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2014: No Turning Point is a timeline centered around the point of divergence that is the Euromaidan in Ukraine never occuring. Instead, Viktor Yanukovych actually signed the Association Treaty with the European Union. This butterflied into different 2010s and 2020s.

Timeline[]

Major Events:[]

Main PoD boldened

  • 21st of October 2013 - Viktor Yanukovych signs the AT with the EU.
  • 24th of November 2013 - To lower the tensions with the Russian Federation, Ukraine agrees to begin the process of federalization, suggested by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov at the meeting in Hague, Netherlands.
  • 23rd of June 2016 - The Brexit referendum in the UK took place. With 75,5% turnout the results were: 51,9% against Brexit, 44,8% - for Brexit and 3,3% - indifferent & uncertain.
  • 27th of June 2016 - The Brexit movement in the Conservative Party, abusing the fact that the referendum was not binding for the government, pushed the Supreme Court of the UK towards the evaluation of who needs to agree for UK to leave.
  • 17th of August 2016 - Referendum under UN's vanguardship takes place in Kosovo. Majority votes to join Albania.
  • 24th of January 2017 - The Supreme Court ruled out the necessity for regional parliaments of member states to agree, keeping only the requirement for the British parliament to agree.
  • 7th of February 2017 - the Prime Minister David Cameron calls for the voice of the public to be heard and to prevent the Brexit from happening contrary to the referendum.
  • 2017 - the division within the Tories progresses, with the "Brexit wing" led by Theresa May clashing against the pro-European one led by the Prime Minister Cameron firstly in private, later in public, meanwhile the issue of Brexit stands at a deadlock.
  • 7th of April 2017 - The federalization process is finished, officially transforming Ukraine into the Federation of Ukraine. The reform added an additional layer between Oblasts and the central government, called Krais.
  • 7th of December 2017 - the division reaches it's breaking point, with the announcement of the formation of the British National Party under Theresa May, which took away roughly 45% of Conservative Party members and 35% of their parliament representatives. 10th of December 2017 - due to the lack of a majority party in the parliament, snap elections are called for the Saturday 23rd of December.
  • 27th of December 2017 - the results of the "Christmas elections" of 23rd are announced. Labour Party - 266 seats - 41% Conservative Party - 210 seats - 32% National Party - 104 seats - 16% Scottish National Party - 34 seats - 5% Liberal Democratic Party - 14 seats - 2% Plaid Cymru - 3 seats - <1% Green Party - 1 seats - <1% Others - 18 seats - 3% The loss of both the National and Conservative parties cemented Brexit as a failure.
  • 19th of November 2019-6th of January 2020 - COVID-19 epidemic in Hubei Province, China.
  • 20th of May 2020 - Eighth round of EU enlargement: - Albania - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Moldova - Montenegro - North Macedonia - Serbia
  • 2020 - Belarussian Street Revolution succeeds, replacing Lukashenka with Svetlana Cichanouska as the President of Belarus, reforms follow.
  • 7th of October 2023 - The Hamas-Israel War breaks out.
  • 21st of October 2023 - Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi (Egyptian President) gives the "We can't do anything without you two here" speech at the Cairo Summit for Peace in regards to the Hamas-Israel War, stating how all the world powers gathered in Cairo cannot do anything as long as Israel and Palestine aren't willing to participate in the talks themselves.

OTL Differences:[]

  • In 2014: No Turning Point, Putin and his administration aren't as anti-Western as in OTL, especially after 2013, thus they stood aside during Belarussian Revolution, seeing Lukashenka as doomed, and willing to rather establish friendly relations with the new government, than have Belarus be openly against Russia.
  • COVID-19 epidemic is successfully contained in Hubei Province, China.
  • Brexit fails.

Contributions[]

The timeline is open for contributions, but firstly ask on the talk page, if the project grows enough, I might make a discord.