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Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake ©


June 1993. The Military Junta ruling Mexico makes ‘peace’ with the Communist and leftist insurgents that had been operating in the Mexican countryside, bringing them into the many programs that have been meant to reform and improve the nation.


November 1993 - March 94. The Italian Republic petitions the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council to be allowed to help rebuild the failed state of Somalia after the horrible failures of previous attempts made by the UN and other Non-Governmental Organizations. The Italian Republic will spearhead the creation of the new Somali Republic with a series of major projects with the assistance of their NATO and other European Union allies. The Italian Republic given permission by the United Nations to rebuild the infrastructure of the Somali Republic.


1993: The Year in Review

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January 1993

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February 1993

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1 February 2 - February 1993. During the first summit meeting between US President Clinton and Soviet Premier Danilov occur, the two world leaders quickly come to realize that they are a lot like, with many of the same interests. They will be able to work well together in an attempt at stabilizing the balance of power in the world. Unfortunately, their attempts at shaping the world will lead to the creation of the treaties and political alliances that will end with the world descending into a brutal and bloody world war whose repercussions that will take the world nearly a century to recover from.

February 1993. Thanks to changes in trade and commerce policies made by the Clinton Administration, the East German and Polish computer industries inside the Warsaw Pact are able to take-off and very quickly became equal to any of the computer operating systems that would be developed by their western counterparts.

2 February 1993 - 1 May 1995. The Soviet Union enters into major trade agreements with India and Vietnam, allowing the sell of modern warships, submarines, tanks and aircraft to the Southeast Asian countries. The trade agreements will also allow the Soviet Union to create an opening that will allow the inclusion of the sale of advanced modern weapon systems to the Peoples Republic of China and North Korea.

3 February - 1995. The Soviet Union allows the limited privatization of those companies that are producing the various military weapon systems and munitions for export. By the end of the year, the successes made by the Soviet arms dealers become the extremely needed shot in the arm that revitalizes the flagging Soviet economy.



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2 March – 4 March 1993. Due to the Summit meeting between Clinton and Danilov, the Republic of Iraq is semi-officially divided into three sectors that are under the control of the United States (Kurdish region to the North and those areas to the south bordering Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) and Soviet Union (central Iraq, including the capitol of Baghdad that would remain under the government of Saddam Hussein).



April 1993

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April 1993. Despite the initial opposition from certain parts within the Clinton Administration, the Pentagon is allowed to continue the Reagan Administration’s programs that will continue to build up the strength of the US Armed Forces to deal with the growing threats around the world. The fact that the Pentagon had taken such a major stance against the desires of the civilian leadership would become known as the Pentagon Revolt by the American Media.


May 1993

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1 May 1993 - 1 May 1996. With the growing export of Soviet weapon systems to nations that had not been Soviet client states, allows the Soviet economy to rebound. The Soviet Union allows further limited economic reforms that allow small cottage industries that are dedicated to the production of various luxury items not only strengthens the Soviet economy, but improves the morale of the average Soviet citizens.

1 May 1993 - 15 June 1993. Günther Manfred Neumann reestablishes the office of the President of the German Democratic Republic at first to be nothing more than that as the ceremonial head of state with no official governing powers. The creation of this ceremonial position allows the average citizen to elect a representative from any political party or organization. Hans Schroeder will become the first elected President of the German Democratic Republic, from the East German CDU.

The President of the DDR (Head of State).
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the DDR (Head of Government).
The President of the People’s Chamber of the DDR (Head of Parliament).



June 1993

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July 1993

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August 1993

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22 August - 13 October 1993 (Operation Gothic Serpent). Operation Gothic Serpent was a military operation conducted by special operations forces of the United States with the primary mission of capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The operation took place in Somalia, Africa from August to October 1993 and was supervised by the Joint Special Operations Command. As part of the operation, the soldiers were deployed in a mission to arrest two of Aidid's lieutenants. The result of that mission – executed under the command of Gothic Serpent – became known as the Battle of Mogadishu, or "The Battle of the Black Sea" to those who fought in it.


September 1993

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October 1993

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3 October 1993 ("Battle of Mogadishu"). U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia using Task Force Ranger. Two UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans WIA, 19 KIA, and 1 captured. Also known as the Battle of Mogadishu.

7 October 1993. The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" policy is enacted by the Defense Department that will allow homosexuals and bisexuals to serve quietly in the Armed Forces, and makes it harder for service members to be forcibly discharged from the Armed Services for such behavior as long as they do not engage in overt displays of behavior in public.


November 1993

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2 November 1993. The US Federal Government legalizes online gambling and medical marijuana (two years later marijuana will be legalized and allowed to be sold commercially with heavy regulation).


December 1993

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