Invasion: Germany

The Invasion of Germany, also known as the Battle of Germany or the Berlin Blitz was an intercontinental attack (and counterattack) on Germany, Russia and the European Union by Azerbaijan-Bukhara and Japan, China and Turkey supported by populist forces under the auspices of the United Nations and employed the first-ever large-scale use of autonomous weaponry in place of heavy armor. The battle overshadowed the WWII conflict by a wide margin.
The inevitability of this conflict was foreshadowed before WWIII even began with Turkish involvement in the Gaza-Israel conflict that began in 2006, during the Syrian Civil War, and finally culminated in the Russian-backed Second Winter War on New Years 2022 and the Balkan Offensive on 18 April 2026, when China invaded or attacked the Balkans, leading to three years of non-stop conflict involving erratic skirmishes between the UN and pro-Iranian forces. China, Turkmenia and terrorist groups led by the Wagner Group sought to return the Balkans to authoritarian rule, and eventually the rest of the region, in a "Crusade" to restore the Chinese Empire and Turkic Khaganate, hoping to eclipse the United States and EU in power and establish an "Inter-Imperial State".
==Prelude==
=== September 2025===
After a transitional force of NATO peacekeepers begin to police New York City and the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area in an effort to disrupt an alleged “rogue Pentagon” which they blame for the rise of Kerry as a sort of 'post-Trump inheritor' of his right-wing ultranationalist movement – the Pentagon and Defense Department are essentially labeled terrorist organizations by the Republican-controlled Senate in response to Democrats under the Kerry-Clinton caretaker administration questioning the election of President Paul as more "Russian meddling", and the Department of Defense institutes a lockdown of regions constituting what was known handily by now as the Atlantic State – officially recognized as a rogue-state spearheaded Texan-led insurrectionists and Hillary Rodham Clinton (of which some the the peacekeepers are found to be on the payroll of via Texas Governor-Gen. George W. Bush) whose vice-chairwomanship of NATO by this time had come under scrutiny by European leaders, due to her connections with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The basis for the NATO intervention into the United States comes under the pretense that Washington is working for A.S. special-interests on Wall Street and in North America, as opposed to the Will of the People. The evidence of this is incontrovertible, yet RECON comes into alarming information from GCHQ and MI6 that English nationalists and Russian–Serb forces are seizing upon the NATO-led opportunity to launch plans for a multilateral invasion of the United States and the Balkans, and effectively topple the US and EU governments and their perceived strangle-hold on the Middle-East. Although they are seen as corrupt by most of the world, the majority of the world decries the move by NATO as “an unnecessary use of force” that distracts from the fact that the dynasties in America (the Trumps, Clintons and Bushs), Italy (De Luca Dynasty), the Catalan Deep State, England (Pharaoh and Windsor), China (Fang dynasty), and the House of Saud (Saudi Arabia) were behind the corruption and behind the infiltration of the U.S. and UK governments. Glasgow and the British Crown declare that they will not stand by and allow North America and NATO to hijack the British military just because “a separatist British faction (England) says so,” and thus, ‘Great Britain’ is reformed incorporating the constituent countries of Ulster, Scotland and Wales. England – despite having its independence internationally rejected and unrecognized – refuses to accept constituent status and a COSECTOR-NATO military alliance consisting of English nationalist units, the Korean Navy, Chileans and Union State naval and air forces is erected to support England and combat Scottish influence – the latter of which ascends as the solitary UN-backed bulwark against a full-scale invasion of the United States of America, increasingly seen by NATO as critical to unseating President Kerry and bringing the US back into NATO. However, due to NATO's perceived indifference toward - sometimes outright support of - England and North America, and its contempt of the US and UK, the UK and US respond with closer ties with the EU over the next decade. The closer ties of the EU’s to the UK, and the Alliance's (at this point) reluctant entente with the North Americans, prompts a NATO–UK split. NATO declares that arms dealers exploiting the CIA are the prime culprit of corruption in the US government, that British MI6 were enabling it, and enacts an active campaign against these organizations “indefinitely” (particularly Northrop Grumman; to stave off public condemnation whilst simultaneously coming to the aid of pro-British forces in their row with pro-English/Russian forces in Scotland. Furthermore, England becomes far more aggressive after the Scottish National Party is replaced by the pro-UK Democratic Union of Scotland Party, realizing their propaganda portraying Scotland as ‘extremist’ would no longer work. An attempted intervention by England into Glasgow, Scotland in an effort to repatriate military assets that they claim are English from what they call militants is underway as of November 5th, but civilian casualties and asymmetric warfare waged by English guerrillas and Russian–Eurasian air strikes forces the campaign to a screeching halt three months later. Satisfied that they had demoralized the Scots with indiscriminate bombing of civilians, the COSECTOR-NATO coalition and the English pull back, and begin preparation for terms of surrender.
===Second Winter War (2021–2027)===
From 2014 to 2020, the Eurasian Union actively aided and abetted separatist terror groups in the form of the People's Republic of Budjak, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine following the February 2014 Russian occupation of Crimea. But it would not stop there. After a staged election in Belarus, the two countries would begin antagonizing military maneuvers against Poland and Lithuania - as well as against Syria and Western Ukraine - in late 2020 and early 2021, by engaging what they called the Regional Group of Forces (RFG), active since at least 2009.
Throughout the latter-half of the 2010's, Russia ratchets up tensions with NATO over sanctions and other actions taken by the bloc against Russia over its militarism in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere. Finland, Sweden and Estonia bear the brunt of this, and the wider Baltic-Nordic region as a whole, with pro-Russian Finns maintaining a presence in government at least until 2024. By 2016, the U.S. was pushing hard for increased Nordic Defense cohesion, with the Baltic states integrating their military with those of the Nordics and NBG15 successfully orienting themselves to high veneration as a spearhead formation to a potential future EU-wide army. As tensions between Estonia and Eurasia reach fever pitch over unresolved 2000's controversies relating to language, national identity - sometimes crossing over into accusations of Neo-Nazism in the Baltic states and neo-imperialism in Eurasia - and kidnapping, and the E.U.-NATO-aligned National Coalition Party on the verge of winning the 2022 Finnish congressional election, Russia had all the boogeymen it needed for its next act.
On 18 December 2021, the Eurasian Union invades the Åland and Moonsund islands after masked militants begin attacks in the largest cities later revealed to be ChVK Wagner. Two weeks later, on New Years' 2022, militants attack Vadsø, and Russia and Belarus respond with an invasion and occupation of Finnmark two days later. The NBG and Polish Army react with mobilization on the northern Finnish–Russian border and Polish–Belarusian border, with the U.S. mobilizing in Poland after the involvement of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is revealed in 2023, but largely constrained by its own domestic issues. The Nordic-Polish build-up is cut off from Lithuania and Latvia by a Russian–Belarusian response in kind in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and the Belarusian borders with Lithuania and Poland. Skirmishes and border clashes abound from 2022 to 2026, but Russia maintains a constant presence in Finnmark and Northern Norway, at one point occupying the islands of Ringvassøya, Kvaløya, Senja and Hinnøya at various points in 2022, 2023 and 2024. In this way, Eurasia is simultaneously able to project its Northern Fleet into the Atlantic year-round, and at the same time keep NATO Europe engaged on multiple fronts simultaneously. Expanding from the frozen conflicts in Georgia, Crimea, the Donbass, Transnistria and Budzhak, to occupying islands in the Baltic and Sub-Arctic regions and arming Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Yugoslav separatists (a total of four additional fronts).
By April 2025, Eurasia had utterly rolled the Estonian economy, military and society; and in August a Russian–Belarusian invasion of Latvia finishes them off within a week. Although Lithuania would hold out for another 11 months due to a steady supply of air drops and artillery shelling from Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, eventually the Lithuanian state too would be dismantled with the help of a Belarusian invasion from the South. The two countries would then divide Latvia between the two, with Belarus annexing Lithuania and Russia, Estonia. By this point, European NATO and their allies are deeply engaged against pro-Albanian and Macedonian insurgents in the Western Balkans supported by Eurasia and Arabia, and had already suspected Eurasia of involvement even before devastating attacks on Naval Station Norfolk in mid-November 2026 and officially declared war on Eurasia.
===Balkan Offensive===
On April the 18th, the détente standoff between the NATO-European defense alliance and Axis Forces comes to an end a little over two years later as a Hungarian and Russian-Belarusian force invades the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northwestern Romania, Western Ukraine, Kyiv and Cluj in Northwestern Romania from the six oblasts in Eastern Ukraine they occupied at the time, and Belarusian–Hungarian air and mechanized units attack Slovakia, Czechia, Poland and NATO air craft attack the Serb-occupied East Bosnia-Herzegovina. This date is marked by many historians as the final major armed campaign of WWIII with the rest following a continuation of this same battle. The presence of over 17 active pro-Russian insurgencies across the continent decidedly evens the playing field - with Bosnia, Croatia, England, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Norway, Sweden, Slovakia and even France all weary fighting against Russian-backed uprisings in various regions, with Bosnia and Croatia potentially the weakest links of them all. The Bosnian government quickly surrenders, and the Balkan nation is temporarily occupied by Russian-backed Serbian partisans. With the joint-attack by the Union State and Hungary (supported materially by Chile, logistically by other Latin American nations and China) upon EU and NATO forces, followed by an intervention into Mainland Europe and Austria from the opposite direction of Belarus (which attack from the northeast) and an emboldened Chile's PNCR-backed attack on Central America a few days later – the aforementioned regions would not cease hostilities until the end of the War. French and Italian units head them off in southern North Macedonia and the Alps. Bombardment continues throughout the rest of the month and into May. In June; French, North American and Italian forces commit a sizable attack in Bosnia thereafter. With a multilateral and continental counterattack, Russo–Hungarian forces are knocked back riotously by NATO but are reinforced by Korean and Chinese air support.
Due to being associated with the Vatican deep state, Texan involvement in the United States prompts the EU to break off any and all relations with the United States of America, and sanction Dallas. The Italian government and Prime Minister sound the alarm after evidence emerges that the Luca Presidency was connected to Italian organized crime and North American drug cartels. The Italian government and over half of the military declare the Luca brothers "political terrorists," and call upon the Nordic Battlegroup alongside France for protection from the Lucists. The governments of France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Ireland, Sweden and Finland sign the 'Europa Articles of Confederation' later that week, which effectively inaugurate the "nation of Europe," as a de-facto nation-state of constituent countries, mainly as a symbolic but prominent rebuke to the Luca Presidency that they no longer considered the legitimate government of Italy, but primarily out of the realization that they could no longer rely solely on NATO and the United States for protection. NATO – at the highest levels of government – launch a last ditch attempt to distract away from their ties to the Kim Dynasty, the Lucas (via Bush, Clinton and Trump), Kerry and Russia, by accusing the French of providing the bulk of the missile systems to the Serb–Russian offensive, when in fact it was Seoul. Infuriated, IF-led initiatives result in a “balkanizing” process of the US. The insurgencies in New York, Pennsylvania and Louisiana largely quelled by the voices of calm and reason that emerge as the nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties both in 2027 - Buttigieg and President Paul respectively, which manage to bring all territories aside from Texas back into the fold temporarily - including most of Southern California - much to the chagrin of the Atlantic and Central Americans. But the cohesion of the Union is weakened, 14 fully- or partially-recognized autonomous entities in place of one, with the previous 50 states collapsed down to 39 states (Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware would unite to form the 'Atlantic State,' with Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota, Illinois, and Utah attaining full independence while Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Long Island and Hawaii attain partially-independent autonomy) and at least 17 of which were home to ongoing active insurgencies and 1 of which (Dixon) was largely considered a rogue territory no longer under the purview of the U.S. federal government. Under his administration, Buttigieg promises to bring an absolute end to the insurgencies in the Midwest and Southwest, and bring the rest of California back into the United States as well as any other impoverished nation that may wish to share the wealth and prosperity afforded to the Union as it was intended. By appealing to progressives as well as libertarians, peaceful interventionism, the Anti-War Left and constitutionalism former-Sec. Buttigieg is able to emerge in the primary as the nominee, and run neck-in-neck with Paul throughout the fall and into the spring of 2028.
With angry men and women in uniform marching on D.C. from Arlington VA in support of the U.S., the UN and opposition to Russia's Security Council seat, Turkey's NATO membership, the emerging Texan-spearheaded 'Atlantic State'; A.S. and Texan riot control respond in the way they would to an unruly protest demonstration or ‘riot’ – what they do not expect is a full-fledged military assault into the A.S. – the skirmish lasts 15 minutes and ends only as Texan Governor-General Bush threatens to nuke the Capitol building and Eastern Manhattan – specifically, UN headquarters. Beijing and Norfolk also threaten to detonate nuclear weapons over Mexico City out of opposition to North America whom they accuse of being behind the foundation of the "new confederation" of the A.S. and the rise of the Texan rogue state under Bush – and with nearly a fifth of the population of the US at risk, President-elect Haaland backs down at the behest of the acting president, but not without voicing her concerns about a development that – coincidentally or otherwise – occurred on the same day that the D.C.-Manhattan Crisis did so, the Russia-Chile offensive.
===Azeri–Turkish invasion of Armenia===
The Azeri–Turkish military operations against Armenia began in June of 2024 and would last until the end of the war. The majority of the fighting was done in and around Yerevan between 2024 and 2025 with constant border clashes and insurgencies in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. With over 50,000 dead it was among the largest infighting in World War III, with Russia supporting both sides of the conflict. Moscow notably kept the conflict at an arm's-length while it focused on Eastern Europe and the Pacific, at first. When fighting had begun in Chechnya between the Chechens and Azeris across the border, Russia weighed in. Supplying both Armenia and Azerbaijan kept the two countries in a state of conflict and warfare, honing their militaries as a form of sociopolitical experiment on the part of the Kremlin. Azerbaijan would later become crucial to the Eurasian military dimension.
==The Jaguar and the Bear==
By the mid-2020's, trade in consumer goods, military and the IT sectors had soared to nearly $50 billion. Early undertakings involving Brazil and China were mediated by the mutual participation of Brazil and Macao in the Portuguese Empire. The first of these connections dates to 1812, when Queen Maria I of Portugal, then based in Brazil, imported Chinese laborers to work on a tea plantation near Rio de Janeiro. In 1900, a fresh wave of immigrants from China settled in São Paulo.
In 1879, Admiral Arthur Silveira da Motta, Baron of Jaceguai and soon to be the first Brazilian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Beijing, led a "naval mission" to China to established diplomatic relations, while another mission was sent to London to discuss Chinese immigration with China's diplomats there. Formal relations between the Empire of Brazil and the Qing Dynasty were established in September 1880 with the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation. The Chinese refused, however, to permit Brazilians to hire Chinese as contract laborers, knowing that non-white laborers were treated "as machines or as cheap labour". The British were also opposed to the importation of Chinese labor to Brazil, believing it would inevitably result in de facto slavery. (Slavery in Brazil was only abolished in 1888.) Late in 1893, José de Costa Azevedo, Baron of Ladario, went to Beijing to negotiate a new treaty on immigration, but the Chinese were uninterested.
Formal relations with the Republic of China ended following the Chinese Civil War (1927–50) and were only re-established with the People's Republic of China in 1974.
In 1993, Brazil and China signed a strategic partnership.
In the 21st century Brazilian businessmen have been somewhat frustrated by what the Financial Times have described as a slow pace of development for some aspects of the relationship. For example, Brazil officially recognised China as a market economy in 2004 but by 2009 the corresponding changes to the trading arrangements had not been implemented. However agreement had been reached on a wide range of issues, and an outstanding personal relationship had been established between the two nation's leaders. In 2010 the second BRIC Summit was held in Brazil, with proposals made for increased cooperation between Brazil and China on political and trade related issues as well as energy, mining, financial services and agriculture.
In 2004, Brazil and China established the China-Brazil High-Level Commission for Coordination and Cooperation (COSBAN). COSBAN serves as the primary mechanism for high-level dialogue between the two countries, and COSBAN's dialogues have often focused on energy and climate change action.
In an address to the Brazilian Congress on November 12, 2004, Chinese President Hu Jintao said that ‘both Latin America and China have similar experiences in gaining national liberation, defending national independence and constructing the country’. Therefore, ‘both sides have the same feelings and common languages’. He said that ‘China-Latin American relations were expected to support each other in the political fields, strengthen economic complementarily, and carry out close cultural contacts’.
Between 2009 and 2014, the Brazil and China engaged in frequent and effective cooperation. Both countries joined the BASIC group at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in order to further coordinate negotiating positions on climate change issues. Subsequent bilateral climate change cooperation between Brazil and China was guided by the 2010 Joint Action Plan, which also emphasized environmental protection and energy security. In 2014, Brazil's economic crisis hampered its ability to fund bilateral initiatives and more broadly assert itself in international affairs; Brazil-China cooperation also declined. 
Before his election as the President of Brazil in 2018, Jair Bolsonaro made criticized China, stating, “China is not buying in Brazil, it is buying Brazil. Are we going to leave Brazil in the hands of the Chinese?“ As President however, Bolsonaro's approach to China was generally pragmatic and avoided confrontation. Brazil remained the main destination for Chinese investment in South American during the Bolsonaro presidency.
In August 2019, China defended Brazil from Western criticism of the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires, with the Chinese Ambassador to Brazil describing the criticism as a "bit fabricated". This led to thanks from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who described it as "a grand gesture that strengthened us a lot."
In October 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro paid an official visit to China. He met Chinese leader and CCP general secretary Xi Jinping.
During the second presidency of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's foreign policy goals included "relaunching" the Brazil–China relationship. Lula visited China during the 2023 Brazil–China summit. The summit included discussion of how Brazil and China could play a mediating role in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Lula also attended the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as President of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai. “Nobody can stop Brazil from continuing to develop its relationship with China,” said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his 2023 visit to Beijing.
By the mid-2020's the Brazilian-Chinese axis within BRICS was a solid bulwark and an industrial juggernaut that could threaten the United States via its puppet regime in Panama, from which it could use to project power onto the US mainland under the auspices of the United Nations. Although India and Russia were militarily stronger than Brazil, the latter was far larger and wealthier than Russia on certain metrics and a near-peer to India, and the 1.6-billion-strong Brazilian-Chinese power bloc was set to surpass US-leaning India as the primary spearhead of the United Nations against the United States, Canada, NATO Europe, Japan and Oceania - with the United Kingdom becoming the first country in Europe to identify pro-Chinese Brazil as a potential threat in addition to Russia.
In 2026 it was revealed that China had at least three military bases in Brazil, two along Brazil's northern seaboard directed toward the North Atlantic. Chinese presence in Panama and the South Atlantic alarmed US military brass, but dithering and incompetent political leadership would inevitably get in the way and allow the problem to fester, leading to the attacks on the U.S. by Brazil, Russia and China 15 days later - NATO would declare war on these countries and the United Nations a month later. Apparently, the Chinese militarization of Brazil and Panama had run deep since at least the mid-2000's. Chinese presence in these countries had been covert and classified, and the Sino-Brazilian special relationship within the framework of BRICS had been critical to these developments over the past several decades.
==Planning (Operation: Yomg'ir)==
In close cooperation with the Secretariat and Presidency, Azeri-Bukharan military brass would begin plans for the largest attack by one group of states upon another since the Second World War in June of 2027, through conflict-ridden Azerbaijan and Armenia to the north, at the time Azerbaijan-Bukhara was already at war with three other countries in Iran, Armenia and Georgia - and the Axis Powers would deliberate for months between those who wanted to continue the ongoing wars and those who wanted to attack Europe on a wider scale while it was weak and distracted in the Balkans. The countries constituting Iran, Russia and China had all been cooperating on various space warfare programs since the 1990's, and the generals of two of these three countries would come together on Monday - 21 June 2027 - to establish an unofficial "Double Axis" against the West, primarily the European Union and the United States, and pledged to use space warfare to their advantage - seen as the next-best thing besides tactical nuclear weapons. 
PLA General Fang Kaizeng, Brazilian Army General Gustavo Calazans and Uzbek Azeri-Bukharan General Panu Hoglund Abdukarimov would denote 21 targets across the European continent that would be targeted by orbital weaponry, 4 by the "Directed Energy Munitions Orbiter" and another 16 would be attacked by Mechanized Autonomous Weapons Systems, of which Azerbaijan, Russia and Brazil each had 2 - and its partner in China had 9. A plurality of these targets were situated in Germany, which had become the primary target due to being the economic, financial and political heavyweight on the continent, and also had the largest population from which to obtain targets - specifically Berlin. The six German locations to be targeted were Bremen, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich and Bonn - together constituting over 9.41 million people. Yorkshire, Manchester and the Northern Iles in the United Kingdom were also targeted, Zilino and Brno in Slovakia and Czechia respectively, Zagreb in Croatia, Nicosia in Cyprus, Rhodes in the Greek Dodecanese, Strasbourg in France and Oslo in Norway were also attacked. Operating in parallel to and spearheading this operation was the Government of Japan, which had its own unilateral reasons for attacking Europe - notably Germany over its support for the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.
The difference in overall competence and administrative abilities between the European wartime leadership and Axis wartime leadership was stark. Although the Azeri-Bukharan leadership were of questionable mental acumen, Generals Kaizeng and Abdukarimov were known for their terrifyingly-sharp wit and intimidating presence. Another contrast between them was the notably-tall 6'04" Swedish General Johan Lind, and the slightly shorter Romanian General Vasile Radu - notable Transylvanian relative of Dragomir Radu - compared to the 5'09" and thin frame of Abdukarimov, and the even smaller Kaizeng (although General Calazans was quite a large yet quiet man). Despite this, the Axis generals commanded a level of respect and fear in combination compared to the closed-door professionalism of Lind, and although the Nordic Battlegroup lost only 47 in their skirmishes with the Russians earlier in the decade - inflicting over 300 on their opponent - they failed to push back the Russians the way the Ukrainians did, and the Russians would impose a piecemeal presence in northern Scandinavia. Likewise, the "good" Radu failed to overcome his brother in combat, and Transylvanian insurgents would maintain a presence in Romania until the end of the war.
Although Lind would secure the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Sweden, his overall performance in limiting European - specifically German - casualties was a catastrophic failure. The Balkan Battlegroup would likewise fail to intervene, despite Lind and Radu both occupying among the highest military offices in the European Union. Over 10 million would be displaced and more than 500,000 are wounded in the Chinese and UN attacks on Europe in September 2027. Over a course of several days, more than 35,000 die in the MAW attacks, adding an extra layer of tragedy on top of the nearly 1 million that die in the DEMO strikes less than 24 hours earlier. Although the Europeans succeed in pushing back Azerbaijan-Bukhara and China, the damage is done. Europe had succumbed to more devastation in days than they had in months of combat in World War II, and the rest of the world - lost for stability to look toward - would descend into even further chaos and anarchy. The Russians would form an alliance with the Arab League and launch an unsuccessful yet devastating attack on Turkey in retaliation for Turkish attacks on Moscow, Syria and Lebanon, and South and Southeast Asia would align against China. Total War would consume the globe, as all ongoing confrontations would accelerate concurrently to one another for years to come.
==2027==
:See: Liberation of the Balearic Isles, India declares war on Pakistan, Cuban–Chilean Invasion of Mexico, Russian DEMO Strikes on Sicily and Scotland, Japanese–led Invasion of the EU, MAWS & Japanese–UN Invasion of Germany
June – The Scottish Prime Minister and the House of Commons call on RECON for an emergency summit between IF and NATO powers in regards to a massive buildup of troops and armor on the border between Scotland and England. NATO declines the invitation, but the IF attends with rigor, still at odds over Pharaoh’s justifiably unfulfilled demand that the US cede Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas back to the Crown. Just a week ago Queen Elizabeth II had died, and Great Britain, transformed by the British Civil War, Rebel England and Third Global Conflict, splits the Monarchy down the middle between those loyal to England and those supporting a reunification of Britain. The latter are forced into exile, but Scotland and Ireland pledge to defend them from their political opponents.
The highlights at the meeting are Pharaoh’s steady – but gradually declining – cooperation with Turkey and Azerbaijan-Bukhara invading the islands of Cyprus, Crete and Rhodes. Apparently, Pharaoh had cooperated with the Saudi Royal Family, Islamist and JaF assets to sow conflict in the Middle-East and Central Asia to distract from the invasion of the islands, due to the presence of anti-Pharaoh rebels on the island. Through cooperation with RECON, the British government-in-exile begins plans for a coup to overthrow Chancellor Pharaoh and his supporters in London. Meanwhile, RECON-Unit 1-11 and NATO forces arrive in the Dodecanese to beat back Iranian and Russian-backed forces attacking the island. Unit 1-11, with heavy assistance from France, Greece and Italy, defeat the Iranians and free the Greeks, Cypriots and Turks from enemy hands.
August – The EU and U.S. declare military action, steamrolling the Aegean and Western Bosnia and invading Turkish-occupied Syria, Greek Cyprus and Crete, before Azerbaijan's launching of an ICBM barrage at French and Italian bases across the Adriatic and Sicily from forward operating bases off the coast of Syria and North Cyprus, in addition to the detonations of two nuclear warheads in Kashmir and Kaliningrad by China and NATO out of retaliation against a NATO–U.S. invasion of Syria and an unsuccessful Arab-led Invasion of Turkey. Nearly a million are killed almost instantaneously. NATO and IF are on-site within the hour, with Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain committing a majority of their amenable military forces supported by the 67 NATO-Allied UN (as well as the other 20 Nations openly opposing COSECTOR) into UNTAES and UNMIK zones in Serbia, where a Hungarian–Serbian Joint-Force led by Transylvanian Dictator Dragomir Radu is waging guerrilla warfare. Hungarian partisans, supported by Serbia and Szekely ultranationalist paramilitary and armed battalions and armies led by Radu and the Russians, attempts to establish a foothold, but Coalition forces are able to beat back the invaders by September.
[[File:Azeri641.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Azerbaijani 641st – Dəniz Xüsusi Əməliyyatlar Briqadası "Naval Special Operations Brigade" – working in conjunction with the Leishen-雷神突击队 and the "Blade Commandos"-利刃突击队 were crucial to the CSTO Summer 2027 offensive in the Mediterranean, Balkans and Central Europe]] 
Late August – Chinese–Turkic infiltrators seize upon the finance-weary Balkans to bolster and erect an effective bulwark powerful enough to threaten most of Eastern Europe. An international summit convenes between the EU, Scotland, NATO and beleaguered Ukrainian opposition in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the behest of the Slovak President in Grassalkovich Palace - the last stronghold of Czechs, and Slovaks of the Slovak Republic of Central Europe - Slovenskل Stredoeurَpska Republika (SSR). It is when the leaders of NATO are convened that a bombing eliminates most of NATO’s command structure… immediately followed by an occupation and invasion of Slovakia and the Czech Republic by Turk Ground Forces. The invasion of Europe by a united Turkic force and the Chinese-Serb offensive earlier that month provides a distraction, putting the entire region into shock. 
Iran, Brazil and Serbia's carrier task force enter and occupy the Balkans, utilizing 2 million soldiers, 8,000 AFV, 5,000 tanks, 500 MLRs, and 600 SPGs, as well as half of their air force – roughly 5,000 craft to push the Allies back. The Serbs and Turks, led by Radu, Beijing and infamous Livonian Secret Police Chief Nikita Kravychko, shut down the Romanian communes by pouring over a third of their entire military strength into the regions, quickly locking down the city and setting up a forward operating base to allow their air craft to join in on the bombardment and invasion of the communes. Before anything can be done, the Azeri Iranians quickly shut down Austria, sending half of the invasion force north, and the other half south – back into the Turk-occupied Austrian South. Their MLRs and SPG – as well as all air powers – remain in Austria, but are suspiciously ordered northeast shortly thereafter. With over a third of their missile strength aimed for mainland Europe, the Chinese–Turk force drives home their implied message with one final saber-swing. The top-secret U.S. orbital strike (Directed Energy Munitions Orbiter – “DEMO”) program (stationed in orbit over Western Europe to safeguard the United States’ NATO allies from potential Eurasian attack in the 21st Century) went offline in early August and by August 11th it was made abundantly clear that this was a Chinese-caused problem. Controlled by Azerbaijan and Iran in 2027 and, later, - via Chinese infiltrators - Beijing and Belgrade by this time – the Serbian government faced a sizable NATO-spearheaded invasion from European forces roughly a week later and used the weapon at the request of Serbia on the resistance in Zilina and Brno, destroyed and rendered vast areas of the region uninhabitable, killing an estimate 286,664, a still-devastatingly-high body-count that could have been as high as 1,000,000 had RECON not done their part to get as many civilians and resistance fighters to safety.
Unfortunately, their actions prove for naught. A few minutes later, before the weapon can be shot down, Iran orders a DEMO strike on Rhodes, Cyprus and the Northern Isles out of retaliation for the EU's threats. The islands are destroyed, and rendered uninhabitable – 651,023 people are killed instantaneously. Greece immediately after invades Serbia and North Macedonia from Albania and Bulgaria leading to the Siege of Novi Sad that lasts through varying, tapering degrees of escalation throughout WWIII, and the destruction wrought by this time provides enough of a distraction to allow Ok Saroy Palace, which had been (unknowingly) cooperating with the Kremlin, Azeri XKX, Ak Orda Palace and Zhongnanhai since the end of the Cold War to pioneer the penultimate orbital WMD, to unleash a monster upon their enemies the likes of which nobody to ever walk the Earth has ever before witnessed.
September 2027 – Hidden amid the thousands of satellites and pieces of debris orbiting Earth, a weapon system far beyond the level of technological advancement of any combination of dominant economies or militaries the forces of Earth could ever hope to bolster sat just beyond the prying eyes of the Human Race. Azerbaijan-Bukhara, China and Japan gain official jurisdiction over the UN Security Council's secret joint-army of MAWS – Mechanized Autonomous Weapon Systems – pledging to use them against their enemies. Whereas about half of NATO’s forces were tied down in the Middle-East, Europe was left without much defense at home, and most European nations had virtually no standing military left, economically dependent on the United States after the Cold War. In major European capitals and cities – Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Geneva, Oslo, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Manchester, Yorkshire and Zagreb – as well as Mexico City, Panama City, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Washington, D.C. on the American continent (although all inbound for the U.S. and Canada are shot down by US ICBM barrages) 21 MAW units deploy from orbit all across the planet into standby mode, 16 of them particularly large and bearing the flags and insignia of the former-Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan-Bukhara and the United Nations, from the People's Republic of China and Japan supported by an additional 11 smaller MAWS from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Pakistan, Hungary and the Imperial Republic of Brazil (all under the control of Azerbaijan's XKX). Upon activation, just 1 MAW is able to lay waste to an entire city district. The death toll tops 600,000 within just 48 hours of global MAW activation. It isn’t a moment later; however, that RECON and NATO are assembled for an emergency summit at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. It is here that it is discovered that not only do Japan, Brazil and China possess an estimate 16-strong MAW force (backed by 13 smaller MAWS) – but as do the French, British, US, and South Korea (Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium also possess smaller, cheaper MAWS), with a combined force of 32 – the U.S., France and South Korea possessing a combined 16 of the units prepped and ready to go as was the Koreans' (whose had been kept secret since the early 1970’s) Archer One. With units inbound for Europe, and some deployed into America, the Joint-Chiefs assess that although the two sides’ MAW forces are evenly matched, they denote that unlike the NATO and IF MAWS which involve some form of human interaction into the Autonomous equation, the hulking UN, Japanese, Chinese and Soviet MAWS are 100% literal, AI-powered killing machines.
September – The MAW force in America destroy the enemy Chinese force while suffering no casualties. The situation in Europe is not so tame. Two UN MAW battalions are formed into around 5 teams, including two-MAW teams of Japanese–UN MAWS (10) and 2 Iraqi MAWs each to hit the forces in Italy, Switzerland, Scotland, Germany and Eastern Europe respectively. There were one Hungarian, one Pakistani, two Arab and one North Korean. Three out of four teams of Azerbaijani-Korean, Azerbaijani-Kazakh, Kazakh-Uzbek, Arab-Uzbek and Hungarian-Pakistani forces were to hit Altbayern, Franconia and Swabia in Bavaria, while the rest rendezvoused with China to attack East Germany. An eighth, composed of American and French forces, numbering at about an even number to that of the Chinese-Turkic MAW battalions, meets the enemy MAWS just as they reach Berlin. In a conflict that results in the deaths of another 54,000 people, it is a Pyrrhic victory for the Allied MAWS. By the end of the month all of the MAW forces have been pushed into Germany – the nexus of the Pact occupation of Europe. In response, the English hit UN and Co-Sector ground forces in the region.
October – RECON Units deploy into Switzerland, Croatia, Hamburg and Berlin in search of rogue Livonian Prime Minister Nikita Kravychko, and the leader of the Grey Wolves ultranationalists directing the attack from the ground – Lt. Colonel Jamakoviو – and his right-hand, Dragomir Radu, who are believed to be in one of the three countries. Although they are not, NATO Command sees them as potentially linked to the rogue Kerry regime. NATO officially responds to RECON presence in Germany and Austria by deploying their deadliest Special Forces – the Danish Hunter Corps. In addition, the Norwegian MJK deploy alongside the Danes in a joint-military-operation to hunt down and take out RECON. Colombia also deploys MAWs – with some tasked specifically with the neutralization of the RECON soldiers. The Colombians also propagate the misinformation of RECON being an Israeli sleeper-cell throughout Europe – at the wishes of NATO Secretary-General Bush – and RECON soon finds themselves hunted throughout the continent by both of the warring factions, as forces from Serbia, Scandinavia, Turkey and Poland converge on and relentlessly pursue the international task force. Fortunately, the RECONS manage to evade their predators and successfully track down and capture Jamakoviو (although Radu escapes back into Hungary). The Scandinavians, realizing the RECONS’ true objective, come to the conclusion that the Colombians were attempting to protect Jamakoviو, and that Colombia's ambitions involved allowing England and its allies in Asia and America to conquer and weaken Europe enough for the three countries to come in and assume supremacy of the continent. Unfortunately, this information endangers the Scandinavian soldiers, and they are assassinated and eliminated in various mysterious ways throughout the rest of 2027.
The Allies liberate the rest of Croatia from the Serbs and Padania, which separates from the Occupied Government to form its own independent nation once more. Montenegro also establishes territorial independence after the Padanian attack on Bosnia and Slovenia, but the latter soon falls under a puppet regime controlled by North Italy while pro-Korea Israel expanded into Syria, and the rest of Bosnia and Serb nationalist forces is essentially annexed by the Russian-backed Macedonian–Serb Front (Македонско-српски фронт, or МСФ) (although a fierce Bosniak–Croat–Serb Resistance movement supported by Poland, Italy, and the rest of NATO, establishes a permanent foothold throughout the Balkans). By the end of the major hostilities in Europe – specifically Berlin – the Allies had suffered 1,567 casualties to MAWS, while China, Iran, Brazil and Co. had suffered 2,693 (1600 in Berlin, 306 in Innsbruck, 722 in Croatia), with the remaining 2 MAWS pushed back into Bavaria and Vojvodina. Frustratingly, the two MAW forces remained almost evenly matched, with the tactically-superior AI MAWS only 1 behind the Allied MAWS.
===Azerbaijani–Chinese invasion of Austria===
After being pushed out of Bavaria by the State and armed insurgents, two Azerbaijani and two Chinese MAWs find their way into Tyrol in Western Austria. There, they begin terrorizing farmers and residents. On high alert, the military intercepts the war machines just as they reach Innsbruck. Nevertheless, over 515 are killed before the Air Force and Army can fully intercept the machines. Two more are spotted making their way east a few hours later. With enough air superiority, the Austrian Air Force is able to destroy the Turkic and Chinese MAWS before they could reach any more towns.
===Azerbaijani–Turkish invasion of Russia===
At the same time a massive Turkish-Azeri invasion force was massing in Georgia, an attack by a lone Turkish MAW on Moscow sent the entire country into shock. Less than 24 hours later Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Tatarstan and Udmurtia begin a joint assault on mainland Russia - coordinating with the Ukrainians. Due to their unofficial ties with Azerbaijan-Bukhara, Turkey and the EU immediately have a falling out - severing ties and top-level officials and delegations recalled from Ankara back to most EU member states of their origin. The attacks are repulsed, but not before Russian unity is shaken to its core, leaving it vulnerable to increasing attacks from Bashkiria and Tatarstan backed by Azerbaijan-Bukhara.
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