George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 127

< Episode 126 >

“Come to think of it, why haven’t they brought the kids yet?”

Bush, who was climbing the mountain of reports as usual, said as if he suddenly remembered.

“What are you talking about?”

There are still so many that haven’t arrived. Just limiting it to what Bush ordered today, there was the South American trends report, the fire prevention campaign improvement plan, the China Gold low-purity gold bullion recycling plan meeting report, and even the Americano he ordered about 1 minute and 20 seconds ago.

“I’m talking about the CIA’s Russia trends report.”

It’s already been three days since he ordered this. Bush was perplexed because the report, which he expected to be up the next day at the latest, wasn’t coming up at all.

“Ah, that. The CIA says it will take a little longer.”

“Good grief.”

Bush felt like his chest was tightening. It was even more frustrating because he couldn’t just tell them to do a rough job and send it up since it was a matter of national importance. Maybe the CIA had caught some kind of bug and was putting all its efforts into it this time, but even so, shouldn’t they send up an interim report if it’s going to take a long time?

“Then tell them to send up the progress.”

He couldn’t just leave the Russia issue unattended. At least there should be some clue to get his head turning. He can’t create ideas from zero, so there has to be at least one to make it a hundred or a thousand.

And only when that is decided can he beat up Russia with a happy heart or not.

“Is this son of a gun really a Maine Coon? Not a tiger or some other feline.”

The rate at which it was growing in size was serious. Watching it grow day by day made him wonder if it wasn’t gigantism.

“The vet says it’s a Maine Coon, so it must be. Animals grow differently every day, so aren’t you making too much of a fuss?”

But Bush was going crazy because he was the only one making a fuss while everyone else was calm. Kim Kap-hwan’s Jjamtiger, which he raised in the military unit in the past, didn’t grow this big. If you know how chubby Jjamtigers are, you can imagine. It’s much bigger than that.

“Isn’t the growth period for cats usually one year after birth?”

“That’s for small breeds. Large breeds grow for more than two years. And Maine Coons grow for three years. Their size is different from other cats.”

“So, you’re saying that the bulk of that thing, which is already 7kg and 32cm, will grow even bigger?”

“That’s right. It varies slightly from individual to individual, but it is said that the large ones grow to the size of a medium-sized dog.”

Even the stories that Bush had been hearing lately were not just one or two. For example, the White House search dogs, Dobermans, were habitually harassing White with their big, sturdy paws, so the search dogs were terrified of White, or as a reward, they caught a chicken from somewhere, and when Bush didn’t eat it, next time they hunted birds of prey such as ‘owls or hawks,’ which he didn’t know how they caught.

Bush had no objection to the fact that cats are very skilled hunters, but anyone would shake their head if they were able to hunt birds of prey without a single wound, beyond docile birds such as sparrows or magpies.

Anyway, there was a reason why Bush suspected that it was a cat or a tiger. Looking at the things it did, it didn’t seem like its soul was a cat at least. Maybe, just maybe, the contents of Bush, the owner of this strange cat, were not ordinary souls either.

However, White was just licking his paws demurely at Bush’s feet, as if he didn’t know anything.

In fact, at first, he tried to prevent White from entering the office, but he acted strangely quietly in front of Bush and, unlike other cats, did not mess up things, so he was given the privilege of entering the Oval Office without an identification process.

However, it seemed that the cat’s personality, or rather, the feline nature, was not going anywhere, and he was relieving his instincts by harassing other animals instead of objects.

Thanks to this, White quickly became a celebrity in the world, whether he liked it or not. In Korea, he is recognized as the strongest pet cat in history, befitting the title of the most powerful president in history, but when he goes abroad, White’s image varies greatly depending on the country.

In pro-American countries, he is seen as an absurd cat of an absurd president. In China, which does not have good relations with the United States, he has become an image like a cat raised by the head of evil.

“I don’t know if you know this.”

Of course, he couldn’t have understood, but White naturally countered Bush’s words with a single word, ‘Meow.’ He finished grooming his fur, yawned leisurely with his mouth wide open, and let out a weary expression.

Seeing his expression, which had no worries at all, relieved his always complicated mind a little. There was an old saying that cats are monsters, and that was true. In this case, it would be a monster hunting monsters.

The spoils that White had hunted were released in the case of endangered species, but other animals were hung on the office wall or displayed in one corner after being touched by a taxidermist. Because they were hunted by breaking their necks, there were no holes, so the taxidermy condition was very good. But these days, the number has increased so much that he was slowly going to have to give some to someone or take them home himself.

“I wonder if he’ll catch something like an eagle soon.”

“I don’t think so.”

The chief of staff laughed it off, but Bush was quite serious. However, he did not bother to refute it because he sensed that there would be no end to it if he nitpicked the chief of staff’s words.

“Let’s put the White story aside until I leave work. Is there any topic that I might be interested in?”

“Of course. Recently, the map of Africa has finally changed.”

The chief of staff spread out the prepared map of Africa on the office board and fixed it.

“It has changed enough to interest you, Mr. President.”

Africa. The birthplace of modern humans and a vast continent that still boasts a population of 1.2 billion. However, because it was torn into dozens of pieces and forcibly united by the needs of the great powers in the 18th and 19th centuries, Africa was still a cauldron of chaos itself.

Imagine a country where thousands of cultures and tribes are combined into one country. How terrible is this? It would have been better if they had united voluntarily, but they were forcibly united, causing them to be at odds with each other to this day.

What about these unsightly straight border lines drawn for the convenience of the great powers? What about the wars that are still taking place thanks to those spineless border lines!

Anyway, there are 54 countries in Africa, and they don’t get along very well.

“Until now.”

“Then?”

“Africa has created the AU (African Union).”

“Ah, they’re going to show something beyond the OAU (Organization of African Unity) or the AEC (African Economic Community).”

For Bush, an American, and Kim Kap-hwan, a Korean, the continent of Africa was a distant and unfamiliar country. The image of Africa was a collection of the poorest countries or an uncivilized country where terrible wars were still taking place. As long as you were born in a developed country, this prejudice was inevitable.

The opportunity to realize this was the Middle East. While the administration was trying to do all sorts of stupid things by viewing the Middle East as an uncivilized Third World, he flexibly dealt with it by turning it around with the power of the president. As soon as he realized that his view of Africa was no different from the administration’s view of the Middle East, he ordered the CIA to pay attention to Africa, starting with the CIA. It was an unplanned event, so the budget was exceeded, but at that time, China was collecting Qing Dynasty bonds, so the budget overrun was glossed over.

Anyway, the OAU means the African Union, and the AEC means the African Economic Community. The AEC is an organization founded in 1999, and unlike general organizations, the method was a bit complicated. The AEC was not a single organization, but a huge link that tied together regional economic communities called RECs (Regional Economic Communities). Or it can be called a kind of bridge connecting Africa, a continent of conflict.

REC is an economic community aimed at economic cooperation, various conflict mitigation, and African integration, and there were not just one or two, but eight. Even that was only counting the economic cooperation organizations recognized by the AU.

The Arab Maghreb Union, the East African Common Market, the Sahel-Saharan States Community, the Intergovernmental Development Organization, the Southern African Development Community, and finally the East, West, and Central African Communities. There were eight like this. The crazy thing here is that it wasn’t divided so neatly.

Even the Republic of Sudan belonged to the East African Common Market, the East African Community, the Sahel-Saharan States Community, and the Intergovernmental Development Organization. Of course, these were not all the organizations that Sudan was a member of. As mentioned above, there were more economic cooperation organizations in Africa that the AU did not recognize.

Anyway, these organizations were trying to integrate this hellish land once again and make it the greatest continent in the world.

If ACE plays the role of a large economic community organization that binds the RECs scattered haphazardly in Africa, the OAU’s goal is to fully integrate Africa and ultimately become a national union like the EU. In this respect, it was in line with ASEAN in Southeast Asia.

However, there was also a plan to become the United States of Africa like the United States. This plan was proposed by Ghanaian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah at the Pan-African Parliamentary Conference and is still being seriously discussed.

And today, the OAU has finally been reborn as the AU in order to break away from its existing limitations.

And unfortunately, that was all Kim Kap-hwan knew about the future of Africa. You have to be interested and have related news to see it.

‘But it’s a few months faster than I knew.’

It was just a guess, but I thought it might have been stimulated by ASEAN. Above all, seeing the EU rampaging in the Middle East, which was like a neighborhood right next door, would have been chilling. One of the OUA’s biggest missions was to eradicate colonialism, but where did this colonialism come from? Isn’t it Europe?

“If you want to live, you have to unite.”

“A total of 53 countries have joined. If you exclude Morocco, it’s like everyone is here.”

“53 countries?”

“Yes, that’s right. Is something wrong?”

Bush was a little embarrassed because he remembered that the AU was made up of 55 countries around the time Morocco joined in 2017.

‘Ah, that’s right. South Sudan doesn’t exist yet.’

South Sudan was a newly independent country in 2011. There was a long civil war and massacre to achieve this independence. In other words, the civil war is still ongoing in 2002.

‘Was the Darfur massacre in 2003?’

“Do you have anything in mind?”

“Sudan.”

“Yes.”

“I’m thinking of making the South independent.”

Regardless of East or West, independence is never easy for any country. However, if the human who mentions this has the title of President of the United States, the story is a little different.

“I understand.”

The chief of staff divided Sudan in half, north and south, on the map with a marker.

“I will make it so.”