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A government that sends mentally challenged and mentally ill people into the military—do you expect it to value Patriot missiles? Don't be ridiculous. America's Patriot missiles are anti-aircraft missiles meant to be fired and worn down.

Oh my, now I understand why the US air defense missile is called Patriot. Apparently, in the eyes of the US government, Patriot is a delicate consumable. Hmm, I get it now (clapping).

Thus, the situation in East Asia became one where Xinhua knew that the United States was powerless against it, and the United States also knew that Xinhua knew it was powerless against it. However, maintaining the presence of US troops was not a problem unless absolutely necessary, which was actually beneficial to Xinhua. It was like holding a group of American hostages who brought their own food. The US government could not give up its military presence here, and naturally, it could not openly abandon these American soldiers.

If a military conflict were to break out, these American soldiers would inevitably become potential prisoners of war. No US government would dare to say it would abandon these American soldiers, at least not openly. This would become a bargaining chip to limit the US, giving it the capital to show off, but you also have to respect my attitude.

So the situation naturally became that the United States continued to maintain its military presence in Asia, but this presence was merely symbolic. Didn't you see that the US military even withdrew its aircraft carriers from here? And they would absolutely not dare to provoke any trouble in Asia, because as long as something happens here, no matter who did it, everyone's first reaction would be that the United States did it.

When Xinhua and the United States are put side by side, the former's international credibility is rock solid, while the United States—does it even have any credibility at all?

Moreover, if the Korean Peninsula descends into chaos, there will be a chain reaction, namely that Japan will also descend into chaos. Because no matter who is responsible, Xinhua will definitely take action. Once Xinhua liberates Taiwan and controls the Korean Peninsula, it will look at Japan and that bastard will have no choice but to kneel down without any guilt. Having knelt down for so long in history, this is just a way of rekindling the feeling of our ancestors recognizing their father.

So here's the question: if Japan wants to find a new "father," what happens to its previous "father"?

Hehehe, surrendering requires a pledge of loyalty. Is there anything more convincing than the corpse of one's adoptive father? Anyway, the Japanese have been acting like Lu Bu for a long time. Their most admired general from the Three Kingdoms period is Lu Bu, so it's normal for them to give the US a blow.

Thus, the whole issue became a chain reaction: Taiwan was liberated, the economies of Japan and South Korea were seized by Xinhua, and it was only a matter of time before the two countries sided with Xinhua, and Xinhua would also thoroughly settle all past accounts.

This is something that must be done. A great power must have the dignity of a great power. Those who have provoked us must be sacrificed. Even if Xinhua does nothing but give a hint, the Japanese Communist Party, which has long been thinking about a complete revolution, will definitely not mind sending those Japanese war criminals to the gallows.

The United States' military bases scattered around the world may seem very imposing, but that's based on the fact that the US could use its technological prowess to bully Earthlings and intimidate the world. It's a temporary phenomenon from a specific historical period. Once the US military force fails, these bases will dilute the strength of the US military. The loss of these bases will cause the US military to lose its authority and deterrence, ultimately creating a vicious cycle. When US military bases are overthrown by local armed groups, even the very existence of the United States will be in question.

Let's not forget the fundamental basis for America's existence: using military force to intimidate the world and then leeching off the world.

Now, one major power in this chain has completely broken free from the drain on American resources. What terrifying power will this industrialized nation of 1.2 billion people unleash?

Any American elite with a modicum of intelligence would understand that America's era is over; it's just that it's now stepping on the gas again.

It was still downhill.

The closed-door meeting inside the White House ended in a very short time. The reason for such efficiency is that the US government only has a few options, and the US financial capital has not yet developed to the level of the 21st century. At present, American industrial capitalists still have power, and they do not want the US, the foundation that helps them make a lot of money, to be damaged.

Therefore, when the United States encounters a crisis, all parties can still quickly unite and come up with a reliable plan to promote the implementation of the federal government. The efficiency is certainly not as good as that of a truly centralized president like Roosevelt, but at least the two parties will not fight to the point of making a series of blunders. The two parties in the United States still have a tacit understanding of cooperation, knowing when to do what. Most importantly, they can work together to do it.

Just as tensions on the Korean Peninsula were escalating to a fever pitch, the US government suddenly announced that, in order to maintain peace and stability in Asia, it would recommend that the United Nations send peacekeeping troops and withdraw all US troops from the region.

As soon as this statement came out, the whole world was in an uproar.

The suggestion to the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops and withdraw them is tantamount to the United States directly stating, "I don't want Northeast Asia or even the entire East Asia region anymore."

In regions where the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are stationed, would the UN deploy peacekeeping forces?

Who do you think you are? The five permanent members of the UN peacekeeping force. Why don't you hope the investigators actually eat Cthulhu?

Only by doing this can the United States minimize the inevitable losses. As for losing face, no matter how much the United States loses face, it is still a country with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and new aircraft carriers are under construction. In the future, the number of aircraft carriers will be maintained at around six.

This is America's choice: even if it can no longer leech off the world, it can still hold onto its own backyard and wait for the world situation to change. It can choose between isolationism and globalism.

That's right, the United States is preparing to shrink its presence in the Americas.

Section 56: The Scream of America

Some people suspect that Xinhua is stirring up trouble on the Korean Peninsula, but all indications suggest that it was all started by North and South Korean soldiers by accident. The two countries were already in a state of armistice. According to the first General Kim, the two sides could fight to the death at any time because of a war for unification. So there are not many other things near the 38th parallel, but there are many troops and tunnels.

These are historical issues. Besides, the front lines are currently rife with bloodshed, and there is absolutely no trace of Xinhua's interference. On the contrary, in order to avoid US intervention, Xinhua sent a fleet to patrol the Korean Peninsula and desperately appealed to both sides to calm down and stop negotiating. From a Western perspective, this doesn't seem like an attempt to escalate the war and reap the benefits. If you say this is Xinhua's problem, I'd rather believe it's America's problem.

There's no way around it; Xinhua's international reputation is far better than that of the United States. Especially after Xinhua became powerful, it didn't exhibit the same aggressive attitude as the US, while the Western world began to experience various problems. All of this made international capital more inclined to invest in Xinhua's environment. Moreover, the defensive barriers around Xinhua have been erected, leaving the Western world with no room to cause trouble.

Even if they had room to act, the locals wouldn't wholeheartedly follow them in fighting Xinhua. After all, whether Xinhua could save them was another matter, but Xinhua could really tarnish my whole family's reputation right in front of my house.

No matter what those small countries say, they don't really think Xinhua's aircraft carrier is just for show.

They might as well shout a few words at the US to earn some money, but they're not that shameless as to actually bring their own money and have their whole family die.

Of course, there will still be those who dream of taking money to the US to enjoy life, but that's a different story. Anyway, the US government has always been inhumane when it comes to being unethical. The tragic fate of these people in the future will help other countries to be more determined to oppose the US, since the US itself was born out of resistance to taxes.

Fun fact: Back in the day, Britain could only collect taxes from wealthy Americans; the colonial powers all had tax farming systems.

So the truth is that a group of people who didn't want to pay taxes, with the help of their neighbor Old Wang, beat up their father who was far away in Europe, divided up the family property, and went to live separately.

Wow, the Anglo-Saxon people have such a unique father-son bond.

Regardless, the United States withdrew its troops from Asia and hoped to use this as leverage to make some exchanges with Xinhua. So Kissinger went on another expedition, but this time he gained nothing.

Xinhua made no comment at all. Anyway, if the United States wants to continue to maintain its presence in Asia, then keep your troops stationed there. We didn't kick you out. It's unreasonable for you to ask us for travel expenses when you want to leave.

This is completely different from Kissinger's assessment before his arrival, because Xinhua's thinking is too American.

According to Xinhua's traditional thinking, shouldn't things end amicably? Why are you giving me the cold shoulder right away? This is completely different from your usual style. Has Xinhua's top management been collectively possessed?

The main reason is that Xinhua's major government agencies are now being managed remotely by "a group of people born in the 1990s and 2000s who have no prejudice against Western countries and are very familiar with their way of doing things. They are typical of the type who use double standards against you and you can't resist and have to thank me."

Bah! Your US government doesn't even deserve the surname Zhao.

The US government is deeply troubled by Xinhua's reaction. There are no benefits to it. Continuing to maintain a military presence in Asia is tantamount to handing hostages to Xinhua. They are just a bunch of cannon fodder who will disappear on the spot if war breaks out. Haven't you seen that the US military stationed in Japan doesn't dare to act arrogantly in cities where the PLA is stationed? They are afraid of being beaten. If it escalates to the point of gunfire, given Xinhua's current style, it is likely that they will directly besiege the city with aircraft carriers and send tanks to its door.

Speaking of Xinhua's latest tank, it looks really cool (envious look from American soldiers).

Since they can't get any benefits, they can only run away with their tails between their legs. But before that, the US needs to finish its harvesting of Japan and South Korea, for example... Holy crap!

Don't be ridiculous. How could Qin Shan not know what the US government is thinking?

Anglo-Saxon tradition dictates creating chaos before leaving; if that's the case, then let all those capable of creating chaos die. On December 12, 1997, South Korea and Japan experienced internal coups almost simultaneously. In South Korea, a military government once again came to power, and after taking office, it seemed as if the Han army, having taken the bait, had disarmed the US troops stationed in South Korea.

When news of this reached the United States, the US government was first stunned, then furious. This is outrageous! The dog dares to betray its master!

But no matter what, it has already happened, and there's no point in talking about anything else, because immediately afterward, the Japanese Communist Party launched a military coup, and then the newly formed Comintern announced its support for the Japanese Communist Party's just actions.

Now the whole world is flipping through calendars. Am I seeing things? It's the 1990s, isn't it? It feels a bit like the Spanish Civil War.

Xinhua's blockade fleet still exists, but this time the blockade covers the entire Western Pacific, including Japan, completely keeping any potential US intervention forces out of East Asia.

Subsequently, Xinhua's allies successively expressed their support for Japan and South Korea to become "normal," "democratic," and "prosperous" new countries.

However, this time the US government didn't seem to care much.

What else can I feel? I'm numb. These two countries are in complete chaos, and they didn't even give their lambs a chance to escape. Those compradors from Japan and South Korea are like parasites left by the United States in these two countries. Once the local situation becomes turbulent, these people will abscond with the money. But now, with the internet, electricity, and land, sea, and air transportation cut off, they've been trapped inside.

Want to slip away with the benefits? No way!

The US's bloodsucking tentacles have been severed just like that. In the past, the US would at least have protested, but now, they are afraid that their protests will be too loud and make Xinhua uncomfortable, so they left quietly without even making any comments.

Even the two parties in the country tacitly refrained from publicizing these events, instead portraying them as a great beginning of peace and promoting them extensively. In any case, the US government had no problems, our sacrifices were great, and all the problems were the fault of those warmongers. If you ask who the warmongers are, you can choose Japan or South Korea, but Xinhua is not one of them.

Look, look, this sensible American imperialist country.

However, the United States has not completely withdrawn from East Asia. They still have a military presence in the Philippines, but it is obvious to anyone with eyes to see that the Philippines is definitely not comparable to Japan and South Korea. The supplies and assistance they can provide can only be considered second-rate. The military power of the United States in East Asia has been inevitably and absolutely weakened.

Moreover, while the US military can withdraw, what about the dollar-based financial system, which is being besieged by the RMB worldwide?

Since Xinhua launched the unlimited gold RMB model, the US dollar has been declining. Especially after Xinhua removed restrictions on gold exports, more and more countries have been holding some gold. As for how much gold Xinhua has, just look at that huge mountain of gold weighing tens of thousands of tons. As long as that is still there, the ballast stone of the market is as stable as Mount Tai.

On one side is the already unstable petrodollar, and on the other side is the rock-solid gold yuan.

Which would you choose?

What's even more troubling for the US is that the international community is now targeting the petrodollar, including the oil exchange mechanism that uses the renminbi.

Xinhua has started selling energy coins. They've also developed ultra-high-voltage, room-temperature superconducting power transmission technology, which is now being widely deployed in East Asia. Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia are all using cheap electricity provided by Xinhua. Their domestic manufacturing industries are booming, surging, and growing rapidly. Although they are practically tied to Xinhua, this big brother Xinhua is truly providing its little brother with a full stomach. Compared to the United States, pshaw, what is that?

Xinhua even started to convene the East Asia Five-Year Plan Development Vision, bringing multiple countries into the scope of planned economy. This is the second Soviet Union, or even a more terrifying behemoth than the Soviet Union.

We've broken through! We've really broken through, everyone! Why is Xinhua so amazing? It's unbelievable, unbelievable!

Other countries certainly wouldn't be qualified to play like this with the US. Even if they had unlimited gold, it wouldn't matter; the US would rob them clean. But if the vault is surrounded by an aircraft carrier fleet and a bunch of Dongfeng missiles, the US can only smile and say: "Well, let's be friends."

American think tanks have repeatedly emphasized in their documents that a new economic system centered on Xinhua is being established, and the United States has no way to stop it. If we want to provoke regional wars, we must directly confront the war threat from Xinhua.

A country with sufficient strength can speak loudly and put a sword to the other side's neck; it is the other side that should remain calm.

The United States is very calm now, but no matter how calm they are, they have to face the fact that they can't do anything about it. Even in the Americas, their deterrence is not absolutely effective.

Numerous guerrilla groups have emerged in South America. These guerrilla groups are equipped with American weapons and are well-equipped. They are brutally attacking local troops and physically eliminating American-backed forces and investments.

Even if I can't take it away, I'll make sure you lose everything.

Capital is loss-averse, and for them, the Americas were no different from Vietnam. Have you ever seen an American capitalist invest in Vietnam's manufacturing industry during the Vietnam War? They were all expanding production domestically in the United States.

"Our simplest and most effective strategy right now is to return to the gold and dollar system, but..."

The presidential advisor's words ended there. Every US president knows that America's gold reserves belong to the Federal Reserve. As US president, daring to touch the Fed's gold reserves—do you want to be Lincoln, or emulate Kennedy?

Therefore, the petrodollar system, dominated by the US government, is essentially a disguised form of foreign spoils, giving up domestic gold and financial assets in exchange for the Federal Reserve's support for the government's foreign plundering. In addition, the Federal Reserve can also benefit from this, making it a win-win situation for everyone.

But all of this is predicated on the ability to go out and plunder. The operating logic of the United States is the standard pirate logic. Pirates themselves have little productive capacity. Once they can no longer go out and plunder, they will start to turn against themselves. Their own flesh and blood are flesh and blood too. Capital never picks and chooses.

After much deliberation, the only viable strategy left was to target and exploit Europe.

The Yugoslavia issue is the perfect pretext to ignite war there, cause European capital flight, allow the US to reap the benefits of European development, and create a virtuous cycle of the US dollar... Wait a minute, there are many stable countries in the world right now, and if Yugoslavia really descends into chaos, the capital fleeing Europe will likely flow not only to the US.

This has been the case throughout the history of the world. After the United States launched the Kosovo War, some of the European capital that fled abroad went to China instead of flowing to the United States. This made the United States very unhappy, so it started to find fault with China in various ways, and the final escalation was the South China Sea standoff.

I don't know if you've noticed, but the 98 financial crisis is no longer possible in this world because most East Asian countries have been integrated by China. They have also abandoned their own currencies and integrated into the RMB system. The US's sickle can't cut through titanium alloy armor, so if it continues to harvest according to the traditional dollar tide, then the US's credibility will be ruined. But no matter how you calculate it, China will automatically get a share of the benefits, or even more than half.

I became a blond guy, but it turned out to be a lucky break for my neighbor, and then the whole world called me a bastard.

The research findings of an American think tank have breached the defenses of the entire American leadership.

How could the world have become like this?!

Section 57: A Return Visit to the Sound of Gunfire in the Americas

Not long ago, a bigwig at a well-known company once said: "Watching him make money is more painful than me losing money!"

The US, in its view of Xinhua, shares this same mentality.

To be honest, even with the dollar's ebb and flow, the US hasn't been able to do it smoothly many times. The Soviet Union blocked the US's path, and Xinhua helped the US attract foreign investment. In any case, the US is never the only safe haven in the world.

Ideally, one would dismantle all safe havens except oneself, but the problem is, Xinhua cannot be dismantled.

On the contrary, Xinhua's English pronunciation is quite different; it's really uncertain who will be "tearing" whom in the end.

After carefully assessing the current gap between itself and Xinhua, the United States realized that it should not have any unrealistic ambitions towards Xinhua, as this directly relates to how long it can survive.

But external exploitation is the foundation of America's prosperity; otherwise, there would be unrest from top to bottom.

The United States has not yet mastered LGBT legislation, so the foundation for the Occupy Wall Street movement still exists. Moreover, even if society were completely and utterly dismantled, it would cause the overall collapse of the United States. After all, people at the bottom are just trying to survive. When you make a fuss about other people's survival, it is easy to turn things into a situation where there is no law, only weapons.

Just look at the shootings in the United States. You don't think that all wealthy Americans have a professional team of bodyguards to ensure they are as invulnerable as BTS, do you?

In the United States, there are bound to be reports of robberies targeting the wealthy, but the US government has managed to cover it up very well, doing its utmost to prevent the lower classes from seeing the truth. However, there will always come a day when the truth can no longer be concealed, and that day will be the day when all the internal conflicts in the United States erupt. At that time, the most loyal soldiers in the United States will probably only be mercenaries, the kind who won't work if they're not paid.

A dream of returning to the era of regional military governors at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

No, that was our late Tang Dynasty warlord system. The United States hasn't experienced more than two thousand years of brutal treatment yet; they still have a long way to go.

What follows is a new era of brutal beatings, so get ready, America.

Some mountainous area in Mexico

Here's the question: When did the Mexican drug war begin?

A: Since 2001, there have been thousands of drug-related violent conflicts. And this is the death toll, or the number of deaths registered by the government. Nobody knows how many people were affected or how many people sank in the Gulf of Mexico.

Anyway, whether it's the US or drug lords, they won't care how many slices of bread they ate.

There was even a professional job in Mexico that involved dissolving corpses, which was later replaced by organ trading.

Human beings are a resource in themselves, and exploitation is always evolving with the times.

So the drug war that appears to have started in 2010 actually began as early as 2001. In Mexico before 2000, drugs had already become rampant and even a means of survival for the locals, deeply intertwined with their lives.

Who let American agricultural products destroy Mexican agriculture and block their water resources (by locking down the source of water, the United States used the lifeblood of Mexican agriculture to irrigate their beloved avocados)? They went too far.

With the CIA's guidance and enticement, drugs ultimately became Mexico's lifeline.

What does it mean to be too far from heaven and too close to the United States? Mexico is here to prove it (by offering its own example).

While the United States keeps its eyes on foreign lands, poppies are already swaying in the wind in Mexico, right on its doorstep, and drug seedlings are growing ever stronger. America is about to enter an even more frenzied era of chemical ecstasy, and has even opened up its own unique opium dens—government-run drug injection centers—in order to help the American people use drugs in a healthier way.

It's truly a wonder of the world that they could combine the words "drugs" and "health."

However, this is not the bottom line yet. The American people in 1997 could never have imagined how outrageous the US government would be after 2020. Fortunately, they probably won't experience this kind of treatment, because players have already started causing trouble here.

Mexico is right next to the United States and has the most problems of its own. If the US wants to cause trouble and pose a real threat of war, the simplest way is to make Mexico strong. Ideally, Mexico would be a communist regime with nuclear weapons, which would help the US government remain calm.

"Our plan is to seize power in Mexico and then use nuclear weapons to force the United States to calm down. We have enough personnel for this operation and we can deploy it fully."

No matter what plans players devise, the core objective must be to win the war, and only then can other things be discussed.

Fighting is not difficult for players; even if they slowly whittle down the US using their daily respawns, they can still defeat it.

Currently, the number of player accounts in the local world has reached a staggering 30 million. This level of military strength has developed to the point that players could instantly overthrow a regime in any country they appear in. However, under normal circumstances, players' deployments are not concentrated, but rather distributed in units of tens of thousands.