Decade of War in Iberia

The Decade of War in Iberia was a period of extreme violence that swept Iberia in the 2220s after the fall of the monarchy in Spain and the unification with Portugal.

History
In Spain, the republican opposition (both liberal and leftist) had managed to overtake every pro-monarchy conservative in the parliament, after weeks of protests the king still didn't have even think about renouncing. The palace then was stormed in a wave of protests and the king said he was willing to renounce as long as he received impunity and was allowed to keep his business after the proclamation of the republic. New NATOball supported the king's plan of transition in order to prevent a more leftist takeover, however the decision of going on with the plan only made the people more angry.

In Portugal, the unpopular liberal government had to deal with a lot of social problems as well as the country being filled with migrants from Africa and South America that wanted to go to other parts of Europe as Portugal became poorer and was considered one of the disgraces of the Eurozone. Fearing for the first succesful new socialist revolution in Western Europe, New NATOball came out with the idea of forming a federation between Portugal and Spain in order to strength integration and cooperation to the two.

The two governments then announced a new beginning of the Iberian peninsula under a liberal republic very well integrated to the principles of the Eurozone. However few changed in Portugal and the royal family still owned a lot of business in Spain. This gave rise to armed insurgencies against their plans. Both far-right and far-left groups rised up in this period and tried to prevent the new republic to be formed but categorically failed, so while the far-right lost strength after the Porto agreement where most Portuguese nationalists recognized the new republic, the far-left gained more reasons to organize and fight.

The rise of the communists and socialists forced a New NATOball intervention to be carried out in all of Iberia to stop them from siezing power, the coalition was formed by French, German and American forces, with the French and German leading it and the Americans offering troops just, the coalition also had the approval of the entire Eurozone. A lot of crimes were committed against the Portuguese and Spanish civilian population during this period, the Basques, Galicians and Catalans were the most affected ones as they had the despise of the Iberian army as well. However the coalition classified the leftist insurgents as terrorists who killed people indiscriminately at their cordinated attacks and therefore this justified their actions.

During the last years of the "pacifying process" of the peninsula, with a more moderate liberal government in charge, it was agreed that the monarchy should be stripped of their luxuries in Spain and a modern republic in its modus operandi was announced. The social democratic left also finally took the side of the government then and stopped being "neutral", they publicly denounced the communist and socialist insurgents, saying they wouldn't be part of their "totalitarian plans". The social democrats also agreed that the federal extension of Iberia shouldn't be restricted to Portugal and Spain just, but to some internal entities as well, the Basques and Catalans gained the most autonomy in this law, therefore the revolutionary masses had been almost by entirely alienated into these center-left reforms.

The Russian Greater SFSRball said that once again the social democrats and the fake "center-left" betrayed the revolution and participated in the salvation of the bourgeois capitalist ruling class and its maintenance in power. The Russians also took most of the exiled radical left leadership after an agreement, saving a lot of them from serving life sentences or being executed.

So called "red corridors" were formed in Iberia and full peace was not achieved, some areas of Catalonia, the Basque Country and Portugal still had considerable leftist influence and occasionally clashes between them and the authorities would take place, as always when attempting to organize a political party to run in the elections they would be boycotted. Russian Greater SFSRball couldn't interfer in Iberia as it had previously just intervened in Ukraine and Belarus and therefore wanted to avoid criticism of the Western world in this aspect as there were already anti-Russian nationalist insurgencies going on at those territories that they were trying to stop.