George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 296

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Only a few decades ago, they were so eager to devour the communists. In other words, trying to save the Reds was absurd, but frankly, who cared about that?

It was America that ignored or even supported dictatorships and massacres as long as they didn’t harm their own interests. Of course, modern America is a bit different, but tolerating dictatorships was still the norm.

Though the Bush administration changed that somewhat, the basic tone doesn’t change easily. As soon as the crouching giant stretched its legs to the world, the American eagle slapped its face. Now, the giant, who had been lying in bed again, was withering away and about to die.

It was because he had shed too much blood. The picture Bush had initially hoped for was that China would become moderately anemic and regress for decades without being able to do anything. He wanted China to stagnate as it was, not like the Warring States period [a period of ancient Chinese history characterized by constant warfare] thousands of years ago when they were fighting each other with spears and swords.

If it were spears and swords, he could at least end it with, ‘Anyway, they’re quite economically separated, and a war broke out in a distant country like a neighboring country.’ Now it’s nuclear weapons. They’re fighting with nuclear weapons. Even one explosion in the capital area of ​​an average country can easily kill tens of millions of people, and those nuclear missiles that united the world, which was always eager to devour each other.

It is true that Bush, at the head, sucked the blood of the giant country of China, but on the one hand, he did not want China to collapse, so even if he threw a strong blow enough to cause a mild concussion, he did not deliver a fatal blow. I’m talking about trade sanctions and direct military investment.

But this blow happened to hit a vital point, or something was seriously wrong, and his neck was broken.

Suddenly, he became a vegetable. That’s right. The Communist Party now was a vegetable.

The army, which was said to be the party’s army, was dissatisfied with the reality of repeated military reductions without proper reform, and in many ways resisted, and only the Shenyang Military Region and the Beijing Military Region, where personnel had been completely replaced to suit their tastes decades ago, could be said to be completely loyal to the party.

In other words, it was no exaggeration to say that all other military regions were at odds with the central government. In this case, all remaining power had to be concentrated in these two military regions. In fact, if the party had been a little more rational and, decisively, had ‘room’, it would have realized that this was a bad idea.

No, with a few exceptions, anyone belonging to the party knew it. This is an act of inciting civil war. They are preparing for the party’s victory in a civil war that has not yet come.

Everyone knows that even the *yi si* [righteous scholars or warriors], which the Chinese cherish as much as their lives, saying it is about chivalry and righteousness, is actually something that high-ranking people have consistently sold off even their families for money and power, right? Some people value power more than their lives.

Even so, it might have been different in the past, but now that the party has become impoverished and several years have passed, *yi si* is just a tightrope walk decorated with various things. A strong rope intertwined like a spider web. The cracks created as the military weakened were gradually tearing apart the party and the military, causing the rope to shake.

Mao Zedong said that power comes from the barrel of a gun? It was an authority that was already shaking due to backlash. The reason why the chairman is special is because the chairman is the head of the party and the person who owns the party’s army.

Therefore, it was no exaggeration to say that this was a self-fulfilling prophecy. What began to shake in earnest was that, while the budget had been distributed at least rationally and logically, it suddenly began to be concentrated on only two military factions for political reasons.

The reason is simple. The central government finds it difficult to trust other military regions right now. And this was directly related to the military region’s own right to survival. Even in the midst of forcibly putting the military in to suppress the protests.

In the meantime, military reduction was steadily progressing. In other words, it was a time when dissatisfaction was maximized in each military region. In such a situation, discrimination was not a good choice. Even if the military region was abolished, the smell of a coup would be strong, and with the authority weakened, it was obvious what would happen next.

I understand the situation of the high-ranking people now. Then, if you ask, ‘What about the people right now?’ it is as follows.

“These, these damn, damn Americans! I can’t cool off even if I insult and grind my ancestors for 18 generations! There is no more cruel reality than this!”

People who had their mouths open due to successive protests and who knew roughly how things were going among the people were all in despair and were about to bleed from all seven orifices, but what could they do? China had finally come this far.

Some even argued that China had completely returned to the Five Barbarian Sixteen Kingdoms period [a chaotic period in Chinese history] or the Warring States period.

“Ah! Mao Zedong creates it, and Li Keqiang destroys it!”

It was a truly unfair story for Li Keqiang.

How can destroying it be himself? Rather, he wanted to be praised for maintaining the country, which was collapsing due to the outflow of domestic wealth, this much. Conversely, this competence itself became an opportunity for Bush to misjudge that China was still relatively intact, so what an irony?

Bush belatedly tried to transfuse blood, but it was too late. However, if he just stopped sucking blood, there was a high possibility that the United States would fall into a swamp. The absurd scale that sometimes comes out was thanks to the China Gold that Bush directly brought in.

It was already too late to forgive the debt without any conditions with just the president’s authority. At least, he had to create such an atmosphere in various ways, but he was already welcoming the division of China itself. What was the grand strategy and biggest goal of the current era of the United States?

Wasn’t it to prevent the giant who had been sleeping for the past hundred years from stretching? From the perspective of the federal government, this was a total victory for the United States. They produced weapons to their heart’s content, but they subjugated China without firing a single bullet, let alone a missile, right?

Nuclear weapon? No matter how crazy they were, they would never fire a nuclear weapon. At best, he thought they would shoot at each other or sell it to a third world country to replenish their military power.

Nuclear war? It is a nuclear weapon for that and a nuclear umbrella for that. And isn’t it a ballistic missile high-altitude interception system for that? THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense], which has been entering the mass production system since 2003 and is being deployed almost obsessively across the United States.

Of course, even this was only possible if the nuclear weapon was leaked. The important thing was that China’s nuclear weapon command and control system itself would be held by the current Communist Party or its descendants until the very end.

Could it be that they will start a nuclear war?

‘The problem is that people are not such rational creatures.’

Bush was more anxious than ever during his term. It wasn’t that he had never been anxious before, but I dare say he had never been more anxious than today.

First of all, moving the US military is out of the question from the beginning. If he did that, China would unite, but in the process, the US military would suffer considerable damage. He might really launch a nuclear weapon on this American soil, saying, ‘Let’s die together then.’ Above all, there is no justification, no justification.

He can supplement or reinforce the carrier strike group that is pressuring China, but that’s it. Nothing more and nothing less. Isn’t one of the decisive reasons why China is being divided right now because the people and the military have been disappointed in the current government?

‘Damn it! Damn it! I’m really going crazy!’

Sooner or later, nuclear weapons would eventually be leaked in some way, unless they were like secret weapons, with thousands or tens of thousands of silos gathered in one place as Tiananmen in Beijing split in half. Maybe they would sell it off proactively.

There are plenty of countries that want to have nuclear weapons at a high price. For example, a place like East Iraq. No, even if ballistic missiles were not attached there, he was confident that he would not be surprised if they had at least one nuclear warhead.

‘Even if a limited nuclear war breaks out in China, that is a problem in its own way.’

Even if that huge number of nuclear weapons made the entire Chinese territory a radioactive mess, it would be a big mistake to think that the United States and the world would not be affected at all.

Even if only one nuclear reactor is leaked, there are people who believe that it will affect the whole world, so there is no way that radiation from a nuclear attack will not affect the world.

Perhaps in the near future, he would have to consume fish that taste like radiation. The next generation of babies may be born deformed and always taste lead on their tongues.

And even if a nuclear war doesn’t break out, it’s similar. How can nuclear weapons be properly managed in a torn and torn China? Eventually, it would be leaked somewhere.

‘Until now, I’ve been mixing future knowledge with the knowledge I had to choose or create something similar to the correct answer, but this really has no answer. I’m really going crazy.’

Cold sweat was pouring down like rain and soaking his clothes, but Bush was so focused that he didn’t even realize it. He just tapped and tapped the innocent black desk with his fingers.

There is a saying that if you knock, the door will eventually open. In this case, the eccentric behavior produced the correct answer today.

“That’s it!”

Finally, the long-awaited flash of inspiration flashed through Bush’s mind, and it goes without saying that the chief of staff, who had gone to the bathroom for a while, frowned as if he had seen something strange after seeing the sight.