War in the Caribbean

The War in the Caribbean will be a war that will take place in Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire between the Kingdom of Netherlands-Belgiumball and the United Bolivarian Statesball.

The origins of the war lie in the rise of anti-colonialist leftist sentiment in the so called "Dutch Leeward Antilles". The rising tensions were escalated already when the Kingdom of Netherlands-Belgiumball adopted the embargo against the United Bolivarian Statesball and stopped trading with it, plus they also allowed NAUball to install military bases in the islands in order to threat Bolivarian positions in the region, as they accused them of allowing Russian Greater SFSRball of having basis at their islands. As a consequence, the Bolivarians blocked NAU and most capitalist European countries of accessing the Panama Canal.

The tensions came to the point that Bolivarian ships were sieged and one was even destroyed by NAU air force accused of transporting Russian armament to Central America. Protests started in Aruba and Curaçao against the threat of war and asking for NAU and the Dutch to get out of the region, this led to an escalation of the conflicts. As the NATO led side in the Great War in Eastern Europe was in offensive, they also wanted to weak Russian positions in other parts of the world.

United Bolivarian Statesball then supported by the International Socialist Blocball amid the tensions of the Great War in Eastern Europe told the opposition in the islands to get in arms and start an uprising against the island governments, saying it was time to end European colonialism in the Americas. Caracas was bombed following this decision and as an aswer to it the Bolivarians said they were going to war fearless, they founded the "Liberation Army of Our America (Ejército de Liberación de Nuestra América)" that was a multi-national coalition force that included volunteers of People's Revolutionary Union of Peru and Boliviaball and Socialist Confederation of the Greater Antillesball. They intervened in the islands in support of the anti-colonial movements after attacking NAU ships and military bases.

The Bolivarians had strong Russian military weaponry that allowed them to sunk Dutch ships and properly invade the islands, the Ducth royal army was succumbing in face of the multi-national coalition force led by the Bolivarians, everyone had underestimated the power of the Bolivarians and their Russian military technology. NAUball troops then had to enter the scene with their complete military squad to save the Dutch, leading a coalition in partnership with Second British Empireball. The NAU coalition frustrated the attempts of the Bolivarians in occuppying the islands, with them repelling their troops advancement and returning the war to its original insurgency phase scale. The Bolivarian military force was more defensive than offensive, so they had some difficulty in launching attacks, different from NAU ones that were totally offensive.

The war at that point had became the equivalent of the Great War in Eastern Europe but in the Americas, while European members of the New NATOball fought their war against Russian Greater SFSRball, NAUball fought against the United Bolivarian Statesball and their allies. NAU had failed in convincing Greater Brazilball to join its war efforts, with the Brazilian leadership saying they would remain neutral. Brazil had already participated in the South American War at the request of NAU and it had a terrible experience, 60.000 Brazilian soldiers died, it wouldn't do the mistake of fighting another war for NAU interests. This made NAU really angry, as the situation now was one where categorically, no side of the war could definitely defeat each other, as NAU after forcing the Bolivarians and their allies out, they still wouldn't be able to invade those countries without Brazilian help. This allowed the Bolivarians to continue backing anti-imperialist insurgencies in the Caribbean islands, with the Socialist Confederation of the Greater Antillesball playing a major role on their support in this new phase.

As NAUball alone couldn't really invade the United Bolivarian Statesball as well as the Socialist Confederation of the Greater Antillesball without launching a really big operation that would certainly ruin their activities in Eastern Europe as Russian Greater SFSRball had turned the game against their allies and so NAU itself had to send troops to Europe to fight them and protect their allies. Besides, the two Latin American socialist nations had strong defense equipment imported from Russia itself, it would be a huge operation that would require a lot of effort that couldn't really be done at the time. So, NAU resorted to bombing their cities indiscriminately at any coast, resulting in many casualties, among the most targeted cities were Caracas, Barranquilla, Maracaibo, Panama City, Havana and Santo Domingo that suffered severely. The Bolivarians were dependent on Russian military aid to attack and defend themselves, but the Russians were also busy with their own war in Europe so they couldn't assist them all the time, and this gave NAU the perfect chance of starting carpet bombs against them.

These cities would have been totally destroyed had it not been for the strong defense system of these countries, as was said before, their military forces were focused on defense instead than attacking. The the strategy of NAUball to stop the war and crackdown on dissidents as to force its enemies to give up by reducing their cities to ashes, similar to how they acted during the Korean War. However, any NAU major bombing attempts ended up failing, as the Bolivarians and Antilleans succesfully shot some of their planes down and defended from their main missile attacks well. This sparked criticism against NAU intentions as they started to purposefully target isolated civilian areas in order to cause some huge damage at their enemies.

Following the end of the Great War in Eastern Europe, as the New NATOball at least in theory militarily defeated in its anti-Russian chess game and looked like everyone was going to use nuclear weapons against each other, a truce appeared. As the truce was signed, the Kingdom of Netherlands-Belgiumball that had since then became a small actor in the war as NAU had take over the war, decided to agree in organize a new referendum for the independence of its constituent members and just withdrew from the Caribbean after 10 years.