WWIII Time Line

= PARPG Intro =

Journal Entry, "March" 2009. Somewhere outside Trondheim, Norway.

Well, this is trite. I have been sitting in this snow cave for 3 days now, and the storm is not letting up. Even if it does, I am not sure how far I can walk on this foot. And the food stores, are as they say, running a bit dry.... So here is the story of the state of the world, future man. I hope you brought a nite light, because it's a little scary. Never underestimate the capacity of a human being to seek revenge. To throw good lives after bad, to right perceived injustice with ever increasing injustice in turn.

I guess what might be called "World War Three" started around 1988. That was followed shortly by World Wars Four and Five, although the historians will probably debate whether it was one war or three, or just the final spasm of "The Cold War". That's assuming there are any historians around to debate it. Ha, "cold war", that's funny. If they only knew the irony those worlds would assume out here in the 21st Century.

So, the world was in pretty good shape twenty years ago. Reagan was president, and the Jelly-stained-head dude, Garbaachevek or something, he seemed to be willing to to finally admit that the Soviet system was inferior. But I guess he moved too fast. Got ahead of himself. Got himself coup'd and that fucker Nolatov took over.


 * Need to check late cold war time line
 * 1985 - Gorby takes over, reforms begin
 * 1985/1986 Russian hard liners take over, reoccupy and resolidify Warsaw pact, whip up nationalism. Instead of political and economics reforms to save stagnant economy, USSR turns to outright aggression and conquest.
 * Gorbachev removed
 * Possible hard-liner replacements:
 * Nikolay Ogarkov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Ogarkov
 * Konstantin Chernenko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko (doesn't get sick in 1984)
 * Yuri Andropov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov (doesn't get sick in 1983)
 * Viktor Chebrikov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Chebrikov
 * Vitaly Fedorchuk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Fedorchuk
 * Oleg Shenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Shenin
 * None of the above really seem fully "Stalinistic" like the character we need... so we could invent a dude (alt-universe Putin?) or have one of these guys get one of those "evil" brain-tumors.
 * 1986-1988 time marked by substantial increase in world tension and military build up
 * Reagan/Bush (1988 election) push back hard and begin to openly support Afganistan with US troops
 * ALTERNATE: Dukakis wins 1988 election; appeases soviets?
 * US begins to split between hardline anti-commmunist and liberal hippie types, as increased military preparedness and spending causes domestic tension
 * 1989 Bush assasinated (presumably by Russian agents), President Qualye sworn in.
 * Qualye does some dumbass shit, resulting in both worsening international relations as well as widening the gap in the US.
 * Russia, sensing weakness invades finland and begins annexing eastern bits of Rumania/Bulgaria/Poland under the guise of restoring pre-WWI borders.
 * NATO balks at the defense of Finland, with the US looking leaderless. President Qualye threatens atomic retaliation over the invasion of Finland and other acts of Soviet agression.  In a "reverse cuban", the Russians call his bluff, and Qualye doesn't act.
 * the US is plunged open riots, and civil unrest.. possibly civil war.
 * The Soviets invade Germany and western europe, begin to use battlefield nuclear weapons
 * NATO is in disarray with unrest in the US, but Soviet attack empowers right wing take over of US. Martial Law in the US is declared; "liberal" Senators and Congressmen are put under house arrest.
 * With Soviets nearing French/German border, French government begins systematic destruction of Russian population centers, USSR retaliates in kind vs. France/England.