Knockout 2022 (PACK 2 FINALE)

KNOCKOUT 2022 The Brazilian-American conflict had taken a toll on the American war machine. Throughout its duration, a massive amount of ordinance, cash, military hardware and industrial capacity had been expended. The lives of tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers alike littered battlefields across Venezuela and Ecuador, the former being currently reduced to the brink of anarchy, the latter with hundreds of thousands of displaced and terrorized citizens. For the US, the political and financial toll would be far steeper and with deeper consequences than actual military casualties and losses. At this moment, however, the American war machine was in full gear doing what it does best: annihilating opponents through the night and weight of superior firepower and technology. The Brazilian government, stopped on all advancing fronts, cautiously attempted to bring the US to the negotiating table. They still held large tracts of land and the Americans didn't seem to have the strength on the ground to be able to push the massive Brazilian ground formations back to their homeland. Additionally, thousands of Venezuelan and Ecuadorian citizens living all across the frontlines and rear of the Brazilian army ensured the US and its allies would not use tactical nuclear weapons on Brazilian formations, as they have in the past against the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe. Brazil's most important asset of the war was, unexpectedly, the massive Amazon rainforest. Home to an immeasurable amount of natural wildlife as well as a considerable percentage of the entire world's oxygen-creating trees, the rainforest practically ensured the US would never detonate strategic nuclear weapons on South American soil, as the fallout could easily obliterate large areas of the jungle, considered by many to be one of the few remaining natural treasures of the human race. This same forest was worked extensively by the Brazilians throughout the last century, filling its expanse with secret bases, tu