2021–23 Caribbean diplomatic crisis
| 2021–2023 Caribbean diplomatic crisis | |||||||
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| Part of Second Cold War | |||||||
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| Participants | |||||||
 Conference of American States European CommunitySupported by:  NTO IPTO GCC CTO |
 United Commonwealth United People's CommitteesSupported by:  Landintern OMEAD SCO ICMMO | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Johann Hauptsmann Oscar Turray Mark van Loon Luigi Guido |
Daniel Muir Anthony Malito Emilia Ortega Andres Moreno | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
 92 killed, 28 captured |
8 injured | ||||||
The 2021–2023 Caribbean diplomatic crisis is an ongoing diplomatic and international crisis between capitalist-oriented liberal democratic nations in both the Americas and Europe against Landonist states in the former. The conflict is primarily between the Conference of American States (CAS) and the European Community against the United Commonwealth and their allies in the United People's Committees, the Chattanooga Pact and the wider Organization for Mutual Economic Assistance and Development (OMEAD) and is viewed by many as the culmination of almost a decade's worth of slowly building and rising tensions between the two sides. The crisis began on December 12, 2021, where the Amazonas F, a corvette of the Imperial Brazilian Navy, was attacked and destroyed by the Continental Navy cruiser CCS Evansville per the request of the Andean government on charges that the Amazonas had violated its maritime borders. While both states defended their actions, both were condemned by the majority of the wider international community, especially by the CAS and its member states who showed solidarity with Brazil and viewed the Amazonas incident as an illegal and aggressive action.
The American Parliament passed a resolution December 26 condemning both countries and approving further actions to impose international and econonic sanctions on both states and was later materialized in January 2022 with the passing of further legislation which imposed sanctions on government officials, their assets, military leaders, and numerous major corporations businesses that are involved in producing military equipment and are directly tied to the state. CAS member states followed suit with Argentina, Alaska, and Manitoba imposing similar sanctions while sanctions on high-ranking government officials and businesses have been proposed and/or implemented in Sierra and Superior. On January 16, member states began debating sanctions against OMEAD member states including a boycott of goods from all member states and embargos as well from the Economic Freedom and Trade Act in Sierra to the International Freedom and Trade Act in Superior. Similar legislation has also been proposed in other CAS member states as well. The European Community has sided with the CAS and both it and individual member states have also imposed sanctions on the Continental and Andean governments and economy as well. Counter-sanctions and boycotts have also been proposed in the United Commonwealth and the Andes.
The ongoing crisis has been called the Second Caribbean crisis after the original regional crisis during the Cold War, however armed conflict between either side hasn't occured nor materialized beyond the Continental attack on the Amazonas. The crisis has been called by many political commentators as the most intense standoff between the capitalist and Landonist countries since the Cold War with many viewing it as a sign of confirmation of the Second Cold War from a theoretical standoff to the genuine geopolitical conflict. The Caribbean crisis is also occuring around the same time that a massive military buildup by China has taken place on its border with Manchuria with both crises occuring at the same time. For its part, China and the wider Shanghai Cooperation Organization have stated their political support to the United Commonwealth and its allies while Manchuria remains supportive of the CAS and western powers.
Background
Tensions between the United Commonwealth and its allies against the Conference of American States originated back during the Cold War (1965–2000) where the two sides were two of the main beligerents in the wider geopolitical conflict for ideological and political supremacy over one another from the Americas to Asia and Africa. While the CAS was formed to prevent further conflict in North and South America as well as to ensure unity and integration with the nations of the region, it was also founded in part to oppose the influence and expansion of the United Commonwealth and to stop the spread of Landonism–Continentalism from becoming a major ideology on the world stage. While tensions between both sides persisted throughout the Cold War to the point that the Chattanooga Pact was formed, tensions began to decline in the late 1980s and at the start of the 1990s as a series of ideological, political and military defeats and setbacks weakened the Eastern Bloc and negotiations began to take place to end the decades' spanning standoff with James Carr pursuing peaceful coexistence after being elected President of Superior in 1995. This would later be known as pragmatic diplomacy and would be adopted by leaders on both sides.
The Revolutions of 2000 would help bring about the formal end of the Cold War as communist and Landonist states around the world began falling starting with the Beijing Spring and the formal dissolution of the People's Republic of China and eventual collapse of both the Manchu People's Republic and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Waves of revolutions spread beyond from South Asia to Europe including the fall of Landonist/communist governments in Spain, Albania, Italy, Croatia, and Cambodia leaving few nation surviving Landonist states around who pursued economic and political reforms to satisfy opposition and ensure the continuity of their respective governments. Of these revolutions, the Damascus Spring in Ba'athist Syria was the only one that turned and ended in widespread violence. By 2000, the United Commonwealth pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the CAS and the European Community seeking peaceful cooperation and reconciliation viewing the continuation of tensions and conflict as unnecessary and counter-productive. Despite the fall of the PRC, the United Commonwealth would work to ensure peaceful and warm relations with the newly restored Republic of China despite the new government lacking similar ideological views.
Underlying tensions
Even after the end of the Cold War, China under the leadership of President Ren Longyun still pursued positive and warm relations with the United Commonwealth and was largely backed by Continental leadership. Despite opposing the Sino–Burmese War in 2009, the United Commonwealth was largely neutral in its stance while the CAS and its allies in both Europe and Asia condemned the Chinese invasion of Myanmar and the siezure of Kachin and Shan states. The Commonwealth's stance was controversial, but did little to have a significant impact on CAS–UC relations as a whole. Longyun would eventually seek to expand China's influence to that of a global power that can rival that of western powers and this was largely tolerated by the United Commonwealth even after China invaded and annexed Rehe Province from Manchuria in 2014.
Andean crisis
Conflict in the Caribbean
Amazonas incident
International response
Caribbean Sea incident
Chattanooga Pact exercises
Political front and responses
Intergovernmental level
On January 3, the Caribbean Regional Security and Defense Act was proposed to the American Parliament which gathered after the emergency session from December 2021 after the Amazonas incident. The bill itself proposed sanctions on both the United Commonwealth and the Andes including a ban on trading arms and military equipment and supported small armed escorts of ships from Brazil and other CAS countries through the Caribbean to prevent another attack from happening. The act itself passed 454–47 and would be approved by the American Council on January 5 and finalized into law on January 8. The act encouraged the individual member states to impose sanctions as well, but left such power up to their individual governments and national legislatures.
National level
Alaska was the first CAS member state to pass their own sanctions against the United Commonwealth and the Andes with the Caribbean Security Act which was proposed on January 6 to the House of Commons. The bill imposed sanctions on both states while also banning the import of military equipment to both states and to prevent ships carrying such weapons heading into or through the Caribbean from bringing them to either state. To enforce this, the Alaskan Navy would patrol the Pacific Ocean with a task force in order to accomplish it. It passed the House on January 8 and the National Council on January 10 before being signed into law by President Nicolas McCarty two days later. Task Force Orion was then formed a week later and has been patrolling the Pacific Ocean since its formation.
On January 16, the Economic Freedom and Trade Act was proposed by Isabelle Huynh which proposed not only strict sanctions on both the United Commonwealth and the Andes, but also supports sanctioning all other member states of OMEAD and the Chattanooga Pact as well. The act also supports a formal boycott of all Continental and Andean goods and products as well along with restricting the import of civilian goods from OMEAD member states into Sierra while promoting a wider boycott across the entire CAS as a whole.
Economic front
Counter-sanctions
Boycott campaigns
See also
- Start-class articles
- Altverse II
- 2021–23 Caribbean diplomatic crisis
- United Commonwealth–Conference of American States relations
- United Commonwealth–European Community relations
- Sanctions against the United People's Committees
- Conflicts in 2022
- Conflicts in 2023
- Daniel Muir
- 2022 in the Caribbean
- 2022 in the United Commonwealth
- 2022 in Brazil
- 2022 in the United People's Committees
- 2020s conflicts
- International disputes
- 2022 in international relations
- 2023 in international relations