American Celestial Master

Chapter 276, Preparation for Division
The federal army was very resistant to the plan to establish a buffer zone:

What? Build a buffer zone? Where? Between West Virginia and Maryland? How is that possible? That place is a restricted area, and there are monsters there! Go there to build a buffer zone? You have to kill the monsters first, right? But can we just go out of the city and kill the monsters?
However, the federal army did not intend to resist, they just put forward many requirements. In addition to the preparation time, this city to fight monsters, at least there must be a departure fee to surprise the brothers, right? You see, this war, he is for money, right? Think about it, Alexander the Great was able to sweep across Europe and Asia, didn't he rely on the money he robbed and the sufficient military pay? So what is the most famous and widely known quote of Alexander the Great in the United States?
It is definitely not some inspirational quote like "A group of sheep led by a lion can defeat a group of lions led by a sheep". Instead, you see an unfamiliar number on your phone, and after you dial the number, you hear a curry-flavored sentence: "I, Alexander the Great, want money!"

In addition to the travel expenses, the federal army also needs various weapons and equipment, reconnaissance, and more... Of course, in the final analysis, the most important thing is the famous saying full of curry flavor: "Money!"

However, transferring money is the most difficult thing. Most things in the world can be solved by transferring money, but the problem is that most of the time, you can't always come up with that much money.

The federal government is the same. They can't come up with such a large sum of money at this time, because now the federal government has too many places to spend money, and the states are trying to undermine the federal government one by one. They have even begun to use state laws to interfere with federal taxation. In some red areas, there have even been confrontations between the federal tax department and the local judicial department.

Moreover, the federal government has many places to spend money now. There are so many restricted areas and threats in the United States, and many of them need to be dealt with by the federal government. However, the states, whether they are red states or blue states, are not grateful to the federal government. Instead, they think that the federal government has spent so much money, but in the end, nothing has been done well. If all this money is given to the states, even if the problem is not completely solved, at least it can do a better job than the corrupt federal government.

This statement is of course an attempt to pass the buck. There is widespread dissatisfaction in society right now. If the states don't pass the buck to the federal government, will they bear the brunt of the situation themselves?

The result is that after the crisis broke out, to be honest, the federal government and the federal army did the most, but they were also the most hated. From top to bottom, almost no one was satisfied with the federal government and the federal army.

Now, the federal government itself has little money, so they can't afford to support the federal army's new deployment. But now, the federal government and the federal army have to take action. So after more than a week of wrangling, the federal government finally decided to deploy a special operations battalion to establish a buffer zone.

This special combat battalion is mainly composed of superheroes. Under the premise that it is impossible to send out enough troops, it is relatively safer to send out such a team. After all, if an ordinary synthetic battalion is sent out, not to mention the problem of deploying heavy equipment in the mountains - such a small force will be very dangerous if attacked by monsters, and even retreat will become difficult. A combat battalion composed entirely of superheroes, at least when attacked by monsters, the superheroes have a much stronger ability to protect themselves.

The concern about the federal army being attacked by monsters was also completely justified, because these monsters had shown considerable intelligence during their escape, and even ambushed the New York National Guard. Although the ambush was clumsily organized, allowing the New York National Guard to break through, it was not easy for them to do so considering that they had not received military training before. If it were an ordinary American, they would probably not be able to organize such an ambush.

In New York, the behavior of these monsters has become a reason to completely eliminate them. They say that these intelligent and organized monsters have the potential to compete with humans for ecological niches from a biological point of view. Therefore, they must be eliminated. Any practice that hinders the elimination of these monsters is anti-human.

The federal army deployed there was quite professional. The location they chose was obvious enough. It was in an abandoned town next to the highway. The federal army used bulldozers to flatten all the houses in the town except the one they lived in, clearing the field of vision, and then arranged a helipad and parked the helicopter on it. At present, the monsters had not shown any air power, so if they were attacked, as long as they could resist for a while, they would have a chance to quickly move away with these super stallion helicopters.

As for preventing a possible military conflict between the New York-Great Lakes Alliance and the Mississippi Alliance, the federal army is only prepared to take some symbolic measures. To put it more clearly, it is like the previous UN peacekeeping forces, trying to separate the two conflicting parties as much as possible: "Two big brothers, stop fighting, give us some face." But if both sides are determined to fight, then the federal army's choice is of course to retreat first.

But the federal army's attempt to smooth things over was not going well. Because New York was still attacking "possible locations for monsters", while the federal army took sides, saying that the New York National Guard was indeed attacking monsters, and they even suggested that the Mississippi Union accept the guidance of the experienced New York National Guard to jointly deal with the threat.

This behavior of the Federation is actually quite normal. Because the Donkey Party is now controlling the Federation. Since the possibility of a split in the United States is getting bigger and bigger, if the Federation does not have a position and does not take sides, it will only be abandoned by both sides. Therefore, while trying to bridge the gap between the two sides, the Federation must also show its own position.

As for the federal army, the situation is different. Just like the last time the United States split, the federal army also split. Many people in the later Confederate Army were veterans or officers of the federal army. This time will probably be no exception.

(End of this chapter)