Chapter 383: An Alliance on the Verge of Breaking (Part II)
On Diego Garcia Island, Optimus Prime begins to reflect on whether his alliance with the Yankees is correct, and thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., there is also a mood called uneasiness and anger fermenting at this time.
In recent years, with the recovery of Russia's economy and President Vladimir's increasingly hardline attitude towards foreign countries, the United States, which has been strictly guarding against Russia, has naturally become obsessed with Russia, and more than half of the satellites deployed in outer space have taken Russia as the focus of reconnaissance and surveillance.
As one of Russia's most important military ports, Severodvinsk, the Far North military port, which was the most important nuclear submarine manufacturing base for Polar Bears in the former Soviet Union, has always been the focus of surveillance by US spy satellites and high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.
Therefore, when a battle suspected of alien life invasion suddenly broke out in the middle of the night in Beigang more than 20 days ago, the US military noticed it almost immediately.
In the days that followed, they mobilized a large number of spy satellites, and even went so far as to send out Blackbird reconnaissance planes that had been announced to the public that they had been completely decommissioned, but in fact there were still several latest models in service with the Air Force.
As a result, as the U.S. military captured more and more spy images and pictures of Severodvinsk, a terrible idea arose.
"The Russians seem to have come into contact with those visitors from outside the world!"
In the United States, the existence of the 7th District and visitors from outside the world has been completely lifted with a battle in Las Vegas, which has completely lifted the ban on high-level American politicians, consortia and the military.
Therefore, Americans now know better than anyone that the reason why the United States of America was able to completely occupy the forefront of science and technology in the world after World War II was entirely based on the research of Megatron in the seventh district.
Therefore, they are even more worried that if their old adversary, Russia, also gets the black technology from Cybertron, a new Cold War is coming.
Unfortunately, once again, Murphy's Law jumped tenaciously and proved that while the likelihood of what the United States feared most was very small, it still happened.
The Severodvinsk military port, which has been monitored by the US military around the clock, suddenly disappeared from the map!
Yes, a few days after the alien visitors they had spied on suspected alien creatures had invaded Northport.
……
Although it was dinner time, the White House and the Pentagon immediately became a state of porridge after the latest encrypted intelligence was sent from the Sound Nest base on Diego Garcia Island.
Someone is gathering intelligence, someone is making assessments, and some are shouting on the phone, and countless American brains are constantly deducing in panic about the veracity of the information they have received, and what variables Russia will bring to the United States, its allies, and even the world if it is supported by extraterrestrial intelligent beings.
In the Oval Office, outgoing President Dick Cheney and his Secretary of Defense, cabinet members, and several staff and think tanks were urgently summoned here, and they didn't even have time to eat, and the whole office was now cloudy, and almost all of them had a gloomy face, or frowned, or closed their eyes and pondered, or whispered their thoughts with two or three people on the left and right.
After reporting to President Cheney, Defense Secretary Voight sat in his seat with a piece of information and coughed lightly, and only then did he speak after seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him.
“…… The Sound Nest has already sent an action report, Your Excellency the President, and gentlemen, as you already know, Operation Daybreak has failed! ”
The so-called "Operation Daybreak" is an action plan for the Autobots to send an elite team into Russia by surprise to investigate the current situation of the Severodvinsk military port, which has been shrouded in fog and has completely disappeared from the surveillance system of the US military.
Out of fear of this old adversary, which has a huge nuclear arsenal that is not inferior to the United States, the US Government rejected the military's request to use the latest [hypersonic strategic reconnaissance aircraft], which has just been developed and is still in the final commissioning stage, to intrude into Russian airspace and approach to secretly take pictures. It also halted the C.I.A.'s proposal to activate high-level spies who had been lurking in Moscow's top echelons for years.
They finally reached an agreement with Optimus Prime that Operation Daybreak would be run by the Autobots, and that Optimus Prime would send one of its most elite teams into Russia to explore Severodvinsk, which had disappeared from the map.
Then, the mission failed!
Surprisingly, the office was filled with high-level officials from the military and intelligence agencies, but it was Secretary of State Gabriel who spoke first.
“…… How the hell did those goddamn robots do it, and why did Operation Daybreak fail? ”
Gabriel, who was a little indignant, was the third and last secretary of state appointed during Cheney's tenure, and his first two terms, one was ousted because of his opposition to the war, and the other was because of his different position from Cheney, and the most important reason why Gabury was able to stay in the position of secretary of state for several years was because he was the spokesman of the US military-industrial complex.
"The Autobots thought they might have been spotted as soon as they entered Russia, which is why they were surrounded by Russian troops...... Major William mentioned in his report that the Autobots strictly adhered to the agreement with us, so they had some scruples about clashing with the Russians, and therefore suffered some losses in the course of the battle......"
Voight explained.
"...... [Operation Daybreak] is not a complete failure, the Autobots have basically determined that there are indeed Decepticons in Severodvinsk or Russia...... They have confirmed that super-powered electromagnetic interference devices are now deployed in Severodvinsk, and the Autobots suspect they may be from the Decepticons...... We don't know exactly how that electromagnetic interference device works, but the Autobots tell us that it's what made Severodvinsk disappear from our surveillance! ”
Knowing why North Harbor disappeared from the surveillance of the U.S. military is undoubtedly good news, but it is also bad news!
Because now all signs prove that what the United States fears most has happened, and their old adversary, Russia, may have come into contact with the Decepticons, and even received weapons and technology from Cybertron.
There was a commotion in the office, and President Cheney sat steadily, silent.
Like his predecessors, Cheney is less than ten months away.
During his tenure, he launched a war on terror that dragged the U.S. government into a quagmire, and several domestic turmoil last year, such as the explosion of the air base in Tucson, the destruction of a small part of Las Vegas, and the thousands of U.S. troops killed and wounded in Savochi County, will undoubtedly be the history of his tenure.
Therefore, he undoubtedly hopes to survive the last few months of his tenure.
Cheney is no longer willing to make any more mess and make himself one of the "most incompetent candidates of all time" for the presidency of the United States.
Therefore, at this juncture, he will not easily open his mouth, and in the last few months of his presidency, he will bring the United States and the polar bear to the brink of war.
But just because Cheney is silent doesn't mean anyone else will have any scruples.
Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, finally finished reading the document in his hand, and raised his head with some surprise: "...... Has the action report from the sound nest been confirmed to be true? ”
It's no wonder that he was so surprised, not long after the four cars entered the territory of Russia, and before they even arrived at their destination, they were discovered by the Russian army and given a head-on blow.
You must know that after the establishment of the sound nest, the U.S. military sent elite troops of the Army and Air Force to simulate many conflict battles with the Autobots in the name of joint exercises, but the results they achieved in the battles were very limited, so that the military and the government's staff and think tank teams even believed that in addition to nuclear weapons, it was difficult for the U.S. military's active equipment to hit these foreign visitors.
Secretary of Defense Voight nodded, looked at Pace and replied, "Along with the report, there is also a copy of the combat footage of the Autobots [Iron Sheet]!" Based on what we know about the Autobots in the past, they probably won't lie about this kind of issue, and it's almost certain that it's true! ”
As soon as the words came out, Gabriel's face showed an impatient smile of excitement.
His fingers slammed several times on the desk in front of him, and his voice was very excited: "...... That's great news! ”
There were no stupid people in the office, and several middle-aged people in military uniforms who had the same stance as Gabriel smiled and nodded when they heard this.
Yes, there are many people in the top echelons of the United States who are extremely hostile and distrustful of these visitors to the Autobots.
Previously, it was because of a conflict in Las Vegas that the U.S. government and the military had a serious fear of it, so it was because of the cooperation with Soundnest.
However, after mastering the hegemony of the earth in recent decades, they have long been accustomed to standing on the heads of other countries to, pee, and threaten, how can they accept that they also have an extra father on their heads.
So at the slightest chance to defeat or even destroy the Autobots, or all the extraterrestrial visitors, they can't help but put it into action.
The current Chief of Staff of the Air Force, an out-and-out American supremacist, could not help waving his action report in his hand almost as soon as Gabriel's words fell, and said in a loud voice: "Gentlemen, this operation is indeed very valuable. Our 'allies' don't seem to be as fearless as they have shown before, and of course I don't think the previous exercises say much, and many of our weapons are too powerful to be used in them! ”
The action report was whirring as he waved, but it was nowhere near as loud as his.
“…… The Russians are inferior to us in terms of fighter performance, and we can come up with better alternatives to missiles...... Even in long-range weapons, every soldier of the United States is confident that our equipment is the best...... So what they can do, we can only do better! ”
Voith interrupted him with a raised hand and nodded slightly at him, "General, I'm pretty sure of that. ”
But as soon as the words changed, his brows furrowed again, and he picked up the action report and raised it with a serious face.
"But...... The Sound Nest will continue, and our alliance with the Autobots will not have mission issues, at least for a short time...... Because, Russia! ”
Russia!
This territory straddles the Eurasian continent and borders the territory of the United States, and there are no less than 1,000 intercontinental missiles loaded with nuclear warheads aimed at the United States at all times.
Such an opponent, if he comes together with the Decepticons, who are even more dangerous than the Autobots.
Just thinking about it, many people in the office feel like a basin of ice water mixed with ice cubes is pouring over their heads.
In an instant, these politicians and generals, who represented the highest wisdom of the United States, suddenly reached a consensus.
The alliance with the Autobots will have to continue, at least until the Russian threat to the Decepticons is resolved.
But......
Many people's hearts began to rise in their own minds, maybe they could use this as an opportunity to ask the Autobots for more advanced technology and even alien weapons.
Cracks, somewhere invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly forming.