Aberso–Illyrian War

Aberso-Illyrian War
Part of Anti-Communist Wars of the 21 Century
A New Illyrian frigate sailing out from Andrafolia to fight in the Second Battle of Claufenese Sea
Date 23 September 2023-present Location Andaluzian Sea Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Communist forces: New Illyricum Supported by: Zloveshchiy Tumland	Anti-Communist forces: Abersiania Jackson Kivu Montcrabe Supported by: Paleocacher Rakhman Tumland
Commanders and leaders
Ernesto Lucius Scaevolus Mario Antinus	Jeremy Hausch

The Aberso-Illyrian War is an ongoing military conflict between New Illyricum and Abersiania which began on September 23, 2023. Following the uncovering of the Shaoyu Island genocide and the OU military intervention in Shaoyu tensions began to arise between the Illyrian and Abersianian primarily over control of the Claufenese Sea and the shipping lanes which run through it.

Background

Anti-Communist Movements in the 21 Century

Morovan Civil War and the Morovan Crisis

Main article: Morovan Civil War

Main article: 2019–2020 Morovan crisis

In 2019, in the communist island nation of Morova, after Premier Marko Remeus was impeached by the Parliament of Morova and Fyodor Ivanovich took power in a coup d'état. However revolutionary forces under Alyosha Karamazov defeated Ivanovich in the Morovan Civil War resulting in a military dictatorshipp being established. Peacekeeping troops from the International Coalition for Morova (INTCOMOR) were sent to defeat the communist dictatorial military forces on the island. INTCOMOR not only had goals to remove the communist forces of Karamozov from power, they also wished to gain access to the oil reservoirs which populated Morova's southern coast. In a one year war, INTCOMOR eventually defeated Karamazov and his submarine fleet at the Battle of the Glaceis Ocean on March 31, 2020, capturing the communist dictator. Karamazov was executed in Quebecshire four days after the battle and INTCOMOR eventually ceded the Island of Morova to Groffenord, ending one of the last communist strongholds in Ecros.

OU military intervention in Ajakanistan

Main article: 2022 Ajaki–Paleocacherian conflict

Main article: OU military intervention in Ajakanistan

The country of Ajakanistan on the continent of Ostlandet was a long standing communist nation until 2022, when tensions began to rise between Ajakanistan and Paleocacher after a Paleocacherian ship captured an Ajaki trawler sailing through their waters and then refused to return the Ajaki fisherman to Ajakanistan on the basis that they had allegedly committed murder, attempted murder, and several other crimes relating to violating Paleocacherian water territory. Tensions continued to rise between the countries after a small skirmish between naval vessels and after the Government of Paleocacher began intiatiating sanctions on the Ajaki people. On March 22, 2022, Ajaki citizens highjacked the Paleocacherian Trans-Oceanic Airlines Flight 266 and demanded the release of the fishermen, however Paleocacherian troops refused their demands and rescued the bystanders on the flight. In October of 2022, after the assassination of Leonid Luboshov, the Director of the National Ajaki Intelligence Agency, at the hands of Pavulturilori agents, Ajaki Supreme Leader Vladimir Kareiv authorized the mobilization of three ships in the Romanyan Sea to counter the naval power of Pavulturilori Navy. In the Battle of the Romanyan Sea, Pavulturilori forces won a pyrrhic victory, ending the recently mobilized Ajaki fleet. The Government of Pavulturilor then mobilized forces of the Cooperation and Development Coalition (CODECO), a large international alliance, against Ajakanistan. In addition to mobilizing CODECO, Pavulturilor called for the arrest of Vladimir Kareiv on charges of violating Pavulturilor's sovereign territory to the Terraconserva Council of Nations (TCN). Several members of the Ajaki government, including Kareiv, and Mikhail Ryzhikov, the commander of the Ajaki Navy, and others. Paleocacher then called a meeting of the Council of Ostlandet, which condemned Ajakanistan and increased sanctions. Kareiv, who was in attendance, was arrested outside the meeting place and detained by the Ostlandet Union (OU). Soon after Kareiv's arrest, Ajakanistan collapsed into anti-government protests eventually leading to the establishment of the Free Council of Ajakanistan, which was a pro-monarchist governmental body, which most OU counties recognized as the true government of Ajakanistan. On November 22, delegates from the Free Council convened a meeting with OU representatives in Castlederg, Gjorka, however in the course of negotiations the Ajaki communist government launched a missile strike, killing over 200 civilians and injuring over 3,000 more. Gjorka immeadiatly called for support from New Gandor and together they began an invasion of Ajakanistan. Soon the OU declared an official intervention to other throw the communist military government. The invasion lasted 5 months, until Supreme Leader Viktor Kavolskiy announced the communist government's surrender on March 22, 2023.

Discovery of the Akvatika Island Genocide and the OU military intervention in Akvatika

Main article: Akvatika Island genocide

Main article: OU military intervention in Akvatika

In late August of 2023, agents of the National Security Service of Pavulturilor infiltrated Akvatika Island, a territory of the communist nation of Zloveshchiy, and found evidence that the Zloveshchiyian Government had perpetrated a genocide upon the Akvatikan people since gaining control of the island from Jackson in 1969 to the modern day. Pavulturilori agents found Zloveshchiyian Exterimination Camps and other incriminating evidence implicating the communist government as having killed over 10 million people. Soon after finding this evidence, the Ostlandet Union declared Akvatika as Monsilvan (The island is to be named as (Shaoyu for the remainder of this article) property and initiated the OU military intervention in Shaoyu to remove the Zloveshchiyians from the island. On September 29, the last of the Zloveshchiyian Army surrendered Shaoyu to the OU Task Force for Shaoyu (OUTFS), who currently occupy the island.

Neosurian Political Tensions in the 21 Century

Ferunian Separatist War

In New Illyricum in the early 2000s, dissent began to grow amongst many people after continued political and cultural divides drove apart many Illyriae and tore the Congress of New Illyricum in two. This led to many anti-government protests, especially in Southern Illyricum in Ferunicum S.S and The Eisley S.S, where several large communist anti-Illyrian factions based. Two major factions, the People's Union for a Free Ferunia and the Ferunian Liberation Army, both based out of Ferunia, began a plan to overthrow the Illyrian governmental power in Ferunicum. The united factions originally planned a terrorist bombing attack on the Congressional Hall however this plan was eventually abandoned and replaced by a much larger scale plan to capture the city of Ferunia and establish a new Socialist Republic of Ferunia. The plan was overseen by Marcus Quintillius who managed to obtain weapons from illegal arms dealers in The Eisley Desert and gathered up massive amounts of recruits through rallies and protests, which caught the attention of Illyrian officials. The Grand Marshall of New Illyricum, Julius Fabius, declared that all Illyriae must "Unify under the banner of communism" and must "set aside their petty disagreements and displeasures", soon afterwards several hundred troops were sent on high alert to search Ferunia for the separatist faction's base, however the base was not found. On October 10, in a series of coordinated assaults, separatist forces captured the Congressional buildings in Trurnia, Ferunia, Marjanovič and Nosterus, and declared the Socialist Republic of Ferunica with Quintillius as it's first President. Fabius quickly counter-attacked the uprising, and in a two year war which ravaged the south of New Illyricum and killed over 150,000, the New Illyrian government eventually gained victory, however the region has remained unstable ever since the long war.

Prelude

Claufenese Sea Crisis

Main article: Claufenese Sea Crisis

Main article: Tumish-Illyrian Oil Agreement

On August 20, 2023, Tumish President Griffin Airhourser and the Congress of New Illyricum agreed to one of the largest oil agreements in the history of Terraconserva, with Tumland agreeing to transport over 210,000 barrels of oil to Port Ignatius in exchange for 32,760,000 Gregoris. Traveling through the tension filled Romanyan Sea, New Illyricum deployed a flotilla from their fleet to convoy the Tumish oil tankers. The tankers successfully unloaded their oil onto Illyrian soil on September 3. The Government of Tumland faced heavy scrutiny, primarily from two major Alliance of Central Ecrosian States (ACES) powers, Kivu and Jackson, about trading with a communist country, however Airhourser seemed to care very little about the ideology of New Illyricum. Even after the fulfillment of the oil agreement, Tumish-Illyrian trading continued. One of Tumland's other largest trade partners, the island nation of Abersiania, was wary of the trading ships that sailed near, and in some cases through, Abersianian waters, and deployed ships to defend the Claufenese Sea, their naval border with New Illyricum.

On September 17 tensions between Abersiania and New Illyricum took turn when a Tumish trading ship heading to Port Ignatius carrying oil blew off course into Abersianian waters and was seized by the SSH Schillen at 07:17, KMT, in a dense fog. The ship was held for about 3 hours before the Tumish ship and it's cargo were escorted back to Tumland. In order to prevent a similar incident, Illyrian ships were deployed to defend shipping lanes along the Apollonian coast and too enforce New Illyricum's claim on the Claufenese Sea. In response, Jeremy Hausch, the Prime Minister of Abersiania, ordered Abersianian ships and planes to begin constant patrolling of the Claufenese Sea. The rising tensions came to a head on September 22, when the SSH Schillen came to a standoff against the NIS Andrafolia in the Claufenese Sea. The Illyrian ship gave the Abersianians a 24-hour ultimatum to withdraw from the Claufenese Sea before they would open combat. At 22:00 KMT on September 23, Illyrian ships opened fire in the first combat of the war, the Second Battle of the Claufenese Sea. Abersiania quickly gained air supremacy and drove the Illyriae out, inflicting heavy damages.

Pretoria Palace Summit

Main article: Pretoria Palace Summit

Only an hour after combat in the Claufenese Sea began, the government of Tirol, a neutral country, extended an offer to the Abersianian and Illyrian ambassadors in the city of Innsbruck, offering to be a neutral third party to mediate negotiations to end the conflict. The Government of Tirol also invited delegates from Kivu, Jackson, and Eleutherios to represent the interests of the Alliance of Central Erosion States (ACES), and appointed Uorsin Sante as mediator for the negotiations. All four countries agreed to send delegates to Pretoria Palace to negotiate in the coming days, and after a day, negotiations started on the 25th of September. The main focuses of the negotiations were the status of militarisation in the Claufenese Sea, introduction of free and fair elections to the governing system of New Illyricum and a protection guarantee, as tensions between New Illyricum and CODECO, especially Pavulturilor. The last point of these focuses was a main subject of discussion, as if CODECO were to invade New Illyricum and set up a puppet, ACES would lose a significant advantage in military superiority over the Andaluzian Sea.