction. This was until Seafox brought him over to the nascent Hellenic People's Front, which was formed by some previous outsiders to Adorian politics and by a few members of the old One Nation Union. He was given the member card #13.
=== Helping to found the HPF ===
During the chaos of the period, it was unknown what particular ideologies that the HPF would adopt. While today it is primarily known for adopting a Third Positionist outlook, back then it was unknown how the party wanted to orient itself. The original idea that was floated was that the party would become a Metaxist party. However, this approach was abandoned for a multitude of reasons. The first reason was that at the time, the Reborn Fascist Party was occupying the far-right position, so it would be a politically ineffective party, since it would only end up losing members to either the ARP or the RFP. Some wanted to moderate the party to have more National conservative roots, whilst others wanted to retain the Authoritarian Centre nature that the ONU held. The solution that UsuriousCape helped to realize was the adoption of Social Democratic economic policy blended with National Conservatism, and further united by a sense of Greek nationalism. Unlike others, UsuriousCape had taken the idea from Metaxism that Byzantium was dead, and that it would be pointless to attempt to resurrect it. While he did not approve of the idea of National Regenerationism, he believed that the fundamental concept of Enosis or Union with the Hellenic Republic should be the ideal goal of the party. 
In this way, it can be interpreted that UsuriousCape was an important factor in shifting the party to an economically left-wing policy. Advocating for a corporatism that was not from the right-wing, but rather from the left. Attempting to blend the economics of the Nordic Model with that of National Conservatism. This meant that the party was able to attract both left-wingers and right-wingers, a syncretic position, something that greatly aided it during elections.
=== Leadership Elections in the HPF ===
Originally there was a tie between tooger and Oswald Mosley for the leadership of the party, although UsuriousCape broke the tie by casting his vote for Oswald Mosley. This would later prove to be in vain, as Oswald Mosley began to distance himself from politics, and left the HPF in all intents and purposes. This ended up triggering a leadership election inside the HPF. The candidates were Seafox, tooger, and UsuriousCape, with the voting model being the ranked choice. Despite being tied for the Deputy Party Leader position with Seafox, UsuriousCape opted to vote for Seafox to become the Deputy Party Leader position. This choice of his puzzles some biographers, but it is presumed that he preferred helping to dictate party policy from the sidelines. In this way, UsuriousCape serves as an important advisor to the Party Leaders of the HPF, helping to try to reach across the isle and improve relations with other parties.
== Political Influences ==
==== Maurrassisme ====
UsuriousCape has been strongly influenced by the ideas of Charles Maurras and Action française, a French Monarchist party. It is a party that has a strong advocacy for the idea that the French Revolution fundamentally caused much of society's issues. He also drew many of his influences of devolution of powers and the idea of Social Christianity. The idea that while not everyone necessarily in a nation should believe in a God, the presence of God in a government helps for national cohesion. 
Furthermore, he is influenced by the confluence of the ideas of Marx. While UsuriousCape is not a socialist, he recognizes, to a degree that the world is divided into classes. In his mind, the French Revolution and the Enlightenment, and the spread of these ideas resulted in the the traditional peasant class losing their rights to the burghers, in his mind, the Revolution and its ideas transformed the peasant into the proletariat and the burghers into the bourgeoise. That without a monarchy to protect the individual rights of the peasant, the corrupting forces of free-market capitalism would exploit the ordinary man. 
==== Sorelianism ====
UsuriousCape was strongly influenced by the ideas of Charles Sorel and his ideas of Revolutionary Syndicalism, believing that the individual workers should have a greater degree of freedom within the system that they govern. While rejecting Sorel's ideas of revolution, he believes that to an extent, he was correct in assessing that worker's unions would be effective in pressuring the Bourgeoise into relinquishing their power and returning to a balance of power between the social classes. 
==== Francoism ====
Whilst not advocating for an one-party state to be established. UsuriousCape does draw some influences from Francoism and Salazarism, considering them to be cleanly reactionary and not tainted by the Neo-Pagan National Socialism and the Caesarian Fascism. In his mind, a nation ought to be somewhat pluralist and admired the ability of Francoism to change with the times, and to adapt, and believes that to an extent, authoritarianism must require a feedback mechanism, else it will fail.
== Political Positions in Adoria ==
=== Lt. Governor of Maritania (12/16/20 - 12/30/20) ===
UsuriousCape served as the Lt. Governor of Maritania for a few week. This was a result of the Gio crisis. Wherein Gio attempted to "purify" the province of Sub-humans, or non-Turks in his mind. This eventually resulted in international condemnation, and as a result Gio was forced to resign from his office. After a little bit of political debate, Gio's Lt. Governor, Earthly, took control of the Province. Recognizing the issue, Earthly opted to appoint UsuriousCape as his lieutenant Governor. The Earthly-UsuriousCape governorship was mostly uneventful, except with the creation of a joint Helleno-Turkic flag for the province. Other acts that Earthly attempted to pass in the province usually failed. As a result, Earthly drew into reclusiveness.
As the election season rolled around, Earthly failed to register himself for running as governor once again, and not realizing this, UsuriousCape did not register either, assuming that Earthly had. This resulted in Skrieg winning the Governorship of Maritania, who appointed Knox Sora as his Lt. Governor. While UsuriousCape doesn't have a particularly great relationship with Skrieg, he has a pretty warm relationship with his successor as Lt. Governor, Knox Sora. Sometimes Knox Sora and UsuriousCape meet up to talk about mundane topics.
=== Member of the National Assembly (12/11/20 - Present) ===
UsuriousCape's time in the National Assembly has consisted of a politically moderate approach, only rarely coming out strongly in support of one side or another. Some notable bills that he supported were the Citizenship Test Act, believing that it was important for immigrants to be well versed in Adorian languages, and culture and history. He also voted in favor of extending Epstein didn't kill himself's tenure as the chairmen of the Bank of Adoria. A few notable bills that he did not support were the Communities Act, believing that devolving Adoria and its governance along cultural lines would hurt the cause of the Greek separatists, and thus voted against it. He also did not support the Hedgehog Act Bill, believing that it was a pointless endeavor that only served to waste the time of the National Assembly. He also notably voted against the Drug Decriminalization Act Bill, believing that drug use is a societal ill for the country. He wanted to affirm that he was a sovereigntist for his people, while also being able to compromise with left wingers about labor issues. UsuriousCape still currently serves as a member of the National Assembly as a representative of the Hellenic People's Party. 
== Trivia ==
* UsuriousCape plays a lot of Halo and Hearts of Iron 4
** That said, he absolutely detests taking TNO seriously, and really just memes the game. Even going through the effort to beat Burgundy as France.
** His favorite Halo mission is either The Covenant or Halo (Halo 3).
** Usually plays his Halo missions on Normal or Heroic, though he may or may not enable Thunderstorm from Time to Time.
** Favorite graphical mod for hoi4 is the Vic2 graphics mod
* Sometimes you can observe him vibing with Sim Belaruski or Knox Sora in the VC
* He generally makes it hard to tell if he is being sincere or not
* Favorite Movie is the Dark Knight
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