A country divided

Day 402, 08:36 • Published in Sweden Sweden • by Krushnow

During the First Swedish-German war the neighbouring countries France and Italy, which were members of the Mediterranean Alliance (MA, this alliance I will treat in another article), decided they might as well do some warring of their own. The results of this war still echoes today...


Invasion of a peaceful nation

On 11 May 2008 France and Italy invaded the traditionally very neutral country (both in real life and in eRep) Switzerland. This was the first war where two nations attacked attacked the same country simultaneously, the reason for this war is disputed. The MA's citizens claim that it's because of that Switzerland had an MPP with Norway (who was one of the founders of the Nordic Alliance and a long time ally to Sweden) and the NA's (Nordic Alliance) citizens often say that it was a unprovoced act of agression. The goal however is quite clearer, the MA needed to show of their strength and Switzerland was a relatively easy target.

This war was internationally disliked and even Spain, a member of MA protested it, this resulted in people moving to Switzerland to help them in their struggle, Norway helped the country immensely and for a while it actually seemed as if Switzerland would get to keep their land. The swedish government even sent aid to Switzerland even though they had a war of their own to manage. Don't think they all helped because of the goodness of their heart, no, if MA was to conquer Switzerland they would have a gateway to Sweden and NA (which we're witnessing at this very moment here in Sweden). However this failed and Switzerland was annexed in two days, Italy got one region and France were given four (not very fairly shared I think).

This war was the Mediterranean Alliance first offense and it instilled fear or if not that respect by the other countries. You may wonder why I wrote about this since you can easily find a very well-written page about this on the wiki but it's very bias and makes the MA seem like do-gooders and that it was all the NA's fault. This was one of the last wars in Europe as soon there would be a stalemate between the MA and NA. This stalemate has been going on up pretty much up until now. We reap what we sow as it's said.