George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 166

The day after the Chechen terrorist annihilation operation was declared, a line of black armored vehicles, clearly not civilian, moved through the heart of Grozny, a city of about 220,000 residents.

The occupants of the black cars were dressed in rather unique attire, a mix of modernized AK-103s and AN-94s with optical sights, applied as a trial. They wore lightweight 3kg bulletproof vests made entirely of Kevlar. This suggested to onlookers that they were, at the very least, affiliated with the military.

They were Spetsnaz [Russian special forces]. More precisely, they were members of the Alpha Group, an elite counter-terrorism unit selected from Spetsnaz special forces known for their urban warfare expertise, boasting some of the world’s top combat capabilities.

Cold, hard concrete. Rebar and wires sticking out from the gaps. The city streets were their complete domain, as familiar as their own homes.

One might question, ‘Is it really necessary to deploy Spetsnaz?’ but the Russian government was cornered to that extent. Who, besides the United States, could possibly corner the mighty Russian government? Ironically, it was the Russian government itself that had done so. Vladimir Putin, the highest authority in the current Russian government.

He had personally paraded through the streets in a T-90 tank to show the ‘Slavic Power’ to the treacherous Chechen terrorists, but the places where they were hiding were not in the mountains or in underground bunkers, but in the city centers or villages of southeastern Russia, including Grozny. Thus, the tanks proudly displayed in the parade were useless, and they had no choice but to mobilize the Alpha Group, an anti-terrorism unit, to minimize casualties.

The Russian government wanted to ‘annihilate’ the Chechen terrorists with minimal civilian casualties. Judging by their actions, they didn’t seem to care much about civilians, but they were ostensibly a democracy and guaranteed a fair amount of freedom of the press, so they had to protect their citizens, whether they liked it or not.

In fact, the moment a government fails to protect its citizens, it essentially gives up its very existence as a government. However, the most important thing here was not the dismantling of terrorists, nor the suppression of terrorists, but the ‘annihilation’ of terrorists. That’s why they deployed the entire Alpha Group, not just ordinary military or police forces.

As explained above, the Alpha Group were the foremost experts in urban warfare, but they were also notorious as the most reckless counter-terrorism unit in the industry, famous for not giving a damn about hostages and wiping everything out.

This was partly aimed at eradicating hostage situations by instilling in terrorists that hostages had no value, but the bigger reason was operational convenience. In other words, they didn’t want to lose soldiers who had been trained with billions of rubles invested in each one.

In any case, the external reason was always the former, and the Alpha Group understood it that way. Therefore, they had a strong sense of duty and sacrifice, willing to sacrifice their own bodies if a grenade fell in front of hostages in an emergency.

This also meant that once someone fell outside the category of ‘citizen,’ the violent instincts inherent in the Alpha Group members would escape the control of the Russian government.

Now that the Human Genome Project has been completed and the composition of the human genome has been revealed, humanity at this point has no way of knowing, but there was something they vaguely realized through thousands of years of accumulated experience.

It may seem somewhat unreasonable from the perspective of ordinary people, but human talent is innate. And it has recently been revealed that talent is actually determined by the laws governing the arrangement of DNA fragments.

This arrangement law with a geometric structure is called a gene, and the genes of the Alpha Group were quite violent. Have you ever seen a frog in front of a predator? The frog freezes and cannot even move, or desperately struggles. The Alpha Group members had such talent. A terrible talent that made the enemies facing the Alpha Group feel as if they had descended one step on the ecological pyramid.

In other words, they were quite ferocious and cruel. The closest thing in the West would be the Green Berets [US Army Special Forces]. The Green Berets have improved their image a bit these days. In the past, they were demons crawled up from hell itself.

So, what happened during the suppression operation was truly inevitable. Isn’t it obvious what will happen if you unleash a vicious hunting dog in a hunting ground?

“Deploy!”

The glass ceiling shattered from the Alpha Group member’s kick, and shards of glass scattered in all directions, soon falling to the floor like rain under the influence of gravity. The terrorists, who looked up at the sudden noise, lost their sight as glass shards entered their eyes, and the ‘cluster of incendiary grenades’ that followed sent the terrorists, who had ducked down thinking it was a flashbang, to their own heaven in a certain and painful way.

The terrorists could not hold out inside the building due to the fire and had to evacuate outside, where they were either arrested or brutally killed. In ancient times in the East, there were punishments called ‘dismemberment’ and ‘posthumous decapitation,’ and if you were to find the closest thing to what the terrorists suffered in the process of being annihilated, it would be this.

Such operations took place throughout Grozny, and at least within Grozny, the Chechen rebels were completely suppressed. In addition, the terrorists hiding inside Russia quickly disappeared. They had clearly witnessed what happens when you oppose Russia.

They had a talent for finding and killing people. In other words, they were predators from the genetic level, let alone the bones. To be precise, it was no exaggeration to say that they were tyrants who could forcibly drag those around them down the ecological pyramid.

“My father used to say, ‘Enjoy life, and you’ll be ruined.'”

“Did he really say that?”

“No, he wouldn’t.”

In fact, he was ruined by enjoying life. Not George H. W. Bush, but Kim Kap-hwan’s father. In fact, his family had fallen to the point where they could barely afford one bowl of ramen a day because his father’s business had failed. To be precise, it was because he had mismanaged the investment funds, but this served as an opportunity for Kim Kap-hwan to deeply engrave in his heart that wasting funds in any way would lead to ruin.

“These bastards are managing funds just like that, that’s why.”

Do you remember that they forcibly increased the workload for fair and efficient budget allocation? The things that had been seen from the beginning of the policy, and at the same time, the things that had been so worried about, happened all at once. All sorts of bizarre tasks were created, and the degree of freeloading became more and more severe as the days went by. They even created non-existent tasks (Work), and even created a new word, and that new word was ‘Nork’ [a task that is essentially useless or make-work].

Bush had no choice but to admit that this policy was a failure. But was Bush the kind of person to be simply disappointed? Absolutely not. One of Bush’s strengths was that he didn’t care about face to an extreme degree.

If he were an ordinary person, he would just be another crazy bastard on the street with a loose mouth and actions, but he was the President of the United States. The crazy things he did always went beyond local provocations to global levels, and the impact never stopped within the United States.

“I have no choice. I’ll just have to backtrack a bit.”

“Isn’t that too irresponsible? All sorts of media outlets will criticize you for being arrogant. Except for FOX [a conservative news channel].”

Arrogant, and Bush couldn’t be left out when it came to arrogance. A faint smile appeared on his lips.

“Criticize me. Gee, your mouth seems to be getting rougher and rougher as the days go by.”

“Surely not more than someone in front of me?”

Bush coughed in embarrassment at those words, for once. Even someone with a terrible personality will be embarrassed if you make them look back on the past. It’s no coincidence that confession is included in the seven sacraments of Christianity and expressed as repentance.

“But should I drag on something that’s clearly not going to work?”

Anyway, apart from his shrinking actions, his expression was as indifferent as White’s, who doesn’t go out hunting. White, sitting on the chair, had an expression that really resembled Bush.

“That’s kind of true.”

The chief of staff, who witnessed this, suppressed a laugh and readily agreed that Bush’s words made sense. However, his agreement did not mean that he recommended withdrawing this policy. The president’s face was already in tatters, but those tatters were so precious.

Face may seem useless to ordinary people, but it is as important as life to those who live by their mouths. Face is ultimately a social status, which is the weight of the words that come out of one’s mouth. The weight that comes from words is influence, and influence is directly related to the person’s status in society.

Throughout the East and West, everyone thinks that ‘saving face’ is a truly useless and outdated concept, but ironically, politics itself cannot be established without this face. That’s why there is such a thing as maintenance costs, and why everyone, except for some unique politicians, tries to appear like a simple and clean gentleman, even though they are so wealthy.

“Then how about doing this?”

“Do you have a secret plan?”

“Rather than a secret plan, it’s a straightforward approach. Anyway, it was a pilot period, even though the scope was a bit wide, so we’ll end the pilot period early.”

“Then it will be difficult to touch the lazy politicians in the future.”

It was something that was forced through despite strong opposition from the parliament. But now that he had reversed his words, it would be difficult to speak loudly to the parliament about this in the future. At least for the next 5 or 6 years. And in 6 years, he would no longer be president.

“You’re different, Mr. President.”

“Why?”

Bush was genuinely puzzled. He was so puzzled that the chief of staff could read the bewilderment and embarrassment in his expression.

“Because you’ve never cared about that kind of thing in the first place.”

What an attractive proposal!

“I don’t think anyone will oppose this.”

The chief of staff’s opinion was passed with the full support of the president himself, and the parliament also unanimously, with the exception of a very few, ended the pilot period one year earlier than planned. If it’s strange that it was unanimous even though a very few opposed it, you’re seeing things.