EAU Demands Majority Claim on North Sea & Antarctic Fossil Fuel Reserves (May 4th, 2045) Threatening to mobilize its fleets and secure the reserves by force, the EAU demands nothing less than complete ownership and claim of 66% of all fossil fuel reserves in the North Sea and Antarctic.
EAU Reaches Out to Western Neighbours (January 9th, 2045) Seeking to strengthen their grip on their allies in Eastern Europe, Union diplomatic envoys reached out to the nations of Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland, seeking to establish a mutually beneficial defense alliance against foreign aggression in face of the political situation of Western Europe and the recently splintered US.
From Jonas Graužinienė of Lithuania,
To President Khitruk of the EAU,
The great nation of Lithuania might be interested in further ties with the EAU, though security is more than guns and drones is it not? One might speak also of energy security mightn't one?
EAU Demands Majority Claim on North Sea & Antarctic Fossil Fuel Reserves (May 4th, 2045) Threatening to mobilize its fleets and secure the reserves by force, the EAU demands nothing less than complete ownership and claim of 66% of all fossil fuel reserves in the North Sea and Antarctic.
From Kitty Thaulow of Norway
To President Khitruk of the EAU,
International laws state otherwise. We will stand with the UK, Canada, and our international allies in securing rightful division of territorial waters.
To: Mexico, United States (Free Market), Canada
From: United States (Progressive)
The progressive people of the United States, tired of war and damage to our country call upon our fellow Americans, Canadians and Mexicans to discuss an end to this conflict. We propose a meeting in a neutral location to discuss a post war order.
Pretty sure the UN would switch to the other offices (Geneva, Vienna, Hague) before building a new one in Canada
I'm not completely against the idea of just not having a UN. I could see the EAU or UAS just pulling out of the UN.
Also wondering if NATO is still a thing, given the centre piece (US) is gone. Maybe Canada and western/Northern Europe keep it around to counter the EAU?
From: The European Union
To: The Eurasian Union
CC: The UK, Norway
We stand by international law and will back our allies in full.
From: The European Union
To: Nations of Europe
CC: The Eurasian Union
We warn the nations of Europe to procede with caution when dealing with the EAU. With their blatant aggression, therw is no doubt in our minds that they seek to use you in a foolish attempt to dominate Europe militarily as their predecessors once tried years ago during the ideological struggles in the 20th century. We have no promises to make other than our full support in case of Eurasian aggression and will be happy to take further steps to bring our countries together, such as cooperation in this food and energy crisis.
From: The European Union
To: Switzerland
CC: the two USAs, Mexico
The EU will also be happy to observe the discussions and provide assistance where possible in establishing peace in North America.
writers note: apologies for any rough spelling/grammar as I'm writing this from my phone on the commute to work
Ghanas Goverment is very happy about Brazils decision.
Our soldiers await your military advisors, now all we need is to find some new planes and ships.
Our airforce currently only posses an handfull of very old light attackcrafts, while our navy only has a few armed speedboats.
From: Ghana To : Whoever is interested
While the Goverment of Ghana would like to improve everything in its country directly, it knows that it lacks the necessary funds to invest into everything at once.
This is why the goverment now announces a new inudsty and infrastructure plan.
Every company, which invests at least 40 million $ into the Infrastructure, Industry or Agriculture of Ghana will get an tax cut of 80 % for the five years after investments.
This is bound to several conditions.
- At least 80% of the workers must be citiziens of Ghana
- Farms are only allowed to grow cash crops like Kakao or Peanuts on 10 % of their fields.
- only 33 % of all produced raw materials are allowed to be exported, unreffinied.
(Meaning companies don't have to pay much taxes if they invest into Ghana but they have to hire Ghana citiziens and are not allowed to produce to much cash corps and ores must be mostly processed in Ghana ^^)
From Jonas Grauinienė of Lithuania,
To President Khitruk of the EAU,
The great nation of Lithuania might be interested in further ties with the EAU, though security is more than guns and drones is it not? One might speak also of energy security mightn't one?
From Kitty Thaulow of Norway
To President Khitruk of the EAU,
International laws state otherwise. We will stand with the UK, Canada, and our international allies in securing rightful division of territorial waters.
From UK
To Norway
We may disagree on matters of government policies or territorial boundaries of the sea, but I trust that you will agree that military force and intimidation should not be used to resolve international disputes.
We would also hope to resolve the matter of North Sea fuel reserves between our nations in a peaceful, and fair, manner.
Ghanas Goverment is very happy about Brazils decision.
Our soldiers await your military advisors, now all we need is to find some new planes and ships.
Our airforce currently only posses an handfull of very old light attackcrafts, while our navy only has a few armed speedboats.
From: Ghana To : Whoever is interested
While the Goverment of Ghana would like to improve everything in its country directly, it knows that it lacks the necessary funds to invest into everything at once.
This is why the goverment now announces a new inudsty and infrastructure plan.
Every company, which invests at least 40 million $ into the Infrastructure, Industry or Agriculture of Ghana will get an tax cut of 80 % for the five years after investments.
This is bound to several conditions.
- At least 80% of the workers must be citiziens of Ghana
- Farms are only allowed to grow cash crops like Kakao or Peanuts on 10 % of their fields.
- only 33 % of all produced raw materials are allowed to be exported, unreffinied.
(Meaning companies don't have to pay much taxes if they invest into Ghana but they have to hire Ghana citiziens and are not allowed to produce to much cash corps and ores must be mostly processed in Ghana ^^)
Businesses within the Ummah AlSalaam might consider the potential but primary as a means of food security. As such we would to... discus the exportation rates, especially if we class food as raw material. Our members would wish for special exportation allowance for food; as such we are prepared to sent a trade delegation to Ghana to discus about, potentially, raising the export allowance to three fourths; we are prepared to invest in your education and healthcare as a compensation.
So as to allow the players involved in the USA Peace Process to proceed, I am posting the USA and Mexico sections of the prelude (mini-update zero) now for them.
The rest will be posted when i finish it (tonight?)
What follows isn’t meant to be a full-scale update. Instead, its meant to provide a sort of prelude to your diplomacy, nation development, and cooperative world/story development. I focus herein on the nations that players have adopted because, well, thats what you will be caring about presumably.
The USA
Where’s Edwin Starr when you need him? The second US civil war is not only more destructive but more deadly than the first, with tens or even hundreds of millions dead or missing (exact numbers are obviously not available).
In 2045, warfare is highly mobile and the entirety of the country is a battlefield, at least intermittently. The forces of one side might be targeting a town’s power stations one month, then, with its capture, the enemy might be targeting the same town’s water supply the next.
‘American Dream’ exosuited, gene-hacked soldiers drop from radar-absorbent dropships into the heart of the ‘Democratic’ military bases and lay waste indiscriminately, combat drugs ensuring they feel no remorse. The ‘democratic’ forces melt away, knowing they must survive to fight another day, and indeed they do. The countryside hides them in friendly towns and villages or secret wilderness camps where only a decade ago families went to vacation with their children. Laser or missiles streak from ruins or the wilds to down the capitalist aircraft. And what the socialist lack in firepower they more than make up for numbers.
What violence begins, disease, exposure, hunger, or thirst, are eager to finish. Fresh clean water is increasingly rare and despite the best efforts of the international community to provide food or medical aide, tens of millions die of hunger or disease. Without modern transport, power, or information infrastructure many cities are hollow shells of what they once were, mass graves for the unfortunate. The desperate and opportunistic are only too eager to brand themselves private military contractors and join with others to practice a sort of state-sanctioned banditry, though in reality, they all too often seek only to secure survival for themselves. And though there are strongholds of security, these regions are highly militarized and life is anything but normal.
With each death, with each brother or sister buried, both sides grow increasingly embittered. Often the war is one of information control. For both sides, hardened and secure electronic communications are a precious rarity carefully protected by the leadership of both sides. And so the use of spies, informants, saboteurs, double-agents, and even assassins by both sides ensure secrecy and paranoia are never far behind desperation and grief.
Tired. Weary. Suspicious and frightened. Desperate. Into this comes some small hope. In the south of the country where Spanish is the defacto language of the region and the majority population is solidly Hispanic, a number of communities have begun to hold municipal plebiscites to join with their Mexican brothers. In Mexico, public support for military intervention in the ‘ongoing tragedy’ is too much to ignore and the Mexican military is present in force, offering security and reconstruction in border regions where the local populations have held plebiscites to join with their southern brothers. The scale of the supply and relief effort is bewildering to behold. Thousands of trucks deliver water and nutrient packages to the desperate. New electrical cables bring power and hardened secure nooiome anchors bring information and opportunity for recovery. And so while the rest of America destroys itself, the south is beginning to rebuild under the protection of Mexican guns, drones, and tanks. Not all are eager to see the Mexicans and militias and soldiers from both the American Dream and Democratic forces have engaged violently with the ‘southern invaders’, though in doing so, have only managed to lose local support for their own ideologies
The USA is a mess and if it hasn’t been irrevocably broken, its certainly very close to being so. Despite the deaths and ideological differences, the people are desperate for peace. And if it might still recover; American shale energy is heavily targeted by both faction and what is available is used for the respective military machines, but at peace, an energy-based recovery might be possible. . America’s agricultural potential is great too- and though littered with cluster bombs and mines, might still be developed if peace might return.
…and yet, within the leadership structure of both factions, hawks and fanatics whisper of secret caches of chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons, that might, just might, “win this war once and for all”. Might one final gamble win it all?
Sorry- that was longer than I had intended but I think the US civil war needed some attention.
Mexico
Analysts and advisors never imagined the US civil war would get as bad as it did. It just didn’t seem possible and so it took some time for the Mexican government to properly react. In a way it was the people that forced its government to act. The desperation and suffering was not only engulfing brothers and sisters and cousins and children north of the border, it was spilling back into Mexico. Refugees were streaming into the country on a massive scale and despite the best efforts of the governments, its numbers could be reduced but not never really contained let alone stopped.
And so when small communities began to demand Mexico’s protection, someone somewhere had an idea and soon enough Latin populations in southern USA were holding surprisingly well organized and orchestrated, not to mention well-publicized unofficial and generally unrecognized votes for Mexican incorporation. The movement soon gained considerable momentum, indeed, suspiciously so, but when Mexico arrived with guns and food and water, and medicine, no one cared as much about that.
The Mexican government has militarized considerably, investing significant resources, human, financial and otherwise in its US gambit. Educators, government employees, doctors and others are all facing employment insecurity and the possibility of job loss, all to fund the ‘great assistance program’. And so, if the USA will seek a peace that might partition the once great nation, Mexico will most certainly demand a seat at the table. There might be another option however; with its solidly anti-communist stance and conservative ideology, Mexico might strike a deal with the US American Dream faction. Only time will tell.
Beyond the US civil war and Mexico’s involvement, Mexico is facing increasing drought and constricting agricultural productivity. If the rest of the world wasn’t facing similar limitations, it might not be so bad, but food prices are rising globally and Mexico is feeling the pinch. Combined with intermittent water rationing, the Mexican middle class is spending more on food and basic necessities than ever before. And while solar development is growing, wide-scale adoption lags behind much of the world and so energy prices in Mexico are higher than most.
Finally there is Mexico’s relation with the growing communist and socialist movement in central and Southern America which is anything but positive. The last decade and a half of on-again, off-again global trade contraction has also hurt the Mexican economy.
EAU Demands Majority Claim on North Sea & Antarctic Fossil Fuel Reserves (May 4th, 2045) Threatening to mobilize its fleets and secure the reserves by force, the EAU demands nothing less than complete ownership and claim of 66% of all fossil fuel reserves in the North Sea and Antarctic.
Surely you mean only the Arctic and North Sea, no? I somehow doubt you have the capacity to claim all three at once. Even if claiming Antarctica for non-military purposes is banned by international law since 1961, with signatories including the UK, USA, Russia and Argentina, and then expanded in 1991 to include any kind of mineral mining. Hopefully, the EAU realises that and will back off.
We agree, at least in theory, to your proposal. Greater cooperation within the Visegrád group is not only profitable, it is, as you say, necessary to help ensure our continued security.
Of course, we would need to examine the specifics of your proposal before we commit to anything further.
EAU Demands Majority Claim on North Sea & Antarctic Fossil Fuel Reserves (May 4th, 2045) Threatening to mobilize its fleets and secure the reserves by force, the EAU demands nothing less than complete ownership and claim of 66% of all fossil fuel reserves in the North Sea and Antarctic.
The Zambezi aids all of our people. It gives us power, it gives us food, it gives us water. In order to better manage this mighty resource, we hereby inquire if the People of your states are interested in the formation of a cooperative block. We suggest the name of "Zambezi Cooperative Alliance" (ZCA), should your people be intrigued.
POINT 1 - POLITICAL STATUS AND FOUNDATION
The Visegrád Group is a political and military alliance which involves the nation of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The main function of the group is to protect the sovereignty and advance the common interests of its members. It will push for closer cooperation between the countries to effectively utilize all the resources, maximize the capabilities, and nurture the potential of its members to advance and help each other. The group will be headed by a president with a tenure lasting for one year, and the presidency shall rotate between each member states yearly.
POINT 2 - MILITARY AND DEFENSE
The Visegrád Group necessitates member states to act as a common front when it comes to security matters and defense of the group. An attack by foreign powers upon a member state will call upon other members to come into its defense. This is stressed as the stability and the security concerns of a member state within the Visegrád Group will have a tremendous effect upon other members. A joint military command dubbed the Visegrád Battlegroup shall be established to develop, train, organize, and standardize the military of the respective member states in order to be capable to plan and initiate a joint military operation.
POINT 3 - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
The Visegrád Group will actively enthuse social and cultural cooperation between member countries to augment bond on all aspects of the society. The respective official languages of the current member states, namely Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak; shall be deemed as the official language of the group. The Visegrád Cultural Forum will be established as the official media to organize group-wide events and programs relating to the social and cultural development of the group. Furthermore the development and accessibility to the nooiome is established as a vital goal for the group. As today it has become a vital part of human society, and arguably accessibility to such facilities is a human right.
POINT 4 - SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
The Visegrád Group will actively bolster the development of science and education in the country through various means from standardization of educational curriculum to improve learning process; to the initiation of scholarship and exchange perpetrated by the Visegrád Scholarship Program. These programs are intended to balance and improve the quality of education throughout member states. Higher institutes of learning and research shall be encouraged to cooperate together and ease of access for research and educational material shall be pushed for by the group.
POINT 5 - ECONOMIC POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
The Visegrád Group will ultimately work to improve and stabilize the economies of respective member states by easing regulations and barriers between member states to allow more intensive economic activities that would lead to growth and development of each respective member states. The Visegrád Development Bank will also be established as means to provide economic entities within the group the necessary loans and credits to develop.
POINT 6 - ADMINISTRATION AND BUREAUCRACY
The Visegrád Group will push for standardization of administrative, bureaucratic, and legal activities. With the objective of easing paperwork(s) and legislation(s) between countries in order to increase the administrative efficiency of each respective nations; which will help development in various ways. Several institutes shall be established (which may expand in the future): the Visegrád Common Database, Visegrád Nooiome Committee,and the Visegrád Patent Institute, with its respective functions.
Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary echo the sentiments of our brothers and sister in Poland and look forward to an increased role for the V4 in the global future.
The Zambezi aids all of our people. It gives us power, it gives us food, it gives us water. In order to better manage this mighty resource, we hereby inquire if the People of your states are interested in the formation of a cooperative block. We suggest the name of "Zambezi Cooperative Alliance" (ZCA), should your people be intrigued.
From Malawi,
Get your house in order and maybe we will talk. Any agreements would have to put the goodwill of the people first.
From Mozambique
How does your proposal differ from the East African Federation? Are they not already a better established and much more stable version of what you are suggesting?
OT: Just noticed that Benin is missing on the list
From : Ghana
To: Burkina Faso, Togo, Ivory Coast, Benin, Mali
The goverment of Ghana offers increased Cooperation in the field of Economy, Diplomacy and Military.
While our nation are rather poor , we are all threatend by the same , expansionist nation next to our door.
We can not watch how each one of us get eaten by Nigeria one by one. Only together we are strong enough to stand up to this monster of a nation.
ECOWAS might one day be strong enough but not all nations fell the same pressure that we currently fell, so we have to act now.
We will specify our ideas if you agree to the basic idea.
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