American Cold War

The American Cold War - also known as Civil War II in America - took place from 2026 to 2041, although some historians count the start of political upheaval 2 months after the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the 46th President and 49th Vice President of the United States respectively on November 3rd, 2020 as the beginning of hostilities. More specifically, the rise of a evangelical terrorist movement emerging across the Deep South; Louisiana, Mississippi, and as far north as Pennsylvania and as far west as Wyoming. The earliest tremors were felt on election day, on 3 November 2020, a movement bent on revenge against the "Left" for electing a minority woman to the presidency had emerged out of the woodwork, but also out of a servile devotion to former-President Donald Trump, whom they never failed to perceive as a constant victim of some vast, convoluted conspiracy. The Republic of Texas had been politically pushing for independence since 1996, with financial backing of the Russian Federation. Simultaneously, Argentina and other Latin American nations also funded secession movements in California, New York City and New England, with the latter two movements primarily emerging from the ideologies of wealthy and elite power brokers such as Hillary Clinton and former-President Donald Trump.
After Texas secedes, independence movements are inspired in California, New England and the Maryland. The Biden-Harris and Haley-Paul administrations prove just as divisive, if not more so, than the Presidencies of Donald Trump and Obama. Donald Trump runs for reelection in the 2020 presidential election against Democratic Nominee Biden. When the former Vice President defeats Trump in by Electoral College vote but not the popular vote, which goes to the President via Texas during the general election, Russia, Argentina and other adversaries immediately seized the opportunity - with recently-elected New York Governor Hillary Clinton forging an alliance of convenience with Pence, Cruz and the Russians after her new-stand, John Kerry, fails to secure the 2024 nomination for her preferred candidate, unlike Gabbard and Yang for Biden in 2020. The cogs of the Clinton machine, Argentina, the CSTO, Turkey and Russia begin to turn shortly after the unrecognized split of Texas from the U.S. under former-President and Texas Governor-General George W. Bush, as independence movements pop up in California, New York and New England - claiming the mantle of the Buttigieg-Cortez 2024 slogan "Declare Independence" - after Buttigieg's concession (at the behest of AOC's statements of independence from Wall Street, which infuriate Democratic and Republican mega-donors alike.) and the corporate media alongside the extremist movements latch onto and hijack the slogan to weaponize as a scapegoat against anti-elite and protest movements.
After Trump and Russia form their alliance with Washington Democrats and all former Presidents (except Jimmy Carter) against the Biden administration, the Texas delegates refuse to support the Republicans despite winning the state in 2024, resulting in furious unrest and street-fighting in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, resulting in the Texas National Guard and Military being called in led by former-President and emergency-military Governor-General Bush, who declares a literal State of Emergency and has the incumbent State Government arrested for allowing the impasse and threat to the continuity of government continue for as long as it had (90 days). Buttigieg concedes defeat to Haley, unlike his 2020 predecessor-nominee - but the damage is done. Texas never sees itself the same way again, and a slow but steady lurch toward autonomy and, in time, full independence begins. Likewise, shortly after, former-President Trump and GOP runners-up Cruz and Pence begin a nationwide campaign centered in Texas, New England and the Atlantic State and after backing by the Russians and Turks he also begins to campaign among California's Republican Party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is elected Governor of Kentucky in 2023, and soon after Republicans sweep the state legislature and effectively put Republicans in power at all levels except the Governorship, allowing Trump, Cruz and Pence to position themselves as the leaders of a nationwide far-right independence and resistance movement.
Gov. Clinton unquestionably benefits, since the Republicans and Russians now had their sights on a Democrat that wasn't named Clinton - and Trump's brand was no longer an effective scapegoat after Ted Cruz's popularity with the right-wing and evangelical movements, not to mention the growing presence of secessionist fever propelling the Texas Senator and President Trump's budding 2024 re-run was beginning to terrify her. This pushes her firmly into the Russian-Republican faction in the U.S., and her wealth and connections in the A.S. region would prove indispensable in turning the Western Militia and paramilitary groups against the AOC faction of the Democratic Party.
By 2024, the civil unrest and political violence in the A.S. and New England had eclipsed the chaos in Texas 26 months earlier threefold, resulting in the establishment of the Atlantic State and Massachusetts as new constituent, autonomous countries in the Northeast United States - with a population of nearly 50 million and 20 million respectively. Their proximity to New York City, and Hillary Clinton's sphere of economic and political power, serves to elevate the two new American countries to the status of regional powers. California, Utah and Arizona - as well as North and South Carolina - immediately integrate their economies, military and paramilitary forces, and a neutered New York State ends up absorbed by a unified New England. Louisiana and Texas attain autonomous status and immediately claim smaller states in their orbit - Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma respectively. The Republic of Arizona soon after leads the push to create a political union modeled after the European Union and NATO. The Federation of Union State Republics (F.U.S.R.), more commonly known as North America is established, spearheaded by President Kevin McCarthy and Vice President Young Kim, which is recognized as a regional power by the 2030's and '40s.
The secession of California, Arizona and Utah influenced Mexican revolutionaries in the vein of the EZLN primarily in Zacatecas, Baja California and the Yucatan peninsula, essentially seen as an escalation of the Chiapas conflict. The unrest in Mexico spreads to the Caribbean and results in a Guatemalan-Californian joint-force to retake Mexico and defend Cuba from Texas. Mexico, Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean-Central American nations return the favor by signing the Articles of Allegiance, forming the United Capital Republics of America (UCRA) more commonly referred to as North America (N.A.).
==Background==
:See: Global War on Terror, 9/11, PATRIOT Act, PRISM, Iraq War, French–U.S. tensions over Iraq, Russo-Georgian War, Libyan Civil War, Syrian Civil War, Crimean Crisis, European Migrant Crisis, Brexit, Frozen War (1999-2022) & Independence Front
===2001===
September 11 – A series of multiple coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area occurred when 19 terrorists from the Islamic militant group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers also crashed American Airlines Flight 52 into the Empire State Building which was managed to be narrowly saved from the same fate as the North and South World Trade Centers, and American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The death-toll climbed to an estimate 3,000 civilian casualties by the end of the day. On September 12th, George W. Bush, President of the United States, declares a Global War on Terror in cooperation with NATO, the UN, European Union, and Israel, effectively setting forth the first steps toward a Third Global Confrontation.
October 7 – The US invades Afghanistan with assistance from NATO, and Israeli forces. Bush signs the PATRIOT act, the former of which granted broader security and surveillance permissions to the Executive branch of Government, formed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The occupation phase of Afghanistan involving NATO would see the only pre-2009 instances of NATO and French forces fighting side-by-side, namely French Task Force 473 and the BFST.
===U.S. Invasion of Iraq===
Following the Iraq disarmament crisis, in which following the Gulf War the Iraqi state was supposed to comply by international demands that it relinquish any and all chemical weapons, the U.S. government claims, without evidence, that the Iraqi regime is in possession of weapons of mass destruction. The calls for war from Washington and London are rebuked by most of the international community, spearheaded by NATO, France and Russia. The invasion that follows soon after involves the deployment of a force nearly fifty times the size of the one in Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks, and represents the first major armed international standoff of World War III.
20 March 2003 – The US invades Iraq based on Bush's claims that Iraq possesses WMD's. US government's true motives are to control the oil industry, the same goes for the similarly based invasion nearly a month later.
16 May 2003 – Fall of the Ba'ath Party government in Iraq.
Unknown Date – The US government's NSA establishes, in secret, a mass, nationwide surveillance program known as PRISM, not to be exposed until 2013 by Edward Snowden. The US government labels him a traitor, and attached to him the accusation of 'aiding the enemy', indicating that by this point the US government considered its people 'the enemy'.
===Re-election of President George W. Bush===
2 February 2005 – In his State of the Union address, Bush attempts to privatize certain assets of the Social Security program, but fails when public approval dwindles, arriving dead in the water for the remainder of his term. However, in the Senate, he narrowly succeeds in its privatization by 2 votes.
11 August 2005 – Demand increase in oil results in an all-time high of $60 a barrel. This is due to lack of control over the central banks and the Federal Reserve in their management interest rates, thus allowing oil prices to get out of control, and the depreciation of the US dollar due to inflation, which will continue to occur as long as the US dollar is a fiat currency backed by nothing.
15 April 2006 – Due to the precedent set by privatization of Social Security the Republican-controlled congress, facing fears of a Democratic victory in November, pass greater deregulations toward the housing and financial sectors.
5 November 2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed.
===2007===
May 9 – Amidst fears of a looming financial crisis and facing an angry American public, President Bush unlawfully grants himself new powers by stripping states and their senators of power and signing into law a Presidential Directive, known as National Security and Homeland Security Directive 51, wherein all power of the Judiciary, Legislature, as well as the House and Senate, resided with the President, transforming the United States into a fiat dictatorship.
December - US enters longest post-WWII recession, which is only a shadow of what is to result from Bush's draconian privatization of Social Security.
===2008===
August – Russia invades Georgia. The War lasts for just under a week, and ends with Russia annexing parts of neighboring Georgia. It is the first European War of the 21st century.
September – The financial crisis becomes more serious after the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, followed by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and a Bush Administration federal bailout of American International Group, Inc. for $85 million. Just a few weeks prior to this the US stock market saw its largest drop in history. With the collapse of major firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Dow Jones is at its lowest in decades at 8,219, by September 11.
November – Over 500,000 jobs were lost, and confirmed to be at over 2.6 million by year's end, the largest loss of jobs in the US in the past 34 years. Reports come in en masse as millions of Americans report that their health care claims, and social security benefits, have been denied by the private insurers. President Bush's popularity falls to as low as 8%, and calls for impeachment are higher than ever before. Barack Obama announces a change in his healthcare policy, promising that he will push for the passage of Single Payer, universal healthcare for all. Following the collapse of the financial sector, the private insurance sector of the US economy soon follows and over 150 million Americans are without healthcare or social security. Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States of America in a landslide election.
December – President Bush becomes the first President in modern history to be denied the right to attend the inaugural address for his various calls for impeachment. A tent city begins in Central Park, Manhattan. Residents call it "Bushville". The market plummets even further as the revenues from the Christmas shopping season are the lowest in decades.
===Obama administration===
January 2009 – Former senator, and Democratic Party Nominee, Barack Obama, becomes the first multiracial President of the United States. Obama’s primary opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of 42nd President Bill Clinton, is picked to be Secretary of State. Democrats gain a supermajority in the House and Senate, and even their fellow Socialist and Green Parties are present. On January 24th Obama signs the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan into law which costs more than $1 trillion. The plan includes huge tax increases on people making more than $250,000 per year and spends hundreds of billions on the military-industrial complex.
March 2009 – Due to the acute extremity of the United States financial crisis, at this point being referred as the "Second Depression", the formerly known Euro Crisis is now being taken into heavy consideration yielding to the fact that the independent EU nations, due to the devastating impact the Second Great Depression has delivered unto the global economy, may no longer be able to stand on independent economies. The plummeting borrowing power caused by the dollar and currently causing the Euro Crisis gives birth to a lot of American resentment, blaming the US Government's "ruthlessly fascist imperialism" over the past decade as the cause of it all.
September 2009 – China begins pressuring the US to pay back their loans to the PRC. NASA loses most of its funding, and only has a few billion dedicated to satellite maintenance.
December 2009 – President Obama increases US troop presence in Afghanistan by 30,000. The Egyptian people peacefully overthrow the reign of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Two years later, the first democratically-elected President of Egypt, Muhammed Morsi, is subsequently overthrown by a Military Junta.
===2011-2017===
February – After Libyan dictator 'King of Kings' Muammar Gaddafi takes questionable measures to repress the 'Arab Spring' in his country, the nation erupts in civil war. Supported by NATO; military intervention rebels, primarily Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah associates, launch counterattacks against the regime.
March 15 – Conflict begins in Syria between forces loyal to the Syrian Ba'ath Party Government and those seeking to oust it, with popular demonstrations that grew nationwide by April. Conspiracy theorists and realists alike suspect that it is possible Al-Assad was propped up by western influence to spark a middle-eastern anti-western force in the Middle-East, to justify further American intervention into the region.
July – Obama begins plans for a 'Domestic National Security' force to be headed by the Department of Homeland Security, increasing Government Surveillance Policy, and the extent of the PATRIOT Act.
September 17 – Angry American citizens march on Wall Street in a movement known as 'Occupy Wall Street', inspired by internet hack-tivist group 'Anonymous'.
October – Protests spread to over 70 other US cities by the 9th of the month, marking the greatest public demonstration since 1966. This is due mainly in part to the diminishing US foreign relations, the Depression, and American imperialism. People are fed-up with the US government running their lives, and are determined to deliver the power back into the hands of the people. Later in the month Libyan rebels overthrow Gaddafi’s regime, and establish the “National Transitional Council”.
Various Dates – The PRISM program under Bush sees widespread mass-surveillance and the dawning of a police state in embryonic form. This inadvertently results NSA Contractor Edward Snowden leaking files incriminating the US Government in mass-surveillance scandals involving the NSA's PRISM program. In the data leaked, foreign governments, mainly the EU, and mainly supposed 'allies' of the US government, were having their phone calls, their emails, and their personal privacy violated and spied on by the NSA.
Various Dates – Russian-backed separatists seize the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and initiate breakaway illegitimate governments in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, resulting in a War in Donbass after Ukrainians peacefully overthrow the Russian-friendly government of Viktor Yanukovych. Several years later, UNA-UNSO - the Ukrainian ultranationalist faction that backed Russian President Boris Yeltsin against his predecessor's attempt to decentralize the Soviet government in 1991 (of which Putin was an ally and successor) - would escalate their crusade against the pro-Western government in Kiev backed by Russia.
Fall 2015 – Due to the fallout of the Syrian Civil War, record numbers of refugees flood into Europe from the Middle-East. Extremist anti-immigration parties climb the polls all across the continent, particularly in Eastern Europe, where the continent is hit hardest.
The refugee crisis reignited tensions between Croatia and Serbia, after Hungary shuts down its border with Serbia, leaving refugees trapped in a tug of war between the two former-Yugoslav states.
Spring 2016 – The US Presidential elections see big money maintain influence in American politics, which spark protests in dozens of cities, with the largest in Washington-DC. Presidential hopeful and champion of the 99%, Senator Bernie Sanders is routed by Wall Street candidate, former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – the candidate of the Conservative Democrats, who seek to exploit her name and reclaim the Oval Office for their donors in the Republican Party, and continue their hawkish foreign policy – the opposite of what Sanders intends to do. Throughout the primary season the two frontrunners solidify their leads into the general election season.
Fall 2016 – Eventually, it comes to the attention of government transparency advocate Julian Assange – and his associates at WikiLeaks – that Clinton’s team is actively sabotaging the campaign of Sanders and infuriating millions of people – thus weakening the ability of the Democrats to stand against Trump. With help from an insider within the U.S. Intelligence Community, WikiLeaks attempts to expose the Clinton machine before the DNC, but are too late. The leaks don’t drop until the general election, all but guaranteeing a Republican Presidency. During the primaries, the FBI concludes its investigation and surmises that Hillary Clinton violated no national security and declines to indict.
The Republicans nominate billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who rapidly becomes a media sensation due to his off-the-cuff remarks about illegal immigrants, banning Muslim immigrants, building a Wall on the Mexican–American border, and initiating sweeping mass-surveillance, as well as his disturbingly cozy relationships with both of the Clintons, the mafia, dictators abroad (such as North Korean Premier Kim Jong-un) and his status as a Democrat not even a month before deciding to run for the GOP Nomination.
The Republican nominee helps boost Hillary’s poll numbers.
Trump had reportedly received a phone call from ex-President Bill Clinton a week before announcing his bid from the Presidency. On into the summer and beyond, Trump continues to (seemingly) purposefully sabotage his own campaign. His pro-Democrat donations come up. His donations to the Clinton Foundation come up. His ties to the mob. His ponzi schemes. His crookery. His scams. His lies. Trump receives a record amount of free media coverage, all the while – conveniently enough – the Sanders campaign for-the-most-part ignored or marginalized.
But, what she isn’t helped by is her connection to the Iraqi and Libyan Invasions, and – most damning of all – her close friendship with former-President George W. Bush. Although she wins the primaries against Bernie Sanders, his Revolution invigorates a movement of informed and aware young people, and while they largely split down the middle between those heeding the calls of the sabotaged campaign of Bernie Sanders to rally around Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, a great many reject the false narrative of the corporate Democratic-Republican Duopoly and side with the insurgency of third parties. The Wall Street Democrats had silenced a generation desperate for change, desperate for a future free from poverty and war, desperate for a future with an accessible middle-class and college education.
Nevertheless, the DNC's corruption goes unnoticed and unrevealed until after the California primary – the largest and most decisive state contest. After the DNC, and Bernie’s official concession to Hillary Clinton, the fall and winter months of 2016 feature a general election between the two most hated Presidential candidates in American, and perhaps World, History. The leaked documents indicting the DNC for corruption are stolen by Russian hackers – likely affiliated directly with then-President of Russia Vladimir V. Putin (as all U.S. Intelligence Agencies would inevitably confirm) almost immediately after WikiLeaks acquires them, guaranteeing the downfall of Sanders and the ascension of Donald Trump.
The arrogance and rampant lust for power of Wall Street and the New Democrats drives the Democratic Party into disarray, alienating and silencing the Progressive Wing of the party and elevating Trump. By forcing a flawed and heavily-disliked candidate down voters’ throats, and sabotaging the campaign of Progressive Bernie Sanders (who was shown in multiple polls to be beating Trump by landslide margins), the New Democrats (and Russians) had effectively selected Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
For another 4 years, Trump continues Bush’s foreign policy, tearing apart the Middle-East, and by the time the 2020 elections roll around, Trump’s reluctant ally, Theocratic 2016 Republican runner-up from Texas, Senator Ted R. Cruz – fuelled by a bitter hatred of Progressives and his humiliation by Trump in the previous election – had returned with a vengeance. Cruz was determined to establish his authoritarian ultra-nationalist theocracy.
Coincidentally, this also marked the return of the Bernie Sanders Revolution’s second-in-command – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
By the end of Trump’s Presidency; the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un, the Eurasian Lukashenko regime, Serb–Eurasian political elites and the Wall Street financial elite had solidified power to such a stark degree in comparison to the rest of the political world that the very fabric holding world peace together was beginning to fray under the weight of a global system thrown into disarray by such a chaotically-imbalanced international oligarchy whose corruption knew no limits.
====Fascist America====
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_killings_of_NYPD_officers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin
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====President Trump====
Although Trump campaigned as a non-interventionist and a populist, his Presidency was far more authoritarian and internationalist than what he campaigned as. Donald Trump stated that America "should look inward," and "stop nation-building," but he would do just the opposite. As a candidate he questioned whether he, as president, would automatically extend security guarantees to NATO members, suggesting that he might leave NATO. But as president, he had reaffirmed U.S. commitment to NATO.
Both as a candidate and as president, Trump stated many times that he wants a good relationship with Russia. President Trump held several meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin as President. On April 7, 2017, Trump ordered a missile strike against a Syrian airfield in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
North Korea became a major issue in Summar 2017. During the 2016 camapign and the early months of his administration, Trump had hoped that China would help to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions and missile tests. However, North Korea accelerated in missile testing, leading to an increase in tensions in April. In July, the country tested two long-range missiles identified by Western observers as intercontinental ballistic missiles, potentially capable of reaching Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland. In August 2017, President Trump dramatically escalated his rhetoric against the North, warning that further provocations against the U.S. will be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen." North Korean leader Kim Jong-un then directly threatened the U.S. territory of Guam with a missile attack. The President responded that if North Korea to steps to attack Guam, "things would happen to them like they never thought possible."
=====Impeachment efforts and polling=====
On 12 July 2017, California Congressman Brad Sherman formally introduced an article of impeachment, H. Res. 438, accusing the president of obstructing justice regarding the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Presidential approval ratings for Trump have revealed him to be the least popular US president in the history of modern opinion polling as of the first ten months of his term.
====Weinstein effect====
The sexual misconduct allegations against Candidate Trump that threatened to derail his Presidential ambitions in 2016 led to a wide-ranging political sex scandal that would consume Minnesota Senator Al Franken, Alabama state Judge Roy Moore, Michigan Representative John Conyers, former San Diego Mayor and California Representative Bob Filner, and former Presidents William Jefferson Clinton III and George H. W. Bush. And supporters of both Bill and Hillary Clinton largely believe Bill Clinton's accusers by the end of 2017.
==History (HEAVY WIP/UNDER CONSTRUCTION)==
===American Civil War II===
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Following what many historians identify as American Civil War II, or the 'Lesser American War,' after a turbulent 2020 and 2024 U.S. presidential election in which no clear winner emerged, the President at the time is assassinated and the country descends into chaos. Former-Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton was elected Governor of New York shortly prior to this and rapidly expanded her power, arguably to the point that the City's highest office eclipsed that of an unusually weak President.
As the larger states including Texas, California, New York and Florida - and groups of states such as the Virginias and the Carolinas - gained increasingly more autonomy and power over the rest of the country, the United States as we knew it eventually ceased to exist. Instead, a lose federation of constituent "United Nation-States of America," so to speak, would take its place. The U.S. continued to be referred to as the U.S., at least officially, for a time. And despite the civil unrest unfolding in the New York metropolitan area and among prowling militia groups, business continued as usual. This ends as Long Island's bid for independence from the U.S. is recognized by Australia, the UK and China, the former a Major Non-NATO Ally, and the latter two P5 Security Councilors. In what is in time come to be referred to as the Atlantic State, secessionist sentiment spreads across New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, as well as to parts of Philadelphia and Upstate New York. This emboldens secessionists in Canada and Mexico as well, and the latter fares much much worse than the former.
As early as the 1990s the U.S. had been smuggling weapons to Mexican drug cartels under the auspices of ATF and the DHS. Particularly during the period between 2006 and 2011, when the U.S. agents allowed thousands of guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Under the Mérida Initiative, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence had contributed to the conditions that have allowed secretive transnational organized crime and cartels to buy off the Mexican police, and empower the Mexican military to a position above the Mexican government itself in many ways. From this point forward, drug cartels ran Mexico. Secessionist uprisings became commonplace, beginning with the 1994 Zapatista uprising and its aftermath - which involved an acceleration of militarism by Mexican authorities. Following on the heels of the 1994 uprising, the U.S. accelerated involvement with the Mexican military under the label of "Drug Training," which was truly about counterinsurgency. This focus on insurgencies enabled and accelerated the cartels' control over regional politics and law enforcement, and allowed arms-dealer politics to rule over regional politics and law enforcement in the U.S. and both developments would fuel the autonomous and secessionist fronts in both countries, which would inevitably lead to the formation of the Union State of North America.
====Mexican Drug War====
During the English Rebellion in the 2020s, NATO added the Mexican Drug Cartels, particularly the Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartels, to the list of designated terrorist organizations. They also noted that U.S.-based PMCs were participating in "anti-narcotics" operations in Colombia and Central America, and siphoning funds from the U.S. Intelligence Community, primarily the NSA and CIA. These organizations are labelled as being the prime cause of corruption in the U.S.-Mexican governments and organized crime, which results in unprecedented polarization in American politics and further invigorates secessionist fervor in the U.S. states of California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Wyoming and West Virginia, which in turn sparks a counter-movement of Pro-Autonomy Federalism spearheaded by the U.S. states of Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts and the Tennessee Valley Authority - who declare the right to annex said states, eliminate any and all threats to their citizenry, as well as neighboring communities, and declare the right to protect their territory from domestic enemies of the United States of America. This movement expands over the next year to also include the smaller states such as Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, Indiana, Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, some of which had already undergone transformations of their own at this time. Texan-backed Oklahoman White Nationalists bomb the insurgent Oklahoman government and unleash a campaign of terror which eventually spreads to radical right-wing Republican Kansas. Earlier that year, Special Operations Command, SAC, the FBI and national guard spearheaded by the Republic Secretariat of Illinois, Michigan and Missouri take out the Texan puppet regimes in Oklahoma and Kansas with SEAL Team raids and precision air strikes on militant compounds located in Tulsa and Johnson County and arrest all government officials associated with the Kansan and Oklahoman governments, putting Texas on the list of U.S. adversaries which it now shared with Russia, which places the territory formerly afforded to the two governments to the authority in Lincoln, Nebraska. The government of the A.S. actively campaigns for not only the full sovereignty of California and Texas, but independence movements across the Deep South, New York, Kentucky, Iowa, Pennsylvania and even the Republicans in Oklahoma that are discovered to be White Nationalist Neo-Nazis. But despite the particularly-pronounced volume of this vocal minority, a majority of Americans and Mexicans opposed a unification, with Mexico in particular still struggling with their own secessionists and fallout of their President endorsing the Texan government's recalcitrant rhetoric towards NATO.
Although there were mass demonstrations calling for the independence of the A.S. in Belgium, Quebec, Northern Cyprus, Padania, the South Island, Balochistan, Bougainville, Somaliland, Catalonia the Basques, Central America, the Donbass, China, Australia, Britain and the Arab world, Canada and the Mexican people - spearheaded by the left-wing EZLN - oppose the PMC-Cartel-run secessionist states, and all politicians who benefit from their existence. With the US intelligence community's role in the rise of these narco-states exposed by NATO, public faith in the U.S. government in Washington - by this point in time, unclear and highly-contested - plummets. This allows the Communist Party of Cuba, and their ally in Guatemala - Enrique Salazar, to hijack this discontent in Texas, California, and A.S. against the U.S. and the emerging pro-A.S. insurrectionists throughout the country that wanted full-blown secession.
From the ashes of the conflict arises a totalitarian regime that would come to rule Mexico with an iron fist. The regime emerges from a union between the governments in San Salvador, Los Angeles and Guatemala City at a formal meeting in Cuba in early 2025. 
At the second meeting a year later between Salazar, Clinton and Kerry in 2026 formally all-but-establishes the independence of North America and the A.S. from the United States of America. The shock of losing Texas entirely, and Greater Los Angeles and other urban enclaves such as San Diego in California to an emerging superstate encompassing vast swathes of Mexico and Guatemala, while remaining powerful enough to threaten all of Central America and the Western United States, results in a radical restructuring of the internal political structure of the United States. The simple fact that the newly-autonomous states, the largest of which remains California - although neutered at 22.1 million - followed closely behind by Florida at 21.7 million. New York had plummeted to 10,000,600 after losing Manhattan to secessionist Long Island, home to nearly 2 million and 7 million a piece. The Michigander Federation was 21.4 million-strong, right behind Florida. Followed by Georgia at 18.6 million, then Carolina at 16.2 million, and Virginia at 15 million, while Massachusetts quarreled with Nutmegger radicals for control over a populace of over 14.3 million. Arizona expands to 18.5 million, besting New York to come in just behind Georgia. Missouri had annexed Iowa, swelling to 9.6 million, and Nebraska's official census read 8.9 million after the Oklahoma crisis. Louisiana - 8.1 million. If Texas and the A.S. had remained part of the US they would be the first and second-most populous states respectively, with 31.1 and 25.8 million in population. 
By 2026, the U.S. had fallen from 50 states to just 27; losing Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Dakota, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas to far-right extremism. Post-Schism America looks a lot like a political minefield for anyone considered too right-wing or conservative, and heralds a golden age for America's "Left" and Centre-Left, which is still considered marginally to the right of the rest of the First World, but still an improvement from previous decades. The absence of Texas is seen as the main cause for the dismay of Conservative and Evangelical Republicans, which forces the party to the centre in search of alternative hubs in Michigan and Florida, although progressives are hurt, too, by the SoCal Insurgency and related conflicts with North and Latin America, which dis-proportionally target the society and economy of California. By and large, all politicians of all ideology of both parties have had to become more pragmatic regardless of their political positions on the Left-Right scale and coordinate to bring an end to secessionist violence.
==Cruz assassination==
===Background===
After Trump's impeachment on 31 December 2019 
===American Cold War===
On February 3rd, 2025, Vice President Yang's and the president's supporters’ hopes and dreams are shattered when the President and recently-elected House Speaker Ocasio-Cortez are assassinated after winning reelection. Although the wise leadership and steady hand of the Harris-Yang administration had bested the Christian nationalist and establishment-backed Trump-Cruz ticket, kept the hounds of war at bay and maintained U.S. preeminence over the continent, in the blink of an eye, it was history. The government is shut down by an ad-hoc international criminal probe into the US government itself – after evidence emerges that Harris'spredecessor Biden and Defense Secretary Gabbard (who both appeared to have died of natural causes) were also assassinated by polonium poisoning. A radical sect of Jundallah al-Fatah based out of Morocco and the neo-fascist Wagner Group of the Balkans & former-USSR both claim responsibility, but a DOJ investigation launched immediately finds that elements of Wall Street – perhaps even an individual within the administration itself – may have been cooperating with the terrorists... with most of the blame going to Yang and the progressives. The DOJ reports to the ICC, and the White House and Congress fall under a joint ICC-Interpol investigation, wherein the conclusion is unanimous – within the Security Council – former-Secretaries of State and newly-appointed Acting President and Vice President John Kerry and Hillary Clinton would serve as Interim President until the situation is declared safe to allow the transition of power to resume normally. As Kerry steps up to serve in the interim, for at least for the few months it would take to allow the Federal Government to continue functioning in a normal manner, he immediately seizes absolute power.
Vice President Yang inherits a movement of supporters who, having lost a President, Jesse Ventura in 2024 to the Cruz and Trump campaigns and Bernie in 2016 to the superdelegates and Wall Street, were utterly defiant and infuriated at having Yang – whom they refuse to recognize as anything else other than President – receiving insult in addition to injury as they watch a coup unfold in Washington, and begin moves to erect an impenetrable resistance effort that would last for many years – and even decades – into the future. Having a face for the movement – which eventually grows beyond America to many nations, and becomes known as the Independence Front – one with the charisma, wisdom and leadership of a President, not to mention combined with a convincing argument that he is the rightful President of the United States of America (one of the best arguments and fact-based claims a politician could have in the realm of geopolitics, especially when your political opponent is the infamous Secretary of State John Kerry and former-First Lady Hillary Clinton, the most tyrannical presidency in American history) helps cement the Independence Front and future-President Yang into the chronicles of American and World History.
Premier, President and Chairman of the Atlantic State is the new executive position that Kerry creates, essentially for himself. Under the guise of a “failsafe” – should the “New World Order” as he calls it attempt to ‘illegally’ wrest the power of the Presidency from his hands – Kerry - at the behest of Clinton - invokes George W. Bush’s “Presidential Directive 51” and the PATRIOT Act to justify his unification of legislative and judicial powers with the Executive Branch and his assumption of direct command over the Executive Branch law enforcement and the NYPD. To further ‘legitimize’ his cause, he even lays out the territory that would be controlled by his newly-empowered Presidency should the cause for it come into fruition – a ‘non-aligned state zone’ encompassing the territory of the so-called 'Atlantic State' established by Governor Clinton; and in the event that civil unrest hit a breaking point, the entirety of this “Megaregion” could be ‘shut down’ by the Department of Homeland Security, NSA, NYPD and various other paramilitary organizations.
This division on the continent would also spark the low-level Insurgency in the American West perpetuated by secessionist movements spearheaded by the LAPD (which would in time become more of an autonomous domestic terrorist organization than a law enforcement police department exploited by the Russian-backed political entity encompassing the nations of Mexico, Cuba and Central America that would eventually come to be known as North America). Besides the War in Central America and the Caribbean Crisis, this insurgency would be the main conflict of the American Cold War.
===Spanish neo-imperialism in Latin America===
Throughout the late-2010’s and into the 2020’s, Argentina and Chile deepen their military cooperation. It is through Argentina that Chile and rogue-states such as North Korea and Iran came to be so close by the early 2020’s, just prior to the final escalation in global confrontation. As early as September 2016, then President of Ecuador Rafael Correa warned of a potential ‘Operation Condor 2.0,’ in which out of fear of a resurgent Russia, the U.S. begins funding into power authoritarian regimes that would support them in lieu of Moscow. This enabling of the right-wing is most prominent in Spain - as well as the primary two offenders of the previous campaign of state-sponsored terrorism: Argentina and Chile. 
Beginning in 2016, Alberto Curamil, a Mapuche environmental activist, successfully blocked the construction of two hydroelectric power projects. Chilean authorities arrested him in 2018, seemingly putting to bed the goals of Mapuche indigenous peoples for autonomy and freedom from Argentine–Chilean ethno-nationalism, until in 2019. Curamil is given the prestigious Goldman Prize award by an international human rights body, giving right-wing President Sebastian Pinera the first headache of his administration, and jump-starting what would become a near-decade-long conflict for the liberation of the Mapuche and indigenous peoples across the Americas. In June 2018, a controversial and outsized response to violence in the poorest region of Chile known as Araucania, came in response to a wave of arson and other attacks against primarily forestry companies by indigenous Mapuche and their allies. “Jungle Command,” the special militarized police unit created by Pinera, drew massive backlash with protests reaching as far away as Santiago, when a protestor on a tractor named Camilo Catrillanca was shot through the head by Commandos near the village of Ercilla in November of that same year. Even despite the growing backlash against the Colombian-trained Jungle Commandos, equipped with bullet-proof jackets, drones and high-tech surveillance and communications systems, Pinera continues to defend his Araucania policy – entrenching the opposition and drawing condemnation of the Chilean government from international bodies such as the United Nations and Amnesty International as well as the international community writ large. 
After the failure of the uprising against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the spring of 2019, interests involving American imperialism for resources among other reasons such as soft warfare against the Venezuelan populace itself results in an inevitable and incredibly bloody Civil War in Venezuela in mid-2022, in which the US military intervention fails catastrophically. The repercussions cripple Colombia, which finds itself not only engaging FARC rebels, but simultaneously fighting off Tupamaro insurgencies on its Eastern border. And Venezuela soon thereafter falls victim to right-wing ultranationalist military occupation by Bolsonaro-loyalist anti-Socialist radical militancy. This causes a ripple effect across Eastern South America, affecting the Guyanese and Ecuadorian economies as well.
 
By this point in time, Argentina - already recoiling from economic and political crises from the 1990's and 2000's - was on the verge of becoming a failed state with the return of the Kirchner Dynasty and their subsequent sell-out to Chile regarding the New South American Depression beginning in Colombia and Venezuela. 
The economic instability in its Southwestern neighbor results in parallel instability in Brazil. This soon affects the outcome of the 2022 presidential election resulting in the subsequent Communist dictatorship which allows the military to run rampant with their own ultra-nationalist, imperialist ideology - in time fully annexing the countries of Suriname, Guyana, Paraguay and Uraguay - as well as the West Indies, and as far north as the Bahamas, by 2027.
Despite Brazil's overwhelming numerical advantage, the geographically-strategic location and technological supremacy of Chile would prove too much of a threat to overcome, let alone ignore. Brazil assumes a non-aligned, neutral stance in South America similar to Switzerland in Europe, while the Southern Cone continued to exert increasingly more influence throughout South America, and Latin America as a whole. Chilean and Argentine ultra-nationalists found their views converge with the Spanish military brass and nationalist establishment, which seized upon the radicalism of the incumbent Spanish government to achieve their goals of a "Soviet American Union" with the American countries of Argentina and Chile playing the role of Ukraine and Belarus.
But perhaps the most impressive of Chile's weaponry was its unrivaled martial prowess in general. Dressed in dark gray, with the iconic Stahlhelme helmets on their heads, Chile’s soldiers bear more than a passing resemblance to the Wehrmacht of World War 2. The colorful sashes and ceremonial rapiers of their officers seem to have been pulled directly from a history book, with the goose-stepping hammering home the point. However, the Chilean military didn’t just decide to embrace the Nazi aesthetic and lift the Prussian drill and doctrine from a history book. Rather, its distinctly Teutonic style has its roots in the 19th Century.
In the 1880s, Chile managed to prevail over Bolivia and Peru in the War of The Pacific, a dust-up over mining territory in the Atacama desert. Its military wasn’t in great shape, however, and its leaders wanted to bring in some external help to gain an edge over Chile’s neighbors. Enter the Prussians. Under Otto von Bismarck, the Prussians had managed in 1870 to unify the splintered principalities of northern Germany and win the Franco-Prussian War inside of ten months. Despite its small size, Prussia had a hardcore military culture and could hold its own against far larger European powers. The Chileans shipped a bunch of Prussian officers over to whip its military into shape, and by the time the Prussian Captain Emil Körner retired as the Commanding General of the Chilean Armed Forces in 1910, the country’s martial prowess was unmatched in South America.
Within a few years of Brazil's crisis, Argentina's civil unrest, and the collapse of the Guyana and Colombian economies, following - of course - the Venezuelan Civil War, Peru had been largely isolated and cut off from the East of the continent, and Argentina militarily dependent on the Chileans and Chile economically dependent on Argentina. Resistance movements fomented - and faltered - in Ecuador, Northern Colombia, and even as far north as Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras in 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively. But the sheer tactical, strategic and technological superiority of the Chilean military was insurmountable, with no Brazil or America to come to the rescue, even all of the rest of the South American countries combined were unable to penetrate through the Andes - the longest and largest mountain range outside of Asia - or make it through almost 20 million kilometers of secured maritime territory extending as far East as Rapa Nui (or roughly 2,000 kilometers from British and French territory) - to strike anywhere vital to the aggressors' infrastructure or prevent Peru from falling into Spain's orbit. The best case scenario involving a defeat for Chile, sooner rather than later, was for the U.S. to collect itself long enough to deliver a tactical nuclear bombardment - and even then, Chile grew closer to adversaries militarily with each passing day, and the fourth-strongest country in Europe - Spain itself - was on the verge of attaining nuclear weapons of its own.
===War in Central America===
The Atlantic State - although by this point in time still an unrecognized secessionist movement within the United States - would in time fuse New Jersey and secessionists in Manhattan, the Delaware and the District of Columbia and influence the increased autonomy of California, thereafter joining NATO in opposition to the Clinton-led secessionists. California would reunify with the secessionist territories of the Baja Californian peninsula - which would later inspire independence and autonomy movements in Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, New Leon, Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas - effectively toppling Mexico. The response to the Mexican President's appeasement of President Kerry is disastrous, and results in Guatemala and California occupying large swathes of Northwestern and Southeastern Mexico. The government is overthrown and replaced with a Pro-Guatemalan military government, the current government in Guatemala City led by President Enrique Salazar, a native-born Guatemalan of European descent. All secessionist states, except Baja California, are unrecognized and the secessionist movements are categorized as criminals and even terrorists in the case of the Zacatecas uprising. With Guatemala, California, and Mexico - supported by El Salvador, Nicaragua and Chile - signing the Articles of Allegiance, establishing the North American Alliance (retrospectively simply referred to as "North America"), a single military force is erected that all the member-states would share and be retroactively united underneath. Although these countries' attempts to form a strong military resistance to the Texas juggernaut had noble intent for the most part, it would result in the Chileans and Atlantic State merely utilizing this into simply another imperialist push of regional, intercontinental military aggression. Most of these countries would in time fall under Chilean purview, or be annexed by the North American superstate.
Although dominant in the region, the home-field advantage topped with the technological and stealth edge of the U.S. air force offer more than a match for the heavily-equipped North American-backed paramilitary and armed forces of the countries of Mexico, Central America and Cuba - despite their superiority in man- and firepower. The North American state was spearheaded by California and consisted of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon territory. The Upper Midwest spearheaded by Michigan annexes Montana, Wyoming, Iowa and Nebraska. Colorado annexes Kansas. While Illinois, Ohio and Arizona absorb Missouri, Indiana and New Mexico respectively after internal conflict - with the U.S. emerging victorious in the former two conflicts, and insurgent secessionist paramilitary in the latter. The neo-confederate state of 'Dixon' emerges from the former states of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and the states of Utah, Idaho and Nevada merge into the theocratic democracy of 'Mormon America,' while Oklahoma and Florida change control frequently between the U.S. and the Texan-Dixie front. The NYC-area Atlantic State remains fickle - and non-allied - for the most part. 
The rise of Latin American and far-right extremism in the region, and the political crisis involving the CIA, UK, UN and Turkey immediately hurls the government into further chaos. The Capitol is closed to meetings, making it impossible for Washington to legislate. The U.S. suspends its NATO membership as President Kerry begins a nationwide crackdown on dissent and Muslim populations. Kerry’s withdrawal of the U.S. from NATO brings attention to his worryingly close relationship to businessman Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, the Atlantic State and Turkish President Erdogan. There is also murmuring among governors, local and U.S. state government that the governments of the anti-NATO North and Latin American, Catholic-majority countries were cooperating with Trump and controlling Kerry and the AS to ban the interim administration in Baltimore involving the UN, unshackle Wall Street from their surveillance, and balkanize the United States. All across Europe, war drills are ran in preparation for a potential direct attack on NATO Europe by the intercontinental power bloc – Brazil, Chile and Peru representing the most threatening adversary since Nazi Germany.
 The unrest in D.C. and Maryland reverberates throughout the AS, sending the unrecognized American country into a political crisis of its own. North America offers to recognize the independence of the A.S., should it agree to join North America's 'Federation of Union State Republics,'. The U.S. and NATO respond with outrage, and amid the international diplomatic melee Maryland's Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area declares support of the United Nations and the United States, despite being claimed as the new capitol of the A.S. and the United States (similar to Berlin during the division of West and East Germany during the Cold War), and under the iron-fist autocratic rule of Kerry and New York City. Most of the physical opposition is undertaken by the Independence Front and armed backers of Constitutionalism, particularly the Michigan Militia Corps., Missouri Militia,Citizen Militia, the Idaho Light-Foot Militia, III% Movement, Oath-Keepers and the Patriot and Christian Patriot movements. Although, when it became evident that the U.S. was siding with the UN and NATO peacekeeping on US soil, a large number of the Oath Keepers and Patriots would side with Kerry, the Atlantic State and Co-Sector against the US Loyalists, resulting in massive infighting and a "civil war within a civil war", leading to practically-indiscernible fault lines of loyalty and faction at times as the region descended into chaos. The North American-backed AZBR-Autodefensas in New Mexico and Texas Militia led by Gov.-Gen. George W. Bush would frequently engage in border skirmishes and play both sides of the state government and military in New Mexico, while the Pennsylvanian Military Reserve and the New York Light Foots also experienced periodic internal conflict and defections. Despite California's status as a U.S. state was at this point contested - at best - and the close proximity of the new rogue state, these events proved that the true threat lay within the U.S. very borders. And the evidence was beginning to point to the other American state that recently attained a tenuous independence recognition itself.
After the attack on Jeju Island, the growing threat from Brazil and Chile prompts a union in Westminster led by the Scottish delegation, with support from Ireland, to press Britain to relocate 30% of its Air Force, granting Scotland over 290 aircraft (85 planes and 131 helicopters) total. Scotland also gets a third of the UK’s Tanks (134), Armored Fighting Vehicles (1,962), SPG’s (29), Towed Artillery (45), Rocket Projectors (13), as well as 24 surface vessels including a Queen Elizabeth-class supercarrier (with another 6 advanced corvettes under-construction), north to British bases in Scotland at Military Bases Lossiemouth, Faslane and Clyde and the entirety of the British reserve forces are brought online, bringing the total number of active military forces in the United Kingdom to 240,050 soldiers – including Scottish forces based overseas in Canada who express solidarity in the mutual defense of Scotland from Japan, China or pan-Latin ultra-nationalists – and of that a total of 27,680 soldiers pledge allegiance to Scotland and Great Britain (along with a willing-and-able fit manpower of nearly a million), marking a revival in English Ultranationalism a decade after the Brexit referendum to leave the EU shook the foundations of the UK. The presence of a militarily-stable Scotland in possession of such a formidable military force – including the Scottish-run Vanguard-class submarines part of the Trident nuclear programme – elicits fear and paranoia amongst many elite circles in Westminster and the Greater London area at the thought of Scotland attempting to assert their independence from Britain by force – which at this point they were very-well able to do so.
====Caribbean Crisis====
Saber-rattling in the Caribbean between Texas and Communist Cuba prompts a naval standoff between North America and the unrecognized Republic of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico, in which North America and Texas become directly involved against the United States, the latter of which asserts neither has a claim to the region. The U.S. - already stretched thin across the Eastern Seaboard and into the Middle East and Eastern Europe - is able to muster only scattered air strikes on the Island of Cozumel off the coast of Mexico, where Texan forces were establishing artillery and rocketry, likely in an attempt to utilize a nuclear weapon. The Caribbean Campaign involving the Attack on Cozumel and the Battle of Isla de la Juventud, soon sees the Caribbean countries taken advantage of in their state of shock, by imperialist forces in Brasilia, and their secret allies in Baltimore, Los Angeles and New York City. After this information comes to light through the special prosecutors' Kerry-Clinton investigation, ties are severed between the United States and North America, as tensions escalate to the point of ignition along the Californian-U.S. Border.
==The New American Century==
===October 7, Unknown Year===
Certain elements within the Department of Defense, lying just outside of the jurisdiction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff through cleverly navigated loopholes, go public with the DOD's answer to the North American infiltration of the U.S. Government via President Kerry, and Moscow through Vice President Trump: the Omega Revolution, and their paramilitary arm – Revolutionary Coalition Network – “RECON”. Initially an international intelligence, paramilitary and espionage organization founded in October of 1774, RECON stumbled upon a secret interlocking deep-state of invisible borders – existing between ultra-wealthy from the financial, military, and political sectors – that essentially implicated the three nations of the triangular power structure of the Cold War era (China, the USSR, and America) in an undeniable scandal in which all 3 participated in financial lobbying between these power brokers across the world (primarily in the West) played against each other by the NSA and Japanese Government. During the opening months of 1975, RECON narrowly saved the United States from being destroyed by Soviet nukes (thanks to the assistance of the British government). Between 1963 and 1975, RECON was a disavowed unit of the Pentagon after unearthing this conspiracy. However, after saving the US from extinction a dozen years after their disavowal, the Pentagon decided it was only proper to reestablish RECON a military and managerial heavyweight in the sector, with special powers that could challenge the Intelligence Community and/or the Joint Chiefs of Staff should they accumulate too many that made it impossible for the Legislative branch and Supreme Court to adequately challenge them. The Pentagon and Congress are contacted by UN Human Rights and Operations Officers and a Europol team regarding their eyewitness accounts of a conspiracy being carried out – in conjunction with West Germany and the Imperial Family – under NATO nations and the United States under Presidents Kerry and Trump, as well as the Joint-Chiefs (the latter of which was beginning to resemble a Junta), and that the upper echelons of the organization had been infiltrated by Interpol (which in turn had been infiltrated by the Russians and Japan via Interpol and finance respectively since the 1960’s) in an attempt by the Imperialists to break the EU and hijack NATO’s disillusionment with Atlantic–U.S. President Kerry and utilize the Alliance against the UN.
On October 11 the RECON Ambassador to the Capitol proposes that the US Government investigate NATO and the first ‘Nations of America’ summit, postulating that the NSA and – to a lesser-extent, the IC had infiltrated the bloc and were backed by the Japanese, pro-DPRK militants within the Communist Party and the Nationalist Party of Allied America against the UN. The proposition goes through Parliament but is vetoed by the President. This sparks a petition in the US to petition the UN to intervene in the "North American–U.S. Conflict," before NATO intervenes, which begins to split the armed forces down the middle, leading to many defecting to such paramilitary organizations like the NYPD, and DHS – both directly controlled by the NSA. This, however, aids RECON in their efforts to push out the current Trump-loyal Joint-Chiefs, and eventually they succeed.
Realizing that they will have to work with the UN, RECON leads a diplomatic mission to the UN General Assembly concerning the complaints of UN officers in question to the Pentagon. Throughout the next several years, the UN Secretariat begins a counter-movement to the Chinese-led initiative to ‘ostensibly dominate’ smaller sovereign nations. This eventually leads to a crisis which results in the United States seat on the Council being contested, after the Pentagon, Congress, and a record-number of the American Populace protest President Kerry and Vice President Clinton, the latter of which becomes the power behind the throne in the wake of the aging Kerry’s ailing physical stamina.
 
Coincidentally – or not – the Atlantic American State Union of Maryland, New Jersey and Long Island is formally recognized as independent; Secretary-General Hillary Clinton the official Head of State of the A.S., with New York City becoming its Capital. Many people initially suspect the Independence Front to be behind this, but when Hillary Clinton declares herself ‘President of the Confederation', the I.F. immediately realizes that their movement had been hijacked by the metropolitan elite and that Hillary Clinton, Donald and Ivanka Trump – along with many others – were working together in the interests of pro-Kerry Texan oil barons and globalists to balkanize the United States and give the country its own version of 1989.
The IF contacts RECON, and the game begins.
As Kerry’s influence is more and more isolated, Kerry utilizes his power before his inevitable resignation or removal to officially cement the independence of the Atlantic State in law, which causes a break between two semi-autonomous regions – Upstate New York and the Lower East Side-Long Island Commonwealth, with the rest of Manhattan rapidly splitting between Western and Eastern Manhattan, the latter siding with the NSA-led autonomous Long Islanders and Ivanka Loyalist-Trump Tower Midtown East government-in-exile, and the former with the United Nations spearheaded by the CIA, Europe and United Kingdom. Tensions further escalate when, nearly two years later, West Manhattan and the UN refuse to recognize East Manhattan, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland as part of the “Atlantic State” and Florida as claimed by North America, and a reapplication process is begun out of sheer defiance of Kerry to reintegrate them back into the United States of America. Kerry’s authoritarianism, however, further emboldens the Long Islanders and the Atlantic State.
After this, tensions reach such a point between the pro-UN U.S. Intelligence Community and the pro-NY Department of Homeland Security and NSA, that a large crackdown begins on members of the U.S.IC that harbored views or sympathies with the DHS, NSA and NYPD – leading to dozens of Agents within the CIA, FBI and Pentagon being apprehended or fired. Secretary Gen. Kerry publicly defends the DHS and NYPD, echoing his 2020 primary opponent – NYC Mayor Bloomberg – in calling them his ‘own army’ – which, in total, was among the top ten largest armies on Earth – and that Atlantic America; despite its small geographical size in comparison to neighboring New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Imperial State; should “not be underestimated”. The Department of Homeland Security declares allegiance to the A.S. and North America while scolding the UN, and with nearly 100,000 paramilitary officers (excluding several hundred FEMA officers) and personnel backing the 50,000-strong NYPD – as well as U.S. Marshals, U.S. Coast Guard, and tens of thousands working for private military contractors – the Atlantic Army began to seem a reality.
With New York City fractured between roughly three factions - the pro-A.S. Long Island, Kerry’s Atlantic State, and the UN demilitarized zone (including the UN-controlled Financial District in Lower Manhattan) - Kerry, the Trumps and UN had been successfully positioned, and through them, entire political entities, to the advantage of Wall Street Bankers and the apparatus through which they functioned: the military-industrial complex. The loyalty of the Department of Homeland Security to A.S. President Kerry (and, unknowingly, North America and the authoritarian Co-Sector) unnerved and unsettled the U.S. Armed Forces. In particular the Marines and the Navy, who looked more and more toward U.S. President Harris and president-to-be Yang and the Democratic Congress (encumbered by the political instability unfolding in D.C. along the international American faultlines in an increasingly-unrecognizable map of the former-U.S. State of Maryland by the Kerry regime's delusions of grandeur) for guidance.
==The English Role==
===2024 - 2026===
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 the election of Pres. Harris, 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 Spanish–Latin American 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 Brazilian Presidency, 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 Spaniards, Argentinians and Japanese 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/Spanish 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 Spanish-Japanese 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.
Despite this rare display of disregard for strategic alliances in the wake of the Third World War, pro-England Brazil and NATO-member Italy would be back to warring with one another several months later, and the tensions between the EU and UK would soon return to the path they had set upon in 2015. But what is seen cannot be unseen, and the sight of NATO and US warplanes launching from the Spanish, Argentine and Japanese aircraft carriers after the vicious spat between pro-Pakistan NATO and India a year ago and the late-2010's tensions between the Southern Cone and the international community over indigenous rights would serve to mutually hurt the reputation of both wartime alliances in the eyes of their constituents. For this was all that was needed for the critics of regimes on both sides of the divide to cement their mistrust or outright hatred of the government or state in stone.
==Paul presidency and World War III==
===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 Belarus invades Eastern Slovakia, Northeastern Hungary and Cluj in Northwestern Romania from the six oblasts in Western Ukraine it occupied at the time, and Argentine–Moroccan air and mechanized units attack Malta and the Azores and NATO air craft attack the Moroccan-occupied South Malta. 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 Maltese government quickly surrenders, and Malta is temporarily occupied by Argentine-backed Italian partisans. With the joint-attack by Belarus, Russia, Morocco and Argentina (supported materially by Chile, logistically by other Latin American nations and India) upon Mediterranean forces, followed by an intervention into Greece and the Balkans from the opposite direction of the Belarusians (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 Turkish units head them off in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Bombardment continues throughout the rest of the month and into May. In June; French, North American and Turkish forces commit a sizable attack in Moroccan Malta thereafter. With a multilateral and intercontinental counterattack, Russian-Argentinian forces are knocked back riotously by NATO but are reinforced by Indian and Russian air support. 
Even before it started to expand, Belarus punched well above its weight for being a landlocked state with no navy and only a modest air force. With almost as many tanks as France, Germany and Italy - 3 of the 4 European G7 economies - combined, the country reaches a critical mass just slightly smaller than Taiwan (57th) in available manpower and slightly larger than Burkina Faso in population and Cameroon (53rd) in area. The only countries to really outmatch Belarus in raw war tonnage besides war-torn, insurgency-inundated Poland and the titan of Russia itself were Greece and Romania - the latter with an even smaller and flimsier air force than Finland and Bulgaria (and certainly Belarus, Poland and Russia). And with the Greeks staunchly opposing any involvement other than political overtures (probably due to their own military-industrial and cultural conflicts of interest vis a vis Russia) even if the United Kingdom weren't dealing with its own crisis at the time, and even if they had contained Belarus before it began claiming territories to its southeast along with hundreds of Ukrainian tanks, planes and armored elements, Belarus would still have twice the total tank strength and quadruple the artillery, air defense and missile systems of the UK. Now, it was looking like the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Kingdom of Spain and the Nordic Battlegroup - whose member-states' total active military Belarus nearly tripled in number with a manpower of over 300,000 and growing - were in for a fight with Belarus alone. And none of this factoring in Belarus' longtime ally, the military behemoth of the Russian Federation, residing just next door. 
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 Spanish Monarchy (via Bush, Clinton and Trump), Kerry and Russia, by accusing the French of providing the bulk of the missile systems to the Argentine–Russian offensive, when in fact it was Washington. 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 reason that emerge as the nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties both in 2027 - Andrew Yang and Chris Hedges 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, with the previous 50 states collapsed down to 13 fully- or partially-recognized autonomous entities, 2 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 (the electoral college still awards electors based on the local-state legislature, meaning winning outright the popular vote of the North American Federal State does not grant the victor 74 electoral votes, nor does winning it in the American Midwest guarantee its 59). Under his administration, Yang promises to bring an absolute end to the insurgency in the 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 its Founding Fathers. By appealing to progressives as well as libertarians, peaceful interventionism, the Anti-War Left and constitutionalism former-Vice President Yang is able to emerge in the primary as the nominee, and run neck-in-neck with Hedges throughout the fall and into the spring of 2028.
[[File:HarrisYang2024.png|440px|thumb|center|After finishing ahead of future-President Kamala Harris herself in the 2020 Democratic primary, would go on to become a phenomenon and play a major role in the 2022 and 2026 midterm elections as well as the 2024 presidential elections, the latter of which the Democrats sweep the House and Ocasio-Cortez - who aided in his senate campaign - is nominated Speaker (and assassinated shortly thereafter), and Yang nominated by the Democratic Party for President in 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, Italy'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 Yang 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-Argentina offensive.
===Belarusian–Russian Insurgency in Lebanon and Syria===
Shortly before the April 18th offense, Belarus, Argentina, Russia and Spain order troop presence in Gaza after falsified reports come out (originating in Egypt) of Interpol claiming Israeli forces were behind a terror attack in Ceuta and Santiago (it was actually the Wagner Group, a Pan–Slavic ultranationalist terror group). Concurrently with the Balkan Emergency, Israeli and Russian-backed forces stand off along demarcated buffer zones in Shuja'iyyat al-Akrad, al-Qubbah and al-Shati - with skirmishes at first and then erupting into full-blown conflict from early May until mid-July. 
The Israeli State collapses into civil war between Israelis assisting Palestine, Israeli Arabs allied with Russia, and Israeli State Loyalists shortly after Belarus, Russia and Syria orchestrate a Hezbollah coup that topples Israel and replaces the government with an Egyptian Annex. Tel Aviv and Bethlehem maintain a sanctuary presence in the areas of conflict, assisted via air drops and air strikes by the United States, Arab League and Britain. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey respond with anti-air and missile strikes against a Russian-backed flotilla in the Mediterranean, which is complemented by a Turkish shock-and-awe campaign spearheaded by Turkish Jandarma and SAT teams supported by Turkish and Arabian air forces and S-400 missile strikes. The Turks maintain an expansionist presence of varying degrees in the Levant and Middle-East throughout the war using Russia and Argentina as a foil, following the CSTO–Argentinian offensive. With Argentina, Belarus and Russia’s attack on Israel, and the Turkmen dug in like a tick in Israel and the West Bank, NATO is stretched thin and kept engaged on multiple fronts simultaneously by Neo-Fascist Argentina, Russia and their Belarusian allies.
The Balkan Emergency was formally recognized worldwide by November Third after NATO fell back, delivering parting strikes on IF and Pact forces alike. The dispute is assessed diplomatically between RECON and Brussels at a meeting between the two sides. NATO Supreme Commander Timothy M. Ray accuses IF forces of ‘getting in the way’ and convoluting NATO’s campaign. Eventually ties warm after the IF and NATO (as well as the United States and AS) agrees to set aside differences and focus on their mutual foe: rogue jihadist radical extremists and the Pact – particularly Russia and Latin America. But the event in question that President-elect Yang addresses does not have to do with the Balkan Emergency, it has to do with what else RECON found on their classified mission, which is soon echoed by Luca's announcement of the return of the notoriously-fascist and grotesque Iron Guard. The Argentine-backed Italian ultranationalists now occupying Northern Italy announce an exchange in government structure – into the hands of the Luca Dynasty – and a change of name, the Legion of the Archangel, and – even more terrifying - the establishment of the LA Iron Legion secret police force, which shortly thereafter transforms into an assassin army of covert death squads. The infamy of the unusual morbidity of the originally-Romanian Iron Guard – even for a fascist movement – was well-known throughout World War II. Even the Mussolini faction of Italian Fascists distanced themselves from this “death cult”. Nevertheless, nearly a century later, the repugnant organization had returned, proudly displaying its devoutly murderous ideology which, in conjunction with its radical theocratic Christian martyrdom and its sinister and militaristic application thereof, was compared to a “Taliban on Steroids”.
The legacy of Francesco and Luciano De Luca and the “Iron Legionnaire State” is one of unparalleled authoritarianism not seen since Putin, in fact – far more so. The Totalitarian suppression of dissent and freedom of speech – not to mention the presence of Iron Legionnaires, coupled with Luca militant expansionism – serves to put the Lucas in the same category as Adolf Hitler by the end of the decade. Although Spain, Latin America and the Russians stand by their mutual Pacific compatriot, even Madrid and Buenos Aires begin to distance themselves from the increasingly neo-fascist, hyper-nationalist foreign policy and ideology of Chile’s totalitarian and xenophobic president Salazar, whom they even claim several times throughout the next decade that such desires would endanger not only all of Latin America, but all of America and the world as a whole.
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