Jack of Harts

The surviving Attican government and thousands of their elite forces retreated from the capital and rendezvoused in the northern parts of Attica where the old resistance had held out against the Islamic Congress twenty years ago. The Pineland administration refused to answer questions about the resistance as the Islamic Congress surrounded the last free airport. They sought closer relations with the new government, and sent no public aid to the resistance. Even medical support. Every announcement they made ignored the remains of the old government and granted legitimacy to the new one. Many remembered all the times the Pineland government had armed anti-government forces in Montanya or Parumphia in decades past, always seeking to gain closer relations with what they hoped would be a new government. It was not a new tactic, though had rarely worked as well as they hoped.

The Attican Insurrection was one of the quickest national takeovers of the current century, transmitted live across the networks all over the world. The Pineland administration came back from vacation to say that they were shocked, shocked to find out that the Attican military was so incompetent or unwilling to handle a few terrorists. The complete collapse was a total surprise, but what could they do? The previous administration had locked them into a withdrawal that they had no choice but honor. It was so sad that the Attican government had fled rather than fight for their country. If they wouldn’t fight in their own civil war, there was no reason for Pineland to continue pouring their blood and treasure into the morass. So they were doing the right thing for Pineland in washing their hands of the issue and walking away.

The previous administration had made an agreement with the Islamic Republic of Attica and the Islamic Congress of Attica to remove Pineland forces if the two cooperated towards forming a coalition government. The new administration changed the withdrawal deadline from winter to the middle of fighting season, ignored the preconditions the Islamic Congress had to live by, and did not declare a general evacuation of Pineland citizens and allies to get them out of the country. They then evacuated all military personnel from their primary military base, in the middle of the night, without telling their Attican allies, over a month before the new deadline. They also pulled out all of the Pineland technicians maintaining the Attican air force, stopped paying the Attican army and police, and removed all other support from them. The chaos that caused could not be underestimated.