MotF 31: All You Can Annex Buffet

Krall

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ALL YOU CAN ANNEX BUFFET


The Challenge
Your challenge is to make a map concerning a harsh peace treaty that has been imposed on the losing side of a war. The peace treaty may annex some areas of the losing nation into other countries, or split off parts of the losing nation into new countries, alternatively it may impose sanctions on the size of the loser's military or demand that they pay war indemnities to the victor. Whatever the terms of the treaty it must be harsh and unreasonable. You map may simply depict the exact effects of the peace treaty or the later effects of it (e.g. the reunification of a nation split apart in the peace treaty, or the economic effects of a nation trying to pay off their war indemnities).


The Restrictions
ASB and future maps are not allowed. Maps may not be set before 1400 or after the present day.



This round shall finish on Saturday the 26th of February.

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Thande

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Fairly basic but I thought I would get the ball rolling. You can base these on existing AH scenarios, can't you?

My take on the Americas of Decades of Darkness in 1910 after the United States lost the North American War. Consumed with victory euphoria, the Halifax Powers went a bit crazy. Having not expected Lewis Mitchell's sudden expansionism, they were determined to punish the USA hard enough to make any future such wars impossible (not that that has ever backfired ;) ). To that end, Canada has annexed the northwestern states of the USA--mostly sparsely populated, except Wilkinson--and rearranged them as three territories. New England has taken the 'Free Trio' states of Pennsylvania, Westsylvania and Ohio and currently rules them as territories. Both Canada and New England are aware of the problems of bringing fierce American patriots into their countries as voters, so to counterbalance their eventual accession as full states/provinces, they have been careful to bring in more loyal voters. The remainder of British North America has joined Canada (against its will) and New England has given Haiti statehood, accepted the Dominican Republic's immediate accession as a state, and annexed half of Cuba and Puerto Rico, giving them immediate voting rights--believing the black voters will counterbalance the Americans in the three northern states.

Further south, the "alt-Gallipoli" of the Australians in Central America succeeded in TTL, and Central America has been ripped from the Americans' grasp and combined with Costa Rica to make a new anti-American border state. This is essentially run by Australia as a colony and is a banana republic, coping with its large angry white American population by rigging elections. The remainder of the American West Indies has been added to Britain's possessions and organised into a new Confederation of the West Indies with limited self-rule. American Suriname has been annexed into British Guyana, potentially storing up border disputes for the future with Venezuela and Brazil.

The Amistad powers have not benefited territorially from the war--for them, survival is reward enough. And as the New Englanders, Canadians, Australians and British will learn, trying to rule over all those angry former American citizens is going to cause headaches...

Map follows in next post.
 

Thande

Donor
And the map-

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Ok, nothing too fancy.

In this TL Hitler never came to power, the Soviet military buildup was slower, and when Beria misheard something at a party in 1942, he panicked and assassinated Stalin.

Not being a popular guy, he was unable to successfully step into his boss's shoes, and the Soviet government underwent a period of, shall we say, uncertainty, and deciding to take advantage of the unrest, an overconfident Polish government with some shiny new French-made tanks decided to support a rebellion in the Ukraine, and the Japanese then joined in in the east. Unfortunately for the Poles and Japanese, the attack soon consolidated the leadership behind one of the candidates for leadership, Beria's body was dragged from the ruins of the Kremlin, and the full weight of the Red Army soon was turned against the invaders.

By 1943 said Red Army had the Japanese half way down the Korean peninsula and were well within Polish pre-war borders. If they had stopped there, things might have been alright, but less cautious than Stalin, the new leadership cheerfully replied to German protests about the commies forces approaching their borders with a suggestion of a return to 1914 borders. This actually found some favor with many in the German government, but in the end an ultimatum was issued as the Soviets approached the Polish capital, backed by the British government under Prime Minister Mosley. Not particularly alarmed by the still fairly small German army (expansion had taken place at an affordable rate, unlike Hitler's Germany), the Soviet leadership issued a propaganda blast and made much noise about the opressed Polish workers crying out for liberation from their tyrannical, militarist government...

Things expanded. In the end, in spite of the Siege of Berlin, the badly led (the Purges had gone through as OTL) and desertion-prone Red Army failed to overrun Germany, a Grand Coaltion of the UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, and a load of smaller countries,[1] backed by US finance, managed to push the Reds back across the Vistula, and although resistance stiffened once Russians were defending their homeland, in 1947, atomic bombs, a joint German-British project, fell on Leningrad and brought about a surrender. (The French, once it was clear the Red Army would not reach the Rhine, contributed rather grudgingly to a project which confirmed Germany's reemergence as Europe's main military power and Big Daddy of Eastern Europe).

The peace terms were...ungentle.

[1] The Chinese, which had no real beef with the Soviets and had managed to avoid the Japanese invasion of OTL, joined late and opportunistically for whatever they could grab.

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Most of the description is in the map, just a few notes:

-The POD is that the pro-Soviet government in Afghanistan collapses slightly later, after the Iranian Revolution has already begun, and the USSR assesses Iran to be a bigger threat than the mujihadeen. The US, seeing the Soviets back Iraq, decides it doesn't want a Soviet proxy in Iran, and backs Saudi Arabia and later Pakistan in intervening against Iran.

-Kurdistan is Iraq-friendly because it's not run by actual Kurdish nationalists. It's more of a dumping-ground into which Iraq can deport Kurds, and it's led by collaborationists. Similarly, Balochistan is meant to quiet demands within Pakistan for Balochi separatism, since they "already have a homeland" in ex-Iran.

-The Gulf Alliance is heavily pro-American, and receives a lot of aid from the USA, although the most powerful member, Saudi Arabia, also has some power. The Kandahar Pact is a Pakistan-dominated Sunni Islamist alliance, with weaker ties to the USA.

-The Republic of Iran is a neutral, demilitarized state equally propped up by the Americans and the Soviets.

And the map:

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First MoF try out of Boredom

I kept the annexations rather limited (except for Ecuador), but assume the worst for military personnel limitations for Columbia & Peru. Indeed, the entire regime should likely change hands in Columbia - though the US will be less than pleased...

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Not much to say about this.

Basically, Napoleon was smarter on the continent, so Britain went "STFU N00B!" and went on a colonial annexation spree. They told the US "Hey, if you want Louisiana and Florida, you can have them, as long as you back the independence movements in Spanish America.", which the Americans thought "Sure, why not?"

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Anglo-Mexican War, aftermath

Background: Here, Texas became a British ally, and an Anglo-Mexican war was fought in 1845-1846. As part of the terms of the peace (which also saw Texas and Yucatan confirmed as independent states in the British sphere), Mexico was forced to pay £1,000,000,000 in indemnities - a sum that all thought would set its development back years.

Then the 1850s came. Flourishing trade with newly-opened Japan, discoveries of gold and silver in Alta California, and a strengthened friendship with the US (who had a common foe in Britain) helped fuel a massive economic boom in Mexico, and by 1852 - just six years after the Treaty was signed - the indemnity was repaid in full.

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I've never entered MotF before, but I'm snowed in and bored, so I figured why not?

The premise here is that due to a non-specific POD, the Confederacy does better than OTL in the American Civil War and manages to force a negotiated peace. The CSA gets West Virginia back as part of Virginia. They also get the southern half of the New Mexico Territory (south of the 34th parallel) and most of Oklahoma (divided at the Missouri compromise line). However they must also renounce any claims they had on Kentuckey and Missouri. Meanwhile, butterflies result in Maximillian defeating Juarez and solidifying his hold in Mexico.

Now we skip ahead approximately 20 years to 1885. The CSA is having problems with Mexico's stubborn refusal to return slaves that escape across the border. Tensions rise, and hawks on each side call for war. However those hawks are in a very small minority and no one is actually expecting war to break out. That is, until the beloved Emperor Maximillian of Mexico is assassinated. Maximillian's 22 year old adopted son takes the throne as Agustin II and immediately pins the blame on the Confederacy. Whether or not the Confederacy was actually behind the assassination will probably never be known. Regardless, most historians see this as an attempt by Agustin to solidify his reign by creating a "rally round the flag" effect. Despite making early gains against unprepared Confederate troops, by the end of the year the Mexican-Confederate War devolves into a bloody stalemate. By 1888, Agustin decides that radical action must be taken. He contacts the US and offers them a deal. In return for declaring war on the Confederacy, Mexico will "sell" (read: give) the US the Baja Penninsula upon the successful conclusion of the war. Many in the US had wanted to get back at the Confederacy anyway, so after much consideration, the deal is accepted. The Confederacy was having enough dificulties dealing with only Mexico. They quickly find that they are woefully unprepared for a two front war. Meanwhile, the natives in OTL Oklahoma take advantage of the war to set up their own government, forming the Confederation of American Tribes. The Mexican-American victory is swift. By 1889, Mexican troops are at the gates of Austin, American troops have Richmond surrounded and the US Navy has managed to land an army in the vicinity of New Orleans which is wreaking havoc all across Louisiana. The Confederacy sues for peace. The diplomats meet at Havana, where the Spanish have agreed to mediate.

The terms of the Treaty of Havana are as follows:
- The CSA will cede the OTL state of West Virginia and the Virginian portion of the Delmarva Penninsula to the USA.
- The CSA will cede all land west of the Pecos River to the Mexican Empire.
- The CSA will recognize the Confederation of American Tribes as an independent nation.
- The CSA will grant the USA unfettered navigation rights to the Mississippi River.
- The city of New Orleans will be recognized by all parties as a Free City independent of any nations' jurisdiction.
- The Mexican Empire will transfer the Baja Penninsula to the USA for a small sum of money as promised.

Following the treaty, Texas is enraged by the CSA central government giving some of its land away, calling it "an illegal usurpation of power." They promptly secede from the Confederacy and re-establish the Republic of Texas, taking what is left of the Arizona Territory with them.

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First Time I've done a MOF comp for ages (think the last one I did was 4 or 5)

Anyway, here is a map of England in the time of the Danelaw, basically the Anglo-saxons put up a more united front in the wars against the Norse, and the all you can eat Annexing starts after the Norse are soundly defeated in war (instead of beating the crap out of the English)

*Note Mameceaster was what one of the Mercian kings called the Manchester Area, (and named a Burgh so), there wasn't a name for the area at the time (Lancaster only existed post-middle ages) and Cumberland is independent as Strathclyde (otl owners) was more preoccupied with northern Northumbria.

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POD is that the Schlieffen Plan is carried out exactly as it was conceived, and the stronger German right wing was able to smash the BEF, and fell upon Pairs from the rear. The French troops in Alsace were surrounded, cut off, and demoralised, and surrendered two weeks later, allowing the Germans to transfer the bulk of their forces to the east before the Russians had fully mobilised.

The Russians advance was halted at the Battle of Tannenberg, and several weeks later, when troops transferred from the west began to arrive, they were also driven out of Galicia and Poland. The Russians put up a hard fight, and the winter gave them a chance to solidify their defensive positions. The Central Powers had no wish to follow in Napoleon's footsteps, and remained stationary during the winter months. When the thaw came, the German and Austrian forces attacked, but much to the surprise of everybody, the Russians held, and continued to do so. It was not until months later, in August, that the Central Powers managed to properly break the Russian lines, and even when they did, the Russians executed a skilful retreat, and managed to halt the Austro-German advance again before winter set in.

Over the winter, the Central powers revised their strategies, and in the spring, their advance finally broke through the Russian lines once more, and six German cavalry divisions exploited the breakthrough to mount a surprise attack on Moscow. This was quickly followed up by twenty German infantry divisions, and in late May, the Tsar, who had refused to leave the city, was captured. Three days later, the treaty of Brest-Litowsk was signed, taking Russia out of the war.

This final show of the Tsar's weakness was the beginning of the end, and by November, much of the country was in outright revolution. However, the revolutionaries had many different political beliefs, and the different socialists, republicans, and independence movements were unable to work together. By 1917, Russia was a hell-hole with at least twenty factions fighting each other.

The Central Powers now moved in to reinforce their old enemy, and propped up the Tsar's regime as a buffer against the spectre of socialists and republicans who threatened to destabilise their world order. In 1920, the Tsar made his first concessions, recognising the independent republics of Finland and Georgia. By this time, the Worker's Republic of Transcaucasia was also de facto independent, as was the Federal Worker's Republic of Central Asia, which would be recognised the next year.

By this point, the uncertainty of 1917 had calmed somewhat, and in the remains of Russia were fighting the People's Republic of Ukraine, the Worker's Republic of Transcaucasia, and the white Republic of Siberia.

The Republic of Siberia was never recognised by the Tsar, but was de facto independent from 1923, while in the south, the PRU stabilised it's borders in 1925, and was recognised the same year, though there was no formal recognition of it by the Republic of Ukraine or the Worker's Republic of Transcaucasia.

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For the past ten years the allied nations of Mexico and Virginia launched a war against the corrupt, and oppressive Empire of Louisiana (House of Bonaparte). The Empire lost horrifically to the Allies, and the old order has been entirely destroyed with the carving up of the "Old Man of America", once easily the most powerful nation of America. Peace once again returns to the continent, and the new nations struggle to rebuild from the horrific aftermath. However, in the words of the Premier of Virginia, Gerrard MacKie "This is not a treaty, but a cease fire for twenty years."

Notes:
a. The UK of Canada and Acadia is under a Bourbon monarch, and remained more or less neutral in the conflict, but swung more towards the Allies.
b. The Kansas Republic is mostly settled by Huguenots
c. Techas is spelled that way due to its settlement by the French
d. The native states all have sizable populations of escaped slaves from Louisiana.
e. Florida is in the Mexican sphere because its population is mostly Hispanic.
f. The Ohio Valley area was annexed to Virginia mostly because the largest percentage of the population are Virginian squatters.

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1445

Pod:
The battle of Patay was a failure for the French, resulting in the death of Joan of Arc and much of the French army. The English and Burgundians took advantage of the disaster to push deeper into France, reclaiming much of the teritory they had lost under Joans forces, forcing the french back from the Orleans, Troyes and Tours regions.
By 1436 the French army was in disarray and retreat, regoruping to the south-east, whilst having lost most of the central and northern possesions to the English/Burgundian armies (with Brittany declearing neutrality)...
The newly crowned king, Charles VII (albeit he didnt have majority support to be king) tried to get the Kingdom of Aragon and Navarre into the war. This worked...althoough not the way he liked..

1440, the Aragonese army was seizing control of French territories around the pyrennes and coast, whilst aiding English fleets to land around the souterhn coastline, crppiling what little defenses the French had remaining.
1443, the Burgundians captured Louis the Prudent at the battle of Montpellier, destroying the relief army Charles VII desperatly needed...
With three fronts, to the north, south and west, and no backing from other nations, in june 1444, the last Valois king surrended to English forces having surrounded the town.
12th of Febuary 1445, the Treaty of Paris was signed, with the House of Valois acknowledging the terms of unconditional surrender imposed by the English, Burgundians and Aragonese labeled in this map created at the time:
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Based off TL-191:
The Confederacy won the civil war. More then that, they have managed to gain some more territory and have subjugated Mexico. They took part - along with their British and French allies - in the construction of the Panama canal. Thus they managed to grow economically and as a result of foreign pressure and industrialisation the CSA has abolished slavery, and by a majority of 2/3 of the Confederate congress. Now with the free blacks the CSA economy grew even further. However that is not to say that economy - as well as revanchism - has declined in the USA. In the Yankee north there is contempt for anything southern and the tensions along the border only keep rising, as both nations are fairly powerful.

In Europe and Africa, the situation went as it has IOTL, and in the early 1900's tensions rose between the Entente and the central powers. In Austria-Hungary, the Habsburgs created a federation involving all of the peoples under their rule, thus keeping a stable rule agreeable upon whole its people. There was one slight modification in the Ottoman Empire, though - insted of being deposed, the Sultan Murad V (who favoured reforms) was not deposed and was not replaced by his tyrannical brother Abdulhamid. As a result, the Ottoman Empire grew more liberalised, modernised and westernised and managed to become a stronger power and take better hold of the Arabian peninsulla, destroying those pesky and annoying Saudis an keeping some (more) territory in Europe. Ethiopia, however, wasn't only succesful in resisting foreign occupation - it was also succesful in Modernisation and has made steps to replace their 18th cannons with modern weapons and to build their first factories.

An even greater change was that in China - after realising their folly, the Chinese have begun modernisation and westernisation of their country following the failure of the Opium wars. The subsequent reforms did not make China fully westernised and most of the country remains agrarian, but the Qing dinasty is a much greater force to be reckoned with - much more then IOTL. China's opinion in foreign relations truly matters. The Qings are much more stable and their rule does not collapse as it did IOTL in 1912 and China only remains strong.

In South America the Emperor of Brazil was not deposed and the Coup against him failed. Pedro II went on to rule his country until 1893 when he died in peace. The stability of Brazil remained and since it has puppetised Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance - unlike OTL - it is stronger, perhaps even having a say in foreign policy. And Bolivia -well, irridentism and revanchism hardly ever die and the Bolivians wish to gain back the lands which they have lost to the Chileans 30 years ago, and Argentina supports them - which raises tensions between Chile and Argentina, the latter also supported by the UK.

And then the Archduke got himself all dead.

The following war began as it has, but ITTL the USA immediately showed its support for the Central powers- hoping to impress their German allies and to aggravate their Southern neighbour. As a result, the CSA has stood besides their allies in the Entente. Needless to say tensions rose pretty quickly and war between the two ensued. The Yanks invaded Canada and managed to capture British Columbia with little resisting, then pushing forward to Alaska and conquering it as well. In the East, Quebec was conquered with even smaller resistance and out of it the USA created the Republic of Quebec, which was a puppet of the USA. In Ontario there was some notable resistance, especially in Toronto. However this was not enough. As the situation in the South was stagnating, the one in the north was going rather well. The governor-general of Canada - realising he has no chance of winning - quickly signed a peace treaty with the Americans by which Canada cedes Yukon, British Columbia and the Maritimes to the US and recognises Quebec as an independent republic. The troops now turned south and and managed to help a bit, however Mexico was forced to join the war on behalf of the CSA due to it being partially-puppetised by the CS. To counter that, the US convinced Guatamela to join the war on their behalf, and encouraged Yucatanese seperatists to revolt, so as to force Mexico City to turn its attention elsewhere.

In South America, Bolivia thought the time to be fit and attacked Chilean troops, with little success on either side. Argentina was supplying aid to the UK as a result of the two countries' friendship. Argentina decided to assist its Bolivian friend and attacked Chile. Brazil then clearly saw the situation as advantageable, and - alongside their little Paraguayan ally - invaded both Bolivia and Argentina, putting it in a collision course directly with the UK, which sent ships to secure the supply routes from south America. Those ships were attacked by Brazil and Chile, and as a result of the situation in both North and South America, much of the British navy was forced o turn its attention into places which were not the North Sea. The result was a loss at the battle of Jutland, which led to a severe weakening of the British blockade over Germany, allowing Jerry to prosper even during wartime.

Germany was more succesful against the Belgians as a result of better preperation and the help of the Netherlands - which joined to war on the side of the Central Powers. Germany was advancing - albeit quite slowly - into France, and a more-competent Austria was fighting off the Italians and little Serbia was no match for them. Even more pressure was put on the Eastern front. Portugal joined the war as well, however one thing much more important - Spain. Spain assisted Germany in the war effort before but now in 1916 it was officially at was with the entente. Much pressure was put in the Carribbean, and even more in Pyrenees and against the Portuguese.

The Ottoman Empire managed to attack the Suez canal quite succesfuly, and by the summer of 1916 most of the Sinai was at their hands. Without the British so powerful as before and without the Arab revolt even the Southern part of Arabia was now in Ottoman hands. The advance into the Caucasus against Russia was led not by Enver Pasha, but by a more competent man, who did not hesitate to give his men proper winter equipment. the Caucasus campaign was a great victory for the Ottomans, but it made the Russians and their British allies fear. Not only Arabia and the Balkan in CP hands, but now the hinterland of Russia. Using their influences in Persia, the Shah of Persian declared war on the Ottomans. He was not succesful and in march 1917 Tehran was occupied.

But British India was still British, and the Germans had to do something about it. So the Chinese stepped in and through a series of secret agreements with the Dragon Emperor's officials it was decided that China will recieve extensive swaths of Land in return for their involvement, including the right to annex German possesion in East Asia after they take them from the Japanese. It was succesful. Through the Himalayas, Chinese troops ascended against British India and incited the people into revolts. They occupied and annexed Transamur and advanced much into Siberia and some parts of Central Asia. Indochina was attacked by the Chinese and the French could do little to defend their colonies. The Spaniards in the Philippines and the Dutch in Indonesia attempted to help to the campaing, as well. Korea was being occupied from the North, but Formosa was still in Japanese hands. It will go the China after the war.

Even Ethiopia joined the war on behalf of the Central Powers, and they even managed to occupy the Horn of Africa and have proven themselves helpful in the Sudan.

French troops began to mutiny and the Germans quickly knew how to exploit that, and have come to the outskirts of Paris. In the Americas the Etnente was pushed back, with the warfare being much more dynamic than in Western Europe. the Western half of the CSA was mostly Yankee-occupied by this point and US troops were closing in on Richmond and its Grey House. Chilean and Brazilian troops were advancing all the way and the Guineas were under Brazilian and Dutch comination. The Spaniards advanced deep into southern France and into Portugal, and the Austrians have took over Venetia and most of Serbia. Macedonia was wrestled away from Serbia by Bulgaria, and the fate of Dobruja was similiar. The rest of Romania was occupied by Austrian troops, and the rest of Eastern Europe mostly by Germans. The Russians revolted and pulled out of the war, then only descending into civil war between the Socialists and Monarchists. The Ottomans held the Caucasus and occupied Saloniki and Persia and advanced quickly into the Turkic-speaking lands in Central Asia and have begun to advance into OTL Pakistan. In Central Asia they have met with Chinese troops.Both Ottomans and Germans poured in from the Sinai into Egypt and occupied Cairo. Infact, German colonies were now being liberated - in 1918. They were mostly conquered by the Entente earlier during the war, but were now being taken-over again.

On December 5th, 1918, the Battle for Paris was over. All French and British troops in the city have surrendered and the French Capital was conquered. This day the French government surrendered, facing demise on all possible fronts. Three days later - with most of their troops trapped on Mainland France or hopeless in the colonies - London handed its surrender over to the Central Powers. Four days later - with American troops at the outskirts of Richmond - the CSA followed suit.The rest of the Entente governments did the same in the following three days, and the war was officialy over.

On the loser's expense, a "peace conference" was held in the Versailles palace outside Paris. This conference collapsed old orders and changed the world. It also squeezed all it could out of the humbled Entente Powers.

Bellow is a map showing the sides in the war before it began(Entente in green, sentral powers in orange), and a map showing the outcome of the peace conference:

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Slipping in at the last moment.

The first map technically wasn't made for this, but the second one was so I think I'm still good.

POD: Napoleon gets sent to Istanbul. He helps solidify the Franco-Ottoman alliance and modernise the Ottomans. With their help hegemony in Europe is acheived. The War of 1812 still occurs in North America, but Britain goes a little nuts on the US to make up for loosing in Europe. Overtime Britain and Russia grow closer and pick up a few allies.
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Britain's navy ruled the waves, but with Europe and the USA having far more people and industry the land war was decided from the start. The Csar was killed in an attempted coup and now Radicalists (alt-communists) are trying to take control of Russia. The same occured in Canada.
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