World War III (Awesome)

World War III or the Third World War, often abbreviated as WWIII or WW3, was a global conflict that lasted from 2022 to 2033, involving the vast majority of the countries on Earth, who initally formed two opposing factions - Eastern Powers, primarily consisting of Russia, China and Iran; and the Allied Powers, mainly consisting of the United States, NATO and Oceania. As the war progressed, the Allies would fracture into the Central Powers, mainly consisting of France and Germany and the Pacific Powers, mainly consisting of Japan, India and Indonesia.
The war would see most of the participating nations declaring total war against each other, with many nations throwing their entire economical, industrial and scientific efforts during the course of the war. Robots and cyberwarfare would play a key role in the war, which enabled massed missile attacks on cities, as well as nanobots causing sickening diseases on the frontlines and in the civilian populace. World War III would be the deadliest war ever in history, with over 300 million killed and billions of casualties, mostly civilians. The war would result in a new cold war emerging between the victors and those who are not entirely defeated.
The starting point of World War III is heavily debated. Most cite the start of the Russo-Ukranian War on 24th February 24th, 2022 as the catalyst of the start of the global conflict, though many also cited the American delcaration of war on China after their pre-emptive strike against Taiwan on October 11th, 2022 as the true start of the conflict. The war is best remembered as the "War of Attrition", due to the war ending with most of the combatants suffering heavy casualties, and the eventual complete collapse of the United States and the United Kingdom, with most nations in the Allied Powers suffering occupation or breakaway states afterwards. World War III would change the entire landscape of global politics from a bipolar world led by the United States and China to a multipolar world, led by the victors of the war and those who did not suffer harsh treaties from the hands of the Eastern Powers.
==Belligerents of the War==
===Allied Powers===
The Allies were a western-based alliance led by the United States, and initally consisted of NATO, the EU as well as the Anglosphere and most American allies. This alliance shares many liberalist values such as human rights, freedom of speech and democracy. However, many scholars and historians questioned if the United States really were genuine about creating the Allied Powers in the name of liberalism, as many authoritarian states such as Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Thailand joined the Allies, though the latter two would eventually defect to the Pacific Powers.
Before the start of the war, the Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are very loyal allies to the United States via many treaties between those five, the most prominent of which is the Five Eyes alliance, built for intellegence missions and also as a discreet tool for America to keep control over the former four. The Allied Powers was largely centered around these five nations, espicially towards the end of the war, and together, they are collectively known as the "Five Knives". The Allied Powers also consisted of Brazil and South Africa, along with most of the democracies in Latin America and some in Africa. The Allied Powers also consisted of most of Europe prior of 2025, when Western Europe broke away from the Allied Powers to form their own coliation against the Eastern Powers. This would culminate in the United States declaring war on Europe in 2026 in an attempt to regain control over Europe.
=== Eastern Powers ===
The Eastern Powers were an eastern-based coliation, and initally consisted of the CSTO and the SCO. Over time, the alliance spread to any neutral nation in the Americas, and in some cases, even former American allies. This alliance shares the belief that authority is more important than liberty, and believes that to establish a stable and prosperous society, authority and repression is required. Later on however, liberal nations like Argentina and Nigeria would join the war on their side, though the faction would still be mostly made up of autocracies and dictatorial nations.
The alliance is led what is known as the "Neo-Tripartite" in the West, which is Russia, China and Iran. The three shares close economic and militaristic ties before the war, and all shares a fervent hatred of the United States and the West. They would also be helped by all of Central Asia and a large part of Africa. During the war, multiple nations would actually defect to the Eastern Powers after being disillusioned by America's war-time efforts: Mexico, Egypt, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa. All of them were already semi-authoritarian to some degree, and all of them were essentially forced into fighting for the United States against their will. As the war progressed, the Eastern Powers would lose Argentina, Libya and Nigeria, though these were more subtle losses than the Allies, who lost most of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to breakaway factions. Vladimir Putin was couped the Alexei Navalny after the Russians were pushed back to the Vistula in 2028, as well as being invaded from the Pacific Powers after losing Yaktusk, which caused a rift between Russia and China and eventually the fracturing of the alliance in 2030, though they would stay together until the end of the war.
=== Central Powers ===
The Central Powers were an alliance made up of European states that was based around the EU. The alliance were made up of disillusioned European nations, who saw the Americans as being too dictatorial and imperialist. While they share many of the same values that the Allies share, as in liberty, freedom and democracy, the Central Powers believes that the government should also be providing most basic services for free, and to ensure equal rights and oppunitunities for all. This model is a primary source of tension between America and Europe, with the Americans believing true capitalism being that everything is privatised and that companies should not be regulated.
The alliance was primarily made up of France and Germany, both of which were American allies until the Euro-American split in 2025, eventually causing the start of the Atlantic Front in 2026, with the former European NATO members fighting against the British and the Americans along the Atlantic Coast. France and Germany were bitter enemies in the previous two World Wars, but the two would work together, and would play a key role in the downfall of America in the early 2030's. Spain and Italy also joined the alliance in 2026, as both decided that America would be too far away to support them. Eventually, everyone in Europe who were not a part of the Eastern Powers by this point barring Turkey would be in the Central Powers. France, Benelux and Germany would ultimately merge into the United States of Europe in 2032, just before the end of the Eastern Front against the Russians.
=== Pacific Powers ===
The Pacific Powers were an alliance made up of mostly former American allies in the Allied Powers, and mainly consisted of the "First Island Chain" nations of Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, as well as India and most of Southeast Asia. This alliance doesn't have a specific belief, and it is mostly made from the nations' distaste of American imperialism and their dictatorial way of running the war. The nations comprised as the Pacific Powers varies wildly in their ideologies, from the monarchist Thailand to the socialist Vietnam after they were liberated from Chinese control in 2031, to the democratic India and Japan.
The alliance was created by the countries of Japan, India and Indonesia, after seeing the Americans failing to defend Okinawa against the Chinese, losing over 30,000 of their own soldiers in the process. Japan would later elect a nationalist government, who rewrote the constitution to allow for a larger army. Combined with Japan's status as a technological superpower, they were able to stun the world by taking over Yakutsk in Russia and liberating Korea in 2028, which enticed many Asian nations to join the Japanese side instead. Just like World War II, naval battles were the most common scenes in the Pacific Theater, resulting in the Americans losing the majority of their navy on this front alone. The Japanese and the Indians would go head-to-head with the Chinese in a bloody conflict, ending in an eventual stalemate where neither side can break deep into the enemy's territory. The same can also be said with India fighting against Pakistan and China, with neither side being able to outmatch one another.
== Background ==
=== Sino-Western Tensions ===
As the 2010s were coming to a close, tensions between China and the United States were at an all-time high due to the alleged genocide of the Ugyhur people in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, security issues with the brands Huawei and to an extent, all Chinese tech companies, as well as the suspected eradication of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong during the SAR's riots in 2019. Donald Trump, then the president of the United States, has declared China a "currency manipulator", and has launched repeated sanctions and protests against China. Due to the new American position of treating China as an enemy, the Core Anglosphere states, collectively known as the Five Eyes took action against China, with Australia being one of the most vocal. There was hope of at least a thaw in relations between China and America when Joe Biden became the new president of the United States, but this hope was quickly dashed when the new Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out China for their alleged genocide of the Uyghurs. 
One of the largest confrontations between China and the West as a whole came during the summer of 2021, when the Group of Seven (G7) critized China for the suspected eradication of freedom in Hong Kong, military threats against Taiwan, the continued mistreatment of the Uyghur people, lack of transperency and their unfair trade practices. This was later followed by NATO and the EU on the very next day. To heighten the tensions, three members of the Five Eyes (Australia, America and Britain) signed the AUKUS pact, allowing Australia to accquire nuclear submarines, as well as hosting a "Summit for Democracy" in December 2021, further worsening the relationship between the two superpowers.
=== Euro-American Distrust ===
Despite sharing many liberal values and sharing common enemies like Russia and China, the European Union and the United States would began to drift away from each other, with the EU in particular becoming increasing distrustful of America. One of the earliest sources of tension betwen Europe and America was the Nord Stream project, which allows Russia to export huge amounts of gas into Germany, and into the whole of Europe. The United States firecely opposed both pipelines, and threatened to prevent the opening of Nord Stream 2 should Russia continue their aggression against Ukraine. Multiple sanctions were made against the project, but despite all this, Germany had only declared that they could use it as a leverage to prevent the attack on Ukraine from happening. 
The distrust between Europe and America grew during the Trump administration, as Trump deemed the Europeans to have "not spent enough on defense". Relations would then take a massive hit in September 2021 with the afromentioned AUKUS Pact. This resulted in a diplomatic crisis between France and the United States, with the French ambassador being briefly recalled during the crisis. It was eventually resolved after several meetings, but the crisis led to many European politicans doubting the loyalty of America to their continental allies. Further more, Europe would take a more passive approach against Russia during the Ukranian Crisis in early 2022, in contrast to America's more aggressive and hardlined approach.
=== Ukranian Crisis ===
Ever since Vladimir Putin rose to power in 2000, he has strived to ensure Russia's security and attempt to prevent the United States and their alliances from encroaching further into Eastern Europe. One of the key areas that he tried to prevent falling into the hands of NATO was Ukraine, which would bring the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd less than 70 and 400 kilometers from NATO respectively, a prospect which in Putin's eyes, cannot be allowed to happen. In 2014, a wave of protests happened in Ukraine known as the Euromaidan, with citizens pushing the country to join NATO. Fearful of a NATO Ukraine, Russia directly annexed Crimea later on in March. and would support the pro-Russian rebels in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
After fierce fighting in the mid-2010's, the war would die down in intensity, and people mostly forgot about the war with the rise and fall of the Islamic State later on during the decade, as well as the afromentioned rising Sino-American tensions. In early 2022 however, things would come to a head between Russia and the West over Ukraine. Sometime in late 2021, Ukraine announced a second buildup of Russian troops in the region, though this was largely ignored due to a new variant of COVID-19 appearing around the same time. Starting in late January however, repeated drills by Russia near the Ukrainian border began to drew the world's attention to the nation. Despite the repeated threat of sanctions by the West, Vladimir Putin would still go on to declare that the country would recognize the breakaway states of Donetsk and Luhansk on February 21st. To further add fuel to the fire, Russia would then move troops into Donetsk and Luhansk, claiming it to be for "peacekeeping operations".
The response from NATO was a sharp, but a relatively weak one. The next day on February 22nd, Germany announced that they will stop the approval of the controversial Nord Stream 2 project, while the UK and the USA announced the sanctioning of banks, with both Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, who were both leaders of the two nations respectively declaring that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has begun. Tensions are rising rapidly between the two, and this would be the catalyst for World War III.
== Summary of the War ==
=== 2022: Eurasia in Flames ===
While it is debated who exactly started World War III, it is pure fact where did it start: Ukraine. After Vladimir Putin reconigized the breakaway states of Donetsk and Luhansk, NATO launched a series of sanctions against Russia, with Ukraine entering a state of emergency on the whole country. The United States, led by Joe Biden warned that should Russia invade Ukraine, there will be serious consequences. Russia doesn't waste time. On the morning of February 24th, Putin announced another "special military operation" against Ukraine, claiming to de-nazify the nation. Near at dawn however, swarms of Tupolev Tu-95s covered the skies of Odesa, Dnipro and Kyiv before 600,000 Russian soldiers, accompanied by dozens of tank divisions entered Ukraine. With that, Russia has officially declared war on Ukraine.
NATO would keep their promise, and a few days later on February 28th, the United States and NATO declared war on Russia over Ukraine, but in the first few months, not much fighting would occur outside of Ukraine. The nation fought like the men at Stalingrad, with every citizen participating in the conflict in some way. Belarus would join the war on Russia's side on March 3rd, and after an inital blitzkrieg advance, Russia was halted at the Dnieper River by the end of May, struggling to capture Dnipro and Kyiv. Throughout the summer of 2022, America would persuade Australia and New Zealand to join the war against the Russians, though they were unable to convince anyone in Asia barring Israel to declare war on Russia due to the distance between Ukraine and the rest of Asia. The support Ukraine got from NATO though is, to put it mildly, puny. Other than one volunteer division and one air squadron from the entire NATO, as well a dozen crates full of M4 RIfles, Ukraine recieved barely any support from the West. When Russia finally breached the Dnieper River on August 5th, Zelensky did not run away from Kyiv, but instead decided to go down with Ukraine, being captured by the Russian troops on the morning of August 6th. He would be taken as a POW until the end of the war. Iran would later declare war on NATO on August 18th, as Ukraine surrendered on the same day.
The full onslaught of Russia wouldn't begin until September 1st, when the entire Russian Military, along with Belarusian and Iranian troops invaded Poland, the Baltic States and Finland, despite the fact that the latter was neutral. By this point, Poland, Romania and the Baltics were well-prepared to fight off against the Russian forces, but it would prove to be futile. The border Estonian town of Narva would fall after 3 days, and a long and gruelling offensive would begin for the Russians, as it would take a full month just to subdue the Baltic states, with Finland reverting back to their Winter War tactics. By the end of 2022, the war in Europe would be stuck along the Vistula-Carpathia Line, turing Warsaw, Bucharest and Helsinki into literally battlezones of pure terror. Russia would also annex all of Ukraine and Belarus on December 8th.
In the Far East, the war in Europe initally didn't affect them too much, but after the Russian invasion of Europe, China and North Korea saw the perfect oppunitunity to reclaim what they deem to be theirs. On September 24th, a seemingly fabricated incident occured on Kinmen Island when an alleged Taiwanese missile "accidentally" shot down a Chinese civilian plane, with the plane later crashing into Taiwanese waters. The Americans would later accuse the Chinese for fabricating the incident as an allibi for war, but the PRC doesn't care. On October 1st, 2022, thousands of Chinese paratroopers along with naval vessels landed along the major highways of Taiwan, with thousands of paratroopers seizing Taipei during the evening rush hour, causing immense panic among civilians. The very next day on October 2nd, the United States declared war on China, with Japan and South Korea following suit on October 3rd. With this invasion, World War III has now spread to the majority of Eurasia.
===2023: Blood and Water===
On January 5th, under the guise of supporting the Russians and the Chinese, North Korea declared war on NATO, therefore sparking the Second Korean War. As the South Koreans knew what losing to North Korea will mean, they began a mass conscription, calling all reserves to the frontlines. The North Koreans, along with the Chinese invaded South Korea, initally with speed, but they were unable to capture Seoul, which turned into one of the bloodiest sieges of the entire war, rivaling the Siege of Leningrad as one of the deadliest sieges in history. Across the East Sea, air and naval battles are raging on between the US Pacific Fleet and PLA Navy. During this time, India would join the war on the American side, with Pakistan and all of Central Asia soon joining the Eastern Powers. This would initate the Asian Front, as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia all joined on the Eastern Powers' side in early 2023, while Thailand, Vietnam and all of the Malay Archipelago countries would join the Allies.
Meanwhile in Europe, the Russians were able to inflict a decisive defeat against Finland at the Battle of Tampere, followed up by the Fall of Helsinki, ending in the Finns surrendering on February 3rd. While the Vistula River remained a hard barrier for the Russians to get through, the Russians were able to cross beyond the Danube River, and swept Bulgaria off the map by the turn of April. In the Caucasus, Georgia and Azerbaijan sided with the Allied Powers, but were quickly crushed by Russia and Iran as Armenia began their struggle against Turkey. As the Russians approached the Serbian border, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that the Serbians are going to drop their neutrality status, and support the Russians as well. The Russians and Serbians together were able to conquer most of the Southern Balkans as well as northern Greece, though Greece would not surrender despite losing Thessalonki to the Russians.
With all of Eurasia now at war, it was only a matter of time before the Middle East desends into another warzone as well. The Middle East hasn't seen too much combat by 2023, and has stayed remarkably calm up until this point. On June 8th, The Iranians would invade Turkey despite having a non-aggression pact after being pressured by the Russians, drawing Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE into the war. Iran would respond by drafting Iraq, Syria and Qatar into the war as well. Many people suspected that the war will be like the Asian Front: A long, grueling and bloody war. However, Saudi Arabia and their allies were defeated after just a few months, with the House of Saud fracturing into a bunch of warlord states as the Iranians approach Riyadh. Just by the end of the year, Israel and Turkey will become the last standing Allied members in the Near East, who controls the eastern coast of the Mediterrainian Sea.
===2024: World at War===
By the start of 2024, the Americans have already deployed their entire army into Poland and all non-Eastern nations. During this time, China finished their full mobilization, and quickly dealt with Vietnam with their allied and Thailand. However, the Vietnamese government and the Thai monarchy were both allowed to stay, with the only condition is that they will now be fighting for Eastern instead. It was also in 2024 when the war in India began to became a bloody battle for survival. Pakistani and Indian troops fought fiercely, with the Indians using human wave tactics and suicide attacks on the Pakistanis and the Chinese. The war devolved into trench warfare on the North Indian plains, with netiher side willing to give an inch. Kolkata became essentially the new Verdun of the war, as the Indians fought frantically to stop the Chinese from advancing.
As the battles in India were raging on, Russia were capturing the entire Balkan region, and even advancing into Turkey, though were unable to advance into the city of Istanbul itself. In a shock move to many people, Russian marines attacked the city of Stockholm on March 22nd, before landing in the city itself. Sweden suddenly found itself at war despite staying neutral. It is also at this time when Russia managed to breach the Vistula, and after some hard-fought battles in Poznan and Gdansk, the Poles surrendered to the Russians. By this point, the Americans should have had enough soldiers to defeat Russia, but they were too stretched-out to make a serious stand against the Russian army, who are concentrated on Europe. The Americans were able to stop the Russians at the Oder River, right at the gates of Germany, but by doing this, they left Slovakia and Hungary to their own devices as the surrendered to the Russians as well. To ensure order in the newly conquered territories, Russia annexed Moldova and the Baltic States as well, while forming the Visegrad Federation from the territories of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary.
2024 would also open up two more fronts: The American and the African Front. For the American Front, it was started by Venezuela, which despite its troubles were still fervently for Russia, having been the only nation to join World War III up until that point. The Venezuelans would rise up against Maduro and his regime however, and it drew the wrath of the World War onto South America as Bolivia and Peru declared war on Guiado and his rebels, while Brazil and Colombia declared war on Maduro. Mexico, realizing that they have nothing to gain from the Allies, defected to the Eastern Powers in July, launching an invasion into Central America with their ally Nicaragua. The rest stayed neutral for now, but would join the war sometime later. Fighting began in the Amazon rainforest, turning it into a South American version of Vietnam. Both the Allies and the Eastern Powers would send supplies into South America, but for the most part, the war was more or less independent from the rest of the world.
The African Front had a different flashpoint, as it came from the two major alliances trying to draw as many countries to the war in order to beat the enemy. Due to Israel attacking members of the Arab League, Algeria and Libya declared war on Israel on the Eastern side. Egypt meanwhile was stuck in a limbo situation, as the Eastern Powers tried to get them in, promising them all of the Nile and the Levant, while the Allies also tried to get the Egyptians in, as the government is more American-sympthizing. In the end, Egypt joined the war on the Allied side, with Sudan joining on the Eastern side the next day on August 1st. Egypt would initally be knocked back by joint Sudanese-Libyan offensive, but the war would eventually turn into a stalemate around Aswan and Marsa Matruh. Morocco and South Africa would also join the war on the Allied side, with Morocco fighting a brutal war against Algeria.
Towards the end of the year, there have been reports about nuclear options being considered by North Korea to blow the South Koreans out of existance altogether, as well as fears in the Near East that the Indian Front or the Middle Eastern Front will turn into a small nuclear war. Although the major nations are not using any nukes to ensure humanity lives on, the smaller nations could blow each other to oblivion...
===2025: An Allied Split===
As 2025 dawned, French President Emmuanel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have both became disillusioned by America's running of the war effort, due to America failing to protect all of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, which by now is on the verge of being controlled by either the Russians or the Serbians. To make matters worse, Mike Pompeo, who was one of Donald Trump's advisors during his reign became the new President of the United States. As he saw the Eastern Powers as what he called "The Triumvate of Evil", he initated a full-on draft with the entire economy dedicated to the war effort. America would attempt to fight against the Russian onslaught at the Battle of Frankfurt Oder, but would fail miserably after the Russians realized about their plan.
The defeat at Frankfurt Oder would prove to be the final straw for Macron. He had had enough of the Americans constantly bossing the Europeans around on military matters, and even as the Russians were coming closer and closer to Berlin and Paris, the Americans are still only fixiated on a swift and quick victory, not believing in the fact that they have to switch to a defensive mode. On April 15th, exactly 3 years after the war started, Macron declared that France, Benelux, Austria and Germany will form their own faction to fight off the Russians, and will ignore direct orders from the United States. Italy, Spain and Portugal soon joined in, with Norway and Sweden following suit. Pompeo was enraged by the betrayal, but for now, he can only watch as Europe fly away from their sphere of influence.
The defection meant that Russia don't have to fight America directly anymore, and they seized it by launching Operation Volga, which is the codename for invading Germany and Italy. Putin himself actually told his generals that with Europe now out of America's sphere of influence, continental Europe will surrender very soon. He was wrong, as the Europeans fought fiercely once the Russians were across the Oder and have crossed the Alps. The cities of Venice, Dresden and Berlin turned into brutal urban combat zones, while Munich ended up being besieged by the Russians as well. The Nordic people also started a gurellia war against the Russians, slowing down their advances in the far north dramatically. A turning point of the war in the Nordic would be the Battle of Gothenburg, which showed the sheer resistance the Swedes and the Norwegians would do against the Russians. In the end, the Central Powers, as they are now known, won the battle, and Russia was forced to retreat back to Stockholm.
2025 would also see the escalation of the American Front, as Argentina finally joined the Eastern Powers early on in the year, and immediately seized Uruguay, Paraguay and Southern Brazil before being stopped near Porto Alegre as the two titans of South America battled each other out in a cagey King-of-the-Hill styled war in Porto Alegre. Brazil though were able to push Maduro's forces out of the Amazon, with Colombia capturing Maracaibo in Venezuela and Iquitos in Peru. One interesting thing to note is that drug cartels members were fighting for the Colombian government as mercenaries, as the drug cartels wanted to help the country against the Eastern Powers. In North America, the United States invaded Mexico as they are a part of the Eastern Powers, and although they made stunning progress in the spring, it quickly turned into a bloodbath in the summer as Mexicans took up arms to defend their country against the Americans, and along with the blistering summer heat, the United States Army is slowing dying to attrition.
In Africa, Morocco and Algeria were engaged in trench warfare, as both sides struggled to advance beyond the mountains that seperates them. This would be overshadowed by the wave of declaration of wars in Africa, mainly to rally behind the two factions. China's allies in Angola and Tanzania joined the Eastern Powers along with the DRC and Nigeria, while Ethopia, Kenya and Tunisia joined the Allies. Ethopia would engage in a brutal war against Sudan and Somalia, the latter of whom was illegally invaded by Ethopia due to them accusing Somalia of allowing American troops to enter Eastern Africa. The Ethopian Army was widely accused of committing some of the worse atrocities during the war, as they murdered and raped hundreds of Sudanese, something unheard of even on the Indian Front. Nigeria is now using their army to forcehand many of their neighbours to join the Eastern Powers, else they may face invasion.
===2026: The Unthinkable Truth===
2026 would prove to be the year where the fiercest fightings would commence across Eurasia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. At around 1am on February 1st, a French submarine would be lost while commencing a normal patrol around the Brittany Peninsula, and strayed into English waters. Unfortunately for them, the HMS Queen Elizabeth was also patroling around the area with her fleet, and when they spotted an unidentified submarine, the crew thought that the French were about to sink the British flagship. Without hesitating, the captain of the ship fired on the submarine, sinking it and killing dozens of French sailors.
Whether if this was a delibrate move or not, what happened next was beyond anyone's belief. On February 4th, the USS Gerald Ford and her strike group suddenly bombed the city of Cherbourg, destroying the entire French Navy on the English Channel. Later on in the day, 100,000 American and British soldiers landed in the areas near Bordeaux, Nantes and Caen, with Calais and Rotterdam also being under attack after 3 days via a naval assault. Just 10 months after the Euro-American split, the former allies found themselves at war with the remaining Allied Powers. The motive was unknown and bizzare, and many historians now pointed this invasion as one of the main causes for the eventual defeat of the Allies in 2033. As the Americans were invading from the West, the Russians were able to push the Germans to the Rhine, while simultanously invading Denmark and crossing the Oresund Bridge into Sweden, causing them to lose Malmo to the Russians. Copenhagen would fall on the 28th of August, and Denmark would surrender on September 2nd.
It was not just in Europe where fierce fighting had occured, as the Chinese also began an island hopping campaign on the Pacific Front, with North Korea finally forcing South Korea to surrender after Seoul was captured following a two-year long siege. The island-hopping campaign against Japan and Indonesia would begin from the invasion of Sumatra and the Senkoku Islands, as the Second Battle of Okinawa commenced on June 4th. The Japanese were not as well-prepared as they were on the home islands, and Okinawa was taken relatively quickly after three weeks of intense combat, destroying the regional capital of Naha. The Chinese did consider invading Kyushu as well, but decided that they have more pressing issues and a larger threat than Japan after they lost Okinawa. The fight in Sumatra was considerably easier, with the Island falling to the hands of the Chinese by November, though the Indonesians would switch to gurellia warfare afterwards.
That threat would be India, with China finally ready to launch Operation Shapo (meaning Desert Storm) against the Indians. A massed missle attack was carried out across all of Northern India, with Delhi being the main target. Pakistan and China would then began a massive assault against India across the North, West and East thanks to their Myanmar holdings, with Kolkata finally falling on May 18th. China actually delibrately placed the attack date right before the Monsoon season would begin in the summer to lower the Indian expectation that the Chinese would be attacking during this time. The Battle of Delhi and Jaipur were fought in the rain, as the Chinese and the Pakistanis struggle immensely against the Indians, though they would capture both cities at the end of 2026. Despite the loss of their capital, India would not surrender, and would continue to fight off the Easter Powers for the rest of the war.
The brutality of the war in Asia would not be limited to just the Indian Peninsula. Turkey would launch a major offensive with Israel against the Syrians and the Iraqis, which would trigger another operation by the Russians and the Iranians, pushing the limits of warfare with chemical gas attacks against Turkish soldiers, though they didn't use it on civilians out of fear of further retalliation. Worse still for the Israelis, Egypt switched sides to the Eastern Powers late in 2026, and are now fighting their soldiers in Palestine. Even in Africa, things have gone south for the Allies with many of the smaller African nations capitulating due to the Nigerians invading most of the undeveloped nations in Africa. A silver of hope came in the Americas, as Argentina decided to cease their fight against the Brazilians, and switched camps to fight for the Allies instead. It seems that now, nations are beginning to flip to their enemies.
===2027: On Chinese Soil===
Despite the brutality of World War III, the three main countries hasn't have a genuine invasion attempt right on their homeland...until 2027. On January 4th, the Americans and the Five Knives launched a surprise attack on Hong Kong, as they saw the citizens there to be American sympthizers and would serve a great launching point to invade China. They were able to take over Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, but were stuck along the mountain range that seperates Kowloon and the New Territories. The Americans would invade Macau as well on January 7th, with the city being fully taken on January 31st. While this attack made sense in a strategic perspective, the Japanese and the Filipinos were utterly shocked by the invasion, as it went against the entire strategy that the Pacific Allies had agreed upon.
The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who has been the Prime Minister since the very start of the war felt betrayed by the Americans, as they not only used their based without permission for their attack on China, but that the mere concept of directly invading China was a fantasy to everyone else. He knew that no matter how unpopular the Chinese Communist Party may be, the Chinese would rally around their nation to fight off against a foreign invader like what happened to them when they fought China during World War II. The Philippines were also not particularly happy with the attack, as the new president Bongbong Marcos feared that this invasion would spark a sharp response from China, as they will now seek to destroy all Allied bases in the region to prevent another invasion. And so, on January 24th, Japan and the Philippines sent an ultimatium to the Americans: Withdraw from China or they leave. Pompeo refused, and scolded the Japanese for trying to support the "core of all evil" when they are fighting against them. On January 26th, Japan officially formed the Pacific Powers, with the Philippines and the Indonesians joining in. The Indians would also join later on in the year. All of these nations believed that the Americans are incompetent in the war and are overstretching themselves, and a few days after the defection, the United States also declared war on the Pacific Powers.
On the new Pacific Front that had went from indirect warfare to all-out war against the Eastern Powers, China suffered inital setbacks due to their army being concentrated on the Indian Front, and were taken by surprise by this invasion of the Greater Bay Area. People in Hong Kong then started a revolt against China as they rioted on the streets like it was 2019 all over again, but were crushed when the Chinese Army reached the city. Still though, the nation would be pushed back towards Guangzhou and lose all of Hainan as the Americans encroched on Southern China. In India, the invasion was fought to another bloody stalemate in Maharashtra after China was forced to move their troops away from the Indian Front due to the invasion of China.
After splitting the Asians away from the Allies, Japan stunned the world by rapidly taking Jeju Island and Vladivostok in quick succession after landing troops in both areas. Japan believed that the real way of defeating China isn't by direct conquest, but rather by wearing them down enough to surrender. Capturing Jeju will help the Japanese to liberate Korea, while taking Vladivostok enables Japan to disable Russia's Pacific capabilities. In Southeast Asia, the Filipino Army attacked the Kra Isthmus with the Indonesians in order to liberate Thailand from Chinese control, but like anything else, it devolved into trench warfare. It seems that no matter where the Pacific or the Allies try to move, it always ends in a stalemate.
In Africa and the Middle East, Israel were overwhelmed by the Egyptian-Iranian forces closing in on the nation. Before long, their former ally Turkey would join the Eastern side. They were able to strike a peace deal with the Eastern Powers, and they will be granted Syria, Kurdistan and Lebanon should they recognize the Armenian Genocide. This was unenviable, but Turkey was left with no choice as they were facing a mass bombardment against Istanbul and Izmir while being invaded from the east as well. With that, Israel is doomed, as they surrendered to the Eastern Powers on May 3rd. Battles in Africa were raging during this time, though they will always take a backseat to the European or the American Front.
Speaking of the European Front, the Russians were pushed back from their positions on the Rhine River and back into Eastern Germany, with the Allies failing to capture the city of Orleans while they were invading France and the Low Countries. The Americans are now also in Spain, and has established the puppet governments of the Basque and Galicia after they took the northern coast. In the Americas, Mexico surrendered after 3 years of fighting, and just as the Americans thought that they have won the American Front after defeating Nicaragua and El Salvador, Brazil suffered a coup d'etat, flipping to the Eastern side. Fighting broke out once again on the Americas, as World War III continues to be waged across the globe.
===2028: New Eastern Troubles===
In 2028, all three of the main Eastern Powers would see their own internal issues turning into full-blown crisis. In Russia, the recent setbacks on the European Front along with the loss of Vladivostok infuriated many Russians, who now believed that corruption is causing these recent defeats, and if nothing is done about it, Russia will eventually lose the war. As a result, they turned to none other than the now-popular Alexei Navalny. Navalny has been secretly manipulating the main Russian generals in charge of the war, and as the Central Powers breached the Oder River, the Russian Spetsnaz stormed the Kremlin with Navalny, forcing Putin into house arrest. Initally, the Europeans thought that due to Navalny's reputation of fighting against Putin's regime, he would sign a peace deal with the Central Powers. Navalny refused, and began reorganizing the Russian Military for one massive assault against the Central Powers.
In Iran, long-standing tensions between the current Islamic regime and the more tolerating progressive resistance eurpted into a civil war. The Iranian part of the alliance essentially fractured, as Turkey seized control of most of the Iranian sphere of influence while Iran was fighting itself. The government would eventually win the civil war by October thanks to support from Russia, but after the war, Iran would end their direct involvement of the war, and would truce out the Central and the Allied Powers in 2031. In China, panic from the American invasion caused massive food shortages, and dissent began to boil both from the populace and the military. This is a problem for President Xi Jinping, who's now becoming old and frail. Due to the increasing dissent within the PLA, they would suffer setbacks on multiple fronts. The Japanese would liberate South Korea, disarming North Korean nukes and re-establishing South Korea in the process, while India would defeat China at the Battle of Mumbai, pushing the Chinese back to the Madhya Province. America would even take the entire Greater Bay Area in China, but were stopped in the forests of Guangdong.
The rest of the fronts would see some limited action. In South America, the Argentines would once again fight the Brazillians with Colombia and Chile, going as far as the city of Curitiba before being stopped in their tracks, while in Africa, Nigeria would switch to the Allied side after much persuasion by the United States, while Ethopia would finally surrender to the Eastern Powers. In Europe, America would be knocked out from Benelux and with the Americans overstretching on all sides, the Central Powers decided that it is best to launch an assault into the UK, and end the Atlantic Front in Europe while the Russians seem to be exhausted.
===2029: Downfall of Britain===
By the start of 2029, Europe were now ready to launch an assault on Britain, and with Ireland's entry into the war on their side on January 10th, they now have a relatively safe location to launch a British invasion. Operation Bonaparte would began on January 31st with the French and the Germans invading Cornwall. The British Home Guard would immediately move into Cornwall, but this was a delibrate trap. On March 5th, Devon came under attack with the Europeans landing across Torbay in the South and in the North of Devon. The invasion would be swift, with the crucial railway link at Newton Abbot severed after 5 days of the invasion starting. However, they were unable to capture the city of Exeter by the turn of Spring, primarily due to British resistance. Later on, Operation Concorde was launched to conquer all of Southwest England. It was a massive success, and as the Central Powers entered Southampton and Gloucester, Yorkshire and the Northern areas, as well as Scotland and Wales seceeds from the UK.
Despite America attempting to support the UK as much as possible, it wasn't enough, forcing the UK to finally surrender after bloody battles in Birmingham, Reading and London. To govern the region until a further agreement can be established, Germany occupied Anglia while the North reorganized into the country of Mercia along a straight line from the Severn Estuary to the Humber. France occupied the rest, though reorganized Southwest England into the puppet government of Wessex. Without Britain, the Americans were helpless against the Central Powers, and were pushed back closer and closer to the sea until the Americans were defeated at the Battle of Pamplona, driving the Americans out of Spain.
Across the North Sea, the Swedes and the Norwegians would seize this oppunitunity during the pause in fighting to liberate the southern city of Malmo, and established itself on the northern tip of Denmark, capturing the city of Aarhus. While continental Europe gets a break in the fighting, battles were raging on in the Southern Hemisphere. In Brazil, long-standing tensions between the rich and the poor caused a major uprising in the province of Rio de Janeiro as the Argentine forces reached Sao Paulo, laying siege to the city. In Northern South America, Colombia captured the city of Valencia, and are on the verge of capitulating Venezuela. To compensate for the increasingly unenviable position for the Eastern Powers, China managed to persuade Peru to switch sides, and join the Eastern Powers against Colombia. They were able to defeat Ecuador within a few months due to the shock attack, but were halted by the Colombians and the Chileans in the Andes.
In Africa, 2029 would see South Africa switching to the Central Powers side, after they saw the defeat of the Allies becoming inevitable. This essentially doomed Namibia, who surrendered just 5 days into the South African invasion. Nigeria though would switch sides to the Allies, but by this stage, the Eastern Powers have near total control over Africa due to China's strategic recruitment policy, and Nigeria would be pushed back to Lome in Togo almost immediately after they switched sides. In the Pacific, battles are raging on between the Allies and the Indonesians, who have now signed a truce with the Eastern Powers after China deciding that invading Indonesia would be too much for their navy to handle. Similar to World War II, America adapted an island hopping strategy, though this time, Indonesia would, as the Australians say: "Do a Vietnam" and retreat into the jungles in order to fight off the Americans. The Chinese landing for the Americans also didn't go precisely to plan, and their advances are stalling massively as they entered Fujian and Guangxi.
===2030: Fate of Europe===
2030 would see the Russians at their maxmium warring capilibilities. In a sense of repeat from the same crisis that started World War III, Russia made a massive buildup of military forces along the Vistula and the occupied territories in Denmark and Sweden. This worried many European nations, who fear Russia could commence a full-scale attack on Europe to wipe the Central Powers out. They were right. On February 9th, the Russians launched Operation Alexa, a full-scale attck on all of Europe. The Blitzkrieg tactic was incrediblely effective, and with in the span of two months, the Germans and the Dutch are completely defeated as the Central Powers retreated beyond the Po and the Meuse. The Russians then fought like demons, utterly destroying Lille and Strasbourg during the offensive due to heavy French resistance, and this determination to save France would pay off when on July 14th, the French crucially defeated the Russians at the Battle of Paris, stopping the Russians from crossing the River Seine. The event would be remembered as the "Miracle on the Seine". The Italians would also carry a similar fashion to the French, though they would lose their capital Rome, and are forced to settle in around Naples.
While all this is going on, the Indians continued to retake their land, with the Liberation of Jaipur and Kanpur shattering the Chinese morale in India. By this stage, most nations are having movements demanding for peace and an end to World War III. As of now, most nations are unwilling to sign any peace deals except for truces. 2030 would at least see the end of the African Front with the surrender of Nigeria and Ethiopia, ending the war in Africa with a complete Eastern Victory. For now, most nations in Africa would began to negotiate the new borders of Africa based on ethnic groups, not by some random straight line drawn by a few dudes 150 years ago. Egypt would remain at war however, helping the Russians and the Turks to crush dissent and rebellions in Israel and Syria.
2030 would also see the "breakup" of the Eastern Powers, with Russia and China finally splitting apart after a 2-year long rift developing between the two sides. They would agree to a non-agression pact however, which will benefit both sides as each other knew that if one attack the other, their enemy will win instead. China would began to push the Americans back, driving them back into the Greater Bay Area, with the Chinese also making moves against Korea, taking Pyongyang while defending the Pacific Powers from invading Southeast Asia. Russia would also began to pressure the Allies into surrendering, as they launched an airbourne assault onto the Aleutian Islands, providing them a base to attack Alaska later on in the future. In South America, Brazil would collapse into a civil war between the capitalists and the communists, roughly splitting the country between the socialist Southeast and the rest of Brazil. Bolivia and Venezuela would finally surrender after the loss of their capitals, and it seems that an Allied Victory in South America is all but guareenteed.
===2031: Securing the Peace===
If 2030 was the year of brutal fighting, then 2031 would be the year when the anti-war sentiment finally began to take effect. After the intense combat between the Russians and the Europeans in 2030, 2031 would see the Central Powers once again pushing the Russians back, thought this time the advance was halted at the Somme-Meuse Line as another period of trench warfare would begin. This would only last for a few months before the Russians were forced to retreat back to the Rhine one last time due to supply issues. At this point, most Russians believed that Navalny has failed Russia, after what most people deemed "betrayal of the Russian people", and shortly after the defeat at the Battle of Saarland, mass protests sprung up across Russia, demanding Navalny to end the war once and for all. 
The French President Valerie Pecresse wanted a fully unified Europe, and so approached the German Chancellor Robert Habeck with an offer: Merge France, Benelux and Germany into one country. To Germany, this merge will help the Europeans to stand up against the now-victorious Eastern Powers. After some heated debates in the French Parliament (which also houses exiled members of the Bundestag), the proposal went ahead, as France, Benelux and Germany merges into one country on the last day of 2031. The Russians would finally force Sweden and Norway to surrender after almost 9 years of resistance against the Russians, bringing a little bit of calm for Russia and the new liberalist regime.
While the Europeans were trying to counter-attack Russia, South America would conclude their wars altogether. Brazil and Peru would finally surrender, the latter due to popular demand. Brazil would behumiliated by being stripped out of most of their lands. The nation would later lose South Brazil to Argentina, who reformed the Rio de la Plata by renaming themselves the United Patagonian States (UPS); lost all of former Gran Colombia lands to Colombia, who are now the Gran Colombian Federation; as well as losing the province of Acre to to Peruvians, who are now the Peru-Bolivian Federation. Through this, the Allies have "won" the South American Front, though this can only be attributed to the South Americans, who were mostly fighting without support.
The Asia-Pacific Front would also end this year, as the Eastern Powers signed a peace treaty with the Pacific Powers, ending the Pacific Front save for the Americans in Southern China. The treaty returned Okinawa to Japan, re-unified Korea, India annexing Bangladesh and Indochina forming. The Japanese emerged from this war a global power, and remained a major player against China for the years to come. Back in Southern China, the Americans were down to just the Pearl River Delta again after being pushed back from the region. The Chinese have also landed in Hainan, and as Putin breathes his final breath as he dies aged 79, the new Russian regime realized that this war against Europe is pointless. Navalny ordered all troops to orderly retreat to the Oder River and leave Scandinavia, and decided to start peace talks with the Central Powers shortly before he resigned to be held accountable for the Miracle on the Seine.
=== 2032: Downfall of Allies ===
Early on in 2032, the Central Powers and the Eastern Powers finally signed a peace deal at the Treaty of Krakow, ending the European Front. Scandinavia was formed, Russia kept all of Eastern Europe but reorganized the states into effectively dominions of Russia with high autonomy, while both sides agreed to pay repreations to one another. With the European Front closed, there is only one part of the world left who are still at war: The Anglosphere. There, the Americans were also severely tired of war, but with no hope of a peace deal by the American government, both Russia and the Central Powers began a plan to invade North America. On July 5th, thousands of paratroopers stormed the cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks from the Aleutian Islands, while the Europeans invaded Newfoundland to use it as an operating base to attack Canada. With the war coming right to their doorsteps, Quebec seized the chance to declare themselves independent from Canada, while both North and South Cascadia declared independence to form the Cascadian Republic.
In the Pacific, China and Japan are both planning on invading Australia, but as they knew an operation like this would be nearly impossible, they decided to commence the operations in a more pratical manner. The Japanese would invade Western Australia via Perth on September 9th, while the Chinese invaded via Darwin on September 11th. New Zealand would later seize this chance to surrender to the Chinese and the Japanese, escaping the horrors of the war on the Australian side. The Chinese and the Japanese would later began a full-blown assault on the United States as well, as China seized Hawaii before the Japanese, and with California also seceeding from the United States, they were able to persuade the Californians to let their troops in. By all means, the Allies are about to lose the war.
===2033: End of Chaos===
As the Europeans invaded New Brunswick and New England, America would suffer another insurrections as fans of Pompeo would attempt to keep him in power. The insurrection failed, and instead de-stabilized America so much that later on, Dixie and the Mormons would all seceed, with Texas following suit. The new United States President Jon Ossoff is willing to surrender to the remaining powers under his terms of restoring all Allied territory, but the remaining powers would only accept an unconditional surrender, which the Canadians already agreed to on January 8th. Australia would later agree to the same thing on February 2nd. The country by this point has been fractured and tired of combat, and at long last, a truce was agreed upon on March 2nd, with the Americans officiall signing their declaration of surrender on March 3rd, ending the bloodiest war in human history.
==Aftermath==
The Treaty of Paris on June 28th, 2033 would determine the fate of the Allied Powers, and none of the five Anglosphere nations got off lightly, all suffering actual territorial losses. Britain would be completely dissolved, with the Midlands counties forming the nation of Mercia, the Northern ones (save for Yorkshire) forming the Northumberland Federation, while Anglia and Wessex became independent, though this Wessex is mostly tied down to Southwest England. The Isle of Man, Cornwall and Northern Ireland were all given to Ireland, while the rest were outright splitted apart into counties like Kent and Sussex. London was outright occupied between the Europeans, the Nordics, the Iberians and the Italians until 2040. Scotland became independent itself, and the British Monarchy was entirely dissolved. By all means, the UK has had their cultural idenity ruined by the victorious Central Powers.
Australia, while not getting as harsh of a fate as their settlers, lost the ports of Perth and Darwin, and was under occupation until 2037 by the Eastern and the Pacific Powers. New Zealand got off lightly, with the only territorial losses being Niue, the Cook islands and Tokelau, all of which were then united under the Pacific Federation, as well as some reparations. The same cannot be said with Canada, who lost British Colombia, New Brusnswick and Nova Scotia, Quebec and Newfoundland to independence movements. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia would form the New England Republic in 2034 with the rest of New England. Yukon was also seized by the Russians, with Canada forced to pay a steep sum of reparations despite them not being the catalyst of the war.
The United States, now held responsible for starting the war, was treated the worst out of the Anglosphere nations. Despite many nations declaring themselves independent at the end of the war, the victorious powers overlooked them, and just carved up America's occupation zones like it was still one country: Mexico was given Texas, New Mexico and Arizona; Japan seized Hawaii in a compormise with the Chinese, along with Northern California; China got Southern California and parts of Nevada; The EU seized the American heartlands, with Spain occupying Florida; while the Russians annexed Alaska and the Rust Belt region. The nation would eventually be split up into New England, the CSA, Cascadia, the Great Lakes Union, and the Cheyenne Republic, with the remainder becoming the new "United States". This wouldn't last long however, as the former United States desended into a civil war between all of the states, sparking the Second American Civil War.
Following the conflict, the Eastern Powers fractured into three factions: The Russians controls Eastern Europe and are a peace-loving democracy similar to Western Europe, though both are locked in an economical cold war due to the Europeans believing in more socialistic elements while the Russians believing in true capitalism; China remained communist but are now resembling the final days of the USSR following their loss of Tibet and Turkestan; while Iran continued their theocratic leadership. Japan rose to become a superpower post-war, following a doctrine of nationalistic democracy, while India remained a parliamentary democracy. A new cold war would ensue between Europe, Russia, China, India and Japan, now controling every aspect of life on the Americas and Africa to an extent.
What is consistent between all sides post-war was a massively weakened economy. Russia, despite getting rid of Putin and even after the nationalistic government of Navalny resigned, Russia's economy is still stuck in a toliet due to hyperinflation of the Russian Ruble; in Europe, the areas formerly known as Germany and Benelux are now in ruins, with even Paris and Northern France suffering a level of destruction unheard of for the French. Across the former Anglosphere, former British and American provinces are now fighting against each other, starting a civil war in the Anglosphere states, therefore also ruining any sort of post-war economy.