Adams, of course, was fascinated by yachts and villas, nodded, and listened.

"Next year will be an election year." Traust said with a smile.

Adams's decades-long political career, which is also a person who understands everything at all, immediately understood Traust's train of thought.

"If this war is won, although President Jonathan is unlikely to be re-elected, for the party, this victorious war is the best means of propaganda, and it can even erase the adverse effects of policies such as universal health care and affirmative action," Traust said. ”

Adams' expression became serious, and Traust's words, in a word, poked at his tickle flesh.

**After Party President Jonathan came to power, he promoted universal health care and the same-surname affirmative action bill, which deeply touched the most fundamental nerve of the Republican Party.

The Republican Party is a conservative party, adheres to the traditional values of the United States, focuses on struggle, and advocates freedom, and freedom cannot be equal, and universal health care touches the most fundamental interests of the Republican Party.

There are also equal rights for same-surname lovers, allowing same-surname lovers to get married, enjoying medical insurance, and other rights, which are also inconsistent with the fundamental values of the Republican Party.

"You go on." Adams nodded and listened.

Traust also came to the door after making sufficient preparations, and continued: "If this war fails, or does not achieve the expected goals, then this is President Jonathan's biggest failure, and it is also the failure of the party's strategy." I think that in next year's election year, your party can use this to vigorously criticize the party's war tactics, such as causing an economic recession, causing a large number of casualties, and so on. ”

"And ending this war as soon as possible, once your party wins the election, it will also be of great benefit to your party." Traust Road.

Adams didn't understand this and asked rhetorically, "Why?" ”

"If the war lasts for several years, just like the Iraq war, then the consequences of the war will probably have to be swallowed by your party." In my opinion, the best way is to end the war before the election year, blame the defeat of the war on the wrong strategy of the party, win the election, correct the mistakes of the war, and regain popular leadership. ”

At this point, Trauster paused slightly and said: "And the most important thing is that this is not a just war, and there is no benefit to the United States." ”

Of course, this is nonsense, no matter what kind of just or unjust war, meddling in the civil war in the North Soviet Union and supporting an obedient political axe, this is the great interest.

But with the foreshadowing of the previous series of words, Adams was somewhat moved.

The national interest Adams doesn't care, he only cares about the interests of the party, and from Traust's words, ending this war before the election year is beneficial to the Republican Party in every way and can help them win the election.

"It's hard to do." After thinking for a moment, Adams said.

Of course, things are difficult to do, it is impossible to directly push the Congress and end the war against the North Soviet Union, even if there are some people within the ** party who do not support the war, but the war authorization proposal has already been passed, and there is no reason to pass another proposal to let the president withdraw his troops.

If you want to influence the direction of the war in terms of military spending, you can make a surname too small.

In a word, it's too hard.

Of course, Traust understood this, but Adams was relieved at the moment, and the expectation was met, and he chuckled: "Of course this matter is not easy to do, and it needs to be pushed from all sides." ”

"If the opposition of the people and public opinion to this war, coupled with the efforts of your party to attract more support, and the death and wounds of the war become enormous, under the thrust of all sides, does Mr. Adams think it is possible to end this war early?" Traust asked.

Adams was stunned, if under the thrust of all sides, then this thing could really be done.

The president may seem to have great power, but he cannot insist on going his own way and continue to wage war in the face of the opposition of the people of the whole country.

"If that'......" Adams nodded.

Trauster interrupted Adams and said, "There is no if, it is man-made, and with our efforts, we will definitely be able to get this done." ”

Adams took a deep breath, said no more, and nodded heavily, whether it was for personal or partisan interests, there were benefits to working with Traust.

But Adams had one of the biggest questions, and asked strangely, "With all due respect, whose interests does Mr. Traust represent?" ”

Traust is certainly not a Republican, so why would he do all this with all his might.

Traust smiled mysteriously and said, "You can call me a stakeholder." ”

Stakeholders?

For a moment, Adams seemed to understand something.

……

On 20 March, the coalition forces continued their military operations, launching an offensive against the three remaining major towns in White Nile State, led by the Northern Soviet Axe Army.

The coalition forces still adopt a relatively conservative strategy, using missile bombardment, airplanes, helicopters, and drones as the main means of attack, and do not directly dispatch ground troops to avoid unnecessary personnel losses.

During the military operations for several days in a row, the coalition forces launched more than 300 missiles of various types, dispatched fighter planes of various types, and flew more than 500 helicopter sorties.

Despite the high cost of weapons and equipment, the rebels' tenacity exceeded the expectations of the coalition forces.

The political axe army on the ground, which is not at all an opponent of the rebel army with automatic grenade launchers, this fire suppression weapon, with the fire assistance of the coalition forces, although they conquered three towns, but the price paid was staggering, three days of military operations, more than a thousand casualties.

And on the side of the coalition forces, not to mention the consumption of weapons, helicopters and fighters also suffered considerable losses.

The rebels are also proficient in learning, they used to use RPGs to fight helicopters, but now they use grenade launchers loaded with armor-piercing shells, with a machine-gun-like rate of fire, as long as they plan well, ultra-low-flying helicopters are simply targets.

In the past three days, seven helicopters of various types were destroyed, and 12 crew members were killed. The fighter was also unfortunately shot down, and the pilot parachuted to escape.

Such a loss is also a distressed grin for the coalition command.

On the day of the military operation, the New York Times Weekly, the third-largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, published a report.

"Although by all accounts, this war is just, it is authorized by the Security Council and agreed by Congress through a proposal. But in our opinion, this justice should be put in quotation marks, and let us question whether it is really justice or not. ”

"Let's look at such a set of figures, starting from the first round of NATO bombing on January 15 this year, to now, according to incomplete statistics, the political axe army and the rebel army of the North Soviet Union have suffered more than 16,300 casualties on both sides."

"And this is only the casualties of soldiers, what about civilians, preliminary estimates, from the civil war in the North Soviet Union last year to the present, more than 170,000 civilians have died in the civil war in the North Soviet Union, the number of casualties is twice that number, and the number of people forced to flee their homes is more than a million."

"The war launched by the NATO military bloc has exacerbated the increase in these numbers, looking at a set of figures, from the beginning of the civil war to January 15, the first round of NATO attacks, in which only 60,000 civilians died. And at the beginning of the NATO military operation, in just two months, more than 100,000 civilians died. ”

"Although we can be sure that the coalition forces have not committed any crimes against humanity that massacre civilians, this huge number of civilian deaths is indirect to NATO's involvement in the war."

"Let's look at another set of figures, since February 18, when the ground forces officially attacked the Red Sea Oblast, more than 100 coalition soldiers have been killed, and more than twice that number has been killed or wounded."

"This is not a war that belongs to us, so why should our children be sacrificed?"

At the end of the report, there was a huge question mark, which was shocking.

But none of this is as shocking as the previous series of figures, with more than 16,000 soldiers killed or wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, and millions of civilians displaced.

It's a nightmare!

With the astonishing circulation of the New York Times and its huge influence, this report suddenly ignited the enthusiasm of the people in the United States.

In front of the White House and Capitol Hill, there are already pacifist demonstrations.

And with the report of a new round of military operations after the 20th, the huge casualties pushed the people's dissatisfaction to the extreme.

This is not the end, some high-ranking officials have also publicly criticized the war on different occasions.

Among them is the vice chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Adams, Republican Vice President. Xi and other heavyweights.

President Jonathan was suddenly pushed to the forefront. (To be continued.) )