Rogue Generals: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines TL

[kyuzoaoi]

Also, what is Gundam XN?

[TheRomanSlayer]

Feb 13, 2021 6:33:45 GMT kyuzoaoi said:

Girls und Panzer but with Vlasovists...

So Maginot does not exist and is rolled with BC Freedom?

Ksenia in my head would be voiced by Ryou Hirohashi. 

Yes, Maginot would not exist, and BC Freedom takes its place. However, Voskresenniya High is basically the Freedom Faction of BC Freedom Academy, mixed with Bellwall Academy and Ooarai.

It would actually be Ryoko Shiraishi, and Yaroslava would be voiced by Junko Takeuchi, and Irina would be voiced by Rica Matsumoto.

Feb 13, 2021 6:40:58 GMT kyuzoaoi said:

Also, what is Gundam XN?

It is a reference to both the XN Raiser that the 00 Gundam has for its additional equipment, like 00 XN Raiser, and the pronunciation for Sun, though if I called it XD, then it would sound like Sid, or Seed, as in Gundam Seed. I will probably do a mecha anime update on this in the future, since we might see Tomino still do Victory Gundam and Turn A Gundam. However, TTL would not see a new Gundam series until 2006-2007, right when Gundam 00 would be released (both ITTL and IOTL), and Gundam XN or Gundam XD would be released in TTL’s 2011 (right when OTL Gundam Seed got its Remastered Version), and would be directed by both Seiji Mizushima and Susumu Nishizawa.

[kyuzoaoi]

So it will replace Gundam AGE and SEED. Is Gundam IBO still in the works?

[TheRomanSlayer]

Not sure if that might even be released. Although I can see more of the side stories getting the animation treatment.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Almost forgot:

The picture of how Jesse Jackson won the election:

[stevep]

Feb 14, 2021 2:35:21 GMT TheRomanSlayer said:

Almost forgot:

The picture of how Jesse Jackson won the election:


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  Well that's a stark divide.  Other than Kentucky and Arizona every blue state borders either the Pacific, the Great Lakes or is in the old NE. [Correction, technically Vermont is also landlocked].   Every read state is in the south or central lands.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Feb 14, 2021 12:14:59 GMT stevep said:

Feb 14, 2021 2:35:21 GMT TheRomanSlayer said:

Almost forgot:

The picture of how Jesse Jackson won the election:


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  Well that's a stark divide.  Other than Kentucky and Arizona every blue state borders either the Pacific, the Great Lakes or is in the old NE. [Correction, technically Vermont is also landlocked].   Every read state is in the south or central lands.

I mostly based Dole's TTL gains on his 1996 OTL gains, although with the addition of Lyndon LaRouche in the equation, the election is rather a close call. However, given that in 1996 there will be a lot of Filipino Americans who would turn against Jesse Jackson because he reluctantly allowed the Chinese to mercilessly bomb the Philippines and not invoke the 1951 RP-US defense treaty (key word here is reluctantly, though that might be said in a sarcastic tone), that would actually drive them towards the Republican party. You might also see a loss of support for LaRouche as well, though this could be made up by the increased support from Latin American refugees fleeing from Mexico because of the Chiapas conflict gone too far with the presence of Filipino and Chilean mercenaries.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Second Russian Civil War Part Eleven



ARMENIAN TROOPS INFLICT CASUALTIES ON AZERI FORCES ATTEMPTING TO RETAKE ARMENIAN-OCCUPIED TOWN OF ZABUX, REPORTS OF SERBIAN NATIONALIST MERCENARIES’ PRESENCE CONFIRMED BY AZERI MILITARY OFFICIALS
The Sun
February 21, 1993


Zabux, AZERBAIJAN – Armenian forces under the command of Seyran Ohanyan, as well as Serbian paramilitaries under the command of Branko Pantelic, have successfully thwarted an attempted Azeri offensive to recapture the town of Zabux, located close to the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Azeri offensive, which was aimed at not only securing the western border with Armenia, but by also securing the town, Azerbaijan’s army would be allowed to launch additional attacks into Armenia proper. However, selective scouting missions by the Serbian group Garda Panteri, had alerted Armenian military leaders to the planned offensive, which responded by launching a pre-emptive strike at Azeri positions just east of Zabux. Armenia’s successful defense of Zabux against the Azeris was a welcome change from the previous year when most of Armenia’s paramilitary forces engaged in most of the fighting while the regular Armenian military was being re-equipped with weapons captured from the Azeris or acquired from UN peacekeepers participating in the UNAACP mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

“We are seeing an increase in some of our own equipment being used by both Armenian troops and Serbian mercenaries who are operating in this region,” comments Azeri Colonel Rovshan Javadov after his unit was forced to retreat from Zabux. “As a result, there is also a possibility that our army will soon face a shortage of weapons and ammunition unless we receive some soon.”

Other Serbian mercenaries operating in the Caucasus region on behalf of their Armenian allies have also engaged in border patrols in Armenia’s border with Turkey, to prevent a possible Turkish invasion from materializing, but the recent AWOLGate scandal involving Filipino and Indonesian peacekeepers engaging in an arms trade with both sides, as well as a recent accidental discovery of Turkey’s duplicity in the infamous Agarak Incident, where a Turkish attempt to smuggle weapons that the Turkish Army had taken from captured or dead PKK terrorists had been discovered by accident by a lone Russian paramilitary unaffiliated with either Rosgvardiya or the Justice Brigades. The discovery would lead to the UN’s request for UNAACP Commander, General Alvaro Corbalan of Chile, to expel the Turkish contingent from the UNAACP, citing the reliability of Turkish peacekeepers. The Turkish contingent responded by ‘deserting’ from the UNAACP and arriving at the border of Mincivan. The Agarak Incident had also enraged the Iranian government, as Iran’s border security services had failed to detect an unusual cargo being shipped from eastern Turkey, through the Nakhchivan Autonomous Region. That such an incident could have also provoked a rebellion in northern Iran, where Iran’s own Azeri minority reside and have ambitions to unite with their brethren across the Aras River.

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Portions from an Interview with Former Russian President Gennady Burbulis
Sky News Australia Interview, May 13, 2018
Discussing the Aftermath of the Battle of Chernobyl



Interviewer: Many international observers say that the decisive rebel victory over the Soviet loyalist government had tipped the balance of power in its favor during the Second Russian Civil War, with much of the international community beginning to sever ties with the Soviet government and recognizing the authority of the Russian Provisional Government. It is also because of this victory that you became more than just a household name in Russia: you became an international icon that represented Russia’s democratic future. Are you comfortable with the popularity that you have achieved?

Burbulis: To be honest, I was not comfortable becoming a high-profile politician. All I had to do is to look at what happened to the late Premier Gorbachev, and I would discourage the media from taking pictures of me for journalistic purposes. Yet I realized that I needed help taming my image in the international press, so I had to hire someone to manage my press releases.

Interviewer: Critics within the Russian government had complained of your decision to select Andrei Zavidiya as your PR Manager, since he had a rather unsavory background in his rise to prominence as the media mogul of the Russian Federation. In addition, there was also an informal partnership between him and Boris Yeltsin where Zavidiya would use his control of the media to launch a major advertisement campaign in favor of TobAZ. Did that bother you at all?

Burbulis: Honestly, it bothered me, but I had no other choice. I did not know anyone else who could have been a better candidate than Zavidiya. He also played a role in the political downfall of the eccentric political clown in Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Interviewer: How so?

Burbulis: One of Zavidiya’s cameramen had apparently filmed Zhirinovsky’s tirades regarding the aftermath of the Battle of Chernobyl, and in his one of the most disastrous political moves in his career, he chose to condemn the rebel ‘murder’ of the leaders of the Soviet coup that killed Mikhail Gorbachev. I was there to rebuke him for his words, and it turned into a shouting match that I easily won, namely because the junior rank and file members of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union had grown disillusioned with Zhirinovsky. They wanted to present themselves as a conservative alternative to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and they were fed up with being used as controlled opposition.

Interviewer: Is that how you became the new leader of the LDPSU, which later changed to the LDPRF?

Burbulis: I formally renounced my membership of the CPSU before joining the LDPSU, and one of the junior members there, Sergei Sirotkin, had begged me to help clean out the radicals and extremists from the party. I did it with much effort, despite the efforts by the Zhirinovsky faction to stop me from doing so, but by sabotaging my efforts, it made my life easier in rooting out the extremists. By 1996, much of the LDPRF had been cleaned out of its extreme elements. Some of those guys would form the backbone of the far-right Slavic National Assembly. In addition, when someone exposed Zhirinovsky’s Jewish heritage in front of the entire nation, much of the extreme elements that were expelled had become disillusioned with him.

Interviewer: It is not also surprising that many of the figures within the Slavic National Assembly had become more anti-Semitic as time went on. Within the Russian Federation itself, and in two ethnic republics like Ukraine and Belarus, there were more Jewish representatives of their respective governments there. Moreover, one of the SNA’s activists, Oleg Malyshkin, had proposed to abolish the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and to encourage the immigration of Russian Jews to Israel and to annex the former JAO into Amur. What was your response to that?

Burbulis: Malyshkin made that proposal in 2001, long after I was replaced with Mykola Azarov as President of the Russian Federation. The international community condemned the proposal as a new ‘Madagascar Plan’, but ironically enough, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was open to the idea, as more Russian Jews immigrating to Israel would also offset any plans for a Palestinian state.

Interviewer: All right. So, in your first five years as President of an independent Russian Federation, much of your administration was focused on reconstruction, correct?

Burbulis: Yes. Not only that, but we had to tear down the old, decrepit Soviet style apartments due to it being shoddy. Yeltsin worked his magic here, with the introduction of modern building techniques that he learned while traveling around the United States and applied it to the construction of apartment blocks. Today, all of Russia’s apartment blocks have been built after 1996. While the apartment blocks were being built though, we had to build a blockhouse to house the construction workers involved in the project. Alternatively, the construction workers were also housed in dachas confiscated from its owners who fought on the loyalist side of the second civil war.

Interviewer: One other thing: what was the main event that led to the abandonment of the Ruble and the adoption of the Dengi as the new Russian currency?

Burbulis: As I said earlier, the events of the second civil war had resulted in the Soviet ruble, or the Russian Provisional Government issued ruble, had a 97% inflation rate. Much of the fighting had also resulted in the near collapse of the Soviet economy, and much of the economic activity of the Russian SFSR had virtually grinded to a halt by this time. However, like I said before, Yeltsin had intentionally destroyed the Soviet economy through currency manipulation and sheer intentional neglect, to reboot and retool it into a functioning, capitalist economy. All at the same time, he nearly got himself killed by rival businessmen who did not appreciate his meddling in the economy. The new Denga, or the Oliveback, as the Americans call it, eventually became popular with the Russian people, and Yeltsin’s gradual introduction of privatisation of the economy allowed it to recover. It is the equivalent of letting a sick person with fever to vomit the poisons and toxins out of the body before recovering from the ordeal.

Interviewer: At the same time, were you optimistic about the economic opportunities that the European Economic Community presented to the Russian government?

Burbulis: The major investments only started in 2001, with the Dutch and Germans being the first ones to invest in our economy. Next were the British and French, and finally, the Americans began to invest, although it was on the initiative of President Jack Kemp that America would invest in both Russia and India, to build them up as a counterweight to China. You see, both the EEC, or its successor, the ECA, and the United States, viewed Russia and India as possible stumbling blocks for Chinese expansionism, and American investment in the Russian and Indian technology sector allowed them to effectively contain China to the point where it began to view the Indochinese states in the same way that the old USSR had viewed the Baltic States: as a potential expansion target.

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Excerpts from “India: The Giant of the Subcontinent”
BharaTodayEN, published January 29, 2020



“The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the election of Narasimha Rao as the Prime Minister of India had significantly changed the nature of India’s politics as its government was struggling to battle the runaway inflation of the rupee. In addition, the economic reforms introduced by Mamohan Singh had been carefully studied by both the Indonesian and Philippine governments, as their own inflation problems had skyrocketed. In addition, the necessary economic changes that the International Monetary Fund had recommended to India had been followed, resulting in its eventual economic recovery. While China is mired in its military adventures, India eventually took over as the world’s largest workshop, with multinational corporations opting to invest in India’s economy. Famous companies like Germany’s Volkswagen, the United States’s Ford, and General Motors, and even Japan’s Sony and Panasonic establishing their production plants before another expansion by those Japanese companies would occur in 2000, this time building a third production plant in the Philippines, would become a hallmark of India’s economic growth. Over time, India’s own entrepreneurs and other business leaders would eventually come up with their improved versions of the products they enjoyed in their lives. India’s automobile industry started experimenting with discarded British and Japanese cars that allowed them to come up with a brand-new design for their automobiles, resulted in the rise of known automobile variants like Mahindra Electric, and India’s answer to Russia’s TobAZ pickup trucks and MPVs (Multi-Purpose Vans) emerged as the IndrAuto giant. In the technology field, Acharya is a household name in terms of computers and laptops being made.

In 2014, the Indian government had hosted a summit with representatives of both the European Continental Association and the East Slavic Federation on a joint economic enterprise that would design and build the world’s first operating system for a prototype work robot that would revolutionize the methods of construction. Though it initially had the seat of a bobcat and the legs of a scissor lift, additional improvements in the design would eventually result in the unveiling of the Mantis, or the world’s first robotic construction vehicle. At the same time, computer programmers from those three participating entities, plus the United States would collaborate on developing the operating system for the Mantis robotic construction vehicle, resulting in the release of the Pragya operating system that came under the ownership of the Indian company Shanti. Much of India’s agricultural sector also became privatized, with land reform being a major goal of increasing the productivity of India’s food supply. German agriculture companies had heavily invested in India’s agriculture sector, seeing it as a massive potential for the exports of its products. Japan’s rice cutting machines have also been a popular hit with Indian farmers, as they are now able to harvest their rice crops at a faster rate.

After 1992, the Indian military had also embarked on a serious military reform that included the invitation sent to the former East German military officers who were unfortunate enough to be barred from joining the Bundeswehr by India’s government to help train and reform its armed forces. Like the Chileans did with reforming the Philippine military, the Indian military would hire the former East German NVA officers to help them with the much-needed reforms. Heinz Kessler, the mastermind of the Dresden Mutiny of 1989, is appointed the head of the Military Reformation Committee, while Willi Stoph would oversee the major overhaul of India’s officer training corps. Though much of India’s former military before the East German invitation had been built on the British model, the 1993 reforms would transform the Indian military to one of the best trained and most combat capable armed forces in the world. The so-called Prussianization of Indian politics, as many of the critics had called it, involved the promotion of the idea that military service should be a prerequisite for civil service, though the Indian military is an all-volunteer force. To help with the reforms, Kessler would approach the reunified German government for an offer to sell much of the former East German military equipment to India (the ones that have not been sold to Turkey or Chile already) for a discounted price. Chancellor Helmuth Kohl, eager to enhance not only Germany’s ties with India, but the ECA’s partnership with them as well, had approved of the transaction, but warned Prime Minister Narasimha Rao that the first shipment of the former East German equipment to India will not take place until 2000, when the Bundeswehr will complete the final count on the amount of leftover former East German military equipment.”

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BALTIC FLEET MUTINEERS SEIZE CONTROL OF KRONSTADT NAVAL BASE, DECLARE THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO RUSSIAN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
Edmonton Journal
March 22, 1993



Kronstadt, (De facto Breakaway) RUSSIAN SFSR – In a scene reminiscent of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion, several sailors and their officers had staged a mutiny against the head of the Soviet Baltic Fleet, Vladimir Yegorov, a Soviet loyalist, in one of the biggest mutinies against the Soviet Armed Forces since the decisive rebel victory against the Soviet loyalists in the Battle of Chernobyl. The acting pro-RPG head of the Baltic Provisional Fleet, Viktor Petrovich Kravchuk, had pledged his allegiance to the Russian Provisional Government of Gennady Burbulis and its commander-in-chief of the National Redemption Army, Alexander Lebed. Unlike the first Kronstadt rebellion, where the Bolsheviks managed to suppress the rebellion, the second one that is currently ongoing has witnessed more mutinies from several sailors aboard the various ships and submarines of the Baltic Fleet, often executing the political commissars that were onboard the ship. The majority of the Baltic Fleet’s vessels had soon joined in the naval blockade of Leningrad as reports of the National Redemption Army’s planned invasion of northern Russia was circulated, but so far, the only advance into northern Russia came from Leonid Khabarov’s forces that came from Siberia and is currently poised to invade Perm Krai.

“We are receiving more reports of Red Army defections from most of our troops who oversaw their surrender in the Volga-Ural Military District, as well as in the Caucasus Military District. The fact that the Red Army is losing more of its troops than they can replace is an indication that the loyalists will soon be defeated,” says Commander-in-Chief of the National Redemption Army, Alexander Lebed, in front of domestic journalists aligned with the Russian Provisional Government. “Moreover, some of those soldiers are also bringing in their equipment helps us a lot.”

Much of the Soviet loyalist forces in the North Caucasus Military District had already surrendered or deserted, while the Leningrad Military District are still at odds with each other. However, much of the Soviet loyalist forces that fought in the Battle of Chernobyl came from the Moscow Military District had suffered the most significant losses, as their officers were either captured or killed, while the rank-and-file soldiers suffered severe injuries. At the same time, the troops from the Siberian Military District remained in their posts, as to prevent any additional attacks from Soviet loyalist forces now based in the Kazakh SSR. With the Battle of Chernobyl decided, reports of increased frequencies of rebellions and uprisings against Soviet authority are becoming more frequent. By now, the Northern Fleet had gone completely over to the Russian Provisional Government, leaving what remained of the Baltic Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla as the last remaining ships of the Soviet Navy.

“The Russian Provisional Government is not a terrorist organization, as the bastards in Moscow continue to say!” says former Soviet Navy sailor turned National Redemption Navy personnel Master Sergeant Ivan Lyutaev. “I know firsthand that the so-called rebels are now proving to the world that they are fighting for Russian democracy, and for the right of the other SSRs to have democracy in their lands.”

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KADIJEVIC, HALILOVIC, REACH AN AGREEMENT ON TERRITORIAL ADJUSTMENTS AS BOSNIA VOTES IN FAVOR OF INDEPENDENCE FROM YUGOSLAVIA
Sydney Herald
March 25, 1993



Belgrade, YUGOSLAVIA – The de facto leader of the Yugoslav junta, General Veljko Kadijevic, has reached an agreement with his Bosnian counterpart, Sefer Halilovic, on the final territorial adjustment between Yugoslavia and Bosnia, as the latter held a referendum on March 23rd on the decision whether they wished to secede from Yugoslavia. The referendum, which resulted in over 87% of its vote deciding in favor of independence, was accepted by both Bosnian and Yugoslav authorities, and the final date for Bosnia’s formal secession from Yugoslavia would take place on May 10, 1993.

“We have reached an agreement on with our Bosnian counterparts on the territorial concessions that we agreed upon, in return for the population exchanges that we also agreed on, with the Serbs of Bosnia moving to Serbia, and Bosniaks in Serbia moving to Bosnia,” General Kadijevic said while being asked about the situation in the rest of Bosnia, where Croatian forces have invaded and occupied the region of Hercegovina. “On the other hand, much of the Serbian population that we evacuated from Croatia had been resettled in Central Serbia, and in Kosovo as well. In addition, we gave to the Socialist Republic of Montenegro bits of western Kosovo that it once ruled while they were the Kingdom of Montenegro.”

With Bosnia set to become independent, Macedonia is the last nation in the rump Yugoslav state to hold a referendum for its independence on September 8 this year. Macedonia’s pro-independence leader, Mitko Chavkov, has brought up the issue of the official name for the new country, as he is reminded by other pro-independence activists of the Greek reaction to the usage of the name ‘Macedonia’ for their country.

“We intend to have good relations with both Yugoslavia and Greece, and after consultations with the Yugoslav and Greek governments, we will call ourselves the Republic of North Macedonia-Dardania, or the Macedonian Republic of Dardania, as to satisfy both the Greek government, and our Albanian minority here,” Chavkov announced in front of other government ministers of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia within Yugoslavia.

As for the territorial adjustments between Yugoslavia and Bosnia, Yugoslavia would cede the northern half of Pljevlja and the western bit of Zlatibor district, with the towns of Pribor and Prijepolje to Bosnia, in exchange for Bosnia’s cession of Bijeljina and its surrounding territories to Yugoslavia. With the finalization of these territorial exchanges, the population exchanges will commence as early as March 12th, or as late as April 2nd.

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MOSTAR UNDER SIEGE AS BOSNIAN CROAT FORCES CAPTURE MEDJUGORJE AFTER A SIX HOUR BATTLE
Melbourne Observer
March 2nd, 1993



Mostar, SR BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA – Buoyed by the successful incursion by Bosnian Croat forces after their insurrection against the Bosnian government, the HVO advanced from their recently captured town of Medjugorje and into the city of Mostar, where many of their forces are laying siege to the city. The Bosnian Croat forces, heavily backed by volunteers from the Croatian diaspora, as well as active troops of the main Croatian military, have also converged on the area as well. In addition, a joint attack by the Croatian military had secured the only Bosnian de facto port on the Adriatic, Neum, without any casualties, as the Bosnian government forces there had surrendered. In Zagreb, Croatia’s de facto junta leader Anton Tus, had announced the schedule for the end of the military junta period as it will hold the country’s first free elections after obtaining independence from Yugoslavia.

“We are looking at holding the elections on April 11, which is on Easter Sunday, as an appropriate time to choose the first president of an independent Croatia. I will, however, not participate in this election, as my military position will be more of a liability than an asset,” announces Tus after being asked when the end of the junta period in Croatia will end. “The future Croatian President will have to tackle the ongoing issue in Hercegovina, while the breakaway Hercegovinan Republic, as my fellow colleague Mate Boban calls it, is engaged in a war of independence against Bosnia. However, Yugoslav General Kadijevic has assured me that Yugoslavia will not interfere in the war within Bosnia.”

Volunteers from Turkey, Azerbaijan, and parts of Central Asia that had fallen under the control of Al-Qaeda had trickled into Bosnia, to wage jihad on the Croatian ‘Crusaders’ who are attacking Muslim lands. However, Al-Qaeda leader Abdullah Yusuf Azzam had also announced his intention to spread the Wahhabi ideology into the Balkans as well, with Albania and Bosnia being the prime target for the new kind of jihad he is waging against the West.

“With Allah’s help, we will avenge the fallen Ottoman Empire, which had lost its territory in the Balkans. However, it is not to say that we will simply help Turkey regain its lost Caliphate, since they were the first ones to fight against our spiritual teacher, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab,” Azzam commented in a video recording he made with the rest of the Al-Qaeda PR team. “We have defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan, and we will easily defeat these Croatian Alsalibis (Crusaders) who are attacking our Bosnian brothers and sisters. Then we will also punish the Serbs for waging war against Islam as well.”

Already, the first Al-Qaeda attack in the Balkans occurred back in September of 1992, when a Bosnian recruit into Al-Qaeda had blown himself up in the vicinity of Medjugorje, a couple of months before the HVO would capture the city. However, the presence of Turkish and Azeri volunteers in Bosnia did more to relieve the Bosnian government forces, which had been fighting a losing battle against the HVO. Many of the Azeri volunteers were recent veterans of the ongoing conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the similarity between Armenian attempts to annex what is basically Azeri land and the Croatian-backed rebellion in Hercegovina is evident. However, unlike the ongoing conflict in the Caucasus, the conflict in the Balkans is low key, with plans for the reunification of not only Hercegovina, but Western Bosnia and the Croatian part of northeastern Bosnia, aptly called Hrvatska Posavina, with the rest of Croatia.

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“When I first came to India on a business trip, I found the country to be the most depressing in the world, since there is rampant poverty in the countryside and many slums in the cities. Since then, I met my Indian colleagues and frankly told them that India needed more than just social and economic reforms. They also needed to create new policies that would certainly help improve the lives of rural Indians, and to tackle the slum problems. To my end, we proposed a series of solutions that will also improve the health of ordinary Indians: first, we would suggest the construction of several desalination plants within the vicinity of Kerala and Gujarat, where fresh water could be made from desalination plants. Clean water is the main issue in India, and I had a diarrhea when I drank some weird tasting water by mistake. Next was the overhaul of India’s sewer system, and the fact that many of the sewer workers are mostly from the lower class is an indication that the caste system had to be tackled seriously, even despite insistence from Indian government officials that they have abolished it. I had to consult with my colleagues back in Japan on how to tackle the sewer situation, and instead of giving suggestions, they sent some minor official from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and a senior official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on how to come up with a better sanitation system for India. This project took six years to implement, and by the time it was finished, India now had an improved water sanitation system. As a result, the health of the Indian people improved, and we even helped build equipment that will allow the Indian farmers to harvest their crops on a more efficient scale.” From an anonymous Japanese businessman who came to India as a part of the Indian government’s request for assistance with its water treatment problem, 2004.

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OPINION PIECE: The Tadiar-esque Solution to India’s Societal Problems
By: Mamohan Singh
July 3, 2003



Since the invitation offered by former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to the unemployed former East German officers to help retrain and modernize India’s armed forces, we had seen the slight increase in the semi-militarization of Indian society to the point where even the women want to join, despite their current physical condition. That is not to say, that I do not look down on women in general. The point is, with the Germanic obsession with efficiency being taught to us, we had suddenly begun to take greater care of our own health, and the growing gender imbalance was being tackled by our government, with a greater emphasis on Indian families having more daughters than sons. I know it sounds crazy, but the truth is that if we have a gender imbalance in India, we will soon run out of marriageable Indian women, and that alone could become a national disaster for us. In one of Abdul Rahman Antulay’s proposals for tackling the gender imbalance that we face, he suggested that families with at least two daughters and one son would receive family benefits, and the more daughters they have, the greater benefits. While this suggestion has garnered some criticism from old guard conservatives who still held sexist views, Antulay’s idea had some merit. Not only would it incentivize Indian families to prioritize the balancing of the gender imbalance, but by having more Indian girls born into the world, we would also secure the survival of our people with future mothers being developed. While India did not experience the same kind of man-made famine that the Philippines under current military dictator Artemio Tadiar, largely because of China’s aggressive bombing campaign against them and Vietnam, it also had to come up with alternative food sources. Luckily, the Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare at that time, Balram Jakhar, had suggested that we Indians should start eating shark meat, to emulate the Filipinos who also started to eat shark meat as an alternative to meat. We also took another page out of the Filipinos and began drinking water buffalo milk, since Tadiar claimed that water buffalo milk had higher amounts of calcium than regular cow’s milk, and its consumption by younger Indians had resulted in much of their bodies growing slightly bigger, but not as big as their European counterparts. Just big enough to be stocky.

Some of the activists that we talked to had complained to us that by inviting the former East German officers to help train our military, we are essentially making a suitable climate where an Indian version of Artemio Tadiar would arise to power. Rest assured that this is not the case, since the former East Germans had been raised in the old communist tradition, something that could also be controversial, even within pro-communist Indians today. The different branches of the Communist Party that existed in India today are so fragmented that they cannot pose an ideological threat to our political domination of the country. At the same time however, they can pose a physical threat to us, as evident by the Naxalite rebellions. This is partly the reason why Prime Minister Narasimha Rao had invited the East German military officers to help reform the Indian military: not only would we be able to combat the communist rebellion more effectively, but we can also fight the Chinese and Pakistanis on an equal footing as well.

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REFERENDUM IN MACEDONIA FAVOURS INDEPENDENCE, COUNTRY TO BECOME INDEPENDENT UNDER THE NAME “REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA-DARDANIA”
The Sun
September 4, 1993



Skopje, NORTH MACEDONIA-DARDANIA – A referendum held in Macedonia this year had resulted in over 85% of the nation’s population had voted in favor of independence, although negotiations with the Yugoslav and Greek governments were tenuous as Greece objected to the usage of the name ‘Macedonia’ as the official name of the new nation in question. In the end, two official names were adopted for the new Macedonian state: The Republic of North Macedonia-Dardania, and the Macedonian Republic of Dardania. Upon the adoption of those two names North Macedonia-Dardania will become the newest European nation to achieve its independence, after Bosnia-Hercegovina and more recently, Moldova.

“North Macedonia-Dardania is now officially an independent nation, having come to existence after years of struggle by our ancestors in order to gain recognition for our people,” Macedonian Provisional President Stojan Andov announces, in front of his supporters. “We are lucky to have achieved our goal of independence without any bloodshed at all.”

Surprisingly, Bulgaria was the first nation to recognize Macedonia’s independence from Yugoslavia, given the historical grievances the two nations had towards each other. Moreover, Bulgarian nationalists have always insisted that Macedonia and its people were basically a different branch of the larger Bulgarian national family, but Macedonians had insisted that they are a separate people. However, Macedonia’s claim of the legacy of Alexander the Great had angered most of the Greek public, which considered Alexander the Great as a Greek hero. Still, Greece refused to recognize the new nation, while Yugoslavia also followed Bulgaria’s lead and recognized the independence of Macedonia. However, there are fears from the Macedonian public that Macedonia might lean more towards Serbia, rather than sticking it out as an independent state, or even lean more towards Bulgaria.

“We wish to have excellent relations with our neighbors, but it will be difficult to do so, especially since they have a lot of grievances towards us,” explains Macedonian pro-independence activist Kiro Gligorov. “In addition to Bulgaria and Greece, Albania also has issues with us regarding the Albanian minority in the region of Western Macedonia.”

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“The first presence of the Greek Volunteer Guard in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was seen back in September of 1991, when the Greek mercenaries arrived in Armenia to train for the future conflict with Azerbaijan and Turkey. In some of the battles that occurred in the Caucasus during the Second Russian Civil War, Greek volunteers helped defend Armenian border posts from a possible Turkish invasion, alongside their Serbian brethren. At one point, there were Serbs, Greeks, and Armenians in the same unit as they fought off Turkish volunteers who fought for the Azeris, the Azeris themselves, and at one point, the UN peacekeepers that were sent to stop the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. At one point, the Greeks even captured an entire contingent of Chilean and Filipino peacekeepers who were unlucky to fall into their hands, and after undergoing much humiliation, they were eventually exchanged for captured Armenian and Greek prisoners of war taken by the Azeris. However, only two of the Filipino peacekeepers captured by the Greeks were involved in the infamous AWOLGate scandal, which made their lives worse by Tadiar’s demotion of the perpetrators of the AWOLGate scandal down two ranks. It was fortunate that the demoted soldiers did not commit suicide, or their Azeri wives would have suffered from being homesick due to them living in the Philippines. Other Greek volunteers participated in the Georgian theater of the Second Russian Civil War when they recruited the Abkhazian Greek population to fight alongside them in their attempt to drive out the Soviet loyalists out from Georgian territory. Fortunately, after the Second Russian Civil War had ended in 1995, many of the Abkhazian Greeks opted to flee back to Greece from Georgia, in a humanitarian mission, codenamed Operation: Golden Fleece.” From “The Second Russian Civil War and the Rise of Modern Russia”, TASS.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Second Russian Civil War Part Twelve



“Good evening, this is Hua Jun reporting from Xinhua News Agency. Today, the representatives of our fraternal Soviet siblings have invited the People’s Republic of China to restore order in its Central Asian Republics, following the victory of the counterrevolutionaries at the Battle of Chernobyl. Major reactionary uprisings have been reported throughout the territories of the Soviet Union and reports of the Uyghur terrorist training camps have been confirmed by authorities of the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSR. In response to the continued terrorist attacks on our positions in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, the People’s Liberation Army had sent its soldiers, with the consent of the Soviet loyalist government, into the territories of the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSR. Upon the arrival of the PLA soldiers in the Kazakh SSR, they have taken the necessary steps of liquidating the terrorist threat that they pose to our peaceful society. Moreover, the Uyghur terrorists have connections to international organizations supporting the secession of Xinjiang from the People’s Republic of China, and to create a nation that will become a hub of counterrevolutionary activity, in conjunction with the Tibetan reactionaries, Pan-Mongol irredentists and Kuomintang counterrevolutionaries. Our valiant soldiers will never waver in their sacred mission to destroy the forces of instability. Those who desecrate our nation, shall be hunted to the ends of the Earth.” A Xinhua News Agency anchor, announcing the Chinese military intervention in Soviet Central Asia, May 31, 1993.

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Excerpts from “Dragon’s Roar: The Resurgent Middle Kingdom after Mao”
BY: Ye Fei
Zhonghua Book Company (translated into English from Mandarin)


Chapter Six: To Save a Dying Edifice of Revolution


Comrade Zhao Ziyang had been notified earlier of the Soviet request for PLA troops to intervene in Central Asia, where both the Islamist terror group that we never heard of before, and the rebel forces led by the arch-reactionary Alexander Lebed, had engaged the loyalist forces there. I stood in front of him inside the Zhongnanhai, with Comrade Wang Dongxing beside me. I was surprised to see Comrade Zhao not expressing any anger at all. Since the fateful day when our soldiers killed those protesters, much of the anger that the Chinese people possess towards their own government had smouldered, until Comrade Zhao had played the nationalist card and brought up our army’s success against the wayward Vietnamese socialists. However, with the civil war in the Soviet Union threatening to undo the legacy of the great October Revolution, Comrade Zhao smelled an opportunity to become the true successor to the legacy of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and of course, Comrade Mao.

“The People’s Liberation Army will enter Soviet Central Asia in just six hours. Our soldiers and pilots have gathered in Xinjiang, and they are eager to put down this terrorist threat coming from those damned Uyghurs,” Comrade Zhao started to speak. “Comrade Ye, you speak of creating a new kind of Chinese revolutionary, and yet all you have done is to bluff your way into the high positions.”

I sighed and shook my head. “Comrade Zhao, when I said that China must reclaim its lost glory, in terms of territory and prestige, I did not say how quickly it will be achieved. I said that this will be a long-term project. At best, we would simply reclaim the territories we lost to those damned imperialists during the decadent Qing Dynasty.”

“So, you are suggesting that we model ourselves after the Qing!?” Comrade Zhao snapped at me. Comrade Wang cleared his throat to interrupt, which I was thankful for. “Do you have anything to say about this, Comrade Wang?”

“While I might have reservations on what Comrade Ye’s long term plans are, he is not wrong to say that the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese people is waning, thanks to the capitalist reforms that Comrade Deng had implemented. I seem to also recall that should we lose that revolutionary fervor; we will end up becoming a nation that can only mass produce knock offs. We need to regain that creative spirit if we are to survive this dangerous world,” Comrade Wang replied back. He pointed at the current map of China and waved his hand to the areas that China would naturally regain. “It is inevitable that we will regain Macao and Hong Kong, but the areas of the western regions held by the Qing are controlled by the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSR. Should we anger them by retaking those lost lands?”

Comrade Zhao sighed in frustration and gave us a piece of paper. We were shocked at the contents of the paper and grimaced.

“We would stretch ourselves too thin if we intervened, but we have no other choice in the matter. Uyghur terrorist attacks are intensifying, while at the same time we are also stuck in a ceasefire with the Vietnamese that can easily re-ignite the war in Indochina. That is nothing, however, to what is up in the Philippines. Comrade Ye, what have you learned so far in the Philippines?” Comrade Zhao asked me.

“The arch-fascist Tadiar is rather too quiet these days. Right now, he is more concerned with dealing with the arms embargo that our government had imposed on it, through the United Nations. Unfortunately, there are rogues that will make a lot of money, smuggling weapons and food into the Philippines. These days, Tadiar might even try to help China’s enemies with their terror tactics.” We were too suspicious as to the sudden quietness of the Philippine state, since Tadiar must have kept a low profile while the world was distracted by the civil war in the former Soviet Union. I continued the conversation, while making a list of nations that could be persuaded to have closer relations with us. “So far, only Cambodia and Laos are open to closer relations with us, and the Burmese were rather nervous at the prospect of a closer relations with us. Only India, Malaysia, and Indonesia are outright hostile to us.”

“Regardless, we must demonstrate to the world that the People’s Liberation Army comes not to conquer, but to liberate Central Asia from the counterrevolutionaries and other types of bandits. Comrade Ye, you and Comrade Wang will remain in Guangdong. I will appoint Zhang Zhen as the commander of the PLA force that will enter Soviet Central Asia.” Comrade Zhao waved his hand to dismiss us.

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CHINESE TROOPS LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON UYGHUR TRAINING CAMPS IN EASTERN KAZAKHSTAN, CLASHES WITH PRO-INDEPENDENCE FIGHTERS ALSO REPORTED
Sydney Herald
June 3, 1993



Ashalo, KAZAKH SSR – The Second Russian Civil War had turned in a rather unexpected direction when the People’s Liberation Army had invaded Soviet Central Asia, apparently under the approval of the Soviet loyalist government, as they are more desperate for support from the international communist alliance in the aftermath of their disastrous defeat at the hands of the National Redemption Army in Chernobyl. At the same time, an attempt by the PLA to invade the Russian Far East was thwarted by forces under General Viktor Chechevatov’s command when Mongolian military intelligence officers passed a crucial information to the NRA in the Far East Military District on the PLA’s plan to incite a pro-loyalist rebellion that threatened to undo the accomplishment of General Leonid Khabarov. Inside the Kazakh SSR, the People’s Liberation Army had struck a blow against suspected Uyghur separatists by bombing their training camps, which were located, not only in Ashalo, but Urzhar and Zaysan. The attack had surprised both the Soviet loyalists and pro-independence Kazakh fighters who now must deal with the entry of Chinese troops into their lands.

“The presence of Chinese troops on the side of the loyalists is completely unacceptable. They will work with the Soviet loyalists to crush our rebellion, and with it, our dreams of an independent Kazakh state,” comments former Red Army officer turned pro-independence fighter Saken Zhasuzakov from his base in Astana. “While we have been made aware of the existence of Uyghur training camps in our territory, we had no idea as to how it arose, when we did not know anything about their activities.”

Chinese troops were also instrumental in engaging other Kazakh pro-independence paramilitary forces, as well as Nurlan Yermekbayev’s Kazakh National Salvation Army, a pro-Lebed and pro-Russian Provisional Government faction that fought to revive the aborted Burbulis-Konayev Agreement that would have seen Kazakhstan remain as a part of a non-communist Russian state, with a power sharing agreement like ones that were achieved by Russia’s ethnic minority dominated republics. However, their penchant for ruthless suppression of the pro-independence movement, not only in Kazakhstan, but in Kyrgyzstan as well, had only worked to drive the survivors of Chinese military brutality into the arms of the pro-independence movements. Still, Chinese bombers are also instrumental in attacking the rebel positions throughout Soviet Central Asia, as it is expected that there will be more Chinese troops that will flood into the region, not just to restore stability there, but to also engage in future conflicts with al-Qaeda.

“Given the Chinese military reputation when they fought the Vietnamese, I am not surprised if they massacred innocent civilians. What matters to us is that we expel the Chinese from Kazakhstan and crush the Soviet loyalist forces before they get too strong,” comments Yermekbayev after being forced to retreat into the Russian-held Priirtyshye Free State, despite being of Kazakh ethnicity. “At the same time, some of our fighters are hesitant to follow my lead when Russian paramilitaries are busy carving out parts of Kazakhstan with a Russian majority population there.”

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RUSSIANS IN KAZAKHSTAN CARVE OUT TERRITORY WITH SIGNIFICANT RUSSIAN POPULATION, CALLS FOR REUNIFICATION WITH THE RUSSIAN SFSR
The Province
June 3, 1993



Kostanay, (De facto Breakaway) KAZAKH SSR – Russian paramilitary forces unaffiliated with either the National Redemption Army or the Justice Brigades have seized control of Kazakh cities with significant percentages of ethnic Russians living in it. The formation of three Russian entities in Kazakhstan, the Priuralye Free State (an entity in Western Kazakhstan with only 32% of its population consisting of ethnic Russians), the Pritobolye Free State (an entity in northern Kazakhstan with Kostanay as its capital), and the Priirtyshye Free State (an entity in eastern Kazakhstan with Semey as its capital, with the Irtysh River as its natural border). The seizure of Kazakh territory has been condemned by all sides of the Second Russian Civil War, even by pro-Lebed Kazakhs under Nurlan Yermekbayev, who called the seizure of Kazakh territory as a giant ‘mistake’.

“Those thugs who had illegally seized control of our territory with significant presence of Russians and other Slavic populations in it will eventually come back to haunt them, as it will now be seen as an act of naked Russian aggression,” warns Yermekbayev when being asked about the emergence of the Russian entities inside Kazakhstan. “As of today, I am going to approach Saken Zhasuzakov’s pro-independence movement, the Free Alash Liberation Front, for a ceasefire, in order to regain control of our territories from these Russian paramilitaries.”

The Russian Provisional Government had not been reached for an official statement, but Commander-in-Chief of the National Redemption Army Alexander Lebed was not happy with the news of the emergence of the Russian entities inside Kazakhstan.

“Our attempts to woo the Kazakhs into joining our movement has now been shot down, thanks to these thugs who unilaterally seized control of Kazakh territory with a large Russian population in it. I would not be surprised if Russians will face pogroms in the rest of Central Asia because of this illegal action,” says Lebed angrily after being asked about the presence of the increasingly nationalistic Russian paramilitaries operating in Kazakhstan. “This action only proves that we are no better than the Hercegovinan Croats who rebelled against an established government in Bosnia.”

However, other Russian nationalists who have a significant presence in the Russian Provisional Government had supported the move, seeing it as a kind of national rectification in response to the Bolshevik cession of ‘historic Russian territory’ to the rest of the newly created Soviet republics.

“The Soviet government had not bothered to consult the Russian population of Central Asia as to where their territories should be a part of, and we have them to thank for it. Territories in Central Asia with large amounts of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are being bartered to the Central Asians in exchange for their loyalty,” comments former Liberal Democratic Party of Russia member Oleg Malyshkin, who left the LDPR because of internal disputes. “As a result, the Slavic population in Central Asia will face persecution there.”

Malyshkin’s comments were met with ridicule from the Kazakhs, whose resentment of the Russians, and by extension, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, have increased with the growing success of the Russian rebels.

“Comrade Malyshkin should be aware of his own country’s history of colonialism in Central Asia, and that the Russian conquest of our land was not peaceful. Now that we are starting to assert more of our Kazakh identity, the Slavs are becoming more uncomfortable. This is a positive sign that we are overthrowing the last vestige of Slavic colonialism in all of Turkestan,” a Kazakh nationalist activist commented during a pro-nationalist rally in Almaty. “Even the dogs who wanted to remain loyal to the Russians like Nurlan Yermekbayev are starting to wake up from their colonial mentality and have joined our cause.”

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Excerpts from the Documentary “The Birth of a New Middle East”
By: Bahman Ghobadi


“After the eight-year conflict between Iran and Iraq had ended in a Pyrrhic Iranian victory, with the establishment of the Basra Independent Administrative Jurisdiction, Saddam’s regime turned its full attention on the Kurds as their demands for federalization of the Iraqi Republic was an extension of Iranian influence being emitted into Iraq. Although Iran paid a heavy price for their victory, Iraq was the bigger loser, as they were not only forced to pay war reparations to Iran at an amount of $37 million US Dollars, but they lost two crucial ports of Um Qasr and Al Faw to the Basra IAJ and the entirety of the Iraqi Navy, with most of them electing to serve in the Basra IAJ, while the Arab Shia members of the former Iraqi Navy had opted to resign from their posts or to pledge their allegiance to Iran. The Basra IAJ had functioned more like the Islamic equivalent of Singapore, though in possession of two ports that are later used by the Iranian Navy. The Iraqi payment of the war reparations had led to the first anti-Saddam protests in Baghdad by January of 1990, as the value of the Iraqi Dinar had fallen by 12%, causing an inflation to occur. Even worse news for the Iraqi government was that much of their oil production in the southeast had been damaged by the fighting. However, thanks to the Basra IAJ, which controlled and regulated the flow of Iraqi oil into international markets, Iraq’s petrodollars were rapidly shrinking. An attempt by the United States to mediate in the war indemnity between Iraq and Iran had been rejected by the Iranian government, which also condemned the Dole administration for their covert support to the Iraqi government and had also demanded a small payment as compensation for war damage, to which President Dole had bitterly rejected. In July of 1990, one month after the Second Russian Civil War had broken out, the Iraqi government finally launched a pacification campaign against Iraqi Kurdistan, which began its war of independence from the Baghdad government. Moreover, Jalal Talabani’s incendiary message for all the Kurds in the Middle East to join in the struggle to create an independent Kurdish state had resulted in an increase in the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran’s rebellion against the Iranian government, and a larger conflict in southeastern Turkey where the Turkish government is battling the PKK. Not much was reported on a possible rebellion by the Kurds of Syria, although the large-scale revolts by the Kurds throughout the Middle East was the reason why the rebellions were suppressed with such heavy-handed methods that it would lay the foundations for the Kurdish version of the Palestinian Intifada.

In September of 1990, the Kurds of Iran had unilaterally declared their independence from the Islamic Republic of Iran, though their recognition as an independent state was ignored by the international community. At the same time though, the United States, still smarting from the Iranian snub over the war indemnity issue, had started to formulate a plan for a possible creation of a Kurdish state that would serve American interests, although doing it so would anger its fellow NATO ally Turkey, which had many Kurds within its territory. While the Americans were fine with destabilizing Syria, Iraq, and Iran, for the sake of both creating an independent Kurdistan, and enhancing Israel’s security, the Turkish government had protested at the American attempts to sponsor an independent Kurdistan. That all changed in December of 1990, when the Iraqi Army suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Peshmerga in the Battle of Kirkuk. The degraded Iraqi military began to suffer from morale issues, something that the Kurdish Peshmerga had exploited to the maximum, as Kurdish and Arab Shia conscripts within the Iraqi Army began to desert. The Arab Shia conscripts fled into the Basra IAJ, and the Kurdish conscripts had switched sides to the Peshmerga. Iranian Kurdish forces based in Iraq had staged cross border raids on Iranian military positions, while Turkish Kurds continued their campaign, and had even sent volunteers to fight in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to fight alongside the Armenian military. Ironically, the Kurdish forces there had helped their Armenian and Serbian mercenary counterparts in committing various atrocities and other human rights violations, including torture, looting and even rape as well. Moreover, the Kurds were mostly focused on fighting the Azeris, seeing them as rivals for regional influence, even if the Kurds did not have a state of their own. The Kurdish rebellions in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey had not only threatened to destabilize the entire Middle East, but the United States had threatened to intervene if the conflict was not resolved, to no one’s surprise. Worse was to come for Iraq, in June of 1991, when the Iranian-sponsored Basra IAJ National Guard had begun to launch an attack on the town of As Sulayb, catching the already depleted Iraqi garrison there by surprise. When the Basra IAJ National Guard had taken the town, they changed their name to the Iraqi National Liberation Army, as their open sponsorship by Iran was evident enough for the Dole Administration to place economic sanctions on Iran that was as tough as the later sanctions that devastated the Philippines under the Artemio Tadiar dictatorship. Pro-Khomeini propaganda broadcasts launched by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had constantly blared throughout the Shia-dominated Iraqi southeast, and the Shia uprising there had threatened the grip on power that Saddam held over the country. By November 21, 1991, Saddam’s already unstable dictatorship had reached a breaking point as more lands in the north had been taken over by the Kurdish Peshmerga, and the entirety of Maysan Governorate had fallen to the pro-Iranian INLA forces. Saddam was already aware of America’s distraction, with the ongoing war in Nicaragua, where there is no sign of victory for the US forces already stuck in yet another jungle war on a similar scale to the Vietnam War, that he gambled on what would become his most dangerous gamble ever: he would launch an invasion of Kuwait, to encircle the Basra IAJ.”

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“That stupid buffoon! Even after we specifically warned him not to attack Kuwait, the idiot still did it anyways! I can understand wanting to retake the entirety of the Basra Governorate, but this? The invasion will bring in enough nations to stop this madness, and the best part is that we will not have to clean up his mess. Even the loyalists are fed up with his erratic behavior, and I would not be surprised if Saddam ends up being overthrown by a disgruntled general after his adventure in Kuwait blows up in his face. Thanks to Saddam, I think we may have seen a much more assertive Iran, which may or may not be good for us in the long run, as they too, have a vested interest in the Caucasus.” Alexander Lebed, in his reaction to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait.

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“From 1990 onwards, until the end of the Dole Administration, President Dole spend most of his time on damage control from the Loma Prieta Earthquake and Hurricane Andrew, although the conflict in Nicaragua had started to resemble the same bleak pessimism that the American people had felt during the Vietnam War. While the Vietnam War generation had the Tet Offensive, the Nicaragua War generation had the Siege of Chinandega, where American air power had flattened the city, without any mercy. This event would be constantly used by the Chinese communist government as their justification for their ruthless bombing of Vietnam and the Philippines during the South China Sea conflict. American air power had complemented the Contras’ ground offensive into the city, although US Marines and regular Army units had also taken part in the urban conflict that they found themselves into. All in all, the Siege of Chinandega from April 4, 1991, until May 8, 1991, would result in over 26,000 Nicaraguan forces killed, and an additional 12,000 wounded. The Contras lost around 19,000 men, and the American military would lose over 7,000 troops within that one-month period, a thousand more than the US soldiers killed on Iwo Jima. What did the US gained from the war in Nicaragua, other than an excuse over the need to overthrow their equally immoral communist regime there? Nothing, except for more anti-war, and anti-military sentiment on part of the American public. It was in the Nicaragua War that a prominent US Marine Corps general would learn from his bitter experience in Nicaragua, as well as the lessons he learned while observing the Russian National Redemption Army’s fighting ability in the Second Russian Civil War and apply it to what would become the Van Riper doctrine, named after Paul Van Riper. It was General Van Riper who would rebuild and reform the US Army to be less reliant on insanely expensive military equipment, and more reliant on human factors and human fighting abilities, along with the old ‘less is more’ mentality, emphasizing the simplicity of American military equipment. Surprisingly, he was not targeted for assassination by the military-industrial complex, as his emphasis on ‘less is more’ allowed them to sell their simplified equipment and earn more profits from it.

There was little fanfare during the early stages of the Jesse Jackson administration, other than his campaign promise to pull out the US military from Nicaragua. True to his word, he started to negotiate with the Nicaraguan government for a ceasefire, which they were all too happy to accept. However, there was no peace treaty signed between the two nations, so in effect, the United States and Nicaragua are still technically considered at war with each other. President Jackson also monitored the situation in the Middle East, though foreign policy was not his forte, as he usually left that to Vice President Jerry Brown and his newly appointed National Security Adviser, Madeleine Albright. He was more focused on the domestic front, as his administration continued to support the US’s transition to magnet levitation technology for its rail transport. In March of 1993, President Jackson would meet with his Canadian counterpart, newly elected Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Kim Campbell had elected to not run for re-election, due to the unpopularity of her party, and instead would take a break from politics until 2000), for a negotiation on the deeper integration of the Canadian and American rail networks. A planned meeting with Mexico’s President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was set for next year, but the Chiapas conflict erupted in southern Mexico, and the CIA’s covert mission of smuggling the Filipino and Chilean mercenaries had led to one of the worst human rights crises in the Western Hemisphere, with the Zapatista terrorists being subjected to torture, forced labor, and even mass murder. It was the infamous Massacre of Pichucalco of July 1994, as well as the later discovery of the Cintalpa Mass Grave, where several hundreds of captured Zapatista fighters were ruthlessly massacred, that would force President Jackson to go through the United Nations and impose one of its most devastating economic sanctions on the Philippines and Chile. The Tadiar regime would face economic challenges between 1994 and 1999, even throughout the Chinese bombing campaign, when much of the agricultural farmland of the Philippines would be burnt to the ground by Chinese bombers.” Alex Jones, from “Corporate America’s Dirty Little Secret”, sponsored by The American Cause.

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SYRIA ARRESTS KURDISH SEPARATIST LEADER ABDULLAH OCALAN ON CHARGES OF SEDITION, TURKISH REQUEST FOR EXTRADITION MAY BE GRANTED BY ASSAD GOVERNMENT
The Sun
March 14, 1993



Damascus, SYRIA – The Syrian Government has announced the arrest of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, on charges of sedition and engaging in terrorist activities. The charges of sedition are related to an incident in which he appeared in front of Syrian Kurds and gave a speech on the current conflict in neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, before pledging his allegiance to Jalal Talabani and the Kurdish independence movement. Syrian security services personnel were on the spot to arrest Mr. Ocalan, who now faces the possibility of being extradited to Turkey, where he will face similar charges of sedition, and additional charges of treason and rebellion against the state. If convicted, Mr. Ocalan will face the death penalty.

“The Kurdish rebellion right now is a major concern for our government, and we have cooperated with Turkish authorities in arresting and deporting Mr. Ocalan,” comments Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, in front of Syrian news journalists. “In addition, our security forces are being deployed to Rojava to prevent any Kurdish infiltration from succeeding in setting our country on fire. The Kurdish rebellion occurred because of the Iraqi government’s inability to bring stability to its own territory, and because of its foolhardy war with Iran, which it lost, the government of Saddam Hussein is on the verge of collapse.”

Although Syria was quiet during the Kurdish rebellions, it has also closed its borders with Turkey and Iraq to prevent Kurdish infiltration into the country. However, its continued occupation of Lebanon has forced Israel to turn to the Iraqi Kurds for a controversial proposal that could end badly if done improperly.

“Our envoys have started to negotiate with the Iraqi Kurdistan government on possible actions if Syria were to re-ignite the conflict in the Golan Heights. With the support of the United States, and our own government, we are prepared to divert Syria’s attention to its southern border if the Assad regime thinks about settling the Golan Heights conflict by a force of arms,” warns Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “In addition, we are also watching the situation involving Abdullah Ocalan and we urge both Syria and Turkey to show some restraint on punishing Mr. Ocalan, lest they be responsible for a larger Middle Eastern conflict.”

In response, new Turkish President Suleyman Demirel had denounced the Israeli government’s ‘interference’ in the Ocalan case, insisting that it be treated as an internal matter, despite Syria’s involvement in the arrest of Ocalan. Moreover, the Turkish and Iranian governments had condemned Israel’s superficial support for the Kurdish rebels, seeing its support as a way of fragmenting more Arab nations, as well as breaking Turkey and Iran apart. It was the only time that the Middle East’s geopolitical rivals had unanimously agreed on one issue, which is surprising, considering the traditional rivalries that the two nations had, dating back to the Ottoman-Safavid wars.

“We advise the Israeli government on staying out of the Kurdish conflict. The war with the Kurds is solely the business of Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, and Israel has no interest whatsoever in igniting the fires of war in the Middle East,” says President Suleyman Demirel during a speech in the Turkish parliament. “The business of Abdullah Ocalan is not for Israel to meddle in.”

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LATEST COMMAND AND CONQUER GAME MIRED IN CONTROVERSY, WITH CHINA BANNING THE SALES OF SAID GAME DUE TO ITS DEPICTION OF THE PLA
GamerGroupNews
February 14, 2004



Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA – For the first time in the history of the Command and Conquer franchise, Command and Conquer: Generals game will be banned in China, due to the controversial depictions of the People’s Liberation Army as vicious thugs. In one mission involving China, the player must destroy a GLA base that is recently built in eastern Alash Federal Republic (the fictional name for the merger of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) with a low yield nuclear bomb, but the mission that provoked the Chinese public was the mission to pacify a town in the central Philippines with a Dragon tank (flamethrower tank), by destroying the food distribution centers that feed the town’s population. The inaccurate portrayal of the PLA, in light of the recent Chinese military aggression in the West Philippine Sea conflict, had angered the Chinese public as they hotly defended their government’s actions that it took against Vietnam and the Philippines.

“Not only is the creator of this disgraceful game spitting on the dignity of the Chinese nation, but it is pandering to the crybaby losers of the conflict who cannot recognize that China is their real master,” a Chinese nationalist commented when asked about the game. “Even in victory, our enemies find a way to humiliate us to make sure that we cannot enjoy it.”

Command and Conquer: Generals, and its sequel, Command and Conquer: Generals – A New Dawn, have been developed as a joint project between Petroglyph Games and the Canada-based Relic Entertainment. The original Generals game introduces three factions: the USA, China, and a terrorist organization called the Global Liberation Army, while A New Dawn introduces two more factions in Russia and Europa United. The details of the game were heavily influenced by the popular real time strategy game Starcraft, though one of the main complaints of the game is the lack of naval warfare in it. Each of the five factions, as of A New Dawn, is characterized by the game style of play: the USA is an air power-dependent faction, while China is a firepower-dependent faction, and the GLA is a guerrilla-dependent faction. A New Dawn’s Europa United is a static defense-dependent faction, and Russia is a tech upgrade-dependent faction. Although the game has been released this year, Petroglyph Games and Relic Entertainment has been in contact with Japan’s Sunrise Studios for a cross-Pacific joint collaboration project that will start in three years’ time.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Sorry for the triple post, but this here is an OMAKE that tells us what is happening in the Philippines while the Second Russian Civil War is ongoing. Also, I have decided to post "Rogue Generals" on Sufficient Velocity, in hopes of attractive a larger audience there.

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OMAKE NINE: It’s Less Fun in the Philippines



PHILIPPINES, AUSTRALIA, TO REACH AN AGREEMENT REGARDING DETAINED ACTIVIST COUPLE, WHILE OTHER DETAINED ANTI-REGIME OPPONENTS ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY
Sydney Herald
February 14, 1993



Manila, PHILIPPINES – The military dictatorship of Artemio Tadiar had reached a provisional agreement today with the Australian government under Prime Minister Paul Keating, regarding the conditional releases of anti-regime activists detained by the junta’s security forces. Among the detained activists were two low-key figures in the newly declared Bicolandia Province, who ran afoul of the Tadiar regime for their ongoing campaign to pressure Brigadier General Tadiar to hold new elections since the former President of the Philippines had elected to go into exile for the second time, along with her children, just three days prior to the agreement made between the two nations. According to the so-called ‘Tadiar-Keating Agreement’, Jesse and Leni Robredo will be among the 1,500 Filipino detainees that will be allowed to leave the country and go into exile, on condition that they would be barred from returning to the Philippines, even after Tadiar’s regime had ended, on pain of death. Although the Australian government had accepted the offer, it soon faced criticism from within its own government, who accuses Prime Minister Keating of appeasing the military dictator.

“We are seeing the same kind of limp wristed behavior that the world saw the last time a democratically elected leader had appeased a dictator, and it did not end well. Why should our government make any kind of deal with a Hitler in the making?” comments Australian Liberal Party member John Hewson during a parliamentary meeting over the details of the deal that Keating had made with Tadiar. “This is the time to put more pressure on the Tadiar regime to behave itself, or it will face more than just diplomatic isolation, unless Mr. Tadiar would like to isolate his country from the world and become a tropical North Korea on the Equator.”

Australia’s Filipino diaspora community had been more vocal in their opposition towards the Tadiar regime than their counterparts in the United States, but it is also one of the most divisive political communities among the ethnic diasporas in Australia, after the Croatian Australian community. The divisiveness also comes from several Filipino Australians who were veterans of the Philippine Civil War that fought on the side of former President Ferdinand Marcos and Fabian Ver, that have settled in Australia as political refugees fleeing from the murderous authoritarian regime of Artemio Tadiar. Among the pro-Marcos loyalists that have arrived in Australia is Rodolfo Cuenca, known for his financial donations to former President Marcos’s first presidential campaign back in 1965. Cuenca currently resides in Townsville, Queensland, where he has rebuilt his fortunes after his original wealth was confiscated by the former Aquino administration shortly before Tadiar’s coup. However, Cuenca is also facing a potential mob violence from the predominantly pro-Aquino crowd that constitutes most of the Filipino population of Townsville.

“It is disgraceful to see someone who supported the first dictator to live in exile, when his boss was responsible for the brutal years of Martial Law, the death of Ninoy Aquino, and the unintentional rise of Artemio Tadiar!” shouts Ian Bautista after his friends managed to restrain him from physically attacking Mr. Cuenca. “Why did the Marcos loyalistas have to come here then? I do not support Tadiar at all, but I think he was right to kill off all the Marcos loyalistas!”

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Excerpts from “A Nation in Mourning”
By: Arturo Tolentino
Atlas Publishing, published 2002

Chapter Fifteen: The Faustian Bargain


Three years had passed since we did something meaningful that the Philippines had been settled down, and the idea of federalizing the country had gathered steam, if only because Tadiar wanted to install junior officers who could be taught how to govern a territory in preparation for their promotion within the Council for National Sovereignty. I can easily tell that this kind of regional competition among the junior aspiring officers will end badly. Moreover, the civil war in the Soviet Union that is worse than the civil war we had here captured the attention of the international media, making it easier for Tadiar to proceed slowly with gradually reforming the Philippines while building more concentration camps to hold his left-wing opponents. However, the situation involving the supplies and weaponry had become so bleak, even the foreign suppliers of the NPA had started to cut down their shipments of arms to the New People’s Army, lest those weapons be taken from them and used by our own troops. Malaysia still provided backing for the rival Muslim secessionist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, through intelligence agents and covert smuggling of weapons, until a group of unidentified men and women in suits had showed up in Kabankalan on one normal day in March of 1993. This was at a time when the ongoing battle in Chernobyl had been taking place.

“How can I help you?” I asked one of the visitors who came here to Tadiar’s now-permanent headquarters in Kabankalan.

One of the agents smiled back as she took off her glasses. “Hi there.” She waved. “I am Fawn Hall, and I work for Oliver North. Is Mr. Tadiar available?”

Thankfully, the newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Aromin arrived and showed them the way in. I wanted to get back to my work in my office, but Lt. Col. Aromin beckoned for me to follow him. We went through the hallway and into Tadiar’s office, where Lt. Col. Doromal and another pair of newcomers to the inner circle named Jovito Palparan and Nicanor Faeldon had engaged in a conversation that I was not interested to hear.

“Ah, Arturo! I am surprised to see you in my office, since you rarely visit!” Tadiar beamed at me. He turned to Aromin and his facial expression changed. “Merong pa akong mag-bisita?”

“Yes, Chief. Sampung taong puti nagkadating dito sa Kabankalan, pero hindi ko alam bakit nagkabisita silang lahat ngayon,” Lt. Col. Aromin answered back. He showed the visitors in and Tadiar immediately shook hands with the man we later learned was Oliver North.

“Good afternoon, general. I think I talked to Lt. Col. Aromin on the phone a couple of years ago,” Oliver North said as his colleagues also joined him. “Ever since President Jackson had become president, our activities are coming under intense scrutiny. At least President Dole had the practicality and the pragmatism to show support for his allies. Now, there is talk of a second American rapprochement with China, considering the civil war in the Soviet Union. If we had enough of our people in the Jackson administration, then we could get legal cover for shipping more military aid to the Philippines through a third party.”

Fawn Hall nodded in agreement. “With great difficulty, we also managed to talk to President Prabowo Subianto in Indonesia, and he has agreed to cooperate with us, considering that Indonesia is also on China’s target list as well.” She handed Tadiar a foldier, which he opened and read its contents. “The insurgency in Mindanao is also a perfect opportunity for us to help you get back at Malaysia for trying to destabilize the Philippines.”

“And how can we accomplish that? If you had noticed, I do not think President Subianto is eager to re-enact the Konfrontasi*, given that he is now changing his tactics to a subtle change in Malaysia’s mindset. Perhaps if you can help him destabilize Malaysia, we can also get some additional territory that even former President Marcos had failed to achieve, and that is Sabah,” Tadiar explained as he closed the folder and handed it to Lt. Col. Doromal. “No, we need to be prepared for a possible attack by China. Unfortunately, the communist insurgency is still ongoing, and thanks to the arms embargo, and now, the economic sanctions, we will run out of money. Money that we need to spend on weapons that can defeat the communist insurgency, and money that we need to spend on feeding our people. Already, I have to resort to deploying riot police to stop the protests from breaking out.”

A third agent nodded, though he had a sad look. “I see what you mean. At least you have the boys from Chile helping your government with the military reforms.”

“Yes, the Chileans are helpful to us.” Tadiar opened a cabinet and gave Oliver North the letter he received from the Mexican ambassador to the Philippines, who is currently residing in Manila. “The Mexican government is worried about a possible insurgency in one of its provinces. The ambassador here has learned of my interactions with Chilean officers and has relayed a message from President de Gortari, giving us a heads up on if the Mexican government will ask us and General Pinochet for help, although President Aylwin has also been rather distant from some of the officers. I think that if Aylwin has decided to talk to President Jackson, we need to be in a position to depose the foolish idiot and replace him with someone of Pinochet’s caliber.”

Robert McFarlane chuckled. “So, are you suggesting that we do the same thing to Aylwin that our Cowboy rivals had done to former President Allende?”

“Yes, and I will even send some help as my personal repayment to the Chileans for helping us reform our military,” Tadiar replied in a pleasant tone, although I could not blame Patricio Aylwin if he fears the potential resurgence of the junta in Chile. “As for the Mexican government, surely we can create some internal chaos there to our advantage?”

Oliver North closed his eyes for a moment to think, but Fawn started to look around the office to see if there was someone who could be recording our conversation. Luckily, there was no bugging device present inside.

“I think if we can get in touch with certain Mexican generals, and Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro Escapite, we could create a similar climate to 1973 Chile, and depose whoever emerges as the dangerous obstacle to our goals. Mexico’s Dirty War can be used to our advantage, and we could even convince our moles within the Department of Defense to convince President Jackson to send a few tanks to Mexico for their troubles down there. The M551s could be a good fit, and we can also ship out a few M60 Pattons to the Mexicans as well. Of course, we will gladly ship out the chassis of the M60 Pattons to your government for research purposes,” Robert McFarlane suggested. Tadiar nodded in agreement and he shook their hands. “I think that our business here is finished for now.”

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SPAIN’S ROYAL FAMILY TO VISIT PHILIPPINES AMIDST GROWING TENSIONS IN SE ASIA, DELEGATION FROM THE SPANISH FALANGIST MOVEMENT AMONG THE VISITORS
Philippine Daily Inquirer
July 15, 1994



Manila, PHILIPPINES – In the first foreign visit by a Head of State to the Philippines since the Marcos dictatorship and the short-lived Aquino presidency, the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, and his wife, Queen Sofia, are set to visit the Philippines, despite criticism from the Jackson administration regarding the publicity that the Tadiar dictatorship is receiving. However, the Spanish government had insisted that the visit would only be symbolic, as they will lay the groundwork for the upcoming 1998 Centennial Celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Philippines’ independence from Spain. The visit by the Spanish Royal Family is also significant, as it is the first time that a Spanish monarch would visit a former colony in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, Spain’s attempt at a diplomatic outreach to the Philippines is also being recommended by the European Continental Association as a way of pushing for further democratization of the Philippines, while still allowing Artemio Tadiar to reform the country in preparation for free elections, in which he could theoretically run for or not.

However, the Spanish Royal Family will have an interesting set of company that will travel with them. Accompanying the Spanish Royal Family are members of the Spanish Foreign Legion that have been recruited to serve as Juan Carlos I’s bodyguards, and a delegation from the Falange Espanola de las JONS (1976), who will also visit the Philippines to study its political structure and to scout for any potential recruit into the Falangist movement. While it is also worth noting that the Philippines did have a local chapter of the Spanish Falangist movement, but its members had quietly dissolved the movement when it became apparent that their properties would be confiscated if they collaborated with the Japanese occupation forces. Still, the possibility of the Tadiar regime’s potential alliance with radical far-right movements that might be even more radical than his dictatorship is something to fear, even within the members of the Council for National Salvation.

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AN UNDESIRABLE REFUGEE: Tales of a Former Philippine Civil War Veteran Who Fought for the Marcos Regime
Time Magazine
August 23, 2017



Life in Madrid, Spain is far from perfect for 50-year-old Filipino Civil War veteran Mariano Liban, but for someone who was in the military when the civil war broke out, his life after the civil war was rather unstable. Unlike the veterans who fought for the Aquino administration that were driven into exile by the emerging Artemio Tadiar-led dictatorship, Liban was one of the few Filipino Civil War soldiers who fought on the side of former President Ferdinand Marcos. A surprising revelation, considering that most Western countries refused to take in former veterans of the Filipino Civil War who fought for the Marcos regime, preferring those veterans who fought for the Aquino administration. Surprisingly, Australia, Japan, Spain, and Mexico started to accept pro-Marcos veterans as refugees after 1994, while Russia would not follow suit until 2003, when demand for temporary foreign workers in the Priamurye Krai resulted in the intake of 3,400 Overseas Filipino Workers that were accepted by the Russian government, although in most cases, the OFWs usually try to defect to Russia instead of going back. However, Filipinos who fought for the Marcos regime that ended up in Spain, that was a rather different kind of tale.

“I was not married at the time of the civil war, so I had little incentive to get married and settle down once I fled from the Philippines. Even if Tadiar had improved the lives of Ilocanos by resettling them in Nueva Ecija from Mindanao, I cannot deny the stark reality that Tadiar had little tolerance for Marcos loyalists,” Liban explained while sipping his coffee at a café owned by a Filipino émigré businessman who built his business in the Spanish capital. “I applied for political asylum in every embassy I can think of in Manila. Not a single acceptance letter was given to me, since they made it clear that being a fighter for the previous regime was rather undesirable.”

Although there was no official written rule that disqualifies any Filipino Civil War veteran from being accepted as a political refugee in any country that he or she applies for political asylum, the potential fallout from such an act has discouraged the Western nations from accepting pro-Marcos veterans. That only leaves the four nations mentioned above as the possible destinations for pro-Marcos veterans until 2001 when Argentina began to accept pro-Marcos veterans, and 2003 when Russia began to request for temporary foreign workers to fill in jobs that the Russians are hesitant to work in, due to their overqualification or their current military service (as Russia still retains the policy of conscription until 2006 when they abolished it, with the intention of transitioning the military to an all-volunteer organization). Most of Liban’s family were killed by the Tadiar regime for their connections to the underground anti-Tadiar, pro-Marcos organization ‘Bagong Lipunan’.

“My father did not like Artemio Tadiar at all, since he saw him as an opportunist. His views on Tadiar hardened further when it was revealed that Tadiar had personally killed Gregorio Honasan with an axe to the neck,” Liban recounted the horrible tale that one of his friends from Laoag had told him while waiting for a connecting flight to Madrid from Macao to arrive. “This was way before the Spanish King’s visit to the Philippines.”

The fate of Gregorio Honasan, one of the prominent members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, was revealed in a televised execution when on September 21, 1993, the anniversary of Martial Law, Artemio Tadiar had forced former Brigadier General Honasan to kneel in front of him, with a piece of lumber for his head to relax on as he personally beheaded his one-time rival. However, before Honasan’s execution, confirmed reports of torture were leaked to the international press, revealing just how far did Honasan sustained his injuries while being beaten and electrocuted by Tadiar’s henchmen. The nature of Honasan’s grisly execution had convinced the world of Tadiar’s growing ruthlessness, which played a key role in Jesse Jackson’s reluctant decision to not activate the 1951 RP-US Mutual Defense Treaty. Liban was already in Spain as a political refugee with a permanent residency status when the Chinese bombing of the Philippines had started.

“I knew Tadiar would eventually screw up in his dealings with the Chinese, but to see my own country being bombed to bits by the Chinese, must have made me grieve for those poor souls because of Tadiar’s idiotic behavior. However, even he came close to getting killed when an airstrike had incapacitated him for one month, and then after he recovered from the ordeal, that is when the real insanity began.” Liban sighed. “That was when Nicanor Faeldon became a household name in the Philippines, but here in Spain, he is also famous too.”

Nicanor Faeldon’s visit to Spain as a part of the Philippine delegation on behalf of the Tadiar regime was a desperate ploy to reach out to other nations to obtain humanitarian aid. However, Faeldon’s stay in Spain was anything but a desperate campaign for humanitarian aid.

“I was working as a mechanic for a logistics company in Madrid when Faeldon visited Spain. He was invited to study by the Falange Espanola de las JONS movement to observe the Falangist ideology. I guess whoever was visiting the Philippines thought that it was a good idea to invite someone like Nicanor Faeldon to Spain, to study the Spanish fascist ideology. I did not care much for him, to be honest.” Liban recalls the time when he came face to face with Faeldon himself. “I did not realize it back then, but I should have now. Faeldon was going to become more politically dangerous than Tadiar himself. He is the one that is organizing these so-called patriotic rallies in the Philippines. I watched one of the rallies on TV.”

Between 1995 and 2000, Liban worked his way up as a mechanic, eventually saving enough money to put himself through school to become an automotive engineer. After graduating from Universidad de Valladolid with a Master’s in Automotive Engineering, Liban was hired by the Spanish coachbuilder company, Beulas, as an engineering consultant. His salary of over 78,000 ECA Ducats seems to have made him a decently wealthy middle-class man, though his prospects for romance had always dimmed to the point where his Spanish colleagues would tease him for his workaholic behavior.

“I distinctly remember hearing Ramon telling me that I am already married to my job, and that it is impossible for me to get a divorce from my work,” Liban laughs lightly, but a surprise was waiting for us, in the form of a beautiful woman that we later learned was his wife. “You see, I met Catalina through Ramon, ironically speaking.”

Mariano Liban’s first meeting with the woman who eventually became his wife was at a corporate gathering when Catalina Turrillo was still a young, 30-year-old accountant working for an accounting firm in Valencia, Spain, and was at the gathering as a special guest of Ramon Turrillo, who worked in the top executive position. It was at Ramon’s suggestion that Mariano and Catalina should meet to see if they can be great friends.

“I still have Ramon to thank for introducing me to his sister. I guess this is his way of integrating me into Spanish society. Like all the Filipinos who moved to Spain, they became the backbone of the Spanish economy. It also helped that a lot of us wanted to learn the Spanish language, as it was the same kind of language that Jose Rizal spoke and wrote when he was writing Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo,” Liban said as he and Catalina Liban nee Turrillo looked at their wedding photos. “Still, I thought of the Philippines as the home that I left, and Spain as the home that I accepted.”

However, 2016 was going to be the year that all Filipinos would dramatically experience like no other, as Artemio Tadiar had stepped down from his position as leader of the junta, and the rise of Loren Legarda as the first post-junta President. Mariano and Catalina, along with their five children, were going to visit the Philippines for the first time. Luckily, President Legarda would rescind the ban on the Filipino exiles as she would invite them to come back home from their place of exile.

“This is something that I would definitely treasure for our children, and grandchildren,” says Catalina Turrillo as she holds her husband’s hand. “To see the land where my husband came from, and a bit of the history that our countries shared.”

It is expected that Mariano Liban would not go back to the Philippines, as he now considers Spain his home. Yet, in a surprising twist, President Legarda’s famous ‘Foreign Direct Investment – It’s More Profitable in the Philippines’ speech in a television had, would result in the Libans’ invitation by President Legarda to set up an automotive plant in Ilocandia Province, in the city of Laoag, where Beulas will build its first plant. Moreover, Ramon Turrillo had been promoted to Regional Manager of Beulas Filipinas, a new sub-company of Beulas, and will be working from his new office in Kabankalan.

“It has come to full circle then. Mariano is driven from exile in the Philippines, arrives in Spain to work hard and integrate into our society, meets and falls in love with Catalina, and then, our work takes us back to the Philippines,” says Ramon Turrillo while walking along the old streets of Vigan. “I am also surprised that the Filipinos here have preserved much of the old colonial buildings here. It is not something you see in other parts of the world. The thing is, we have come to appreciate the finer things in life that may not seem to be appreciated at first, but eventually, we get used to it.”

[kyuzoaoi]

So CNC Generals Zero Hour becomes ROTR?

[TheRomanSlayer]

Basically, yes, but throw in End of Days mod as well.

[kyuzoaoi]

Basically Colors:

USA Blue
China Orange
GLA Green
Russia Red
Europe Yellow

[TheRomanSlayer]

I would say China Red, Russia Purple.

[gillan1220]

A bit of question, with Jesse Jackson being the first African-American President, wouldn't there be an equivalent of birther conspiracy theories similar to Obama in 2008? I remember Baby Boomers on the internet would share conspiracy videos of Obama being not born in the U.S., a foreign agent, head of a shadow government, the Anti-Christ, a reptilian communist, and what other craziness out there. If Jackson gets hounded by his opponents like that, then we'd see the rise of the far-right/alt-right way earlier in this timeline.