To War To War!
(Dateline Athens:) In a shocking move the Greek Government today announced they have captured a spy ring that has ties to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, The spy ring seemed to have been operating out of the State Office of Foreign Affairs and passing Greek Secrets to the Federal Republic. The ring was uncovered and captured by Greek Police when a member of the ring turned himself in because of the dishonor he realized he was bringing upon himself. In response to these diplomatic issues caused by the spy ring, a state of war now exists between the Greek Empire and the Federal Republic.

"In response to the call to war by the Greek King 400,000 troops and 2000 tanks have been mobilised from the Greek Defence force of 4 million men that was called up earlier in the year, their targets include the city of Belgrade as well as other major cities in the FRY"

"The Greek Government in reply to the American condemnation(re: Corinthian Courier) of its actions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia provide information to the Americans detailing that throughout the past year secret codes and documents have gone missing from the Greek Office of Foreign Affairs and that the only people to occupy that office on the main street of Athens during that past year were the Yugoslavians, this is so because all other embassies were moved to the new Foreign Affairs building located down the street from the Parthenon and the only reasons that the Yugoslavs were allowed to stay in that office was due to the fact that the embassy for the Federal Republic was not finished yet."

"In addition the Greek Government activates its MDAP with the Confederacy of Mozambique"

"American forensics found the evidence forged. This is clearly an imperialistic move by Greece, who has always been intimidated by the larger powers of Kuwait, Russia, and The Union."

The Confederacy responds, sending Naval Transports carrying supplies, 100,000 troops, and 100 tanks. They also send in 2 Destroyers in order to blockade the enemy ports. 40 MiG-21 fighters and 2 C-47TP-AR Air Reconnaissance Aircraft are on there way. Forces ETA 3 days (OOC: Later today)
Additional Aircraft are also on their way.

"I would advise America increases funding into their pitiful and inaccurate Forensic facilities."

"The Greek Government sends a telegram to the Confederacy thanking them for their support"

The confederacy blasts american forensic report as biased and innacurate, and kindly ask them not to meddle in others affairs.

British Forensic teams that actually received proper training examined the evidence and concluded it was accurate.

"The Greek 400,000 under the direction of General M. Ares of the Greek Armed Forces send a telegraphic report to Athens and the King announcing they have crossed the border of Greece and they are moving into the FRY."

This new development...stuns politicians in the Union. We will not comment till FRY does.

"We have no idea where this came from - we are a neutral nation and would never bother spying on anyone - it's none of our business. Our intelligence agency does not even have operations aboard. And guess what! We don't even have relations with America at all - this is nothing but a terribly made-up Casus Belli that the Greek probably can't even produce a shred of evidence that won't look like an obvious make-up.

But since the Greek are bent on having a war, then it's what they'll have. The South Slavs reached the ultimate goal of finally getting over petty quarrels over religion and language, and nothing can divide us. Nothing. Our people will stand united against senseless aggression until every single one of them perish. We thus recognize a state of war between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Greek Empire.

We call upon the international community to condemn this absolutely arbitrary act of aggression and act upon it - the lest we all need are nations randomly invading each other because they think they can."


Classified:


The Yugoslav People's Army have mobilized! The 600,00 strong standing army troops have taken to arms, and the 5-million strong reserves have been called upon as well. Five thousand Panthers 2K are rolling out of the barracks and the Airforce and the Navy are readying up. 300,000 of those men have immediately moved into the Yugoslav-Greek border.

OOC: Show me where you ever rp'ed the conscription or otherwise creation of an army to that size... sorry I'm calling shens, I atleast rp'ed my 4 million men to prep for WW3

OOC: How did you get that many men so fast?

"The other 3.9 million troops of the Greek Reserves mobilise from their barracks and start to deploy towards the Federal Republic, this leaves some 400,000 troops to defend Greece against counter-invasion and increases the troop totals in the FRY to some 4.3 million men"

**Classified to Yugoslavia**

We are willing to supply you equipment and supplies, should you ask.


OOC: Sorry, but you will have to do some form of RP to get your reserves, even if it's a simple conscription notice and results post.

OOC: Conscripting 5 million men from a population would take many months, let alone a few days.

OOC: so technically he has no reserves, because even if he conscripted it would take a few days to train them properly so all he should have would be an airforce the base 100k troops and a navy right Drake?

OOC: He can RP volunteers. Those tend to come in at a pretty high rate.




OOC: I'd say that he could RP a little more than 100k due to the time he's been in ERP, but not exactly 6 million.

"This Greek Nation better peace out and talk it over with the Yugoslavians or Germany will decide whether to join the war on the Yugoslav side."

OOC: Regardless, they still all need training, equipment, organisation, mobilisation... all this spontaneously? A neutral nation like FRY would not be ready for such a radical movement, even the most military ready nation would need many months to recruit 5 million volunteers and send them to the front. In that time, Greece would no doubt occupy key areas of the nation anyway, making it all pointless.

The King took note of Germany's endorsement of unwarranted espionage.

"Has it been proved that these spies are actually from FRY? Have you attempted to talk to FRY? Why must it be gun-point diplomacy always? Why not talk it over, uneedless and bringing war to a stable continent is not warranted, sorry. We have standards and the Greek fall way below them."

OOC: Neutral nations still manufacture equipment and have military programs. He can steadily equip his troops and put them on the frontline.

"The 3.9 million men cross the Greco-FRY border in 10 days (ERP time)and link up with the other 400k men under General M. Ares and they begin the push towards the major cities of the Federal Republic"

OOC: V the King list the major cities and capitol of the FRY please

*Classified to the FRY*

What need of a spy ring in Grecian Empire would there be? They dont do anything interesting in the first place?

*End*

Are the British willing to provide the sufficient evidence for this situation or are going to dance around the subject till you have insulted every nation across the world. We have this to ask as well:

Are you going to hold Grecians hand the entire time? Or have you pushed them to do this yourselves?

"We consider them close allies, so I intend to look out for my ally, indeed.

Pushed them to do what themselves? Uncover a pitiful attempt to spy on a nation?"

"Spying is bad, but let them freaking prove it instead of going straight to war. We have closed all relations with this pitiful country called Greece and shall be making an announcement on this issue soon enough. "

Welp, we all know British and thier diplomacy. Shoot first, ask questions later. Pretty sure you taught that to your pupp- allies.

OOC: Well, on my news thread, I roleplayed raising a 600,000 strong men army over the course of several RP months (which apparently seems to be the norm; and the old FRY had that much troops and had less people, either way) and stated that recruitment would continue so to make the army a million men. Yeah, I went inactive for a few days due to work experience, exams and scholarship-filling (and my short inactivity was probably the reason why graniteknight decided to invade me without letting me know through PM's - thanks for being classy, btw. ) so I'll downscale to the 600,000 I RP'd - but I'll keep recruiting over the course of the war, of course - and I'll RP the reserves being called upon, too (not hard to get that much when someone attacks you completely out of the blue, you know...)


Also, you can't be seriously crossing 4 million men across the borders - which is pretty much your whole army. No one EVER does that because it's so retarded and unfeasible. Ever heard of logistics and mountains that divide our borders? Also I do have troops, you know. Not recognizing these absurd movements. BTW, the major cities of the FYR are: Skopje, Kumanovo, Bar, Podgorica, Plovdiv, Sofjia, Burgas, Varna, Beogard, Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar, Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Ljubliana, Postjona and Koper. I need yours as well.

And Stig, I'm sorry but even though FYR is neutral, it isn't retarded - the Balkans and its population has seen god knows how many wars in the last centuries - it'd easily be ready for a total war. On the other hand, the Greeks mobilizing four million troops over a fake Causus Belli...

IC: As a response to the spy accusations, the Bezbednosno-Informativna Agencija (BIA; Security Information Agency) has declassified all of its secret documents not pertaining to organized crime or suspected domestic terrorists (so to not tip those off) , including past and present operations.

"Any neutral international observer is more than welcome to analyze whatever our Intelligence Service has been doing lately - which obviously does not include placing any spies in foreign land, as they will find out. Also, we find it odd that the British - masters of subjugating people against their will - is accusing us of spying. Care to provide evidence or any of the supposed "spies", or will you just lie and incite more war as usual?"


Across Yugoslavia, millions of people rallied in farms, small towns and major cities in support of their nation and chanted pro-Yugoslavian slogans. On the meanwhile, hundreds of JNA stations distributed weapons such as AK-47's and Glocks to reservists (who showed up en masse) to those who did not already have weapons at home as well as canned food, water and medication. Some Yugoslavs who had rifles at home set off for the mountains to camp so to snipe incoming Greeks. Populations near the Greek border barricaded their homes and stocked up on supplies in case the enemy army managed to penetrate into Yugoslav territory, whereas cities in southern Serbia, southern Bulgaria, Macedonia and Montenegro set up hedgehogs on the streets and built improvised control stations so to allow friendly vehicles to pass through. Near the Greek border, Yugoslav troops dug in, placed artillery pieces and maneuvered tanks as they awaited for the Greek troops, who were slowly pouring in. Because of the highly mountainous terrain, the Greeks would certainly have a hard time making through.

On the meanwhile, the Yugoslav Navy scrambled into the sea, closing off the Adriatic Sea to any Greek-related vessel as well as stationing by the western Black Sea. Not many of the new Yugoslavan Navy vessels were ready - five months was enough to finish most submarines, but only few destroyers and frigates - the aircraft career with the most progress was only half-done, literally. Merchant vessels were thus taken and begun to be mounted with anti-ship guns, RPG's and machine guns.


"We'll let the Greek know that our channels are open for a peace settlement at any moment - the only thing they need to do is ask. We do not want to see blood split in the Balkans once again, but we absolutely refuse to bow before lies and blind aggression and will use as much force as we can to drive imperialists from our homeland."

Classified to the Union:


"Of course we never spied on the Greek - we don't have any reason to do so at all and our operation records are there to be checked. By the way, any assistance is highly appreciated. If you can send troops, supplies and oil our way that would be highly appreciated - a declaration of war against Greece - even better, you never know what they might do next. If you can host potential refugees too - that'd be great."

Classified to the Americans:

"Is there any chance we can have your support? If the British get into the war for real, we might not be able to hold our waters. And considering they are supporting senseless aggression and a completely false, unproven accusation - they might try to strike elsewhere and further destabilize the globe."

"This is wasting my time. Continue with your war, but if anyone should attempt to attack the Greeks, I will be inclined to activate the Mutual Defence article of the Buckingham Treaty."

"We will not drive the Greeks beyond our own borders. We, however, reserve the right to shell them while they are invading our territory."

Espionage is a serious accusation, that should be taken seriously, but to declare war on a country for spying before even confronting them is absurd. There is a time when citizens of a country should critically question the level of intelligence of their leaders. For the Greeks that time is right now.

Though we shall stay out of this conflict, The Republic of Mozambique verbally supports the FYR until the reports of spying can be proven.

"We suggest the Grecian Empire remove themselves from the FYR."

"The Grecian Troops remove themselves from the FRY"

Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sat back in his chair and pressed the large red button on his desk: "That was easy."

Yugoslav troops rejoiced as they observed the Greeks retreat before they even clashed. However, the FRY was to only recognize a state of ceasefire.

"It's not over yet. The Greeks not only have completely fabricated a spy ring tale without providing any evidence of it, they also invaded our national territory with military troops. We cannot just pretend it did not happen. We strongly encourage the Greek to accept the following:"

1) An apology for fabricating a Yugoslav spy ring story in order to justify an invasion of the FRY.

2) Greeks will not be able to station more than 10,000 troops within a 100km radius from the Yugoslav border to prevent another surprise invasion of Yugoslav territory.

3) An indemnity of $50 million to Yugoslavia as a way to compensate for losses caused by mobilization and fortification of Yugoslav cities.

*Classified Reply**

Should the Greeks refuse to end the war, you will have our military's support. For the time being, we will send shipments of M16A4s, M4s, and ammunition, along with a number of trainers to help raise your army. Two carrier battle groups will be sent to the Balkans to protect your coast, if you so wish. We'll be guaranteeing your independence for now.

The Mozambique Confederacy arrives in Greece, only to turn right around. We wish for the conflict to be ended, with a white peace on both sides. It seems this war was provoked by a misunderstanding, nothing more

** Classified to Greece **
It is rather obvious that we will not be able to be of much assistance in this war, but will do whatever we can to help. If you wish to continue with it, we have other means...

OOC: Mr graniteknight. What happened?

IC:

*Classified to FRY*

We will host potential refugees and send supplies but it seems like you will not need it. However, it will be there if you need it in the near future.

*End*

Official Message from the government of Afghanistan

We will do whatever Canada does. But until Canada does something, we shall remain neutral in this pointless conflict.

"Why will you behave like a puppet?"

Because they are our allies. And because our government is too busy trying to irrigate the country rather than pick sides in a meaningless war halfway around the world.

OOC: good answer
IC:
Is this over? We have schools to build!

"A month has passed since the Greek invasion yet their government has not given us any kind of reply to our peace proposal. If another month goes by and we get no answer, we will reply in kind and occupy Greek Macedonia and Thrace."

OOC: Must have missed this...

IC: Canada condemns this fight and, following the evidence of misleading and forged information as discovered by America, we do not recognize this war as legitimate and do thereby support Yugoslavia. Should combat break out once again, Yugoslavia can expect our full support in terms of economic and supply chains, however we will refrain from military involvement.

"Because of the failure of the Greek to respond at all, 200,000 Yugoslav troops have moved on to occupy key cities of Greek Macedonia and Thrace, including Thessaloniki, Kavala, Katerini, Komotini and Kozani. They will be withdrawn once the Greek government finally agrees to peace talks."

EDIT: wtf, did graniteknight disappear in thin air or what

"Sweety I'm right here and I am waiting for you to kindly get out of my lands. 400,000 troops that I left in Greece(plus the 4 million or so returning) have you trapped in a pincer so yeah enjoy the attack, unless you pull out and drop all claims to the reparations"

"So you refuse surrender terms?"

OOC: What do you expect after not replying for so long?

OOC: i beleive he (like most of us) was unaware that the war was still going on. I assumed there was a cease-fire. Also i dont think you could invade greece without some sort of preparation.
IC:
The Confederacy will have reinforcements on standby should the Greeks require them