Freedom's Last Stand

FREEDOM’S LAST STAND
Mig= Russian fighter jet

Kfir= Israeli fighter jet

t-90= latest generation of Russian tanks.

The year is 2030 and the inevitable has happened, a Chinese led coalition of Eastern powers invaded South and North America. The strike stunned the world, a simultaneous multi-front attack had initiated in the winter of the previous year as Iran attacked Israel and North Korea attacked South Korea , in the very same day Russian and Chinese forces invaded Poland and Japan; NATO forces were completely overwhelmed due to the fragile state of their economies. The front quickly collapsed as the juggernaut smashed through any army that it encountered.

In the time before the invasion, South America’s new economic and military powers prepared for the inevitable, as a coalition of the region’s most powerful countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Argentina) start stocking up on food and equipment for their armies. The wait was almost as bad as the carnage that would evolve in the once-neutral region.  The only good news that enter through Bogota are those coming out of Egypt, as reports said the Iranian army had been stopped just before the Sinai and African powers had signed an agreement to give up 75% of all of Africa’s oil reserves  and the Eastern powers agreed to not invade the continent at all.

“Hell on Earth, Armageddon and complete utter destruction” “Dear God there are too many of them!” “Massive extermination of Americans has begun”. These were the reports coming from Canada and the United States. Although the U.S Army put up an amazing display of combat skill, the Russians and Chinese had simply too many Migs and t-90s to overwhelm the besieged forces; however complete victory was not achieved by the Eastern Powers as the Mexicans managed to sneak about two hundred thousand men, two thousand fighter jets (part by part) and a hundred ICBMS with nuclear capability.

Afterwards in Bogota, President Andres Trujillo receives his American allies and an ultimatum from the Eastern Alliance saying “Give up the Amazon and your land or else”. Just as the Spartans a thousand years before him , the president had a choice whether to fight a battle unlike anything before in history or spare his army and give his people up for slavery; Colombians are free men of strong hearts and enduring spirits, if war is what they want that’s what they shall get. From his balcony in the Nariño House, Andres gave his orders to the South American coalition countries: “An army of every male over 17 shall be trained and armed; an air force of six thousand Kfirs and Migs; I also want a railroad to stretch from the border with Panama to Tierra del Fuego through the Andes and I want a fleet large enough to both evacuate the population to South Africa and rain a nuclear holocaust over the Eastern powers.” The governments of all four countries followed his orders to a tee. Only God knew how long until the attack began; the only certain thing was that the Eastern Powers’  massive 250million strong army needed a lot of food and a lot of oil so malnutrition could become a problem throughout the entire force.  The oil needed to fuel an army like that and a combined population of 3.5billion people meant that the only hope the Easter Powers had was blitzkrieg; so if Trujillo were to finance guerrillas in separatist regions of Russia and China, the Chinese or Russian populations using resistance groups then this will put a strain on the juggernaut’s weak supply arteries.

Time passed and soon the radars of every allied ground base showed an enemy advance. The Colombian population began singing and praying with the same sentence “No, no, no, no pasaran no pasaran no pasaran,” or in English “They shall not pass”. Andres Trujillo had been waiting for a long five months for this moment, at his command laid an armada of over 500 submarines, 1000 destroyers and 3 super-aircraft-carriers, an air force of seven thousand fighter aircraft and a 600 division strong coalition army. The pilots of the coalition airforce were instructed to only land to change planes or to refuel and re-stock before continuing the fight. The Eastern army’s air force boasted a force of 5000 bombers and more than 12000 fighter escort; however Trujillo only had sent 3000 fighters into the fight, the rest lied in hangars all over the Brazilian jungle ready to kill the beast when the order’s given. The air combat was savage as young Colombian pilots quickly dispose of horde after horde of under-equipped Chinese and Russian fighters; the Venezuelans do their best against the bombers as the entire civilian population is evacuated towards the railroad running the length of the Andes.

In the ground, the fighting could only be described not like a war but more like a massacre as thousands of Chinese try to cross the Andes with murderous gunfire shot from thousands of coalition forces, here their numbers don’t count, here they all would die. Cardona watched as the glorious battle unfolded, his only regret? That he had so few to sacrifice, but he couldn’t be distracted as Eastern forces thought they could get an edge in the air; he unleashed his deadly surprise: 3000 f-35s each armed with 60 air to air missiles and over 90 minutes of murderous machine gun fire. The Eastern pilots fell to the ground like flies in a lake. Maybe he could win if his boys held the line, but Cardona knew that the almost endless reserves of the Eastern powers would crush him so he rallied his troops: “Gentlemen I am here today not to ask you to die for a fallen cause but for freedom itself. We have to hold the line not only to protect this land but for our families,  for our God-given duty to protect everything that is sacred to us and to show the world that on Christmas Day 2030 nine-million free men showed the authors of evil that freedom and courage shall never die! Long Life our souls and our republics! But most of all die for something or live for nothing!” After this speech the coalition troops held the line along the Central mountain range in Colombia. At this time, a 5000 nuclear missile barrage was launched from coalition submarines in the Antarctica and all but a 1/10 of the Chinese population was annihilated, the Russians suffered a similar fate. The tide had turned and suddenly coalition forces had momentum in the battle, they launched a massive counter-offensive that would eventually be stopped in the border of what used to be Canada where they were stopped by the Eastern Powers reserves.

. An eighth of the coalition countries` population as well as 50000 soldiers made it to safety in Africa where they prospered and continued on with the legacy of their fallen countrymen . Trujillo`s army continued to hold the line until eventually his African allies broke the stalemate and drove all the way to Moscow and finally ended the war fifty years after that fateful winter in 2030.

By Andres Cardona

FREEDOM’S LAST STAND
Mig= Russian fighter jet

Kfir= Israeli fighter jet

t-90= latest generation of Russian tanks.

The year is 2030 and the inevitable has happened, a Chinese led coalition of Eastern powers invaded South and North America. The strike stunned the world, a simultaneous multi-front attack had initiated in the winter of the previous year as Iran attacked Israel and North Korea attacked South Korea , in the very same day Russian and Chinese forces invaded Poland and Japan; NATO forces were completely overwhelmed due to the fragile state of their economies. The front quickly collapsed as the juggernaut smashed through any army that it encountered.

In the time before the invasion, South America’s new economic and military powers prepared for the inevitable, as a coalition of the region’s most powerful countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Argentina) start stocking up on food and equipment for their armies. The wait was almost as bad as the carnage that would evolve in the once-neutral region.  The only good news that enter through Bogota are those coming out of Egypt, as reports said the Iranian army had been stopped just before the Sinai and African powers had signed an agreement to give up 75% of all of Africa’s oil reserves  and the Eastern powers agreed to not invade the continent at all.

“Hell on Earth, Armageddon and complete utter destruction” “Dear God there are too many of them!” “Massive extermination of Americans has begun”. These were the reports coming from Canada and the United States. Although the U.S Army put up an amazing display of combat skill, the Russians and Chinese had simply too many Migs and t-90s to overwhelm the besieged forces; however complete victory was not achieved by the Eastern Powers as the Mexicans managed to sneak about two hundred thousand men, two thousand fighter jets (part by part) and a hundred ICBMS with nuclear capability.

Afterwards in Bogota, President Andres Trujillo receives his American allies and an ultimatum from the Eastern Alliance saying “Give up the Amazon and your land or else”. Just as the Spartans a thousand years before him , the president had a choice whether to fight a battle unlike anything before in history or spare his army and give his people up for slavery; Colombians are free men of strong hearts and enduring spirits, if war is what they want that’s what they shall get. From his balcony in the Nariño House, Andres gave his orders to the South American coalition countries: “An army of every male over 17 shall be trained and armed; an air force of six thousand Kfirs and Migs; I also want a railroad to stretch from the border with Panama to Tierra del Fuego through the Andes and I want a fleet large enough to both evacuate the population to South Africa and rain a nuclear holocaust over the Eastern powers.” The governments of all four countries followed his orders to a tee. Only God knew how long until the attack began; the only certain thing was that the Eastern Powers’  massive 250million strong army needed a lot of food and a lot of oil so malnutrition could become a problem throughout the entire force.  The oil needed to fuel an army like that and a combined population of 3.5billion people meant that the only hope the Easter Powers had was blitzkrieg; so if Trujillo were to finance guerrillas in separatist regions of Russia and China, the Chinese or Russian populations using resistance groups then this will put a strain on the juggernaut’s weak supply arteries.

Time passed and soon the radars of every allied ground base showed an enemy advance. The Colombian population began singing and praying with the same sentence “No, no, no, no pasaran no pasaran no pasaran,” or in English “They shall not pass”. Andres Trujillo had been waiting for a long five months for this moment, at his command laid an armada of over 500 submarines, 1000 destroyers and 3 super-aircraft-carriers, an air force of seven thousand fighter aircraft and a 600 division strong coalition army. The pilots of the coalition airforce were instructed to only land to change planes or to refuel and re-stock before continuing the fight. The Eastern army’s air force boasted a force of 5000 bombers and more than 12000 fighter escort; however Trujillo only had sent 3000 fighters into the fight, the rest lied in hangars all over the Brazilian jungle ready to kill the beast when the order’s given. The air combat was savage as young Colombian pilots quickly dispose of horde after horde of under-equipped Chinese and Russian fighters; the Venezuelans do their best against the bombers as the entire civilian population is evacuated towards the railroad running the length of the Andes.

In the ground, the fighting could only be described not like a war but more like a massacre as thousands of Chinese try to cross the Andes with murderous gunfire shot from thousands of coalition forces, here their numbers don’t count, here they all would die. Cardona watched as the glorious battle unfolded, his only regret? That he had so few to sacrifice, but he couldn’t be distracted as Eastern forces thought they could get an edge in the air; he unleashed his deadly surprise: 3000 f-35s each armed with 60 air to air missiles and over 90 minutes of murderous machine gun fire. The Eastern pilots fell to the ground like flies in a lake. Maybe he could win if his boys held the line, but Cardona knew that the almost endless reserves of the Eastern powers would crush him so he rallied his troops: “Gentlemen I am here today not to ask you to die for a fallen cause but for freedom itself. We have to hold the line not only to protect this land but for our families,  for our God-given duty to protect everything that is sacred to us and to show the world that on Christmas Day 2030 nine-million free men showed the authors of evil that freedom and courage shall never die! Long Life our souls and our republics! But most of all die for something or live for nothing!” After this speech the coalition troops held the line along the Central mountain range in Colombia. At this time, a 5000 nuclear missile barrage was launched from coalition submarines in the Antarctica and all but a 1/10 of the Chinese population was annihilated, the Russians suffered a similar fate. The tide had turned and suddenly coalition forces had momentum in the battle, they launched a massive counter-offensive that would eventually be stopped in the border of what used to be Canada where they were stopped by the Eastern Powers reserves.

. An eighth of the coalition countries` population as well as 50000 soldiers made it to safety in Africa where they prospered and continued on with the legacy of their fallen countrymen . Trujillo`s army continued to hold the line until eventually his African allies broke the stalemate and drove all the way to Moscow and finally ended the war fifty years after that fateful winter in 2030.

By Andres Cardona