A Single Lie

Most of the world leaders had eventually caught on with the changing world. With the many offers and counteroffers by other underwater cities, nations began to vie for access, demanding that it embargo another nation. 

And while talks and bids were being made in an invitation-only conference call by these underwater cities, another malevolent plot was being made.

The Suez Canal trade route has lost its importance once more.

And because no nation would be willing to exhaust or protect this route, attacks and raids were now expected to happen.

The nations that invested so much more and sent a significant amount of resources into that route and expected great losses were now also struggling and forcing a means to send an armada. But the surrounding nations in the Suez Canal all rejected their pleas.

Alliances were made among nations, but there was no way to formalize everything in a short time.