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Siberia Protocol
Strategic control and deterrence
The Siberia Protocol can impose an extreme winter on a defined area using environmental control technologies developed by the IURR. The VKKB can order its activation in emergencies.
Use and limitations
The artificial winter alters conditions in the territory to demoralize the enemy and give Union forces an advantage. Its effectiveness requires those conditions to be maintained for several months.
The cost of sustaining the intervention is its principal limitation and restricts its use.
Use within Union territory
The protocol was used once inside the IURR to suppress a series of uprisings in Eastern Europe. The intervention caused one of the worst famines and mass killings of the modern era.