Great time travel

Chapter 54. The Bald Eagle Doesn’t Want to Be Taken

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Since entering the spring of 1946, as the temperature has risen day by day, the atmosphere in the White House has become colder and colder day by day.

In the magnificent Oval Office, the grizzled President Truman sat in a swivel chair behind his desk, his face full of exhaustion.

In front of President Truman, there was a pile of reports from various battlefields around the world: unfortunately, almost all bad news.

First of all, the various anti-Soviet armies on the European continent are still repeatedly defeated and suffered heavy losses.The French Civil War, which is the main battlefield, has come to an end. The French White Army and the Spanish and Portuguese Joint Intervention Army were almost wiped out, and the Reds won the final victory.The most terrible thing is that an international column composed of European red armies has crossed the Pyrenees and entered Spain!Seeing the second Spanish Civil War is about to break out!

In addition, the Soviet submarine force has also launched a broken battle in the Atlantic Ocean, although these Soviet submarines are only concentrating on ambushing British, Spanish and Portuguese merchant ships for the time being-for some reason, the Soviets are always able to catch them in the vast ocean. These poor fleets (with Wang Qiu's Doraemon plane black technology reconnaissance satellite for 24-hour monitoring, it is strange that these slow-moving merchant ships cannot be caught), but there is no guarantee that someday there will be a real Unrestricted submarine warfare, extending the target to the "Liberty Ship" and "Victory Ship" of the United States of America.

Then, the Japanese battlefield in the east was also unresolved for a long time, turning into a huge black hole that continuously devoured the wealth and lives of the United States.Even though the Japanese emperor, Tokyo, the cabinet, and the National Assembly were bombed to the sky, and the most elite land in the entire country was occupied by the U.S. military, and more than 1000 million people were slaughtered by the U.S. military like eradicating rats, these damn yellow Skin Shorty still refused to surrender, even if the country was burned to coke, he would fight to the end.

And the nasty Soviet polar bears cheered up and transfused blood behind their backs. Admiral MacArthur, who commanded the U.S. troops stationed in Japan, was unluckily caught by them in a surprise attack, stuffed into an iron cage and exhibited around like rare animals. Big newspaper headlines!What a disgrace to the United States!

——What made President Truman feel even more depressed was that after rescuing MacArthur, he still had to continue to appoint this "military star" with a prominent family background and close ties to Wall Street plutocrats, and he couldn't just kick him back to his hometown... ...At best, MacArthur can only be kicked out of Japan.

In order to break this stalemate, Patton, who succeeded MacArthur in command of the US military stationed in Japan, launched two large-scale ground offensives on this arc-shaped island not long ago. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi fought from Utsunomiya to Aizu; the western offensive failed to capture Maizuru tutelary fort and the largest military port on the southern coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, but was pushed back to the starting position in Kyoto with his head held down.Although it seized more than 1 square kilometers of land, it still failed to disintegrate the Japanese will to resist. On the contrary, it also exhausted the supplies and new forces that the logistics department had worked hard to hoard at the frontier base in Tokyo Bay against the bombing.As for the sacrifices and losses that have been paid for this, they are even more expensive to the point of appalling.

"...Only fought for a month, and 35 people were killed or injured?! How did Patton fight in Japan?!!"

President Truman tapped his fingers on the table angrily, "...Since landing in Japan, the Allied forces have lost more than 50 casualties on the front lines in East Asia! The loss of tanks, cars and planes is almost impossible to count... Such a bad battle Are you still ashamed to tell me that it was a tie?"

"... Cough cough, Mr. President, this is not all the responsibility of General Patton. You just saw the total loss statistics of the armed forces. In fact, the bomber unit of the strategic air force alone has been enough in the past few months. Lost six thousand bombers and thirty thousand aircrew!"

Harry Hopkins, a special assistant with a sickly face, sat in a chair on the other side of the president's desk, coughing and whispering.In the past few months, his health seems to be getting worse and worse, and he can't even speak so weakly, "... Then, on the route from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo and Sendai, Japanese submarines have been attacking us. Even relying on the escort fleet cannot guarantee the absolute safety of the troop carrier. In the half a year since landing in Japan, more than 30 young men from the Army and Marine Corps have been sent to the bottom of the sea by torpedoes from Japanese submarines. At the same time, thousands of tanks and nearly a million tons of supplies were sunk... Of course, we also killed more than [-] Japanese submarines..."

"...Hasn't the navy thought of any way to improve the situation? It won't work if it continues like this!"

President Truman frowned and said, "...Even if we can produce three free ships every day, we can't afford such consumption...Moreover, there are fewer and fewer sailors who can handle ships. Although the sailor school expanded its enrollment after the war Ten times, but now many sailors on warships are still landlubbers who can't even swim, let alone merchant ships. It is said that many sailors only saw the sea for the first time when they boarded the ship..."

——Although in the early days of World War II, the United States owned 40% of the world's industrial production capacity, known as "the arsenal of a democratic country", with an annual output of 8000 million tons of steel, 100 million tons of oil, and an annual production of 42 aircraft and 1500 vehicles Tanks, [-] heavy guns, [-] million military trucks and jeeps, one Liberty ship can be produced every [-] days. On average, three to four Liberty ships or Victory ships are launched every day in the country. The total output of various merchant ships is as high as [-] per year. In addition to supplying and equipping the country's own army, it can also vigorously support various allies.

But to achieve such a miracle of industrial productivity, there is also a price to pay.On the one hand, a large number of young and middle-aged laborers were recruited to join the army during the war. On the other hand, the industry expanded rapidly during the war. In order to maintain the operation of the industrial system under such circumstances, many people who were excluded from factories before the war, such as women, Blacks, child laborers, prisoners, the elderly, and the disabled have all been included in the industrial army.In a factory that produced wooden minesweepers, the owner was forced to hire people in their 80s to build the boats.Aircraft factories employ dwarfs to inspect narrow sections of wings, blind men to sort out screws from floor scraps, and deaf men to work in factory areas that are too loud for normal people to bear. Six million housewives were also mobilized into the arsenal, but it was still far from enough to meet demand.So the law had to be amended to put 600 million child laborers between the ages of 300 and 12 on the assembly line...

At the same time, due to the occupation of industrial production capacity by military supplies, the output of various civilian products had to drop sharply. Even if some high-quality goods were produced, they were given priority to the frontline soldiers.Therefore, with the wartime mobilization that lasted for more than four years, cigarettes, chocolate, butter, and candy gradually disappeared from the lives of ordinary American civilians, and the production of civilian cars was basically stopped after the war started.Moreover, in order to avoid social turmoil while obtaining sufficient military expenditures, the U.S. government neither dared to levy a large amount of taxes, nor did it dare to issue excessive money. Instead, it issued 4000 billion U.S. dollars in war bonds during the war. Most of the wealth has been collected... The White House has put the entire United States on the gambling table, and there is no room for it to stop.

However, the performance of the US military and allied forces on various battlefields around the world has been infinitely disappointing time and time again...

Due to repeated defeats on the Pacific battlefield and the loss of territory by the Soviet Union on the European battlefield, President Truman is currently under great pressure.

——In this era of imperialist powers fighting and fighting, it is not enough to judge the status of a country. You have to step on the corpse of another empire to rise to power.

Spain relied on hundreds of years of plundering the Americas and accumulated countless gold and silver, but because of its poor performance on the battlefield, it was ridiculed as a weak chicken very early.The Czech Republic inherited the industrial core of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the world in the early twentieth century, it was considered a good industrial powerhouse. However, because it surrendered without a fight in front of Nazi Germany, its status in the world was not as good as that of Finland, which was poor and white at that time. The Finns had a hard time with a big guy like the Soviets.

In the same way, although the United States of America in this time and space has such a huge capital in the arena of World War II, produced so many things, and armed so many troops, as long as these things have not been transformed into corresponding achievements, then the so-called "U.S. Imperialism" is still a joke.

Empire means war and conquest, hegemony and prestige: from ancient times to the present, from the east to the west, there is no empire that cannot fight!

What's more, for the White House, Capitol Hill, and Wall Street, a world war that fails to win, or even just a world war that fails to reap enough spoils, is enough to bring the ruling class of the United States of America into an unprecedented crisis. nightmare!

——During the World War, through various bills, authorization documents, bonds, stocks and contracts, the savings of all American taxpayers were collected by patriotic slogans and transferred to the accounts of major capitalists.It is then used to acquire machinery, test weapons, replace obsolete production lines, and convert profitable or lucrative weapons and munitions.And this is only a part, and part of the money, including the profits from the production of munitions and weapons, is not all invested in the development and production of new products.Instead, it is used to buy stocks, real estate, public bonds, foreign mines, and land, to finance governments in exile, to transfuse foreign companies on the verge of bankruptcy, and even to buy oil paintings, antiques, and artworks at ridiculously low prices.In countries and regions where the Allied forces have not yet landed or have yet to occupy a stable position, those big capitalists with an adventurous spirit have already reached an agreement with the dignitaries of the exiled governments of various countries and foreign resistance organizations, and bought the last one at a ridiculously low price. Potential and promising mines, oil fields, farms and factories.

If all had gone well, the American corporate capitalists could have quietly taken over the entire post-war world, without iron or blood, but with money and supplies.Everything is so cheap, so fat, and so promising. All important minerals, factories, and financial groups are sucked in by large American companies like vacuum suction cups.The Dutch colonists at the mouth of the Hudson River bought Manhattan Island from the Indians with only 24 dollars of glass beads, and the US government bought it from the French Emperor Napoleon in 1803 with 200 million dollars. the Louisiana Colony.Now it is nothing more than a replica: others have shed blood and lost their lives, while the big American conglomerates are hiding in a safe place to enjoy everything.

Regrettably, Japan's unprecedented difficulty and the crazy expansion of the red forces completely tore up all the beautiful blueprints planned by the American consortium in advance.With the massive advance of the Soviet Red Army and its sweep across the European continent, the generous subsidies that the Americans gave to the European governments in exile were basically in vain, and the contracts to buy various industries at the bottom were naturally turned into waste paper.And the successive victories of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet in the Pacific have also caused various expected returns of the Wall Street consortium to bounce back again and again, and in the end it is almost almost a financial fraud!

When the war went on to the fourth and fifth years, the Japanese Empire, which was barren and poor, was almost exhausted, and the United States of America, which seemed to be rich and powerful, had also become a loser. A gambler with a quick eye has already bet the bottom of the coffin.Once everything is lost, then even if it will not repeat the February Revolution that ended Tsarist Russia, at least it will reproduce the scene of the collapse of the Confederacy during the Civil War era: debts and dollars became waste paper, the government collapsed and paralyzed, and the entire Society is turned upside down...

Under such tremendous pressure, President Truman had no choice but to throw out the nuclear bomb last year in an attempt to determine the outcome.However, the result was just being dragged into another bigger quagmire, the national strength and military strength were depleted even more, and the dawn of victory was still far away.

However, he and the United States have no way out, so they can only bite the bullet and carry this disastrous war of high input and low output to the end...

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PS: There is a new joke about the British referendum. After the referendum to leave the European Union, more than 100 million British people jointly petitioned for a new referendum on the Internet. As a result, professionals investigated and found that 70% of them were "spiritual" from the United States, Spain, Australia and Hong Kong. "British" is posing as a British citizen.Among them, there are 1000 signatures from the Vatican alone, and as we all know, the Vatican only has a population of 8000... Where did the remaining [-] people come from?

It can be seen that the public intellectuals always laugh at the Chinese people being represented, but in fact the Western people are also represented, and the representation is even darker.

When I said before that the Brexit referendum was a mess, I didn’t mean that Brexit was wrong. In fact, for the lower-level white people in England, Brexit is definitely good—London is about to become an Eastern European city and a halal city!For the elite and the Scots, Brexit is a disaster.When I say the referendum is out of play, I mean that although Prime Minister Cameron initiated the referendum himself, he did not intend to pass the referendum at all in his heart, but the result did not follow his script...

In fact, the key to the turmoil surrounding the UK referendum to leave the European Union is that too little has been done.If it is really possible to promote the mobile referendum software developed by the Taiwanese, the referendum is called several times a day, and a reversal is made every few hours. After a long time, everyone will get used to it, and no matter how you like to vote, it will not be a problem.