The Dual Powers Conflict, also called the Second Cold War is considered an ongoing state of heightened tensions between the two major groupings of nations in the world: the Juneau Pact, led by the United States of America and Russia and primarily made up of the major democracies of the world, and the European Defensive Alliance, led by Sorelist France and her Europe spanning Empire, as well as other right wing dictatorships around the world, including Japan and Brazil, who are considered "confederates" of the EDA.