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The Third World War , also known as Third Great War,  World War Three or simply WW3 , was a large global scale conflict fought from April 3rd, 2019 to ?????  mainly between the Eastern Mutual Cooperation Organization ( <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">EMCO <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">NATO <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">), later including the United Islamic Alliance, the Arab League and many other countries. It was the second largest war of history, only behind World War 2 in number of casualties.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Background =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Syrian civil war and the Eastern Mutual Cooperation Organization = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Even after the downfall of ISIS, the Syrian Civil War kept going at full strenght. Even with the creation of neutral zones, their borders rarely were respected. On November 19, 2016, days after the Treaty of Beijing, the Arab League took the decision of directly interfering in the war, without warning. Saudi Arabia had the idea due to her pan-arabism policy, which consisted in direct interventions (political, economical or military) in the Arab World to pacify the region after ISIS downfall. Members of the League invaded war-torn Syria and filled the crippled Free Syrian Army ranks. Since both sides were already fragile for five years of war, this invasion quickly destroyed Assad’s army. In less than one month, Assad fled to Iran, the Free Syrian Army took power and the civil war finally ended.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">However, the invasion caused the first international diplomatic crisis after the Islamic State. Russia and Iran considered the operation illegal, and tried to threaten Saudi Arabia, but USA supported the arabs. Iran didn’t back off and tried to send military help to the Syrian Arab Republic, but it was already too late.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">With the war over, Saudi Arabia rapidly spreading the pan-arabism wings and USA supporting them, Russia and China started to worry. Both countries then realized that, if CSTO and SCO, working together, got rid of ISIS, they would be strong enough together to protect its objectives and avoid losing another interest conflict like Syria. On December 21st, 2016, CSTO and SCO merged into the Eastern Mutual Cooperation Organization, and accepted India and Pakistan, who had applied to SCO before.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Iran also applied to join, but the US was against it, citing stability and power balance, thus starting what would be called the Iran Issue. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Iran Issue = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">On December 29th, after the application of Iran to EMCO, american and russian diplomats had intense discussions, the former trying to convince the latter not to accept the application. There were saudi interests behind the attitude of the US, because Iran was a threat to the pan-arabism policy. The debate went on unsolved until January 23rd, when NATO suddenly accepted Montenegro in the alliance to provoke Russia. But, ten days later, on February 2nd, EMCO responded by officially accepting Iran.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">February was a very tense month due to this. A dispute between alliances became a US vs Russia diplomatic impasse very quickly. Afraid of starting a new Cold War, european countries sided with USA to make Russia give up her ideas. But the Influence Zones made it harder, so Turkey had to defend NATO and sent an ultimatum for Iran to leave EMCO. Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq and Syria supported Turkey. Afraid of a war, Iran was kicked out of EMCO on March 12th, thus ending the crisis, but creating a rivalry between NATO and EMCO, and worrying Europe about Turkey’s autonomy to make decisions on behalf of NATO inside the IZs. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ukraine Proxy Crisis and Influence Zones = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">On October 8th, 2017, the Ukraine Civil War finally ended, with Kiev’s victory. But, right after the victory was officialized, Russia declassified documents about a secret and direct NATO interference in Ukraine. The past crisis was still fresh, so both US and Russia began a heated accusations exchange. Other NATO countries sided with USA. Then, Russia deployed troops in the border with Ukraine, threatening to free the ukrainian russians by force. Turkey was the first to respond, and her navy spread through the northern Black Sea, staying very close to the russian ports in the area. But NATO wanted to solve it diplomatically and condemned the turkish actions. After days of discussion, Turkey left NATO, but managed to convince Russia not to invade Ukraine.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Turkey’s withdraw was the first problem with Influence Zones that NATO had. The organization’s only member in Asia and Middle East IZ was Turkey, so they didn’t have anyone to defend NATO intrests in the region. Georgia was accepted to serve as a base close to EMCO, but Russia complained, citing that Abkhazia and South Ossetia were under her protection. NATO then agreed not to occupy these two regions to avoid increasing tensions. But Georgia wasn’t strong enough to replace Turkey, so Israel was invited. She didn’t accept at first, but later saw it as needed. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Middle East: Arab League vs United Islamic Alliance = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The first wars to strike the Arab World after Saudi Arabia’s aiding policies for middle eastern nations were the two Somalia Wars, that happened in July and August 2017. The first was the Somali-Indian War, caused by the post-ISIS occupation of Somalia by USA, Canada, India, China and Russia. The US and Canada, after negotiations with local leaders, decided to unify their occupied zones into a free Somaliland state, and then procceeded to train and equip the somalilander army. The somali government was angered and demanded the full return of the original territory of Somalia. Russia and China agreed and withdrew, but India claimed that Puntland still needed pacification. Somalia asked for it, so that they could access and reconquer Somaliland, but India refused. Somalia then declared war on India, expecting support that never came from the Arab League. Most of its members condemned the war, exept for Egypt and Sudan. For that, Somalia left the League and surrendered when India captured her main cities. Then, Somalia blamed Somaliland for the defeat and invaded it. However, she lost and the somalilander army destroyed even more the already war-torn Somalia. China saw it as an opportunity, and funded Egypt, Sudan and Somalia, helping them to rebuild and militarize, in exchange of supporting Iran to avoid a new coalition against it, like what happened in the Iran Issue.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The efficiency of this move was proven in the Third Lebanon War, when arab countries started to approach Israel. Iran and Egypt did not approve it, and helped Hezbollah to take power in Lebanon in a short civil war on late November. Tensions increased a lot between Saudi Arabia, who was leading the arab-israeli aproximation, and these two countries after the event. An intense diplomatic crisis started between them. At one side, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria and Libya uncovered the chinese scheme and accused the others of trying to create tension. On the other side, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and the new lebanese government accused the others of going against fellow arabs for cooperating with Israel and USA. The high point was when Israel felt threatened and finally joined NATO. For that, Egypt broke with the League and formed the United Islamic Alliance in December 2017, with Lebanon, Sudan and Somalia. Iran did not join, but was the main diplomatic, military and economic partner of the alliance. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Saudi-Iranian War = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">On January 4th, 2018, the Royal Saudi Air Force shot down an unindentified and unauthorized iranian plane over Yemen. The saudi army, directly fighting in Yemen for an year due to Saudi’s pan-arabism policies, rescued the survivors. But an iranian tank division appeared to rescue them. Both sides argueg to keep the survivors, and a firefight happened. Saudi Arabia won, but that started a short diplomatic issue. Mostly because both countries had already engaged before in Yemen, Saudi Arabia didn’t wait and declared war on Iran, despite UN efforts to stop it.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The first weeks of war were mostly in air and sea.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">March Crisis and escalation

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The war oficially started in April 3rd, 2019, when the USA and UK evoked the article 5th of the North Atlantic Treaty and NATO declared war on Russia for the Battle of Sukhumi. On April 4th, China joined the war on Russia’s side and called all EMCO members, but none responded out of reluctance.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kazakhstan was the first EMCO member to refuse to declare war, on the April 5th morning. However, by night, a thousand russian soldiers landed in the Astana International Airport, marched to the government palace and deposed the president, putting a pro-russian in charge and making them join the war. By the morning, every other EMCO member, except Pakistan and India, declared war on NATO for fear of a coup.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">India and Pakistan were the only were the only exceptions. The high military command from both countries gave expressive orders for all the military branches to fight any new government installed by a coup, then withdrew from EMCO. For the rest of the war, India and Pakistan remained totally neutral.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">War starts slowly

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The first months of war were surprisingly calm. There were few battles, since the powers still believed that peace could be achieved before a full scale war. Intense negotiations took place for ?? months, but frequent hostile actions from both sides slowly faded the hope. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hong Kong = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">One of the priorities of NATO was to keep their oversea bases safe. The british naval base in Hong Kong was small, but still, it was a foothold in chinese mainland, and could be useful in the future. CIA spies in Hong Kong noticed that the population was against the war and quickly assembled a rebel organization. The United States and the United Kingdom established secret military bases in the Philippines and, on April 9th night, american marines were deployed in Hong Kong, met with the resistance and captured the Port of Hong Kong. Then, 80,000 soldiers from US, UK, Australia and New Zealand landed on the island by the morning.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">A battle ensued in the city, led by US-UK troops while the local rebels were trained. In June 22nd, the offensive was halted, and the frontline remained stable in northern Hong Kong until the Operation Silver Knife, in May 2020. In the meantime, the Free Hong Kong Army grew in numbers, going from 5,000 to nearly 3 million members with basic military training, and estabilished a stable government recognized by most NATO countries as independent. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">From Eastern Europe to the Middle East = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The first obstacle for diplomacy was the russian occupation of Estonia and Latvia. NATO troops were ordered not to engage, but local forces refused and several firefights happened. The same problem happened in Georgia, where abkhazians and south ossetians helped Russia to get deep into georgian territory. The US demanded Russia to withdraw from these countries, but the latter refused. To stop them, a force led by Germany and Poland invaded Kaliningrad on April 15th. Three days before, two polish divisions attempted to cross the border with Belarus into Brest to deceive them into thinking that Belarus would be invaded. Russia responded and transferred aircraft and ground forces to aid Belarus. On day 15 morning, some 90,000 *** german, polish and british soldiers, supported by american marines and aircraft, surprise attacked through the polish border. The Kaliningrad Oblast fell on late May, but the city resisted until 13 of June. An underground nationalist organization quickly appeared, coordinated from Moscow, who ordered them not to resist. For that, the population remained passive to the occupation until the general uprise in 2021.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The 2,000 russians dead in the battle made negotiations much harder. Russia refused to take part on the next two meetings, and retaliated with an offensive against Georgia. The United States, to bypass the russian blockade in the Black Sea, secretly used Turkey as a passage and base to reach their ally. However, Russian AWACS planes spotted the american bombers heading to turkish bases, and Russia declared war on Turkey.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This move was condemned by the Arab League, neutral at the time, who demanded Russia to stop the agression. Iran defended Russia, backed by the United Islamic Alliance. Tensions increased exponentially between the two alliances, with the Arab League sent inumerous requests for Iran to cut off its support for EMCO. Then, in June 19th, several Arab League members got tired of negotiating and declared a preemptive war on Iran. UIA quickly sided Iran, along with Palestine, and Kurdistan sided with the League. However, turkish kurds refused to fight in the same side of Turkey, so they uprised and joined the war on EMCO’s side. The same happened to the iranian kurds; they declared independence and pledged alleigance to the Arab League and NATO.

 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Full-fledged war

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This fast escalation of the war brought pushed the tension between NATO and EMCO to a critical level. Both sides refused to accept every peace offer from each other. The United Nations tried to appease them, but it was in vain. On June 27th, every country on NATO’s side completelly cut diplomatic ties with EMCO and, on the next day, thousands of houses in Saint Petersburg were left on the dark due to a cyber attack. China responded by leaving San Francisco in the dark for hours, thus beginning a new era of cyberwarfare. The conflict becomes a total war, with no room for diplomacy. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fall of Serbia = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When the invasion of Russia started, Serbia was still a problem for NATO. The country was resisting invasion, and had occupied the NATO members Montenegro and Kosovo thanks to the inumerous supporters and ethnic serbians in these two places. For that, ???? soldiers invaded Serbia at once. In Vojvodina, France led a force composed by french, croatian and hungarian soldiers. ** Albania, Turkey and Bulgaria combined forces to liberate Montenegro and Kosovo, and then advanced north. All operations were supported by the US Air Force. NATO found heavy resistance in Pristina, ??? and ???, but the thoughest battle was the last, in Belgrade, where NATO bombers had to destroy whole quarters to break the serbian street-to-street defense. After ??? days, NATO forces finished the conquest of Belgrade, but the army kept fighting guerrilla in the whole country during the occupation. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Invasion of Russia = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Following what was later called “the true start of the war”, NATO started a full scale invasion of Russia in three fronts: one coming from Estonia and Latvia, aiming at St. Petersburg, other from Poland and Lithuania, to capture Belarus and Moscow, and the last from Georgia, heading to Volgograd. They belived that, by capturing these locations, the russians would surrender. All land occupied by Russia before was retaken in the first week of July, and by the end of the month, NATO forces had half of Belarus and had already andvanced ???km.

<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Caucasus
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When the invasion started, one third of the georgian land was under control of Russia. In a matter of days, the NATO offensive regained control of everything. The advancement was so fast that the russian army could only assemble an efficient defense when an area nearly as big as Armenia had already been occupied along the border. In late July, when NATO troops entered Chechenya, locals helped the invaders, and chechen insurgents, already armed, cooperated with NATO in their military operations in the area, seeing the invasion as a chance to achieve their long waited independence. The US sent representants to negotiate with chechen leaders, intrested in their support. USA promised to recognize the Chechen Republic as independent in exchange of military support. As a result, nearly 15,000 chechens fought along NATO in Caucasus, most of them responsible for keeping the people in check during the occupation.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">NATO army kept advancing north relentlessly, crushing any defense made by Russia. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgizstan and Tajikistan sent forces to help, but that didn’t stop NATO. Sochi, Sebastopol and ??? fell on August. By September, they were finally stopped in the mouth of Volga River, but they were already fighting in the outskirts of Volgograd. American forces were the first to step inside the city, where the russian army managed to make an effective defense. The northern margin of Volga was heavily defended, so the offensive split in two: the eastern one kept fighting for Volgograd and the western went north. But their delay at Volga was enough for Russia to set three lines of defense, at ???????.

<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Belarus and Western Russia
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Meanwhile, the other border Russia and NATO shared was on fire. The First Battle of Brest was the first battle of the war to be preceded by a cyberattack. On July 1st, 2019, the city had a general blackout caused by american hackers, and on day 2 NATO attacked from the polish border. Just like in Caucasus, the fast advance of NATO didn’t give enough time for a defense. The belarusian army decided to gather around Minsk instead of defending Brest. For that, the western half of Belarus was occupied without much resistance, unlike in the eastern half, where Russia helped to make more defenses. However, NATO crushed them and had fully conquered Belarus by late August.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">While Belarus was taken, another multinational NATO army was advancing into western Russia through Estonia and Latvia. There, the russian army could make a better defense and lated NATO enough for China to send army divisions and aircraft. But the NATO air dominance forced them to retreat. To preserve their aircraft, Russia abandoned her air bases that were in range of enemy aircraft, avoiding the destruction of their air forces, but making air support much harder. On July 15, later than expected, NATO reached Saint Petersburg, but the city was ready. It was so well defended that the invader force split, with part besieging the city and part advancing to Moscow, leaving Saint Petersburg ??? Km behind the frontlines.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Battle of Saint Petersburg was the first time that the NATO unstoppable advance was stopped. Civilians were armed, entrances to the city were booby trapped, IEDs and barbed wire filled the streets. USA lost five tanks in one day because their tracks were inutilized by metal wires left in the roads. Aircraft tried to bomb their defense lines open, but several anti-aircraft were hidden and shot down many bombers. NATO then tried to force the city to surrender by reducing the food and water supply, but russian teams raided american and british camps and stole their supplies. From July 15, 2019, start of the battle, to January 21, 2020, the official end of the siege, Saint Petersburg was devastated by intense assaults and fierce defense. When the russian army entered the city, it was at the brink of anarchy. The destruction was so intense that it couldn’t recover in time of defending from Operation Silver Knife, months later.

<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Resistance and retreat
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">In Kaliningrad, Moscow ordered the people not to resist, because peace was still an option at the time. However, when diplomacy failed and Russia was invaded, partisan organizations formed without government order in the russian mainland. There were uncountable organizations, most made of a small group of friends or a neighborhood, because citizens were encouraged to fight any occupying soldier. A famous slogan was “Fight an invader of the motherland. Anytime. Anywhere.”. For that, NATO soldiers were afraid of being selected to patrol the streets, because anyone was free to injury or kill them. Two ambushes became very well known. One was in Sevastopol: soon after taking Crimea, an american aircraft carrier stopped at the Sevastopol Naval Base for rearming. Meanwhile, some of her sailors went to the city. However, the ammunitions loaded had been sabotaged and the port workers, ethnic russians, let the partisans in. When the sailors were returning, they were ambushed and massacred, and some partisans managed to enter the aircraft carrier, being killed right after, but not before killing more sailors. The carrier quickly left the port and sent fighters to try to eliminate the russians. But the missiles and bombs were sabotaged and none worked, and some were even remotely detonated from ground. 215 americans and only 13 russians died in this August 19th attack, and the episode started to concern NATO about security.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">By October, with the fall of Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela sent their troops to Russia, aiming to both contribute to the war effort and give combat training to theie men. Divisions were rotated, so that all of them got at least a few days of combat experience. From October 2019 to January 2020, at least 200 thousand men were sent to fight. This increase of manpower boosted the russian morale and greatly slowed NATO advances. By November, they were strong enough to do small counteroffensives and started to push them back.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">On December 31st, the largest partisan attack of the war happened in Minsk, occupied Belarus. Russia had just started a counteroffensive, so NATO was sending more troops to the frontline. All the main routes passed through Minsk, and already aware of insurgencies, the city was heavily militarized. Soldiers walked in large groups and could do anything to ensure the safety of troops passing there. On this day, there was a large american and british convoy passing through Minsk, with tanks and soldiers on trucks. Their way was closed  to civilians and heavily guarded, and the french air force was patrolling the skies. But, at one point, the streets were blocked by cars. When they stopped, a large group of armed belarusians opened fire against them. In a matter of minutes, hundreds of people from surrounding neighborhoods joined and surrounded NATO transports. Homemade explosives were thrown at the trucks and tanks, and the ambushed soldiers struggled to escape. The french aircraft tried to save them, but ended up killing friendly troops due to the confusion. After four hours of close quarters fighting, only 451 out of the two thousand men ambushed escaped alive, most of them injured.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The huge amount of casualities in ambushes, along with the daily cybernetic raids on NATO systems, made the organization call a retreat from Russia to avoid more deaths. A heavily armed defensive line was made in the borders shared with EMCO (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Georgia), and all troops in russian/belarussian territory withdrew in January. The only territories kept were Kaliningrad and Crimea, the latter becoming very militarized due to the Free Crimean Army, the organization responsible for the August 19th attack and numerous other terrorist acts against occupiers. Chechenya was also supposed to be kept under NATO occupation, but it was geographically impossible, since they don’t share a border for supply and troops transit. It was known that chechen soldiers would be killed, so they were stationed in Georgia, far from home. When Russia came, Chechenya was devastated, and many people were killed. Several chechen soldiers wanted to leave the NATO bases in Georgia to defend their place, but it was too late: the russian-georgian border was already closed. NATO promised to liberate them again, but it never happened. For the rest of the war, this border did not move until Russia invade it. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">From Middle East to Africa = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When the war unexpectedly spread to the Middle East, between June and July 2019, countries took some time to mobilize and fight. That gave an advantage to Israel, who’s always ready. In one week, Lebanon and Palestine were fully occupied, except for Beirut, which fell in July 5th. In both of them, local armed groups tried to fight with guerrilla and terrorism, but were violently supressed. Then, to capture Suez from Egypt and then advance to Cairo, they started an offensive in Sinai, led by Israel and Saudi Arabia, but also with forces from Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Iraq and Turkey. They expected to take Cairo in a month and then invade Sudan.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">However, Egypt had its tricks. Egypt, Sudan and Somalia were heavily militarized by China since the formation of UIA. Somalia was their main headquarter for being far from the Arab League, and for that, China built in Somalia necessary infraestructure for the militarization. When Sinai was invaded, the region was filled with troops that NATO did not know about. The Arab League armies faced an unexpectedly large and well trained enemy army. The frontline then moved constantly, sometimes coming close to Suez or to the israeli border, but never reaching them. The egyptian peninsula was completely devastated by frequent brutal battles. Both sides wanted Suez, so they measured no efforts to take the peninsula. The Battle of Sinai, also known as the First Battle of Suez, raged from June 30th, 2019, to October 18th, 2020, involved over a million men overtime and killed ???, being the ??? bloodiest battle of the whole war. The Arab League and Israel won, and Egypt lost the Suez Canal, marking the start of their downfall that took place in 2021.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kurdistan was a stalemate for most of the early war. The borders moved all the time, but there were no deep advances, creating a strip of devastated territory separating the two enemies. The fighting concentrated in southeastern Turkey and western Iran, both regions controlled by kurds who rebelled against their respective countries. Iran, Armenia and turkish kurds fought against Turkey, the Arab League and iranian kurds, both trying to regain control of their original lands. Unlike in Egypt, the EMCO-alligned nations had a hard time defending. While turkish Kurdistan struggled to defend itself, Iran could only slow down the Saudi-led armies, who used iranian Kurdistan to take key iranian territories, mostly cities and oil fields to break their economy. Xxxxxxxx.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Libya was a special case. Even sharing a long border with Egypt and Sudan, there were only small short firefights between the countries. Until October, only five people had died there, two egyptians and three libyans, the latter by sniper fire. This is because both sides were focusing in the conquest of Suez, and provoking active battles in another front could compromise it. However, a frontline could appear there anytime, so UIA started to prepare an army in their hidden somali bases to take Libya out of the game in one blow. On October 8th, egyptian bombers surprise attacked key infraestructure in Tobruk and Benghazi, destroying air fields, ports, roads and military bases. Only thirty minutes later, two thousand paratroopers captured the cities and opened the way for the main army. Then, every libyan city was bombed to clear everything for the land army, with a large fleet of fighters and ships. In one month, Libya was crushed with no chance of defense.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The attack was so intense that a few european nations made a team to investigate why the attack was so strong, since they weren’t supposed to be that strong. On December 3rd, the UK published a report exposing the secret bases in Somalia. An intense debate started among the nations, trying to understand how the armies were transported from Somalia to Egypt and Sudan, since Ethiopia, a neutral nation, is on the way, and since the Red Sea is intensely patrolled by the Arab League. Somalia, even pressed by her neutral neighbors  refused to explain herself, since it would expose the Indirect Trade tactics used by EMCO. Believing that Somalia violated her neutrality, Ethiopia declared war on December 7th, followed by a Somaliland seeking to eliminate Somalia for what she did to somalilanders for decades. South Sudan joined right after to honor their alliance. Since most of UIA military power was in Egypt and Libya, Somalia was defenseless and was taken out by Ethiopia and Somaliland. South Sudan, however, was weaker and was invaded by Sudan. Most of the fighting was concentrated in South Sudan and northwestern Ethiopia for a long time, until the fourth phase of Operation Silver Knife. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">South America and Indirect Trade =  

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Operation Silver Knife =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Preparations = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">By February 2020, NATO had already retreated from Russia and most of the fight was happening in the Middle East and Africa. But US strategists had a plan B in case of failing to invade Russia. When the retreat was called, this plan B was named Operation Silver Knife, the largest operation of the war and one of the largest in history. It was very risky and had specific phases, so while NATO reorganized to execute the operation, the Organization started to create distractions to trick EMCO………….

<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lyon Agreement
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">In March, before the operation started, leaders and commanders from all NATO member countries met in Lyon, France, to discuss the engagement policies and avoid violent episodes like Minsk and Sevastopol, which would likely happen. The final decision was controversial: NATO forces were free to take any measure to eliminate anything that posed a threat to the soldiers. Any rule of engagement or international treaty was ignored, as soldiers were encouraged to do public executions and exemplar punishment. Some countries refused to sign the agreement and forbid their men to follow it. The countries that fought in Russia and refused to sign were Germany, Italy, Canada, Denmark and Slovenia. Israel, Montenegro and Iceland did not fight, so they did not sign.

<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Turkmenistan
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">In February, EMCO members had an emergency meeting to discuss the future of the war. The main topic was about Armenia. The country was very vulnerable, since the turkish kurds were struggling to stay alive, Iran was being unable to stop the arabs and Armenia suffered frequent air strikes. If NATO made an offensive in the region, she would fall in a few days. To avoid that, EMCO agreed to build an improvised road across Turkmenistan between Iran and Uzbekistan to connect the Middle East to Russia and China. However, enemy satellites quickly detected the movement, and NATO decided that an attack in the middle of EMCO territory would be a good distraction. On February 11th, 2020, two joint NATO forced took off from Georgia and american bases in Afghanistan and landed in ??? and ???, Turkmenistan. The turkmeni government called it a neutrality violation and made agreements with EMCO to oficially join the war in exchange of support against NATO.the invaders fought across the country until May, when Operation Silver Knife started and a distraction was not needed anymore. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Phase one: White Sea Campaign = <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">With EMCO fighting in Turkmenistan, the forces ready and the ice of the White Sea molten, the NATO command authorized the first phase of Operation Silver Knife. On May 2nd, 2020, nearly 500,000 men from NATO, either in land, sea or air, left Norway and deployed in the russian city of Arkhangelsk, thus beginning the brutal and intense White Sea Campaign. Russia and China responded by sending a huge amount of forces to the White Sea to counter this threat. The Battle of Arkhangelsk, the first of the campaign, was a long bloodbath. When NATO managed to take the city and continued the invasion, Russia kept fighting in pockets. Even when these pockets were defeated, local russians and Special Forces kept fighting so hard that the city continued being a war zone. NATO kept advancing relentlessly, but often found heavy resistance in villages and small towns, from either locals or the russian army itself. Taiga forests and abandoned farms were booby trapped, and ambush survivors would be killed or, as revenge for the massacres, tortured to death.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">However, both sides inflicted and suffered heavy casualties. The members of the Lyon Agreement, to discourage resistance, made public executions as exemplar punishment. People were murdered at random or for retaliation everyday. When aircraft came back from missions with unused bombs, they would be dropped at random civilian buildings. Whole russian towns would be burned to the ground and survivors would be tortured for information. This display of cruelty from both sides claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in few months, with every action increasing the anger and bloodthirst among the enemy, thus generating more cruel retaliations. Public executions evolved to public torture, simple acts of resistance turned into suicide attacks out of pure hatred. However, it generated no international debate or discussion about the war, since there was nothing anyone could do to stop the carnage. That is considered the <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">de facto <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">end of the United Nations, as the organization completely lost its power to enforce peace and rules of engagement. =<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Phase two and three: East Asia = '''

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