The Ruso - Eternian War

###### ***From: The Navalpunk Bible***

The Ruso - Eternian War, (Cyril: Великая Война Cоюзников, Velikaya Voyna Soyuznikov, "The Great Allied War"), (Koryo: 두려운 전쟁, Dulyeoun Jeonjaeng, "Dreaded War"), (Mandarin: 帝國主義戰爭, Dìguó Zhǔyì Zhànzhēng, "The Imperialist's War") which was a seven-year declared war between the United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Eternian Federation between 27 June 1991 to February 1997 over three fronts: China, the Korean peninsula and Hokkaido in the West Japanese and Yellow Sea. The war lasted almost some six years, and ended with the second second sun incident since the Second World War. This protracted armed conflict also led to a full-scale invasion of China and collapse of the country. The war's primary function was concerning the nuclear standoff in the West Japanese Sea and the popular sentiment to retaliate, and cripple China's expansion in the southeast Asian regions and replace the Eternian Federation as the dominant state in Asia, war was believed to not be a plausible occurrence in the 1990s with the advent of nuclear deterrence as well as both nations close alliances with the colossal economic and military power and it's potential to grow larger made a war much less an achievable objective by Eternian leadership, added with the Chinese being most likely supported by the USSR, a superpower and their control over Hokkaido.

While the Soviet leadership had hoped to take advantage of their massive industrial capacity with the help of the Chinese they'd expected a decisive victory in the face of a believed to be inferior Eternia, the Rusino coalition had only made progress for only the first few year with the Siege of Gomanmaru, capital of South Korea, and by December 1993, the Rusino invasion had stalled at the landing of the Aomori prefecture. As fierce fighting broke out between the two sides, the Eternian military had begun to gain momentum in defending their territories and regained virtually all of it's lost territory by the time of the mid-90's after pushing Rusino forces back to pre-war border lines and even pushed towards Pukjinhong, capital of North Korea with the escalation to tactical nuclear weapons in fighting. The Eternians would then invade China and went on the offensive for the following years until the latter escalated further by launching a series of major counter-offensives that used small ballistic missiles and strategic bombers. There were also a number of proxy forces that operated for both sides, most notably \_. \_ and \_ which \_ and \_ initially only providing an abundance of financial, political and logistical support for either side.

The conflict was deemed bloody, and relegated to stale First World War sort of tactics, and including nuclear warfare and large-scale armoured warfare backed by trench warfare, chemical weapons use and deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructures and targets. This subsequently led to varying war crimes and scandals. A notable feature of the war being the most immoral war to date in the Navalpunk canon, and is the in-lore start of the modern day Season 0 of the Old World. In total around 1,440,000 people were killed during the war (China having the most casualties) including civilians and many following deaths that were known to be related to the effects of the war.

The conflict has had a strong effect in both nations and has been the subject of many media around the world. Patriotic sentiment ran high in Aeternia, Chinese xenophobia growing largest in the 2000s, leading to an increase in isolationist policies in the region, added with protests against the ruling government party, hastening it's downfall and the destabilisation of the region and leaving the nation primarily anarchic and lacking a suitable successor government body to control the chaos in the region. The Soviets would have half it's industrial and logistical capabilities severed and destroyed, and the Eternian Federation bolster significantly by the successful outcome. The cultural and political effect of the conflict has led to the federation to become a global superpower.

Diplomatic relations between the Soviets and Eternians were restored in the 2010s, at which the first ever law in the Soviet Union led to reopening their borders to the federation and allowing a natural repair of relations. And following a meeting in Odi, Japan in 2012 both governments had issued a joint dialogue, and Sino-Soviet relations would significantly sour by then.

## History

### Background

#### A Failed Diplomacy

The Chinese Cold War of Succession, was the ongoing territorial dispute since the early 19th century which over the true successor state of the Ming Dynasty and thusly consolidated control over the Chinese continent. With every other country and independent territory claiming major regions over the area. With other disputed territory being fought in other disputed areas. Over a span of some 50 years, \_, \_ and \_ (the major players of the era) found themselves in a continuous ideological and geopolitical struggle for influence over the country. The entire Chinese continent would be divided into three major blocs over time, between proxy wars and political reforms these blocs include the Socialist Bloc (north), the Eternian Bloc (southeast) and the Tibetan Bloc (west), by the 1970s each respective bloc would be tied to networks of their respective supporting superpower (Soviet Union and Eternian Federation, Tibetan bloc remains relatively neutral with only small supporting parties from the Middle East.) subsequently leading to both the Socialist and Eternian blocs intensifying their political extremes.

Eventually anti-bloc sentiment formed in the mid-1960s with the Third Red Square, with Soviet Red Army forces being deployed in the Far East and performing military exercises with Soviet China, exacerbated by left-wing social agitation which aggravated national, social, and political tensions. Hysteria would provoke the Eternian Bloc and anxiety for a Soviet takeover in the rest of the Blocs of China was imminent—a social revolution that threatened "the traditional identity of Ming China". Newspapers in the Soviet bloc would retaliate with their own "Blue Scare" which contributed to the idea of the same.

In February 1950, the Socialist People's State of China (SPSC, Soviet China or Red China for short.) has signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union. The Chinese, with the aid from the Soviets would find major increase in economy, albeit slow China would find itself an upcoming world power in Asia enjoying a sudden rise in it's gross domestic product (GDP) from 4 - 9.7% in growth in the 1950s by following Russian economic plans as a basis for their economic system during their recovery post-WW2. Following subsequent reforms in 1965 which was part of the 1959 People's Workers Plans which allowed for the country to improve the Chinese foreign policies and intensify their focus on rapid industrialisation.

This plan, aided by the Soviets allowed the SPSC to transition from a weak, poorly controlled third world state into an industrial powerhouse, and by the later 1960s the Chinese had become one of the fastest countries in the world to recover from WW2 and into an internationally competitive power. The general secretary of the time Huang Jianhong had said himself before his untimely death from a botched assassination attempt knew the importance of building up the industrial capacity of the country in order to grow into a world power, as said in a famous speech held in the Beiping Great Hall saying:

> "In our time, our children will answer to the machines us, our own parents have built for them. And when they grow into the gloves of these machines we've built for them, they will be the ones to do the same for a superior future."
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Rapid growth eventually led to the increase in the building of the heavy industry in SPSC China, knowing they may be fighting against some of the more industrialised nations of the region. The great industrial might inhibited fears between Soviet China and the rest of the Han countries that war would be impending between them, and with many large industrial infrastructures relatively unprotected and new centres emerging in formerly undeveloped and isolated, factories in China would've also been intentionally structured to be tooled for wartime production. \_, \_ and \_ refused to accept this unprecedented growth and \_ would proclaim their right of determining the rest of the continent.

An attempt to clear the tensions and disputes between the Soviet and Tibetan bloc started on 25 April 1976, with talks being held between Soviet China and \_ starting with the disputes. Resolution continued on with a further two sessions of talks between April and November, however further negotiations to allow de-escalation of tensions between nationals in the Baotu border. Wider overarching issues include the cultural and geographical made a difference in a politically tangible and concise partition regarded as being too complicated and unmanageable in the long-run, especially with the separatist Uyghur-Mongol tribes which frequently declined alignments between either blocs.

**A failed diplomac**y led to tensions between both blocs to grow and relations deteriorate. And for much of the 1980s, the major powers in the Chinese continent maintained a very tenuous balance of power among themselves, and with 1983 rolling around Soviet China would've achieved an objective hegemony over the northeast. And to ostensibly protect the Chinese access to the Russians through the Trans-siberian Railway, the internal instabilities following the ascent of Yuzhman Khan in Yumen and the Xhunemash Movement gave the Soviet Chinese ample window to assert influence and power in the country which they did in the 1987 intervention. The supporting Soviets in the region allowed the opposing rebellion forces to be mostly defeated, while the Xuni rebels regrouping in war-torn Yumen