American Celestial Master

Chapter 275, Conflict

The initial military friction was caused by the use of cluster bombs by the Alliance during the airstrikes on the monsters. The Alliance had a legitimate reason for using cluster bombs, because cluster bombs, which are large-scale weapons of mass destruction targeting soft targets, are much more effective than ordinary high-explosive bombs in killing highly sensitive and low-defense targets such as werewolves.

However, there is a problem with cluster bombs, that is, when they are used, due to various factors, many submunitions will not be able to detonate normally. However, the safety of these unexploded munitions has been released, which also means that these submunitions may explode at any time.

In the last century, the United States dropped a large number of such munitions on the Indochina Peninsula, which threatened the safety of local people until decades later. For this reason, some small countries had proposed to the United Nations more than once to ban this dangerous weapon. However, the five major decision-makers of the United Nations used their traditional skills to pass the buck. Anyway, no one agreed, and no one was responsible for not being able to ban this thing.

It's certainly cool to drop this thing on foreign soil, but it doesn't seem to be illegal to drop it in the United States. Under this premise, cluster bombs have excellent killing capabilities and can significantly reduce costs, so why not use them?

Because the monsters are active at night, there are problems with target identification at night. The pilots may have been under a lot of pressure and fatigue because they had been on too many missions at sea recently, so they used some legal drugs to refresh their minds, which led to an overreaction. When they saw the infrared reaction, they habitually dropped the bomb first, forgetting the domestic regulations that require repeated confirmation of the target before dropping bombs. Then they just saw a fast-moving red dot on the display screen and dropped the bomb directly.

Then a motel, dozens of trucks, and the drivers who stayed overnight in the motel all disappeared. The fast-moving red dot was a vehicle that was also about to enter the motel.

After this tragedy, West Virginia of course asked the Union to immediately stop its invasion of West Virginia, punish the responsible persons, make compensation, and take measures to ensure that similar incidents will not happen again. The Union of course expressed regret first, and then said, "This is the price that the great America has to pay when fighting the devil. We will try to reduce such losses, but the action to fight the devil must not stop. Any idea of ​​being magnanimous to the devil and compromising with it is a betrayal of America and even a betrayal of all mankind. So at this time, we must not relax our fight against those monsters."

Such an attitude was certainly unacceptable to West Virginia, so West Virginia immediately launched an armed mobilization and announced that they reserved the right to use force for self-defense. If military forces from other states crossed the border again, West Virginia would fight back.

Then other states in the Mississippi Confederacy also expressed their support for West Virginia, and even said they were willing to provide West Virginia with various support, including military support.

The most interesting thing is the federal government. Normally, the federal government would have stepped in to stop the conflict between the two sides, coordinate the contradictions between the two sides, and unify the solutions to the problems faced by both sides. However, the federal government unexpectedly did almost nothing - because the president suddenly fell ill.

Some people also say that the president did not suddenly fall ill, but has never been well. If it is a common situation, then everyone can handle it according to the usual practice. Whether there is a president or not, the problem is not too big. However, such emergencies - such emergencies actually have plans, and there are more than one. It's just that in these plans, in order to make choices and decisions, there needs to be someone who can take responsibility. And most of the time, this person must be the president. But the president is in a state where he can't bear such a responsibility.

When the president is unable to take on such responsibilities, the vice president should act on behalf of the president according to regulations. But the problem is that under normal circumstances, the vice president is definitely willing to replace the president, but at this critical moment, the vice president does not want to take the blame. On the other hand, although the president is really not sober, his lack of clarity is that he firmly believes that he is fine. So the vice president showed amazing loyalty to the president. She insisted that since the president believes that he can still perform the duties of the president, he should trust the president.

"I think the president is in very good health, no worse than me - the president thinks so too."

But the President did have a problem. When he appeared on TV, his speech was obviously incoherent, and his mouth and eyes were clearly crooked. He even drooled while speaking and suddenly forgot what he was doing.

Of course, if it was in the past, the president would never show such a state in front of the TV. This also shows that some forces that originally supported the president have decided to abandon him.

But the president continued to fight on for two weeks, until more scandals were exposed about his son, and he said that he had to stop serving the American people for health reasons.

Even so, it took the Vice President two days to officially take over the presidency, but after this delay, the situation was very different from what it was at the beginning.

First, between West Virginia and Maryland, both sides were gathering forces. Of course, in terms of force alone, the New York-Great Lakes Alliance had a clear advantage. There were even some minor frictions between the two sides. When the combat aircraft of the New York-Great Lakes Alliance approached West Virginia, they were illuminated and tracked by the radar of the Patriot air defense missile system.

This was a warning, meaning that if these planes dared to cross the border, they would be hit. But what the West Virginians did not expect was that the response to this irradiation was to directly drop a HARM missile. So the scene that had appeared in the Gulf War was repeated - this missile accurately hit the search radar of the Patriot defense system that had no time to move, and blew this expensive radar into scrap metal.

All of a sudden, things got even worse. Soon, West Virginia launched a counterattack. Their fighter jets shot down a Global Hawk drone from the alliance and an MQ-9B drone used for strike missions. Then both sides engaged in small-scale cross-border artillery fire. A larger-scale conflict was almost imminent.

At this point, the federal government finally reacted. They first asked both sides to stop all military actions and exercise restraint. At the same time, they planned to send federal troops to establish a buffer zone to separate the conflicting parties.

(End of this chapter)