Awls-timeline
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Overview
The general war in AWLS is considered to take place some time after the conflict in Korea. Not too far into the future, but not too soon.
That should be hammered out here. Lengths of wars and conflicts as well as specific dates for the start and end of operations and battles or political movements/activities.
2006-7
Sanctions are imposed upon Iran but fail.
Plans to construct pipelines heading east out of the region allow Iran to garner enough support to flaunt United States sanctions causing consternation inside the US administration and among US media.
Iran never develops the bomb because it is attacked too soon and the country is incrementally blasted into the stone age.
2008
US attacks Iran
The Iranian response is to attempt to close gulf shipping (with outside support) with, perhaps, terrorist/special forces destruction of a tanker or terminal in the gulf.
The Chinese demand US withdrawal and, when ignored, begin unofficially dumping the dollar to see if they can force the US's hand.
The UN begins to crumble. Perhaps a League of Nations scene with people walking out.
2009
The Middle East destabilizes even further. This leads to a bizarre situation where tankers are operating out of Iranian ports under US protection while the US conducts extensive combat across Iran. The selective targeting of tanker fleets to affect traffic going to North America prompts retaliatory attacks against chinese oil coming out of Iran.
Across the globe, small wars break out, prompting American politicians to theorize that the US is over-stretched and its lack of influence is being seen in the destabilization of the globe. Economically, markets across the globe begin wildly fluctuating between open and closed.
North and South Korea become both player and pawn in the global system.
Russia makes diplomatic, military and economic hints to exert new control over Eastern Europe.
The EU is increasingly being torn in two directions:
1. Political integration and security through mutal interest and the modernization of economies.
2. Realpolitick desire to gain access to resources.
Help from minor countries in policing the aftermath of each wave of conflict is often an attempt to further self-interest and undermines US efforts by proxy. Energy security issues leads to Eastern EU countries surreptitiously working against USA interests now that the US is no longer considered capable of guaranteeing security. "Selling out to moscow is not popular but neither is no gas heating."
The EU abandons the US completely through a combination of cowardice and confusion. Market collapses followed by a series of make crashes and restarts.. Russia finds its influence has suddenly reappeared overnight due to its stores of LNG and other resources, as well as the reduction in US ability to project force.
2010
Chaos
War continues as a series of semi-unilteral policing/raiding actions throughout the world. What little credibility was held by international organizations fades away.
The Chinese drop the dollar and markets collapse again in a huge fiscal tsunami.
Real war kicks off in North Korea.
Syria falls apart on two sides as Israel get dragged into a limited intensity skirmish in lebanon/syria. Iraq carries on fighting Iran and the war grows increasingly barbaric. Destabilization of indonesia. Kurdistan fights undeclared Indo-Pakistan boarder war with Turkey after declaring independence from Iraq. Iran invades Iraq, blunted by remaining US forces.
The US fight a rearguard action in Caucasus as the region turns into a guerilla war with too many sides too mention.
Nigeria delta and other African locales see constantly shifting alliances and wars. Zimbabwe collapses, with the "Month of eighteen presidents" followed by horrendous civil rights violations. Media outlets barely mention any of it.
An insurgency in Venezuela and destabilization in Bolivia are both blames on the US.
Afghanistan due to lack of resources reverts to a even deeper state of poverty.
China expands influence in SE Asia economically and militarily but not by direct invasion or attack. The exhausted oil fields of indonesia disappear in a blaze of of looting, insurgency, rioting and a firestorm of fear that no one can stop, their cities descend into anarchy.
