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Admiralty House
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This was the second home of Chancellor, it was called the Admiralty House as it had long ago housed naval leadership of the country. It was a beautiful home, looking out into the Clarencian sea, wide open spaces as far as the eyes could see. It was here that she was enjoying the final months of the summer, taking the opportunity to handle some of the government affairs from here instead of back in the Capitol under the scrutinous eyes of the public. It was here, that she would take the next steps in her foreign policy that was sure to anger the nations of the Rurikgrad Pact, it would however show the solidarity to which the government was willing to stand to its statements.

To: Chief of Station, Eiffelland-Retallia

Use assets in Germania to locate Alexander Kahnemann and other members of the Trivodnian diaspora. You are to pass onto any of the officials an invitation for the entirety of the exiled Government and whatever is left of its military command structure to make a visit to the Confederacy. We will host them here in Merriam for some time. This is to be discreet, the utmost secrecy of this visit is required as enough attention has been drawn of the communist world for the type being.​
 

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As the motorcade pulled up to Admiralty House, Alexander Kahnemann had no idea what sort of reception he would receive.

First the nation was in grieving after the loss of their King. Second, despite the Islanders asking that this meeting be kept quiet, the world's media had been informed of the former Chancellor of Trivodnia's visit while his plane was mid-air. Kahnemann was always one for a bit of theatre and publicity but there were also more strategic reasons behind the press release. The Christmas Crisis and then the Seven Day War had shown that the Kadikistanis would overreact to even the simplest provocation and would no doubt issue some sort of threat to either Johnstone Isle or the whole Organisation of Democratic States. Kahnemann's bet was his visit would spook the ODS, of which Johnstone Isle was perhaps the most hawkish, into taking a harder line on Kadikistan thanks to Ivar's over the top response.

It was certainly a gamble but as the head of government of a non-existent state that had already lost one war to Kadikistan, he had little to lose.

Joining him on this trip was External Affairs minister David Trunk, a fellow Social Democrat who had built his profile and reputation through stridently anti-Kadikistani speeches in the Trivodnian National Assembly, and National Defence minister Ludwik Horwitz, a member of the Yiddish People's Party and former general in the now defunct Free State Self-Defence Forces. Meeting the trio was Johnstonian Chancellor Rebecca Daniel and an as yet unnamed senior ranking military official.

Despite being half the world away from Gallo-Germania, where the Communist bloc was making serious inroads in former Burgundy, the Confederate States of Johnstone Isle had grown increasingly vocal in its opposition to the Rurikgrad Pact and leading member of the Organisation of Democratic States, which was mostly mid-sized constitutional monarchies.

From his conversations with the Confederate States' intelligence services, it was clear they saw Polesia as a potential weak spot that could be used to keep the Rurikgrad Pact preoccupied by funding a low level insurgency.

Desperate for cash and recognition, Kahnemann avoided telling them their plans were doomed to fail. The Kadikistani military had an iron grip on Polesia. Holdouts in the FSSDF who had kept on fighting even after Trivodnia's surrender at the end of the Seven Day War had now all been wiped out. Looking further abroad, there was little appetite among Trivodnian refugees to go back and fight for their now vanished homeland as most knew it would never come back.

A bigger issue was Kahnemann had no real route into Polesia.

Many in former Trivodnia, as much as they hated Kadikistan, hated him more for what they saw as a reckless foreign policy that ultimately saw them live under Ivar's yoke.

Nor did he have any military assets. Sensing defeat, the FSSDF tried ship what equipment that hadn't been destroyed in the Kadikistani onslaught out of the country and back to where it was originally manufactured: Eiffelland-Retalia and Burgundy, who had now added the weapons back to their own arsenal.

That's not to say Kahnemann was totally useless. He was still a recognizable figurehead and among more nationalistic Trivodnian refugees, he was a hero who stood up to Kadikistan, so could help marshall support that way.

More valuable was the decades of intelligence gathering done by the Free State Intelligence Bureau on Kadikistan. No other spy agency had the same level of information and access on Ivar that the FSIB did.

Much of their hard work was undone after the Seven Day War. Knowing surrender was imminent, the FSIB began destroying or sending abroad much of what it had under Trivodnia's 'doomsday' protocols.

Through a combination of torture and bribery the Kadikistanis were also able to find out a lot more and respond accordingly, wiping out FSIB assets and improving their information security. But there were still some things Kahnemann knew he could tell the Islanders that they didn't know.

Kahnemann also had a plan of his own: Crotobaltislavonia. Trivodnia's forever unstable neighbour could be the perfect quagmire for the Rurikgrad Pact. Other ODS members like Lars seemed to take the view through economic development and diplomacy they could bring Banja Luka eventually into their sphere. Kahnemann believed the opposite: keep it poor, isolated and violent but not to the point where Kadikistan didn't feel it had a chance or the cost wasn't worth it. This to way the Communist superpower would continue to waste blood, money and men just so it could have a nominal foothold close to Slavo-Germania.

More important however were the links to the mishpocha - or Yiddish mafia as they were known abroad. The truth was far more grey. The origins of many of the mishpochas was either in the rabbinical dynasties that dominated Three Seas Judaism or the landsmanshaftn that arose from a growing sense of Yiddish - or taytsh as they preferred - identity in the region.

While many of the mishpochas had struck agreements with the new communist regime to carry on their business in a certain way - much like the Kadikistani mafia and Crotobaltislavonian syndikats - their ultimate allegiance was to money and if they felt they could make a profit from facilitating the resistance against the Rurikgrad Pact, they would.

EDIT: Tidied up and added clarifications
 
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A correspondent for 'The People's Show' (TPS), Frances Grant was far used to reporting from outside of granite government buildings with no government official in view so she could ad-lib a tirade against capitalism or Christian fascists. By sheer happenstance, Grant was the only 'ETI' reporter tasked with covering the funeral of King Trusty in Johnston, and thus the only journalist present to rush and heed the global news alert of Kahnemann touching down in Westernesse.

TPS and her host Clay Yearwood were socialists, a cursory glance or listen would assure anyone of that, but they were by no means Rurikgrad groupies or Kadikophiles. As Frances arrived on scene mere moments before the former Trivdonian Chancellor, she instructed her cameraman to simply roll tape while she approached not the Chancellor, instead External Affairs Minister David Trunk.

Frances failed to breach security in the slightest, though she began to call out his name . . "DAVID! MISTER TRUNK! . . A BUSINESS CARD?!"

The ETI reporter flicked her card out behind the feet of Kahnemann and the main body towards David Trunk and the second wave before being pushed down and back by other reporters and Johnston authorities.
 

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While the Trivodnian government-in-exile may have announced its visit to the Confederate States of Johnston Isle, the world's media had hardly gathered in the greatest numbers.

For one, Johnston Island was largely removed from most of the action, being blessed to sit by the Implarian Ocean to the south of Westernesse - far away from the borderlands of Gallo-Germania where trouble seemed to be brewing. Even if this mid-sized kingdom, which had recently lost its sovereign, had been a driving force behind the creation of the Organisation of Democratic States and the most forceful in its anti-communist rhetoric, the country remained outside the centre of international diplomacy by sheer geography.

The second was most had accepted Trivodnia's defeat. Even Eiffelland-Retalia, which had sunk billions in building up the Free State economically and militarily and was the closest Amstov could call an ally, had recognised the Kadikistani puppet state of the People's Republic of Polesia, even if it did allow the exiled regime to have a base within its territory.

However, a few cameras and reporters had turned up and while Kahnemann was used to the media his colleagues were not, as evidenced by Trunk's shock when Johnstonian security tackled the Ambrosian journalist to the ground.
 

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Chancellor Daniel watched as the motorcade pulled up from inside her office. Standing outside of the main doors was her security detail and LTG Frank Kazenstein, commander of the newly created GERCOM. Watching from her window she saw one of her security detail get a little rough with an overzealous reporter, and sighed to herself. Cats out of the bag now, some sort of conference will have to be called after this is all said and done.

Kazenstein greeted the trio. "Gentleman, I am Lieutenant General Kazenstein commander of the newly minted Gallo-Germania Command for the Confederate States Armed Services. I was brought into this meeting before I begin my duty station in the Germanian region as the chancellor found it prudent that I be a part of this meeting as it will be my command region that oversees affairs that would include the Trivodnian State. Now if you would follow me, she is waiting along with another guest."

He began leading them down the halls of the elegant retreat used by the Chancellors office. The building still looked every bit as it did when it had been built in the 19th century as renovations attempted to keep its original look whenever they were completed. Guiding them to her office and closing the doors behind them, "Gentleman, may I Introduce Chancellor Rebecca Daniel in front of you and to your left is one of our Intelligence Officers, well we'll call him Johnny."

Chancellor Daniel walked forward extending her warm greeting the three men offering them each a seat in front of her desk and motioning for her two personnel to take their seats off to the side of the room until they were needed.

"Gentleman, make no mistake. We are every bit as committed as we sound in the media about rolling back the tide of communism sweeping across your continent. The loss of the Free State in the Seven Day war is tragic, blunders were made by the Trier Pact militarily. I am sorry my country and the predecessor in my office had chosen to stay neutral and out of most worldly affairs, it is something my office has been working to rectify is the years of isolationism our nation had chosen to follow.

We are on the verge of seeing the remnants of yet another nation that had fought in the Seven Day War about to collapse into the fold of the Rurikgrad Pact, or should I say under Ivars iron fist, and this is something we cannot allow to happen on our watch. I know that Ivar keeps an iron grasp on what remains of Trivodnia in the Polesian puppet state, it is our intention, our hope that we can prop you up, re-invigorate the diaspora and those even in your homeland that not all hope is lost, and come up with a plan to roll back the red tide and its expansionist ways."
 

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Kahnemann and Trunk listened politely as Chancellor Daniel set out her vision for 'former Trivodnia', occasionally giving a curious glance to intelligence officer 'Johnny', who stood silent and motionless the entire time the Johnston Isle's head of government spoke.

By the end both men were somewhat reassured. She recognised the iron grip Kadikistan had on the new puppet state it had carved out of Trivodnia's Jewish-majority districts and also oltjd failure of the Trier Concord previously to mount any effective resistance against the Rurikgrad Pact's onslaught.

"Chancellor, you are correct in your summary of the situation and your words of support are heartening to hear," began Trunk, looking carefully out if the corner of his eye at Kahnemann as he spoke, "the reality on the ground is in fact dire and there is little prospect of overturning Kadikistani rule in the near-term -"

Kahnemann coughed, a clear signal he would take over.

"Chancellor, if I may speak frankly, the truth is there are more Trivodnian gangsters than patriots, something I learnt the hard way" Kahnemann started, "the Trivodnian refugees living in Eiffelland and elsewhere won't fight and die for the Free State as few genuinely believed in it in the first place. But make no mistake. There is a genuine hatred of Ivar. There is an even bigger hatred of Crotobaltislavonia and that is where your answer lies.

"That shit hole," Kahnemann did not even try disguise his disdain for Trivodnia's long troublesome neighbour, "has had more dictators and civil wars than I've had breakfasts. Yet your ally Lars tried to butter the current ruling clique up with promises of trade, investment and whatever. This will only enrich whoever is in power now. And they still blame us Jews for their failings!"

"You will not beat the Rurikgrad Pact in a conventional war Chancellor, but you make Ivar bleed enough men and treasure in Crotobaltislavonia, then their grip on the Three Seas region becomes a lot shakier."
 
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