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Song of the day [link]Look at you, a kid from some upper middle class suburb in Ottawa. You spent your entire life believing "If I try really hard, I can make a difference in this world!" Wouldn't be surprised if you were also one of those kids who thought if they made sure to pray every night, really hard, that god might one day listen to you and solve world hunger, and maybe cure AIDS and Cancer while he was at it! I hope you learn fast kid, or an Indonesian sniper is going to put a bullet through that idealistic little head of yours pretty god damn fast.
Following the collapse of the Peoples Republic of China in 2054 at the end of WW3, East and Southeast Asia saw a major power vacuum. Australia, Indonesia and Japan fought to fill the void, sometimes literally clashing.
The Indonesians had a particularly bad human rights record, which entered the international eye for the first time when they moved in to annex Brunei and Malaysia in 2060.
Massive protests in Australia forced the government to turn to OADC (Oceania and the America's Defense Command) for support. To no ones surprise, the US kept its "Fortress America" attitude, and while the government agreed to support the Australians from a logistical perspective, no US troops would be sent. Cuba and Brazil, already dealing with local threats, refused. Not wanting to raise tensions with an immediate threat, the Philippines refused. After a few months of lobbying, only Canada and New Zealand agreed to take part in any direct action. A task force consisting of 500 troops from each country (not including naval and air components) was assembled.
The Canadian government pushed to hold off the attack, and attempted to negotiate with officials in Jakarta.The 6 month period proved pointless, but it gave the Task Force time to prepare, and made sure that the move wasn't simply reactionary and was truly intended.
In this pic we have Canadian Corporal Bronson Higgins (a character that I plan to feature in a summer project I'm working on around the crisis) moving from cover after having saved a young local Muslim Girl in a small battle over a village. He's making sure the area is clear for her to move on.
Yeah, I just learned about East Timor if you are wondering :/ This was inspired be a supposed JTF2's account of events during the genocide there... I do hope one day to redo this digitally, because it's pretty darn good in my humble opinion.
Oh yes, ND2500's coloured version [link]
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Well, it's one thing to know basic geography, and a totally other thing to know a conflict half way across the world that took place before you were paying attention to world issues.
Then our World Issues, teacher started talking to us about it...
But you Aussies, Malayan Crisis, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq, East Timor... you guys get yourselves mixed into a lot of fights
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True that. But Canadian world schooling seems to be much better than ours.
Yeah, we kiss the arse of the Americans, it sucks. I have no idea what the Gulf War is though, isn't that the one the Americans are always going on about?
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I wouldn't know 
Gulf War is the 1991 invasion of Iraq. It was quick, in and out sort of affair to stop a rogue CIA agent who had been put in as dictator of Iraq and had run the country into the ground fighting a 10 year war against Iran on America's behalf. To avoid going bankrupt, he invaded Kuwait who had gotten rich stealing Iraqi oil, the Americans got angry, made a coalition and liberated Kuwait. Then they bombed Iraq into oblivion for a few months, and then everyone packed up and went home. Americans usually talk about Vietnam or Afghanistan.
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Huh. Sounds like a stupid war. Pity they didn't find the WMDs when they were there in the 90s >.>
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Well, "WMD" includes things such as mustard gas, which were used agaibst coalition forces in Israel. As it turns out awkwardly enough, chemical WMD's such as mustard gas haven't been effective against military targets since 1916...
So, yeah, the Americans made everyone fear something that couldn't have really hurt anybody
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Well isn't that just fantastic for all the soldiers that died over there?
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Well, Vietnam was worse. That war literally had no purpose.
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This would get truly interesting if China got back from the dead when the others squander against themselves...
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Perhaps... but WW3 is all about China v the US and Russia. It would be a bit strange if they recovered from that quickly.
South China's fairly loyal to the US, And the Northern Part is now part of Russian Mongolia... and Russia is allied to the US.
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...not anytime soon. XD
Still, nice background story.
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Thanks
A lot of my Red Skies stuff has something like that. If you are interested, check em out
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Red skies...
...never heard of that; mind giving a very short summary of it?
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So, lot's of little elements to it. But here goes..
So, since 9/11, the US has seen an erosion of freedom and increased corporate influence on government. Meanwhile, the same thing of course has been taking place in the UK and Canada. By the mid 2020's, while the US gave the appearance of having two parties, they essentially had a one party fascist system. On the other hand, the UK and Canada had a total reverse, and major populist reforms in government.
In New York, Governor Collins began to stand up against the tyrannical, corporate minded federal government which had lead the country to ruin. Mass environmental damage, destruction of the middle class, with a drones roaming the slums killing off descenting voices.
In 2025, New York Governor Victor Collins, a largely inspired by what had happened in the UK and Canada, began staring down the corrupt federal government, and began to implement laws in New York that began to restore the states middle class, kill off corruption and fix the ageing infrastructure (bridges, roads, subways etc). With corporate profits in the state dying off, corporations pushed the federal government to come in and overrule Collins laws. They did this, and Collins pushed for massive strikes. These went on for almost a year, and spread as far as Minnesota. By March 2030, almost the entire North Eastern US was shut down due to massive protests. The military and PMC's then stepped in to knock down the protesters, but the National Guard of many states fought back. Later that year, Russia and Canada stepped in on the side of the revolutionaries, leading to the North American War. In 2034, Collins won, and the US began to rebuild stronger, then it had been in decades.
Of course, they took on an Isolationist attitude, and centralized profits in a trade union between Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia. Primarily because the European Union was still run by those corporations that had ruined the US, and they didn't want to loose jobs to Asia again.
In 2050, having crashed the economy, run out of farm land and almost run out of water, China began to invade countries all throughout Asia to try and keep itself afloat. The US, being isolationist, didn't interfere, even as South Korea and the Philippines fell. When China reached Australia though... well, they finally decided enough was enough, and WW3 began. With early victories against the US, and the small US military on the defence in Australia and Alaska, China turned to Mongolia (which is essentially run by Russia) bringing the Russians in on the side of the US. Then the US managed to mobilize a larger force, the European Union joined, and in 2055, Beijing fell, ending that war.
The we get into Acadia... which begins when all the major wars of the 21st century are over and follows civilian counter spies in the US and Canada... but I wont explain that now.
But as far as armed conflict after WW3, you have Fascist taking over Greece, who then invade Malta, which causes a flashpoint between Greece and the UK. You have this little conflict between Australia, Canada and Indonesia. The French Revolution, where they try to emulate what happened in the NA War, with Germany and the UK coming in to help the revolutionaries. You also have the Japanese and the Americans+Russians going at it over an oil rich island that has been disputed over since 1910. And Finally Cuba and Canada get into a scuffle with Venezuela.
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Wow, that was long. O_O
And the Golden Dawn Party taking over Greece? I dig!
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I know
I want to write it all, but that'll take for ever! At least I have written something about the NA War. I may even have the finished within the next 5 years
Yeah, it's an interesting set up I think. I plan on making it a campaign in Arma 2 seeing as Arma 2 has good units for the UK and Greece... and I love using both. But alas, my gaming PC died. Hopefully I can do it in the near future though
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Dude, you made a future universe out of this; of course it will take long.
And Arma 2 has high-quality models of the Hellenic Army? No one told me. *doesn't have Arma 2* O_O
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Yeah... true. I need to live 2 centuries
Yep 
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Dunno if brain-uploading will be feasible in the near future... XD
My Patriotism is tingling!
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It better be.
You should get Arma 2
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Maybe. I don't know if my laptop can handle it well enough, though.
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That's true. Arma's a fairly taxing game
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As are many games that are available today.
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heh. yeah unfailing optimism of today's youth is a bit naive in my mind.
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Very much so. If you know what's going on the world it's very hard to be optimistic.
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*resurrects PROC*
*clears throat*
*nukes everyone fighting to fill the void*
Problem solved, mission accomplished.
(joking)
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That would be an awesome plan
Right up until you nuked everyone.
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ok then
-nuke
+antimatter weapon
+thermobaric cruise missile
There, should be a better plan.
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What's with the WMD's man? Americans can't pay back the debt if they are all dead.
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No, hitting on those who are trying to fill the void of china e.g. Indonesia and Australia.
Besides, it was a joke. -_-'
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Okay
I know, hence my sarcastic retort
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Learn that the world is beyond help?
Very detailed story for the pic btw.
You'd make a good politician Hahaha
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Well, Red Skies is the antithesis of that, since there is a lot of world helping going on in the story
I try
And I do think I'd make an awesome politician!
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I see, i probably wouldn't be too interested, i'm the kind of person who thinks War in it's entirety (Spell check?)
is pointless, we fight because of our differences, People can never truly live in peace with eachother.
and so fighting and dying for your country is pointless because it's only a matter of time before it happens again.
We send soldiers to their death, the only real perk i guess is that it's a job and they get paid hahaha (At least to them it would be)
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I personally believe you need to look at war on a case to case bases. All great social change comes from war. Every time you need social change, or a reaffirmation of an existing system, you need a war. On the other hand, no one is ever going to be able to justify the Second Gulf War.
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." ~George S. Patton
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I think i've seen that while playing Call of Duty once Hahaha
That's true, but social change isn't worth dying for if you ask me.
btw "Try to look unimportant, they might be low on Ammo"
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Well, you aren't living in Libya. Australia isn't exactly an example of a country that needs sweeping social change. It's harder to understand if you don't live in a country that has problems worth literally fighting to fix.
Of course, the extensive research that is required to do the game theory that allows me to build the RS world has made it quite clear to me that sometimes storming the gates is the only way to fix a very serious problem. I think if you really understood just how bad the average persons life is in some countries, and just how few rights some people have, you would change that opinion on a dime.
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Trust me, i know lots of people live terrible lives, poverty bodies in the streets
I know that alot of people have it 1000 times harder than others.
But that's their lives, They suffer because of other people, we bring misfortune on ourselves and other people are forced to pay for our mistakes.
I accept that this world is beyond help, i live my life with my head down and try not to concern myself with the lives of others.
Of course, if someone who i 'could' help was right in front of me and needed help, i would probably give it.
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But, if everyone picked up a gun, at least some people could be helped... or they could help themselves improve there situation marginally. You throw in a few thousand NATO troops, with legitimately positive intentions, things start turning around really quickly. The AIDS crisis in Africa could be solved in a year if we relieved the interest on there debt.
As the story goes: "There were once two men walking on the beach. Scattered along the beach were hundreds of starfish. Seeing this, one of the men began throwing them back into the ocean. His friend stated 'why would you waste your time doing that. You can only save a few, and those you save will probably be back here tomorrow.' The other man turned to him with a starfish and said, 'but it mattered to this one, and this one, and this one as well' and he continued to throw the starfish back into the ocean."
Many issues are easily solved, but complacent people make it very hard to achieve change. I think it's part of the reason the world has fallen apart under our parents generation, and I hope to god our generation does better.
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You're very velcome as alvays.
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Game theory is a wonderful thing
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both picture and writing!
(which reminds me, I should be working on my story.....)
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Zank you kind sir
I started on dA doing writing, but I've been moving away from it more and more over the last year :/ But I can still write decently... at least, I like to believe I can.
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By Jove, it would seem as if we have mutually reached synonymous conclusions on the topic at hand.
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