Idaho/Vatulio War

In December of 2019, the landlocked nation of Vatulio invaded the western neighboring nation of Idaho in an attempt to seize parts of Idaho's Pacific Ocean coast. The war lasted for about two months with all of Idaho's allies fighting in the nation. The war concluded with Vatulio's defeat and left both nations in ruins. Idaho later rebuilt itself and offered to fund a new water pipeline for Vatulio.

Vatulioan violence
On December 3, Idaho intelligence was alerted to a large presence of Vatulioan military vehicles lined up near the Idaho/Vatulio border, about 26 miles east of the border city of Anastasia. The vehicles started to pile up outside the border but remained out of use when they arrived.

President of Idaho Julia Aniston was alerted to a water shortage in Vatulio on December 9. She reached out to Vatulioan President Benjamin Klondike and asked him if he needed assistance.

She received no answer.

On December 13, a massive riot erupted in the Vatulioan capital city of Seattle due to the water shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths and leading to martial law being declared. Seattle, home to almost two-million inhabitants, fell into chaos with water-rationing, looting, and destruction. Meanwhile, Vatulioan military vehicles continued to be stacked next to Anastasia.

On December 24, President Aniston again tried to reach out to President Klondike, hoping to offer assistance with the violence in Seattle. His only response to her this time was "Quit ... we'll figure it out."

On Thursday December 26, 2019, at 840 in the morning, Vatulio launched a massive invasion of Idaho. Several cities fell under Vatulioan attack, including Anastasia, Quatrro, and Survana.

Invasion
On Monday December 30, 2019, the nations of Texas, Arizelon, and Tennessee joined the war in favor or Idaho. The Idahoan military was overwhelmed by aerial bombings in Arbroke and Lewiston and were forced to retreat to the international airport in Spokane Valley to regroup.

The Vatulioans pushed westward through Idaho, using a line of soldiers 600 miles wide, covering almost 100 miles per day. The cities of Quatrro and Survana were destroyed by the constant airstrikes, resulting in over 100-thousand deaths in each city.

The militaries of Texas and Tennessee stationed soldiers at the McAllister Air Force Base in Patronum and the Kuroyuri Air Force Base to establish a line of defense against the approaching Vatulioans.

Arizelean fighter pilots began an air assualt on the advancing Vatulioans in an effort to stop them from reaching Vantage, the capital of Idaho.

On December 31, the Vatulioans attacked Vantage, destrouing several skyscrapers. Later that day, President Aniston ordered all freeways between Vantage and the coast destroyed to try to stop the Vatulioan advance.

The Idahoans established a line of soldiers near Nevada but took heavy losses there, resulting in a loss of civilian life totalling over 16-thousand.

Battle of Spokane Valley
On Wednesday January 1st, 2020, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Wenatchee was able to send 3-thousand units over to Spokane Valley about four hours before the Vatulioans arrived there, where they were met with heavy Idahoan defenses.

The Arizelean 79th Battalion met up with Lewis-McChord's 84th and 106th Divisions and formed a line ahead of the city along the Spokane River. The Vatulioans were nearly decimated there, but the survivors were taken captive.

No loss of civilian life occurred in Spokane Valley.

Battle of Kuroyuri
On Monday January 6th, 2020, Vatulio's Culmstock, Arbitration, and Scavenger Divisions breached the oceanfront city of Kuroyuri, the capital of the Arizona Prefecture with a population of 19-million. All freeways and structures in their path were destroyed. Since many of the freeways were elevated, their destruction created total gridlock throughout the city, making evacuations impossible.

Police units in the city were overwhelmed quickly and then wiped out. The Arizona National Guard was dispatched to the city later that day but was forced to retreat to Venacia, north of Kuroyuri.

Cell phone videos were being recorded of Vatulioan soldiers dragging civilians from their homes, giving them machine guns, and forcing them to fight in their name. Those who disobeyed were executed.

Police began doing "silent" evacuations to The Plaza, a massive public transit hub in Downtown Kuroyuri. They succeeded in bringing almost 40-thousand civilians to The Plaza where conditions began to deteriorate quickly.

On the morning of Thursday January 9th, 2020, a huge firefight erupted in Downtown Kuroyuri, with Arizelean fighters and Vatulioan tanks battling each other. The Vatulioans aimed much of their fire on the skyscrapers, while the Arizeleans tried to air-bomb the tanks. The shelling caused the new state-of-the-art Saturday Building to collapse onto The Plaza, killing over 4-thousand refugees.

Fourteen other skyscrapers collapsed in Kuroyuri that day, including the city's three tallest - Spirit Center, Tranlucent Airlines Headquarters, and The Queen.

This battle took the lives of over 1.5-million civilians, becoming the worst loss of life in Idahoan history.