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Like in Canadian Bacon where the leaders of a super power want to start a state of cold war with a vastly inferior military force and a group of drunken rednecks takes the threat seriously and starts an invasion of federation space.

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Thre's real life precedent for this
There was an small town/village that got left out of the peace treaties in some war so technically they were still at war with RUSSIA for a very long time

Eviscerator wrote:Thre's real life precedent for this
There was an small town/village that got left out of the peace treaties in some war so technically they were still at war with RUSSIA for a very long time

Actually, the Cherokee nation declared war on Germany at the same time the US did, but weren't there for the treaties at the end of the war. So technically all people of Cherokee descent are still at war with Germany.

phred wrote:

Eviscerator wrote:Thre's real life precedent for this
There was an small town/village that got left out of the peace treaties in some war so technically they were still at war with RUSSIA for a very long time

Actually, the Cherokee nation declared war on Germany at the same time the US did, but weren't there for the treaties at the end of the war. So technically all people of Cherokee descent are still at war with Germany.

Doesn't unconditional surrender include all powers that were at war with them?

Technically, but the Cherokee never ACCEPTED the german surrender.

Eviscerator wrote:Thre's real life precedent for this
There was an small town/village that got left out of the peace treaties in some war so technically they were still at war with RUSSIA for a very long time

That would be Berwick Upon Tweed in Northumberland. When the Crimean War began the town was a separate entity and the declaration of war was made in the name of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and Berwick Upon Tweed'. By the time the peace treaty was signed Berwick had been officially incorporated into England and the peace treaty was signed by the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland'.

However the above rather amusing story is apocryphal, as the Wales and Berwick Act 1746 made it clear that any references to England in law (including any treaties) automatically included Berwick. It is claimed that in 1966 that a Soviet official did visit the mayor and a peace treaty was signed, however local Berwick historians dispute this.
So I'm afraid that Berwick was not at war with Russia and laterly the USSR from 1856 to 1966.