Conscientious Objection against the Ural Wall

> *For the overall anti-border movement of this era, see Opposition to the Ural Wall*
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During the Chawo-Uralic War, the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces has seen a rise in conscientious objection against orders to defend the Ural Wall amongst both conscripted and volunteer Chawosaurian soldiers. A Chawosaurian military poll from 2022 showed that 93% of Chawosaurians conscripted into military service by the Caspian Sea Resolution, and 78% of Chawosaurians who chose to pick up arms into military service via free will, all said they will not fight to preserve the Ural Wall even if they're ordered to and they care little for the consequences of their mutiny. Opposition to the Ural Wall is motivated mainly on moral grounds, the perception that borders are only there to divide people against each other, something Chawosaurian culture strongly disavows.

The Ural Wall is a continental border that separates two of Chawosauria's six Continental Federal Republics, two of which being the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia, as part of the overall borders of the Union of Continental Federal Republics. Though not an actual border wall, it is a mountainous hard border located mainly on the Eurasian mountain range called the Ural Mountains, giving the Ural Wall its name, though the border also stretches below the Ural Mountains to the south, partially separating Russia from Kazakhstan; the Caucasus from Turkmenistan, Iran, and Turkey; and then Turkey from Greece, making it the longest border in the world if the Ural Wall exists in the Outer World. On June 23, 2019, following the successful conclusion of the Chawosaurian Civil War which ended the Chawosaurian Revolution, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government, through the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest, unwittingly established a hard border on Chawosaurian settlements on the Ural Mountains to define the boundary between the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia. The Chawosaurian Imperial Government does not track its population, and this new border was so hard that it made it extremely difficult for Chawosaurian communities in the Ural Mountains to live their everyday lives and the border greatly disrupted their economies, resulting in anger which led to the Uralic Insurgency, which left the Chawosaurian government utterly confused that there are citizens living in the Ural Mountains but the government responded with military force anyway instead of diplomatically resolving the conflict, Military action has only made it worse and it led to the outbreak of the disastrous Chawo-Uralic War. For so many years, borders were advertised to Chawosaurians as a public safety necessity and the reputation of borders amongst Chawosaurians is forever damaged by the giant clusterfuck of a border situation in the Ural Mountains, it doesn't help the popularity of borders so much amongst Chawosaurians that the Ural Wall is dividing citizens... of the very same nation... rather than separating citizens from two different countries.

The Chawosaurian general public turned on borders and strong border politics as a result of the Ural Wall and the Chawo-Uralic War. After a temporary ceasefire of the war ordered by the Chawosaurian government so they can deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the war was re-escalated to finish the Uralic insurgency and force citizens to move to Siberia to use their land as border property after discovering the against the border after discovering the Caspian-Urals Aid Network, but the government wanted to cover up the truth about why Chawosauria is really fighting the Chawo-Uralic War, so the Chawosaurian government came up with the narrative of the ISIL-Caspian Triangle, accusing the Uralic Insurgents and their Caspian suppliers of aiding and abetting with ISIS forces in the Caucasus to rally support for the war knowing the Chawosaurian public will not support the intension of the war and the Ural border itself would not be very popular. The 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government enacted the Caspian Sea Resolution to conscript and mobilize Chawosaurians into military service, however, these actions by the Chawosaurian government only cost Chawosauria further control of the conflict, creating an even messier war and effectively crippled Chawosaurian morale for the war effort and eventually strong border politics when it became clear to the Chawosaurian public that the Ural Wall is the source of the quickly unraveling Chawo-Uralic War. Starting in 2022, Chawosaurians begin to question the purpose of border security and borders generally more than they question the Chawo-Uralic War.