Amazon War (GS6)

The Amazon War was a major war that took place in South America between September 1937 and October 1938. The war was sparked by the competing territorial interests of various South American nations, namely Brazil (Koe), Argentina (Seb), the Andean Republic (Vya) and Colombia (Pit).

Director Morgado
Director Morgado was elected leader of Brazil in GS6. He ran as a fascist leader who sought closer relations to the Axis, while proclaiming neutrality. He also sought to conquer as much of South America as possible.

Under Director Morgado, the Brazilian military underwent a massive expansion. Licenses were purchased to manufacture Bf-109s, Ju-87s, Mitsubishi A5Ms, and SM.79 bombers. Furthermore, Arisakas were mass produced in Brazil.

Feijo Conspiracy
The war was largely started by Koe as Brazil, who desired to conquer Peru, Bolivia and parts of Argentina. His plan was to create a false-flag attack where a group of Brazilian mercenaries dressed as Bolivians would massacre an entire town near the Bolivian border. Using the excuse of Bolivian aggression, Koe would then launch an attack on Bolivia, and then Peru by extension due to a long-standing treaty.

The plan failed as a whistleblower publicly revealed the plans. This caused Peru to attack Brazil preemptively.

Formation of the SAU
To counter Brazil, Vya took advantage of a defence pact and close cultural ties to merge Bolivia and Peru into one nation. Vya also recruited seb into GS, who played as Argentina and also joined the SAU. Finally, Pit joined the server through disboard or something and joined the SAU with Colombia.

Battle of Feijo
The war began with a Peruvian aerial and ground attack on Feijo. Brazil was caught off-guard as Koe did not plan for a sudden Peruvian attack on Feijo. The attack resulted in a Brazilian defeat, with the town and some military equipment being captured.

Battle of Fonte Boa
The Colombian crossing of the Amazon River is considered one of the largest military fuckups in GS history. Wanting to capture the town of Fonte Boa, Pit decided to send 100,000 men across the Amazon River. However, he failed to account for the elephant in the room - the Amazon River. What followed was the deaths of approximately 50,000 soldiers, who all drowned in the Amazon River due to zero preparation for the crossing. Ultimately, the remainder of Pit's human swarm was able to overpower Koe's outnumbered forces and make it across the river. While Colombia "won" this battle, it is generally considered to be a catastrophic failure. Pit was eventually able to capture Fonte Boa from Koe, though this was done after every other member of the SAU left the conflict.

Battle of Santa Maria
Argentina launched an offensive against Brazil in Rio Grande do Sul, capturing half the state due to the outnumbered Brazilians being unable to stop the Argentinian advance. The advance stopped at the city of Santa Maria.

Battle of Pucallpa
Being irritated at his constant losses, Koe launched a human swarm of 100,000 soldiers to capture a shithole town in Peru called Pucallpa. Outnumbering the Peruvians 5 to 1, he won.

Foreign support
Despite Brazil being a strong Axis collaborator, Italy provided weapons to both Brazil and the SAU. This was done largely for financial reasons. The West provided considerable support to the SAU financially and militarily, while Koe generally received more support from the other Axis members such as Germany and Japan. However, Brazil's constant losses caused the Axis at one point to consider switching sides or becoming neutral during the conflict.

While it did not participate, Chile was somewhat aligned with Brazil, remaining a looming presence for the Andean Republic and Argentina during the conflict. Paraguay was neutral during the conflict but has plans to join on Brazil's side against the Argentinians.

End of the war
The war ended as various stresses began forcing the SAU to disband. First of all, political instability in Argentina resulted in a public vote on whether to continue the war or not, with the former side very narrowly winning. Regardless, the closeness of the results caused Argentina to exit the war anyway and leave all Brazilian territories. Argentina would grant land concessions to Chile and Paraguay.

Spurred on by Argentina's exit, the Andean Republic under Vya also decided to leave the war. It was forced to pay large concessions to Brazil financially, while giving Brazil leases on parts of its railroad system.

Colombia attempted to form Gran Colombia with Venezuela, but the plebiscite failed because most Venezuelans felt that they would just be used to extract resources for the war against Brazil. This bolstered internal support for Colombia to withdraw from its war against Brazil, especially once Peru, Bolivia and Argentina had left the SAU and the war as a whole.

Consequences
The war resulted in political instability that eventually resulted in Vya's Andean experiment failing and the nation once again becoming just Peru and Bolivia. Due to collossal human losses and land concessions, Colombia eventually fell into a civil war. Pit would combat this new problem by giving up on Colombia and cooping with Koe as Brazil instead.

Brazil declared a "Pax Brazilia" and militarily guaranteed Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela against any and all threats they may face.

Koe's sporadic inactivity
This war faced several issues. The first issue is that due to various reasons, Koe was unable to play Brazil for an extended period of time. He used his alts to try and sabotage Brazil later on with a "if I can't have it, nobody can" attitude.

Bias
Koe noticed that his moves were always processed much slower than TAU moves, resulting in him suffering far more defeats and losses than he should considering his powerful military and his high level of activity. His suspicions were bolstered when he checked TAU nation channels after the end of GS6, noticing that even if TAU nations submitted moves days after him, they would be processed first. This caused him to believe that Chegg was biased against him throughout the war. Chegg admitted irl several months later that she did indeed prioritise TAU moves, believing that Brazil's overpowered emilitary made the war disbalanced.