The year is 2012 and the cold war has ended a mere 5 years ago. The Warsaw Pact is only just beginning to dissolve, leaving the nations that were under its umbrella in a new era of vulnerability since they had become heavily reliant on Russia’s protection. For countries without the means to protect themselves, power vacuums resulted, often lead to desperate measures for the beleaguered nations.

 One such nation was Romania. Romania’s new found iron ore and alloy reserves would prove to be a tempting target for any country in the region to expand, but the United States saw this as a tremendous opportunity. A proposal was quickly drafted to provide protection to Romania in exchange for exclusive access to the metal reserves.