In the evening, the sky is still overcast, and a low-key state ceremony is underway in the Diet Building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.

In a conference room on the second floor on the east side of the building, illuminated by the bright mercury lamps on the ceiling, only a few dozen people attended the empty ceremony, all seated on either side of a long table covered with flannel.

Completely different from the usual way of arranging government activities, tonight's conference room was full of noisy media reporters, long guns and short guns, and only a few people in suits holding video recorders and cameras were responsible for recording and taking pictures around the venue, faithfully recording the scene of the event for government agencies and participants.

In front of the wall facing the long conference table, a row of flags was neatly arranged, staggered from each other, and the blood-red plaster was interrupted by the white format, forming an abrupt contrast with the dark blue tones of the flags on the left and right; Higher up than the two staggered flags, a white-striped Polaris logo on a blue background, apparently hastily placed on a base with a little sticky glue, hangs from the wall to which the center line of the conference table ends.

As the night darkened, the atmosphere in the conference room seemed to be a little cold.

Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who occupies the chief position at the long and narrow conference table, dressed in a slightly fat and ill-fitting navy blue suit with a brick-red tie that looks rather strange, sits in a reclining chair next to several cabinet ministers dressed in formal or Self-Defense Force uniforms.

At a glance, there were not many participants on this side of the long table, but all the important members of the Japanese government and cabinet were present.

At such an important moment for the signing of the Covenant text. The lineup of attendees on the other side of the long table. However, it is really a bit incommensurate with the scale of the Japanese arrangement. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Assistant Secretary of State Miller Hamilton, who arrived in a hurry the day before, plus a general chief of staff from NATO's Military Committee, representing a military organization that has lost half of Western Europe, is the whole class that the Western world has prepared for this ceremony.

Now, of course, none of this qiē matters:

"Ladies and gentlemen, once the agreement is confirmed, you can sign it directly."

After receiving the documents distributed to the seats by the secretaries, the NATO Council staff member in charge of the specific affairs whispered to the Japanese government officials next to him while looking left and right, and the general who actually presided over the meeting greeted everyone in a loud voice to hurry up. There's no need for any more red tape at this point.

Yes, on such a routine occasion, since it is not intended to be disclosed to the public and let the general public know the details, why engage in those bells and whistles?

After inspecting and reading all the documents with the accompanying secretary, and confirming that the signatures and seals of all those present were accurate and valid, the admiral, who was in a straight uniform and gray-haired, looked up at the secretary of state, Warren Christopher, who slightly straightened his suit collar and nodded slightly to the general, so he cleared his throat and went through what he was going to say in his mind, and then he recited the same loud announcement:

"Confirmed with the assistance of government agencies of the United States of America. The Prime Minister of Japan shall exercise the right of representation in accordance with his domestic laws and regulations and shall sign and approve the agreement. On behalf of all the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Joseph Prueher, commander of the US Joint Pacific Command, hereby confirms that with immediate effect, Japan will formally join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and will be able to fulfill the right of collective self-defense stipulated in the Convention when necessary. ”

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With the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the two ends of the vast continent, where the time difference is about nine hours, although there is a difference of about nine hours, a profound political event occurred almost at the same time.

In London, the capital of the United Kingdom, where the fog has lifted, and the Palace of Westminster, where politicians have gathered for a while, Prime Minister John Major is still impassioned, calling on all the people of Great Britain to strengthen their faith and resist the tide of Warsaw Pact troops; In order to cheer up the people who have been fighting for months and under unprecedented pressure, he focused on announcing an important decision of the United Kingdom government, and in the presence of countless media witnesses, he personally took over the silver-gray suitcase in the hands of the deputy commander of the United States Strategic Air Force.

As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Britain is the third country in the world to enter the nuclear threshold, but due to the continuous decline of national strength and status after the war, Britain, which is located in the NATO military integration system, has always been controlled by the United States The "key" of its nuclear arsenal has been controlled by the United States, and it has no nuclear deterrence capability in the actual sense.

In the parallel world of the nineties, the weapons combination of three "avant-garde" class nuclear submarines and the "Trident II" submarine-launched ballistic missiles was completed, and Britain's nuclear policy has not changed, but now it has undergone new changes because of this inexplicable outbreak of the East-West war.

Since a few months ago, the rolling iron of the Soviet Red Army swept all the way through Western Europe, the French defected to the enemy under heavy pressure, the NATO bloc's years of painstaking operation on the front line of Western Europe completely collapsed in the blink of an eye, and the English Channel and the Pyrenees on the edge of the Western European continent have become new battlefields for the confrontation between the two camps; Compared with Spain, which has limited strategic value, the position of the British Isles is naturally more important than that of Spain, which is isolated from the European continent, and the two countries across the sea have now become a pair of bitter rivals, and the fighting over the Channel has continued.

After the end of the war on the Western European continent, France signed a series of treaties of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union, and there were no Warsaw Pact ground troops stationed on its territory, and Britain, which was under heavy pressure, was not worried about landing across the sea for the time being.

However, with the sudden change in the war situation in the Caucasus, hundreds of thousands of NATO troops collapsed, and the "Desert Fox" under the jurisdiction of the prestigious First Armored Division of the Royal Army and the Seventh Armored Brigade, which had been in the limelight in the Gulf War, were almost completely wiped out.

In the midst of the spread of panic and anger, the Cabinet soon reached a dangerous consensus to demonstrate to the Warsaw Pact bloc by unlocking the nuclear clamp, ostensibly to signal that Britain would adopt a more independent policy and defend its national security from any threat.

Such a strategy has to be said to be extremely tough and eye-catching, but whether the angry John Bulls get their wish this time may not be as smooth as they are to take back the right to control nuclear weapons.

The British Isles in the Western world have made a tough call; Under the pinch of the Americans, the four-island country outside the edge of the eastern continent has quietly made a heavy decision on the direction of the country. Fifty-one years after becoming a defeated country in World War II, the country of the rising sun, whose specter of militarism has not yet died, hastily signed a series of bilateral agreements and conventions with its master, and joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a "normal country".

Unlike the loud noise of the West in the world, Japan's move to join the NATO bloc was not a big fanfare, and domestic television, radio and other media only mentioned the matter in vague words in the morning news of the next day, saying that "for the sake of the future of the country and the well-being of all the people, for the sake of the future, when we strongly support the allies against one of the red powers, the ...... of the Prime Minister has signed a document to announce the accession of the Imperial Kingdom of Japan to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization led by Millican ".

Almost at the same time of the day, the crumbling Western world was given two shots in the arm one after another, and the news of the United Kingdom's announcement of the lifting of nuclear weapons restrictions and Japan's announcement of NATO's membership soon spread around the world, and also aroused great attention from officials and people in various countries.

In the months since the outbreak of the Great War, the protracted confrontation between East and West has continued; Now it seems that the future of this road of war, which has no dawn of peace, has naturally become even bleaker.

The fact that the United States of America, which suffered a heavy blow from the Warsaw Pact in the Middle East and lost Turkey, an important bridgehead to contain communism, not only did not retreat from peace, but instead entangled all its useful client states to swear an alliance, this fact mercilessly reminds everyone in the world that a world war that broke out inexplicably has evolved into a life-and-death struggle that determines the ultimate fate of the Eastern and Western blocs; This contest, in which no one is willing to take a step back, and in fact has no way out, is categorically impossible to end lightly until the winner is finally decided.

The heavy dà incident that took place in a distant country spread all over the world through the media, and Long Yun, who was recuperating in a Moscow villa, soon heard about it.

Early the morning of the second day after his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Long Yunqi, who had recovered his mental body, was in the living room to exercise his muscles and watch the morning news on the television.

After more than 10 minutes of continuous morale-boosting and introducing some routine content on the war situation, the process entered the international news period, and he successively heard the heavy news of Britain's control of the nuclear button and Japan's accession to NATO.

Ho, I didn't expect that in just a few days, the NATO bloc would recover from the tragic war in the Middle East?

Just looking at the performance methods of these countries, perhaps the Americans have accepted the cruel reality of the crushing defeat in the southern theater of operations, and have begun to ponder some new tricks to continue to confront the Eastern bloc of countries across the Eurasian continent to the end? (To be continued......)