George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 348

The Great America of George W. Bush – Episode 347

< Episode 347 >

By Bush’s decision, the operation to neutralize the warlords’ nuclear forces through collaboration with the Communist Party was initiated. Accordingly, the Delta Force, the elite special forces of the United States, was deployed to the silos held by the Lanzhou warlords.

According to the Department of Defense, the Delta Force was ‘omnipotent.’ Of course, the Delta Force was an elite group of soldiers trained to carry out special missions that regular forces could not, but they were not invincible or omnipotent, capable of achieving victory in any situation.

The result of thinking of special forces as omnipotent super soldiers was the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. There were a few other complex reasons as well, but this time, it was safe to say that the special forces were used in the right place at the right time.

To put this operation very simply, ‘special forces in stealth helicopters’ would ‘infiltrate’ at night and ‘suppress or eliminate’ silos and mobile launchers all at once.

Stealth helicopters departing from Afghanistan were flying over the Uyghur region. The only time the stealth helicopters revealed their presence was when they obscured the starlit night sky, which was clear due to the disappearance of pollution, with their coal-black bodies.

The stealth helicopters, more expensive than gold of the same weight, were quieter than one could imagine and were able to safely cross the border from Uyghur to the area occupied by the Lanzhou warlords without any interference. Of course, even if the Uyghur army, which had just barely risen to the level of a militia, had discovered it, it would have been impossible to shoot it down due to a lack of equipment. However, if that had happened, the operation would have had to be completely revised.

So, in any case, the conclusion was that the stealth helicopters carrying the Delta Force were worth their cost, and now it was time for the Delta Force to earn their keep.

“Engage! Engage!”

However, there was one problem: ‘overwhelmed by numbers.’ It was exactly what the phrase meant.

The friendly forces were very few, while the enemy was numerous. Because the infiltration was carried out by stealth helicopters, only a small number could be dispatched, and although the region was the same, the silos were actually about 100km apart.

The reason why only six silos remained, when there should have originally been dozens clustered together, was simple. Li Keqiang, realizing that they would soon be divided, hastily recovered all but the bare minimum. So, what remained were a few silos that the young officers had quickly seized and were holding.

“It won’t be easy.”

Military generals were huddled together in the situation room. Their expressions were quite serious, but on the other hand, they also seemed lighthearted. The general who said it wouldn’t be easy didn’t really think it would be that difficult.

That was because those carrying out the mission were the elite, and supporting them were the most advanced weapons and equipment on the planet. How could they possibly fail?

Even if things went wrong, they could mobilize about 100 F-22s to sweep away all air superiority while using F-117As to blow up all the silos with bunker busters. It would be a bit problematic, but it would definitely solve the problem.

“We have no choice but to trust them.”

For the above reasons, everyone thought it was an easy mission, regardless of its importance. Still, no one brought this to the surface. To get to this position, one was tested more for their abilities as a politician than as a soldier.

The only reason these people, who wouldn’t normally say such things, were talking so actively was because of the President of this country, George W. Bush, and his chief of staff, who were sitting at the head of the situation room with expressions as if they had just heard that the world would end tomorrow.

“If we just take care of the nukes, the other side will somehow take care of the rest.”

The Three Gorges Dam had a considerable level of interception system built into it. It was something the warlords had created with determination, but the United States had worked a little magic on that interception system. THAADs [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems], which had been in mass production since the year before last, were deployed in large numbers to the Three Gorges Dam.

This was one of the military supplies that had been steadily pushed into Qingdao, and Bush had not expected it to be used so usefully in this way. In fact, the air defense system was still being strengthened.

‘I’d rather just pound them with Tomahawks [long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile] if they were completely enemies.’

In a normal country, nukes are never used, even if the country is on the verge of collapse. Conversely, the Cold War of the past was not normal. In any case, even the Soviet Union did not use nukes until it collapsed.

“Are our Chinese friends moving according to plan?”

It wasn’t that Bush didn’t trust the Delta Force. Rather, he trusted them a little too much. The people in the Delta Force were so headstrong that they would rather be annihilated than take on the disgrace of mission failure.

In short, they were the type who shouted, ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’ Anyway, the most important thing was for the Communist Party to cooperate, and the Communist Party was quite desperate since it was their job as well. Even if the United States took care of the nukes, there were still conventional missiles aimed at the dam, weren’t there?

To deal with those missiles, all the fighters and bombers that China had worked hard to produce this time, or that the United States had sold at a bargain price, were deployed, and only a small number of ground troops were advancing to avoid being detected.

Even before that, in order to avoid being detected, the Communist Party had a strong air force stationed and patrolling the border since the moment they occupied the Three Gorges Dam and heard the nuclear missile remarks a few days ago. At first, it was a show of force, but soon it turned into a stepping stone for a surprise large-scale air strike.

In Lanzhou, the administrative center of the warlords, the sound of explosions and light tremors were felt.

The citizens could easily recognize that this was an air raid that had always been there. In addition, they realized that the threats and propaganda that the warlord government had been blaring every morning and evening, ‘We have nukes! Therefore, we are safe!’ were not working at all.

“An air raid! This is absurd!”

And the leadership, who had firmly believed in that one nuke, was in great shock. Nukes, they said nukes. Did they really not fear nukes? Well, from the Communist Party’s point of view, which was originally good at grinding people, it might not have made much difference whether ten million or one hundred million people died when the Three Gorges Dam burst now.

If they had known this would happen, they would have stuck to India. It was a truly miserable situation. They were guaranteed the most ideal independence they could imagine. They would never want to go back to the Communist Party, and even if they did, the leadership would eventually be dead.

‘Yes, those morons are the same.’

That moron alliance had managed to save their lives by giving up everything they had, but the current chairman, Li Keqiang, was not the kind of person to leave dissidents alone. In the end, they would all die. For the leadership, at least, surrender was death, and death was surrender.

Maybe they could live. They would be reduced to a state worse than scarecrows in the Body Worlds exhibition [a public display of preserved human bodies] and live forever in the hearts of the people.

‘If that’s the case, then I’ll remain in their hearts forever in this place. If I can’t leave a reputation as a great man, I’ll leave a bad name. We will be an indelible scar on the world!’

He picked up the receiver of the direct line, which was ringing as fiercely as the air raid being carried out on Lanzhou.

“Fire.”

– Excuse me?

“I said fire! Pour all the firepower you have into the Three Gorges Dam! Or are you going to disobey me!”

– …Understood!

He threw the receiver down carelessly. He probably wouldn’t use it again. He threw away the cigar he had been forcibly biting on to maintain his dignity at a young age and lit up a familiar 5 yuan [Chinese currency] cigarette.

The generals and officers had long since fled the bunker. Well, in the case of a normal air raid, this military bunker would be the safest, but this was not a normal air raid. The enemy was using bunker busters, a weapon that could mercilessly destroy bunkers.

“Good riddance.”

What was good riddance? Was it the rabble who had run away to somehow save their own lives? Or was it the Communist Party and the United States, who had failed to prevent the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam?

In fact, either way was fine. He listed grandiose reasons such as making a name for himself and leaving an indelible scar on the people’s memory, but to be honest, it was more of a mindset of dying together since he was going to die anyway.

He didn’t know it, but gun shooters and suicide bombers in the United States had similar ways of thinking. To compare it on a similar scale, Hitler’s state of mind just before the fall of Nazi Germany, when he ordered Paris to be burned to the ground, was the most similar.

Of course, even if he knew that, nothing would have changed.

When the cigarette was half-burned, something that looked like a bomber launching a bomb or a missile was caught on the CCTV installed in the bunker. He seemed to know what it was. Since it was fired at the bunker, it was most likely a bunker buster.

“Damn it, I haven’t finished smoking yet…”

Those were the last words of a man who would somehow be remembered in history.

“Contact with the command center has been lost!”

“I know.”

It was terrible. The voices against America were loud, but why was the Communist Party only oppressing the people? It seemed that they were finally breaking away from the Communist Party at the request of the people, but it was the commander-in-chief who appeared like a comet and swept away the morons.

It wasn’t just here. Young heroes were appearing one after another, sweeping away the old system and starting a revolution. The West seemed to see them as warlord rebels, but to the people, they were a new wind. At least, everyone in the military thought so. They said that they just had to get through this difficult time.

“Damn it. I thought we just had to stop the Indians now.”

Who could blame him? Who would have known that the United States and the Communist Party would ignore the threat of nuclear missiles? India, which had been driving China crazy with its eyes turned upside down from the beginning, was one thing, but what the hell was wrong with those Communist Party bastards?

Wasn’t the hostage acting like a hostage? Did that mean that they could die as much as they wanted for the victory of the war?

“So you want to see the Three Gorges Dam collapse.”

Who would have known that a leader would abandon the people he was supposed to protect?

“Is there anyone here who wants to go back to the Party Army?”

“No!”

Even at this moment, missile launchers were exploding. It meant that the will of the deceased commander-in-chief was still exploding. It couldn’t be. It absolutely couldn’t be.

“We will carry on the struggle by inheriting the will of the commander-in-chief! Fire! Fire everything!”