French Movement War (EMG-2)

Began in Turn 3, and is ongoing as of Turn 13.

Invasion of France
Following the 2021 Dutch and Italian revolutions, the government of the Fifth French Republic instituted travel restrictions on both countries. This caused a round of heavily destabilizing protests and riots against the government of Emmanuel Macron, including successful break-ins and arson at the Élysée Palace, Palais du Luxembourg, and Palais Bourbon. Macron and other french politicans went into hiding; Bruno Retailleau was held hostage on a subway train. 20,000 Slovenian troops were sent to aid the French government and to calm the protests, and 5,000 Swedish troops were sent to defend the border with Vake. In response to this, the newly-formed Republic of Vake and Commune of Rome, and the Basque Republic, invaded France, beginning the French Movement War. With the combination of the invading forces and increasingly radical and violent protestors taking over many cities, including the early capture of Nantes, the government of the Fifth French Republic collapsed. Due to a lack of response from the government, Vake declared Joseph Nilles president of the Provisional Restored Government of France.

Treaty of Clervaux
The Treaty of Clervaux was a treaty written during the French Movement War, regarding the invasion of France. It was ratified by the Republic of Vakbonden (at the time called the Republic of Vake), the Basque Republic, the Commune of Rome, and the Provisional Restored Government of France during Turn 4.

The treaty formally established a Sixth French Republic with Joseph Nilles as President, and ended the French theatre of the French Movement War, with Vake, Basque and Rome withdrawing all troops from France. Additionally, much of formerly French territory was absorbed by Vake, Basque and Rome, and the Breton peninsula was made independent as the Republic of Brittany, and France was to send funds and troops to all three governments.

Full text of the treaty

Invasion of Slovenia
Following Slovenian efforts to support the French government and calm the protests, military presence at the Slovene-Roman border increased. Shortly thereafter, an alliance of Roman, Vaken and Basque troops invaded from Roman territory. After Roman attacks on Slovenia's naval bases and capture of their coastline, Vaken, Roman and Basque troops advanced, and reached Ljubljana in turn 5. In turn 6 through 7, peace talks were attempted in Athens, but they failed. North Macedonia has been periodically sending troops to support Slovenia; however this has not been enough to prevent it from losing territory so far. In Turn 7, Vake sent thousands of paratroopers into Ptuj, Maribor, Murska Sobota, and smaller towns. Borut Pahor was spotted fleeing Murska Sobota once Vaken troops landed.

The offensive continued into Turn 8 and Slovenia's remaining territory has been split into three pieces. However, Rome adopted a policy of shifting more energy towards espionage and domestic economy, and as such withdrew all troops from Slovenia and is attempting to broker a white peace. They also encouraged all Mare Nostrum alliance members to withdraw their troops from the invasion of Slovenia. In response, Spain and Basque withdrew. However, Vake has continued the invasion, and reorganized the western parts, more solidly under its control, as the Zahodna Slovenija Autonomous Zone and the Južna Slovenija Autonomous Zone. The Zahodna Slovenija Autonomous Zone was transferred to Austria before they joined the war.

After the peace talks in Bangor taking place throughout 2024 fizzled out, in turn 12 Vake began offensives Slovenia yet again. They were able to capture a large fraction of Slovenia's remaining territory, but both sides' armies were worn out and morale was low, with some Vaken and Slovenian soldiers mutinying and refusing to fight. So much Slovene territory was captured that the government in exile had secretly been operating from Trieste. Later on in Turn 12, Vake withdrew from Slovenia entirely, and asked Austria to return its land to Slovenia; they obliged.

Invasion of Sweden
Shortly after this, two Dronten Pact countries invaded Sweden on 2 fronts: Denmark from the west and Lithuania from the east. Ukraine joined Lithuania in the invasion, but when given an offer of discounts on items from Swedish companies, immediately withdrew all but 2 troops from the war, who stayed for photography reasons. Despite this, Denmark and Lithuania were able to capture large areas of the west and east coasts of Sweden and most of its southern coast, along with the island of Gotland. Once Ukraine ceded all land, military, and economy to Lithuania, the speed of the invasion increased.

Battle of Ford
A vicious battle, nicknamed the Battle of Ford happened near the Söderström river. Victory was obtained by Vaken allies, and this battle assisted in the takeover of Stockholm. It was nicknamed as the Battle of Ford as the local rebels were seen in Ford and Chevy cars. It is also nicknamed this way due to many soldiers taking vacations in Swedish fjords.

Shortly thereafter, Stefan Löfven and his government were forced out of Stockholm, which was occupied. He renamed himself to "pacifist Steven Lovin" and established a new government in Fristad.

Treaty of Delfzijl
In Turn 7, Stefan Löfven was captured by Vaken paratroopers. Vake declared victory and made Märta Stenevi the President of the Provisional Restored Government of Sweden. Stenevi immediately surrendered. Kola declared war on Sweden, who then immediately surrendered. Talks are currently ongoing in Delfzijl between the signatories.

Invasion of North Macedonia
In response to North Macedonia's support of Slovenia, in Turn 5 Vake sent 610 troops into Skopje, countered by 12,000 North Macedonian troops. The Vaken military presence was immediately withdrawn, destroying military buildings in the process. The 88,000 troops Vake then acquired were sent to North Macedonia. At the same time, Greece dissolved and transferred all its territory and military to the Commune of Rome, who built up military presence on the border, but did not declare war or attack. Vaken advances past the Kosovan border were rather swift in the beginning, and the NMK government did not have much support, but following the destruction of the croissant restaurant The Barrage, mistakenly believed to be a military operation, public support strongly shifted towards North Macedonia. Due to this, Vake sent $18,600,000 in compensation to the owners of the Barrage, and publicly apologized for its destruction. Vaken advances were considerably slowed, with only a small piece of land in the northwest being taken over. Vake withdrew once again from North Macedonia in Turn 7. Neither side formally declared war.

Counter-invasion of Rome
Slovenia sent 3000 paratroopers to Cancello ed Arnone, a small municipality around 35 kilometers northwest of Naples, during Turn 4. The codename for this was Operation Internal Excitement. The Slovene troops quickly surrendered to Roman forces, and were prisoners of war until de facto peace occured between Slovenia and Rome.

Kola-Vake War
In turn 8, general policy among the Kolan government had changed, and after a series of diplomatic alliance shuffles they declared war on Vake in response to the invasion of Slovenia. Vake and Kola de-recognized each other. Lithuania left the Four Northern Seas alliance and, along with Finland and Turkey, supported Vake in the conflict. Despite this, Kolan troops successfully launched a surprise attack in the northern Netherlands. Due to a new Kolan front of the French Movement War, talks for status quo ante bellum in Slovenia, the Netherlands and Kola are ongoing in Aberdeen. Armies were maintaining defensive positions, but not taking more land.

Concurrently with this, Kola launched a war on Norway due to a border dispute. Both sides gained notable ground in the other's territory, but Kola had an advantage due to various Sámi insurgencies. During the conflict, Gustu Hárri was mortally injured in a plane crash. One minute after his death, with majority leader Čuvje-Juđet Ráffokirst, Kola and Norway agreed to a peace treaty.

As a result of Slovenia and its leader Jakob Ruša's rejection of all peace talks that did not involve restoration of France's former territory, no progress was made in a potential treaty. This did not change when, due to the independence of Scotland, the site of the peace talks was forced to move from Aberdeen to Bangor as Aberdeen was no longer in Vake. The Slovenian invasion ended in turn 12 with status quo ante bellum, but the Kola-Vake conflict restarted.

Peace talks between all parties save Slovenia are ongoing in Peterborough.