Economic Crisis: Ace Combat Strangereal History

Did you know that there are other factors besides obtaining the rights to valuable natural resources that caused the Belkan War?
And that financial overspending and a partnership gone horribly wrong resulted in thousands of people losing their lives?
Join me as we learn the events and decisions that led to the downfall of the Belkan Federation.
This is the Belkan Economic Crisis.
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Solutus Tip of the Day: Always save the money you earn. Never overspend if you cannot pay it off.
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Music used:
Main Menu - Ace Combat 7 OST
Merlon - Ace Combat Zero OST
Result - Ace Combat Zero OST
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#acecombatlore #strangerealhistory

[@SolutusEversol]

Hello pilots! Don’t be afraid to leave a comment! Let me know what you thought. Also please consider sharing the video with anyone interested in the Ace Combat lore :)

[@pyeitme508]

Last time I asked what if Merica meets the Strangereal nations idea. This time is how will each nation's arms companies view each other, such as Boeing, Northern Grumman, BAE systems, General Dynamics, etc view Grunder Inc?

[@pyeitme508]

And USA is going be a worse asshole than Osean Federation due to the Yankees are WAY more war like than the Balkans, having thousands of nuclear warheads to fxxx any nation if one of them won't trade with and hate Yutabonia because it is almost like the Soviet Union. Also Merica would want LOTS of oil by causing tons of proxy wars on the nations. Lastly USA is an offensive force and having more Special Operation Forces operators than almost other nations combined and cause lots of damage than the Strangereal fighter jets! 😂

[@yamatothebloodsamurai1667]

Can you do the history on the aurelian and the leasath nation war conflict

[@SolutusEversol]

Don’t you worry cause I’m gonna cover all of the events :)

[@Arik33241]

@@SolutusEversol i have an idea, an alternate story. What if Belka was rich, never sold their land, and never bankrupt? That would be multiple V2s, multiple Morgans, Multiple XB-0s, and multiple Excaliburs, i think Osea will lose the Belkan War, since Galm Team is Belkan because Ustio was never born because Belka never sold their land, so Ustio is part of Belka. And because of that, i think Grunder Will Mass producing FALKENs, ADLERs, and Ravens

[@PS3PS2fan]

I theorize that Osea wanted to eliminate Belka from the competition for the Strangereal superpower. Osea knew of the country’s economic strife and thus wanted to remove a potential rival.

[@SolutusEversol]

Makes me wonder if Osea learned about V2 before proposing the deal and decided that they weren’t going to let Belka have a weapon of mass destruction and needed to find a way to cripple Belka for good.

[@CafeLovai]

@@SolutusEversol I could see that, they probably planned it this way for a better public opinion situation than a more militarized approach. Of course one way or another the Belkans themselves would be pissed.

[@Attaxalotl]

#BelkaDidNothingWrong

[@Doofdoof0]

Hence this is why Belka did nothing and why we should burn osea to the ground

[@pennywise9081]

BURN OSEA TO THE GROUND

[@Jedisage909]

Ah so that's how Pixy did it.

[@dudeman4514]

Belka:"Guys how do i stop my economy from dying this is my budget: Food: $30 Water $30 Electricity: $50 Infrastructure: $100 Superweapons too advanced for the current era: $999,9999,999,999,999,999,999" Everyone: "stop paying for too much superweapons" Belka: "No"

[@Rizkyace118]

I legit cried when watching ACF's video on the history of Belka... But with your video, I now start to question Belka's motives after all these years. But hey... Belka did nothing wrong!

[@makotoyuki2199]

Kingdom of Erusea I know exactly who diese ist.

[@Hunter-ze3my]

@@makotoyuki2199 want to repeat the last two words? I didn't get that.

[@makotoyuki2199]

Hunter 495 diese ist

[@Hunter-ze3my]

@@makotoyuki2199 I thought you types something wrong, but it just was a mistranslation (Deutsch) diese ist (English) this is

[@LeiteArts10]

If you think about it, the recession could have been caused by the ending of the Osea-Yuktobania cold war, Belka invested tons of money in the defense industry in the wrong time, but chose to double down on it

[@RedBaronAce0207]

The economic crisis was the work of Osea. Belka did nothing wrong. Love these Strangereal history videos BTW. I‘m waiting patiently for those on the Belkan War and the Usean Continental War.

[@SolutusEversol]

Thank you! :) I will say this about the Belkan War and Usean Continental War videos. There are plans for them to be made but they will take more time to make (I want to be as faithful as possible without cutting corners) The next 2 - 3 videos will be something else before the big video :) I will make an announcement in the future. I promise. Edit: I also make some quick announcements and post pics on Twitter if you ever want to stay updated

[@Baplopird]

How can you not feel bad for the belkans? #BelkaDidNothingWrong

[@COUNTERCOM]

Belka didn't but osea did, BURN OSEA TO THE GROUND!!!!!!!!!!

[@SolutusEversol]

Agreed other than poor budgeting skills :)

[@LunaPPK]

hard to keep feeling bad for them when they thought it was a great idea to drop nukes on their own lands and kill over 15,000 people and through out most the timeline keep up a petty vendetta causing wars in every other country further dragging its name in the mud.

[@ShahjahanMasood]

the actions of a single organisation does not represent an entire Nation!!! Belka did nothing wrong The Grey Men did

[@LunaPPK]

@@ShahjahanMasood good thing it wasn't just a single organization then

[@YaBoyuhhKenny]

Pixy during the first section of the video "WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN BUDDY!"

[@tuckchesta6052]

I'm sure whoever was the Osean President at that time probably played a massive role in Harling's rise to the top. He likely felt sickened that his government would take advantage of a struggling country like that.

[@Arik33241]

Ok, now i understand why people keep saying "Belka did nothing wrong" it was those damn Oseans!

[@azzayoba]

This was very insightful. Osea saw Belka as a threat in its arms race against Yuktobania. If it had to divert attention to deal with a rising Belkan military, then it may lose ground to Yuktobania who does not have any powerful neighbours. This is why the Osean government decided to engage in predatory tactics to sabotage and collapse Belka's economy as a costly military build-up along Belka's border would cause economic trouble for Osea. In my opinion, Belka should have sought for an economic *and military* alliance with Osea instead of resorting to a paranoid military buildup that resulted in its own destruction.

[@ShahjahanMasood]

Thats actually a very reasonable , and good solution. But didn't Yuktobania have an Afghanistan style war with one of its neighbors?

[@JackofNothingess]

Well, the problem here is that Bella had a natural distrust of Osea, as they fought wars with one another before. It's sad they did that to themselves. And then, Osea had to punk Belka by making them think there was resources around the Great Lakes, and made Belka pay for the costs of prospecting for the resources... And it all came crashing down.

[@Kubadaniels]

actually why Osea? they are natural enemies of belka and yuks were enemies of osea, soo they could be good allies

[@KoalGames360]

@@ShahjahanMasood Yuktobania did had some wars and conflicts with neighboring nations, like the Yuktobanian-Kaluga dispute or the Romny coup d'etat and the war against the Kholm

[@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131]

Indeed. Keep the Excalibur project it's only meant for territory control. ADFX Morgan, maybe delay its development until after Excalibur is completed and the strain on their budget is lessened. With that military alliance, they can forget about V2 in its entirety. Like how Canada has America use nukes without using nukes themselves, so to could Belka have Osea use nukes without having to use nukes themselves. There is no shame in outsourcing if it is moral and advantageous.

[@rokechikan4481]

Belka did a lot of things wrong, but I guess this shines a new light on their actions. Osea is pretty bad as well, really no one is truly innocent. So thanks for the extra bit of lore!

[@ravencookie5141]

BELKA DID NOTHING WRONG Also congrats on 200 subs

[@SolutusEversol]

Thank you Falken! Past me would never believe that I could get past 200 subs!

[@ravencookie5141]

Solutus Eversol Believe it man you single handedly are filling the animation and cartoon gap in the ace combat community always remember that you are a one of your kind and special to us Can you do a video about the Falken when you finish the current video plans ?

[@SolutusEversol]

@@ravencookie5141 Thank you for the kind words buddy :) Unless Ace Combat Fan gets his done first (which could be his very next video) I may but it could be unlikely.

[@ravencookie5141]

Solutus Eversol K

[@makotoyuki2199]

IRAQI FALKEN Guess who it is! =)

[@mr.h1083]

If I was was the leader of Osea, here’s what I would have done: I would have loan Belka money to help them complete their super weapons projects and pledge them protection under the trade that they’ll eventually repay back their debt and allow analyzation and research on their super weapons. Frankly, I think that could’ve prevented the Belkan War.

[@thomasmarren2354]

I live in the real Great Lakes region of the USA.

[@alexandersong6722]

I was playing AC 7 as the ADF while listening to a playlist of these videos. I legit was like “Whaaaaa” when he started talking about the jet I was using

[@divecolosio4988]

Hmm.... If Belka were to develop one Superweapons, which do you think should be prioritized? Morgan, Excalibur, V2 or Hersvegler? Great upload, btw!

[@SolutusEversol]

If they wanted the most powerful it would definitely be V2 cause that has the power of multiple ICBM’s in just one missile. And thank you :)

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

@@SolutusEversol (happy Pixy noises)

[@ardantop132na6]

*THAT'S WHAT V2 IS FOR*

[@Barri2410]

The Morgan Reasons? 1. It got Ziosite to destroy incoming ballistic missiles. 2. It got Hyperthene MPBM with power similar to a nuke (except the radiation-just like Trinity) 3. Small (compared to other weapons) = cheaper and can be mass produced

[@phoenixwyvern355]

Is it me or does The Five Great Lakes looks exactly like the Great Lakes of America.

[@netheretic874]

Great work as always! I'm not sure if you take video requests but would you be willing to do a video on Nemo from Ace Combat 3 or something else in the game?

[@SolutusEversol]

Hi Netheretic! Welcome to the channel. Hope you’re enjoying the videos! I usually have a set plan on what to discuss for each video. In regards to Ace Combat 3, i have not played it and I would have to do extensive research in order to not contradict the main storyline. But I may make a video on that topic. It would be much later down the line.

[@christopherfaulkner1299]

Can you do an alternate history of a possible Belkan civil war that the economic crisis hypothetically caused before 1991.

[@GamersonicRyanBruno]

The laser weapon is now called a “TLS” with later on in the series would still work the same but mush smaller versions of it. Not the same shape.

[@GamersonicRyanBruno]

If you’re wondering what it means. If you already know it don’t type it down. The “TLS” means Tactical Laser System.

[@GamersonicRyanBruno]

The morganite would be now called “IEWS” it means Integrated Electronic Warfare System.

[@GamersonicRyanBruno]

Sorry for putting to mush information about the new name’s. But I kinda wished that they kept the old names.

[@clausesanta5042]

TLS? True Love Story?

[@agrohamburger7205]

Tbh with you. After listening to all of the history surrounding All of this war. The Pilots that you control and the countries you fight for. Are really the bad guy in all of these situations. I wonder in Ace Combat 8 if there is going to be the game. You finally fight against these nations like Osea instead of for Osea. It seems like those wars are pretty justified.

[@edoardo7610]

Thank you for this magical video,it's super perfect! °^° keep up the good work! :D

[@COUNTERCOM]

So I have a question, is yuktobania communist? They're obviously based on the soviet union but no where in an of the ace combat 5 or ace combat 0 is yuktobania being communist is mentioned.

[@SolutusEversol]

I don't think so. In the wiki it is mentioned that their political structure is kinda similar to the USSR/Russia but Yuktobania is made up of independent republics.

[@pyeitme508]

@@SolutusEversol like Modern Russia under the command of Putin?

[@divecolosio4988]

@@pyeitme508 kind of

[@Kubadaniels]

we talking 80s 90s in strangereal soo maybe just like irl Yuks had glasnots, pierestroika etc

[@mobiusraptor7]

Osea has democracy and republicanism (like the US) and their political differences caused the Cold War with Yuktobania. So you could say Yuktobania may be socialist.

[@MihzvolWuriar]

You did something that plunged your country into recession, then you did something wrong. We gotta stop that nonsense that Belka did nothing wrong, they did, they spent too much money. Had they stopped with the Excalibur, their cities would be defended, so focus on that, by that point, they had the best Air force in the world, so Excalibur would be well defended, after it was completed, then focus on the Morgan, to further increase Excalibur's protection. This way, they wouldn't lose 70% of their territory, and you could argue they didn't do anything wrong. But they did *everything wrong,* and, while OSEA did shit wrong too, the did one thing against Belka, everything else was Belka doing to themselves. At the end, the nukes were the epilogue of a generation of bad decisions in a epic ending. And you know what sore losers do, blame their defeat on other.

[@JinteiModding]

New Ace Combat needs: °The gameplay of 7 and the trilogy °numerous aircrafts °perfect DLCs *°AND A STORY THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH BELKA*

[@Joshua_N-A]

Needs a Belkan campaign.

[@iMoevious]

need a campaign about Belka on the protagonist side

[@HazhMcMoor]

Need Osean protagonist as usual but the plot twist is that we switch to Belka!

[@nathanlennox6056]

Nah,I don't feel sorry for them. Keeping up with the 1930-40's Germany symbolism, their strategy of waging war on everything around them- *at the same time* , was their undoing. Despite Belkan being in a terrible economic shape, they still couldn't focus on anything other than making up for it by supercharging their military budget (with money they didn't have). However, "Pride Before The Fall". When they finally had a decent hand to play, rather than just playing it and winning the battle (annexing B7R through intimidation and coercion with the weak, much smaller Ustio, and escaping their financial crisis), they sling their cards at everyone in the room, flipped the table, and started waving and freefiring a gun in the room (invading several of their neighboring countries, who has just recently been given independence from Belka, and also one of the two Strangereal superpowers. Rather than occupying or annexing, they attempted and absolute conquest and adopted "Scorched Earth" to anything they couldn't or didn't care to take for their own.) So they lost the war. If Ustio is a young, relatively innocent country, and Osea is the protective but still agitated bully, then Belka is... Belka to Ustio: *Don't come to B7R tomorrow*

[@grimkaizer8417]

Annex Belka. They did nothing wrong? They lost. #OseaForever

[@Joshua_N-A]

A Grey member voted as president should make Osea invincible.

[@mana6549]

Let me fight for Belka ! FÜR BELKA ! FÜR MEINE FREUNDE !

[@jetengnexd4348]

So Belkan got continually screwed over by Osea, and they get the blame for retaliating? #belkadidnothingwrong

[@Joshua_N-A]

@Ahmad Zubair Belka is like Switzerland when paranoia up to 11.

[@dalesheen1816]

1:32 a wild SOLG appears!!

[@ChrisGuzmanS]

wow so easy to undertand, it's like reading books with little drawings on them.

[@MrJoz08]

The thing that bothered me is why Belka started a war on multiple fronts...

[@nuclearwarhead9338]

One-two punches. In a nutshell...attack and defeat every potential threats *BEFORE* they had the chance to build up.

[@sorthweast3030]

**MRP Grinding intensifies**

[@Shadx27]

I bet if I look down in the comments, someone will say, "Belka did nothing wrong."

[@originalSPECTER]

The idea that Osea, as national policy, lied to Belka so they'd create an insolvent resource extraction corporation, one so large that it tanked Belka's economy in a strategic way, is really silly. Osea had no motivation to do so, and the Belkans mismanaged their own money plenty enough on their own. Osea was the scapegoat, and the excuse Belka would use to reconquer sold territory. Territory they conveniently claimed after they had finished constructing Excalibur, the money of which came from the sale of that very territory. The Belkans are full of shit. Osea did nothing wrong.

[@SupremeMasterr]

I dont care if belka is innocent or not. I will support which country pays the most.

[@nuclearwarhead9338]

SHILL

[@HazhMcMoor]

Everytime i see this history i always question why Belka struggle so hard in maintaining its "meager" territory and superweapons while Osea and Yuk are BIG AF and so far have no civil war problems at all? Unless both of their territory are mostly wasteland with no people but it doesn't look like it.

[@exequielpomilio8558]

OSEA is the true villain,are we going to burn OSEA who accompanies me?

[@jervonw4251]

I love [Ace Combat - Zero & 5] :3

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

I thought it was the democratic national party. Because it’s even more similar to the nationalist socialist party in 1920’s Germany

[@Joshua_N-A]

Japan has Liberal Democratic Party which is nationalistic. Asian liberal parties seems to be lean on the right than Western liberal parties.

[@AustinTincher]

So all that spending on super weapons went right down the drain when they started that war due to a mute in a jet

[@STLSF]

Anyone get the feeling that someone was studying the legend of King Arthur when they came up with some of these weapon names?

[@KillerOrca]

Seems like a lot of the problems in Strangereal are caused by right wing or extremist parties coming into power. Happened with Belka, happened with Estovakia, happened with Eurisa at least TWICE...

[@nuclearwarhead9338]

Oh really? They're the cause? Geez...I wonder *WHAT* causes them to coming into power.

[@mobiusraptor7]

Leasath is left wing (People's Democratic Republic of Leasath) and we don't know what wing was Estovakia.

[@Joshua_N-A]

@@mobiusraptor7 isn't Estovakia based on Balkan states?

[@JeffreyBarkdull]

Why didn’t Belka just take that one spot that was circled at 10:42?

[@grantt1589]

They should have just delade Excalibur for afew years

[@clausesanta5042]

9:30 So Osea's plan to put Belka economic collapse allowed hardliners to gain power in Belka and accelerated Belkan War in 1995.

[@pokeng]

They dug their own grave when they started so many experimental projects

[@tadpayeur2810]

I see, so the discovery of natural resources was merely the straw that broke the camels back so to speak. 🤔

[@vasilikosolov]

Because of this video I wanna see a game where osea is the antagonist and i wanna see osea burn

[@sambrownski5449]

Did you make that Pendragon logo

[@SolutusEversol]

Yes. It’s a fan interpretation of what the logo could look like.

[@sambrownski5449]

@@SolutusEversol cool hey my dude keep up the good work

[@JinteiModding]

I have a question I have played the trilogy but never got nowhere near the first mission And my question comes up The what is the purpose of the Falken? And how the fuck is the Fenrir in Ace Combat 7 if X is supposed to be set in 2020 (Ace Combat 7 is in 2019) and the Fenrir was built AFTER the Gleipnir's parts (again, the Ace Combat X War is set in 2020)

[@submarineinthesky8946]

So... Belka spent all it's money on giant robots, then?

[@nuclearwarhead9338]

*WRONG*

[@Gods_favorite_idiot]

Hey ya sol do u think belka was a kingdom in the 1910-1970s then a republic in the 80s and 90s than back to a manarchy in the 2000

[@Uncle_Shamrock]

We always say "Belka did nothing wrong" and also "Lets's make Belka Great agian" ... But somthings are wrong... Why should Belka trust to Osea that never had a good relations with each other? So belka did a wrong... Belka had taken lands of Recta before starting the Belkan War(It's brutal)... so Rectan actually took their old lands(except new countries that has been born like Ustio and Gebet) So Belka is not completly innocent... I am not a osea lover... but LET'S BURN OSEA TO THE GROUND.

[@dieptattho8860]

Why all those Belkan military projects related to the Arthurian legends? Like there is excillabur,Avalon,pendragon and so forth.

[@mansonfd7835]

I would like to see if the next installment of Ace Combat take place in 1960s - 1980s Cold War. I'd love to see Mig-15/17/19, F-86 Sabre, other Cold War plane fighting each other.

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

Alright, time to replay ACZ, the BEST Ace Combat. (Fight me if you want, Zero is still the best game in story, characters and soundtrack)

[@svicide4907]

I wonder if the Estovakians took cues from the XB-0 when designing the Aigaion fleet. The design similarities are striking.

[@paladinrense2324]

I'm beginning to think the ace combat games (except ac6) intentionally have you fighting the good guys so something will click in our minds.

[@badbeardbill9956]

The Belkans are not good guys lmao

[@COLOSSAL_TITAN_RU]

Those 12,000 People were Osean Soldiers not Belkans

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Osea: we do a little trolling Belka: (UNO reverse card)

[@Barri2410]

5:16 SlyCooperFan1: "Ah, yes, the magic ECM defense system that can deflect missiles _and_ bullets." *DING* Oh, 1 thing-I don't know about economy, but I thought they can spend on military projects as many as they want while it's not taking from other branches? Or how it works? :/

[@TheSkyGuy77]

It would cause huge inflation in their economy, crashing it. It would also push the expenses of their military even higher, with their people unable to get basic needs.

[@dieselelectricrazor377]

Based Osea

[@Supergoku-ew9ol]

Make a ace combat history video about scarface sqaudron

[@diegotapia2830]

BELKA DID NOTHING WRONG

[@BoredLion99]

I still don't feel bad for the Belkans. Even with all the odds stacked against them, I got 4 words and 3 letters for why I don't feel bad: seven nukes, Grabucr, Ofnir, Z.O.E. Also, where are you getting this info?

[@trigger5258]

All of that was caused by Osea starting the Belkan war and humiliating belka.

[@nuclearwarhead9338]

OSEAN SHILL DETECTED!

[@cr4zypeopl3]

BURN OSEA DOWN!!!!!!!

[@JackofNothingess]

Seriously! #Belkadidnothingwrong How many more times do we have to repeat this? Lol Also, thank you for sharing this!

[@stargazer4683]

That evil face 8:57

[@lonelysamurai3681]

I wish Osea were got the SALVATION

[@rokechikan4481]

You wish for the death of one million innocent lives?

[@georggross1232]

#BelkaDidNothingWrong

[@clydemarshall8095]

What are your sources?

[@JeffreyBarkdull]

Was Osea the Reason for the Belkan War!?

[@jeronimoto6225]

Not osea, but the cold war

[@JeffreyBarkdull]

But Osea double crossing Belka led to the extreme right party (DLP) to come to power in Power, which led to the Belkan War @@jeronimoto6225

[@dutchtiger4942]

5:57 this also happend in mission 13 of ac7

[@pacificfederationpeacekeep999]

Eurusians : BELKAN BULLSHIT GO!!!!

[@Kokozaftran]

Nice vid

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

Yuktobania VS. Osea Who had the best military weapons? *Answer:* USEA They have Mobius 1 and Phoenix in their arsenal.

[@cr4zypeopl3]

Even Trigger!

[@JinteiModding]

@@cr4zypeopl3 wasn't Trigger Osean?

[@cr4zypeopl3]

@@JinteiModding Yes he is, but Trigger defended Usea like the other pilots