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Post by gillan1220 on Oct 8, 2024 13:36:51 GMT
So the Klan has found new willing recruits in South Africa. BTW, how would people like Prigozhin would do in this timeline? The Klan would be natural allies of the Afrikaner ultranationalists, due to their anti -black hatred. It's also hinted that the Klan would also find new allies in the post-communist Eastern European nations. There's already an analogue to Wagner Group. It's actually called Terminal, but don't be surprised if there's a Chinese equivalent called PMC Compass Group. The Klan would have a lot of Afrikaners and Rhodesian vets to join in. I don't see how the butterflies would make Prigozhin still not become a PMC. He's probably the leader of Terminal. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 8, 2024 17:21:47 GMT
So the Klan has found new willing recruits in South Africa. BTW, how would people like Prigozhin would do in this timeline? The Klan would be natural allies of the Afrikaner ultranationalists, due to their anti -black hatred. It's also hinted that the Klan would also find new allies in the post-communist Eastern European nations. There's already an analogue to Wagner Group. It's actually called Terminal, but don't be surprised if there's a Chinese equivalent called PMC Compass Group. The Klan would have a lot of Afrikaners and Rhodesian vets to join in. I don't see how the butterflies would make Prigozhin still not become a PMC. He's probably the leader of Terminal. Andrei Balitskiy is the leader of Terminal ITTL, though I would find something for Prigozhin. Maybe he becomes the Russian Gordon Ramsay. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 16, 2024 4:46:56 GMT
CHAPTER FORTY SIX: THE SECOND RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR PART ELEVEN - CALM
SOVIET FORCES SUCCESSFULLY REPEL ANOTHER MUJAHIDEEN ATTEMPT AT INVADING SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA IN TURKMEN BORDER TOWN
Vancouver Sun
September 4, 1991
(Serhetabat, TURKMEN SSR) - Soviet forces in Central Asia under the command of General Igor Rodionov had managed to repel another Mujahideen attempt at invading the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union by holding the defense of the Turkmen border town of Serhetabat. According to Soviet military officials who spoke to both local and foreign journalists, the strategic border town of Serhetabat was targeted by the Mujahideen for its gateway into the rest of the oil rich Soviet republic. Yet, the Turkmen population, who have been indoctrinated for decades on the ideology of communism and state atheism, might prove to be tough to indoctrinate into the Islamist ideology of modern jihad. At the same time, other Mujahideen forces were now stuck inside their occupied territory of the Uzbek SSR, as other Soviet forces of the Turkestan Military District have been deployed to drive the jihadists out of the area. Unlike the Soviet forces fighting the separatists in its western republiccs, the Soviet forces stationed in all of Central Asia have also gained cooperation from the crumbling Afghan communist regime, which is now facing imminent collapse in the face of violent jihadist opposition. However, the Tajik SSR, which had emerged as another potential hot spot in the Second Russian Civil War, is teetering on the edge of a civil war of its own, as the anti-communist opposition group had coalesced around an emerging Islamist movement called the Islamic Renaissance Party of the Tajik SSR. It was this opposition movement that eventually turned to the invading Mujahideen forces that have also taken control of the autonomous Gorno-Badakshan province of the Tajik SSR, prompting the Soviet forces there to launch airstrikes around the established training camps that were formed by the Mujahideen.
"With the help of Allah Almighty, we shall free our country from the grip of the atheists and the Russian imperialists who have kept our people under their boots for too long," says Said Abdulloh Nuri, who addressed a large crowd of Tajik opposition activists that have come out for a rally in the small town of Kulob. "The time has come for us to wage jihad against the Soviet government, and with the aid of our brothers in the faith, we shall soon liberate all of Turkestan and the other regions of the Soviet Union and unite them under the banner of Islam!"
Soviet loyalist forces inside the Tajik SSR have responded by forming a paramilitary force that would be tasked with fighting the emerging forces loyal to the United Tajik Opposition called the Tajik Territorial Guards, in the same vein as Lebanon's socialist-aligned Popular Guards. Though it consists of Soviet border guards, KGB agents, and recently demobilized Tajik conscripts who left the Soviet Army, much of the officer corps of the Tajik Territorial Guards were overwhelmingly Russian, though efforts at promoting Tajik and other Central Asian officers into higher ranks have already been made. Additionally, the Soviet Air Force had also patrolled the areas bordering both Afghanistan and China, and there were also emergency meetings between high ranking Soviet and Chinese intelligence officers on the growing jihadist threat to their national security. Most significantly, the People's Liberation Army Air Force had participated in a live airstrike against jihadist training camps close to the border with Xinjiang SAR in the town of Markansu.
"The Mujahideen fighters that have invaded the southern underbelly of the Soviet Union has proven to the world that they are not invincible, and that they can be broken apart," says infamous American neo-conservative Zbigniew Brzezinski, during an interview with a local journalist. "We are on the verge of a new world order, and if we can take advantage of the chaos that is unfolding in the Soviet Union, we can take in those Soviet republics that are willing to do business with us. It is a matter of whether America has the stomach to do what needs to be done, and to permanently destroy our rivals so they will never again challenge us, because not only the American people will support the march of freedom for those peoples who are still living under the jackboot of Russian imperialism, but God is with us too!"
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Disclaimer: The slurs used in this segment is only meant to reflect the character saying it, and I don't mean to use it to demonize anyone.
LVIV, BREAKAWAY REPUBLIC OF UKRAINE
SEPTEMBER 11, 1991
The atmosphere inside the heavily targeted city of Lviv in what has become the breakaway Ukrainian Republic has not fazed 54 year old Ramon Montano and the newly appointed Philippine Ambassador to Ukraine, 44 year old Norberto Gonzales. They were used to this kind of chaos, as they saw first hand of the same thing when they fought during the Filipino Civil War on the side of Artemio Tadiar's renegade Marines. Since Tadiar's rise to power, the 54 year old former Philippine Constabulary chief had found himself being promoted to the new Director of National Intelligence and Security by Tadiar himself. Likewise, his colleague had found himself developing his career in diplomacy, having been taken under the wing of Foreign Minister Arturo Tolentino. Now that he was being given a new post in what is essentially a breakaway entity fighting against the Soviet government, Gonzales felt confident that he wasn't going to screw this up.
The two Filipino representatives sat down on a bench overlooking a grassy part of Lviv's Stryiskyi Park, just in front of a statue to a local hero. They didn't have to wait for long, as three men wearing the uniform of a Soviet Army infantryman that had a camouflage on it, though the Soviet insignia was removed, and the insignia of the Ukrainian Tryzub replaced it. One of the men was wearing what appeared to be a Soviet Army officer's uniform, though again, the Soviet symbols were replaced with Ukrainian ones. Both parties shook hands as the three Ukrainian military figures led their Filipino guests out of the park, and into an undamaged section of Stryiska Street. They arrived at a small coffee shop as the barista showed them a table where they grabbed some chairs and sat down.
"I'm surprised that your government has decided to send the two of you all the way to this war torn country for some odd reason. I assume that your government has decided to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union?" one of the men asked Gonzalez. "I'm Colonel Mykhailo Koval, formerly of the Soviet VDV force and am now leading the newly formed DShV, or the Ukrainian paratrooper forces. And you are?"
Ramon was the first one to speak. "I'm Ramon Montano, the newly promoted Director of National Intelligence and Security. I was sent here on behalf of General Artemio Tadiar to coordinate intelligence gathering for the purpose of establishing further diplomatic relations between our two countries."
"Really? Up until your presence here, we barely knew anything about your country other than it had violently overthrown a dictator, descended into a civil war, and your current leader has overthrown his predecessor, whom I heard, was only elected because of who her husband was," said Koval with a sarcastic tone. He shook his head in disappointment. "I knew that the Sovoks are lying in their propaganda, but at least they should have tried to embellish a bit of the truth in their lies."
"Colonel, I've been appointed by General Tadiar as the first Ambassador to Ukraine on behalf of the Philippines. We're here to ensure that our diplomatic ties are well established, and in case that our country were to start isolating itself from the international community, we would at least have a few hidden channels that we can use to reach out," said Gonzalez as he presented a small folder containing his diplomatic credentials. Another man grabbed the folder and looked at it.
Just then, one of the other baristas approached them with a tray of coffee and snacks as Koval paid for the drinks with the Soviet ruble. The barista simply took the payment and the five men began to sip their coffee.
"Mr. Gonzalez, just how does your country plan to help us in our war against the Soviet Union? Many of your people in the diaspora have fled from your country because of your current leader, and they'd be more liable to join the communists rather than help their hosts defend their adopted homeland," said Colonel Viktor Muzhenko after he placed his cup of coffee on the table. "I understand that your military capabilities are rather limited, as your country is trying to rebuild itself."
"Yes, but at the same time, General Tadiar is also hesitant to send volunteers, as he has recently started to approach General Pinochet's government to help retrain and reform our army along Chilean lines. If you wish, I can ask him to send a message to Santiago to help request for Chilean officers to train your military," Gonzalez proposed, but Koval shook his head.
"Many of our soldiers have fought in Afghanistan, but have deserted their posts in the Soviet Army to join us for our war of independence. The Chileans have not fought a major conflict in centuries," Koval pointed out. "Although it would have been awkward if your general were to invite us to help retrain his army, as we're planning to move away from the Soviet military doctrine, with an eventual goal of reforming our army along NATO lines."
The two guests could not find any fault in Koval's argument there. While it was true that the Chileans have not fought a major war in such a long time, the Chileans could easily modify their own training methods for any other nation that wanted to reform their militaries on their model. It is also true that much of the Ukrainian forces fighting against the Soviet Army were also combat veterans from their ill fated adventure in Afghanistan, but the skills they've learned from the Afghan conflict was now being applied to fight against their former comrades who remained loyal to the Soviet government.
Just then, an air raid siren blared loudly as the two guests were shuttled out of the cafe by their three hosts, only to see several missiles strike various targets within Lviv. Koval and Muzhenko pointed at a parked BTR-80 in Ukrainian insignia and colors, prompting all of the men present to get inside the APC. The driver realized wat was going on, and promptly began to drive.
"It's bad timing, sir," the BTR-80 driver said as he tried his best to dodge the incoming missiles that continued to strike its target. "Damned Sovoks have started to launch their Tochkas into the air. I'm not sure what their targets are."
Koval grumbled. "They're probably targeting innocent civilians as usual."
"Sir, look!" another BTR-80 crew member said as the APC stopped. Gonzalez and Montano stepped out of the APC, much to the protest of their Ukrainian hosts. However, the protests died when three Tochka missiles had struck a large church, much to their horror. "Those damned Sovoks have done it now."
"What happened?" Montano asked, his shock still present in his voice.
Koval shuddered, before gritting his teeth. "St. George's Cathedral, the magnificent Greek Catholic Church in this city, has been targeted and destroyed. Damn those Sovoks, and damn the vatniks as well! The international community won't stand for this barbarity!"
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POLISH GOVERNMENT CONTEMPLATES MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SOVIET BREAKAWAY REPUBLICS AS FEARS OF CIVIL WAR MAY ESCALATE INTO WIDER CONFLICT
The Sun
September 15, 1991
(Warsaw, POLAND) - The Polish government under its new leader Lech Walesa has convened an emergency meeting with his top military and intelligence officials in the wake of a recent Soviet missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Lviv. The Soviet missile attack had not only targeted various military positions within Ukraine's second largest city, but it also struck the famous St. George Cathedral, one of Ukraine's most famous Greek Catholic Churches in the country. The international community has condemned the attack on the church building, with the Vatican issuing its harshest condemnation of the Soviet attack. However, the Soviet government has ignored the criticisms from the international community, and has even threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons on the breakaway republics unless they surrender to the Soviet government, which was already a non-starter. As a result, the Polish government has started to contemplate on the possible deployment of its military to the Lithuanian and Ukrainian breakaway republics. To make matters more complicated, the Polish Air Force has increased its patrols over its airspace to ensure that no Soviet missile or aircraft would stray into Polish airspace.
"The Soviet government and the Russian imperialists are basically one and the same. It is too bad that we didn't exterminate the Muscovites when we occupied them back in 1612," says an unnamed Polish nationalist volunteer who was stationed in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda as a part of the foreign volunteers fighting against the Soviet government. "We now have a chance to destroy this communist monstrosity, and to fulfill our dreams of a united, White Europe."
The presence of far-right volunteers appearing in the Soviet breakaway republics had become a major source of controversy for the Polish government, who has apparently allowed those volunteers to arrive inside Polish soil before their entry into the Soviet breakaway republics. Yet, only a month ago, an anonymous source had been responsible for leaking the contents of a conversation between former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and notorious former Grand Master of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, discussing about recruiting enough Klansmen as volunteers to fight in the Soviet Union. However, David Duke had also gotten himself in an earlier controversy back in 1990 when it was revealed that he had been in a meeting with an Afrikaner ultranationalist named Eugene Terreblanche, who founded and is currently leading the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or the AWB, on a similar proposal to the one that he had presented to Brzezinski. However, the proposal discussed between Duke and Terreblanche was mainly focused on sending both Klansmen and American Neo-Nazi volunteers to South Africa to help prop up the emerging Afrikaner Volkstaat in the face of the growing ethnic violence that has plagued South Africa. With the KKK becoming a horrifying minor turned major player on the international global arena, it is not without a major concern that far-right politics would become the norm in the post-cold war period.
"It horrifies me that elements of American society that have had a long history of racism would actually export their bastardized kind of backwards mentality to South Africa and the Soviet Union. It won't take long until those extremist volunteers who fought in those areas would come back, and start ethnically cleansing the South of Black Americans whose ancestors arrived in America on slave ships," says American President Jesse Jackson when asked by a Canadian journalist on the rise of neo-fascist movements in the West. "It's also troubling when certain American politicians are caught talking to those extremist figures and are not afraid to display their bigotry for the world to see."
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"Just as David Duke was dragged by Brzezinski into the Second Russian Civil War with the plan to recruit thousands of KKK members and neo-Nazis to fight the Soviet government, Brzezinski himself now found himself being dragged by the former Klansman into a violent civil war in South Africa, as the infamous neocon now had to approach the Eastern European veterans who fought the Soviets in that civil war for an opportunity to fight the South African government on the side of the white separatist enclave called the Volkstaat. It was largely thanks to the worsening situation in South Africa, with the Bantustans eager to declare their independence from the central government that the white minority found themselves wanting to declare their own independence as well. The African National Congress, now being usurped by a radical left-wing faction called the Pan Africanist Congress, which was itself a breakaway faction of the ANC, had effectively taken over the struggle for African liberation from what they saw as white minority rule. The Azanian People's Liberation Army had also become the dominant militant force within the black majority parts of South Africa, as their terror campaign increased with attacks on white-owned farms and targeted killings of White South Africans. In addition to the expulsion of the white minority from Zimbabwe and their resettlement in the Volkstaat, a large number of refugees fleeing from the crumbling Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc would also arrive in the Volkstaat in significant numbers, with Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, anti-communist Belarusians opposed to their government, and Ukrainians, being the majority of the refugees. The Volkstaat saw its numbers increase to the point where the Afrikaner-controlled Volkstaat government had to spend much of its scarce resources on teaching the refugees the Afrikaner language and customs, but in return the Afrikaners also learned about the strategies that the refugees learned from when they lived in the Soviet Union. On November 22, 1991, the Volkstaat was formally declared, with Springbok as its interim capital until a suitable location could be found. Within a few weeks, the Weermag, or the Afrikaner imitation of the WWII era German Wehrmacht, had launched an offensive towards the Cape Province, with the sole intention of capturing it. However, while the Volkstaat clearly wanted to get rid of all the Coloureds, or the mixed race Griqua people whose ancestors were primarily Dutch colonists who intermarried with local African women from the tribes that inhabited the area, they realized that outright killing them would be more detrimental than beneficial. Thus, the Afrikaner Weermag would establish a new homeland for the Coloureds, called Griqualand. Not only would this new homeland be populated entirely by the Griqua and other Coloured peoples, but it would also serve as a buffer zone between the Volkstaat and the other Bantustans that were formed during the apartheid era.
The unusual relationship between the Volkstaat and the Griqua peoples was rather controversial: the Griqua peoples had been viewed by the radical Azanian People's Liberation Army as bastards born of racial miscegenation, while at the same time they were detested by the equally radical Afrikaner nationalists for the same reason. At the same time though, the African National Congress saw the potential of winning over the Griqua peoples to their cause, to the point where several of the ANC delegates were sent to meet with the representatives of the Griqua people. However, the cultural customs of the Griqua people and their fluency in Afrikaans had made them well suited to talk to the Afrikaners who dominate the Volkstaat, which only compounded the contempt for them from the other peoples that inhabit the entirety of South Africa. In this case, the Coloureds eventually had to gravitate towards each other in the newly established nation of Griqualand, which was soon flooded with the other Coloureds that were subjected to forced relocations while the same Volkstaat extremists were coercing the other White South Africans living outside the Volkstaat to move into the Volkstaat. The inter-migration of the South African peoples had started to resemble the 1947 inter-migration of the peoples that inhabited the crumbling British Raj, which eventually became modern day Pakistan, India, and eventually, Bangladesh. At the same time however, the peoples living in the Bantustans that are not of the same ethnicity as the titular peoples whose name was lent to the name of the Bantustan nations were also subjected to acts of ethnic cleansing that would be surpassed by the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis. The nation of KwaZulu for instance, had participated in the ethnic cleansing of non-Zulu minorities between December of 1991 and August of 1993, in what was the worst acts of ethnic violence perpetrated in the African continent. Before the 2000-2005 Volkstaat War of Expansion, the Volkstaat's white population in 1991 was only around 8%, and were scattered throughout South Africa. With the arrival of the Eastern European refugees plus the other whites that had to flee from Namibia, Zimbabwe, and other parts of Africa that were once ruled by the British, their population eventually grew by 13%. By 2000, on the eve of that war of expansion, the Volkstaat's population was approximately 12 million, which also included not only the refugees fleeing from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, but also Americans from the American South who fought as volunteers in the South African Civil War. The foreign relations of the Volkstaat was however, its greatest weakness, as not a lot of nations in the West was willing to risk international condemnation for establishing relations with what appears to be a completely racist state. Even Brzezinski's suggestion that the US should establish diplomatic relations with the Volkstaat was harshly shot down by President Jackson, but President Jack Kemp agreed to the plan and American recognition of the Volkstaat was granted in 1997.
Yet, by 2003, when the Volkstaat War of Expansion had began to turn against the Volkstaat with lessened aid from the West for the Volkstaat, along with an increase in Chinese, Iranian, and Indian military aid to Namibia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Azania, much of the White poppulation would slowly find themselves being expelled from the occupied territories taken by the Afrikaner Weermag, until Griqualand eventually turned against the Volkstaat and launched their own military operation with the aim of expelling the whites from the lands that they would claim as a part of a Greater Griqualand. However, by then, the socialist government under the control of the Pan Africanist Congress had collapsed in the same year that the Volkstaat started to suffer setbacks, and Griqualand, along with the exiled African National Congress, had seized power and arrested the PAC leaders on charges of corruption and terrorism. However, fearing the potential collapse of the Volkstaat as a viable bulwark against the large Chinese, Iranian, and Indian influence in the southern African region through Azania, the Kemp administration would authorize a controversial military operation, codenamed Operation: White Peace, starting with the aerial bombardment of Azanian military positions. Operation: White Peace was not only an American operation, but the US was also joined by Britain, France, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Canada, Australia, and Germany as well. Additionally, White Peace would also be followed by Operation: Second Base, which was a code name for a planned Western Coalition led military intervention against Thai forces in the Pattaya Conflict, but was shelved when Thailand agreed to a Japanese-supported ceasefire agreement. White Peace however, had triggered large scale protests around the world, as the Kemp administration's decision to bomb Azanian military positions and civilian targets had resulted in over 9,000,000 casualties. White Peace also happened around the same time as the Second Korean War, and coupled with the growing casualties sustained from the conflict in the Korean Peninsula, anti-Western sentiment would gradually grow in the Third World.
The Western military intervention in the Volkstaat War of Expansion would enable the Afrikaner Weermag to regain the initiative, and reconquer much of their lost territories. However, the betrayal of the Griqua people would result in one of the most horrifying acts of genocide committed in the 21st century, as mercenaries from PMC Logos would enact a reign of terror against the Griqua and Coloured peoples, resulting in over 300,000 dead Griquas and 2.7 million Coloureds. Not only was the Northern and Western Cape ethnically cleansed of the Coloureds and Cape Coloureds, but when the 2004 Volkstaat Free State Counteroffensive was launched, it was followed by a mass expulsion of the remaining Coloureds from their homes. Many of the Coloureds and Griquas would flee to Iran, Suriname, Argentina, and most unexpectedly, Madagascar. Consequently, the Coloureds would eventually change their ethnicity to Griquas when they settled in other areas of the world, but it was clear that none of the Coloureds and Griquas fled to the West, due to their horrific persecution at the hands of the Afrikaners and other whites that participated in the mass atrocity against them." Alex Jones, from "Brzezinski: The Monster Behind America's Mask', courtesy of TrippWire.
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Portions from the Interview With Former President of the Philippine Government-In-Exile Aquilino Pimentel
Deutsche Welle, released on March 16, 2018
Discussing the Mount Pinatubo Eruptions and the Fate of the Abandoned US Military Bases
Interviewer: While the Soviet Union has received attention for how bloody it is collapsing, the volcanic eruptions in Mount Pinatubo had triggered an evacuation of the American military personnel from their bases. As the bases were far too damaged by the ashes and other toxic fumes, the bases were subsequently abandoned. Yet, even before the self-imposed diplomatic isolation that began in 1996, there were talks within the Tadiar regime on what to do with those abandoned bases. Did he had any concrete plans to begin with?
Pimentel: Well, not really. Tadiar was more concerned with the state of the former US Navy base in Subic Bay, mostly because it had facilities that could be rebuilt and retooled for commercial maritime traffic, and it was in 2002 when two Japanese firms, IHI Corporation and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, acquired the assets around Subic Bay. Keep in mind that even with the 1998 constitution that Tadiar had drafted, he was still weary of allowing foreign corporations to invest directly in the Philippine economy. Thus he allowed the Japanese to invest in secret, but when he died in 2007, the Philippine economy gradually opened up to the world, and that was how Turkey was able to become the second nation in the world to invest directly in the Philippine economy. However, Indonesia remains the biggest recipient of Turkish financial aid in all of SE Asia.
Interviewer: It was not until 2010, when Grace Poe was elected as the first post-junta President that they finally decided on what they'll do to the former Clark Air Base, right?
Pimentel: Correct. They decided to let the Philippine Air Force take control of the former American air base, and to build a new airbase that they would control. In addition, the current President right now, Loren Legarda, was holding talks with both local and foreign investors on turning the former Fort Magsaysay airfield into a new airport, as the revamped ex-American air base now became Victor Osias Airfield. However, the naming of the new airport was the subject of a heated debate.
Interviewer: How so?
Pimentel: Well, the Tadiar loyalist diehards wanted to name the airport the Cabanatuan Mateo Capinpin International Airport, after a Philippine military officer who collaborated with the Japanese. The opposition to the Tadiar loyalists, including a large number of Aquino loyalists and even former Marcos loyalists, wanted to name the airport after Juan Pajota. It didn't take long until they decided to settle on Panteleon Valmonte International Airport. The name surprisingly enough, was popular, as it was associated with a Katipunan general.
Interviewer: I see. With the recent ESTO military threat becoming more dangerous, an expanded airbase in the site of the former US military airbase would make sense. The large presence of the PAF PF-02s, which are basically rebranded Kawasaki JF-02s that the two administrations had purchased from Japan at an affordable price, are also strengthening the defense of the country. However, the shocking news of the sale of former Azanian Air Force's Atlas Cheetah fighter planes to the Philippine Air Force just three weeks ago was nothing short of surprising. Were you also surprised by the announcement?
Pimentel: I was, but I can understand why the Azanian Air Force wanted to replace them with the new fighter planes that they're purchasing from China and Iran. The air force of the infamous Volkstaat had decommissioned their old Atlas Cheetah fighter planes in favor of the Gripen, until the Swedish government faced a backlash over selling their weapons to the Volkstaat that they ended up purchasing only one Gripen for testing purposes. It was not until last year that they introduced a new fighter plane. Their new plane was originally meant to be rolled out in 1991, but the South African Civil War postponed the development. Now, with the financial backing of the United States, the Atlas Carver was finally rolled out, though they had to rename it to Atlas Springbok.
Interviewer: I heard about the development of the Atlas Springbok, which was essentially a Volkstaat derivative of the F/A-18 Hornet. The combat information taken from the Atlas Cheetah, plus the extensive experimental information gathered from the prototype F-22 Raptor, was pivotal in the development of the F-27MI Thunderbolt. However, purchasing those fighter planes was not on the agenda of President Legarda, who instead accepted the purchase of the Atlas Cheetahs.
Pimentel: There is also a logistical issue regarding the plans to purchase the F-27MI Thunderbolt and the Atlas Springbok. Our factories that produce fighter aircraft parts were only geared towards the maintenance of the PF-02s and all the other derivatives. Moreover, when the two Koreas had reunited, the Korean Federal Republican Air Force had inherited the fighter planes of both the former North and South. In addition to the T-50 Golden Eagle that is in active service, the KAI T-51 Silver Goshawk had been a derivative of the Sukhoi Su-27, but although it has been in development since 2015, it hasn't been fully developed yet.
Interviewer: I see. (pauses) Now, going back to the fate of those two former American military bases, there was a major administrative reform back in 2010, just before the elections, regarding the status of a few small towns within the Nueva Ecija Prefecture. It is important, because the municipal government of a town called Santa Rosa, where the new airport is being built, had been approached by the neighboring municipal government of a large city called Cabanatuan. Did the people of Santa Rosa accepted being annexed into what they called the Greater Cabanatuan Metropolitan Area?
Pimentel: I think they did accept it, because the construction of the new airport gave them not only stable jobs, but it also opened the door for more foreign direct investment. This time though, it was the Australian government that invested in the infrastructure that connected the main roads of Santa Rosa and Cabanatuan into the rest of the province. Moreover, it also prompted the Cabanatuan municipal government into doing a major urban renewal that involved the construction of entire new neighborhoods and industrial centers, including shopping malls. What was the most important about that was the role of the Japanese firms in their massive investment. While it was certainly impressive by our standards, the houses that were built were mainly designed to house many of the local residents there. Unfortunately, the massive buy up of land by Japanese entrepreneurs, especially close to the site of the former Cabanatuan POW camp, had angered much of the older generation that lived through the occupation.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 23, 2024 5:18:49 GMT
CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN: THE SECOND RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR PART TWELVE - FRACTURE
"By October of 1991, much of the front lines in the Second Russian Civil War had stabilized, and the conflict had shifted from conventional warfare between the Soviet Army and the pro-independence forces to the conflict between the paramilitary forces that arose in the breakaway republics. In the Baltic breakaway republics, various Russian nationalist militias had arisen, of which a Russian neo-fascist movement called the Pamyat Brigade, of which Dmitry Vasiliev was the nominal head of, though it was Aleksander Barkashov who eventually absorbed the Pamyat Brigade and formed the Russian National Redemption Front. The RNRF had also taken in most of the Russian neo-fascists that have arisen in the wake of the Second Russian Civil War, including the survivors of the Kaliningrad Oblast and Transnistria Expulsions. These paramilitary forces were some of the most brutal paramilitary forces within the Soviet side, although the Soviet government was appalled by the sudden growth of Russian neo-fascism arising in the Baltic border areas. Most importantly, the RNRF openly called for the rehabilitation of all executed former soldiers of Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army and called them heroes. However, in the Belarusian SSR and much of eastern Ukraine, paramilitary forces with National Bolshevik leanings had dominated the battlefields as regular Soviet Army soldiers were being redeployed to the North Caucasian war zones as the Mujahideen had managed to infiltrate the volatile Muslim-majority region, recruiting disillusioned Chechens, Karachays, and many other people into the organization, swelling their ranks. It was from November of 1991 onwards until 1993 that the momentum of the Second Russian Civil War would move towards the North Caucasus region. The Ossetians from North Ossetia, who were the only Christian ethnic group there, were vulnerable to the jihadists' ambition of creating a Caucasus Emirate where only Muslims would be allowed to live, while the non-Muslims would be ethnically cleansed. Tragically, it was by November 23rd of 1991 that the clashes between the North Ossetians and the Chechens who joined the jihadists. It was also the first time that the North Ossetians had suffered a defeat at the hands of the Mujahideen and their Caucasian auxiliaries, which predictably led to a campaign of terror that saw much of Mozdok's Ossetian and Russian civilians gunned down. The Soviet government, realizing the imminent danger that the Mujahideen had posed to its southern regions, now began to send the rest of the army into Stavropol Krai.
In response to the growing threat of the jihadists that established themselves in Chechnya, the Soviet forces opted to form a new paramilitary unit that consisted entirely of Ossetians, with a few Russians, Armenians, Georgians, and shockingly enough, a few Serb volunteers who were exiled from Yugoslavia. This group, called Unit 1859, named after the year which the Caucasian Imamate had been conquered by the Russian Empire, responded in such a brutal manner that it only encouraged more recruits to join the Mujahideen forces. One of the few rare foreign volunteers who joined this group was a former Australian Army soldier named Dragan Vasiljkovic, who had been dishonorably discharged for various crimes committed outside the military. He soon found himself joining Unit 1859, and rose to the rank of Captain. He taught the new recruits the skills that he learned while he worked as an Australian soldier, such as tracking, setting up ambushes, and even worked as a translator for the Soviet government when they're interacting with international press. Unit 1859 however, was also subjected to Soviet KGB oversight, as they were warned that any acts of ethnic cleansing committed by Unit 1859 as a whole would result in their court martial. Not wanting to risk such a dangerous punishment, Vasiljkovic and the rest of Unit 1859 would not only liberate the Pidgorodny district that was the heart of the war between the Ossetians and the Ingush, but they would also launch a punitive invasion of Chechnya. The experiences that Unit 1859 had accumulated had become the backbone of post-Soviet Russia's most feared private military group, the Terminal Defense Group. Initially, the Terminal Defense Group's original founders were Soviet Air Force pilots who helped airlift Unit 1859 members from various airfields, and into the warzones. However, a pilot of a Soviet Tu-22 bomber had barely managed to survive the crash landing in the vicinity of the Chechen town of Sernovodskoye in February of 1992, and would have been captured by the Chechen jihadists if he hadn't been rescued by members of Unit 1859. That pilot was none other than Yevhen Balitskyi, who was seen as the official founder of the Terminal Defense Group." From 'The Death of the Soviet Union Part Four: Jihad'.
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Excerpts from 'Soviet Dis-Union: The 1990-1995 Second Russian Civil War'
by: Boris Kolarov
Seligerskiy Publishing House, released on November 21, 2018
Chapter Four: The De Facto Division of Ukraine
The front lines inside Ukraine had finally stabilized by November of 1991, as Soviet-backed paramilitary forces were being sent to hold the line while regular Soviet Army soldiers were being redeployed to the North Caucasus front. By November 30 however, the important Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhiya had fallen, followed by the sudden rush of reinforcements by other Soviet forces based in Crimea towards the city of Dnipropetrovsk. It was starting to become clear that the Soviet forces fighting in Ukraine are aiming at securing at least all of Kharkov Oblast, much of Sumy Oblast, all of Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts, plus a large chunk of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Zaporizhzhiya Oblast. They're essentially recreating the old Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, though there were already two breakaway states that had been formed long before the plan was being conceived: Priazovye and Chernozyomskoye. Priazovye's capital was declared to be Donetsk, while Chernozyomskoye's capital was Kharkov. The ethnic tensions between Russians and Ukrainians had already boiled over at this point, and expulsions of each other's population had become common occurence. It was also said that the reign of terror inflicted upon the Ukrainian population of the occupied territories had triggered an exodus of refugees that ended up in Central and Western Europe. It was only after the Second Russian Civil War ended in 1995 that the Russian emigre community in Western Europe, North America, and Australia, had begun to experience intense discrimination from the host countries due to their ethnicity. The most famous of the Russian emigre community, the Congress of Russian Americans, was subjected to harrassment and death threats from the other ethnicities belonging to nations that suffered under Russian rule, with Poles being the chief culprits, followed by Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and a few Belarusians linked to the former Belarusian government-in-exile based in Toronto, Canada.
Much of the Russian emigre communities in Western Europe had also been subjected to such discrimination that they soon started to repatriate themselves into the crumbling Soviet Union, despite their ancestors never having Soviet citizenship before. However, the Soviet government under Aleksander Lukashenko had gradually warmed up to the arrival of these Russian emigres who now felt unwelcome in their adopted countries. It was said that between 1995 and 2000, over 6.5 to 7 million ethnic Russians had to leave their adopted countries because of racism and discrimination. Those emigres formed the well known prikhodniki, which meant the returnees, and they had trouble readjusting to living in their ancient homeland. Most of those prikhodniki settled in cities like Petrograd, Moscow, Volgograd, and most especially Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, and Isetgrad. The prikhodniki were subjected to sessions where they had to learn the ways of the new, democratic, post-Soviet Russian way of life. Yet, even after 2000, more prikhodniki repatriations continued onwards, though this time they were being redirected to the Russian-occupied Priazovye and Chernozymoskoye Free States as a way of tilting the ethnic demographics in their favor as Ukrainian refugees are moving to the unoccupied portions of what was left of their homeland. In August of 2004, a few months before the Russo-Ukrainian border war escalated into an actual major war, the two so-called Free States had merged into the reconstituted Donetsk-Krivoy Rog People's Republic, in a blatant violation of the 1995 UN-brokered ceasefire agreement between the Soviet government and the breakaway republics, that forbade the merger of the two rebel entities. Yet, the DKRNR was not even recognized by its major patron, Russia, for fears of triggering another international condemnation. It was only when the DKRNR's so-called border with Ukraine was shelled and the border crossing between Russia's Bryansk Oblast and Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast was attacked, did the Russians finally launch their invasion. It was a Valentine's Day that no one would ever forget, when several Russian missiles struck Ukrainian targets, and the slow advance of over 500,000 Russian troops converging across the border from Russia proper and the DKRNR.
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"The post-Punjab conflict years for India had been some of the most important in its post-colonial history, with the numerous amount of Sikhs now being integrated into India as a result of annexing more of the Punjab provinces that it won from Pakistan. Some of the places that were annexed had included the holiest site of Sikhism, Nankana Sahib, and even the wealthiest city in the formerly Pakistani held Punjab province, Lahore. The post-war reconstruction efforts had now grown into a major campaign of cleaning up India's notoriously dirty cities, as Prime Minister Viashnawath Prathap Singh had now realized that if India was going to be taken seriously as a major power in the future, it had to clean up its image, both domestically and internationally. Looking to the city-state of Singapore as an example, Prime Minister V.P. Singh gradually introduced laws that forbade public defectation in the streets and major rivers, with harsh prison sentences for the offenders caught violating the laws. The introduction of recycling centers for the purpose of turning in empty bottles, jugs, and other reusable items had been pioneered in the city of Kolkata back in 1991, but it didn't catch on until 1999. Free market reforms were gradually introduced, opening India's economy to the world market, and some of the Western corporate firms had began to open up factories on Indian soil. The Chinese New Left's ascension to power between 1991 and 2000 had led to the steady reintroduction of creeping government control of its economy, until Bo Xilai's rise to power allowed the government to once again relinquish its control of the economy when it became apparent that India's economic growth may eventually surpass that of China's. India's advantage in its economic growth only expanded with the Autonomous Republics Act of 2004 and the Indian Federation Act of 2010, which decentralized much of its governmental structure and allowed the Indian provinces and autonomous republics to exercise more autonomy regarding economic affairs. The poorer regions of India were given immediate attention first, as ports of Chennai and Visakhapatnam were often used by international shipping companies to offload their cargo. The southern regions of India were also seen as a vital area in the trade within the Indian Ocean, from East Africa, to SE Asia and western Australia.
In 1992, India had received a surprising visitor from Europe. Heinz Kessler, the infamous former East German general who presided over the infamous 7th Panzer Division mutiny over the former East German Stasi's crackdown on East Berliners' attempt to escape to West Berlin, had arrived in India on the invitation of the Indian government. Apparently, the Indian government had approached Germany for the acquisition of former East German military stocks, which the West Germans were looking to sell in the international market. Although states like Indonesia, Iran, and many others were looking to purchase them, India would purchase 66% of the former East German military stocks, further adding to its own military arsenal as well. However, Kessler was not just looking to offer the Indians equipment. He also offered to help modernize the Indian military along the former East German lines. Yet, the experiences that Kessler obtained from working with the Indian military had been the foundation of one of post-Cold War's most infamous PMCs that doubled as a discount military factory: the Clausewitz Academy. Much attention was given to improving the fitness level of the average Indian military personnel, including added physical strength and endurance, as well as a massive revamping of the Regular Officer Training Program in Indian universities. Academics were also given a huge boost by both V.P. Singh and Vajpayee's government after. Most importantly, the state of Indian education was also reformed, with a slight decrease in the teaching of the English language in favor of increased use of Hindi and regional languages in Indian schools. Hindi-speaking students were now required to learn a second language in primary and secondary schools, and Punjabi and Bengali became the most popular languages taught in all Indian schools, followed by Tamil and Sanskrit. Although India still faced numerous internal and external challenges, it has been supported by most of its population, who now felt confident enough to move forward into the 21st century." From 'India in the Post-Cold War Period', courtesy of Bharat Today, released on August 19, 2017.
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Disclaimer: The following segment contains references to sexual assaults, and other horrific crimes. The author condemns any kind of atrocities being depicted in this passage.
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Excerpts from "A Shattered Faith: Religious Persecution During the Second Russian Civil War"
by: Lindsey Graham
Harvard University printing press, published on March 25, 2020
Chapter Five: Renewed Anti-Catholicism and Asian Hordes
Although the three Baltic States had managed to successfully secede from the Soviet Union during the early stages of the Second Russian Civil War, Belarus and Ukraine were still divided between those who were loyal to the Soviet government and those who favored independence. It has become clear that the Orthodox Churches at that time was slowly purging itself of KGB informers, though they only defrocked a few priests who were actually caught in clerical corruption cases. As Soviet communism was taking a back seat, the Soviet leadership now had to once again turn to the Orthodox Churches for support, but they were hesitant about it. It was only when reports of Catholic missionaries and relief workers have arrived on Soviet territory that the Soviet government decided to target those missionaries by Soviet-aligned paramilitary forces. Several Russian and Belarusian paramilitaries of nationalist leanings have started to align themselves with their respective Orthodox Churches, and likewise, it was the same with the Ossetians and the Georgians, who now had to face an Islamic jihadist uprising in the North Caucasus. In the two Ossetias that were divided by the Russian SFSR and the Georgian SSR, the Orthodox Churches there also had a complicated relationship, as there were two competing branches that laid their allegiance to the nations that controlled them. For the North Ossetian branch, the Russian Orthodox Church had authorized the formation of an Autocephalous Exarchate of North Ossetia-Alania, while the Ossetian Christians in South Ossetia continued to abide by their allegiance to the Georgian Church. As the Soviet government focused more on improving their relations with the Caucasian and Central Asian republics in addition to the Belarusian SSR, it did not take long until the specter of anti-Catholicism would become integrated into the Soviet government and the post-Soviet successor states, especially the Russian SFSR, Georgian SSR, Armenian SSR and Belarusian SSR. Ossetian paramilitaries that have been retrained by the Soviet Army have been sent to help retake much of their homeland from the jihadists and their local Caucasian collaborators. To help enhance security in the North Caucasus region, the Soviet government authorized the transfer of Kursky Raion to the North Ossetian ASSR, and authorized the resettlement of around 4,000 South Ossetians wanting to leave the Georgian SSR.
The infamous Motyli Massacre that occurred on February 14, 1992, had been the work of the newly formed Russian Frontier Guard, which became an amalgamation of several Russian nationalist paramilitary forces that consolidated itself under the control of infamous Russian nationalist Nikolay Kuryanovich, who was at that time, serving in the Soviet Air Force, though like Balitskyi, he was shot down while on an aerial bombing mission. When the Polish government and medial learned of this horrific genocide, the international community had protested against the Soviet atrocities against Catholics living inside the Belarusian SSR, but the Soviet delegation had put it, 'No one protested when our people were expelled from Kaliningrad Oblast. Why should we care if a few thousand Polaks were killed in return?'. In response, Polish President Lech Walesa would reluctantly order the Polish Air Force to begin limited airstrikes against Soviet military positions in the Belarusian and Ukrainian SSRs still under Soviet control, essentially bringing Poland into the Second Russian Civil War on the rebel side. Although Polish nationalists would often refer to the conflict between Poland and the crumbling Soviet Union as a Second Polish-Soviet War, in reality, the Poles would later be joined by Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania (though Romania had already gotten involved with the Transnistria expulsion of ethnic Russians, alongside the Ukrainian rebel forces). On the Soviet government side, it was rather surprising that North Korea under Kim Il-Sung and the crumbling Mongolian communist government also sent a few volunteers to help the Soviet government, though their reputation for brutality had spread through the ranks, as after March of 1992, North Korean and Mongolian volunteers had formed the Uljei Khutug Volunteer Brigade, named after the Goryeo-born wife of Yuan Emperor Toghon Temur. The joint North Korean-Mongolian volunteer force would be sent to the Belarusian Front, where their fighting prowess had not only impressed the local Soviet forces fighting both the Lithuanian rebels, but anti-Soviet Belarusian nationalist rebels seeking to take control of Belarus and to break free from Soviet rule. Their ruthless anti-Christian indoctrination that the Soviet government had subjected them to had played a role in the increased massacres of Belarusian and Polish Catholics after May of 1992. The presence of the North Koreans and Mongolians in the western regions of the crumbling Soviet Union had played into the hands of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his own neo-conservative faction. It was largely thanks to his role, and his controversial partnership with former Klansman David Duke that they were able to bring over European volunteers with neo-Nazi leanings to fight on the rebel side. The news of European volunteers showing up to fight inside the Soviet Union only encouraged Kim Il-Sung's regime to send more of his own soldiers to the crumbling Soviet Union. However, these North Korean volunteers would ironically enough, lay the foundation for the eventual downfall of the North Korean regime, as the VI Corps gradually transferred to the Belarusian Front between June of 1992 and August of 1992. Though by this time, Mongolia's communist government had collapsed and a democratic government had replaced it, it still wanted to help the Soviet Union out, not because of ideology, but because of pragmatism. The VI Corps would eventually pledge their allegiance to a disgraced son of Kim Il-Sung, Kim Pyong-Il, and he in turn, would declare a Provisional Government for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Unfortunately, Kim Pyong-Il would be assassinated in Vladivostok by an agent loyal to Kim Il-Sung's chosen successor, Kim Jong-Il. His replacement, General Ri Yong-gil, had been assigned as the commander of the VI Corps.
A favored method developed by Russian nationalist paramilitaries when committing atrocities against Catholic civilians inside the Belarusian SSR was to corral the civilians by looting their homes and dragging them out of there. Catholic nuns who found themselves captured by paramilitaries would be sent to special camps, where they were subjected to various horrific tortures, including beatings and repeated sexual assaults. At an infamous concentration camp built in the Kalmyk ASSR, the captured Catholic civilians (mainly Polish, but also Lithuanian, Estonian, and Latvian women) were repeatedly raped by paramilitary forces on leave from the front. It is also said that similar concentration camps were also created in what was now the Russian West Baltic Republic, though both ethnic groups held each other's enemy civilians and were also tortured in this manner. The main purpose of those camps were to force the captured women to not only be sexually assaulted, but also forced to become pregnant with the child conceived through hate. Eventually, the foreign volunteers who fought for the rebel forces also began to abduct Belarusian and Russian women from their homes and were held in similar concentration camps, though in a much worse manner, those women would be forced to undergo 'surgeries' where their fallopian tubes would be tied, or their uteruses would be surgically removed, before being subjected to such tortures. Of course, as news of those atrocities were being broadcasted, the conditions of the female internees in the Kalmyk ASSR concentration camps only worsened to the point where the perpetrators of their psychological torment had shifted exclusively to Asian volunteers.
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Post by kyuzoaoi on Oct 26, 2024 0:15:49 GMT
So the Volkstaat is planning to use the Atlas Carver now?
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 26, 2024 0:37:46 GMT
So the Volkstaat is planning to use the Atlas Carver now? Possibly, though it might have some major improvements. Also, in this TL, there might also be a major incentive for the PLAAF to build a bomber that would replace their ageing Xian H-6s. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 29, 2024 5:35:15 GMT
Re-OMAKE 017: CONTENDERS, PRETENDERS AND LAMENTATIONS
VIOLENT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CONFRONTATIONS ERUPT IN VANCOUVER AS SUPPORTERS OF TWO RIVAL GROUPS ENGAGE IN PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
Vancouver Sun
May 2, 2019
(Vancouver) - A large confrontation broke out yesterday between supporters of an obscure but influential far-left provincial separatist party called the Revolutionary People's Party of Cascadia and far-right opponents in the heart of downtown Vancouver on the May Day celebrations. The far-left fringe separatist group, led by an immigrant descended from Filipino Civil War veterans who fought for the outlawed New People's Army, had held a rally in downtown Vancouver's Victory Square, where they were promoting their party and their ambitions to have delegates elected to the upcoming 2021 British Columbia provincial election. The leader of the so-called Revolutionary People's Party of Cascadia, Fulgencia Alferos, had founded the movement back in June of 2007, exactly a month after the death of noted former dictator Artemio Tadiar. Her background as a left-wing activist descended from New People's Army veterans had elevated her to the pinnacle of Canadian left-wing activism, but the mere mention of her background has triggered a backlash from not only the local residents of Vancovuer, who were already alarmed by the sudden rise in popularity for leftist ideals, but second generation of Filipino Canadians born from former political exiles who either fought for the former Marcos regime, or the short lived Aquino government that fell when Tadiar himself came into power. However, the RPPC had descended into chaotic infighting when a report had emerged from within the RPPC leadership that an anonymous donation had been made to them, and that a few members had unknowingly accepted it. The acceptance of the donation had also turned out to have been a serious violation of the RPPC rules that forbade the acceptance of donations from unidentified persons, for fear of violating the BC Electoral Laws that governed financing of smaller political parties. In addition, a CTV Documentary Report had also been released, highlighting the background of the self-proclaimed 'Revolutionary Chairwoman' as the daughter of the NPA veterans. Though local Vancouverites were unaware of her background, this relevant information had provoked a violent reaction from the second generation Filipino Canadians descended from the political exiles.
"This charlatan has the nerve to set up a communist party here in Canada, and to openly declare for this great province to secede from Canada, just so she can replicate what her terrorist parents had started back home. Fulgencia Alferos is a disgrace to our community, and she has to be stopped!" says local Filipino-Canadian businessman Pablo Lumanog, who owns a local bakery in the Greater Squamish metropolitan region. "My relatives were killed by the NPA in Negros during the Civil War, and drove the remaining members of my family who fled from their homes right into the hands of Artemio Tadiar. It's because of the NPA that half of my family declared their loyalty to Tadiar and it destroyed my parents."
In addition to Fulgencia Alferos's role in the RPPC, she also headed a VidTube channel called the Daily Anti-Fascist News, where she goes into various far-left conspiracy theory, ranging from the alleged role of a crypto-Nazi network operating in the United States, to the often talked about secret plot that led to the Cuban military's actions in shooting down the private jet that former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and noted obscure businessman Jeffrey Epstein and his friend Ghislaine Maxwell was flying in, which triggered the largest American military action in Cuba and Nicaragua since the Cold War, paving the way for the bloody collapse of Cuba's communist government of Fidel Castro, as well as the return of the Contras and the vicious purging of the Sadinistas after they fell from power. Most importantly, although actually verified, is the alleged secret alliance that was formed between prominent American neoconservatives and the infamous Ku Klux Klan and many other white nationalist organizations. This alleged secret alliance that the so-called Revolutionary Chairwoman Alferos talked about, stemmed from the infamous decision by disgraced late American neocon Zbigniew Brzezinski's decision to enlist the help of David Duke in recruiting Klan members and other white nationalists to participate in the Second Russian Civil War on the anti-communist side. Yet, her unhinged behavior when leading the Daily Anti-Fascist News broadcast has even drawn condemnation from prominent talk show hosts Monica Lewinsky-Jones and Paula Corbin, who replaced Linda Tripp when she announced her retirement from her career in the daily talk show, the TrippWire.
"Ms. Alferos's attempts to get an interview with our channel was fortunately denied by our decision, as we do not want to appear to endorse her hare brained idea of a Canadian province seceding from the Canadian federal government. Although we were now notified of the various separatist movements that popped up in the United States as of recently, some of them were outright fascist in nature, such as the Northwest Territorial Imperiative, and the other Cascadian independence movement that also shares the same anti-fascist narrative, but does not condone a violent revolution like what the so-called Revolutionary Chairwoman was preaching," says Lewinsky-Jones, during one of her episodes where she and Corbin were discussing Ms. Alferos's attempts to get an interview with them. "It is also because of our policy to not give any platform to extremists that we have also denied the likes of the prominent leaders of the Northwest Territorial Imperative."
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Portions from the Interview with Former Singaporean Foreign Minister and People's Action Party Member Yeo Guat Kwang
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, released on February 14, 2020
Discussing Singapore's Relations with the Philippines During the Tadiar Dictatorship, the Tarrazona Years and Post-Junta Democracy
Interviewer: As we observe the fifth anniversary of Lee Kuan Yew's death, many people in Singapore had mixed feelings about his legacy. However, what was the most profound about him was his criticism of the Philippines's copy and paste of the US political system. That criticism was only applied during the Marcos dictatorship and the short lived Aquino years, though he also criticized Artemio Tadiar's military dictatorship as well. Given that the Philippine economy had been hovering on the brink of collapse, it took a military defeat at the hands of China and diplomatic isolation to eventually recover from its malaise, but in the process, they also sponsored state-supported acts of piracy and terrorism. We're here with former Foreign Minister Yeo Guat Kwang. Welcome to the CBC studio, Mr. Yeo.
Yeo: Thank you.
Interviewer: When the late Prime Minister Lee was still alive, he also had the unfortunate opportunity to see how the Philippines descended into chaos, turmoil, and eventually surpassed the previous dictatorship in terms of human rights violations. The irony of the Tadiar dictatorship was that he was effectively successful in dismantling the US-style political system, though his own brand of military dictatorship had resembled that of Japan before the Meiji Restoration, in that prominent Philippine generals became de facto warlords of their own domains. Even the administrative divisions of the Philippines had been federalized, though adopting the same region/prefecture system that the Japanese had currently been using. Did Prime Minister Lee praised or condemned the military dictatorship?
Yeo: (sighs) Well, the thing about Prime Minister Lee was that he actually visited General Tadiar back in 1992 and gave a speech in front of the Philippines Business Conference delegates and military officers. Though he didn't know it at that time, Tadiar actually wanted to learn more about how to rebuild the Philippines from Prime Minister Lee. Unfortunately, the Chinese bombing of both the Philippines and Vietnam during the Spratly Islands War and the humiliating defeat that it sustained had driven the Philippines on the path of revenge. Its diplomatic isolation and irregularity in terms of not having formally signed a peace treaty with the Chinese government had given the Tadiar regime an excuse to help carry out the infamous 1998 Shanghai Oriental Pearl Radio Tower, in which a Chinese aircraft was hijacked by terrorists trained by Tadiar's agents and crashed into the building, killing over 4,000 civilians. At that time, China and the Philippines were on the verge of starting another war with each other, but American President Kemp warned the Chinese that if they invaded the Philippines, the US would bomb Chinese airfields, harbors and even electrical grids.
Interviewer: What was Singapore's position in the conflict between the Philippines and China?
Yeo: Although we naturally stood in solidarity with our racial brethren back in mainland China, we feared that a larger war between the Philippines and China would spread into the rest of SE Asia. Keep in mind that Singapore right now is facing competition from Indonesia in terms of offering a different maritime route to Australia and India.
Interviewer: But isn't the threat of war between the Philippines and China on the horizon right now? Given that China is a member of ESTO, it wouldn't be far fetched to say that the Chinese would formally activate Clause 9 of the ESTO charter, thereby bringing in the likes of the Korean Federal Republic and Russia as well.
Yeo: True, but no one is also talking about an unresolved conflict between Russia and Japan, and given that Japan had been the one to save the Tadiar regime from the brink of collapse, it is only appropriate that the Philippines had naturally adopted pro-Japanese policies, despite the controversy it arose, primarily because of the legacy of the Second World War.
Interviewer: Additionally, given Japan's recent militarization drive and its open repudiation of the post-war consensus about accepting guilt for starting the Pacific War, it is also frightening that Japan is also considering the possibility of acquiring the technical expertise needed to build a nuclear weapon. Though the survivors of the atomic bombings are slowly dying out, the war hawks in Tokyo are also eager to spread its own influence. Did Prime Minister Lee had any reservations about the Japanese state?
Yeo: He was actually nervous about the possibility of Japanese rearmament, though his paranoia only increased when Japan reached out to the majority of the ASEAN nations for closer diplomatic partnerships. Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia, have all formed closer relations with Japan within the last 20 years, and funnily enough, it was the Philippines that gave them the incentive to do so.
Interviewer: All right. Second question: what did Prime Minister Lee thought of Artemio Tadiar's constitutional reforms and the gradual loosening of its control over the economy? Keep in mind that the Philippines was also facing international sanctions for its human rights violations too.
Yeo: The first thing he said when he heard of Tadiar's passing of the 1998 Philippine Constitution was that it was entirely designed with our constitution in mind. Yes, Mr. Lee had been an outspoken critic of Western ideals of democracy and has pointed out that India, China, Iran, and even Indonesia for example, had not worked as intended. However, even when Tadiar would take notes on how Mr. Lee had reformed Singapore, there were certain aspects of Mr. Lee's reforms that Tadiar disagreed, namely the opening of the economy. It was understandable, given that the Philippines was heavily sanctioned, and they had limited financial resources, which tragically led to the state sponsored piracy and terrorism. What was striking about the Philippine political and constitutional reform of 1998 though, was that Tadiar's experiment with tricameralism had been a huge gamble, though it went well with his plans to federalize the country, though using the Japanese administrative model to do it. You have the Prefectural Assembly, which is the only lower body in the world to appoint new Prefectural Representatives on a meritocratic model. Then there's the Regional Assembly, which oversees the governance of a particular region. Finally, there's the National Assembly, which is basically the Parliament of the Philippines. It was a bureaucratic nightmare that was intentionally designed to prevent any underhanded political proposals from being passed.
Interviewer: I have heard of Filipinos who had a disturbing positive mindset of the former Marcos regime point out that if General Fabian Ver had been allowed to stabilize the country, it would have gone the path of the former South Korea before democratizing the country upon his death. Is that true?
Yeo: Unfortunately, no. General Ver was too closely linked to Marcos, but the rebelling generals that were against Marcos had sided with Tadiar out of hatred for Aquino. Tadiar certainly knew how to win people over to his side, and it showed when he pardoned and brought over Saulito Aromin and Edgardo Doromal to his side, as well as Ricardo Morales. Yet, I believe the most damning legacy of the Tadiar years was something that former Marcos supporters had to point out constantly.
Interviewer: And what would that be?
Yeo: That Tadiar had turned the Philippines into a frightening hybrid of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, though mixed with the elements of the pre-Meiji Restoration Shogunate, in terms of the generals acting as de facto warlords. You also have to understand that the Regional Assembly was easily the most corrupt, as various military officers can unseat regional civilian governors and take over their office. It was a practice that eventually stopped when Hector Tarrazona took over after Tadiar had died, but the tricameralism was mercifully repealed when the first post-junta President was elected.
Interviewer: Some say that the Philippines under Tadiar had also resembled Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. It's true, right?
Yeo: Yes, and most of the military reforms that Tadiar had done was based on the Chilean model. Also, keep in mind that while the Spratly Island Wars was happening, General Alvaro Corbalan had also visited Singapore in 1995, to offer his assistance on resolving the conflict between the Philippines and China, though this was only after his UN peacekeeping mission had to end because the Second Russian Civil War had concluded, and due to the controversy surrounding the peacekeepers themselves.
Interviewer: In what ways you could say that the Philippines had behaved like both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan?
Yeo: I can cite one example. There was one Singaporean student who went to study abroad in Germany back in the 1990s. Although he suffered much discrimination from the locals, he was able to come across one obscure German figure by the name of Gottfried Feder in one of his side hobby research. Feder had advocated for the construction of an economy that was free from usury, which at that time, sounded a bit more sensible. However, given that the anti-usury rhetoric was tied to rampant anti-Semitism, the Singaporean student had no idea about it. When Tadiar had announced that he was abolishing the Central Bank of the Philippines and transferring the authority to print currency to the Philippine government, we didn't react at all, but the Singaporean student realized that Tadiar was going to put the entire country back to work and that he was going to use a kind of Labour Treasury Certificate as a receipt for the labor they performed. Of course, the Philippines had also ramped up its anti-Chinese rhetoric to include the persecution of its own Chinese minority. Keep in mind that anti-Chinese sentiment had been present in the Philippines since the Spanish colonial period, but it became more sinister when Tadiar offered to allow Japanese immigrants to settle in the Philippines, first working in the medical field. Their health care system had to be rebuilt by Japanese medical workers, which then expanded to the purchase of the Chinese General Hospital in Manila, and transformed that into the Dai Nippon Koku General Hospital. Much of the old Chinatowns in Manila had slowly been colonized by Japanese businessmen and yakuza figures, resulting in much of Binondo becoming an extension of Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama.
Interviewer: I guess the racism part was the one that Tadiar's regime copied from Hitler's Germany, but what did he copy from Imperial Japan?
Yeo: On that part, I think it was more along the lines of rehabilitating the collaborators who worked for the Japanese during the Second World War. If any Singaporean politician had advocated for rehabilitating anyone who collaborated with the Japanese during the war today or back in the 1990s, he or she would have been pressured to resign in disgrace.
Interviewer: I'm also guessing that it's the militarism and the whole 'Chosen Race of the Orient' rhetoric that the Tadiar regime was pushing.
Yeo: Yes, and while Tadiar was pushing the same kind of multiracialism as Prime Minister Lee, he was selective of which group he wants to include and which group he wants to expel. It was between 1998 and 2003 that there were more Filipino Chinese asylum seekers in Singapore than anywhere else in the world. The racism from Filipinos was so bad, we had no choice but to deport all of Singapore's Filipino population back to the Philippines. You can imagine the public backlash when some of those deportees were simply murdered en masse when they returned, which was one of the many foreign policy blunders that we made.
Interviewer: Did Singapore had to cut ties to the Philippines though?
Yeo: Yes, we had to. The diplomatic isolation gave us the excuse to sever ties with them, and we only restored relations just last year.
Interviewer: What of the military cooperation between Singapore and the Philippines?
Yeo: None at the moment, although Danilo Lim at one point, managed to stay in Singapore during his exile, or rather, he defected to Singapore during the Second Korean War when most of the Philippine troops were too busy committing war crimes against civilians. Actually, Singapore is surrounded by Japan-friendly SE Asian nations, and had the incentive to improve relations with them.
Interviewer: But didn't Singapore also have incentives to improve its relations with China as well?
Yeo: That would be a maybe, but given that the threat of war now hangs over SE Asia, I think we would have to position ourselves as the peacemakers that will prevent such a conflict from happening, because a war in SE Asia, especially in the Philippines, will only bring more tragedy to all the parties involved.
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VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES INCREASED MOBILIZATION OF MILITARY AS ESTO MEMBER STATES ANNOUNCE IMMINENT CONFLICT WITH NEIGHBORING PHILIPPINES
Sydney Herald
March 17, 2020
(Hanoi, VIETNAM) - As the ESTO has announced an imminent military operation against the Philippines that may start as early as tomorrow or the day after, the Vietnamese government under Nguyễn Xuân Ngãi has announced another round of mobilization of its military and the deployment of troops to the Sino-Vietnamese border. Vietnam's war footing has also been on the rise since the formation of ESTO, and as a result, it has increased its military cooperation with Japan. In addition, the Concordia Brigade, a multinational military unit consisting of troops from Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar, has been deployed to northern Vietnam as a deterrent against Chinese forces stationed on their side of the border as well. Additionally, since the end of the communist regime in Vietnam, the Vietnamese military has slowly been ditching its Soviet era equipment in favor of Japanese military arms and equipment, as a result of Japan's lifting of the ban on the sales of its military hardware and the repealing of Article 9 of its 1947 Constitution that renounced war as a political instrument. In response, the Chinese PLA Southern Theater Command has announced the deployment of additional military personnel to the Sino-Vietnamese border and has prepared a contingency plan in case of a renewed war with Vietnam.
"The provocations made by the Vietnamese fascists on the border with China is the last thing we need, especially when we are facing an imminent conflict with the Philippines. However, we will not hesitate to destroy the fascist regime that has taken control of Vietnam since their counterrevolution of 2001," said Chinese President Wang Jianping, during a NPC session. "We still host the legitimate Vietnamese government that has continued to claim legitimacy and sovereignty over Vietnam, and unlike the Philippines, they have agreed to abide by the Treaty of Berlin that effectively cedes their portion of the Nanyang Islands to us."
The looming ESTO military threat posed against Philippine sovereignty and the wider security of SE Asia has also alarmed the Taiwanese government, whose President Lin Yu-chang, has already called for the formal establishment of a Taiwanese Republic, and upend the current status quo that was enjoyed by Taiwan's Pan-Blue Coalition. Furthermore, the recent 2020 Taiwanese election in which President Lin had won was built on a platform of formally declaring its independence and sovereignty as a Taiwanese state instead of maintaining the official government of the Republic of China. Unlike the Philippines and Vietnam, Taiwan still has a mutual defense pact with the United States, meaning that if China attacked Taiwan, the United States would be in a position to intervene. Hence, the ESTO's planned military intervention against the Philippines would also give China an incentive to put additional pressure on the United States, both militarily and diplomatically, as the upcoming 2020 US Presidential Elections would prove to be the decisive moment on where America would stand in the Asia-Pacific region.
"America needs to rebuild the trust that it lost in the Asia-Pacific region, as a result of former President Jackson's irresponsible, bleeding heart mentality that costed us not one, but two allies," says US Presidential candidate Jon Bennett Ramsey, representing the National Revival Party. "The Republicans and Democrats would love to pussyfoot around the issue, but as we've got a higher stake in the security of the Asia-Pacific region than any other nation in the world, we have a responsibility to ensure that the Asian nations are willing to open their hearts and minds to our sincere efforts to rebuild trust."
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"If there is one thing that I can say about Artemio Tadiar and his military dictatorship, I do have mixed feelings about what he has accomplished. A strongman like him was definitely needed to rebuild the Philippines, from its rotting foundations to its extremely nationalistic rhetoric that mostly bordered on racism. We made a mistake of deporting the Filipino refugees that have settled in Singapore, and the result was that the Tadiar regime had no qualms about slaughtering them when they returned. While the Tadiar regime has rebuilt the infrastructure of the country through his bold and sometimes reckless fiscal policies, he has accomplished it with forced labor, and sometimes slave labor. When my successors were given the tour of the former death camps where political opponents were held, I could not help but tear up when they often told me of how some prisoners were worked to death. Carlota Island was one such labour camp where it combined the functions of a factory with a death camp. The Korean diplomats who visited Singapore had told me that most of Tadiar's junior officers had gotten the idea of building such a camp from the infamous Battleship Island. I have heard a bit about Battleship Island, and it was hell on earth for the poor souls who were worked to death like dogs. Tadiar had effectively destroyed Philippine democracy, which was entirely based on that of America's democracy. His 1998 constitution had enshrined federalism, which was sorely needed as the Philippines itself was diverse in population and ethnic groups. He didn't care much for building a democratic society, because he knew the external threat that it posed to his country. I could say that the price that the Philippines as a whole has paid for its newfound prosperity was rather too high: millions of Filipinos who opposed Tadiar's brutal dictatorship perished in death camps. Left-wing opponents were exterminated, in a scene reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust, while its Chinese minority had been severely discriminated to the point where they were being ethnically cleansed. In the place of the displaced Chinese minority, Tadiar invited numerous Japanese immigrants, businessmen, and organized crime figures to rebuild the country. Much of the Filipino youth were subjected to political and ideological brainwashing, and this kind of indoctrination bore a poisonous fruit, when they were far too eager to kill surrendering enemy soldiers during the conflict in Korea back in 2002. While the oligarchs might have thrived under Marcos's patronage, those same oligarchs now feared for their lives under Tadiar. Sure, a few of them did prosper under the military dictator's patronage, but they now found themselves facing an unwelcome competition from Japanese zaibatsus who were given permission to set up their businesses in the Philippines. Furthermore, there was no freedom of speech and no freedom of association at all in the Philippines during the Tadiar years.
The Philippines under the Marcos years had gone down the drain, as a result of crony capitalism, but the real tragedy of it all was the massacre at a protest site that ultimately resulted in Artemio Tadiar making a name for himself for bad reasons. A civil war broke out between the factions, and the communists attempted to build a part of their society in the midst of it. Of course, Tadiar helped Corazon Aquino win power from Marcos, only to stab her in the back when he launched his own coup. Many Filipinos that I've talked to often mentioned that if General Fabian Ver was allowed to stabilize the country, the Philippines could have emulated the former South Korea's economic and political recovery. Instead, they got a man who displayed the worst traits of both Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo. Fanaticism and racial hatred towards their own minority had been worsened when they were defeated by the communist Chinese over a bunch of islands in the South China Sea. They had their revenge on them by killing their surrendered soldiers, but they carried out a terrorist attack before that. Of course, the world rejoiced when Tadiar died, except for those few allies who backed him diplomatically. In the rest of Asia, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, and post-communist Vietnam backed Tadiar, while in Latin America, it was Mexico and Chile. Let's also pay attention to the Chilean factor, because it was under both Augusto Pinochet and Alvaro Corbalan that the Philippine military was reformed on the Chilean model. Now we see far too much goose steeping Filipino soldiers these days, despite the military reforms that are aimed at removing such traditions. Then Tadiar's war on religion had taken a disturbing tone, because only Turkey recognized Tadiar's attempt to clamp down on religion as something that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk would recognize and approve of such a thing. The Catholic Church in the Philippines today is a shadow of its former self, though it's slowly reviving. In its place though, secularism, agnosticism, and most importantly, Buddhism, are slowly taking root in the country. Even in this area, Japanese Buddhist monks are far more common than Chinese or even Tibetan monks. Of course, the religious majority of the Philippines had now become 54% irreligious, and attacks on Catholic priests and nuns have sadly become common place. It is not an accident that after Japan, Turkey became a major investor in the Philippine economy, and they even wanted to learn more about how to become a prosperous nation from us. In conclusion, while the Philippines could enjoy the fruits of its own prosperity, the price that it paid for was indeed far too high. Loss of conscience, loss of innocence, loss of its moral fiber, loss of tolerance for political differences, and most importantly, a generation that was raised on fanaticism, hatred, and lack of remorse. To paraphrase the late German Kaiser Wilhelm II, but apply it to the Philippines, it was a nation of humble peasants, industrious workers, and talented musicians, but Tadiar has turned the Philippines into a nation of political barbarians, ideological savages, engulfed in a tide of racial hatred, revanchism, and intolerance. Most important of all, it was being led by rogue generals with thoughts of power, prominence, and ruthlessness." Lee Kuan Yew, during a speech in front of local audience in Singapore, March 2012.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 31, 2024 0:26:32 GMT
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Nov 14, 2024 3:45:34 GMT
Re-OMAKE 018: DOWN WITH THE CHIEF
"Before the controversy that surrounded the 2004 US Presidential election, we didn't have to worry about the third parties gaining more traction at the expense of the Republicans and Democrats. However, we underestimated the growing frustration that average Americans had with their government, and there were more attention given to the likes of the Social Progressives around Lyndon LaRouche, who became the biggest critic of the Kemp administration. Domestically speaking, LaRouche's criticism of President Kemp was mainly aimed at scaling down rail projects in favor of more oil projects, which could have undone the environmental preservation that was spearheaded when President Dukakis was in power. In terms of foreign policy however, it was President Kemp's role in forcing the late Tadiar regime in the Philippines to end its self imposed diplomatic isolation in exchange for its participation in the Korean conflict. It was not only that, but the scandal in which we literally emptied out large prisons for inmates that could be recruited into penal battalions, and the discovery of an underground human trafficking scheme that involved the sales of former North Korean citizens. Combined with their criminal acts in brutally suppressing the workers' strikes at the Pyeonghwa Motors, and the assassinations of trade union leaders on the orders of the chaebol bosses, that was exactly how we contributed to the downfall of Korean democracy and the rise of one of the most infamous syndicalist dictatorships in the world. In addition to the Social Progressives, the Libertarians were also making their inroads into places like Texas, where prominent former Texan Senator turned Governor Alex Jones had first made his career in the level of state government. Not only was Texas being exposed to the Libertarians, but even parts of the poorer areas of the Deep South were also ripe for the Libertarians. It was however, the National Revival Party of the late James Traficant that made the biggest impact, as the new voters who voted for the NRP actually came from the Filipino and Vietnamese communities that were directly affected by the conflicts in Asia. The National Revival Party would even cause a split within the Republican Party as avowed paleocons that were attached to the party would defect to the NRP, most notably Steve Sailer, who was a former Republican Party member from Georgia. What was most important about the decline of the Republican Party was the legacy that Jack Kemp had imposed on the entire world, as said party became synonymous with the neocons that gradually dominated the movement. The National Revival Party had in fact, become a paleocon dominated party, and it showed when in the upcoming 2020 US Presidential Election, you have the likes of John Bennett Ramsey running for President, with Tucker Carlson as his running mate. What is most important is that Ramsey was a China hawk, with the most antipathy towards China and was one of the few politicians who opposed the Agenda for a New Global Hegemony, which called for a brutal imposition of a different kind of Western Global Hegemony. Ramsey and Carlson had often spoke in favor of a different kind of multipolarity where each civilizational bloc is allowed to function as its own independent faction. He even called for Japan to become a more active player in the Asia-Pacific region, as he felt that giving more responsibilities to regional allies will soften the burden on the American state regarding global affairs.
As the Ramsey-Carlson ticket had been cemented for the National Revival Party, the Republican Party ticket was dominated by the Bolton-Haley ticket, and John Bolton was a Kemp protege from when he worked for the Kemp administration. Representing the Social Progressives though would be Cornel West and Andrew Yang, while the Democratic Party was represented by Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand. It is largely thanks to the 28th Amendment, which allowed the US elections to be divided into two phases: the first phase, which would be a preliminary election that would run on the last Tuesday of October, while the run off election would take place on the first Tuesday of November. The electoral college vote would only take place in the second phase of the election, meaning that the first phase would theoretically allow the elections of House of Representatives and Senators in their riding plus some Gubernatorial elections. Of course, there was also the minor group called the American Unity Party, which Hillary Clinton founded after leaving the Democrat Party. Even though she's juggling between her political career and her side gig as the co-host of the TrippWire following the death of TrippWire co-founder Linda Tripp in April of 2020, the Clinton-McKinley campaign had remained a surprisingly strong one. Of course, the TrippWire has also been used as a mouthpiece for the American Unity Party, though various candidates from other political parties were invited on the podcasts as well. It was also shocking that the TrippWire had also expanded beyond its original intention, as commentators were hired on a weekly basis. In fact, among the newly recruited staff that joined the TrippWire were Matt Drudge, whose work as a journalist in California had gotten the attention of one Carly Fiorina, then a rising star in California state politics before unseating Dianne Feinstein as California's Senator in the 2000s. Drudge would also contribute to the Clinton-McKinley campaign, often portraying Madame Clinton as both a grieving widow and a survivor. Monica Lewinsky-Jones herself became a press secretary for the same campaign, while her husband, Governor Alex Jones, had even contemplating about defecting to the American Unity Party before wisely deciding against it. It is the nature of the 28th Amendment today, that has allowed the minor parties to not only grow, but to challenge the dominant status quo that was formerly held by both Democrats and Republicans." Issac Feldman, from the documentary 'The Legacy of the 28th Amendment', courtesy of TrippWire.
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List of Previous US Presidential Elections:
1992 US Presidential Elections - Jesse Jackson (Democratic Party) defeats Bob Dole (Republican) [305 - 233 electoral college votes]
1996 US Presidential Elections - Jack Kemp (Republican Party) defeats Mario Cuomo (Democratic) [328 - 210 electoral college votes]
2000 US Presidential Elections - Jack Kemp (Republican Party) defeats Joe Lieberman (Democratic Party) [290 - 248 electoral college votes]
2004 US Presidential Elections - None of the candidates won the required 270 electoral college votes, leading to the 28th Amendment. However, Carol Moseley-Braun (Democratic Party) defeats Lamar Alexander (Republican Party) [248 - 233 - 57 electoral college votes, with the 57 EC votes being won by Lyndon LaRouche]
2008 US Presidential Elections - John Edwards (Democratic Party) defeats Lyndon LaRouche (Social Progressives) (runoff elections authorized under the 28th Amendment)
2012 US Presidential Election - Tim Kaine (Democratic Party) defeats Bernie Sanders (Social Progressives) (first time since 2000 that no runoff elections were required, as the Republican Party continues its collapse) [330 - 125 - 83 EC votes, with 83 votes won by the Republican Party]
2016 US Presidential Election - Tim Kaine (Democratic Party) defeats James Traficant (National Revival Party) (first time since 2008 that a runoff election was held)
2020 US Presidential Election candidates:
- Republican Party: John Bolton - Nikki Haley
- Democratic Party: Amy Klobuchar - Kirsten Gillibrand
- Social Progressive Party: Cornel West - Andrew Yang
- Libertarian Party: William Weld - Jeremy Cohen
- American Unity Party: Hillary Clinton - Cynthia McKinley
- National Revival Party: John Bennett Ramsey - Tucker Carlson
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List of Previous Canadian Federal Elections:
1993 Canadian Federal Election:
Jean Chretien (Liberal Party) - 81 + 93 = 174 [Liberal Majority Government]
Lucien Bouchard (Bloc Quebecois) - 10 + 47 = 57
Preston Manning (Reform) - 1 + 30 = 31
Audrey McLaughlin (NDP) - 44 - 12 = 32
Jean Charest (Progressive Conservative) - 156 - 155 = 1
1997 Canadian Federal Election:
Jean Chretien (Liberal Party) - 174 - 26 = 148 [1st Liberal Minority Government in coalition with the NDP]
Preston Manning (Reform) - 31 + 23 = 54
Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) - 50 - 12 = 38
Alexa McDonough (NDP) - 32 + 19 = 51
Jean Charest (Progressive Conservative) - 1 + 3 = 4
2001 Canadian Federal Election: *On April 23, 1999, the Progressive Conservative Party had been officially de-registered with the last MP dying of old age*
Jean Chretien (Liberal Party) - 148 - 8 = 140 [2nd Liberal Minority Government in coalition with the NDP]
Stockwell Day (Reform/Alliance) - 54 + 13 = 67
Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) - 38 - 7 = 31
Alexa McDonough (NDP) - 51 + 12 = 63
2005 Canadian Federal Election: *Jean Chretien formally stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, leading to Paul Martin succeeding him*
Paul Martin (Liberal Party) - 140 - 59 = 81
Stockwell Day (Alliance) - 67 + 82 = 149 [1st Alliance Minority Government in coalition with the Bloc Quebecois]
Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) - 31 + 30 = 61
Lorne Nystrom (NDP) - 51 - 34 = 17
2009 Canadian Federal Election: *Stockwell Day stepped down as Party Leader of Canadian Alliance in 2012, who is then succeeded by Chuck Strahl. Additionally, Gilles Duceppe also stepped down as Party Leader of the Bloc Quebecois and is replaced by Melanie Joly*
Bob Rae (Liberal Party) - 81 + 17 = 98
Stockwell Day (Alliance) - 149 + 7 = 156 [1st Alliance Majority Government]
Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) - 61 - 8 = 53
Lorne Nystrom (NDP) - 17 - 16 = 1
2013 Canadian Federal Election: *The first time that the United Conservative Party of Canada would run in this election, though it is hindered by Chuck Strahl's worst electoral performance*
Karen McCrimmon (Liberal Party) - 98 + 87 = 185 [1st Liberal Majority Government since 1993]
Charles 'Chuck' Strahl (UCPC) - 156 - 57 = 69
Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) - 53 -11 = 42
Lorne Nystrom (NDP) - 1 + 11 = 12
2017 Canadian Federal Election: *John Turmel succeeds Chuck Strahl as Party leader of the UCPC in 2014*
Karen McCrimmon (Liberal Party) - 185 - 97 = 88
John Turmel (UCPC) - 69 + 122 = 191
Melanie Joly (Bloc Quebecois) - 42 + 3 = 45
Lorne Nystrom (NDP) - 12 - 3 = 9
Tim Moen (Canadian Libertarian Party) - 0 + 4 = 4
2021 Canadian Federal Election Candidates:
Liberal Party - Karen McCrimmon
UCPC - Maxime Bernier (replaces John Turmel as Party Leader, as Turmel announced that he wasn't going to run for political office due to old age)
Bloc Quebecois - Melanie Joly
NDP - Rachel Notley (replaces Lorne Nystrom as Party Leader, as Nystrom announced that he wasn't going to run for political office due to old age)
Monarchist Front of Canada - Raymond Novak (endorsed the selection of Prince Edward as the King of Canada)
Republican Party of Canada - Rob Carbone (advocated for a mixture of Westminster System and American Style Congress system)
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"The split within the Republican Party between the neocons and paleocons had been detrimental to its political integrity, as the paleocons and America First-ers had gradually gravitated around the new National Revival Party. It is worth noting the irony of the more paleocons that have joined a party that was essentially formed by a former Democrat in James Traficant, because the NRP would also become the party of the CIA Corsairs, or the agents that used to smuggle weapons to various anti-communist factions around the world before they made a home in Artemio Tadiar's Philippines and used it as a base of operations from which they could conduct their missions. However, the Corsairs did not play any role in the 2001 Vietnamese Revolution that toppled the communist government there. They did however, provide covert support to the Vietnamese Green Shirts, who were basically a neo-fascist movement there. John Bennett Ramsey, the noted CIA Corsair who catapulted himself into political office as a House Representative from Michigan, had spent most of the 1990s in Tadiar's Philippines, with his wife Patsy and several children like Kimberley and Beatrice Ramsey (who were twins), and Harold Ramsey (the Outfielder drafted by the San Diego Padres), with Elizabeth Ramsey being from his first marriage. He gradually replaced Traficant as the main face of the National Revival Party, with other American nationalists who were attracted to his charisma. The NRP gradually started to absorb much of the other nationalist parties within the United States to the point there they became a major political heavyweight that could compete with the likes of the Democrats and Republicans alike. Most importantly, the National Revival Party had held a controversial viewpoint that America needs to embrace the reality of a multipolar world order, and emphasizes the main idea that America is a new kind of civilizational state, that was entirely built by European colonialism, much to the horror and outrage of the non-white populations of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Not only has the National Revival Party maintained the toxic ideology of Manifest Destiny, but it has even perfected the weapon of American exceptionalism to the most terrifying degree. That the NRP's version of American exceptionalism is only mean to be inwards, in that Americans are an exceptional people with a sole mission to guard the light of democracy inside, rather than to spread it. While the NRP could say that it is different from the Republican Party, it shares a common trait with the Republican Party in that they are extremely conservative in nature. The NRP even advocated for a Pan-American political and economic bloc, similar to the European Continental Association and the Eurasian Heartland Community, though strictly confined to the Americas, and it also had an eye on purchasing Greenland from Denmark. Of course, while the Danes are not interested in selling the country, there could be a point where they would be forced to sell.
The 2010 European Financial Crisis that was brought by the admission of the so-called Intermarium Bloc, which consisted of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, Malta (though they were not a member of the Intermarium Bloc), Norway, and Cyprus. The large admission of those nations into the ECA had burdened the established founding members, and with Greece's expulsion from then-European Community over its alleged falsification of its economic records when it was admitted meant that the ECA had a tougher criteria for prospective members to meet before they could be admitted. It is because of the Varoufakis Criteria, which stated that any prospective European member candidate that wanted to join the ECA has to show legitimate economic and financial records as proof of its stability before it can join. The Varoufakis Criteria had essentially disqualified nations like Greece, who found it harder to join the ECA since their economy suffered the most, as well as Romania and Bulgaria, since their economies suffered even more than that of Greece's. Although Turkey is still waiting for its admission into the ECA, ultimately the head honchos in Brussels decided to disqualify Turkey for various reasons. Number one: Turkey's large territory in Asia and its equally large Muslim populations that would be given a chance to move into other ECA member states as stated in the Schengen Agreement. Number two: Turkey's brutal crackdown on the Kurdish rebellion in 1997 and the events that led to the largest genocide that took place on Turkish soil since the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when over 7.8 million Kurds were ruthlessly killed between the years 1997 to 2001, and over 14 million of them were brutally expelled from Turkey to the independent Kurdish state. I can tell you that silently though, members of the NRP had applauded the brutal expulsion on the grounds that the Kurdish rebels that fought the Turkish government were communists. In lands where the Kurds were driven out, many Turks living in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and other parts of the Middle East, had eventually moved into southeastern Turkey. General Teoman Koman, who led the junta that toppled both the Islamist government of Necmettin Erbakan and the government of Mesut Yilmaz, had actually been backed by the CIA Corsairs and Cowboys, in what was the only time when the two rogue CIA factions had teamed up together. Necdet Özel, who emerged as the successor to General Koman in 2003 after Necdet Özel was assassinated by a Kurdish sniper in the city of Van, continued the repressive policies in areas with Kurdish populations. It was the wanton brutality and human rights violations that not only disqualified Turkey from joining the ECA, but it also led to Turkey's suspension of its membership in NATO. In 2005, General Özel would announce Turkey's withdrawal from NATO and improve relations with various non-aligned nations, most importantly Japan and Indonesia. To this day though, the Kurds had never forgave us for playing a role in Turkey's genocidal suppression of their people, and even Iraq and Syria also expelled the remainder of their Kurdish minorities, as well as Iran. Even Yugoslavia, which had cordial ties with Turkey, distanced itself from the Turks due to their behavior towards the Kurds. Albania on the other hand, fully supported the Turkish crackdown, though the idea of killing other Muslims based on their ethnicity and political affiliations had been disturbing in their minds. What was not mentioned in the mainstream media was that the American backing of the Turkish coup that led to the Turkish junta's racial persecution of the Turkish Kurds had also garnered outrage in Armenia, where memories of the 1915 genocide still rankled in their memories. To this day, Armenia has severed ties with the US, and our embassy in Yerevan has remained shut to this day. Azerbaijan also supported the Turkish crackdown on the Kurds, but had to play a balancing game between its Turkish brother and its relations with the post-Soviet republics, most of whom were divided on the Kurdish issue. Needless to say, we screwed up on the global scale and the haunting legacy of the Kemp administration continues to sour things between America and the international community. Our boneheaded tendencies to support coups against left-wing governments or leftist movements has not only backfired, but it even costed us allies. The reunited Korea, which would have been a major asset to us and Japan, now found itself aligning with the likes of Russia and China. Even Japan, firm allies of the US, can now say that they wanted revenge on us for the atomic bombigs, and has carved an independent path for itself. This is the hubris of the Kemp presidency, and sadly, we don't know how long until we stop paying for the sins of our rogue factions." Professor Kamala Harris (teacher from Stanford University), on 'American Exceptionalism Exposed', given in the University of Northern British Columbia, May 28, 2017.
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