GoobNES01: Fallout - Update 9 WORLD WAR FOUR!!!
World Weekly News - July 18th, 1967
World War Four breaks out in North America and Africa
It is official. World War IV, predicted by many, has broken out around the world. Most of the nations are involved, and some of the bloodiest fighting that anybody has seen since the likes of World War II are occurring. But, for the most part, it is conventional warfare, for the time being. As the pollution from World War III, the deadly Nuclear Exchange, continues to recede, the fighting from World War 4 is breaking out in the rubble. There is a lot of fighting around the world, so WWN will bring you exclusive coverage from all of the world's hotspots. Please keep in mind that the information is the best that we have, it might be propagated one way or another depending on our sources, but the WWN is committed to high-quality, unbiased coverage, and that is what we try to bring you.
The North American War
This is the bloodiest of the wars occurring around the world, and the most interesting. The Russians have established the People's Republic of America, the PRA, and have promised to hold elections in 6 months. Amazingly, it seems that they are actually intent on holding elections, and will allow all political ideologies to vote. They have gotten the IC involved, and are making voting lists. Of course, the American Government refuses to believe this, and are telling all Americans not to listen to the "Communist oppressors", and to "resist the Communists to gain back your freedoms!" The Russians have countered this with, typically, an intense propaganda campaign, telling Americans that they have been "liberated from their Fascist Oppressors", and that "America is, for the first time, a totally free and equal society". This was quite mystifying since the USA was never a Fascist nation, save for a couple months after World War III. Presently, they do have a dictatorship, but only because the Russians Mousepoxed the American Government, save for the Vice President, who managed to escape, and is the ruler of the USA. The second message, about America being free and equal, was also mystifying, because America was a free and equal society before, and now they are less free, living in a war-zone, with curfews, bombings, and the like.
Regarding the Military Operations, it is becoming apparent that weven the huge JCF force, with 1.2 million plus soldiers, cannot conquer America. The Russians, who are managing to keep a lid on things, and prevent a full-fledged revolt, are clearly in need of more troops, and such. The American Patriot resistance movement, while it alone cannot defeat the Russians, is managing to score against the Russian troops unaccustomed to the American Guerilla warfare. The Russians are training their troops how to deal with the Patriots, but the Patriots are many, and the American Government, what is left of it, has been quite effective at arming the American populance. We estimate that there are between 6 and 7.5 Million of the Patriots, and they have been armed with the knowledge of how to make crude bombs, grenades, and rifles and guns. The USA has managed to pull together a coalition of nations that support it, and, coordinating with those nations, has created armies in Quebec and Acadia to counter-invade the Russian-occupied USA. Those armies have met with some moderate success, as the Russians are quickly learning that 1.2 million soldiers are nowhere near enough to occupy and pacify the USA. While the forces that the Americans managed to bring around are not enough to liberate the USA, between the Joint Democratic Alliance Forces, the JDAF, and the American Patriots, the Russian forces are facing a very tough time in the USA indeed. They have the upper hand in the way of experience in battle, and numbers of troops. But, the Americans still are not gone yet. As the map shows, from the best information that we have, the Americans still control a small chunk in the middle of the USA, where they managed to build defensive fortifications, and, along witrh their ring of powerful anti-air guns that have downed many Russian planes The CER tried to take this battery out with ICBMs, and managed to destroy some of the massive guns, but not enough. Apparently these guns have a limited anti-ICBM capability.
At sea, meanwhile, the Russians continued to whittle away at the remainder of the American Naval Fleet, with few losses to the Russian fleet, as the Americans seem to be having troubles coordinating with their naval commanders.
Regarding casualties, we have no firm numbers, indeed, in a war like this, it is impossible to gauge how many have died on both sides. Especially since we do not have exact numbers as to how many troops that the USA had left to begin with, nor how many American Patriots there are. What we are proving you with, readers, is estimates of the casualties, and we, of course, have no idea how many American Civilians have been killed in the cross-fire.
American
- 200,000 Infantry
- Unknown American Patriots
- 50,000 Volunteers
- 20 Battle Groups
- 350 Elephants
- 370 Adnan-bis
- 150 Eagles
- 5 Yellow Squadron
- 12 Condors
- 13 Seagulls
- 67 Tanks
- 100 Cheetahs
- 4 Destroyers
- 18 Battleships
- 2 Cruisers
- 4 Submarines
- 2 Aircraft Carriers
- 10 Bombers
- 15 Interceptors
- 60 Fighters
- 1,400 Hyenas
- 100 Special Forces
Russian
- 140,000 infantry
- 400 Ghurkas
- 50 Special Forces
- 470 T-64s
- 430 T-73s
- 10 Elephants
- 1,400 S-125
- 150 Fighters
- 210 Interceptors
- 100 Bombers
- 70 MiG-21
- 80 Su-24
- 60 Tu-22
- 10 LRBM
- 20 ICBM
- 30 Blind Hawk
- 7 Condors
- 5 Battleships
- 3 Submarines
- 8 Cruisers
- 6 Destroyers
- 2 Maurena
- 3 Prestaii
War in Central America
In Central America, Colombia decided to attack and invade Belize, Guetemala, and Mexico. This apparently was in coordination with the Americans. Colombian successfully "liberated" Belize and Guetemala, and are occupying those two nations, but ran out of steam in Mexico. The CER retaliated not with force, as they are quite tied up in the USA, but with ICBMs filled with a version of Mousepox that does not kill, but rather cripples whomever it hits, and acts faster the regular mousepox. Roughly 10 of these ICBMs were flung at Colombia, mainly at populated areas, and this has caused a crisis in Colombia, as millions of Colombians are now crippled due to this variant of mousepox. The hospitals in Colombia are over-whelmed with patients, and it looks like a major humaintarian crisis might be developing in Colombia. In response to the Colombia invasion, a left-wing insurgency, calling themselves the "FARC" has started in the East of Colombia, and, in former Panama, the PLF, or the Panama Liberation Front has began another insurgency campaign. In an emergency sesion, apparently fearful of the CER reaction to the invasion of Communist nations, voted to expel Colombia from SADETO, right after they let Colombia into SADETO.
(-30,000 Colombian Infantry, -30 Colombian Tanks, -13,000 Mexican Infantry, -45 Mexican Tanks)
Madgascar invaded by both CU and Malaysia!
In a very strange twist of events, both the Commonwealth Union and Malaysia sent forces to invade and annex Madgascar. Their combined force easily crushed the Madgascarian Military, and then their generals agreed to split the island between them, so that roughly 1/3 of the Island went to Malaysia, and the other 2/3 went to the CU. Truth me told, the Madgascarian people were happy to finally not be under the control of their dictator, whom it is not being discovered regularly tortured and terrified his people for many years. Some were protesting though, but these protests were silenced quickly and efficiently by the well-trained armies of Malaysia and the CU. The official reason given for this by Malaysia at least is that madgascar had a hand in the Nuclear Radiation Bomb attack on Kuala Lumpur, and released documents that seemed to indicate that this was true. No reason was given by the CU Government as to why this occurred, other them to "liberate the madgascari people from the oppression of their cruel dictator".
(-10,000 Malaysian Forces, -10 Malaysian Adnan-bis, -14,000 CU Troops)
Pope Assasinated!
In another quite unusual move, and unknown group has assassinated His Holiness, the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. The assassination occurred while His Holiness was making his weekly tour and speech through the streets of Barcelona. The likeliest group to have done this would be the UIA, but there is no confirmation from anybody as to who did this. Spanish Police are investigating. The Roman Catholic Church has been thrown into a bit of chaos surrounding this event, and it is expected that it will be a bit of time before a new Pope is chosen. Nobody has claimed responsibility for this incident either.
"UIA Provocateurs in CER!" claim CER Officials
Earlier this Month you might remember some stories about some unrest in CER cities. Well, just today, we have an update on that situation. The CER released some documents and statements earlier today claiming that the violence and gang wars in those cities had been the work of agents. The KGB managed to capture some of these agents, and, in an unprecedented move, held a news conference in which they showed a video tape of one of claimed agents dressed in arabic clothing, speaking in arabia, claiming that he was an agent from the UIA meant to stir up trouble in the CER. No military reaction has come from the CER yet, but, given the history of the CER, we can be sure that they will react. Nobody from the UIA was willing to comment yet on the issue.
Man-made Tsunamis devastate parts of India and CER!
Details of what occurred remain sketchy, but what we know is that an unknown group managed to plant and detonate several large Nuclear Devices. Experts say that the weapons were probably of the 50 Megaton range. These weapons were detonated off the coast in India and North-Western Russia, in the ocean, as to cause large Tsunami-like waves to crash into and devastate India and Russia. In Russia, these weapons did not do that much damage, since the waves hit Siberia, which is mostly uninhabited, except for some military bases. In India, however, the damage was extensive. We do not yet know the extent of the damage, but we know that hundreds of thousands have died from these huge waves. Ceylon was especially badly hit, and several large Indian coastal cities, which are quite crowded, and many millions live in them, have been extensively damaged. These Nuclear blasts have also set off a series of earthquakes around the Indian Subcontinent, some as large as 7 or 8 on the Ritcher scale, and the Earthquakes, which have been continuing for some time, have been greately hampering relief and rescue efforts by the indian Government. The Indian Government declared a state of emergency, and sent the military in to help. We do not know how many of these nuclear devices went off, we think that there might have been as many as 20. they were placed to optimize damage, and were delivered by submarines. The estimated death toll is 350,000 civilians, but that number is expected to increase a lot in the coming days. Responsibility for this horrendous act has been claimed by the ACL, the Anti-Communist league. Hours after this event occurred, a message from that group claiming responsibility was broadcast over several international radio stations. Surprisingly, none of the radio transmissions occurred in Communist countries. If the ACL indeed was behind this, this will be the single largest, and deadliest Terrorist Act in the history of man. The waves did not just impact India, however, some continued, and caused damage in parts of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Afghanistan, the NKE, Somalia, Oman, Japan, and United Korea. The damage is extensive, and this event has contaminated much of the water surrounding India and Western Russia. The earthquakes are continuing, and scientists say that the earth is "ringing like a bell" after this incident. No reaction yet from the Indian and CER Government, but we are assured that it will likely be a harsh reaction against the ACL, and their benefactors.
OOC - Copy-cat, whomever did it . . .
More bad news concerning India - VX!
To add insult to injury, an unknown group has managed to sneak some VX gas into India, and detonate it. The Gas was in a container marked as being Curry, according to indian officials, and was legitimately marked on a Freighter from a destination not disclosed by authorities. The Freighter was registered in Japan, but obviously that doesn't mean that the Frieghter came from Japan. The VX, after being unloaded from the Freighter, was driven to the city of Bangalore, and detonated throughout the city, attached to a series of bombs. We have reports that Indian officials have captured some suspects, but the Indian Government refused to comment on that, only saying that the "perpetrators will be taken care of". This very deadly gas has killed thousands in Bangalore, and the city is under quarantine. VX is, as you might know, a very deadly nerve agent, as little as 10 mg can kill a person. Unfortunately, the indian Government did not have the auto-injectors for this Agent, so the death toll, which has not been released, its staggering. The attack came shortly after the Tsunamis, but it was shipped into the country before the Tsunamis hit.
ACL claims credit for Tsunamis, VX attacks on India, Russia
In a statement today, the Anti-Communist League, or ACL, has claimed credit for the Tsunamis and VX attacks in India, and Asia. These attacks have killed hundreds of thousands, probably over 500,000 at the minimum, and are the deadliest that a terrorist organization has ever done. Some wonder if the ACL has the ability to carry out these attacks, as their level of sofistication implies that a nation was helping the ACL. Nonetheless, soon after news of these attacks became known, nations of all political stripes acted with anger against the ACL, and promised to "flesh out terrorists who willingly kill so many innocents". Indeed, it looks as if any nation who is supporting the ACL shall find themselves at the wrath of the CC, if not the world, for these terrible acts which were done.
UIA-Spanish war continues, goes Biological!
And now, to the African conflicts encompassing World War Four. First, we go to the continuing battle between the UIA and Spain for control of Northern Africa. The UIA executed 10,000 of their 50,000 Spanish Infantry that they are holding hostage, and made a video of it, which they released to various news agencies. To add insult to injury, they snuck several flights into parts of Spain, where they dumped some of the corpses among some Spanish cities. This has had the effect of rallying the Spanish people behind Franco, as he made a declaration shortly afterwards that said that this act of cruelty shows that the UIA is nothing but a bunch of barbarians, and that Spain needs to be strong and united to defeat the evil UIA. Even some Muslims agree with this, and there have been a variety of anti-UIA protests and pro-Franco protests throughout Spain. Even some Muslims took part.
Regarding the UIA-Spanish war, either the Spanish or the Muslims somehow got hold of Anthrax, and used it against each other. We are not sure who got hold of it, but all signs point to the Spanish. What happened is that somehow, bombs attached to anthrax canisters were set off at just the right moment when the wind was blowing in the direction of the huge UIA armies. This, along with more canisters that somehow detonated among UIA troop concentrations, led to panic and pandemoniom among the UIA lines. Then, just at that momeny, the Spanish attacked. The Spanish say that the UIA released the anthrax, but this is totally illogical, as it was set off just as the winds were blowing at the UIA army. Also, clearly, the Spanish coordinated when the canisters went off, and their big offensive. They managed to gain quite a lot of ground, and pushed back the UIA, who were trying to re-organize themselves, back a fair ways before the UIA started fighting back, and things resorted back to their usual standstill. The UIA did managed to advance a bit in the South, but it was the Spanish which, at the end of the day, won.
In one last bit of news concerning the UIA and Spain, Spain tried to attack the Royal Palace of Libyan leader moammar Ghadaffi, but the plot failed. They were stopped by the Palace Guards, and, in the resulting shoot-out, Ghadaffi escaped. All of the Spanish Special Forces sent to kill the Leader were summarily shot, and their bodies paraded around Libya.
(Spanish Casualties: 55,000 Infantry, 70 MdlM Tanks, 80 Banditos; UIA Casualties: 1,230,000 Volunteers, 460,000 Soviet-trained Infantry, 10,000 Infantry, 100 Elephants)