CONFESS Comms: Edge of War

## Edge of War

### Description

Nadia Aleksandra, leader of the Siberian People's Republic, holds a meeting with members of her party and the Siberian Union Party to discuss possible actions against a perceived coming Russian invasion.

### Speaker(s)

Nadia Aleksandra
Nicolai Kuznetsova
Vladimir Fyodor
Colonel Artyom Arkady

**Kuznetsova:** The intelligence recovered from the FSB proves what we've been saying! Mikhail Volodin's claims of wanting peace are nothing but a smokescreen for a return to Russian occupation, enslavement, and exploitation! I urge Madam President to immmeadtily call for national mobilization and a full-scale invasion of Russia before they have a chance to strike! We must not show weakness to those imperialist dogs!

**Aleksandra:** Understood, Minister. I've taken your view under advisement. Now let's get the other side, so we can be balanced. Mr. Fyodor?

**Fyodor:** President Aleksandra, I simply must state that we are rushing too far ahead. We have not seen this intelligence first hand. We are simply going off a single article written by an entirely different nation's state-run propaganda outlet. I would suggest we restore the planned peace talks in St. Petersburg, and ask the Counterintelligence Force to give us a copy of the original documents with limited redactions, and have it brought under bipartisan review. That way, we can speak with Volodin directly and question him on the documents. If what he says doesn't line up with the facts, we can move from there.

**Kuznetsova:** Ha! I'd expect as much from you Moscow loving dogs! What deal did Volodin make you, huh?! Sell out Siberia and they pinky-promise to spare you while they're enslaving the rest of us?! You and the rest of the SUP are fucking traitors! You spit on the sacrifices it took to get here! You piss on the graves of the tens of thousands of men, women, and children the Russians tortured, raped, and killed in 1996! You mock the centuries of exploitation placed upon us, and you'd seek a return to to a time of occupation for your own gain! You should be hanged for even suggesting it!

**Fyodor:** Wanting peace with Russia does not mean I want them to occupy us, you stupid warmongering populist zealot!

**Kuznetsova:** That's exactly what it means! Either you're a naïve fool who has forgotten our history, and honestly believes this new tyrant will be any different than any of the others that came before it based on nice words and vague promises! Or you're a traitor who seeks to destroy our history, strip away our culture, and put us under Moscow's heel! There is no other option!

**Aleksandra:** Gentleman! Enough! Both of you! I brought you both here so I could get the views of all Siberians and make an informed decisions, not so you could tear at each other's throats! We are in a crisis, and I need both sides to keep a rational minded head. If not for each other, than for the people we vowed to serve. Now, can we just calm down a moment and....

*(door is kicked open. Rifles click.)*

**SPA Soldier:** Nobody move! Nobody fucking move!

**Aleksandra:** What is this?!

**SPA Soldier:** I said don't move!

**Aleksandra:** I am your commander! Stand down!

**Arkady:** Not anymore you're not.

**Aleksandra:** *(shocked)* Artyom? What the hell do you think you're doing, Colonel?

**Arkady:** What you don't have the strength to do! What we should've done from the beginning! We will root out the traitors and terrorists in our midst! And then, the Russian bear will be torn to shreds by the might of the Siberian Wolves! We will march on Moscow, burn the Kremlin, and inflict the same suffering on Russia's leaders and citizens that they have done to us!

**Aleksandra:** You'll never get away with this.

**Arkady:** I already have. I've spent weeks preparing for this. We have our entire army ready on the border. A broadcast has already been released. Right now, everyone outside this room thinks you and your son are dead, shot down by the URPV. The people are already calling for war. My men are rounding up SUP sympathizers as we speak. Siberia is already on the march to war. There is nothing you can do to change it.

**Arkady:** Take *former* president Aleksandra to the bunker with her son and advisors. As for Fyodor, bring him out to the courtyard with the rest of the captured SUP leaders for immediate...execution. And inform our allies in Scandinavia and Chechnya. Operation Timber Wolf is a success. I'm heading to the front lines. The invasion begins now!

**SPA Soldier:** Yes, Colonel!

**Arkady:** And destroy that damn recorder!

*(gunshot)*