Chapter 465: Breaking Selfishness
The US government has always been unwilling to lose the territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and even if it no longer launches large-scale attacks to seek death, it has always encouraged the US officers and men below to carry out all kinds of risky small-scale surprise attacks, in the delusional hope that they can break through those insurmountable and dangerous mountain passes. According to the reports sent back to China by the Rocky Mountain Defense Line www.biquge.info in 1908 they killed and wounded as many as 200,000 or 300,000 American troops in such skirmishes......
According to this exchange ratio, if the confrontation continues, even if the United States has the advantage of home field, it will definitely run out of oil before China. Moreover, for the United States, a country of immigrants, the war also means that the population, especially the high-quality population, will continue to flow out, and from this point of view, Li Hui does not believe that the US government has always been calm.
In addition, compared with China's current militaristic military system, in which all small soldiers have the hope of becoming marshals, the US military system is more focused on ensuring the stability of the big bourgeoisie, and in principle, ordinary soldiers can only be promoted to platoon commanders even if they have great merit (Note 1), unless there are special circumstances, such as being a typical example of promoting individual heroism or fortunate enough to be appreciated by big people, so the soldier's desire to fight is far from being compared with that of the Chinese army. At first, it was able to rely on patriotism and the lead of the officers, but as the war continued and there was no hope of victory, the blood eventually cooled.
And once the Soviet Russian revolution succeeds and helps China contain the European powers, a weapon of mass destruction that Li Hui has never dared to use can be brought out, and then it will inevitably be able to disintegrate the morale of the US military more quickly and push the balance of war to completely tilt to China's side. In fact, after the withdrawal of Tsarist Russia, the victory and defeat of this war have been divided in advance, and no matter how stubborn the Americans resist, they are just barely surviving, and the Chinese government is not only afraid of a protracted war, but has long been ready to win the final victory!
Of course, even if China is ready to fight a long-term war, it is still very beneficial to disguise itself as a dove of peace on the surface, and if it can end the war sooner rather than later under reasonable conditions, it will also be more beneficial for China, which is still only laying the groundwork. Therefore, Li Hui still wanted to release a signal of hope for peace to the outside world, only to see him say to Morrison with a regretful face, "In fact, the conditions we put forward are not excessive, the United States has committed many crimes against China in history, and has disregarded the norms of international law and declared war on our allies, since the outbreak of the war, more than 100,000 outstanding sons and daughters of China have sacrificed their lives for the country, as long as the wild land west of the Rocky Mountains will write off so many past grudges, can there be more lenient conditions than this?" ”
"Even if this war is fought to this extent according to your Western practice, the US government should have admitted defeat a long time ago, and we now have more than one million US officers and soldiers captured by us alone, and more have been killed than this, why are we still holding on to not surrendering?" Li Hui sneered when he said this, and then threw a huge bomb, "I'm afraid that it is not the American people who want to continue the war, or even the US government that wants to continue the war, but simply the US President Theodore Roosevelt wants to continue the war, right?" If he admits defeat, President Roosevelt, who advocated the start of this war, will definitely be held responsible, and he will inevitably step down after the treaty is signed, and his political career will be completely over! ”
Morrison finally behaved like a friend at this time, because once this inference appeared in the newspapers, it would definitely be big news, and he immediately cooperated with indignation, "I can't imagine that such an outstanding person can now be completely reduced to a dirty politician!" Obviously, there is no hope of victory, but in order to spend a little more time under the throne of the president of the United States, I want to let an unknown number of young Americans be martyred for him! It's despicable! It's so shameless! ”
As Li Hui expected, the content of this interview immediately caused a storm of public opinion in the Western world after it was published, and although Li Hui's accusation against US President Theodore Roosevelt was suspected of framing the enemy, it was indeed reasonable, and President Roosevelt could not defend it at all.
Originally, this was not a big problem, in fact, long before Li Hui stabbed this, some American reporters expressed doubts about the attitude of the Roosevelt administration to persist in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression when there was no hope of victory at all, and there was more than one, but these people were either fired by their bosses, beaten by the "patriotic masses", or even simply died unexplained, and the financial capital group behind President Roosevelt completely controlled public opinion, and a little noise was not enough to shake his position.
But things are no longer the same, and as the war continues into its third year, and as America's losses grow and its hopes of victory fade into the fold, even the financial oligarchy that had supported Theodore Roosevelt has begun to waver a little......
After all, the United States is a businessman-dominated country, and it is in their habit to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages in everything, and the same is true for the US government. The war between China and the United States has now formed a stalemate, and neither can defeat the other, and if the time is long enough, the balance of victory will gradually tilt in favor of China, which is definitely a loss-making deal. If the peace conditions proposed by the Chinese government are too harsh, there is no choice but to fight, but now in combination with the war situation, the conditions proposed by the Chinese government have become attractive to a certain extent, and finally some oligarchs are starting to be tempted......
Note 1: Almost all officers above the company commander level in the United States are graduates of military academies, and the tradition of bullying new students in American military academies can eliminate those "thorns" who pay attention to justice and fairness and dare to fight, so the regime (not the government) has extremely strong control over the military, which is also an important reason why large-scale revolution has never broken out in the United States in history......