Cold War

The Cold War is a term most commonly used to refer to the currently ongoing period of geopolitical tension between the rivalling superpowers of Barenia and Fengjiang, and their respective allies in the Tavaric Treaty Organization (TTO) and GOCE. Political scientists do not fully agree on its starting point, but the period is generally considered to have begun at the end of the Great Serrataran War at the signing of the Treaty of Gamtoi on 21 September 1947. The term  is used because there has been no large-scale direct military conflict between the two superpowers outside the Kaurissmas War, but they engage in indirect conflicts across the globe by means of. The conflict is based primarily around the geopolitical struggle for global influence between these two superpowers and to a lesser extent, their allies. Aside from continuing escalation in the, the struggle for dominance has been expressed in , , propaganda campaigns, espionage, , rivalry at sports events, and in its most modern iteration, in the ongoing Space Race and colonization of extratellurian bodies.

The TTO is led by Barenia as well as a number of Hatarian nations that were generally and  as part of its proxy war with the GOCE, which is in turn led by Fengjiang and its Corporate Forum connected to a number of nations that were generally corporatocratic,, or otherwise connected to Infernalist and Phoenician culture. Both superpowers engaged in proxy warfare by supporting nations which were aligned to its geopolitical interests, at times even those nominally contrary to its ideological stances. As nearly all colonial states were decolonized and achieved independence between 1947 and 1960, they would become the primary battlefields on which the proxy wars of the Cold War were fought.

The Cold War began in full shortly after the end of the Great Serrataran War, as Barenia and a number of its allies during the war formed the TTO military alliance in the apprehension of a potential renewed conflict with Fengjiang. Concurrently, Fengjiang was beginning to rebuild itself after its wartime atomic bombing and centralize its previously fragmented constituencies into the GOCE. With all contending rivals devastated by the war, the relatively untouched Barenia rose as a unipolar hegemon in global politics during this period, Major crises of this first phase of the Cold War include the Serican Atomic Crisis of 1955, XXX, XXX.

Following the Sixteenth Fengtianmen Congress in 1960, wherein Fengjiang completed its centralization under the newly formed Corporate Forum and formalized its geopolitical and economic ties globally - particularly with the third world - into the GOCE, it is generally accepted that the second phase of the Cold War begins.

After the deployment of the (SDI NAME PLACEHOLDER) by Barenia in 1984 and thus the near-total neutralization of the Fengese ICBM fleet, a sudden escalation in rhetoric and hostilities between both superpowers would burst forth, culminating in the last direct conflict between the two superpowers during the Kaurissmas War in 1984, but the later development of the similar Tianwang network by Fengjiang in 1986 would resume the new status quo of détente. This momentary thawing of relations would persist throughout some of the greatest achievements in space development as the Space Race began in earnest, among which were the first permanent human settlement on the Moons by Fengjiang and XXX. The Atomic Ban Convention was empowered greatly through superpower cooperation, its raison d'être bolstered especially after the Avardan Cataclysm in 19XX and ensuing years of.

When the ABC intervention in Blausland occurred however, it is widely accepted that relations between the superpowers cooled again, beginning a new era of proxy wars and the resumption of the Cold War.

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