Chapter 1129: Former Vice Admiral
However, in the midst of chaos in the country, the Red Party has not yet arrived, and civil strife has started first, South Korea's official media have been issuing "reasonable" voices under the instructions of the Kim Yong-sam regime, but this kind of rationality is inevitably a little funny.
Ever since the riots broke out in Seoul, KBS (Korean_Broadcasting_System, South Korean Broadcasting Corporation) has been calling on the people to treat the war calmly and to "abide by the bottom line of a peaceful country and avoid the poison of its neighbors."
"For the sake of peace, not action" is a rhetoric that may be believed in South Korea, but it is a joke in front of any sober-minded person.
In the current situation in the Far East, looking at the overall comparison of the two sides of the war, the United States and other Western countries are obviously at a relative disadvantage: in the context of the world war, after two fiascos in Central Europe and the Caucasus, NATO has lost the strategic initiative, and the maritime blockade line that was once built to contain the Eastern bloc has always been there, but the effect has been greatly reduced, and it has not been able to shake the war foundation of the Red Empire at all.
When it comes to the situation on the front line of the confrontation, South Korea's situation can be said to be even worse.
After the Korean War, the "Republic of Korea," which was only separated from the Kim regime in the north by a military demarcation line, and was militarily strong and capable of foreign power, could always feel the threat of the Korean People's Army. Otherwise, there is simply no strength to take the initiative to launch an offensive at the campaign level.
Once the war starts. In the end, the situation is aside. However, the entire southern part of the Korean Peninsula will become the main battlefield, and when the time comes, no one else will be deeply affected by the war, but it will be South Korea itself.
It is precisely because of its well-known knowledge of such a situation, but on the surface it has consistently refused to bow its head, that the Kim Yong-sam regime will suppress radicals internally and have many differences with the Americans externally.
Other countries may not have the guts to do so. North Korea, which is also a major country in the universe, is really a big trouble!
All things considered, South Korea's actions in this sudden but protracted world war are entirely understandable, creating an atmosphere of war-weariness at home and maintaining the illusion of national strength while ignoring the many military arrangements of the United States.
Anyway, now that the war is raging, even if the Americans are really angry, they definitely don't have any extra energy to deal with the current South Korean regime.
Isn't it, that kind of thing in Panama can be done in peacetime. Now the Jin regime on the other side of the 38th parallel and China on the other side of the Yalu River are eyeing each other, if at this time they play some kind of special combat team raid, arrest the president and put him in a small black house. Use the same methods as Manuel Noriega to deal with Kim Yong-san, once the situation in South Korea is completely out of control, how can those kimchi soldiers under the banner of Yin and Yang resist the million-strong army of the Kim regime with a wave of the giant hand and the blessing of the halo?
They have been keeping an eye on North Korea for many years, and they know a lot about the armed forces in the hands of the Kim regime, and the empty-eyed Americans are also quite jealous of this force, which is secretly supported by the Soviet Union and China.
Even if the domestic economy is sluggish and even the minimum food supply cannot be supplied, if a war breaks out on the peninsula, the communist countries behind the Kim regime will inevitably provide a large amount of aid, and when the crowd tactics come out, the US military is really not sure that it will be able to hold on for a long time on the Korean Peninsula, which has no strategic depth, and even if the sea and air superiority on which the GIs rely for survival, it will be difficult to play a role under the threat of the Soviet Union and China's shore-based aviation.
All in all, South Korea, which is on the edge of the continent, has a similar situation in the surrounding geopolitical situation.
Knowing very well that under the current strategic pattern, once a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea will inevitably lose, and if the discouraged result of such a campaign deduction were replaced a few months ago, the high-spirited generals and staff of the United States would certainly simply overturn and reinvent the wheel, and conclude that there must have been some "unforgivable miscalculations" in the process of deduction, but now, after all, facts speak louder than any words, and the rumbling of artillery in the Central European theater and the Caucasus theater still seems to be echoing in their ears. Isn't that enough to tell the story that the huge Red Empire has already won in two strategic directions?
In Western Europe and the Middle East, the Russians' steel torrent is washing away the precarious defenses of the free world, and at such a grim moment, any mistake in underestimating the strength of the Eastern bloc could be completely fatal to the United States.
It is precisely because it has a sober understanding of the overall situation in the Far East theater and is different from the simple-minded and well-developed big-headed soldiers on the line of fire, and in accordance with the requirements of His Excellency the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Pacific Command's operational deployment does not have the slightest bit of-for-tat sharpness, but is preparing for a long-term war.
The Americans had different calculations with regard to several client states in the Far East, and now that the Russians were attacking Japan with all their might, the U.S. military's response strategy was to "delay as much as they could" -- even if the whole of Japan was reduced to ruins, as long as it could attract the attention of the enemy and free up the United States to regroup and launch a counteroffensive in Western Europe or the Middle East, then there was still hope for a full revival of the precarious free world.
As the wheels of war slowly rolled by, the United States of America, a nation of English-speaking immigrants, turned the spotlight on Western Europe, which was inextricably linked to its citizens, despite how the situation changed.
The strategic principle of "Europe first" was naturally a good thing for Britain and Spain, which were on the front line of resisting the Warsaw Pact, but it became a complete tragedy for Japan, South Korea, and even the client states of the Philippines and Singapore in the far east.
So, at a time when the war is in danger, what are the far-sighted Americans busy with?
Time back to the beginning of an air raid, when the Air Self-Defense Force was struggling to mobilize and struggle under the superior strength of the Red Air Force, crossing the vast western Pacific Ocean to the east, and beyond the four-hour time difference, the Hawaiian Islands located in the depths of the Northeast Pacific Ocean were still sunny, and the vegetation on the island was lush and green, which seemed to be not affected by the cold winter season in the Northern Hemisphere at all.
The average temperature of the four seasons of the year does not even exceed 10 degrees Celsius, making Hawaii the best time to visit during the winter months, when ocean storms disappear.
“…… According to the latest official information, at a regular press conference on Monday, Thomas Young, a spokesman for the Hawaii Department of Public Safety, once again reiterated that the state government will follow the federal government regulations and treat the protests and demonstrations in various cities and tourist attractions with federal laws and Hawaii law, and it is completely 'not objective and impartial' to criticize some of the outside world's accusations against the state Department of Public Safety and the federal police's way of acting.
At the press conference, Thomas also answered reporters' questions, and the spokesperson's response to 'when the detained Korean protesters will be released' and the lifting of the residential surveillance order for some Korean nationals in the United States has been cold, only to emphasize once again that all Hawaii citizens and outsiders must abide by the law and ...... at the same time"
"Ah, what some boring!
Emily, this news gives me no appetite at all; I'm going to go fishing with my old friends, and the weather is so nice, but where did you put my hat? ”
"Mark, - you just ate so little?"
Hearing her elderly husband's call, Emily Mitchell, who was busy in the kitchen on the first floor, walked out a few steps, saw a few plates on the table in the open-air courtyard, and continued to nag quite dissatisfied, "The servant has been on vacation for the past few days, and it's rare for me to cook a little food, what-besides, isn't the hat just under your ass?" Oh my God, old Mark, you're not at all at ease, bring me the hat and I'll send it to dry clean and set! ”
"Oh, oh, okay."
After a casual lunch, getting up from his chair and straightening up his faded old military uniform, former Vice Admiral Mark Mitchell staggered to his feet and walked, he handed his flattened felt hat to his wife, waved the newspaper in his hand, and walked through the front hall of the villa, "These_fucking-damned_Korean_asses, they_just_won't_halt_for_just_a_moment!" Sissy_nuts, ha......" ("These fucking Korean stupid asses, they don't stop working at all!") Crazy people who don't have the guts, hum ......")
"Come on, Mark! What are you babbling about? ”
“Nothing,just_a_handful_of_complaints,from_some_old_ex-vice-admiral,――like_me。” ("Nothing, just a little complaint, from some 'former vice admiral,' like me.") ”)
Leaving the North American continent half a month ago, returning to his warm hometown in Hawaii from the cold and damp New York Psychiatric Hospital, the gray-haired and sluggish Mark Mitchell no longer has the majestic appearance he had when he was in an important position, and has become an ordinary old man in armor no matter how he looks, words and deeds. (To be continued......)