Chapter 421: To Fight or Not to Fight

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As soon as Abe's words fell, the vice chairman of the Japanese Security Council stood up and said: "I think that the war has reached the point where there is no reason to continue, and we, the sons and daughters of the Yamato nation, cannot really help the Americans block the guns." ”

"And what is our previous investment?" As soon as the words of the vice chairman of the security council fell, someone got up and asked.

The Security Council, which is an advisory body to the Prime Minister on national security, is actually the decision-making body for Japan's national defense. The position of Speaker is held by the Prime Minister, that is, by the Prime Minister, and is equivalent to the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Armed Forces.

As Abe's deputy, the deputy speaker is a powerful figure, and his status is no less than that of the chief cabinet secretary. When he heard someone retort to him, he continued: "First of all, we must know whether there will be a breakthrough if the war continues. Today's battlefield in Somalia is a bottomless pit, and we must get out of it as soon as possible, especially the Japanese peacekeepers who are being transferred to Somalia from South Sudan and Central Africa, and we can no longer let the Japanese shed blood for a fruitless war. Otherwise, we will all be sinners of the Yamato nation. ”

At this time, Shigeru Iwasaki, chief of staff of the Joint Staff of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (chief of the General Staff), stood up and said, "Yes, it is the most wrong decision to deepen the war that is meaningless to Japan. We have seen the enormous harm of this war, and we must change it now. We can't make mistakes again and again, because once we make a mistake in the depths, there is no room for us to recover. Don't forget, around us, there is also a China that is eyeing the tiger. Once the wounds suffered by the United States in Somalia have not yet healed. And if China, Somalia, and Russia unite, the result will be a real disaster for Japan. The economic crisis is only temporary, and the military damage can be decades or even centuries. ”

One of Japan's four most powerful ministers has already stood up against the war, and many people have also looked to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera.

Suga Yoshihide didn't have the so-called cautiousness, he stood up directly and said: "We have seen too many things in this war, and the Chinese have been scheming since ancient times. Although we don't know when China began to lay out the Somali chess move, it is unbelievable that an African army can be built so strong. The whole world. I am afraid that only the United States has such a capability, and it is indeed difficult to imagine that this matter is what China calls it. Whether the war continues or not, do not comment for the time being, in the case that the United States has not officially stated its position. We also need to think carefully. ”

Speaking of which, Suga's voice began to change. "But." We should not just see that at present, Somalia has too many world-class scientific and technological skills, capable of building 80,000-ton aircraft carriers, and its industrial level is only comparable to that of the United States. According to the Maritime Self-Defense Force, Somalia's submarines are extremely quiet. The sonar response and the Earth's magnetic field response are comparable to those of the American Seawolf-class submarines. The overall situation shows that the enemy in front of us is an opponent who is not weaker than ours. Even in some of the technological aspects. We are not as good as each other.

Moreover, if the two 80,000-ton aircraft carriers had been placed before the war, I am afraid that the world would only laugh at whether Somalia has the strength to use these two aircraft carriers. Now I am afraid that it is also clear that in the short confrontation between the navies, it can be clearly concluded that the tactical literacy of the Somali army is no worse than that of any other country's army. And they are not as backward as the world thinks, on the contrary, they are astonishingly skilled in using these high-tech weapons.

And if such a scenario is placed on China, I am afraid that even the United States will not be able to continue to maintain its superiority. To put it simply, according to China's economic and shipbuilding capabilities, it will not take a few years to organize at least six aircraft carrier battle groups with actual combat capability, and this will be an extremely dangerous thing for us.

Therefore, I would like to hope that when making the most difficult decision, I will think carefully about the future path of Japan. ”

Suga's words are very clear, and everyone in the conference room is not an idiot, so they naturally understand the powerful relationship here. However, he also did not say whether he should continue to fight. There are still a lot of problems left to everyone.

Most of the people in the room nodded in agreement with his words. As far as Japan is concerned, Somalia is really beyond the reach of the whip, and the only countries that can enter Japan's strategic circle are China, North Korea, and Russia. Japan can go and woo African countries, but its main interests are not in Africa, and if it were not for the great benefits given by the United States, there would be no need for Japan to enter the war. Even if the Myoko incident caused Japan to lose face, it has not yet reached the point of war.

As far as Japan's current strategy is concerned, it is to enlist countries in other regions to become friends, and then fight against China's rise together, and use this to use the threat theory of China's rise, and then let the United States loosen its reins in the action of encircling China. The ultimate goal is to complete Japan's transformation from a non-sovereign state to a sovereign state, and to acquire the same rights as all normal countries.

This is a very long road that will take a long time to go through, and during this period, Japan will not only have to figure out what the United States thinks, but also have to grasp the situation. In the case of constantly stimulating China, and then ensuring that it will not touch China's bottom line, and in this way, it will achieve its desired goals. This tightrope-like strategy is the most helpless choice for Japan at present.

However, the rise of Somalia has made Japan discover that there are too many things that people can't see in this neighbor China. The appearance of Somalia's two aircraft carriers has left the whole world with too many things to be puzzled about.

As we all know, aircraft carriers have always been a symbol of great powers, especially in the era of aircraft carriers in the context of modern warfare, heavy aircraft carriers fully represent a country's comprehensive national strength in the fields of industry, electronics, and scientific research. The ability to build a heavy aircraft carrier of more than 80,000 tons is unique to the United States in the whole world, and of course, the disintegrated Soviet Union is naturally not counted. The United States is still the only country in the world with more than 70,000 tons of aircraft carriers.

In terms of the sharp weapons of a great power, the United States has always been the leader, and no one can shake its position.

Since the appearance of Somali aircraft carriers. Japan has conducted an in-depth analysis of this incident from various angles, and the result is still a veil of mystery. This unknown thing that is not mastered is the most annoying. This is true for the United States, and it is also true for Japan. And the most important thing for the United States and Japan is the relationship between Somalia and China, and the first leader of Somalia is an out-and-out Chinese, which is the most unacceptable thing.

In light of the general deeds of Somalia, the Japanese side also believes that the presence of Somalia will soon break the situation they expect and fall into an uncontrollable situation.

Japan's top brass also had the idea of stifling Somalia. Then the United States promised great benefits, and the result was that Wang Ba looked at the mung beans and squeezed them together smoothly.

However, the result of the matter was difficult for the coalition forces to accept. This also includes Japan. I thought that under the union of the four countries, even if the Soviet Union was reborn at the beginning. They can still win. Outcome. A hard tortoise shell that makes it as difficult for them to cross as a barrier between heaven and earth.

Japan also suffered a lot of losses in this war, and the combination of military and economic measures made Japan begin to wake up and continue the war. Maybe it really gets out of hand.

The head of the Defense Agency also stood up at this time, but instead of following Suga's words, he expressed his opinion, "No matter what the future holds." The priority now is to get out of this unfavorable situation, and we are not fully prepared to allow the efforts of our ancestors to pass in our hands meaninglessly. So, I think this war must be stopped immediately, and we cannot afford it right now. ”

The Deputy Prime Minister followed suit with his own opinion: "Regardless of the wear and tear of the war or the economic difficulties. There is another very important thing before our eyes, and that is the mood of the people. The rising tide of anti-war among the people has begun to spread rapidly, and even many right-wingers have made it clear that Japan's involvement in this war is the biggest mistake and is completely inconsistent with Japan's strategic national policy. Speaking of which, the Deputy Prime Minister took a deep breath and continued, "If we do not change this situation as soon as possible, we may be able to use the national approval rating brought about by the economic recovery to quickly decline, and then we will be a running party again." ”

The last sentence speaks to everyone's true heart, not long after the Liberal Democratic Party took office, many of them are from the Liberal Democratic Party, and they were all appointed by Shinzo Abe after coming to power.

After World War II, Japan implemented a system of local self-government, and local leaders were directly elected by the local government, making it difficult for the central government to interfere in local affairs. The LDP's local branches, known in Japan as local federations, gain leverage in the Diet elections by allowing politicians to gain political resources and connections at the local level. Those hereditary second and third ancestors also inherited the political assets of their fathers and grandparents in the local area. Since Japan had a central constituency system from the post-war period until 1996, the country was divided into 130 independent constituencies, and voters in each constituency voted for a total of 480 members of the House of Representatives. The biggest difference between the LDP and other political parties at that time was that it did not have a strong centralized central party department, and the local power was huge and intertwined. Due to the importance of local management, various corruption problems have also begun to breed and spread, and money politics, power-for-money transactions, and various corruption problems are not uncommon.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been able to stay in power in Japan for a long time without the support and support of the United States. As the front line of the United States in Asia against China and the Soviet bloc, the United States handed over a large number of military orders to Japan during the Korean War, and since then Japan has been moving towards economic recovery, which is known as the Jimmu boom in Japan. On the surface, the United States did not directly intervene in Japan's political ecology excessively, and then successive Liberal Democratic Party governments in Japan were well aware of the importance of the Japan-US alliance; in the past, the United States directly occupied Japan's territory, and good relations with the United States were the prerequisite for regaining territory, and then the security guarantee of the United States during the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was the pillar of Japan's defense against the Soviet Union. Japan-US relations are complicated and sensitive to Japanese political circles, and the biggest failure of the DPJ Yukio Hatoyama administration is that it has failed to properly handle Japan-US relations.

Although the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has a lot of ideas, it has never exceeded the bottom line of the United States, but it has often been beaten by the United States, and of course, this kind of thing is also common in the history of Japanese political parties.

In the conference room, the discussion continued, and after listening to everyone's opinions, Shinzo Abe was constantly thinking about how this war should end. As the prime minister of Japan, he has full authority.

For the sake of this country, he can wag his tail in front of Obama and beg for mercy, or he can bare his teeth in front of China. And all this is to free Japan from the constraints of the pacifist constitution and become a normal and legitimate sovereign country, with its own army, and with a high degree of independence and autonomy.

It's just that the wish is very good, but the road is extremely tortuous.

Japan's participation in this war stemmed from the United States' promise that Japan would relax its restraints on Japan and hand over part of the Aegis system to Japan for production. That's a lot of leverage, plus the U.S. has promised that Japan will have priority in extracting resources if it takes Somalia.

Driven by money and strategy, Shinzo Abe readily agreed to the war. If he had known at that time that it would be the result of today, then he would never have agreed to the Americans. However, there is no regret medicine to take in the world.

Now that Shinzo Abe has realized the price he has to pay, although it is extremely heavy, he has no immediate intention of retaliation, but like most people, he quickly extricates Japan from this war.

However, this involves the meaning of the United States, which has already stepped on the American chariot, and now even if Japan wants to withdraw alone, it will not be so simple. According to common sense, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, but the safety of those Japanese soldiers around the battlefield does not have so much time for him to take his time.

After listening to all the opinions of everyone, Shinzo Abe also began to have a clear idea in his heart. After his hands tapped the table twice, and the conference room was completely silent, he spoke: "Regarding whether to withdraw from the war, this matter needs to be ......."

A knock on the door interrupted Abe's words, and in his displeasured look, a staff member of the staff department pushed the door and ran in, shouting in a very hurried voice: "Somalia...... Somalia has a nuclear bomb ......"

When the staff gasped and said this, the whole conference room fell silent, and some people who wanted to blame a few words were shocked by the news like everyone else. (To be continued......)