Welcome to part two of the History of Osea video.
This time I’ll be talking about my opinions and ideas about the country.
Just keep in mind that if there’s anything I didn’t mention in part one, then it’s theory and not a fact.
As many of you pointed out, Osea is the Strangereal equivalent of the United States, but adding
to that I also think that Osea resembles Canada.
Geographically, Osea extends way north of the Osean continent, almost reaching the Arctic
just like Canada does.
Another similarity to Canada is that region of South Belka/North Osea which was annexed
or “conquered” (if you wish to say so) by Osea after the Belkan War.
While the annexation of North Osea is a fairly recent event, it resembles the history of
the Canadian province of Quebec which was conquered by the English in 1759 during the
Seven Years War when they fought against the French.
Both countries feature a unique region with very different historical roots and culture,
and they both had their separatist movements with Quebec’s FLQ - Le Front de libération
du Québec (Quebec’s Liberation Front) and North Osea’s Falcons of Dawn – both terrorist
organizations that carried attacks in the 1960s in Quebec and in 2005 in Osea.
In recent history, the Osean government has implemented a pacifist foreign policy, much
more similar to Canada’s than the American more interventionist policy.
There were several several cuts to the military budget and the surplus went to programs related
to space development, which is something Canada has done with its military in recent years
– and I can’t even think about the US cutting its military budget specially with
Trump in the White House.
Now, talking about Osea’s early history, there’s a lot of room for speculation.
But I want to talk about the conflict between and Osean and Belka in 1905, a conflict also
known as the Osean War.
We don’t know who started the war, we don’t know why they started the way and we don’t
even know who won war – there’s no official in-game confirmation for that.
But I believe that if we analyze one of the first quotes in Ace Combat 5, we could assume
that Belka was the one who started the conflict but Osea did manage to defend itself.
15 years ago, there was a war.
Well... war's broken here plenty of times before.
They've tried to invade the south lands through the northern valley time and time again.
Luck was never on their side though, and their victories didn't last long.
The way Genette says the says “time and time again” sound more like if Belka waged
war more than once, more than just the Belkan War, which they did in fact and against Osea.
Jumping to Strangereal’s Cold War, it’s obviously a reference to the real-life Cold
War between the United States and the Soviet Union, but unlike the real-world conflict,
apparently neither Osea nor Yuktobania financed or fought wars in other countries – as far
as we know.
In the real world, the Korean and the Vietnam wars weren’t just civil wars, politically
you could see the battle between the two sides: capitalism against communism, or United States
against the Soviet Union.
But the Cold War wasn’t just fought in proxy wars like what I have just said, it was also
fought through diplomacy and intervention in other countries.
For example, the countries of Eastern Europe fell under communist regimes orchestrated
by the Soviet Union while Latin America remained aligned to the US when the Americans helped
many military dictatorships rise to power in countries like Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
We could think that something like that happened where the southern part of Osea fell into
the Osean sphere of influence while one the other side of the ocean – Verusa (yes, that’s
the name of the other continent) was under the influence of Yuktobania, but we don’t
have any proof of that and the Strangereal cold war was also about 16 years long, that’s
not a very long time for all that to happen – but if it that would be an interesting
Ace Combat game!
The Strangereal Cold War ended when both countries joined forces against Belka during the Belkan
War and ironically that’s how the Cold War started, after tensions between the former
World War II allies started to rise.
Later on, after the Belkan War, Osea like many other countries embraced pacifist policies
and was one of the leading countries in promoting space development.
After 2010 we are only lead to believe that Osea became even more important in the international
community by supporting the development and construction of the ISEV, the international
space elevator and by becoming one of the key nations in the IUPF – the International
Union Peacekeeping Forces.
To finish it up, I would also like to talk about Osea’s flag.
Looking at it we can see it was inspired by the flag of the European Union, but I noticed
that Osea has seven stars and one of them has a different size, it is smaller than the
others.
If the six larger stars represent 6 different states from the Osean Federation, I think
the small one could represent the region of North Osea which used to be the region of
South Belka.
Both the star and the province are located towards the northeast and because North Osea
is a former Belkan territory that would explain why it is being treated unequally as the other
regions.
Now that I have talked about my theories here comes my impression about
Osea:
Geography: Something like United States, Canada and Brazil together because Osea is huge and
goes from the equator (represented by Brazil) to almost the north pole ( represented by
Canada – also note all those islands), and you have the US filling the middle area as
a transition zone (and also note the Great Lakes Region).
History: Mostly American but with some Canadian aspects such as the North Osea/South Belka
region
Government: Like its history, mostly American but with some Canadian aspects such as the
pacifism
Military: Very American but perhaps a bit Japanese too since the Osea’s military branches
are similarly named like Japan’s as it contains “Defence Force” in their names.
Anyways, these were just my ideas about Osea, so please don’t take them as facts!
Now, as for the next video on the History of Strangereal Nations series, I haven’t
decided it yer nor will I!
I will leave the decision to you – you can vote now on a Facebook poll on what country
you would rather have next and I will give you a week before closing the poll.
This was today’s video, I hope you have enjoyed and stay tuned to the channel for
more Ace Combat!