At half past seven o'clock in the morning of July 23, when Cactus Garner got up and sat in the courtyard of the White House for breakfast, his secretary brought him an urgent telegram from England. (There was a mistake in the previous chapter, I wrote the wrong time when the German fleet entered the Atlantic, it should be the 23rd, it has been corrected)

Glancing at the telegram, Cactus Garner murmured in his stomach in a voice that only he could hear:

"I don't have time to mind his business now."

It's July, and a new round of the U.S. presidential election is about to begin. Although Cactus Garner has the support of several big conglomerates in the United States, he is also facing a lot of campaign pressure.

Just violating the tradition that the president of the United States can only serve two terms, the negative impact of this is not small. And the recent "rectification" of the media has also seriously offended the forces of the left in the United States.

The current United States has not yet undergone the cleansing of the McCarthy era, and the domestic left and sympathetic socialist forces are not small. Ghana's political opponents, especially the Republican Party, are now making a big fuss about his actions in controlling media speech, claiming that the President of Ghana is undermining the tradition of "free people" in the United States and is making the United States fascist -- although the Republican President will continue his policies after taking office, it is always very easy for the opposition parties to stand on the moral high ground and say false and empty words before they come to power.

In May, the U.S. Navy poured out to carry out a full escort operation, which at that time almost brought the United States to the brink of war. Although there was no war between Germany and the United States because of Germany's voluntary concession, the people have become quite vigilant about this policy of Cactus Ghana.

"Liberal and democratic America is dying!"

"To choose Ghana is to choose war!"

Similar slogans have been voiced by opponents of the presidential candidacy for a third re-election. Compared with the black-bellied and sinister Roosevelt, Cactus Garner's wrists were too rough and exposed, which left a lot of hidden dangers for his third campaign.

On the table of the President of Ghana, in addition to this morning's newspaper, there is also a copy of Time Magazine, which has just been published, and the cover of the magazine is the President of Ghana, and the background behind him is made up of two maps, each half.

The map on the left is a map of Europe, and the map on the right is a map of Asia, with a small note next to it: Asia or Europe, the United States at the Crossroads.

Europe first, then Asia, this is the current secret national policy of the US Government headed by the Democratic Party. The president of Ghana, who is bent on bringing the United States to world hegemony, has decided to take the most difficult path, even if it is to confront the Soviet Union and Germany, in order to immortalize history as the greatest president in American history. Since the convoy in May, Europe and Asia have become a banner of the Democratic Party, and he represents the power of radicals in the United States.

Asia first, then Europe, is the slogan shouted by the Republicans in the opposition now. After the end of the French campaign, there was no suspense about the collapse of the old world order of the Anglo-French alliance. Who will fill this void and how to fill this gap is a big topic. In the eyes of Republicans, the idea that the president of Ghana wants to eat Asia and Europe is too risky and too radical, which means that the United States will confront the Soviet Union and Germany at the same time, and the risks and costs are too great.

At present, in Europe, the German government's public opinion propaganda calls this war a war secretly instigated and launched by the "military-industrial complex" of Britain and the United States, saying that the US government has been kidnapped by the military-industrial complex at home and is trying in every possible way to draw the United States into the war for the sake of the interests of the dead arms dealers. There are also no few people in the United States like Louis, a female reporter for the New York Times, who do not oppose the United States entering the war, but they oppose the impatient intervention in the war in Europe as Cactus Ghana. In their view, the time when the United States entered the war should be when the old Europe was defeated and dying, and not when Germany was at its peak, which was tantamount to "being used as a gun by the British and shedding hundreds of thousands of gallons of blood for the hateful British."

In the 1940 U.S. presidential election, in terms of foreign policy, the Democratic Party played the European card, aimed directly at Germany, and talked a lot about the Soviet Union and Germany, especially the German threat theory.

The Republican Party, on the other hand, is targeting Japan, which is competing for meat with the United States in Asia, and shouting the theory of the Japanese threat.

Compared with Roosevelt in history, it will be difficult for the president of Ghana to be re-elected for a third term. At this critical moment, the surface fleet of the German Navy once again started to break the diplomatic operation, and the weakened British Royal Navy was powerless to resist at all, so it could only send a letter of request for help at this time, hoping that the President of Ghana would send a large fleet to escort the whole process again, as he had done last time.

However, this is a sensitive moment before the start of a new round of presidential elections in the United States, because the last time the US Government violated the principle of neutrality and openly ended up in an ugly manner, the President of Ghana has been very much turned his back on politics afterwards, and there are also many voices among the people who think that he is a warmonger who wants to draw the United States into the war on his own initiative -- in a word, he has done it too explicitly, too naked, and too unknowingly to hide it.

However, if Ghana always conducts another full escort operation, the huge negative factors and consequences will be unbearable for the President of Ghana, who is bent on re-election for a third term. Hannah believes that now is the best time to force the British to make peace, and she sees the opportunity of the US presidential election. At this point in time, it is difficult for the President of Ghana to muster the courage to send a fleet again to escort the entire escort.

At present, after a long period of broken diplomatic relations with the German Navy, it is becoming more and more difficult to import materials from overseas, because the intelligence from Britain shows that the supply of civilian daily necessities has dropped to a very bad level. If you work harder at this time and tighten the neck of the British a little more, you may not necessarily kick out John Bull, who has only half a breath left.

The situation was exactly as Hannah expected, in front of the White House table, in front of the Ghanaian president's table, he read the "Washington Post", the front page of this newspaper was the headline of the German Navy's breakthrough fleet into the Atlantic, and the content was not only to report on this serious incident, but also to discuss whether the US government will organize the navy again this time as it did last time, and form a super-large ship group to carry out the whole escort activities.

This time, Germany entered the Atlantic Ocean to carry out a campaign to break diplomatic relations, but did not keep it secret, but instead "spoke" in a high-profile manner and hyped it up in advance. Under Lin Han's Jianyì, Hannah used this kind of "yang conspiracy" to put pressure on the president of Ghana.

"Damn, what do the people in the news management office do to eat, how can such news be published?"

Garner cursed in his heart, but did not say it. He knew in his heart that he had offended too many people by strengthening news control and controlling public opinion. The article on the front page of the Washington Post, which appears to be neutral on the surface, actually has a flavor between the lines: the Ghanaian government is preparing to send the United States into a war in Europe with another "full escort".

And in the morning, when Garner called a meeting of his staff to discuss whether to send a fleet to escort the British, who were already on the edge of the cliff, his campaign team told him "unfortunate" news.

Recent opinion polls show that support among the public has been declining due to Mr. President's overly blatant partiality on European issues. Only 60 percent of Americans surveyed said they would vote for Ghana in the election. In addition to the fact that he violated the "tradition" of running for president three times, another reason for the opposition of those who lost votes was that the president of Ghana was a warmonger like Hitler, and agreed with the saying that "to elect Ghana is to vote for war" that has been widely circulated in the United States in recent months.

The feelings of the people are sometimes so short-sighted and utilitarian.

In February of this year, when the "Washington Treaty" was signed, the entire United States applauded the President of Ghana for "robbing" the empire on which the sun never sets. At that time, Ghana's reputation was at its highest point.

However, since he openly sent a fleet to participate in the whole escort, his public approval rating has been declining since then, which is close to 80 percent. Ghana's presidential campaign aides have warned the president of Ghana that it is inappropriate for him to enact a national policy that will provoke voters in the sensitive period leading up to the election.

"Damn the Germans, what a good time! And the damned British, and the incompetent French"

Listening to the warnings of his aides, the president of Ghana was very depressed, and the Germans really chose the best time to encounter such a thing at a critical moment before the general election. At the beginning of the land campaign in Western Europe, although the US government was not optimistic about the Anglo-French forces, it believed that they could hold out on the Western Front for at least a year and a half, and with the Maginot Line as the backing, it would be easy for the Anglo-French forces to drag the Germans for a year or even two years here.

However, not only the US government, but also the vast majority of military strategists around the world never dreamed of it: Britain and France joined forces to collapse on the battlefield in Western Europe after only one month, France raised the white flag and surrendered early, and the whole of Western Europe, except for the "timely neutral" Netherlands and the "two teeth" (referring to Portugal and Spain), all fell into the hands of Germany.

Originally, according to the president of Ghana, he would find an excuse to manipulate Parliament after 1941 after he was successfully re-elected for a third term, and then declare war on Germany. There are many reasons why the United States wants to declare war on Germany, such as the American citizens who were "mistakenly injured" on the freighter sunk by Germany's submarine warfare, the fact that the Germans owe the United States a huge amount of loans and cannot afford to repay them, and so on. Even if you can't find a good reason, if you really can't do it, you can just play a bitter trick and just create an excuse, just like the United States did in the war against Spain. R1152