Real-Time WW3 from 2039

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2025-12-19 12:00:18 GMT

Lejeune issues a statement saying he is monitoring the developments in North America with concern, stopping short of condemning the True America assassinations in New Haven.

2025-12-14 02:00:03 GMT

Bian and Acharya quickly agree on a framework for borders, but Acharya says that in light of the over 200 million death toll under Chinese occupation, India will want a recognition of guilt and an indemnity to be paid out as reparations.

2025-12-12 14:00:11 GMT

Bian reaches out to Gong in secret, and realizes quickly that Gong is enthusiastic about any effort to end the war and won't even ask whether it's coming from Xi or is done without Xi's knowledge.

2025-12-09 04:00:05 GMT

Polls open in western Russia; in the Urals and Siberia they have already been open for hours with no irregularities reported.

2025-12-07 22:00:00 GMT

Flanked by armed, militarized police, Metro Vancouver civil society leaders call a press conference in which they say the multiracial society they've been building is under threat by American and Canadian white nationalists. All speakers are white or Mandarin-speaking Chinese.

2025-12-06 22:00:00 GMT

The Western Canadian Army is pushed back from the Fraser Valley and tries to besiege it but has no ability to block it and Metro Vancouver from the sea or the mountains.

2025-12-04 17:05:19 GMT

Floyd complains about out-of-control student protesters and, not receiving more protection, starts mulling leaving the country.

2025-12-04 15:00:00 GMT

By the end of the day, pro-NATO forces have taken control of the entirety of Ulaanbaatar; Suo's staff evacuate the city successfully, with many elements within Mongolia refusing to arrest or kill Chinese officers.

2025-12-02 01:00:10 GMT

Battle lines as of 2038-12-01. Higher-resolution images of all maps can be found at https://pedestrianobservations.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ww3euroland381201.png, https://pedestrianobservations.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ww3thailand381201.png.

2025-11-29 22:00:00 GMT

The Western Canadian Army crosses into British Columbia, driving across both Yellowhead and Kicking Horse Passes unopposed. Both parties, upon crossing the provincial border, make videos showing where they are and promising to liberate Vancouver from Chinese control.

2025-11-11 17:00:28 GMT

Chicago has open street fighting between the SAP, which also calls itself the Chicago Antifa, and an assortment of other groups, some ideological, others not, but none pledging to any of CPUS, MAP, or PRAP.

2025-10-29 22:00:06 GMT

A mostly Chinese demonstration in Vancouver with Hong Kong and Taiwan flags attracts a crowd of 5,000 before local forces fire on the protesters, killing nearly 100 people before they disperse.

2025-10-26 22:00:08 GMT

In Metro Vancouver, a mob attempts to run through Richmond threatening to kill Chinese people who they call a race of collaborators, but are outgunned, and in the massacre that ensues all 32 people who are killed are white or South Asian.

2025-10-22 18:00:05 GMT

Sam Selva speaks to his supervisor about Wheeling and warns of a conspiracy to establish a terrorist organization in the city; his supervisor connects him with the head of counterterrorism at NYPD, Bureau Chief Graham Klapow, who tells him to meet Wheeling wearing a wire.

2025-10-20 18:00:00 GMT

Rumely is widely mocked in British media, which points out that the entire fleet of capital ships has been destroyed in the naval battle and its aftermath, and the Royal Navy can't meaningfully project force into North America without a new program of military buildup.

2025-10-18 23:01:11 GMT

Mexican social media posts picture of dual nationals fleeing south from the United States to Mexico, with a combination of outrage over MAP and other armed groups and outrage over the uncontrolled immigration.

2025-10-16 01:00:46 GMT

Dou withdraws forces from the south of the Tarim Basin to concentrate in the north and launch a counteroffensive within days.

2025-08-25 00:00:02 GMT

The Tibetan Army Group begins to assault Nyingchi, committing two regular divisions and one Tibetan special forces division.

2025-07-18 06:30:02 GMT

After a final presentation by Parmanand, Lal signs off on daily strategic bombings of Chinese cities starting tomorrow, with Nanning and Guiyang to be attacked early to soften them in advance of the urban battles planned for next month.

2025-07-08 06:30:03 GMT

Parmanand argues with Nagpal over strategic bombing timing, demanding that Indian Army troops in Luzon prioritize preparing airfields after liberation is complete ahead of everything else.

2025-06-20 15:00:15 GMT

By the end of the day, the South Shan Army Group has lodged itself just 2 km west of the center of Kunming. In just the Battle of Kunming alone the army group has taken 300,000 dead, inflicting a similar number of dead on the Pu'er Army Group.

2025-06-07 16:00:27 GMT

Two divisions of the 7th Army Group enter the center of Türkmenabat; all government documents have been destroyed, and the few helpful civilians say the PLA was thorough in burning everything.

2025-06-07 14:00:05 GMT

A crowd of 5,000 people in Chelyabinsk protests demanding local elections rather than the imposition of a mayor by NATO.

2025-05-29 19:00:07 GMT

Pekka's mother asks him if he and Aino had sex; he doesn't want to respond but she presses him and when he says Aino wanted to but he felt she was too eager, she tells him that if he doesn't want to then it's his choice but if he does then he needs to respect her schedule too.

2025-05-25 00:00:01 GMT

Naval skirmishes around the Philippines begin to push out the remaining PLAN escorts, but there is extensive PLAAF ground cover and the Indian, NATO, and RAN carriers struggle to project power inland.

2025-05-14 12:30:05 GMT

Most of the remainder of the Indian fleet slowly sinks in the West Philippine Sea. Large groups of survivors have formed in the Philippines, particularly on Palawan.

2025-05-09 05:00:16 GMT

Filipina maids in Singapore begin to publicly announce they're not going to work anymore, and through social media this is amplified to a wildcat strike with a protest on Orchard, centered on Lucky Plaza, protected by Indian soldiers.

2025-05-05 21:00:03 GMT

The entire cabinet of Singapore flees to Bangkok overnight, aiming to negotiate with China from there.

2025-04-21 18:00:10 GMT

By the end of the day, the 18th Army Group has straightened the front east of Orsk, but failed to inflict any operational or strategic attrition on the South Ural Army Group, which is being rapidly reinforced.

2025-04-18 05:00:00 GMT

Chinese troops being to arrive in Siberia at a rate of 150,000 a day, with plans for a new army group after the gaps in the South Ural Army Group's front are plugged.

2025-04-08 13:00:01 GMT

Morale officers at the Don Front play films showcasing the moral rot of Moscow clubs and warning that Europeans are buying up Moscow and Saint-Petersburg and treating Russia like slaves, to help convince the conscripts that Chinese treatment of Russians is better.

2025-04-04 11:30:00 GMT

Majithia reports to Lal that the ship launches today went smoothly; Lal demands to be involved in the final decision on the naval battle for three weeks from now.

2025-03-29 03:00:00 GMT

The 1st, 11th, 21st, and 22nd Army Groups cross the front, aiming to capture M32 and destabilize SVR to the point of collapsing the Stalingrad Front.

2025-03-20 19:00:01 GMT

Yang privately admits to Nie as well as to the regional commanders that he's going to need to let go of 400,000 troops to be deployed to Southeast Asia and Russia and they should come up with concrete shrinkage and Americanization plans.

2025-02-27 16:30:16 GMT

Novak comes from base straight to Liban's; Liban notices how exhausted she is and asks if she wants to talk or scene, and Novak shrugs and says “let's scene, do to me what you've wanted for a while.”

2025-01-28 22:00:05 GMT

Floyd talks to colleague Liam Bayer, who tells him that everyone is expecting China to lose and thinking about what to do after; Floyd says that it's important to produce relevant research, and Bayer cuts him off and says “Research civil wars.”

2025-01-16 15:00:03 GMT

A social network emerges in NATO-occupied Russia called FreeJournal, founded by former LiveJournal programmers who were too old or disabled to be drafted and by women, with versions in English and Russian and a Chinese one in the works.

2025-01-04 01:00:07 GMT

Feng is mildly surprised to see that there's no triage in forces occupying Japan or Southeast Asia, or at least, if there are shipments of troops to the front, they're not affecting what people are asking about counterinsurgency.

2024-12-25 19:30:06 GMT

Pekka tries to go to bed early but there is too much noise around him, and too many people for him to have his own room.

2024-12-24 00:30:10 GMT

The Yangon Army Groups intensifies its raids on PLA forward positions in Tanintharyi, but Dahiya has no expectations of being able to mount an offensive this year as PLAAF support prioritizes eliminating the final pockets as they begin to break.

2024-12-13 12:30:03 GMT

Karev arrests more people for defeatism and orders a close watch over Zaripov in particular.

2024-12-11 05:30:00 GMT

The 3rd Army Group begins to fight for Three Station Square; the area around it is largely rubble, with dense blocks of bombed out shells of buildings.

2024-12-09 07:15:01 GMT

Feng hears preliminary interrogation reports with Su and Jin when he gets another call, reporting a mass shooting at Brooklyn Army Terminal and a missing ferry. He starts calling for air support, figuring that naval patrols won't catch a catamaran.

2024-12-07 14:30:01 GMT

Ma sees an invite to come to the Intelligence Bureau today to discuss security contracting with Feng. She and Hernandez agree she's a suspect but not a top one, and will be followed; the plan remains to bring in everyone, including Tanner and Wang, who are likely surveilled too.

2024-11-09 20:00:09 GMT

The Azerbaijan Army Group launches overnight special forces raids on SVR garrisons in Azerbaijan, but refrains from a broader attack or from targeting dual-use or purely Azerbaijani infrastructure.

2024-11-06 22:00:02 GMT

As the summit ends, Sen's team enter from both exits and begin gunning down the attendees. They kill 85 people, of whom Sen estimates 30 are ushers and other collateral deaths, before having to escape to avoid capture.

2024-10-31 03:00:02 GMT

Zheng tells Ceng that SVR is going to be defeated in detail, and if the PLA doesn't send another army group then within three months there will be European soldiers at the border with Xinjiang. “They have 300,000 tanks.” Ceng: “Burma has 8 million encircled troops.”

2024-10-31 00:30:10 GMT

As divisions are pulled from the Mountain and Yunnan Army Groups to Karen, the North and South Shan Army Groups launch a renewed offensive. The aim is to expose the right flank of the Sankambeng Army Group and enable an additional offensive to the south.

2024-10-20 23:00:04 GMT

Feng insists to Nie that more resources are needed to find Cagney, Parr, and Hernandez; Cagney says protection for next month is paramount, but agrees to hear out of the box ideas about how to cripple the insurgents.

2024-10-15 23:30:19 GMT

Battle lines as of 2037-10-15. Higher-resolution images of all maps can be found at https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2024/10/ww3euroland371015.png, https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2024/10/ww3levant371015.png, https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2024/10/ww3thailand371015.png.

2024-10-01 03:30:02 GMT

The last remaining MARCOS division is deployed to Mawlamyine to assist the uprising in taking control of the remains of the city; the IAF airdrops supplies as the PLAAF is occupied in the rest of Myanmar as well as over the Sunda Strait and can only partly contest this area.

2024-09-30 18:00:01 GMT

The 13th Army Group's corps east and west of Tambov meet up 50 km north of city center, trapping three divisions of the Dnieper Front, which have been depleted to a total of 40,000 soldiers among them.

2024-09-28 23:30:12 GMT

Near the mouth of the Salween, newly-arrived coerced workers from the Philippines organize a new rebellion, led by resistance members and a handful of MARCOS operators who were mistaken for civilians in the sweeps; they burn a bridge they were told to maintain.

2024-09-17 13:00:00 GMT

The Mountain Eagle division, now fully deployed to the Philippines, starts taking back control of both the Ilocos Norte coast and Cagayan Valley.

2024-09-03 16:30:00 GMT

By the end of the day, the divisions of the Mon, Bago, Karen, and Arakan Army Groups facing the PLA pocket have begun digging in to allow smaller forces to hold the lines and units to be moved east; it is believed that the pocket cannot attack without warning.

2024-09-02 16:30:05 GMT

By the end of the day, the Kayah Army Group has reached within mortar range of Naypyidaw, and is preparing to assault the city directly; the city's layout favors the attackers in urban combat, and the PLA has not had time to properly fortify ahead of it.

2024-08-29 15:00:06 GMT

Fuchs asks Khatib what the attitudes are toward the impending invasion of Iran. He says there's no love lost between the Arab community in Germany and Iran, and by now people just hope the Middle East front wraps up quickly so that the media stops talking about Muslim enemies.

2024-08-22 18:00:02 GMT

The 20th Army Group reaches the Volga in the vicinity of Aquareil, cutting off five regular divisions of the Stalingrad Front.

2024-08-15 19:00:04 GMT

Air forces attached to NATO bomb every building in Pushkin, while ground forces of the 2nd Army Group form a 270-degree surround on the neighborhood, aiming to collapse on it in the coming days.

2024-08-08 00:00:00 GMT

Hernandez's team watches ROA on Indian relations with Tibet and Southeast Asia; they discuss the video, in context of past videos about conflict between India and Burmese civilians. Then they watch CNN describe the high-casualty stalemate north of Yangon.

2024-08-05 04:00:09 GMT

The 21st Army Group begins operations to capture Elista.

2024-08-01 23:00:07 GMT

Battle lines as of 2037-08-01. Higher-resolution images of all maps can be found at https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2024/08/ww3euroland370801.png, https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2024/08/ww3levant370801.png, https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2024/08/ww3thailand370801.png.

2024-08-01 13:30:12 GMT

Goh goes from work home but then immediately goes to explore the Dharavi water structure again after dark, and this time manages to get better angles to photograph, but they're grainy.

2024-07-28 01:00:02 GMT

Ceng talks to Bian, not about the rotations as he worried about, but about troop counts. They compare their reports and agree China can augment its strength in Burma, currently 265 divisions facing Yangon and 433 facing the rest, by another 430 over the rest of the year.

2024-06-27 16:00:04 GMT

Ma has a one-on-one with Jin today; she can't cancel or do anything out of the ordinary, and isn't sure how she can pretend to her that everything is normal. Jin says she's stuck and asks for help with reviewing her code, and Ma tries to get into it but still feels distracted.

2024-06-23 23:00:12 GMT

Ma talks to Hernandez more about what to do with Ling. Hernandez speaks to her more distantly than before, like a superior or a handler, and says she should do it herself since an alibi will not help her since the PLA already knows they're connected with Cagney's people.

2024-06-02 03:00:00 GMT

Cagney's people hit three PLA security patrol cars with Type 08s at three different locations, killing all three squads, none of which carried prisoners. Soon thereafter, Cagney releases a video taking credit: “American workers make weapons for our liberation, not our occupiers.”

2024-06-02 01:00:00 GMT

Ma talks to Hernandez about the first day in charge of the new team to try to understand what's going on. The people she hired other than Su and Jin are working well but also would find any deviations from protocol strange and might even notice that some errors are deliberate.