Chapter 54, Bald Eagle Doesn't Want to Be the Wronged Boss (I)

White House, Washington, USA

Since the spring of 1946, the atmosphere in the White House has been getting colder by day as the temperature has risen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the palatial Oval Office, a gray-haired President Truman sits in a swivel chair behind his desk, his face full of exhaustion.

In front of President Truman, there was a sea of reports from all the battlefields of the globe: unfortunately, almost all of them were bad news.

First of all, the anti-Soviet armies on the European continent are still repeatedly defeated and suffer heavy losses. The French Civil War, which was the main battlefield, had come to an end, and the French White Army, the Spanish and Portuguese joint intervention armies were almost completely annihilated, and the Red elements won the final victory. The most terrible thing is that an international column of Red Army from many European countries has crossed the Pyrenees and invaded Spain! Seeing that the second Spanish Civil War is about to break out!

In addition, the Soviet submarine forces had already engaged in a break-up battle in the Atlantic, and although these Soviet submarines were only concentrating on ambushing the British, Spaniards, and Portuguese merchant ships for the time being - for some reason, the Soviets were always able to catch these poor fleets in the vast ocean (it was strange that Wang Qiu's Doraemon plane black technology reconnaissance satellite was monitored 24 hours a day, and it was not possible to catch these slow merchant ships), but it was difficult to guarantee that one day there would be a real unrestricted submarine warfare, Expand the target to the "Freedom Wheel" and the "Victory Wheel" in the United States of America.

Then, the Japanese battlefield in the east also dragged on for a long time, turning into a huge black hole that continued to devour the wealth and human lives of the United States. Despite the fact that the Japanese emperor, Tokyo, the cabinet and the Diet were bombed to the sky, and the entire best of the country's land was occupied by the American army, and more than 10 million people were slaughtered by the American army like rats, these damned yellow-skinned dwarves still refused to surrender, and fought to the end even if the land was burned to char.

And the hateful Soviet polar bears pumped blood behind their backs, and General MacArthur, who commanded the US forces stationed in Japan, was unlucky enough to be caught by their sneak attack, stuffed into an iron cage and exhibited around like a rare animal, and made the headlines of major newspapers around the world! What a disgrace to the United States!

-- What made President Truman even more depressed was that after rescuing MacArthur, he had to continue to appoint this "star in the army" who had a prominent family background and close ties with the Wall Street plutocracy, and could not just kick him back to his hometown...... At best, MacArthur could only be kicked out of Japan.

In order to break this stalemate, Patton, who succeeded MacArthur in command of the U.S. forces stationed in Japan, had recently launched two large-scale ground offensives on the arc-shaped islands, with one victory and one defeat -- the Eastern Front Offensive defeated General Tadamichi Kuribayashi of the Hokkaido Army and fought from Utsunomiya to Aizu; The Western Front offensive failed to take Maizuru and capture the largest military port on the southern coast of Japan, but was pressed back to the starting position in Kyoto with his head pinched. Although it seized more than 10,000 square kilometers of land, it still failed to break the Japanese will to resist, and on the contrary, exhausted the materials and fresh forces that the logistics department had worked hard to hoard at the forward base in Tokyo Bay under the bombardment. As for the sacrifices and losses paid as a result, they are even more appalling.

“…… After only a month of fighting, 350,000 people were killed and wounded?! How exactly did Patton fight in Japan?!! ”

President Truman tapped his fingers on the table in annoyance, "...... Since the landing in Japan, the number of Allied casualties on the East Asian front has exceeded half a million! The loss of tanks, cars and planes is even more innumerable...... Such a bad battle is embarrassing to tell me that it was a draw? ”

“…… Ahem, Mr. President, it's not all General Patton's responsibility, you just saw the total loss statistics of the army, navy and air force. In fact, the bomber units of the Strategic Air Force alone lost six thousand bombers and thirty thousand crew members in these months! ”

Harry with a sickly face. Special Assistant Hopkins, sitting in a chair on the other side of the president's desk, coughed and whispered. In the past few months, his health seems to have deteriorated and deteriorated, and he is so weak to speak," ...... Then, on the route from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo and Sendai, Japanese submarines were also constantly engaged in broken engagements against us, and even relying on escort fleets could not guarantee the absolute safety of troop carriers. In the more than half a year since they landed in Japan, more than 50,000 young men of the Army and Marine Corps have been torpedoed to the bottom of the sea by Japanese submarines. Thousands of tanks and nearly a million tons of supplies were also sunk...... Of course, we also took out more than thirty Japanese submarines......"

“…… Didn't the Navy think of any way to improve the situation? It's not okay to keep going like this! ”

President Truman frowned and said, "...... Even if we could produce three free wheels a day, we wouldn't be able to withstand such consumption...... Moreover, there are fewer and fewer sailors who can maneuver ships. Although the seamen's school was expanded tenfold after the war, many of the sailors on the warships today are still landlubbers who can't even swim, let alone merchant ships, and it is said that many sailors only saw the sea for the first time when they were on ...... ships."

-- Although in the early days of World War II, the United States owned 40 percent of the world's industrial capacity, was known as the "arsenal of democratic countries," produced 80 million tons of steel and 200 million tons of oil annually, was able to produce 100,000 aircraft, 30,000 tanks, 100,000 heavy artillery, one million military trucks and jeeps every year, and could produce one liberty ship every 42 days, the country had an average of three or four liberty ships or victory ships launched every day, and the total annual output of various merchant ships was as high as 15 million tons, in addition to supplying and equipping the country's armed forces. It can also provide strong support to various allies.

But to achieve such a miracle of industrial productivity, there is also a price to pay. In order to maintain the functioning of the industrial system under the circumstances, many people who had previously been excluded from the factories before the war, such as women, blacks, child laborers, prisoners, the elderly, and the disabled, were included in the industrial army. In a factory that produced wooden minesweepers, the owner was forced to hire an octogenarian to build a ship. Aircraft factories employ dwarfs to inspect narrow parts of the wing, blind men to pick screws from floor scrap, and deaf people to work in factories where the noise is too high for normal people to stand. Six million housewives have also been mobilized into the arsenal, but they are still far from enough. As a result, the law had to be amended to put 3 million child laborers between the ages of 12 and 17 on the assembly line......

At the same time, because of the crowding out of industrial capacity by munitions, the output of various civilian goods had to drop sharply, and even if some good things were produced, they were all given priority to the front-line soldiers. As a result, with the wartime mobilization that lasted for more than four years, cigarettes, chocolate, butter, and candy gradually disappeared from the lives of ordinary American civilians, and civilian automobiles were basically discontinued after the war. Moreover, in order to obtain sufficient military spending while avoiding social unrest, the US Government did not dare to levy large taxes or issue money indiscriminately, but issued $400 billion in war bonds during the war, and basically collected most of the private wealth...... The White House has put the whole of America at the table, and there is no room for it to be stopped.

However, the performance of the U.S. military and the Allied forces on various battlefields around the world has been infinitely disappointing time and again......

Having suffered repeated defeats in the Pacific theater and having been robbed of territory by the Soviet Union in the European theater, President Truman is under great pressure at present.

-- In this era of war and war among the imperialist powers, it is not enough to judge the status of a country, it is not enough to have money and industry, but also to have a strong fist, otherwise the status will not be much higher: after all, every empire must step on the corpse of another empire to ascend to power.

Spain relied on hundreds of years of raiding the Americas and accumulated countless gold and silver, but because of its poor performance on the battlefield, it was ridiculed as a weak chicken very early. The Czech Republic inherited the industrial core of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and in the early 20th century, it was a good industrial powerhouse in the world, but because it surrendered without a fight in the face of Nazi Germany, its status in the rivers and lakes was not as good as that of Finland, which was poor and white at that time, and the Finns fought fiercely with big men like the Soviet Union.

In the same way, although the United States of America in this time and space has such a huge amount of capital, produced so many things, and armed so many troops in the ring of World War II, as long as these things have not been translated into corresponding achievements, then the so-called "American imperialism" is still a joke.

Empire means war and conquest, it means hegemony and prestige: from ancient times to the present, from the East to the West, there is no empire that cannot fight!

What's worse is that for the White House, Capitol Hill and Wall Street, a world war that has not been won, or even just a world war that has not reaped enough spoils, is enough to plunge these ruling classes of the United States of America into an unprecedented nightmare!

-- During the World War, the savings of all American taxpayers were collected under patriotic slogans through various acts, authorized documents, bonds, stocks, and contracts, and transferred to the accounts of the major capitalists. It was then used to purchase machines, test weapons, replace obsolete production lines, and switch to profitable or lucrative weapons and munitions. And this is only a part, and a part of the money, including the profits from the production of munitions and weapons, is not all invested in the development and production of new products. Instead, it is used to buy stocks, real estate, bonds, foreign mines and land, to finance government-in-exile, to transfuse blood to foreign companies on the verge of bankruptcy, and even to buy paintings, antiques, and works of art at ridiculously low prices. In countries and regions where the Allies had not yet landed or gained a foothold, the adventurous big capitalists had already reached agreements with government dignitaries in exile and foreign resistance groups in various countries to buy the most promising mines, oil fields, farms, and factories at ridiculously low prices.

If all went well, the corporate capitalists of the United States could have quietly taken over the entire post-war world, not with iron and blood, but with money and materials. Everything is so cheap, so fat, so promising, and all important minerals, factories, financial groups, are sucked into by large American companies like vacuum cups. The Dutch colonists at the mouth of the Hudson River bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for only twenty-four dollars in glass beads, and the U.S. government bought the Louisiana colony from the French Emperor Napoleon for $12 million in 1803. Now it is nothing more than a replica: others have shed their blood and lost their lives, while the big American conglomerates are hiding in a safe place and enjoying everything.

Regrettably, Japan's unprecedented difficulty and the frenzied expansion of the red forces have completely torn apart all these beautiful blueprints planned in advance by the American consortium. With the large-scale advance of the Soviet Red Army and the sweep of the European continent, the financial support generously given by the Americans to the government-in-exile of European countries was basically lost, and the contracts for the purchase of various industries were naturally wasted paper. And the successive victories of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet in the Pacific Ocean have also caused the various expected gains of Wall Street consortiums to jump again and again, and in the end, they are almost on the verge of becoming financial fraud!

By the time the war was in its fourth and fifth years, the Japanese Empire, which had been barren and impoverished, had already been boiled to the point of running out of oil, and the United States of America, which seemed to have deep pockets, had also become gamblers who had lost so much, and had already staked the bottom of the coffin. If it were to be wiped out, it would be a repetition of the February Revolution that ended Tsarist Russia, if not a repeat of the February Revolution that ended Tsarist Russia, but at least a repetition of the collapse of the Confederacy during the Civil War: debts and dollars turned to waste, the government collapsed and paralyzed, and society turned upside down......

Under such tremendous pressure, President Truman had no choice but to throw the nuclear bomb last year in an attempt to determine the outcome of the game. However, the result is only dragged into another bigger quagmire, the national strength and military strength are more seriously depleted, and the dawn of victory is still far away.

However, he and the United States have no way out, and they can only stubbornly carry out this disastrous war with high input and low output to the end......

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PS: There is a new joke about the British referendum, after the vote to leave the European Union, more than a million Britons jointly petitioned online for a referendum, and a survey by professionals found that 70% of them were "spiritual Britons" from the United States, Spain, Australia and Hong Kong who were posing as British citizens. Among them, there are 39,000 signatures from the Vatican alone, which is known to have a population of only 1,000...... Where did the remaining 38,000 come from?

It can be seen that the public always laughs at the Chinese people being represented, but in fact, the Western people are also represented, and they are represented even darker.

I said before that the Brexit referendum was lost, not that Brexit was wrong, but in fact, for the bottom of the white England, Brexit is definitely good - London is about to become an Eastern European city and a halal city! For the upper elites and the Scots, Brexit is a disaster. When I say that the referendum was lost, I mean that although Prime Minister Cameron personally initiated the referendum and did not want the referendum to pass in his heart, the result was not carried out according to his script......

In fact, the British referendum to leave the European Union has made such a big fuss, and the key is that it has been done too little. If you can really promote the mobile phone referendum software developed by the Taiwanese, there will be a referendum several times a day, and a reversal will be made every few hours, and everyone will get used to it after a long time, and it will not be a problem no matter how you like to vote.