Chapter 434: The United States Is Divided?
The process of convening the second coalition summit can be said to be full of twists and turns, and all kinds of urgent news have made the three presidents and one prime minister fall into a deep helplessness.
The shock of the launch of an intercontinental missile in Somalia has not yet passed, and the large-scale collective protests from France, Italy, and the United States have been presented to them, and they urgently need to be approved.
Shinzo Abe is also not idle, although the scale of the anti-war is not large, but it is also very annoying.
When the four heads of state had finished dealing with the terms of the armistice and were about to confirm the final terms of the armistice to be handed over to Somalia, Obama's secretary hurriedly pushed the door in, whispered in his ear, and handed him a large stack of documents at the same time.
Tonight, the whole of America is a sleepless night.
Just now, Congress received a flood of petitions at the same time, all of which pointed to two words - independence.
More than 600,000 people in more than 32 states in the United States began to launch an "independence movement" to demand that their states secede from the federal government. The people posted a petition on the "We the People of the United States" page of the White House website asking for their states to be allowed to "peacefully secede from the Union." In just one hour, the number of signatures has reached 600,000 and counting.
Although this kind of independence broke out when Obama was re-elected, the scale of that time was only about 100,000. Although this "independence wave" was also fierce at the beginning, it was only a catharsis for some people's emotions about Obama's re-election. At this time, the number of people who are fighting for independence in the United States, according to the development trend, will not be less than one million. The frustration they vented was not directed at Obama alone, but at the entire U.S. government.
The petition is on the White House website, click on the White House website where the petition was posted. I saw the words "We the people of the United States" written in the upper left corner of the green background at the top of the page, and next to it was a line of small letters: "Your voice in the government." "We the people of the United States" is an expression in the U.S. Constitution, indicating that this is a web page soliciting the demands of the people.
"The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of citizens to petition the government," the page declares. We the People of the United States offers a new way to petition the Obama administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our nation. We built this site because we wanted to hear from you. If a petition receives enough support, it will be read by White House staff and forwarded to the appropriate policy experts, with an official response. β
We the People of the United States has promised that the Obama administration will respond to the petition if it collects 25,000 signatures in a month. In just eleven hours, more than 20 states, including Texas and Louisiana, surpassed that number of signatures.
The independence trend is still sweeping the country.
Analysts immediately believed. Perhaps all 51 states and Washington, D.C., will be swept away by this wave of independence. Currently, the states with more than 20,000 signatures include Indiana, Mississippi and Florida. In addition, the petition calling for an end to the war was supported by an overall 330,000 signatures.
The content of the petition is much the same, basically quoting the Declaration of Independence or the words of the "founding father" of the United States about government and civil rights, emphasizing the right of states to organize their own governments to break away from the federal shackles. For example, "the government is made up of the people, and only with the consent of the people can legal rights be obtained." Whenever. Any government undermines these goals. The people then have the right to change or abolish it and form a new government. β
Most of these petitions are extremely brief and get to the heart of the matter, including a petition from Texas with only one sentence: "Peacefully grant Texas the right to secede from the United States of America and allow it to form a new government of its own." β
There are also petitions that give "specific complaints" that the U.S. federal government "flagrantly violates" the rights of Americans, one example of which is the U.S. Transportation Administration's order to conduct see-through screening of passengers in public transportation.
Florida's petition reads: "In today's world, the great people of Florida have discovered that the federal government is not leading its citizens justly. Free men and women are to make their own decisions, and from now on, there is no need for the federal government to intervene in our internal affairs, and we need to exercise self-government. β
By the time the information reached Obama. The petition with the most signatures was the Texas petition, which already had more than 60,000 supporters. Even though it was late at night, staff could see thousands more signers every few minutes.
During the last wave of independence, some states demanded independence, but it was only a conservative reaction to Obama's re-election, and it did not indicate that the United States was in danger of being divided. According to analysts, this wave of independence is only a popular dissatisfaction with the economic losses and casualties caused by the government's indiscriminate use of force, and will not constitute a crisis of American secession.
However, for Obama, this is really not a small problem. This is definitely the most serious crisis of confidence since he took office.
In the face of such a thing, it is impossible to allow it, and if the United States is really divided, it will definitely be more miserable than the Soviet Union. However, this cannot be sternly refused, let alone repressive, otherwise the United States will really face the crisis of division at that time.
Now there is only one way before him, and that is to let the matter go to rest naturally, as was done during the Occupy Wall Street and the first wave of independence, and let these angry people naturally calm down their grievances.
To be honest, Obama never imagined that the domestic reaction would be so violent and slightly abnormal. Xindao: In this matter, Li Lan is behind the scenes, or China and Russia are taking advantage of the fire to rob, it is purely to see my jokes. It seems that it is still necessary to investigate it well, who wouldn't play yin?
However, before these questions, it is to end this war as soon as possible. After reading several documents, they all point to a problem, the American people have too much dissatisfaction with this war.
This dissatisfaction is even louder than the Bush administration's dissatisfaction with the government during the Iraq War, when he gained the support of the people by ending the Iraq war and withdrawing troops. I just didn't expect that the crisis we are facing today is precisely the result of my own contradiction with the governing philosophy.
In fact, Obama did not fail to consider the feelings of the people when he gave the order to war, but as a leader of a country, the issues he considered cannot be seen only one-sidedly. At the beginning of World War II, it was the repeated indulgence of Britain and France that gave Germany a chance to really become bigger. It does not take long, a few years to change the military posture of a country.
It is precisely to prevent the lessons of history from repeating themselves today, Obama withstood the pressure to suppress the rise of Somalia, because Li Lan felt too dangerous for him.
He is young, young and impulsive, does not think about problems comprehensively, and is very naΓ―ve. These are all things that he fears, because a powerful military bloc controlled by such a figure is quite dangerous for the United States.
On the contrary, Obama is very relieved about the age of the head of China No. 1, because the two sides are equal in the consideration of the problem. has enough experience, and is calm enough, so that you won't start messing around as soon as your head is hot.
From this point of view, Obama is not afraid of the country of Somalia, but of Li Lan. Indeed, Li Lan is the root of all these problems, and Obama is well aware that if it were not for Li Lan, Somalia would not be where it is today. The biggest surprise in the whole world is not the country of Somalia, but the person Li Lan.
Somalia without Li Lan will be a dish, a plate of delicious food that the United States can enjoy slowly, and there will be no scars all over the body after eating.
Now, after several hours of deliberation at the summit of the Four, the topic of discussion is not whether or not to end the war.
This war is no longer under their control, and if it continues to be fought, the situation in the four countries will be really difficult to end. At that time, the throne of their number one person may be difficult to preserve.
At this time, the topic of discussion mainly revolved around the interests involved, and the issue that the four of them discussed was that it was okay to end this war, but they had to get everything that belonged to them from Somalia now. After all, the four countries have paid a lot of price, and the land currently occupied by the coalition forces will not be returned to Somalia.
This result was the consensus of the four and a prerequisite for ending the war. Otherwise, they will lose a large amount of war materials in vain and the blood of the soldiers will be completely spilled.
As for what Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti think, the four of them did not think about it at all. Because there is no benefit to be said in this war, each country has its own huge losses, and the four countries are not enough to share what they have gained now, how can they consider the other three insignificant countries.
"Now we need to think about how to get this message of ending the war out of the way." After negotiating the conditions, Shinzo Abe spoke.
Abe's words point to the point, because it is simply impossible for the four countries to admit their defeat, and it is also true that they did not fail. However, after all, they were the first to raise the topic of ending the war, which means that they admit it, and this kind of thing has a very bad impact on the image of the four countries in the international community.
This alone will also increase Somalia's international prestige, and those countries that do not agree with them will also move closer to Somalia as much as possible, which is not what they want to see. So, this sentence is very crucial.
Obama already had an idea about this, but this method made him quite difficult to speak, and he said helplessly: "At this time, presumably the heads of state of China and Russia, who are watching jokes at this time, are waiting for us to come to the door." These two countries also need to come forward in this matter. (To be continued......)