Alyeskan war
Alyeskan war or as its known as the “Alyeskan war for independence”. Was a war for independence of the Alyskan national republic in which the forces of the Russian national republic fought against the Alyskan military forces first and later the Association of North American Nations? The conflict started on the 3rd of February 1978 with the Russian air campaign across the country wiping out the nation's limited air defenses and combined with amphibious landings and air landings captured most of its cities. It was followed by a period of intense fighting between the Russian military and ANAN which fought hard to back its new ally, it is considered the largest modern naval conflict and would see a scale unseen. Through the summer of 1978, ANAN managed to push up north liberating much of Alyska and even launching an invasion of the Aleutian islands and the Kamchatka peninsula, the war ended on the 8th of December 1979 with Russia recognizing Alyskan independence.
Background
Since the national reconciliation failed Russia her national republic party and thus the state were prone to political infighting. All of this did not stop the increased calls for the democratization of Russia by the public, this eventually led to a referendum for political reforms which was passed by overwhelming public support forcing the government to act in 1976.
These reforms led to the so-called “Bureau of Audit” to be established and increased transparency in terms of financial matters. This a change that would not be underestimated as it was at the time when there was no transparency, the levels would still compared to other European nations be deemed reclusive but they were a market change for Russia. Eventually, local elections where held in the ANRs as a semi test stage for the larger democratization of Russia, these prove to be effective and the first large scale free elections were planned for 1978,
In the background of all these prior events the Alyeskan national republic, which was one of the first places for democratization to happen, declared its independence. This was due to a variety of reasons, primarily being a seeming disconnect between it and Moscow as well as a growing sense of national and “American” identity. These things had over the past few decades grown slowly but steadily in Alyeskan society, what made it more rapid was considered that Alyeskan men were sent to fight in Russian wars. All of it combined with similar activities across the former Russian empire made it to many Alyeskan people a possibility that independence might succeed.
Thus with popular support on the 5th of August 1978, the Alyeskan ANR leader was overthrown by the local military forces that were pro-independence. It was followed by rapid proper elections and it declared its unilateral independence from Russia, which in its words was still ruled by a military junta posing as a farce democracy. The Association of North American Nations which since the 1960s had grown more anti-European or rather anti non-American as well as having a vested interest in removing one of its “strategic challengerS” from the continent moved in. The nations of the Association of North American Nations reconciled the young nation and immediately admitted Alyeska as its newest member, in many instances forgoing the more “proper” induction procedures and timeframes which normally would last decades.
All of this was followed rapidly by the now democratic Russian national republic declaring war against Alyeska, or rather in its words “getting a wayward region back in line”. ANAN did not sit idle and immediately deployed troops to Alyeska.