The Rainforest Wars (Earth Rising)

The Rainforest Wars were a series of conflicts between the UN, Koslovic and Frieden forces in South America during the Interplanetary War.
== History ==
The Rainforests of South America had always been an important resource for the whole world. Pharmacuetical coporations paid millions for potential cures for disease, loggers chopped down the lush trees for their wood, and farmers used the land to feed their livestock or grow their crops. For this, the land distributment between the various owners had always been harsh even during the 21st Century, when people began to become more "modern". Small conflicts had been fought between the various countries of South America for control of the resources (i.e.-Brazil vs Venezuela, Venezuela vs Columbia). Little land had been won during these early territorial conflicts, so most of the countries had dealt with these matters by other peaceful means.
Then, as the world entered the 22nd Century; the Earth began to experience overpopulation and food shortages. Civil unrest began to rise as more people demanded that their governments, or the United Nations, give them food. This allowed organizations such as the Neo-Communist Koslovics and the Neo-Facist Frieden an extreme opportunity to gain power, as the Amazon area was a prime area for both food production and medicines. So, around May of 2162, only a year after the fighting on the Jovian Moons; Koslovic and Frieden force moved into South America to gain control of the precious forests.
Fighting started in South America when Frieden and Koslovic forces attacked each other in a former Brazilian states of Amazonas and Para. Small gunfire and RPGs were exchanhed during the early conflicts, resulting in dozens of deaths on both sides. The United Nations, hearing about the conflicts in the Amazon, sent in Military forces to quell the conflicts in the region. Unfortunately for the UN forces, most of the rebel forces turned their focus to the "oppressors" and began a push on them. Operation:Paradise, the UN peacekeeping operation in the Amazon, had failed; resulting in hundreds of deaths of UN soldiers and an increased unstability of the region.
More UN soldiers were sent into the region to fight off the Frieden and Koslovics, including two mechanized battalions of D8 PCE troops; making a forward operating base in the region of southern Brazil and Panama. The Frieden and Koslovics, preoccupied with attacking each other, could not fend off the new attacks by the United Nations Military, and recieved heavy casualities. But the Frieden and Koslovics quickly rebounded, and had begun fighting the United Nations on both fronts.
Category:Earth Rising
Category:Wars
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