User:Exacri/Omnipedia/Winslow Accord

  WINSLOW ACCORD 

The Winslow Accord is a Mutual Defense Treaty comprising nations from North and South America as well as Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the South Pacific.

For a full list of signatories of the Winslow Accord click here.

 THE FRACTURE AND REFORMATION OF EUROPE 

After the collapse of the European Union in 2025 the economies of Europe entered freefall. Europe's poorest nations increasingly turned towards Russia to provide them with relief from their crushing debts, as well as much needed energy security.

As allegiances rapidly shifted, [[User:Exacri/Omnipedia/NATO]|NATO] would begin to founder -eventually collapsing in 2028 taking much of the United States' influence in Western Europe with it - just as the US Multi-layered

Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system was reaching operational status, finally upsetting the delicate balance of the Cold Wars' Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) missile based stalemate.

 CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS IN ASIA 

The European Economy wasn't alone in its troubles; by 2030 the rise of local manufacture stimulated by increasing global transportation costs and rapid technical advances in 3D Printing was leading to recession in economies that were dependent on manufacture for export; even the mighty Chinese manufacturing sector was contracting as early as 2033.

In 2034 Singapore, a major hub for global transportation of goods manufactured in Asia and the South Pacific entered a recession.

Against this background, thawing relationships with China would allow the US to broker a historic strategic treaty unifying the Southern Asian Pacific region.

This treaty also made possible the transfer of green technologies to assist with an impending local environmental disaster due in part to continuing Chinese reliance on coal burning power stations, which was causing crops across the region to fail.

Decrying historic joint Naval Maneuvers in the East China Sea involving US, Japanese and Chinese personnel in 2036 as provocation, the Russian-European Super-Pact (now including several African nations), would reshape itself into a Mutual Defense Treaty, the Common Defense Pact.

In the following year, after a lightning round of diplomacy the US Secretary of State, George Winslow signed the self-named Winslow Accords, upgrading all existent US trade and defense treaties into one all-encompassing Mutual Defense Treaty intended to counter the CDP.

Too large to risk locking horns in direct military conflict, the Common Defense Pact and Winslow Accord find themselves involved in the numerous proxy wars being fought by their smaller nation states.

In 2039, 2 years after their exit from the CDP, Germany would join the Winslow Accord. In 2041 Italy, following an election pledge made by their newly elected government would leave the CDP and join the Winslow Accord.

As of 2064, Egypt is currently considered a major flash point, having been involved in a 5 year long war with its Nile River Coalition neighbors, over dwindling water supplies as a result of their CDP funded Nile River Dam projects.