Jack of Harts

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.

The People’s Democratic Republic of Acadia released a biological weapon upon the world that killed millions and brought the worldwide economy to a crashing halt. Acadian agents inside Pineland used the health crisis to destabilize the administration and support the opposing candidates in the upcoming election. Bought and paid-for politicians fought them with every political weapon they had, and compromised generals interfered with administration policies and orders. Some even called their Acadian counterparts to undermine the administration’s positions. Election laws and procedures were changed to remove anti-fraud measures for the health crisis. Allegations of widespread fraud and foreign collusion rocked Pineland after the election, resulting in further domestic unrest in the nation. A new administration was sworn in though, to the great approval of Acadia and their agents in Pineland.

A new administration gained election in Pineland due to domestic and foreign issues, and quickly moved to address them. They increased border security measures on the always-unfriendly Atlantican border, and sent the military out once more to deal with the Islamic Brotherhood of Jihad. They dropped the mothers of all bombs on Brotherhood forces throughout their self-proclaimed Islamic States. Attica, Kalaria, and Kemalia saw Brotherhood forces smashed again and again with the most aggressive firepower advantage seen in decades. And when Krasnovian-backed mercenaries moved to contest them in Kemalia, Pineland’s military unleashed a similar mixed fire campaign of air and artillery assets that left them broken and bleeding and retreating back across the border in extreme disorder. The world took notice of Pineland’s change in policies.