Degen83

Degen83 (joined March 17, 2006) is a Superpower: Classic player.

Degen's joined SPC in the middle of Round 9 as Poland. As Poland he focused on the military, purchasing modern planes from Russia, and agreeing to participate with the German, UK, and British Commonwealth players in the defense of Nepal against the Chinese invasion.

In Round 10, he played as Syria. As Syria, he made the foriegn policy revolve around getting the Golan Heights back from Israel. Negotiations with Israel began with a rocky start, but progress was being made when there was a conference in North Korea that Syria was invited to attend. Syria attended, and in talks there had come to an agreement with the North Koreans. Kim Jong Il agreed to help Syria build its first nuclear power plant. Upon announcing this to the world, many nations were very much against such a move. The Syrian government stated that it would allow nuclear inspectors full and unrestricted access to its nuclear program and facilities, yet such a concession was not acceptable to any of the western powers. Notable countries against it were India, who threatened military actions, stating that they would not tolerate a nuclear Syria. Israel had heard of this, and they took the oppurtunity to cease diplomatic talks once more until Syria abolished its nuclear program.

Another notable aspect was Syria's formal renouncment of terrorism. Syria began to step up measures to patrol its Lebanese border and its Iraq border. However such moves were not looked well upon by the West. Some stated "its good you're doing this now but these are things you should always have been doing". More skepticism arose as in Syria's renouncement of terrorism Hezbollah and Hamas were directly cited as "non terrorist groups" and therefore not applicable to that statement.

After having talks with Israel cut off by Israel, Syria contacted China about submitting a resolution condemning Israel for its refusal to negotiate the return of illegally annexed territory. The United States and the United Kingdom both voted No to the proposed resolution, effectively vetoing it.

Syria then moved a large portion of their army in the As Suwayd county of Syria, bordering the Golan Heights in an effort to force Israel to return to the negotiation table once more, the United Kingdom and other NATO countries, namely Germany, sent messages saying that they would militarily intervene should a war break out between Syria and Israel. In retailation, Syria began purchasing missiles from China and Russia, in an effort to protect the Syrian coast.

With some negotiating between Syria and the United Kingdom, the UK realized that Syria would not back down, and began pressuring Israel to return to the negotiation table. After much work, and with the world watching as relations between Israel and Syria became dangerously close to war, finally a peace agreement titled the Golan Heights Accords were signed. The main points of this document were that both Syria and Israel agreed to a DMZ (which included military jets), agreed to abolish both their nuclear programs, and Israel agreed to fully return the Golan Heights to Syria within a period of 5 years. Syria would also recognize Israel.

With the border with Israel finally secured and a peace finally attained, Syria could focus on other things in the world. There became an outcry from the West over the genocide in Sudan, and yet another UN meeting was scheduled to discuss what could be done. Hearing about this, Syria decided to take action. Discussions in the OIC proved there was some interest in creating an Islamic force to send to Sudan to play a role in stopping the genocide. Syria and Saudi Arabia were selected to form this force, and preparations were under way.

The United Kingdom, on the other hand, had other plans. The United Kingdom threatened to blockade Syria if Syria did not cease its plans on sending a "peacekeeping" force to Sudan. This move by the United Kingdom was supported by many of the NATO countries, in that they did nothing to stop the UK from their threats. It was also around this time that the British pulled out of Iraq, citing their work their was finished.

With the threats from the United Kingdom, Syria decided that a naval route to Sudan via the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal and down the red sea was impossible, due to threats that the United Kingdom would attack. Syria purchased several transport planes from Russia, and secured permission to fly over Jordanian and Saudi Arabian airspace to deliver their troops to Sudan. In another agreement, Russia also sent troops to Sudan to help with the peace effort.

The United Kingdom expressed its anger at Syria, however Syria tried to diplmatically placate the United Kingdom. The UNited Kindgom criticized Syria's lack of peacekeeping experience. Syria cited its 20 year peacekeeping operation in Lebanon as experience, and even offered to host a training force from the United Kingdom to help Syria train peacekeeping troops. The United Kingdom ignored these messages, and it soon became clear why.

The United Kingdom, already angry with Syria for refusing to back down, decided to take this time to authorize an invasion of Sudan. This invasion took place 3 days after elemements from the OIC peacekeeping force started to arrive. There was much debate as to whether or not the OIC force did anything in these 3 days, however the fact remains that there were no reported attacks during this time period. This invasion toppled the Sudanese government and within days the British had control over the country. In this military operation, Russian, Syrian, and Saudi Arabian troops were cut off from their supply routes and no foreign planes were authorized to fly over Sudan, virtually leaving them stranded.

With Sudan firmly in British military control, and after reciving threats that the Syrian troops would be attacked if they did not leave, Syria finally recalled its peacekeeping force.

Syria was furious with the United Kingdom for illegally invading Sudan. Syria tried to bring the United Kindgom to justice by calling a United Nations General Assembly meeting. However it was determined there that the west simply did not care that the United Kingdom broke international law by invading an Arab country. As a result of this, several nations around the world cut diplomatic ties with the United Kingdom. Syria went as far as refusing to allow any British civilians into its territory, and expelling the British diplomats.

In the midst of all this crisis, Syria was also dealing with the Red Mafia, selling and buying weapons. Syria had sold off a number of SCUD missiles to other countries, and a few to the Red Mafia. There were several SCUD attacks, one on Israel, and another on Jordan (it was estimated that this SCUD was aimed at Israel and malfunctioned). The United States had come into the possession of several SCUD missiles that had been made in Syria after a firefight with rebels in Iraq, and sent Syria a message regarding them.

This marked a change in Syrian-American relations. Syria agreed to stop selling SCUDs to terrorist organizations, and agreed to work with the United States in gathering intelligence regarding terrorist groups in the Middle East. The US agreed to re-send an ambassador to Syria. Weeks later Syria delivered its first intelligence report regarding the Iraqi resistance to the United States.

In round 11, he played as the Peoples Republic of China. From the start, Taiwan was declaring that it was going to declare hold a referendum regarding declaring independence from China.

After much talk between both sides nothing was agreed upon, however eventually the referendum never came (Taiwan suffered a player change, so there was a time when Taiwan was without a player). After that crisis died down, China turned its attention on its economic future, signing economic deals where it could.

China's attention was diverted from Asia for a while, which sparked the beginning of many crisis. First, Japan had alterred its constitition to allow it the power to use its military offensively again. China sent messages to the Japanese regarding this, but the Japanese did not back down. When China made its anger known in the world, public support rallied behind Japan.

Seeing the China didn't do anything regarding Japan, Taiwan took this time to declare independence from China. China immediately enterred talks with Tiawan, however there was no diplomatic solution that could be found. After the talks ended, Taiwan enterred the AOCOR, along with Japan and South Korea. The AOCOR became increasingly belligerent to China, and openly stated that they would militarily back Taiwan.

This caused China to enact several different policies. First, China began to produce missiles, tanks, and naval ships in mass quantities in preparation for a war. China began buying military equipment from whomever would sell it.

Secondly, China expelled all the Taiwan citizens from China. This brought the world to criticize China for its behaviour. In retaliation for threatening to defend Taiwan, China raised tariffs on several AOCOR members goods, and boycotted Taiwanese goods completely.

This caused the AOCOR to bring China to the WTO for violations. China agreed to return AOCOR members tariffs back to the status quo, with the sole exception being that it refused to trade with Taiwan. China also agreed to pay fines when it could. At this time China passed a law making it illegal for China to pay any money to nations threateneing to go to war with China, making it illegal for China to pay any fines with the tensions between it and the AOCOR this high.

At this time the Chinese population was angry that no action was being done against Taiwan. The Chinese government suffered many riots. In addition, its economic standing was plummiting.

Around this time Iran and Israel began a war, and the UK and US declared war on Iran. Lebanon was invaded by Russia and split into 3 different states. By the end of the round, the Middle East was fully under the Wests control.

In the end, after much talk, Taiwan agreed to remain a part of China and withdraw from the AOCOR. The round ended at this point.

In round 12 Degen is the European Avatar.