More Wisconsin Civil War and its ASB madness coming up.
To recap here are the factions for the Wisconsin Civil War
Wisconsin Government
National Salvation Front
Republic of Iowa
Minnesotan Republic
National Social Front of Wisconsin
With another faction wiped out Democratic Wisconsin/National Liberation Army of Wisconsin, the Schmitt regime began to focus on lifting the siege of La-Crosse which could easily become another Aleppo if Iowa and the government forces fail to achieve their objectives. As of December 3rd, 2016 the Wisconsin Army has lost nearly 1,800 soldiers and over 8,000 wounded, with Iowa intervening on behalf of the Junta, this siege which has been on going since late May of 2016 could finally be lifted. The city of La-Crosse has been devastated with many comparing it to Aleppo in Syria. Out of a population 105,000 residents, by December of this year, over 3,400 civilians have killed as both sides the regime and the fighters of the National Salvation Front have fired rockets, missiles and other discriminatory weapons in fierce street to street battles. There is a possibility that the siege may not be lifted considering that recently Minnesota announced that they are going to send non-lethal aid despite granting Wisconsin the right to be readmitted back into the Midwestern Trade Federation Council, St. Paul has announced that those privileges may be revoked and could possibly mean the end of the Trade Federation Council if Iowa insists continuing to aid the regime. As of early December, the NSF have lost over 14,000 rebel fighters and another 39,000 taken prisoner.
Meanwhile as mentioned previously, the Wisconsin Army wiped out Democratic Wisconsin/National Liberation Army of Wisconsin after its forces liberated the small but strategic capital of Democratic Wisconsin, Superior. After 2 and a half months of fighting to secure the city, the Army achieved its objectives and finally forced the capitulation of Democratic Wisconsin. The battle which was named "Operation Ensure Victory" by the government forces involved 80,000 soldiers and militia on the government side and it cost them 908 deaths and 6,228 wounded to secure the city. Thus another faction was wiped out. However the cost was deadly for the general public as according to various human rights organizations, it was said that the victorious regime troops may have massacred between 500-2,300 civilians as part of reprisals and the general frustrations felt by the troops over securing a small city that should have taken less than a month. Nevertheless, the victory in Superior has been seen as some as a turning point of the war, however like Syria, the war is far from over and it may drag on in 2017 and beyond.
While the war seems to be going well in the western part of the country, in the upper peninsula which was recently retaken in the late summer of this year, the far right banned organization the National Social Front of Wisconsin have sprung up around the city of Marinette and have captured the city after a small group of 800 pro-government militia forces were forced to abandon the small town. The NSF is under the command of an obscure figure Richard Snyder and his former army officer Eric Bollman that defected one year ago to form this group which was originally under the control of a pro-National Salvation Front faction that fell into obscurity. So far not much is known about this far-right proto-neo Nazi organization other than the fact that it has around 2,000 members.
As mentioned previously in the last post, many predicted that the number of people killed in the war could reach 100,000 by the years end, it has surpassed these predictions. As of early December over 116,000 people have been killed including nearly 30,000 civilians. At this rate it is possible that by the summer of 2017 the war could claim as many as 200,000. The regime has lost over 7,200 soldiers, militia, and police have killed since the war broke out in 2015, over 48,000 are wounded or sick. Around 8,800 soldiers and pro-government militia and police officers have been taken prisoner mostly from the disastrous defeat at Eau-Claire early this year in April of 2016. Since intervening on the side of the military junta in late October over 111 Iowan soldiers have killed and another 400 wounded. The rebels have lost a considerable amount of its supporters and fighters. 80,000 rebels have been killed, 115,000 have been wounded or sick, and around 155,000 rebels since 2015 have been captured. These numbers maybe off a bit because of the army's tendency to execute thousands of captured rebels immediately after an engagement. The government has detained 165,000 people since the war started, and the number of political prisoners has risen to nearly 50,000 prisoners. With no end in sight by early 2017, Wisconsin continues to brace for more death and more destruction in the country's deadliest war in history. The population of Wisconsin has also been devastated as well, before the July coup of 2015 its population was estimated to be around 16 million, now it has seen a decline because of the war. Over a million people are displaced and around 500,000 Wisconsinians are refugees, bring the population down to 15.3 million as of late 2016.
