Chang Haonan's estimate is not wrong.

Although it is true that the US intelligence agencies have a "special intelligence acquisition channel" in Europe, this channel cannot be real-time, and there will always be an update cycle.

In particular, the EU delegation is currently in China, and this cycle is a little longer than that of Europe, which has already iterated a mature path.

So, by the time the news reached North America, news was already on TV about the "package trade deal between the EU and China......

Eastern Time, early the next morning.

Still the Oval Office.

It's still those guys.

Half an hour later, the Kansas Spirit bomber pulled along the taxiway to the end of the take-off runway.

Albright is clearly in a broken state at the moment:

"We must now teach China and Europe a lesson, otherwise allowing them to cooperate will not only be in vain in their efforts for the past period of time, but will also affect our prestige in the future. If even China and Europe can't deal with it, what else can we talk about leading the world? ”

Albright directly interrupted Sheldon's words:

"We pay you $270 billion a year, don't you dare to go out just because you dropped a plane a few days ago?"

……

The specific mission information was known only to the captain, Brigadier General Malot, and even Colonel Statham was only informed after the plane had taken off.

Now, after China's operation, the exchange rate of the euro against the dollar has risen by nearly two percentage points.

In the evening of the same day.

And on the main landing gear door, the name of the aircraft is written: Spirit of Kansas

Strategic bombers like the B2 are extremely expensive and scarce in number, and each one has an extraordinary significance, so like the warships of the Navy, they have their own names.

"I said a long time ago that they should have been tougher, and now they clearly don't take us seriously at all......"

This one is called the "Spirit of Kansas."

Henry Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, didn't care about any exchange rate or trade, and now he just wanted to persuade the gang in front of him to take back his crazy ideas so that he could order the 509th Bomber Wing to end its combat readiness.

If it weren't for the fact that the United States was still on the rise, and the donkey-elephant dispute would have been more or less faceless, I wouldn't have known what the trouble would have been.

It stands to reason that in the current situation, she is not the right secretary of state to speak in such a tone.

At the end of last month, the B2 bomber completed the first operation of its career.

But the atmosphere in the room was very different from the previous days.

Sheldon felt that his high blood pressure was about to fall, but he had no choice but to stand up, salute to the desk, and then turn straight away......

This round of complex games around the Balkans is more complicated, involving a number of areas, including foreign trade, monetary and financial policy, and military operations.

The two quickly came to the B2 that was scheduled to be used for the mission.

But after you finish playing, you leave a tail and you can't figure it out, and in the end you have to let someone else follow you and wipe your ass, which is a matter of ability.

Albright's answer directly made Sheldon's eyes darken.

Everyone's eyes were focused on one corner of the room.

Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

Brigadier General Bonn Malot, who had just put on his dark green flight suit, walked with his partner, Colonel Sampney Statham, to a concrete hangar not far away, with the mission document marked "SECRET" on the cover.

This made Statham feel a little different.

The original purpose of this aircraft was to rely on stealth and low-altitude penetration capabilities to carry free-fall nuclear bombs into the vast expanse of Siberia and hunt land-based intercontinental ballistic missile launchers operating in it.

B2 "Ghost".

But people often can't hold back when they can't hold on.

Play with flowers, no problem.

Although the unit had been mobilized for nearly three years, Colonel Statham was still struck by the shape of the plane every time.

So now, the whole team doesn't take the person behind the desk very seriously from the bottom of their hearts......

Although the secretary of state has a higher position in the cabinet than the secretary of the Treasury (fifth vs. sixth), Rubin has a very close relationship with Wall Street's financial capital, and his protégés are all over the United States.

However, as a purely military department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff itself does not have the right to make decisions under the modern command mechanism, so he can only make proposals through the cracks.

"Of course not!"

If he makes a mistake in military spending, it is undoubtedly equivalent to taking money out of his cornucopia.

"Taking a step back, if you look at the specific content of this agreement, it is obvious that the worst-case scenario of WTO accession failure has been taken into account, and if China and Europe are really allowed to establish a free trade area, and then Russia and ASEAN are included, we will not need to engage in any WTO ......."

And what the other party said also makes sense.

At this time, the huge hangar door had been opened, and several stealth bombers in the form of flying wings were parked inside.

"Since even the agreement between China and the EU has been signed, is our previous preparation ...... Don't need it? ”

But a succession of scandals, one bigger than the other, over the past few years has already undermined the president's prestige.

"Let's just follow the plan we made earlier......"

No one spoke.

Sheldon has secretly scolded this crazy woman I don't know how many times, and he said in his heart that even if we do it, it will not be able to cause much damage to China and Europe in substance, at most it will only save some face......

All of them had "numb" expressions on their faces.

890127。

But the core meaning is the same.

Obviously, they were still moving too slowly.

Compared to the information they were holding, the content shown on television was incomplete, for example, there was no mention of some details of tariff reductions.

He has been in the post of defense minister for two years, and he plans to work for another two years, and when the next Elephant Party cabinet takes office, he will retire and go back to open a company to specialize in the internal business of the US military.

Of course, you still have to change the rhetoric:

"But the risks behind this ......"

Just a test, of course.

Basic flight data, such as weapon payloads, should have been shared with pilots at the mission briefing, but today's mission did not have this process, but Brigadier General Mallot took him directly to the plane.

"Germany, France and Italy will sign a free trade agreement with China before December 31, 1999, with reference to the most-favored-nation trade status, this agreement has the principle of openness, and does not rule out the inclusion of more countries in the future, the EU recognizes the important role played by China in the process of opening up the global market, and understands and supports China's request to join the World Trade Organization......"

After a long silence, Albright frowned and waved the cigar smoke in front of her, and spoke in a slightly hoarse voice.

Of course, Rubin will certainly not let go easily in his mouth:

Hearing her talk about military spending, William Cohen, who had been watching the jokes of the Donkey Party just now, couldn't sit still.

There was a television set showing Chinese and EU negotiators answering questions from reporters at the press conference.

As usual, Mallot and Statham signed the flight mission letter handed in by the ground crew, and then climbed into the cockpit along the ramp behind the nose landing gear and began to carry out the pre-takeoff checks according to the checklist.

It's like the alien battleships he saw as a child.

As two pilots simultaneously pushed four sets of throttle valves to the end, four F118GE100 engines burst out with a total of 33.8 tons of thrust, propelling the more than 150-ton behemoth to slowly accelerate down the runway.

Since there was no vertical tail, the number of the aircraft was written on the nose landing gear door.

"The question now is not whether to be tough or not, but we didn't expect that the Chinese would completely ignore the conditions we offered, and the Europeans could reach an agreement with the Chinese so happily, so that the plan that was set before was not implemented at all."

"Moreover, even if the agreement cannot be withdrawn, it can be delayed at the implementation level, and now the euro exchange rate has not recovered much, only 2%, indicating that the wait-and-see sentiment in the market is still there, as long as the Chinese people do not dare to take action immediately, the confidence that has just been established will collapse again, and it will collapse faster than before......"

"Moreover, we have promised those companies to open the Chinese market, if something goes wrong in this, the entire West Coast will probably become an iron ticket warehouse of the Elephant Party, and in the next twenty years, Congress may be the dominant power of the Elephant Party, will you be responsible for this at that time?"

Rubin, who was sitting opposite, didn't look good.

However, when it actually entered service in 1997, the former imaginary enemy was long gone, and it could only carry out some ordinary bombing missions that were far less risky than expected.

"In the next five years, no less than 50% of the trade between China and the EU will be settled in euros, and in addition, if conditions permit, the two sides will also try more diversified means of using currencies in a wider range......

But Cohen has now become an old fritter, and he knows that his statement at this time is likely to be blamed in the future, so he directly came to the east to lead the way:

"This matter should be decided by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief......"

The successive victories in several previous operations had made them forget about the old things of Goryeo and Annam, and the excessive use of force, and excessive abuse of force against opponents whose level was much lower than their own, was by no means a good sign for an army.

In this circle, people can be bad, but not stupid.

But a few days ago, the 509th Bomber Wing suddenly received an order to return to combat readiness and received a new top-secret mission this morning.

Although it is not worth mentioning compared to those that have already fallen, this is clearly not a trend that the US side wants to see.

As a professional soldier who has come from the Cold War, he has become very aware that the current cabinet is too childish in its use of military means.

On the weapon selection screen, Statham saw 6 GBU-31 joint direct attack munitions.

And he, as Minister of Finance, is naturally directly related to this.

Several cigars were lit, filling the resplendent office with smoke.

According to the original plan, the Allied operation did not require this strategic weapon to strike a second sortie.

"There won't be any risk."

Not to mention that the zipper door is for an adult woman, even if it is an underage boy...... Ahem.

But there is no doubt that whatever the ostensible justification of the series of operations, the core purpose of the operation is to suppress the nascent euro so as not to threaten the absolute dominance of the dollar in international trade.

“……”

"But no matter what we do now, they can't withdraw the agreement again......"

Once again, there was silence in the office.

Albright's lips moved, and she didn't continue to speak.

Anyway, everyone is in a moral vacuum.

The latter is still trying to salvage the situation.

After a glide distance of about 1,000 meters, Brigadier Mallot pulled the lever backwards.

With a feeling of overweight, the plane, which was painted in black, left the runway lightly and quickly disappeared into the vast night sky......

(End of chapter)