Summer Crisis

## **History**

The Second Weltkrieg was devastating for all nations involved. After the Garecian Republic surrendered in September of 1996, it was agreed that the pre-weltkrieg government would be allowed to remain in place, however the republic would be forced to demilitarize and be geopolitically neutral for 100 years. Meanwhile back in Europe, new divisions in the former Internationale were beginning to show themselves. For decades now, after the syndicalist revolutions in Briayon and Lindonce in the 1920s, the West had begun to implement a mixed socialist economic system, which the leaders in the JFSSR saw as a return to capitalism to the West. The JFSSR president Gavrikov Urvan, called out western leaders for “betraying the revolution.” After that, the JFSSR leadership would continue to pursue the old state controlled economic system.

### **Ideological Splits**

An ideological divide between Western socialism and Eastern communism was becoming more and more apparent throughout the 1990s and 2000s, as the post-war reconstruction was wrapping up by the start of 2010s. Things would change massively when under president Vance Mosely, the Garecian Republic remilitarized the Lauradan border in 2011, going against the Treaty of Pendel. In response to the Lauradan Border Crisis, both sides agreed to a compromise, where Garecia would maintain a defensive position, and would withdraw some of their forces in order to calm down the Lauradan government. Seeing the way the geopolitical winds were blowing, remnants of the old Berufspakt went against the Treaty of Pendel in the 2010s and formed the Democratic League, with Garecia, Katyiniju, and Nalima as its founding member states.

The second power shift would occur in 2019, when the JFSSR president Dioenisiy Volodin, a social democratic pacifist, would die of old age and would be replaced by Sasha Siyankina, and in the Mrassian Soviet Republic, the president Mark Falkenberg would die in 2020, and would be replaced by Annika Hagmann. Both of these new leaders would prove themselves to be hardline in their ideologies, and were much more hostile towards the Western Europeans. In 2023, the JFSSR would take the risky move to militarize the Mrassian-Lindoncian border for the first time since 1990. Briayonish Chairwoman, Hazel Scott denounced this action and placed sanctions on the JFSSR, expecting the Socialist Republic of Lindonce under Laurine Bettencourt would do the same, however she would not. Briayon would lift its unsuccessful sanctions after a month. Meanwhile, the eastern communist states would form the Eastern Comintern to counter Briayonish influence.

The response to the formation of the Eastern Comintern was mixed. Chairwoman Hazel Scott has a mixed reaction. She assembled the Workers’ Parliament to decide their next course of action. Politician Maxim Wright proposed to meet with other Western leaders to make a more unified decision. Victor Kennedy proposed the option to militarize the borders of Lindonce and Emistad to counter the communists. However the proposal made by Beatrice Jones would win out. In Jones’ proposal, the Commune of Briayon would encourage a more defensive strategy, as well as meeting with other like minded leaders in Western Europe and across the Atlantic. Lindoncian and other Western diplomats agreed to meet in the city of Caul in November 2023.

### **A New Cold War**

In the November Caul Conference, it was agreed that a new defensive military alliance would be formed. The Caul Accord, named after the city of Caul where the alliance would be proclaimed. After the new pact was formed, Briayon sent several troops to the mainland in order to prepare for a potential attack from the East. Across society, news and social media outlets would begin to fear that a 3rd Weltkrieg was on the horizon. While many feared a 3rd Weltkrieg, one thing all leaders of the world could agree upon, was that the world was entering a new era. A Second Cold War.