Chapter 6: The New Prime Minister and the Belgrade Pact
The time had finally come. The people had chosen and they chose the Bohemian General Jan Syrovy. The General, now Prime Minister of Danubia spent days (both IC and OOC) trying to make this speech work out for the best.
Standing in front of a multiethnic crowd in Vienna’s Hofburg Palace the new PM delivered his speech to the people of the Danubian Federation, Syrovy vowed that liberty, and equality was made possible thanks to the Emperor keeping his promise, and as long as he is PM he would keep Danubia secure.
Later that day, he announced his new Cabinet, a mixture of ethnicities, Germans, Magyars, Croats, and Poles among others formed together for a coalition.
The day before, the Caribbean, in an act of greed, declared that Hispanola was rightfully a part of the Federation and entered the Parsley War as a more powerful Third Party, backed by the Entente. The Entente’s skeptics see this as an affront to their supposed goals of creating independent democracies.
By the end of the month, the Kingdom of Afghanistan and the Sultanate of Delhi ended their war, Afghanistan lost most of their territory to the Indians, but it would seem that this will not be the last time Afghanistan would face Delhi.
(Unfortunately, real life fails to replicate this result)
The Republic of Serbia, one of the defeated powers of the Weltkrieg, invited diplomats the Right Wing Iron-Guard Romanian Government and from the Kingdom of Greece for Geopolitical Negotiations. This worried Syrovy and Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, as they sought to gain revenge on the winners of the Weltkrieg. Fortunately, Serbia backed out of the agreement to partition Bulgaria, unfortunately, neither Romania nor Greece did.
(Even when Serbia decides to drop out, it still creates a threat to Habsburg sovreignty.)
In response, Syrovy decided to guarantee the right to Bulgaria’s independence, and vowed Boris III, the Bulgarian King, that Danubia would protect Bulgaria in case of war.
(Van5, there is your answer)
Finally, the day of war came, on May 11, Romania and Greece declared war on Bulgaria. In response, Danubia immediately declared war on Romania and Greece. The Third Balkan War would now begin in earnest.