Throat Punch 2022

THROAT PUNCH 2022 After a few weeks of phenomenal military performance and strategy by Brazil and political quagmire in the US, the Brazilians suffered a terrible blunder. It is now well known that the Brazilians have spent decades mapping out the Amazon jungle, creating hidden infrastructure in the green giant away from the watchful eyes of satellites and recon aircraft. In the 21st century it was widely believed that overland movement, at least in any major strategic sense, could no longer be achieved in secret; the advent of satellites and modern imagery made it so that no force was too small or stealthy to move about land or ocean surface without detection. Brazil managed to achieve this miraculous feat underneath the canopies of their own country, a rudimentary yet effective method that thwarted billions of dollars in training and ultra-high-tech equipment. Many of these hidden roads and tunnels in the Amazon led to Brazil's three remaining neighbors, and long before hostilities began, Brazil was able to infiltrate these countries with highly trained special forces, each with different tasks and missions including guerilla warfare, assassination of military and political VIP's and disruption of command and communications systems. The special forces in Venezuela got started almost immediately, breaking powerlines, destroying important pre-war materiel stashes and gathering intel. These commandos recently began operations in Ecuador and have remained dormant in Colombia in case of a general war with them. Through unknown reasons, several special operations groups in Colombia got the go-ahead to commence operations and began sabotaging their targets. One group released a deadly chemical in a crowded mall in the Colombian city of Florencia, and soon the horrible outcome was seen throughout the world's myriad of media outlets. This costly mistake created the effect that military planners and officers in the US were hoping to produce themselves: a nation-wide public