Six years have passed since the last time the President of the United States visited the city.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Somali Federation.

Five years ago, Li Lan was elected president of the Somali Federation by an unbelievable vote in the world, and the East African Community, a provisional organization, formally formed a federal state. The presidents of the eight countries of the original community participated in the presidential election at the time of the establishment of the federation.

After half a month's count, the results of the ballot papers are announced under the supervision of a United Nations notary. Out of 120 million votes cast by the citizens of the Somali Federation, Li Lan was undoubtedly elected as the first president of the Somali Federation with 110 million votes.

Such a high number of votes exceeded everyone's expectations, and Li Lan's approval rating exceeded that of any president in the world. Moreover, the Federal Constitution of Somalia provides for a five-year term of office for the President until the age of 72. If Li Lan maintains his approval ratings for a long time, he can continue to serve as the president of the Somali Federation for eight terms.

Five years have passed, and the second presidential election of the Somali Federation also came to an end a few days ago, and Li Lan deservedly won the election again and was re-elected as president with 98 percent of the vote.

With a support rate of 98%, Li Lan once again set a higher record, and in six years, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine twice, and Li Lan's deeds have been greatly affirmed by the world, except for the antagonistic relationship and personal feelings.

In just six years, he raised a country with a per capita GDP of only six or seven thousand dollars to a per capita level of 20,000 yuan. At the beginning of the Union, revenues in the first fiscal year were $500 billion, and five years have passed. Revenue growth has increased annually for the fiscal year, with an average increase of 40%. It has become the world's fourth largest economy after Japan, and continues to narrow the economic gap with Japan.

And economic success. This is only part of Li Lan's achievements, and in the past six years, Somalia has not participated in any regional military conflicts, and after the Houthis formally won power in Yemen, Somalia has not carried out any foreign military operations.

However, no one dares to ignore Somalia's powerful national defense force, and Li Lan said at the beginning that there is one aircraft carrier a year, and now this sentence has not broken its promise.

At the time of the official establishment of the Federation of Somalia. Somalia's fifth aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier Bagua City, named after the capital Bagua City, was officially launched. The First Fleet's USS Carlin was converted into a training carrier, and the Bagua City replaced the Carlin as the core and main ship of the First Fleet.

In the second year of the Federation, the supercarrier named Mogadishu was launched and became the trump card symbol of the Somali Navy's Second Fleet, while the aircraft carrier Boroud, which was originally the Second Fleet, became a training ship like the Carlin.

Federal third year. On the same day, the supercarrier named Nairobi was launched, and the Somali Fifth Fleet was formed. Same. Li Lan officially announced that the Kalin would be presented to Pakistan at the end of the year. The two countries officially completed the handover ceremony of the aircraft carrier.

In the fourth year, the fourth aircraft carrier, named after the former capital city of South Sudan, Cuba, was launched as scheduled. The Somali Sixth Fleet was also established at the same time.

This year, with the Somali federal presidential elections after. The biggest question left for people is, is there still an aircraft carrier launched in Somalia?

With six aircraft carrier battle groups and an 80,000-ton training aircraft carrier, Somalia's conventional military forces, especially its navy, seem to have become the second largest in the world.

In terms of the Air Force, although it is not as attractive as the Navy, the brilliance of the Air Force is not at all weak to the Navy.

Somalia has three fifth-generation fighters, making it the first fifth-generation fighter in the world to have three types of aircraft, which is a huge honor in itself.

With the development of time, the Somali Air Force, like the Navy, has made great progress, and a large number of active fourth-generation fighters have been retired and sold, and more and more fifth-generation fighters have replaced the share of the main equipment of the Somali Air Force.

In six years, the Somali Air Force has more than 2,000 fighters, and the proportion of fifth-generation fighters has managed to exceed 50%.

There are more than 1,000 other types of aircraft, of which the number of transport planes and bombers is the largest, and together with some early warning planes, refueling planes, electronic warfare planes, and reconnaissance crews, it has formed a huge air force system.

UAVs are a relatively independent part of the Air Force, although the number of UAVs is not as large as the number of manned aircraft, but the scale is no less than the air forces of many developed countries.

However, many of these huge air forces were deliberately hidden by Li Lan, and although the outside world knew that the size of the Somali Air Force was gradually expanding, they did not really know the specific figures. More curiosity is focused on the fact that every time a new concept weapon appears at a defense exhibition in Somalia, one or two curious exhibits appear every year.

As an army on par with the navy in the Red Guard Corps, the achievements of its development over the years have also attracted special attention. The Somali Army has always been talked about, although it does not have the same aura of honor as the Air Force, but in the eyes of its opponents, it is the most ferocious ground combat force.

During the Somali War, no one was captured, which made the Somali Army supreme glory, and the spirit of fearlessness became the most dazzling banner of this army. After one war after another, an invincible army has been successfully created.

In the past six years, although this army unit has not once again stepped onto the world stage with its own fists, its strength has grown rapidly.

Five years ago, Li Lan formally established the military district system of the Somali Federation, and the entire Federation's 4 million square kilometers of land was divided into five military regions, following the original name of the Somali Military Region.

Up to now, the construction work of the five military regions is continuing, but the scale has already taken shape. In six years, 2,190 days and nights, the size of the Red Guard Army has reached 350,000 people, with five heavy divisions, five light divisions, two air assault divisions, two paratrooper divisions, and 12 independent brigade-level units.

Counting all the logistics units, the army is directly subordinate to the air force, and the entire Somali Federal Guard has more than 400,000 troops. The size of the garrison is three times that of the active force, and the army of the garrison alone reaches 1.2 million, and in six years. According to the military service law of the Federation of Somalia, reserve soldiers in the first and second years. Retirement has been completed by the end of the year. The third phase of reservists will also be retired.

The current Federation of Somalia has no shortage of soldiers, and Somalia, which has become the world's fourth largest economy, has also become the youngest country in the world. First of all, the population has grown tremendously in six years, as hunger and disease no longer threaten the citizens of the Union, and with the large number of Chinese immigrants, the population has grown by more than 8% per year.

And because of the environment in which Africans are generally more than born, many teenagers in Somalia have grown up smoothly, and the new babies rarely die. The low number of elderly people also makes the average age of the country as a whole low. Youth make up a high percentage of the country. Although this will bring about a big employment problem, it will also bring a very good supply of soldiers.

With good economic development, abundant military resources, and stable industry, the growth of the Somali Federation is natural.

In the face of the rapid development of Somalia, the United States, which has successfully transformed its economy, has also stepped up the pace of development, further promoting domestic production and manufacturing, and the economy has improved significantly.

But. The American people have not enjoyed much of the tangible benefits of easing economic pressures, as the ratio of US fiscal revenues to GDP has increased from 30% to 44% in the past six years. The same proportion as France and Germany.

The ratio of fiscal revenue to GDP in countries around the world is generally around 20%-30%. If it is less than 20%, it is a light tax. The policy of resting with the people and hiding the wealth from the people. If it is higher than 30%, it is the policy of the state to concentrate on big things. The proportions are also the most reasonable. And once it exceeds 40%, it means that the country needs money too much.

It's like the Somali Federation. Last year's GDP reached more than $7 trillion, while fiscal revenues reached just over $2 trillion. It's been around 25% all the time.

The 25% figure is also the most taxed by the country, and of course the more developed the country, the higher the figure, but there are a few exceptions. But in European countries, almost none of them are less than 30%.

France and Germany have maintained around 44% for a long time, and in six years, the United States has increased from 30% to 44%, in order to have enough military spending.

Because since six years ago, the United States has resumed the production line of F-22 Raptor fighters and purchased a large number of F-35s, and the navy is also developing rapidly. With the acceleration of the installation of new equipment, the upgrading of old equipment, and the rapid growth of weapons stockpiles every day, the United States is preparing to resolutely win the next war.

Led by the United States, NATO countries have seen a great increase in their military spending.

The world has been calm for six years, and there is still an undercurrent surging under the surface, and both sides seem to maintain a tacit understanding, giving the outside world a feeling that the possibility of war has been zero.

However, in this calm, accompanied by the rapid increase in military spending of various countries year by year, Somalia's increasingly powerful military has stimulated the nerves of too many people.

As for the NATO countries, the United States has fulfilled its commitments, gradually loosened its control over the European Union, and intuitively displayed the threat of Somalia in front of Europe.

Now Somalia is still surrounded by many enemies, but this confrontation has changed from the bright face to a silent confrontation, and the best proof of this is that it is often seen on the news which country's warship has been launched again, or which country has increased military spending, and all kinds of news reports have never stopped in the past six years.

It's just that no one has officially counted these news figures, or anyone who has a heart has counted them, but they haven't been announced.

"It's been six years, and the original plan has finally been completed." Sitting in the control platform, Li Lan flipped through the development reports of the past six years and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Looking up at the amount of funds on the monitor in front of him, the series of numbers made his face a little more proud.

In the past six years, Yiqiē has developed according to the plan, and the ore refining plants are all over the Federation, and the fully automated collection and recycling has brought him more than 80 million yuan in capital income every day, and last year alone, the base capital income exceeded 30 billion. That's a huge amount of money, and it's all used to build an aircraft carrier battle group. Ten supercarrier battle groups can be created.

With such a large amount of financial support, plus the double build list and the construction of industrial factories and replica factories. Li Lan also experienced the blowout development of the base, even if this speed is far from the limit of the base, but it is already an unprecedented high efficiency.

In addition to this rapid development, the base has a surplus of 10 million or 20 million every day, and has accumulated nearly 30 billion so far. This value is also almost the amount of Li Lan's reserve strategic funds.

However, the next stage of the plan is to continue to speed up production efficiency by building a large number of barracks, tank factories, and other facilities, which is now only one-eighth of the original time, far from one-tenth of the plan. So there is still a lot of intense construction work in the next stage.

"Commander, you have a meeting of the Ministry of Defense at eight o'clock in the morning, all the participants in the meeting have arrived, and there are still ten minutes before eight o'clock."

The assistant's voice interrupted Li Lan's thoughts, and the latter just nodded, got up and sorted out, and walked out of the control platform.

Taking the elevator to the second floor of the base and walking through the passage connecting the Ministry of National Defense building, Li Lan quickly walked into the conference center located on the second floor of the Ministry of National Defense.

"Stand up."

When he appeared in the convention center. At Tanya's trumpet, everyone got up.

Walking to the main seat, Li Lan pressed his hands and motioned for everyone to sit down. Then he said: "The meeting is now open, and the main topic of today's meeting is only one, how to win a victory over a country with the world's top ten military strength within ten days. ”

Li Lan's words. In an instant, everyone in the entire meeting room was discussing, and Ling Liang and Tanya beside him had a pair of eyes. They all saw the slightest doubt in each other's eyes, obviously. Both of them were not mentally prepared for Li Lan's sudden topic.

At the top meeting of the Ministry of National Defense, Li Lan could not be joking with them, nor would it be a simple discussion, and there must be a deep meaning in it.

"Commander, according to the military ranking, there are nine countries within our consideration, of which the United States, China and Russia do not need to say much, that is certainly not our goal now, India can also be ruled out, although we have achieved the fourth, but India's population and land area, if you want to defeat India in ten days, it is impossible for any country in the world to use nuclear weapons.

Therefore, the next thing left is the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, Japan, Israel, among the above five countries, Britain and France are NATO countries, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization contract is fundamental, and now we are not suitable for a direct war with NATO, so there are three countries left.

Relations between South Korea and China have progressed smoothly in recent years, and the United States has finally returned command to the South Korean Ministry of National Defense; because of the close relations between China and Somia, it is not appropriate to take action against South Korea, and in addition, we also have a lot of economic exchanges with South Korea, and the interests of both sides are huge, but there is no direct dispute, and South Korea can also be ruled out.

Therefore, only Israel and Japan are left, and Israel naturally does not need to say more, its attitude towards Islamic countries has never changed, and Israel's military has developed greatly over the years, and according to the numerical estimate of the combat strength of the Ministry of National Defense Evaluation Center, the combat capability of the Israeli army has ranked among the top ten in the world. And Israel, which is vigorously developing its military, is obviously a move aimed at us.

In recent years, Japan has relied on its economic superiority and has also made great efforts to develop its military, further breaking through the pacifist constitution, and with a little indulgence from the United States, it is not far from the day when Japan will completely get rid of the pacifist constitution, and over the years, Japan has successfully developed a fleet and air force with good combat effectiveness. And our relations with Japan have always been bad, and Japan has repeatedly protested against the pastures we have built on the southeastern islands of China, and more importantly, it was Japan that triggered the Vietnam War, which is a hatred that we and Japan can never dissolve.

Among the top 10 countries, the best countries to be rivals are Israel and Japan. But Israel has nuclear weapons, and Japan is far away from us, and the war requires a long journey and too long supply lines. In addition to these two issues, there is an even more important issue, which is the United States. Israel and Japan are both allies of the United States, and Japan has signed a mutual defense treaty with the United States, and the United States has the obligation to send troops to protect Japan in the event that we attack the Japanese mainland. Israel is also a traditional ally of the United States, and in the event of a war, it is very likely that the United States will be drawn into the war. It will even affect NATO. ”

After briefly sorting out the pros and cons of Li Lan's topic, Ling Liang asked Li Lan: "Why did the commander think of taking action against the top ten countries in the world's military at this time?" ”

"You'll know about this later, and the question will continue to be discussed." Li Lan said lightly. Since he knew what the so-called global military force was six years ago, he had been determined to complete the second task of ultimate authority, Ling Liang's words had been clear enough, but he had no intention of giving up.

Six years of development and preparation are not for the sake of peace, they are all moving closer to war, and after six years have passed, the strength of the Red Guard Corps has skyrocketed, and there is no need for him to continue to wait.

"Which one is the Commander targeting?" Tanya asked.

"Japan or Israel." Li Lan said.

"Israel has nuclear weapons, and Japan can also have nuclear weapons in a short period of time, and it is not easy to mess with the army that can enter the top ten in the world. If it is against Japan, in my opinion, it is better to target Israel, at least the United States has no reason to force troops to intervene. Ling Liang continued. (To be continued......)