[HIST] conflicts in the GZGverse - LLAR

LLAR foreign policy assesment, as per my LLAR website
http://home.t-online.de/home/kh.ranitzsch/lira/liramainen.html

Long-standing enmity with the NAC, due to the latter's occupation of
South America. The LIRA is too weak for a straight fight against the NAC,
but it has occasionally joined in anti-NAC alliances. There have been
numerous cases where the LLAR has been accused of supporting anti-NAC
activities on Earth and in space, but actual proof of this has been rare, and
usually involved individual LLAR citizens rather than government officials.

The closest ally of the LLAR is the FSE traditionally due to the
Spanish/Portuguese component in both States. Also the FSE supported the
LLAR throughout its exile off earth.

Relations with the ESU are quite close. However, this is more a case of the
ESU trying to befriend the LLAR (and trying to bribe them with cheap weapons
and commercial privileges) rather than genuine mutual atttraction.

The LIRA has quite close commercial ties with most industrial and technical
powers, especially the NSL, the Oceanic Union, New Israel and the Japanese.
This extends to LLAR acquisition of weapon systems and occasionally joint
research, development and production. Politically, this produces some links of
sympathy. But that is far from a military alliance and there have been
occasional incidents.. There is some sympathy between the LLAR, the Islamic
Federation,
Pan-African Union and Indonesian Commonwealth (IC), due to the real or
perceived commmon role as the 'third world' in the human part of the universe.

However, the various incidents and wars with the IC have left a long trail of
grudges and suspicions which could easily lead to renewed fighting.

The nearest planetary neighbour is the Romanov Hegemony. Relations have
varied over time from rather good-neighbourly to disputes and even
fighting, over trading rights and free passage of armed forces. Also, the
Romanov Hegemony is wary of the military links between the LLAR and the
ESU, the arch-enemy of the Romanov Hegemony.

Relationships with other powers is rather more distant, controlled more
by short-term political expediency rather than by any long-term
perspectives.

Greetings Karl Heinz

> The LIRA has quite close commercial ties with most industrial and

The Alarishi Empire was initially a Portuguese/German company (Prince
Henry
Corporation).  The AE capital was New Lisboa, for a year or so--between
secession from the EU as it fell apart, until New Lisboa was destroyed by an
antimatter explosion during fighting with a FSE task force trying to suppress
AE independence.

So the LIRA probably has AE sympathy--and offers of research,
shipbuilding and technical support contracts.

(The Alarishi Empire has a population about the same size as, say,
present-day Argentina).