South American Theatre of WW3 (DJK95)

The south american theatre of World War III was one of the bigger theatres of combat during WW3. It saw heavy fighting and acts of war for various years in the latter half of the conflict, starting with the outbreak of hostilities between the United States of America and Venezuela, following allied blockades against the Revisionist Powers, which caused massive economic hardship in sympathizer states like Venezuela and Cuba. These hostilities ended with the Allies defeating most latin american Revisionist Powers, liberating occupied territories, re-starting economic relationships with former Revisionist Powers as well as resulting in the collapse of the venezuelan and cuban regimes. The Allies fought the Revisionist Powers in Latin America on 4 main fronts: the Carribean Front, the Bolivian Front, the Central American Front and the Uruguayan Front.
== 2027 ==
=== The War in South America: Venezuela joins the Revisionist Powers ===
After several years of WW3, the Venezuelan Regime of Nicolás Maduro suffered a massive crisis. Due to the ongoing blockades of the Allies against Venezuela's longtime revisionist sponsors, China and Russia, Venezuela came to the brink of collapse. Riots and protests became even more frequent, while the super-inflation and overall dire economic situation caused increased famine and disease in the south American country. The regime blamed the US for this ongoing crisis, and intensified its anti-American rhetoric massively, while a large portion of the Venezuelan people joined in on this animosity. The majority of the Venezuelan army remained loyal to Maduro, while the rebelling armed forces lacked significance, due to the missing foreign support after WW3 broke out.
With the survival of the regime being in question, Maduro searched for ways to relieve pressure on Venezuela, while also hurting those he deemed responsible for the crisis, which was why he decided to take offensive action against the Allies. The decision was made to harass allied maritime traffic the same style Iran allegedly did in the Persian Gulf 2019 onwards, that is why Venezuela's only 2 submarines went on a hunting mission in the coastal waters of the Southern Caribbean Sea, attacking and harassing shipping lines of US ally Colombia and allied Caribbean territories, like Curaçao and Aruba. While most of these attacks remained minor in scale and impact, they were enough to worry the allied leadership of a potential South American Front being opened in Venezuela, especially since Russian aircraft and soldiers were still present in the Bolivarian country. Those forces, including a small Tupolev bomber squadron that was deployed there as soon as the war broke out, were activated by the Kremlin in the wake of the allied advance at the Western Front, leading those aircraft to run bombing raids on allied territories in the Caribbean, leading Aruba, Curaçao and Montserrat to be attacked. Due to almost all American naval assets being sent into the Pacific, the US lacked in significant maritime presence in the Caribbean, with no aircraft carrier being deployed at Americas southern flank. This lack in presence was exploited by the Russian and Venezuelan air force, causing cargo ships and drill stations in the Caribbean Sea and even the Gulf of Mexico to be assaulted as well. The attacks against oil platforms lead to devastating ecological consequences, due to millions of barrels of oil that leaked into the Ocean, while also hurting the allied fuel supply.
The anti-Maduro Lima Group, often called the Rio-Pact, condemned Venezuela's aggressiveness, yet the group of south American nations remained reluctant to directly call out Russia, due to the good relationship between the federation and South America. The only south American nations that openly expressed support for Venezuela were Bolivia and several factions in Uruguay, while voices in Suriname, Nicaragua, Cuba and some of the Bolivarian island states in the Caribbean also declared their support of Maduro. In order to prevent any possible escalation, France, the Netherlands and the UK dispatched a small war ship group to the Caribbean, so that their territories there gained some protection. Politicians in the US also called for a naval presence to secure Americas southern flank, while also calling for attacks against the Russian aircraft in Venezuela. This debate was accompanied by several south American initiatives, like Colombia mobilizing its army along its border with Venezuela, while hunting its few submarines. Wary of a potential strike of the US, Russia and Venezuelan dictator Maduro tried to circumvent this scenario, by once again taking offensive action. Due to their support for Maduro since the failed Guaido coup of 2019, the Caribbean islands of Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as Saint Kitts and Nevis allowed Venezuela and Russia to build a military presence on their territory. The support of Saint Vincent was more reluctantly though, because it feared a possibly violent invasion of Russian and Venezuelan forces, due to Venezuelas claim on Bird Island. This presence was enhanced by the few Russian vessels and the one Iranian ship that were deployed to Venezuela when the war broke out in the summer of 2021.
Especially the helicopter flattops were used by the Venezuelans and Russians to pursue a piracy campaign in the Caribbean Sea, leading commercial vessels to be assaulted and captured with the help of helicopters, similar to how Iran captured various oil tankers during the „Tanker-War“ of 2019. US planes taking off from Puerto Rico managed to sink a Venezuelan ship, while conducting air strikes against revisionist forces stationed on smaller Caribbean islands. This lead the revisionists on the other hand to once again attack and effectively occupy the ABC islands, while Venezuelan dictator Maduro declared war on the US. Colombia, a close ally of the US declared its support for America, should the fighting come to the continent. Meanwhile, Brazil started to mobilize its troops along its border with Venezuela, for the case of open hostilities.
=== The War of the Caribbean: Cuba and Maduro join forces ===
While the Allies were able to achieve progress at the Western and Southern Fronts, things kept escalating in the Caribbean. The ABC islands, as well as some islands of the Small Antilles were still under some form Venezuelan occupation, supported by Russian forces and Bolivarian sympathizers in the Caribbean, while the Allies still lacked a larger naval presence in the Caribbean Sea. As a reaction to the Venezuelan hostilities, the US and its south-American ally Colombia tried to increase the pressure on Venezuela by imposing a total blockade of any goods going to Venezuela specifically In order to demonstrate America's resolve, the US publicly sunk cargo-ships that were destined for Venezuela, after allowing the crews to leave the vessels. Among those were dominantly Cuban vessels, since Cuba was Venezuela's biggest regional supporter. As a consequence of this, Cuba, which already suffered heavily through allied blockades itself, declared war on the US, while 3 days later, as a show of political support, Nicaragua also declared war against America. After publicly joining forces, both Cuba and Venezuela searched for a potential retaliation against the US, leading them to decide for operations against US and allied territory, which could be exploited by revisionist propaganda. Cuban forces attacked and invaded Haiti as a staging ground for offensives against the US-territory of Puerto Rico.
Venezuelan and Russian aircraft on the other hand already conducted airstrikes against Puerto Rico, using St. Kitts and Nevis as a launch platform. This forced the scarce naval force of the US to divert its attention from the southern Caribbean Sea to Puerto Rico, leaving only a minimum of defenses in the Straits of Florida. With America being distracted by attacks on Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands, the Revisionist Powers saw themself tempted to dare a risky, yet ideological valuable endeavor: an attack against mainland America. Since two thirds of the US continental air force has been called mostly to the Eastern Front, and another large portion being tied down in Alaska, the remainder of the US only had a bare minimum aerial defenses, encouraging Cuban, Venezuelan and Russian forces to attempt an assault on southern Florida. At 5 am, the 4th of July 2025, revisionist aircraft launched from the Cay Sal Bank of the Bahamas entered American airspace, and conducted a series of missile strikes and bombing attacks against US territory, starting with Key West. Among the first targets being hit by the revisionists was the Naval Air Station Key West, after which the rest of the Florida Keys were targeted. Despite some minor damage, most of the Florida Keys remained unharmed since the revisionists tried to reach and focus on Miami. The US air force mobilized every aircraft available at the Homestead Air Reseve Base, leading to the first ever dogfights occurring in mainland American territory. The revisionist attackers were able to hit and damage several buildings in Miami, causing chaos and panic among the civilian population, that has initially gathered to celebrate the American Independence Day. At Nightfall, the US air force managed to destroy all invading aircraft, some of which crashed into the Everglades and caused fires in the swamps, while at the end of the day 150 Americans were killed during what was later nicknamed „the Florida Blitz“.
Donald Trump tried to proclaim the kill rate of the US air force as a tremendous success, despite the oppositional Democrats and Trump critics all over the US seeing this as an embarrassment and humiliation for America, which lead to a new wave of anti-Trump protests in various US states. Cuba and Venezuela, despite losing their entire attack force during this day celebrated the attack as prove of American weakness, while Revisionist Powers all over the globe exploited the Florida Blitz for their own propaganda. Venezuela also planned another hit against the American supply of resources, this time by targeting oil drilling facilities of US companies in Guyana, with which Venezuela was engaged in a century long border dispute. Venezuelan troops, supported by attack helicopters assaulted EXXON oil facilities in the disputed region of Guyana Esequiba, leading dozens of Americans to be captured. At the same time, pro Venezuelan state Suriname was convinced by the Revisionist Powers to seize the opportunity and take territory it also claimed not only in Guyana, but also French Guyana, leading forces of Suriname to enter the mineral-rich region of Tigri in Guyana, and the area between the Itani and Marouini rivers in French Guyana. This aggression lead France to declare war on Suriname, while French soldiers were able to push the invaders back into Suriname, awaiting more reinforcements from France and the Allies. All of these actions of war finally convinced US ally Colombia to actively fight against the south American Revisionist Powers, that is why Colombian troops, supported by a small, already present American contingency, attacked Venezuelan forces guarding the border between Venezuela and Colombia. The leadership of Colombia alongside US officials, called for military support from the already activated Rio-Pact, leading the governments of most south American nations to evaluate a possible entrance into the war. Venezuelan ally Bolivia on the other hand called for a ceasefire and threatened that a US invasion of Venezuela would also mean war with Bolivia. While the first hostilities started along the Colombian-Venezuelan border, Cuban forces assaulted the US base of Guantanamo. Due to their numerical advantage, the Cuban army was able to overwhelm the small US presence of Guantanamo after a week of brutal fighting, which lead to the liberation of Guantanamos inmates. The liberation of the prisoners of Guantanamo, among them many once internationally warranted terrorists and criminals, was celebrated not only by the Cuban regime, but also revisionist propaganda channels all over the world, with some even comparing this event with the liberation of concentration camp prisoners during WW2.
== 2028 ==
=== Brazil joins the Allies: The War of the Amazon ===
At the beginning of 2028, the war of South America and Venezuela the Caribbean kept spreading even further. Due to the enormous political pressure Trump was facing because of the „Florida Blitz“ and the hostilities against Alaska, the Trump administration decided to increase its efforts against the Revisionist Powers south of Florida. Because of this strategic shift, the US ordered 3 aircraft carriers to the Caribbean Sea, among them one who was stationed in European waters as support of allied operations against Russia, causing additional rifts between the US and the AUF command of Europe. F-15 Jets and bombers stationed in the American mainland were deployed to fly bombing raids against Cuba and occupied Caribbean Islands, while American aircraft launched from the carriers participated in an aerial campaign in support of Puerto Rico.
Additional strikes were performed against the Venezuelan coastline, although the fact that many planes had to be refueled in air limited the number of approaching aircraft available for the attack. The relatively competent Venezuelan anti-air defense was able to inflict some casualties on the attackers with its S-300VM and Buk-M2E missiles, but since they lacked in numbers, those defenses were unable to fend off the combined forces of the American and Colombian air force, which received support from the French, Dutch and British. This lead only to minimal allied casualties, especially since American UAVs were able to detect moving anti-air batteries, although the US lost a stealth fighter in the battle for Venezuelas skies, which was exploited by revisionist propaganda. Colombian forces in the west were able to penetrate Venezuelan defenses along the borders, leading to the first foreign troops invading Venezuela. While the fighting in Guyana remained static and geographically limited, forces of French Guyana, with incoming reinforcements coming from the French mainland, were able to push deeper into Suriname. The increased aerial campaign of the Allies caused the majority of the Venezuelan air force and navy either to be destroyed or left without supplies, leading Venezuela to lose control of almost all islands of the Small Antilles it had a presence on, while Venezuelan troops in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the ABC islands to hold on to their positions. The focus of the allied air campaign was then shifted to Cuna, in order to create opportunities for a possible invasion of the island state, while allied vessels approached the Venezuelan coastline with almost no resistance of revisionist forces. Since most of the air and missile strikes conducted by the Colombians and Americans hit industrial as well as secondary government targets, Venezuela increasingly lacked in supplies and materials to keep up with its losses, causing new unrest among its civilian population.
With the majority of Venezuelas air force being neutralized, American amphibious assault troops were able to land on the Venezuelan islands of Gran Roque, Blanquilla and La Orchilla, allowing its air force to use these islands as additional launching platforms for aerial bombardment raids. American, British and French troops meanwhile supported local defenses of Haiti and the Dominican Republic against the Cuban invaders, leading to the first heavy casualties for the Cubans during this war. While the pressure on the Revisionist Powers in the Caribbean was heavily increased, the fighting around Venezuela lead to a massive influx of refugees pouring in into the neighboring Brazil, causing violent clashes between Brazillian security forces and many, often unarmed, Venezuelan refugees. This escalation finally convinced the Brazillian leadership under Jair Bolsonaro to engage against Venezuela, leading already mobilized Brazilian forces to cross into Venezuela. The objective of Brazil's intervention was to stop the war from further escalating, while also preventing more refugees from reaching Brazil because of it. The Brazilian intervention also lead Venezuelas ally Bolivia to declare war against Brazil, the US and Colombia in opposition of the allied invasion of Venezuela. Bolivian forces, among them many special forces and mercenaries crossed into the border regions of Brazil, and set many of the Brazilian soy fields located close to the frontier ablaze, as a way of hurting Brazils economy, while sending a political message against the Allies. Bolivian field artillery and tanks at the same time shelled the Brazilian city of Rio Branco, leading to only minimal damage. While there were reports about Bolivian forces attempting to pass through the Pantanal wetlands, the Venezuelan counterattacks against the Brazilian invaders remained futile, due to Venezuelas mountainous south and the Amazon rainforest, which made any kind of infantry movement extremely difficult. Brazil decided to focus on the Venezuelan Campaign, using its own size and topography at the same to thwart any attempt of Bolivian advance in the south. Brazilian troops were also mobilized close to the border to Suriname, but not because of any invasion plans, but rather to monitor the growing French military presence in its neighborhood, due to Brazils growing animosity towards France.
Brazilian field artillery started to shell targets all over the East of Bolivia, while the Brazilian air force joined its American and Colombian counterparts. The continuous airstrikes in Venezuela caused a total collapse of the already fragile Venezuelan power supply, leading to additional uprisings in the entire country, which were struck down with brute force by Maduros regime. American airstrikes meanwhile weakened Cuban defenses enough to attempt an amphibious invasion of Cuba. But due to the limited manpower the US had available, the landed marines were unable to secure as many beachheads as originally planned, leading to incredibly bloody fighting on the Cuban beaches, forcing the US marines to abandon the invasion attempt. This was for many Americans reminiscent of the Bay of Pigs disaster, and therefore perceived as an American embarrassment. With fighting getting more serious all over the Caribbean and the Amazon, other Rio-Pact members expressed their intention of engaging as well, in order to prevent the war from further escalating. This lead Peru and Chile to issue a warning to Bolivia, that if it does not stop hostilities against Brazil, they would join the war against the Revisionist Powers. The Venezuelan air force meanwhile managed to strike multiple targets along the Magdalena River in Colombia, destroying bridges and therefore slowed down Colombian supply lines and troop movement.
=== The War of South America: A continent united against Maduro ===
The Indian Front was not the only theater of the war that saw significant escalation over the course of 2028. The conflict in South America flowing the entrance of Brazil as part of the American and Colombian war effort, as well as the involvement of Venezuelan ally Bolivia, kept spreading later the same year. The joined invasion of Venezuela by Colombian, Brazilian and American land forces in the south and west of the country managed to advance further into the mountainous territory of Venezuelas part of the Amazon Rainforest, while American aircraft continued to decimate Venezuelan air defenses and important parts of Venezuelas infrastructure, such as the power grid, which caused chaos, confusion and increasing casualties among the civilian population of Venezuela. Anti-Maduro rebels joined the invading forces in an attempt to topple the regime, which lead to escalating violence of the Maduro regime against its own population. The missile strikes against Caraças and the Venezuelan coastline were also supported by French, British and Dutch troops deployed in the Caribbean after the occupation of European island territories.
At the same time, Brazilian, French and guyanese troops managed to push Venezuelan forces out of Guyana, after their invasion earlier the same year. These allied forces also achieved a series of victories against the revisionist Suriname, which included a further invasion and occupation of Venezuelas ally by French and Brazilian forces, leading to several tense situations between them due to Frances and Brazils mutual animosity towards each other. Brazilian troops also launched a counter-invasion of Bolivia, after the Bolivian assaults on Brazilian territory following Brazils entry into the war. The growing violence and the spread of the war in South America finally convinced the Rio-Pact, which was heavily influenced by the US, to invoke its Article 8, which promised that an attack on one of its members is an attack on all of them, leading to the entrance of many more south-American nations into the war. As a result, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru announced that they will send forces to aid the allied campaign against Venezuela. While Panama and Costa Rica declared their logistical support, the only Rio-Pact members who refrained from joining the war against Venezuela were obviously Revisionist Power Cuba and on the other hand Uruguay, which rejoined the treaty as „recently“ as 2020. Uruguay condemned invoking the Rio-Pact as a pretext for war against Venezuela, since it saw this move as an illegal operation of the US against South America. Uruguay, which voiced support for the Maduro regime multiple times before WW3, therefore declared that it will once again leave the Rio-Pact, while adding that it will resist any foreign involvement in South America. At the same time, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Chilean, Argentinian and Paraguayan forces were sent to the Venezuelan Front in the hope to bring an end to the conflict as soon as possible.
The Ecuadorians and Peruvians took position along the Colombians and Americans in the west, while the Chileans, Argentinians and Paraguayans supported the Brazilians in the south of Venezuela, despite tensions among the individual south-American states. Chilean modernized F-16s also participated in the allied campaign against Bolivia, leading to waves of airstrikes in support of the advancing Brazilians. While the Brazillians crossed the Rio Itenez River, and managed to occupy most of the Bolivian Beni region, Brazllian, Paraguayan and Argentinian forces invaded Santa Cruz, forcing the Bolivians to take positions west of the Rio Grande. The deployment and movement of troops in South America caused unease and nervousness among the uruguayan government, leading it to mobilize its army with focus on its northern border with Brazil. Uruguay stated that it will take offensive action, should the Rio-Pact continue to pursue its war operations against the Revisionist Powers in South America. Revisionist ally of Cuba and Venezuela, Nicaragua, finally decided to take the offensive and launched a surprise attack against neighboring Honduras, in order to take out US bases and infrastructure. During the following battles, Nicaraguan forces assaulted and besieged the Mocorón and Barra de Caratasca bases in Honduras, leading Honduras to officially join the Allies. Nicaragua also used the war against the Allies to settle its maritime disputes with Colombia, which is why Nicaraguan forces invaded the less defended Colombian islands of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. The hostilities of Nicaragua also lead Costa Rica, which had no military of its own, to side with the Allies as well, allowing US troops to land in Costa Rica in order to protect the central American state. At the same time, allied troops finally managed to land troops in Cuba, due to the joined effort of the American air force and naval assets.
American troops reached land in the west of Cuba, while America, dominican and haitian forces, supported by British, French and Dutch special troops landed in the southeast. Despite heavy resistance from the Cuban defenses, allied troops were able to advance further into Cuban territory, while suffering massive casualties. The lack of modern equipment and armory among the Cuban army lead allied troops to retake Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba in the southeast, while American troops in the west managed to take Pinãr del Rio. Despite support from Nicaraguan and Russian volunteers, the Cubans had to resort to guerilla and urban warfare, in order to slow down the allied advance towards Havana. The Cuban air force and anti-air defenses suffered heavy casualties from aerial allied bombardment, but Cuba's land based rocket launchers remained largely intact, leading to steep allied losses among the invading forces. With Cuba facing crisis, and the continental Revisionist Powers being on the brink of collapse, allied forces finally managed to neutralize all Iranian and most of the Russian forces operating in the Caribbean.
=== Mexico joins the War ===
While the war kept escalating in South America, and the Allies managed to advance in Europe and Asia, things were looking tense in North America. Mexico suffered massively under allied blockades against Revisionist Powers in WW3, due to the fact that especially China was Mexico's second largest trading partner. Additionally, many allied nations were unable to sufficiently trade with Mexico, due to shipping and air traffic lines being disrupted by the war, like Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. The result was a severe economic crisis of Mexico for most of the war, including widespread unemployment, increasing poverty and even food shortages. The result were protests all over the country, while drug cartel related crime was also on the rise.
These conditions also facillitated sporadic outbreaks of COVID-19, which put an additional strain on Mexico's health system. This caused a new wave of refugees moving to the north, in order to reach the US in the hope for better living conditions. The news of these migrant caravans were received with rejection from the Trump administration, which declared that this would be another „invasion-attempt“ of America, that was according to Trump far worse than the Russian invasion of the Aleutians. As a reaction to the incoming refugee wave, Trump deployed 5000 troops to the American-Mexican border, in order to prevent any refugees from coming to the US. The US government also authorized the use of deadly weaponry, in the case of hostilities with Mexican refugees and human traffickers, which caused massive outcries among the anti-Trump opposition. Multiple clashes were reported between Mexican migrants and US border forces, which were accompanied by civilian vigilantes, that went out to „fight against hostile invaders“. There were several incidents of refugees being shot by Americans, either by the military or by American self-authorized border militias. The oppositional Democrats accused Trump of authorizing and encouraging lethal violence against refugees, while the president claimed that the border forces and „American patriots“ merely acted in self-defense. Trump himself accused Mexico of actively seeking to send refugees into the US, as some form of alleged warfare against America. He claimed that Mexico would deliberately send criminals, thugs and rapists to the US, in order to weaken America during this time of war.
Both the oppositional Democrats, as well as the Mexican leadership denounced these accusations as made up, racist and harmful for the already strained American-Mexican relationship. Trump went even further, and threatened economic sanctions against Mexico, should it refuse to do anything to stop the refugees itself. As a result of these threats from the US, Mexico decided to send troops to the American border, as a show of force and strength, while also hoping to discourage refugees from coming north. This troop deployment was seen as an act of aggression by the Trump administration, which authorized opening fire on Mexican troops, should they come too close to the border. Mexican forces on the other hand kept closing in to the border, especially during nighttime, in order to tackle human trafficking, while many Mexican soldiers, who were infuriated and insulted by US accusations, engaged in various standoffs with the US army, during which many Mexicans started throwing rocks at American troops, leading them to fire warning shots. Those warning shots were interpreted as acts of aggression, since tensions between the engaging forces were high due to the earlier reported shootings of Mexican refugees, which lead the Mexican troops to open fire directly on the Americans in return. Both sides accused each other of starting hostilities, while Trump called these incidents a „declaration of war“ by Mexico, which was why he introduced massive economic sanctions on Mexico, despite resistance from the opposition. Mexico, which already faced economic struggles and civil unrest, saw itself wronged by the US, and unfairly punished by the American leadership, which lead to widespread anti-American protests and riots in front of American embassies. Shootings along the border between American and mexcian forces continued to occur, while many protesters went to the still incomplete border wall in order to protest.
They insulted the opposing border forces of the US, and tried to vandalize the wall, while it became much harder for the border forces to distinguish between refugees and demonstrators. Once again there were shots fired, either as warnings or in alleged self defense, which lead to the killings of several dozens of Mexican civilians, a couple of Mexican soldiers and even several US border guards who were facing fire from the Mexican side. As a result, US troops along the border entered Mexican territory in a few areas of lesser fortifications and engaged with Mexican civilians and military forces in several clashes with tear gas, flash grenades and even armored vehicles, in order to disperse the revolt along the border. This was seen as an foreign invasion of Mexico, which lead the Mexican government to declare war on the US. Trump vowed to „anhililate“ Mexico for its aggression against the US, and ordered his border troops to shoot at any Mexican soldier on sight, while all over Mexico, anti-American protesters waved revisionist flags, like the Russian, Chinese and even Venezuelan ones. Mexican and Latino-protests also emerged in the US itself, which were struck down aggressively by the deployed security forces. Trump also ordered the police, homeland security and other federal forces to patrol in latino majority communities, in order to prevent „fraternisation and collaboration with the enemy“ which prompted accusations of racism and a general suspicion of latino-Americans. Along the border, Mexican forces engaged in various clashes with US troops, during which Mexico started to deploy more heavy weaponry, like the SDN Humvee self-propelled artillery piece, as well as several towed howitzers and mortars, which were positioned on high ground, like the hills close to San Diego and Tijuana, as well as Jacumba Hot Springs and along the Rio Grande. As a result, shelling erupted, which caused only symbolic damage to private properties and border walls and fences in Texas and California. The Mexicans were able to conduct these attacks due to the lack of present ground and air forces in the continental US.
Most American troops were stationed outside of the US, including most of Americas hard military equipment. Which was why there were only comparatively few Abrahams tanks and F-16 fighter jets available to attack Mexican positions along the border. Most US forces had to rely on helicopters and armored infantry fighting vehicles to counter Mexican aggression, which were assaulted by Mexican forces using confiscated anti-tank weapons. The Mexicans on the other hand managed to tear down parts of Trumps border wall, which was celebrated by Mexican and revisionist propaganda. Mexican forces also managed to conduct several incursions into the US at places with little or no border protection, where they engaged in exchanges of fire with American border troops and civilian militias, leading to mounting casualties among the latter. While American forces resorted to using shoulder launched missiles and truck-, and helicopter mounted miniguns to disperse the assaulting enemy, Mexican special forces were able to ambush an American detention center for migrants close to the border, where they liberated dozens of children in US custody. This was exploited by revisionist propaganda as the liberation of innocent children from American „concentration camps“, despite being only a one time occurance. Despite the lack of equipment and manpower, the US forces were still able to push the Mexicans back at several points of the border, while the few present American fighter jets stroke Mexican positions and infrastructure all over the front. Reports came up about the abduction of US civilians by invading Mexican forces, while there were allegedly massacres against US citizens in remote, rural areas along the border, and although most of these claims remained unconfirmed, they were enough to spark anti-Mexican and anti-latino violence by Trump-followers all over the US.
== 2029 ==
=== The War of South America: The Fall of the Revisionists ===
The Western Front was not the only theater of war that saw a revisionist collapse in 2028. In Latin America, the Revisionist Powers of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua, now receiving indirect support from Uruguay, were brought to the brink of defeat by the allied coalition of the US, south American and European forces. Civil unrest and civil war like clashes and uprisings lead to a total fraction of the Venezuelan troops, which suffered massive shortages of food, ammunition and other vital supplies, while being totally outnumbered by the Allies. In the South, the Venezuelan resistance managed to consolidate footholds in the Guaina Highlands and the Parima Mountains, while Venezuelan forces and Colombian drug cartel guerillas still battled allied troops in the Merida Mountains in the East of Venezuela. Using its mountainous areas as a topographical advantage, Venezuelan troops used anti-Tank missiles to slow down the allied advance towards Caracas. Additionally, Venezuelan militias, built up prior to the war as a paramilitary force, also put a strain on the allied troops in the difficult terrain of the rainforest and during urban fighting.
While Brazilian, Paraguayan, Peruvian and French forces engaged in brutal guerilla warfare against the Venezuelans in the Amazon Rainforest, the Venezuelan capital of Caraças was pounded daily by airstrikes, long range artillery and ship launched missiles. After securing their positions on Grenada, the Allies of the US, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Colombia and the Caribbean islands launched an invasion of occupied Trinidad and Tobago. Heavy fighting broke out around the beaches of Port Spain, but since Venezuela was close to collapsing, the occupying forces in Trinidad and Tobago were unable to hold off the allied invasion for long, leading the island to be liberated after a few weeks of fighting. During the same campaign, allied naval forces from the US, Colombia and Europe managed to take the Venezuelan islands of Gran Roque, La Orchila and Blanquilla, turning them into de facto stationary aircraft carriers for the Allies. After the liberation of Trinidad and Tobago, the Allies managed to invade and control most of the Venezuelan coastline, despite still present resistance by artillery and anti-ship missile bombardment. During the coastal offensive against the Maduro regime, allied forces also managed to liberate the ABC islands off the coast of Venezuela.
Further north in the Caribbean, the Cuban campaign was only advancing slowly, due to ongoing resistance around Havanna and a lack of allied troops and supplies from the US, since the Americans still focused the bulk of their resources on the Eastern Front. Because of this, American troops in Cuba faced ammunition shortages on a regular basis, leading to heavy casualties and almost equal losses for both the US and Cuba, although the latter received voluntary troops from Nicaragua in the past year. Russian made missile launchers were used in the Battle of Havanna, which additionally inflicted heavy losses on the Allies. Since the US enjoyed air superiority, most of Cubas anti-air defenses and larger artillery systems were hunted down and destroyed, leading to a more urban and guerilla style campaign against the Allies by Cuba.
After one and half month, the last defenses around Havanna fell, leaving only small pockets of urban resistance against the advancing Americans, due to the fact that Cuba during this time period relied on old Soviet era equipment, which proved to be insufficient against the allied technological edge. While the Allies still suffered casualties on a daily basis during the occupation of Cuba, allied forces from Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Brazil pushed deeper into revisionist Bolivia, which was unable to put a halt to the allied invasion. Following the fall of Potosí and the Battle of Lake Titicaca, allied forces managed to advance to the outskirts of Bolivias capitals of La Paz and Sucre, leading to heavy fighting and stalemate due to the mountainous terrain of the Andes mountains, while allied forces in the west and north faced insurgency warfare in the Amazon Basin. Further south, de facto Revisionist Power Uruguay still protested the allied invasions of Bolivia and Venezuela, which is why, as a way of opposing the Allies, Uruguay sent troops to consolidate a military presence on the uninhabited but still disputed Brazilian Island in the Rio Uruguay. Additionally, Uruguay also saw itself compelled to forcefully another old border dispute with Brazil, by shelling and invading El Rincón de Artigas in the south of Brazil. Meanwhile, the allied campaign against Venezuela neared its end, but not without heavy casualties. Venezuelan forces managed to shoot down allied attack helicopters with their large shoulder launched anti-aircraft missile inventory, leading the Allies to loose a dozen helicopters per day. With pockets of Venezuelan resistance remaining in the Merida mountains, and northeast of the Orinoco river, allied forces managed to outflank and encircle the opposing revisionist forces by dropping airborne assault troops, allowing them to close up to Caracas from behind its mountain chains.
Further north in Latin America, the American and Colombian navies reconquered the Colombian islands occupied by the Revisionist Power of Nicaragua, while on the ground, American troops, supported by local forces, were able to push the Nicaraguans out of several occupied regions of Honduras. South of Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica, which both joined the Allies after Nicaraguan aggression in Central America, allowed American troops to be stationed in their territory, while adding voluntary forces to the allied armies. With the support of Colombian, and to a lesser degree other nations of South America, allied troops launched a counter-invasion of Nicaragua. The escalating fighting in Central America, as well as widespread anti-American sentiment built up during the Trump administration, El Salvador expressed its support for the revisionist cause, and officially joined the Revisionist Powers. This was mostly a political move aimed at demonstrating El Salvadors rejection of American leadership, while in reality, El Salvadors involvement in the war was minor and did not affect the situation on the ground. The Battle of the Andes in Bolivia remained protracted at the same time. Despite having an inferior army compared to the invading Brazillian, Chilean, Peruvian and Argentinian forces, Bolivian troops dug in in the high ground were able to prevent the Allies from getting closer to La Paz and Suçre. The Allies of South America brought in heavy machine guns and artillery pieces to dislodge the Bolivian resistance in the Yungas and Valles, while Brazilian and Argentinian tank forces managed to conquer most of the Bolivian lowland plains of the Oriente. The mountain warfare of the Andes turned the fight into a de facto siege of Bolivias centres of power, since the defending forces were almost completely cut off from supplies and vital infrastructure.
The resulting pressure was so high, that the Bolivian leadership sought a ceasefire, which ended in the armistice of Potosí and an end of hostilities in Bolivia. In the north, after advancing deeper into the lowlands of central Venezuela, civil unrest and dissatisfaction with the regime grew to such a degree, that more than half of the Venezuelan population supported the Allies in some way or the other, while the Battle of Caracas caused tens of thousands of casualties on both sides. Realizing that the war is lost, Nicolás Maduro and his closest allies attempted to the flee Venezuela by escaping to the relatively new Revisionist Power of Mexico with the support of Russian forces still operating in Latin America. After debarking in a military transport chopper towards the awaiting Russian lift in the mountains north of Caracas, but before reaching destination, the helicopter was shot down by a shoulder launched missile, killing Maduro and his associates in the process. To this day it is not clear if the helicopter was shot down by allied forces, after the CIA received intelligence about Maduros escape plans, or if it was accidentally downed by Venezuelan forces, which mistook it for an allied helicopter. After the death of Maduro, and the subsequent collapse of the Venezuelan regime, the pro-allied insurgents gained control in several centers of Venezuelan power, leading them to declare Venezuelas unconditional surrender. Further south, Brazillian troops pushed the uruguayan aggressors out of El Rincón de Artigas, while re-taking the Brazilian Island. Following a short shelling of the uruguayan border, Uruguay sought a ceasefire, which lead to peace-negotiations that stopped hostilities between the two nations, as well as settling their old border disputes. The end of clashes between Brazil and Uruguay marked the end of what was later called „the Great War of South America“, leading the continent to be secured by the Allies.
=== Allied Victory in the Americas ===
While the Allies managed to secure South America for the allied cause, the US and its central American allies still faced struggles further north. The border war between the US and Mexico still raged on, despite the southern neighbor of America becoming increasingly unstable due to allied blockades and the spread of cartel related crime. At the same time, the US, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and their reinforcements coming from the south American nations were still confronted with Venezuelas last remaining ally, Nicaragua, which received ideological support from El Salvador, while salvadorian mercenaries voluntarily joined the Nicaraguan ranks. Since the revisionist threat in South America largely vanished, the US and its southern allies like Colombia and Brazil were able to free up enough naval assets to impose a naval blockade specifically against Nicaragu, while the allied air force conducted an airstrike campaign, supported by cruise missile attacks. This air-, and missile strike offensive mainly targeted Nicaraguan military assets and installations, while also heavily damaging Nicaraguan infrastructure.
While this aerial bombardment continued for weeks, allied forces, both in the south and north of Nicaragua, were able to push deeper into Nicaraguan territory, although the advance was hampered by the limited resources the allied forces of Central America had access to, while the US also had limited assets available due to the multitude of fronts it had to cover. At the same time, the US managed to infiltrate Nicaragua with its special forces, like SEAL Team 6, which conducted a series of sabotage attacks to destabilize the Nicaraguan leadership, like harassing the nations power grid, spreading disinformation and assisting in the organization of civil unrest. This caused Nicaragua to indeed destabilize, with thousands of its citizens starting to rise up, while various Nicaraguan military leaders have been assassinated or killed by air and drone strikes. Simultaneously, US ships, with minor support from Ecuadorian and Colombian vessels blocked the ports of El Salvador, in order to discourage it from showing more hostility towards the Allies. Meanwhile at the American-Mexican border, revisionist Mexico increasingly struggled to defend itself against the American forces pushing its troops further back into Mexican territory. While US forces kept invading Mexico, allowing it to capture the border cities of Juárez, Heroica Nogales, Ciudad Acuña and Rio Bravo, leading to urban guerilla warfare and heavy civilian casualties.
The Battle for Tijuana, which started as an retaliatory operation against Mexico, proved to be the most costly battle of North America during WW3, with thousands of Mexican, and hundreds of American fatalities. The Mexicans tried to slow down the invaders by performing airborne landings behind the enemies' positions in remote areas of the border region, where the Americans had less air cover compared to the more fought over sectors. Those airborne assaults were unable to encircle the US troops significantly, and instead lead to massive Mexican casualties. Mexican forces were also still able to penetrate the US borders in various sectors, leading to revenge attacks against the American population in Yuma, Sommerton, Socorro, Rio Grande City, although these attacks were minor in scale and rapidly repelled. However, the hostilities on the southern border were enough to further inflate panic, especially among Republican voters, of Mexican attacks against the US, which also lead to a series of attacks conducted by right-Wing extremists against targets of the US-latino community. The oppositional Democrats condemned these assaults very vocally, leading various Republican officials, including the president, to call the DNC as a whole treasonous, resulting in calls for charges of treason against the Democrats.
While the political division and strife continued to get more aggressive and divisive, pro-Mexican radicals in the US started to conduct retaliatory attacks themselves, targeting police stations, various suburbs with Republican majority bases, as well as attacks against infrastructure. Further south, the Mexicans were increasingly unable to hold their ground, leading the Americans to push deeper into the Mexican border region, while more and more cartel related attacks were conducted against the Mexican military, police force and local politicians. The cartels started to form more sophisticated militias than before the war, allowing them to even besiege and conquer various Mexican villages and cities, resulting in horrific massacres against the civilian population and the local police forces. The cartels not only attacked the Mexican, but also the invading American military, leading to an intensification of urban and guerilla warfare. The increasingly chaotic fighting between American, Mexican, and cartel forces lead to a further destabilization of Mexico, with the Mexican government loosing control over more and more cities due to American and cartel occupation and civil unrest. With fighting escalating, and Mexico being on the brink of total collapse, other central American nations sought to end the fighting in the Americas for good, leading Guatemala and Belize to join the Allies and threaten Mexico with war, should hostilities against the US not be halted. After the fall of Tijuana, the Mexican government finally decided that the war effort against the US was futile, and a continuation of fighting would only lead to the collapse of Mexico, which lead Mexican officials to seek a ceasefire with the US.
Long, protracted and heated negotiations entailed, during which the US tried to force Mexico into comparatively harsh concessions, like trading benefits for the US, as well as increased effort of the Mexicans to secure the border against refugees. While the US also demanded financial reparations from Mexico, the Mexicans on the other hand requested allied assistance in their fight against the drug cartels. Mexico and the US were only able to come to partial agreements, leading to further heated negotiations until the end of WW3. Nonetheless, the initial results were satisfying enough for the US to agree to an armistice, which ended the war in North America. In the weeks after, the continued airstrike campaign and internal destabilization of Nicaragua resulted in the Nicaraguan regime being toppled, forcing Nicaragua out of the war. El Salvador also signaled that it would not engage in hostilities with the Allies, and officially dropped out as an Revisionist Power, leading to a total allied victory in the Americas.
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