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May 27th, 2019 (n-m) - Donald Trump declares in a speech that "California belongs to America!" and vows to retake it. His military advisors, however, warn him that a land war against California would result in an epic failure. Invading from the east through Nevada would require going through the hot dry desert (not too bad thanks to Middle East experience), and then getting past the easily defendable Sierra Nevada mountains. Invading from the north would mean getting through Cascadia, and again, more mountains. Lastly, invading from the south-east through Arizona would mean clashing with both Mexico and California in a bottleneck region. Trump ignores them, however, and orders an invasion through Cascadia to "take out two birds with one stone", beginning June 1st.

May 28th, 2019 (n-m) - Operation Epidemic shifts into a surveillance phase thanks to China restoring censorship. With some malware remaining on Chinese servers, Japanese and Californian hackers (including Monsoonjr99) work on spying on Chinese communications.

May 30th, 2019 (mapping) - After seeing the inactivity of Chinese users on TFOE, youtube, and vid.me, mapperdonia realizes the censors were restored. Batran posts a blog mourning the new mappers lost, such as Tao Mapper (the bilingual English/Mandarin mapper on vid.me), and various others with names in Mandarin.

June 1st, 2019 (n-m) - ARM forces invade Cascadia from the east. Due to Washington and Oregon mainly being conservative east of the Cascades, many citizens support ARM, and Spokane falls without a fight. Pullman, being more liberal thanks to WSU, shows more resistence. In the west, the alarmed Cascadian government orders the military to mobilize and set up defensive barriers in the mountain passes in the Cascades.