Cold War

The **Cold War** was a prolonged 107 year period of heightened tensions between the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has which lasted between 1913 and April 1, 2020, with the tensions ultimately boiling over into a hot conflict in 2020 following the Assassination of Hazael Buller and then the outbreak of the Has Wars. Spanning 6 Libirachi leaders and 7 Bovido Hassian leaders, the conflict led to rapid development of the Libirachi Empire in the 20th century as well as a large gap between the proclaimed and real capabilities of the Bovido Hassian armies, as the Christian super state lagged behind both economically and militarily for much of the cold war.

Initially starting out as a political conflict for dominance over Asia in the early 20th century as both nations began to look outwards for expansion, the Cold War quickly grew into a military one too with the race for land in Asia leading to the two rival nations having large stretches of boarders as their respective armed forces strove for dominance over the region. First referred by name by Libirachi President Pearce Longwood in 1918, the Cold War is generally accepted to have begun in 1913 with the assent of Caanan Ujung to the post of Archbishop of Bovido Has, although whether the conflict started before or after his appointment is disputed.

Following President Longwood's death in 1933 and the appointment of Vice President Eshter Morgan to the presidency, the Cold War grew increasingly antagonistic as the Libirachi Empire began to cause boarder skirmishes during the 1930s, sending patrols over the Bovido boarders and claiming parts of their land to be Libirachi property, leading to all out fighting in 1938 and Bovido Archbishop and Emperor Caanan Ujung was quietly removed and replaced behind the scenes in the same year, leading to Matthew Aquilla taking up the mantle and pursuing a more peaceful solution, ceding land to the Libirachi Empire in 1942 and the establishing the Joash Boarder on mainland Asia, which at the time was the largest fortified land boarder in the world.

In 1949, President Eshter Morgan of the Libirachi Empire was assassinated by members of the Progressive coalition party led by Xi Kanna and brought the Tiananmen Uprising to full force, leaving the proxy government of First Minister Jacob Zuma stumbling as they attempted to maintain the "great lie" that President Morgan was still alive and well, all the whilst the Progressive Party conducted guerrilla warfare against the Revolutionary Party, leading to the eventual collapse of the Zuma government in 1950 and the placement of Chairman Xi Kanna as the new President of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950.

Under the government of President Xi Kanna and the regime of Archbishop Matthew Aquilla, Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire began to normalise relationships more, as the necessities of the fragile peace began to catch up with the two nations, beginning a period of détente between the states as both shied away from nuclear conflict. In 1967, Archbishop Aquilla died, leading to the political idealist Peter Purba being appointed to the joint titles of state and relations with the Libirachi Empire began to improve significantly under the leaderships of Xi Kanna and Purba, who met each other repeatedly during the three year overlap of their reigns, before President Xi died in 1970, leading to the Libirachi Succession Crisis until Jacob Zuma, former deputy to Libirachi President Eshter Morgan, returned from exile and seized control over the nation, forcing relations between the superpowers to take a nosedive.

Following the succession crisis, the poor relations between the two nations came to a head during the Purba Revolution when the Libirachi Empire began to fund dissident groups within Bovido Has as the country fell into civil war, with loyalists to the now deceased Peter Purba and his son Abram fighting against the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has, lead by Emperor Hagreev Buller. Ultimately the civil conflict came to an end in 1984 under the leadership of Archbishop Michael Ezra, Buller's successor, and the regime quickly began to support the extremist cult ST Joseph's Devotees during the 1985 Brazilian Coup d'état, with the Libirachi Empire supporting the Brazilian government through proxy conflict, although ultimately the devotees overthrew the Brazilian junta and established their own regime in 1985.

## History

### 20th Century

#### 1938 Boarder Skirmishes

 Main article: 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes
    The 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes were a flare-up of tensions during the Cold War between Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire between May 14 and October 1, 1938, whereby soldiers of the Libirachi Imperial Army crossed over into Bovido Hassian territories along the Libirachi/Bovido boarder and attempted to redraw the boarder along the new lines, leading to strong Bovido Hassian resistance, although the stronger Libirachi armies managed to hold off the incoming counter-attacks and in late September 1938, Bovido Archbishop Caanan Ujung was quietly replaced behind the scenes by the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has with Matthew Aquila taking over the role and pursuing a peaceful end to the conflict before it spewed over into a hot conflict and brought the two Asian superpowers into direct conflict with each other. Despite the conflict coming to a formal end in 1938, the tensions were still riding high and didn't come to a formal end until June 1942 with the signing of the Aquilla Accords which ratified the new boarders between the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has.

#### Tiananmen Uprising

 Main article: Tiananmen Uprising
    The Tiananmen Uprising, also known as the Great Socialist Revolution in state propaganda until 1970s, was a 5 year guerrilla struggle to overthrow Libirachi President Eshter Morgan in the late 1940s, beginning in 1945 and ending with the inauguration of Xi Kanna as President of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950. Over the course of 5 years, the government of the Libirachi Empire went though seismic upheaval and reform as the nation struggled to cope under the joint pressures of a guerrilla insurgency and the Cold War with the rival superpower nation of Bovido Has, not to mention severe internal pressures from all wings of the Revolutionary Party which would see the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council, but with the assassination of Morgan in June, the Presidium became a rubber-stamp body for First Minister Jacob Zuma, who perpetuated the so-called "Great Lie" that Morgan was still alive.

Returning back to the forefront of Libirachi internal affairs in 1945 with the capture of an armed convoy headed for Beijing, the Progressive movement began to carry out guerrilla warfare against the state. Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead. Eager to try and project her own personal power, President Morgan began holding large scale rallies in Beijing as the insurgents began to encircle the city, leading to a fateful speech on June 28, 1949 when Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna. Electing the young First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a closed door meeting on the same day as Morgan's death and with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt, but was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City. Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously

#### Détente

 Main article: Bovido Hassian Thaw
    The Bovido Hassian Thaw, known also as the Thaw or Bovido Détente, was a three year period of significantly lowered tensions between Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire during the Cold War between 1967 and 1970 under the respective governments of Archbishop-Emperor Peter Purba and President Xi Kanna. Under the government of President Xi Kanna and the regime of Archbishop Matthew Aquilla, Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire began to normalise relationships more, as the necessities of the fragile peace began to catch up with the two nations, beginning a period of détente between the states as both shied away from nuclear conflict. In 1967, Archbishop Aquilla died, leading to the political idealist Peter Purba being appointed to the joint titles of state and relations with the Libirachi Empire began to improve significantly under the leaderships of Xi Kanna and Purba, who met each other repeatedly during the three year overlap of their reigns, before President Xi died in 1970, leading to the Libirachi Succession Crisis until Jacob Zuma, former deputy to Libirachi President Eshter Morgan, returned from exile and seized control over the nation, forcing relations between the superpowers to take a nosedive.

Despite only taking place over 3 years, the thaw allowed both sides to begin to see each other in a more amicable light and paved the way for further peace talks, although these would be shut down following Jacob Zuma's assentation to the presidency in 1970 and instead relations would deteriorate, although as a result of the peace negotiations, the Bovido Hassian Emperor Peter Purba found himself under political attack for perceived weakness, resulting in a reneging of the Bovido constitution to grant Purba ultimate authority on a vast range of political portfolios, which would ultimately end with the Purba Revolution following his death in 1981. Following Purba's death in 1981, and the appointment of Michael Ezra to the joint titles, both sides of the Cold War began to see the political value of painting the other side as an existential threat to the world, but under the guidance of Zuma and Ezra, the war never expanded into full fledged conflict until after both leaders had died and their successors assassinated, resulting in a fractured political landscape in the year 2020 which allowed the Has Wars to break out.

#### Succession Crisis

 Main article: Libirachi Succession Crisis
    The Libirachi Succession Crisis was a key political moment in the history of the Libirachi Empire and it's internal politics following the death of President Xi Kanna on January 2, 1970, which ultimately led to the return of exiled Revolutionary party chairman Jacob Zuma and his assumption of the presidency on January 10, 1970 upon the request of the Progressive dominated Libirachi National Congress who feared the outbreak of a civil war in the instance that Zuma was unable to assume the presidency. Effectively acting as a reversal of the Tiananmen Uprising of 1945 - 1950, the succession crisis saw the Revolutionary party return to dominance within the nation as the Progressive party failed to rally itself behind a strong leader.

Having spent nearly 40 years as a major public figure within the Libirachi Empire and 20 of those as the nation's leader, Xi Kanna finally succumbed to a variety of ailments on January 2, 1970 after suffering from two major heart attacks the previous month and a third lethal on January 2, ending the turbulent regime of Xi's presidency. With no strong successor ready to assume the presidency, the title remained vacant for nearly 8 days as in-fighting among the Progressive party led to widespread chaos in Beijing and afar as the government made the premature decision to announce the death of Xi Kanna on January 3, 1970 leading to the infighting only growing in tenacity in the following days.

Word of President Xi's demise quickly got out, traveling as far as the Mongolian plains where former First Minister Jacob Zuma and his Libirachi Revolutionary Party remained in exile following the Tiananmen Uprising of 1945-1950; by January 7, Zuma had built up an army on his travel southward to Beijing, massing many thousands in size. Fearing both for their lives and of another civil war, the National Congress voted by majority to dissolve itself and invite Jacob Zuma to take up the presidency; with the National Congres dissolved, much of the Progressive party fled the nation and went into exile, and upon the inauguration of Zuma on January 10, 1970, the Congress was reinstated with a new Revolutionary Socialist majority, ending the crisis as now-President Jacob Zuma began to consolidate his power.

#### Purba Revolution

 Main article: Purba Revolution
    The Purba Revolution, also known as the Purba Incident or the Bovido Hassian Civil War, was a 4 year period between 1981 and 1984 where different fractions within the ultra-Christian Asian nation of Bovido Has attempted to vie for dominance following the death of Archbishop and Emperor Peter Purba in March 1981, after which Purba loyalists attempted to place his son Abram Purba on the throne and abolish the position of Archbishop, causing the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has to protest against the move, ultimately leading to the deposition of the younger Purba in 1982 and the attempted implementation of the Bovido Hassian Contingency. Meanwhile, the Clergy had appointed Hagreev Buller to lead as a rival emperor whilst the Clergy attempted to regather itself after an attack on the Holy Monasteries of Belitung left the church crippled. Fighting off for two further years against General Tang, a devoted Purba loyalist, the Holy Clergy faced off against foes from all sides attempting to topple the organisation as part of the contingency.

Following the death of Archbishop and Emperor Peter Purba on March 5, 1981, the nation of Bovido Has found itself in a political crisis as the Purba family attempted to consolidate it's power over the country, banking off 14 years of reforms to the nation which had greatly diminished the power of the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has as Purba attempted to move away from the religious dogmatism which had been the founding principles of the nation. Using the 1979 constitution of Bovido Has to claim power, Abram Purba attempted to follow in his father's footsteps and proclaimed himself as Emperor of Bovido Has.

Now faced with a leader unprepared to keep up the traditional Christian faith of the nation, the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has appointed Hagreev Buller to the title of emperor. Having attempted to track down Purba and his loyalists for much of the previous year, Emperor Hagreev Buller succeeded in finding Abram Purba in May of 1982, assassinating the leader by downing a sea plane carrying Purba and a select group of aides, resulting in General Tang of the Purba Government proclaiming the contingency to be active. After 2 years of internal conflict, General Tang of the Purba loyalists died in conflict in 1984, allowing the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has under Archbishop-Emperor Michael Ezra to proclaim victory over the loyalists and ending the war.

#### Brazilian Coup

 Main article: 1985 Brazilian Coup d'état

The 1985 Brazilian Coup d'état on 14 March 1985 was a key event in the history of ST Joseph's Devotees and saw the government of Brazilian President João Figueiredo overthrown by members of the devotees within the armed forces who allied themselves with Sheen Lënora to topple the Libirachi backed dictator Figueriedo, using military training from the Christian nation of Bovido Has to further their aims. With the two radical Christian groups pursuing closely aligned goals, and indeed following the same holy texts, the devotees were brought back into the fold of the Bovido Hassian Clergy after having spent half a century in exile following Bovido Archbishop Caanan Ujung's attempts to purge opposition to his regime.

Faced with two major ideological opponents in the Cold War, the Libirachi Empire began to back Figueriedo with military forces, but on March 14, 1985 the government was overthrown by devotees and the Fifth Republic of Brazil was dissolved, instead creating the Holy Republic of ST Joseph's Devotees in it's place. Despite receiving backing from Bovido Has, Sheen Lënora would be reluctant to come to the aid of Bovido Archbishop Michael Ezra and following the death of Lënora only four years later, ST Joseph's Devotees would retreat into non-interventionism, allowing the Libirachi Empire to gain the upper ground in the ideological conflict with Bovido Has.

Having completely toppled the old system of government in 1985, the devotees began to rebuild from the ground upwards and established the Magisterium to govern the nation, basing it off the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has to maximise the efficiency of the entity, although with a structural failing in the idea of a democratic republic, the nation soon became dominated by the priesthood who sought to curb the freedoms of the masses and bring the nation under further dogmatic control, ultimately resulting in the toppling of the system in 2025 and the appointment of Marisa Belacqua to the title of President of ST Joseph's Devotees. Despite being isolated by their Pindoraman counterparts during the Cold War, Bovido Has would be saved by the nation following the Has Wars and the collapse of Bovido Has, with the two merging together in 2030 to form the Bovido Imperium instead.

### 21st Century

#### Democratising the Libirachi Empire

 Main article: Democratisation Efforts in the Libirachi Empire

Prolonged efforts to democratise the Libirachi Empire took place during the Presidency of Nathan Jackson between April 2010 and September 2019 as part of President Jackson's *mandate to the people* after winning the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election. During his 9 year presidency, the Libirachi Empire underwent a period of restructuring but much of the proposed political reform packages would be blocked by the Libirachi Imperial Army, and following the introduction of the Patriot Act to the floor of the Libirachi National Congress in September 2019, the armed forces overthrew President Jackson in late September in the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état, and transitioned the nation into a full fledged dictatorship again under the leadership of President Laura Fox, who would ultimately become Empress of the nation in November 2019.

Elected into office in April 2010, President Nathan Jackson ended the 40 year dictatorship of Jacob Zuma with his inauguration and immediately set about introducing the Mandate to the People Act of 2010 in the Libirachi National Congress, which passed by decree before the congress was re-opened following elections in August. As only the second democratically elected leader of the Libirachi Empire, Nathan Jackson's victory in the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election proved that democracy could work within the nation, with the true aim of the Jackson administration being the eventual democratisation of the nation as specified in the unpublished Route To Freedom roadmap of 2019, which was ultimately due to be published after the completion of the Patriot Act of 2019, although as history knows this was never the case thanks to the Libirachi Civil War of 2019. Following the Xi Kanna and Jacob Zuma regimes, the government power pretty much stayed the same until the Jackson administration began to attempt to cause systematic change of the nation in the 2010s, attempting to rein in the power of the Libirachi Imperial Army and effectively bring democracy to the nation, with Jackson’s Revolutionary party storming the 2010 National Congress elections. Despite this urge to do good, the Jackson administration was continuously foiled by members of the LIA who eventually rose up in a coup in 2019, placing former education secretary Dame Laura Fox as the new President in what was largely viewed at the time to be a puppet regime.

Proving her nay-sayers wrong, President Fox managed to pull the army under her thumb and began to set about consolidating power, before passing the Assent Bill (2019) which granted the President's choice of regent the right to take the throne of the Libirachi Empire. Selecting herself, Fox was crowned as Empress Laura Fox on November 11th, 2019 and appointed fellow coup leader Xi Jimping as a replacement President, bringing the 167 years of the Imperial Republic to an end. Remembered as a staunch democrat fighting against all sides and often members of his own government for progress, Nathan Jackson is remembered as a martyr in the cause of Libirachi Democratisation internationally and by historians, whilst state propaganda paints a different picture of Jackson as a corrupt official who's poor handling of the nation left the armed forces no choice but to depose him and replace his regime with that of Laura Fox. Regarded as one of only a handful of the nation's leaders to properly attempt to bring about the introduction of free elections, even members of Jackson's own cabinet such as Alastar Brigman and Ashley Young actively worked against his campaign for freedom and ultimately continued to serve in the new order after its formation in 2019.

#### Death of Michael Ezra

 Main article: Death and State Funeral of Michael Ezra

On May 14, 2018, Michael Ezra, the ninth paramount leader and Archbishop-Emperor of Bovido Has died after a fatal heart attack in the Imperial Palace in Makassar. He was the first incumbent Bovido Hassian leader to die in the twenty first century and at the time of his death, he was the third longest serving leader of Bovido Has in history. After the death of Archbishop Ezra, Archemirate Hazael Buller took over the reigns of the nation on an interim basis and proclaimed a "month of national mourning throughout the realms of Bovido Has", ordering all churches and sects to hold memorial services, whilst a grand state funeral for the deceased leader was held on June 1, 2018, with most world leaders boycotting the service as a result of the nation's status as an international outcast, although Libirachi President Nathan Jackson made history as the first Libirachi president to meet a Bovido Hassian leader since Xi Kanna during the Bovido Hassian Thaw in the late 1960s. Following the funeral on June 1, 2018, *interim* Archbishop Hazael Buller proclaimed himself to the two titles and was coronated as Archbishop-Emperor of Bovido Has on June 15, 2018, leading to a period of reset relationships between Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire as Buller attempted to consolidate his own power - likewise, Libirachi President Nathan Jackson took the opportunity to boast of a "second thaw" in relations, selling it as a success of the democratisation efforts of the Jackson administration.

#### A Second Thaw

 Main article: Second Thaw

A "Second Thaw" in relationships between Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire took place between May 15, 2018 and September 25, 2019 following the death of Bovido Archbishop-Emperor Michael Ezra in 2018, and lasted until the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état in which Libirachi President Nathan Jackson was overthrown and replaced by a more authoritarian and combative regime. Despite lasting for little over a year, the brief détente between the two nations was never formally acknowledged, but had enormous impact upon the political relations between the two nations. With both nations having lost their most prominent 20th century dictators, Jacob Zuma in 2010 and Ezra in 2018, the new leadership of the two rivals began to come together to normalise relations and attempt to end the century long Cold War which had existed between the two nations since 1913. With Libirachi President Nathan Jackson having made the first trip to Makassar of any Libirachi leader since Eshter Morgan in 1942, and the first Libirachi leader to meet the Bovido Hassian leader since Xi Kanna met Peter Purba in 1967 during the Bovido Hassian Thaw of 1967 - 1970.

Ultimately however, internally the thaw between the two nations became politically unpopular as the Libirachi Imperial Army began to grow weary of President Jackson's perceived weakness, as well as his desire to democratise the nation and break up the power of the army, and in late September 2019 the armed forces conducted a Coup d'état against Jackson, executing the leader and replacing him with the Imperial State Council, headed up by Laura Fox, an ardent nationalist. Now facing off against a military dictatorship in the Libirachi Empire, relations crumbled as Fox became coronated as the first Emperor of the Libirachi Empire in over 150 years, ending the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in November 2019 in order to consolidate her own power. From September 2019 onwards, the thaw began to evaporate as the Libirachi Empire began to pick up it's anti-Bovido sentiment, fuelled by the newly formed Commission for the Preservation of the New Order which sought to divert attention from the regime away by using Bovido Has as a scapegoat, with the entity's leader Penny Fox orchestrating the Assassination of Hazael Buller in March 2020, which would cause the Cold War to go hot as the Has Wars erupted all across Asia, starting a decade of instability in the continent which would see Bovido Has crumble and be reborn after enacting the contingency, the Libirachi Empire becoming absorbed by civil conflict and loosing it's Empress to an assassination, and the end of the international hegemony which had governed for centuries.

#### Libirachi Coup

 Main article: 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état
    The 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état took place between September 24 and September 25, 2019 and saw a fraction of government and the Libirachi Imperial Army overthrow the democratically elected President Nathan Jackson and install a temporary Imperial State Council with former Education Minister Laura Fox being appointed as the new president before stepping down on November 11 the same year to ascend to the formerly dormant Libirachi throne as the first Emperor of the Libirachi Empire following the dissolution of the monarchy in 1852.

As a result of the coup, the Imperial Republic of Libirachi came to an end on November 11, 2019 and was instead replaced by the Fox Dynasty with Laura Fox ruling as Empress Fox I. With the new regime came newfound antagonism as the government of President Xi Jimping attempted to consolidate itself and deflect attention from the colossal change going on within the Libirachi Empire, leading to an increase in tensions with Bovido Has and in large part an end to the bilateralism which had been strengthened under the last years of the Jackson Administration and the government of Archbishop Hazael Buller.

#### Assassination of Hazael Buller

 Main article: Assassination of Hazael Buller
    The Assassination of Hazael Buller was a pivotal moment within politics in the 21st century for both Bovido Has and the rest of the world, with the Hǔnluàn orchestrated event sending shockwaves out to nearly every other nation on earth as the two largest superpower nations of the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has turned a decades long cold war into an active war, with the relatively new leaders of both countries taking the opportunity to wipe out their political rival, sparking a chain of events which lead to the Has Wars between 2020 and 2022 and then followed by the Libirachi Civil War between 2022 and 2024.

Leading to the destruction of Bovido Has in 2021, the Has Wars would spawn a series of Bovido Remnants as successor states to the Christian regime, although following the Bovido Hassian Contingency, only the remnant led by Cardinal Anton Ujung remained and would go on to form the Bovido Imperium with ST Joseph's Devotees and together they would embark on a Conquest of Africa in 2038. Likewise in the Libirachi Empire, the political fall-out from the death of Archbishop and Emperor Hazael Buller would lead to the creation of a military dictatorship in the neighbouring state of Persia led by Hǔnluàn head Ashton Morre, and the successor regime of Almac Docu, unwittingly facilitated by the Libirachi government, would orchestrate the Assassination of Laura Fox, the Emperor of the Libirachi Empire, and bring about a civil war and a new monarch, Penny Fox.