Aftermath of World War 3

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In the aftermath of World War 3, two new European great powers rose from the ashes of the war. These were Greatland and Estraeland. The war's aftermath also started a new era in the Second Cold War as tensions escalated between both Greatland and Yeetland following Estraeland's entry into N.A.T.O. The Second Concert of Europe was abolished as a new era of diplomacy through wars and threats emerged instead of negotiations, all of the major European empires were abolished and partitioned or entirely annexed as a result of the war.

A new future for warfare had dawned in which defensive technology had far outpaced offensive technology, allowing for a revival of static frontlines and trench warfare. It would take decades for any significant offensive advancement to be made with major advancements during World War 5 and World War 6 finally breaking the static fronts. World War 3 also saw a massive prioritization in the aerial sector over the ground and naval sectors, with the one ruling the skies winning the wars due to strategic bombings and close air support. These new doctrines and methods of thinking would change warfare for decades to come, still impacting modern thinking into the late 2150s.

    As a consequence of the war, Greatland and Estraeland had to contend with massive resistance against them in former territories belonging to countries apart of the European Coalition. Many of these protests were squashed and the new order of Europe was established. The former Holy Roman city of Frankfurt was also nuked as a result of the war, resulting in massive casualties and deaths.

## Aftermath in certain countries

### Greatland

At the end of the war in Greatland, the country got all of Western Europe as apart of the Greatlandish Bloc, setting up many viceroyalties and puppet states in the area. Overall, the war didn't affect Greatland as their main industrial base and populations were in the Americas. in 2067, the Smith Plan provided aid to all viceroyalties severely damaged by the aftermath of World War 3.

However, with the start of the Greatlandish Civil War in 2071, all of the European colonies of Greatland came under the occupation of Estraeland during the war.

### Estraeland

In Estraeland, the end of the war had brought significant changes to the entire country as a whole. It now ruled all of Eastern Europe as apart of the Estraen Bloc, Estraeland would set up multiple puppet states loyal to the crown in the area as Theo I surpressed and cracked down hard on any opposition. Estraeland would also conduct trials on notorious war criminals apart of the European Coalition they had captured, with most of them getting the death penalty.

Life in the Estraen Bloc was very repressive and authoritarian, with basic freedoms like freedom of speech and freedom of the press restricted by Estraeland. Due to this, nationalist sentiment rose in the puppet states and inside Estraeland itself, eventually leading to its demise in 2079.

### S.F.R Yeetland

The aftermath of the war in S.F.R Yeetland didn't affect the nation much despite suffering 3 million casualties in the war. The country barely got anything in the treaties following the end of the war, which they felt cheated for. Relationships between Greatland and Estraeland soured as Greatland expanded their reach further eastwards closer to Moscow, making tensions rise in the Second Cold War.

### Central Europe

In Central Europe, the countries of Prussia, the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire ceased to exist as they were all partitioned or annexed entirely by Greatland and Estraeland. All of the three former countries were devastated by four years of endless warfare, mass bombings and the nuking of Frankfurt. The humiliation all of the German people carried after the war brought shame to them and nationalist sentiment rose, with many trying to create independence groups, but all of these groups would either be ratted out by the secret police of Greatland and Estraeland or simply dissolve.

### France

France was turned into a Greatlandish Viceroyality as a result of the war. The country would remain a viceroyality until 2071 with the beginning of the Greatlandish Civil War when it came under the jurisdiction of Estraeland. It would be returned to Greatland as a viceroyality until 2084, when the country peacefully gained independence from Greatland.

### Balkan countries

The Balkan countries of Serbia, Romania and Greece shortly after the end of the war united into the Balkan Federation in 2066. This federation would collapse after the Greatlandish Invasion of the Balkan Federation cause they refused to hand over Greatlandish colonies leased to them during the Greatlandish Civil War.

### Lithuania

Lithuania was left with no army and in no condition to fight as a result of the Estraen-Lithuanian War of 2060. This lack of an army allowed Estraeland to invade Lithuania and establish stable supply lines to the Eastern Front during the entire course of World War 3.

After the end of the war, Estraeland withdrawed from their occupied territories and reduced Lithuania to its modern borders. These changes in Lithuania's territory would make it a de-facto puppet of Estraeland. In the early 2070's, after a communist goverment was installed in Lithuania, Estraeland would invade Lithuania in a short invasion which resulted in Lithuania being completely annexed into Estraeland. It regained independence in 2079 after the collapse of Estraeland but was shortly thereafter annexed into S.F.R Yeetland as an SSR.