2/26/2024 0 Comments Frontlmes fyels of warConversely, the Western powers arms the Saudis, and their Sunni proxies, against the Iranians and the Shi'a militias they support.īecause of the influx of high tech military weaponry, the conflict expands to include outbreaks of conventional air and land combat, as well as the use of high tech weaponry against civilians. China and Iran sign a deal to trade arms and oil, thereby providing Shi'a forces with a nearly limitless supply of arms, including (secretly) Chinese Nuclear technology. The superpowers pick sides in the escalating Sunni-Sh'ite war. While officials downplay the significance of the build up, they are obviously geared towards protecting against the Russian Federation and securing access to Caspian Basin oil reserves in these countries. The EU builds large scale fortifications and military bases in the newly joined states of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Over the coming years all of the major powers come to resemble military police tactics result in massive civil unrest and domestic terrorism in all major states. The first of several large scale pro-democracy, pro-liberalization movements in China are brutally crushed. Based mainly on Brazilian agriculture might and affordable Venezuelan oil, the league is much stronger than anticipated. Later that year the League of South American Free States is formed. However, because of their solidarity with fellow South American countries, the country survives. The US retaliates with economic embargoes and surgical military action intended to cripple the economy and topple the regime. World oil prices, already high, begin to surge based upon fears that any widening of the conflict could drastically reduce oil production.Īttempted coup by pro-US, CIA backed military officers in Venzuela fails and US involvement is revealed to the international community. military sitting between them in Iraq prevents them from going to all-out-war. The Sunni/Sh'ite conflict raging across the Middle East deepens as Iran and Saudi Arabia fight a proxy war against each other using ethnic and religious militants who launch bloody insurgencies in each country, terrorizing the civlian populations and causing shocking amounts of infrastructure damage. ![]() NATO member states iterate their commitment to reinforce the independence of those republics, much to the satisfaction of US and EU oil companies who are pumping oil from the region. Georgian republics, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia join the EU, against the strong protestations of the Russian Federation. The disease will continue to outbreak for the next 10 years. Global influenza pandemic first of many subsequent H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks kills thousands, mainly in South East Asia, and causes tightened borders, and paranoia. ![]() Oil prices begin an irrevocable rise that slowly begins to weigh on global economies and leads political leaders to increasingly place energy at the forefront of national policies.Ī process of pulling the strategically valuable former Soviet republics away from Russia and integrating them into the EU and NATO is begun, much to the chagrin of the Russians. The beginning of the Long Emergency, global peak oil extraction is reached. 10 2016: The Western Coalition is Formed.
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