Chapter 68 Disarmament

An hour-long local war in the Middle East has plunged the whole world into new chaos, and in the era of global integration, mankind can no longer bear the impact of any local war.

The effects of the power outage in the Arabian Peninsula and the Suez Canal spread like a plague around the world, with the first to respond in the markets of Dubai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.

Military stocks bucked the trend, and Lockheed Martin, which made electromagnetic guns, performed the strongest, but compared to Pfizer, Pfizer's anti-nuclide was sold in all pharmacies, and people who had just experienced World War III were in the shadow of nuclear war.

The brick-builders in the media do their best to calculate how many nuclear warheads Israel has in its nuclear arsenal, how long it will launch a nuclear strike, and how many seconds it will destroy Suez. And the roadside news agency is not idle, all kinds of fake news are flying all over the sky, and decent data has been calculated and published, saying that after the surrender of North Korea, there is a difference of 120 kilograms between the plutonium list and the actual count, and there is reason to suspect that these plutonium flows from the black market to the warehouse of the Blackwater Company, and the Middle East nuclear war is on the verge of breaking out!

The price of digital products has also risen, the price of quantum computer chips has doubled by night, it turns out that there is a world's most advanced nitrogen production plant in Dimona, Israel, where ultra-high purity nitrogen is an important infiltrating agent for quantum computer diamond chips, without high-purity nitrogen, the semiconductor factory in Speke Bay, northeast of Lake Victoria, can only be shut down.

Even if the semiconductor factory in Spek Bay can be opened, the downstream market will increase the price as well. Since Karl came to power, air transport has been subject to high taxes due to huge carbon emissions, and semiconductor products that used to rely on air transport have switched to solar-powered sea freighters, and now the European market has to travel an extra 20,000 kilometers.

A land route from Lake Victoria to Alexandria Harbour was urgently opened, but more than 30 countries along the way made freight rates extremely expensive, making the end market complain.

This is true for small, lightweight semiconductors, and even more difficult for the giant robots of the Bavarian ironworks to get out, and the inventory on the Lake District stockyards is growing like a mountain, and the iron ore mines in Australia are shut down to the logging mills in the Amazon.

The more far-reaching impact is social psychology, everyone has heard of Blackwater for a long time, and they didn't care about it in the past, thinking that Blackwater is a high-level security company, and now this private company has defeated a country like Israel in less than an hour, where is the security of the world? What else is there for life? What about the order that the League of Nations keeps maintaining?

At least seventy percent of the thousands of countries that became independent during the Great Schisman have not yet established defense forces, and these countries are extremely panicked, and the computers of various think tanks are working at full speed to study the new national budget model, and calculate the funds needed to build corresponding defense forces according to the intensity of the war between Blackwater and Israel.

The Parliament of the League of Nations was full of fears that it would be too easy to establish an order and how easy it would be to destroy it, and that the League of Nations, which had spent five years putting the planet back on the path to prosperity, was about to be ruined by a local conflict.

Parliamentary delegates approached Chancellor Karl and asked him to urgently convene a conference of great powers to study a solution.

After receiving President Suez's request for mediation, Karl Rei went on to reconvene the former Action Committee countries to unite and put pressure on Blackwater, Cairo, Israel, Suez and Palestine for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.

Blackwater was the first to give in, in fact, they didn't want to make a big fuss, the best state is for countries to sign defense contracts with Blackwater but not to fight, the plan to attack Israel is carefully planned, in order to achieve a quick solution and try to avoid the expansion of losses, Blackwater certainly understands the psychology of the world, however, Blackwater did not expect that the world's reaction far exceeded their expectations.

When the President of the United States of America, on behalf of the League of Nations, demanded a ceasefire from Blackwater, Blackwater readily agreed, and the detachment of robots that occupied the Dimona substation withdrew, and they withdrew to Port Eilat on an electric truck provided by Israel, and the Dreadnought also turned off the optical stealth system to pick up the robots from Port Eilat.

At this time, the Israel Defense Forces had the opportunity to see the true face of this mysterious adversary, the fully concealed bridge was hidden in the hull, and the 64 vertical fire electromagnetic guns in the front and rear were also hidden designs.

Cairo and Palestine are better to say, seeing the withdrawal of Blackwater, they also withdrew their troops from the front line.

NEC sent an emergency rescue team, with the special approval of the international alliance, from Kanto to fly 20 flights to transport the entire set of converter station equipment to Dimona, thanks to the modular design of the converter station, after a day and night of intense construction, the Arabian Peninsula substation resumed work.

On the third day of Yom Kippur, although the canal locks in Port Said had not yet been repaired, at least the world's psyche was temporarily stabilized. This international turmoil came and went quickly, but the impact was far-reaching.

Representatives of Suez and Israel returned to the negotiating table, and after more than three months of consultations, a new plan was born, in which Suez and Israel would set up a joint venture to jointly operate the Suez Canal and the Aqaba Railway.

After the peace agreement was signed, the widening of the Suez Canal and the reconstruction of the Aqaba railway began at the same time, and the world was back on the track of prosperity.

Prime Minister Carr and a group of League of Nations parliamentarians are still working intensively to introduce a new and significant bill, the Disarmament Bill.

The 18-year-old parliament of the League of Nations has not yet formed a partisan party, and Karl's fruitful work in office for five years has won him enough reputation, and the success of the mediation of the sixth Middle East war has increased his prestige, and he has been successfully re-elected as the second prime minister of the League of Nations.

As a matter of fact, the disarmament bill is in full swing and does not allow for a change of staff, because the task is much more complicated and difficult than that of the Constituent Assembly.

On March 1, 18, the Disarmament Committee of the League of Nations was formally established, which was even larger than the size of the League of Nations Parliament, and was joined by defense officials from thousands of countries.

In order to prevent protracted and protracted marathon meetings, the Secretariat of the League of Nations has specially upgraded its conference system, so that everyone is concentrated in the parliament hall and no longer holds breakout sessions, and each delegate is issued with Samsung glasses, so that they can use facial vibrations to communicate multilaterally in a conference hall without affecting each other.

The bill drafted by the League of Nations went relatively smoothly as soon as it came up, and Carr proposed that the League of Nations had sufficient financial resources to keep the 4 percent League tax unchanged, and that the League of Nations should establish a standing army to maintain global order and prevent military conflicts, which in fact was to establish a world police.

This proposal was unanimously supported by the countries that did not have an independent defense force, and the Soviet-Israeli conflict frightened these countries very much; in fact, when Karl closed his door to draft the disarmament bill, the representatives of these countries in the parliament of the League of Nations had already united to prepare a disarmament motion.

According to the Disarmament Act, after the establishment of the Standing Forces of the League of Nations, countries with independent defense forces must gradually disarm within five years until they are completely dismantled.

The representatives of these opposing countries said that since the disarmament program is for the sake of permanent peace in the world, then there is no need for the League of Nations to establish a standing army, and the whole world will be demilitarized in one step. Is it really necessary to prepare for an alien invasion?

This time, Carr's hometown, the United States of America, did not give him face, and the United States of America also made unreasonable demands, throwing out an astronomical disarmament cost and demanding that the League of Nations pay the bill.

This is still a mainstream controversy, and there are all kinds of small-scale quarrels, and the meeting of more than 10,000 people put forward more than 1,000 kinds of bills, some of them global and some of them partial, and there are also technocrats who make a fuss about the military branches, proposing that countries retain their land and sea conventional forces, and that the atmosphere and outer space should be managed by the League of Nations.

Blackwater wasn't idle, and if Carl's bill passed, they would have to shut down. Blackwater hired a strong public relations team, and some countries that did not have independent defenses were persuaded to join the opposition camp.

Prime Minister Karl went too smoothly in the first five years, it felt too good, not counting the Zeus plan, he passed the international constitution, the Union Tax, and the Union Currency in succession, he thought that the disarmament bill was at most a level with the Homo sapiens bill, and it could be passed with a little heart, but the fact was completely opposite to what he expected, and the difficulty of the disarmament bill exceeded any previous case.

Despite the thoughtful work of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, the Conference on Disarmament has been a marathon session, and five months have passed without progress.

After the space power station was put into operation, it was a cool August in Geneva, and Karl was still feeling hot in his office, and Jerry stood beside him, and the briefing of the meeting clearly recorded the statement made by the representative of Israel today, and if there was no agreement on the substantive terms, Israel would withdraw from the Conference on Disarmament.

Is it the same as the disarmament conference of the League of Nations more than 100 years ago? Karl could not have imagined that after the defeat of the Geneva Disarmament Conference a hundred years ago, countries embarked on a path of frenzied military expansion, which eventually led to World War II.

The situation today is actually no different from a hundred years ago, if the disarmament bill cannot be passed, the countries without defense will continue to increase their budgets to build up their armies, and if there are thousands of armed groups in the world, it is possible to imagine that there will be a misfire every day! Under modern technological conditions, any local war can ignite a world war.

The more Carl thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he naturally asked, "Jerry, what do you think?" ”

"Compromise, the fundamental skill of a politician is to compromise! Retreat! Jerry saw that Carl was still puzzled and looked at himself and said, "Mr. Prime Minister, you are too striving for perfection, you want to make the disarmament bill achieve the effect of several bills in the first term, but it is too difficult, and it may make the most basic goal impossible to achieve." ”

That's right! What Jerry said is too reasonable, isn't compromise and concession his forte, didn't he use this trick to turn defeat into victory in the face of predicament? This is the case with the Action Committee when the anti-DPRK alliance is in place, needless to say, the Constituent Assembly also used this trick to defeat Liu Weiping, how could he get into the horns of the bull? Maybe it's been too smooth sailing in the past few years. "Go on!" He looked at Jerry expectantly, the chief of staff in front of him was crawling around in the League of Nations, and he was becoming a political veteran day by day.

"My report to you before my re-election said that oligopoly in the economy today is one of the top problems, and Blackwater is no exception. Despite the fact that it is not on the list of the Conference on Disarmament, the power of Blackwater surpasses that of any representative in the Conference. ”

Hearing Jerry start like this, Carl shook his head, and he waved the pen in his hand, "No, it's a joke to involve a private company in making the law." ”

Now it was Jerry's turn to shake his head, "No, it's not for Blackwater to participate in the Disarmament Conference, but for the League of Nations to abandon the establishment of a standing army!" "Compete

Carl suddenly stood up from the couch, "What? Let the League of Nations abandon the creation of a standing army? Isn't the disarmament bill a dead letter? ”

"Mr. Prime Minister, listen to me, the League of Nations' abandonment of the establishment of a standing army does not mean that it does not have a military force, and the Disarmament Act can give the League of Nations the power to use its budget to openly procure Blackwater's security services." Jerry's idea made Carl suddenly enlightened, Carl was not stupid, he had drilled the tip of the horns in front of him, Carl laughed, "You won't also receive the benefits of blackwater, right?" Hahaha! ”

Jerry smiled awkwardly, "As for the countries with defense strength, you don't have to force them to disarm, in fact, as long as the military is limited, as long as their military spending is maintained at zero growth, with the financial strength of the League of Nations, even if these countries are united, they are not capable of challenging Blackwater." ”

"You have thought too carefully, but this proposal cannot be put forward by me, and it is better to have it put forward by the members of the Disarmament Conference." Carl thought for a moment and instructed Jerry, "Arrange for me to meet with the President of the United States of North America and the CEO of Blackwater, and I will meet quietly, not on the Prime Minister's agenda." ”