＜ Episode 332 >
– Woodang-tang!
There was a loud noise, followed by a roar.
It belonged to John F. Kennedy, the owner of this room and head of state of the United States.
“You guys are so shameless!”
The CIA Director, John McConne, did not yield to the furious roar of the president. President Kennedy was staring at him with indignation enough to be convinced that he would have punched him in the chin had it not been for his poor health, had it not been for the aftereffects of the injuries left on him by a Japanese destroyer in his past years. He did his own thing.
“Tell me something, you guys, the invasion operation that the military and the CIA carried out with such arrogance is a big deal. line. group. did it Then who should be held responsible? And how are we going to deal with this situation?”
“The failure of this invasion is not a clear mistake, but it is not without any gains. First, it has proven that the CIA is capable of beheading foreign leaders and key figures known to have possessed nothing other than the Russian Spetsnaz. The information was only a little inaccurate, but the US military’s striking ability itself was clearly…”
As Kennedy listened to that dog, he felt a pain in his back.
“There is no end to the incompetence of the CIA and the military, Director, you are fired! Get out of my sight right now!”
Kennedy, who had blown away the CIA director’s hair, buried himself in a chair.
“What happened to Europe?”
“Russia has proposed UN arbitration. The German side put forward the terms of the peace agreement.”
At the Secretary of State’s words, Kennedy laughed.
“The call to get out of Africa and Indochina, or to separate Britain and France back.”
Either give up all nominal colonies in Alsace Lorraine, Indochina and Africa and acknowledge the superiority of the Common Defense Treaty, or simply dismantle the Anglo-French Empire. It was a prerequisite for the peace announced by the German Empire.
Of course, there is no way that was the German Empire’s doctor. I think it’s more like a doctor of shadows cast from the east.
“But the fact that the Anglo-French Empire is acting as a buffer zone itself, we would like the British and French Empire to choose the former.”
Kennedy was concerned that if the arms race with Russia escalated, the military, incapacitated by Kennedy’s thoughts, would come back.
The arms race had already begun for weapons systems similar to nuclear weapons. The U.S. government invested a huge amount of R&D budget in the development of SSBN and promoted the high performance of ballistic missiles and delivery platforms, and the actual deployment of attack satellites.
In addition, the US is currently skipping the moon and focusing on Mars exploration, and is developing with the goal of mass-producing recyclable spaceplanes to supply and assemble materials for manned probes that must be assembled in space for Mars exploration.
When the Russian Empire officially announced plans to build one kind of spaceplane for space exploration and military purposes, the US Congress immediately approved the Air Force’s proposed space transport system project for Mars exploration.
The United States government to complete a system of space transport systems, a permanent space station in orbit, the space shuttle, and a nuclear-powered space transport to Mars, to make its way to Mars, and by any means to send people to Mars before the ’70s. was literally on a budget beyond imagination.
Whether in sports or in space, we had to beat Russia somehow.
Relations between the United States and Russia have never really been a rough one, but the people, Congress, wanted to build the pride of the United States, even in the smallest things.
The United States did not stand up until the United States was pushed out in pioneering the unknown world and space.
***
Hawaii, Pearl Harbor.
U.S. Coast Guard officers carried large-caliber assault rifles on their backs and observed the sky with binoculars.
A futuristic-looking Scorpion twin-engined light attack aircraft equipped with a roundel and canard of the Russian Air Force spewed smoke and exploded flares as it flew across the sky.
Of course, it wasn’t for military reasons, it was just an air show.
No, if it was military, it could have been a military reason.
＜US-Russia Friendship Sports Festival>
Placards fluttered announcing the purpose of the air show.
A soccer ball flew through the sky as US military police officers armed with M69W rifles and pump-action grenade launchers stood guard.
And even though the fully-armed military police were on guard just in case, anyone could see that the game was overheating.
“offside! That’s offside! The referee has a sprained eye!”
“Wherever you look, that’s offside!”
The military police’s greatest task was to prevent angry spectators from breaking into the arena or breaking the pots of opposing spectators, both of whom were members of the US and Russian Army, Navy, and Air Forces.
– Boom!
“Ouch!”
“Five.”
“Ugh.”
Of course, there were times when their voices dwindled.
While a Russian military major, who had been hit directly in the crotch by a long-range shot from a soccer ball kicked by an American captain, was carried away, no one shouted anything, and the spectators and players were silent at the vivid pain they felt even though they were not hit.
It was a pain that all men could relate to, to the extent that even American players, who were very excited, could look apologetic.
“Ugh…”
The same was true of Prince Evgeny of the Russian Empire, who was observing, and he sighed as he was only fiddling with the handle of the special cutlass that was gifted to the US Navy here without even being able to see it.
“This is bloody.”
“The atmosphere was overheated than expected. I thought it would be a good thing if there was no fight, but… I’m a little out of steam thanks to the Major, whether fortunate or unlucky……”
“If there’s a fight here, isn’t it worse than not having a friendly match?”
Prince Yevgeny looked at the stadium. Naturally, the Americans did not want such a situation, so they were concerned that the results of the match might be overheated while mobilizing a large number of military police.
“goal! goal!”
And as the Russians scored a point, the atmosphere in the stadium instantly heated up again.
“It’s 1 to 0.”
“It’s already the second half, and if the Americans don’t score extra points, we will win.”
“Winning or not, I hope it ends in moderation.”
***
“So who won?”
“Russian army won the final.”
I laughed bitterly.
“I mean, it’s the Olympics.”
“Yes.”
“It hasn’t been open for a while, has it?”
The Olympics were not held after World War I. Not to mention the World Cup.
FIFA was established, but in the end of the two world wars that occurred shortly after, the game could not be played properly, and it was only alive in the face of all sorts of events in Europe.
The IOC is literally in the middle of a cold meal. No, there are few well-functioning international organizations in the world right now.
First of all, the United Nations is functioning properly. The United Nations has the General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council as its core organizations. It is an affiliated organization in which key figures are appointed or dismissed under the approval of the United Nations Secretary-General and the Security Council. , the International Labor Organization (ILO), the International Criminal Court (formerly the International Military Tribunal for the trial of war criminals) and Interpol, the Universal Postal Union, the UN Refugee Agency and the United Nations Children’s Fund, and most importantly, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Organization for Prevention of the Proliferation of WMDs. are doing
The problem is, it’s just there. In the history of Won, the US dollar became the reserve currency and implemented the monopoly gold standard to launch the Bretton Woods system. If the key currency was adopted, the other side would likely object, so he quietly sat down. Some argued for the introduction of an international currency, the bancor, but was frustrated by opposition that it would collapse due to trade imbalance.
Thanks to this, there was only a principled agreement that the United States and Russia jointly protect the trade routes of all countries and enter a free trade system, and the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO did not exist.
In addition, all cooperative organizations, which had been loosely attached in the original history, were thoroughly subordinated to the UN’s affiliated agencies, such as agreeing to the appointment of a director or impeaching the director at the Security Council and the General Assembly.
The fact that even the WHO has ceased to exist is a big problem in combating infectious diseases. The League of Nations has not been established at all, so there is no health organization affiliated with it, the French International Public Health Office in France, the predecessor of the WHO, the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, USA, and the Eurasian Health Organization that we established, although not in the original history, are literally playing separately. . The Eurasian Health Organization is still actively cooperating with the Pan American Health Organization, so if you put the two together, you can call it WHO, but their scope of activity does not reach Africa, Europe to the west of France, and Europe to the east of Ireland.
Next, there are military-economic cooperation organizations such as the American Organization and the Joint Defense Treaty that replaced NATO and the Warsaw Pact of the original history, but these are just a concept close to the faction between the United States and Russia.
The British and French Empire did not have any specific military organizations. It’s a problem because they’re trying to keep it as a colony. He’s a hard worker saying that he can’t lose his prestige that it would be enough to build and maintain a treaty body like us.
Of course, if the British Empire accepts our request and gives up its colonies, then it will try to make an absurdly British Commonwealth and make a soft landing for the empire… but … There is no way for India, which has to say the least, and Southeast Asia, which has already been engaged in a chemical warfare and has taken off its cranes, to join us, so in the end, we will be satisfied as a regional power and will have nothing to do but play alone. In the first place, Australia and New Zealand, which were torn off by the United States as a result of World War II, and Canada, which was annexed, are simply out of the question.
“Honestly, can the British and French Empire, which has lost all its colonies, be able to defeat Spain?”
“Do you speak Spanish?”
Spain, which reunified the Iberian Peninsula, has to ascend day by day… but the reality is that the economy is similar to that of the Netherlands, which is much smaller than its own size.
I was hit head-on by the winds and waves of the 20th century, such as being swept away in civil war and World War II. The Netherlands, rather, the harsh exploitation suffered by the Nazi Germans in the original history – a nominal ally, the Nazis could not even rob it blindly – and as a result of the war, there was no Indochina War of Independence that was waged to protect the colony while losing it as a result of the war, and the Netherlands, which also owns Flanders, is economically It was much larger than him and had a similar economic scale to Spain, which had conquered Iberia.
Of course, the Netherlands is not prosperous, but Spain is a beggar.
“The British and French could invade Spain and win. But if you touch Spain, the US will intervene, and if you do, you will lose.”
“So is it.”
I laughed bitterly.
The world is somewhere in the middle between the Belle Epoque of imperialism and the Cold War.
The era I know will never come, but I’m also glad that it happened.
Because repeating the tragedy is enough for me and people who share the same era as me.