Ultranationalist Crisis

### Place:

Cyralian Federation, Kingdom of the Samsonites, Kayulan Islands, Almohad Islands, Mutawfqa

### Outcome:

World Congress Peacekeeping Corps Victory

### Battles

Siege of Kayula, Siege of Korfiri, 2016 East Outlands Skirmishes, Battle of al-Baresh, Battle of Mutawfqa, Battle of Ismailabad, Battle of Miklasuvostrov, Siege of Cremnea, Third Battle of Vornograd

The Ultranationalist Crisis, dubbed by Kaiser Leopold III during the Summer 2014 World Congress, refers to the global rise of far-right extremism, Nationalist and Ethnonationalist sentiments in the late 2010s. At the time, the Security Council nations had been expressing great concern at the nations of Cyralia and the Kingdom of Mutawfqa, both of which had been consumed by long-standing civil wars. Leopold III expressed deep regret for this, being a firm believer in thriving multicultural states and having taken many steps to preserve traditionally-suppressed cultures native to his own country. However, following the string of assassinations in 2013, and subsequent elections of fascist and otherwise violent, dictatorial leaders across several powerful states, Leopold declared that the Samsonite People, would not allow themselves or the world to suffer from the inevitable aggression of authoritarian rulers again, hearkening back to Samsonia's own Civil War and subsequent Second World War.

In 2013, several leaders and prominent figures were assassinated, most notably the beloved Cyralian President Stanislaw Cavala, leading to massive political upheaval, especially following numerous elections worldwide which were suspected to be illegitimate. Cyralia plunged into Revolution again, with Cavala dead, numerous warlords emerged and re-emerged, bringing an end to the seven-year peace Cavala had given Cyralia. At this time, Translavia began sending troops to support the Cyralian Government which was without a head and incapable of containing the numerous reactionary groups in its territory.

In 2014, Luciano di'Kayolo, a nominally-Socialist ethnonationalist was elected to the Governorate of Kayula, at which point he announced the independence of the Kayulan islands from Lycurgia, seizing a wealth of war materiel from the local military bases and establishing the People's Army of the Kayulan Islands, which began violently repressing opposition on the islands, and seizing control of local media, preventing news from leaving the island without the approval of di'Kayolo's government.

At the same time, the Samsonite East Outlands, its most sparsely-populated region, home to the Broeklander people, began experiencing its own strife. The Broeklanders were a very small tribe with strong affiliation with the Pfilstijner peoples, who were incorporated into the Samsonite Kingdom in the 6th century. Since that point, they were given relatively little attention from ruling Kaisers and the Assembly, as a population numbering less than 30,000 in 2015. This didn't stop a number of individuals from envisioning a Broeklander state, leading to the formation of the Buitenlander Bevrijdingsfront, headed by Oskar Bertholder. Bertholder was a convicted Arsonist and hobbyist chemist, and by all accounts demonstrated severe sociopathic tendencies as well as a general affinity for destruction and death. in 2016, he coordinated an attack on the Muddah Stock Exchange, destroying the complex and causing the deaths of thousands of individuals. This led to Samsonia motioning for the immediate use of Peacekeeping Forces for the rapid destruction of all Ultranationalist elements globally. Leopold III announced that the Samsonite Royal Marines and Samsonite Air Service were to be near totally-invested into the Peacekeeping Corps until such time as the crisis had passed.

Leopold also motioned for the creation of a special task force to specialise in the acquisition of the leaders of these movements. Selecting Major Friedrich Daimler of the SFD:SOG, to lead it. The Congress agreed, leading to the formation of Task Force 001, designated "Prowler" Squad, composed of a number of individuals selected by Daimler himself. This Task Force would be directly involved in the Killing and Capture of all four Ultranationalist leaders, as well as several of their underlings.