Chapter 132: Righteous Action
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At a time when the United States has not yet made further progress in its campaign to subvert Saudi Arabia, Bush, who has always pinned his hopes on using violence to solve the problem, has found an opportunity to test his head. Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info{{}}
Panama!
For the United States, the whole of America has always been regarded as their white spoon back garden, and Panama has a special geographical location, located on the S-shaped Isthmus of Panama connecting North and South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south, Colombia to the east, and Costa Rica to the west, so its strategic position is very important. Moreover, more importantly, the 81.3-kilometer-long Panama Canal has been dug on Panamanian soil, which is an important waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, so that ships do not have to go around to Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America, when sailing, and shorten the distance along the coast of the two oceans by more than 10,000 kilometers, which is of great strategic significance to the United States. Without the canal, the cost of going from coast to coast in the United States would have skyrocketed. This canal is as important as the Suez Canal.
Moreover, Panama is the forward position of the United States military deployment in South America, and the United States has 14 military bases in Panama with a total of 13,000 troops, and they have the U.S. Southern Command in Quarry Heights in the Panama Canal Zone, including the base on Caleta Island. It is the main electronic communications base of the United States, which can maintain communication with the submarines of the United States Navy in two oceans. The other Howard Air Force Base, the largest U.S. air base in Latin America, controls all air operations in the Western Hemisphere. Therefore, Panama is of great strategic importance to the United States, and the United States absolutely does not want to withdraw its troops from Panama.
The Panama Canal is a pain in the hearts of the people of Panama, and although this canal flows on the land of Panama, it is controlled by the United States. In 1903, the United States seized the right to dig the canal and a permanent lease of the canal zone at a low price of $10 million in a lump sum and $250,000 in rent per year. Ten years later, the canal was opened, and it became American territory, with the American governor appointed by the American government, the American flag raised, and the laws of the United States enforced.
The United States stole more than $100 million a year from the canal toll tax, but only a fraction of the rent was handed over to Panama.
In particular, seeing that the Egyptians finally nationalized the Suez Canal after unremitting struggle, the Panamanian residents began to get excited again. In the fifties and sixties, Panamanian citizens held several protest demonstrations for sovereignty in the Canal Zone. Finally, after decades of struggle, the heads of the United States and Pakistan signed the new Panama Canal Treaty in Washington on September 7, 1977. The abrogation of the 1903 treaty revoked the prerogative of the United States to occupy the Canal Zone in perpetuity, which would be under the full control of Panama after 31 December 1999. Moreover, from 1990 onwards, the head of the Canal Zone Management Committee should be nominated by the Pakistani side.
Although the United States signed the agreement, the United States absolutely did not want to return the management of the canal to Panama.
And now, that opportunity has finally arrived. In 83, the ambitious Noriega forced the then military leader to retire from Rubén Dario Paredes through a coup d'état, and became commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, taking control of the military and political power. Moreover, after the presidential election in May this year, although the presidential candidate Guglielmo Ndara jointly nominated by the opposition parties won the election, Noriega declared the election null and void and Noriega became the head of state.
And Guglielmo, leaving Panama, arrived in the United States, and the United States thus got a good opportunity: to overthrow the Noriega regime and prop Guglielmo to power!
The United States imposed economic sanctions on Panama, and military preparations were gradually taking shape, and in order to prevent jungle guerrilla warfare in the Noriega Mountains, they mobilized the 82nd Airborne Division and special operations forces adapted to tropical jungle operations from the mainland. After months of planning, the U.S. military was ready to stop and began to actively look for an opportunity to invade.
The opportunity soon came, on the evening of December 16, four prepared American ** from the Panama Canal Zone, when they drove past the location of the headquarters of the Panamanian Defense Forces, they opened fire in the direction of the headquarters. As a result, the angry Panamanian soldiers immediately returned fire, and when outnumbered, one officer in the car was killed and the other wounded.
When the news came back to China, the US top brass finally became angry, and this bloodshed became a favorable excuse for the United States to do so.
"We have a large number of our white spoon citizens in Panama, and the money we pay in taxes in the United States has created a powerful military force in the United States, and this force is definitely not pretending. {{}}" President Bush's voice resounded on the roof of the White House: "Now, Panama's pseudo-zhèngfu may harm our white-spooned citizens at any time, we will never tolerate similar incidents in the Iranian embassy to continue, moreover, Panamanian zhèngfu has been engaged in drug smuggling activities, and we in the United States want to serve the interests of all categories, fight against Noriega's pseudo-zhèngfu, and hand over power to the real president elected by the Panamanian people!" ”
President Bush has a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, ten years ago, President Carter caused American citizens to be harmed in Persia because of his improper handling, and President Bush took out this incident to fully show his concern for American citizens, and every American citizen must not be harmed!
After listening to President Bush's words, Secretary of Defense Richard Bruce Cheney on the side, there was a glimmer of glint in his eyes, after Bush took office as president, Cheney became Secretary of Defense, and his attitude was somewhat like that of Breniev in the past, aggressive.
During Cheney's journey to life, he actually had no experience in the military, so for Cheney, many people doubted President Bush's choice to let such an induction become secretary of defense?
Now, Cheney has leapt to the ground, and Panama is a brilliant start to his career as secretary of defense!
"Yes, we must use our white spoon force to overthrow Noriega's military regime and support Ndara as president. {{}} Ndala is the president of Panama who was elected by the people in accordance with the legal process! Cheney said.
With Endara, the United States has a reasonable excuse to be in Panama, and since Ndala returned to Panama with the help of the United States and became president, then the relationship between the United States and Panama will become intimate again.
"Your Excellency, we have formulated a strict operation, and we will use dozens of aircraft, including our latest F-117 stealth aircraft, including more than 20,000 troops stationed in Panama, to overthrow Noriega's rule in the shortest possible time!" Cheney continued, already full of confidence.
Panama's army, at best, a third-rate army, does not have any modern equipment, the only thing they need to worry about is that Noriega has escaped, they need to capture Noriega and put him on trial in public!
"I approve this combat operation, the code name of the operation, Operation Justice!" President Bush said.
With President Bush's nod, the powerful U.S. team began to act.
In the early morning of December 20, 89, two strangely shaped planes were dragged out of the dedicated hangar, and the fuselage of the black sè seemed to be able to merge with the night.
This is the Topano Air Force Test Base in Huada State, and the two peculiar planes are the latest products of American cutting-edge technology, stealth fighters!
In the ammunition bays of the two planes, two laser-guided bombs have been mounted, which are their main weapons.
If you want to become a pilot of this kind of aircraft, you must be Jing Ying in the US Air Force, because there is no trainer for this kind of aircraft, and all training is carried out in the dark.
With the sound of the tower inside the headset, the two planes glided lightly from the runway and then took off quickly.
The United States has kicked off its righteous actions.
When the bombs of the F-117 were dropped on the anti-aircraft artillery positions of Auato, the Panamanian side learned that the war had begun.
However, in the face of the US ** team, their white-spoon resistance was almost negligible, and the United States entered and blew up Noriega's small private airport and destroyed Noriega's landline. Noriega's smuggling ship was also sunk, cutting off his air and sea escape routes and parachuting into Torrijos International Airport, occupying the airfield, blocking the bridge across the Pacola River, and then, countless American ** entered, took transport planes, and entered the battlefield.
Within a few years, Panama City, Cologne, Rio Alto and other large cities in Panama have been taken by the US military, and the US military has recovered Panama.
Faced with the situation in Panama, an exhausted Noriega entered the Vatican embassy and asked for political asylum. The United States sent more than 500 soldiers and more than 10 armored vehicles to surround the Vatican embassy and demand that the Vatican ambassador hand over Noriega.
Although the Panama operation was unanimously condemned by the outside world, and even the United States, a loyal ally of the United States, accused the United States of maliciously interfering in Panama's internal affairs, there is no doubt that this is a full display of American military strength, in this world, the United States' military power is always the most powerful, and the American stealth fighter, the F-117, has also been deified to the point of irreparability.
At the same time, this action also proclaimed Bush's strategy, that force is the best way for the United States to solve its problems, and that the troops raised by the tax revenue are for the United States!
Bush was very pleased with the operation, and at the same time, he also set his sights on the Middle East, where something had recently happened.