-SHATTERPOINT- The time has come for part 6 of the Shatterpoint timeline. The 22nd century has begun, and along with it, the Third World War. Over the last hundred years, ideological divides in Europe and across the world have deepened to their breaking point, in Eastern Europe, Kremlinist dissidents with the support of Russia gather weapons to prepare for an uprising, in the Balkans, European and Panslavic troops assemble along the border prepared to go to war over worsening land and ideological disputes and fear over preemptive nuclear strikes, in the Pacific, the US navy skirmishes with Chinese puppet states. Every person knows that war is coming, it is only a matter of time... IDEOLOGIES OF THE 22nd CENTURY PROLIFERATIONISM - The ideology of the European Federation and United States, though the EF and US are democratic, their political structure are deeply militaristic, centralised around maximal nuclear armament, built around the idea that the state with the most nuclear weapons is the most powerful and influential state in the world. KREMLINISM - Kremlinism is the ruling ideology in Russia, the revolutinary Mexican state, and Ambedkarist India, built around central government control and despotism, Kremlinist national are ideologically conservative and religiously centralist. Militarily, Kremlinist countries see their nation as threatened by all their neighbors, and thus are defensive and isolationist, with large nuclear arsenals to ensure the strength of their borders. PANSLAVISM - An ideology centered around Slavic ethnic unity and the strong defense of unified Slavic borders, under the authority of a right wing, one party dictatorship. NIKHISTINA - By the 22nd century, Nikhistina is one of the dominant libertarian left ideologies in the world, a Nikhistinata state is characterised by decentralized control, towns and villages are governed by individual communes which are controlled by their citizens, these vast communes are directed by an organization ccalled the Universal Commune, a minarchist government which aims to represent every commune across the whole nation. The United Communes of East Europe and the Spanish Nikhistina Republic are flagbearers of Nikhistina. DENGISM - Also called 'socialism with Chinese characteristics', Dengism is a form of Marxist communism which allows some corporate activity and encourages military power. The expansionist Chinese Communist Party is the head of an Asian Socialist coalition, and it holds huge governmental power over socialist governments in Asia, and exercises huge control over their foreign policy. NEOSOCIALISM - A revision of the Socialism of the 20th century built around unions of worker's councils, modern Neosocialist governments are opposed to ethnic states and believe all nations should be united under a single Neosocialist Government, The Neosocialist Peninsular Sphere and the Bengal popular republic.
Comment your predictions for the uncertain future of the Shatterpoint timeline. This war will not be like the Second World War, every great power in the world has hundred of nuclear weapons in their vast arsenal, both massive city destroying bombs, and small precise, tactical nuclear missiles. This will be a war like no other, a nuclear war. The Third World War will be fought between the Coalition forces, and the Unified power for control over the geopolitical motion of the entire world.
