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With only ten wars left and one page left to cover we are getting very close to the present day. I have decided against doing a long article like I did last time since our media will more then likely be spammed by people asking “how do I eat” right after I post it and nobody will get to read it. So here is part five of the seven part series.


Chinese Annexation

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Duration May 5th- May 14th (9 days)
Aggressor: China
Defender: Pakistan
Other defenders: Germany, Indonesia, and Iran
Total number of fights: 356
Fights per day: 27.38
Battles: 31
Result: Pakistan sweeps China, China eliminated

Analysis

Due to China's inactivity and small population some Pakistanis were able to mount a successful take over in China. They then declared war on Pakistan in hopes of annexation, due to China's inactivity they were able to have the proposal pass five votes to none. Though no other nations officially condemned the takeover several individuals did move to China to fight the Pakistanis although without any foreign support there was not much hope for China.

China did have an advantage when they started this war geographically. China at the time had 29 regions second only to the United States with 51. This gave them a lot of time to get organized before they would be completely wiped off and it ended up taking Pakistan nine days to capture all of China even though they never lost a battle. When the war started China did not have very many people to defend their provinces and Pakistan just rolled over them at the beginning. Later though a defense did get organized at Yunnan and there were 129 fights in that battle but it was not enough to deter the Pakistanis and the defense got tired out after that battle.

After the delay the Pakistanis moved on to take the rest of China and increase their region count to fifty. However these annexation's by Pakistan have not proved helpful as there were very few citizens who lived in China and India so they did not receive a big citizen or productivity boost.


The Alpine Wars

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Duration May 11th- May 13th (2 days)
Aggressors: Italy and France
Defender: Switzerland
Total number of fights: 1,130 (729 Italian and 401 French)
Fights per day: 565
Battles: 5 (2 Italian and 3 French)
Result: Italy takes one region while France takes the other three, Switzerland eliminated.

Anaylisis

This war was unique in the fact that there were actually two nations trying to take one country at once. They met on the battlefield in three different battles but due to the lack of a system to determine the spoils of war the region went to the nation who started the battle first.

At the start of May a large group of immigrants flocked to Switzerland in hopes of starting up a Utopian society and they were successful until they signed a mutual protection pact with Norway. This worried members of the Mediterranean alliance who feared that with this happening soon after Sweden took most of Germany that the Scandinavians were gaining influence down close to their borders and that this upstart Switzerland may pose a threat if they were allied with Sweden. France and Italy then both declared war on Switzerland before the MPP would be activated.

The Northern Alliance then sent down troops to help defend Switzerland while the Mediterranean alliance sent their troops to back the invasion. It was a clash of two powerful alliances in a neutral nation. Unlike China, Switzerland only had four regions and did not have much time to gather support. The French who declared war before the Italians took the first two regions with ease while the Italians took one of the remaining two. The Italians then got a chance to take the last swiss region but the swiss made a determined offensive there putting up 401 fights (which matched the total number of fights by the French in the whole war) and kept the Italians from finishing off Switzerland. After the Italian defeat the French came in and were able to win in 179 fights against a tired Swiss defense.

In the end the Mediterranean alliance had won and a new Iron Curtain seemed to of descended upon Europe.