blood feud

The Mediterranean age ended with the discovery of America; the Atlantic age was at the height of its development and was bound to soon exhaust the resources it controlled; only the Pacific age, destined to be the greatest of the two, was only dawn. (Inscription - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903)

Remember, "President Theodore Roosevelt," not "President Franklin D. Roosevelt."Later President Franklin Roosevelt was the nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt.

This is American democracy and freedom: "President Roosevelt Sr. and President Roosevelt Jr.," "President Kennedy Sr. and President Kennedy Jr.," "President Bush Sr. and President Bush Jr.," and so on.

Many people ignorantly ridicule the old Jin family on the Korean peninsula. Is the United States really very ethnic?very free?Pure bullshit.

The US regime is controlled by the dollar.There have always been a few big families (chaebols) who controlled the Democratic Party and the Republican Party respectively, and then took turns to sit in the bank.

Although no more than four consecutive terms can be served, this agreement can be avoided by adopting the method of "the father comes down to the son, and the husband goes down to the wife".

The gossip is over, the book returns to the main story.

The U.S. government's policy toward Asia, especially China, has undergone two extreme changes.This change is the early "economic control of China" and the later "military support of puppets to control China".

After President Howard Taft replaced "Old President Roosevelt" and came to power, his China policy was "to establish the economic hegemony of the United States in mainland China, which is an integral part of the fierce competition for the Chinese Empire."

To the dismay of the Taft administration, the big Wall Street plutocrats did not listen to him and preferred to invest in Tokyo, which prompted the Japanese devils to further expand their efforts to mainland China, thus making his national policy of "occupying the Chinese Empire with dollars" fail.

When Americans were confused about "how to control the huge and decaying Chinese Empire", a cripple was born. He wrote a book "The Idiot Warrior", which shocked the whole United States and even Europe.This person is Homer Lea, because the English name is homer lea, so it is also translated as Li Homer.

The book caused a stir in 1909 because it predicted the fall of the British Empire and a devastating war between the United States and Japan for control of the Pacific.

His warning to all Americans: In the near future, there will be a new "****" scare on the West Coast.

For this reason, Li Homemo's strategic evaluation of the Philippines is: "Japan's domination of Asia is only a temporary phenomenon, and the ones who finally defeat Japan are those who control the Philippines."

Before the outbreak of World War II, this kind of evaluation had been the basis of the US Pacific military strategy, and it was also the "theoretical basis" for the Americans to try their best to defeat the Spanish colonialists and then steal the Philippines.

In order to achieve the strategic policy of "controlling the Philippines first, and then breaking Japan's control of the Chinese Empire", the planners of the U.S. Army and Navy began to secretly formulate the "Orange Operation Plan" in 1911 (orange is the code name of Japan, and red is the code name of the United Kingdom). code name, black is the code name for Germany).

The starting point of the plan is to assume that if Japan launches an attack, the troops stationed in the Philippines can hold on until the fleet rushes to the rescue.The fleet would fight its way across the Pacific to the east to fight Japan.

However, this plan has had a fatal flaw from the day it came out: after the combat fleet is dispatched from the base on the west coast, it will take at least a few weeks, maybe months During this time, the Japanese army may have controlled the Philippines during this time.

To this end, the U.S. Navy Department Committee began in 1911, hoping to persuade Congress to agree to "a plan to have 1903 battleships from 1920 to 48."

The stingy politicians of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party of the United States are opposed to the establishment of such a "huge navy", thinking that it is a waste, so they limit the construction of only one new battleship per year.

However, with the continuous growth of the German naval power, the situation in Europe has undergone earth-shaking changes, which has become another headache for American admirals.

At this time, the idealist of the Democratic Party, Woodrow Wilson, entered the White House, which led to the complete abortion of the "48 battleship plan".Not only did he order a halt to American shipbuilding, he also called on Germany and Great Britain to stop the naval arms race, saying it would gradually lead to war.

The final result was that the U.S. Department of the Navy did not get the "48 battleships", and the plan for the "United Pacific Fleet" fell through in the end, along with the "Operation Orange Plan".

At this juncture, another cripple in the United States was born, this is "Franklin Roosevelt". "He took his uncle's gun and came to the White House to stand guard again!"

The young Congressman Roosevelt, in response to the appeal of the respected Admiral Mahan, formulated "a plan to assemble the battle fleet in the Pacific Ocean."

The Pacific crisis, and especially the growing German submarine warfare across the Atlantic, finally convinced Congress that the United States must prepare for war and called for a navy "second to none."

As a result, the U.S. Navy Department Committee opened its mouth wide, changed the tone of the original "48 battleships", and formulated a plan to build 156 warships, so that "the United States will have the most invincible fleet in the world within five years." A mighty navy."

The big debate over the number of warships has not yet come to fruition. Something happened in Northeast China, and the "September [-]th Incident" broke out!

The international community strongly called for "severe sanctions on Japan" and an immediate oil embargo.

President Hoover, who had just come to power, was determined to "maintain the basic moral principles of international life" when he was running for the presidency, but he worried that the imposition of sanctions would lead to war, which would be detrimental to the United States.

The president believed that the proposed embargo on oil and trade with Japan was like "pricking a tiger with a needle."He worried that his secretary of state, Stimson, was "more of a warrior than a diplomat."

Hoover did not take sanctions against Japan, nor was he willing to support Britain and France to exert pressure on the Japanese invaders through the League of Nations, and encouraged American oil companies to "cooperate with Japan on conditional terms."

This is the "international moral norm" of the United States - betraying others is the diplomatic law, and the principle is to not harm the interests of the United States!

After Franklin Roosevelt became president, the international situation deteriorated day by day.Then Hitler's mustache fought in Europe, and the US defense policy once again reached a crossroads.

The chiefs of staff of the U.S. Army and Navy had to make a choice: whether to implement the Atlantic defense plan or the Pacific defense plan.

After much bickering, the U.S. Departments of the War and Navy came to a consensus: the immediate threat was not from Japan, but from the Axis powers.In order to protect Germany's growing interests in South America, the Axis powers were in imminent danger of heading south along the Western Atlantic.

The report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously calls on the president to concentrate naval power in the Atlantic and Caribbean regions.This necessitated some sort of defensive posture in the Pacific to hold Hawaii - partly at the expense of abandoning the Philippines should the Japanese attack the archipelago.

In particular, the memo reminds the president: "Do not be tempted politically to protect that archipelago because that would be contrary to a sensible assessment of American interests."

This far-reaching conclusion has completely changed the grand strategy of the United States for half a century, and President Roosevelt approved the plan without hesitation.

Because he had concluded that "Nazi Germany posed a far greater threat to American interests in Europe and North America than Japan posed."

This dramatic shift in strategic goals is reflected in a new set of "Rainbow Battle Plans."So named because, unlike the traditional monochromatic orders that are unrealistic today, they were designed to deal with combined enemies and potential allies.

"Rainbow 1": The purpose is "my country's independent control of the Americas, and no one else can interfere."Therefore, it is limited to "hemispheric defense", preventing "acts that violate the letter and spirit of the Monroe Doctrine", spreading to the mid-Atlantic and as far as the Pacific Ocean such as Hawaii, Wake Island and Samoa, and does not defend the Philippine Islands and Guam.

"Rainbow 2": Imagine that Britain and France are at war with the Axis powers. At that time, the United States "does not participate in the war to the maximum extent in Europe", but assumes "the responsibility of safeguarding the interests of the democratic countries in the Pacific and destroying the enemy's forces."

"Rainbow 3": Foretells the necessity of "controlling the Western Pacific" when the original "Orange Operation Plan" is dispatched to recover the Philippines.

"Rainbow 4": Imagine that the U.S. armed forces have to concentrate their forces to fight an Atlantic war and its inevitable result due to the actual threat;

"Rainbow 5": Once the international situation has some signs (beneficial to the US strategy), it is envisaged that they will unite with Britain and France and play a major role in "the decisive battle to defeat Germany".

The British Expeditionary Force retreated from Dunkirk, and German armored forces approached the French capital.Roosevelt tapped into Americans' growing alarm to demand that members of Congress vote to appropriate $11 billion for the Army and "reconsider the issue of national defense."

Italy entered the war, stabbed France in the back, and Germany might control the Atlantic coast. In order to deal with this threat, the planners of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began to carry out detailed preparations for the "Rainbow 5" strategy.

The core of the "Rainbow 5 Strategic Plan" is "Europe first, taking into account the Pacific", and it has been recognized as the national strategy after the United States entered the war before the United States entered the war.

For this reason, the U.S. Navy began to transfer part of its fleet from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean before the war, and took over the escort mission of the British Army in the West Atlantic.

Bai Shujie is an experienced person, and he is well aware of the despicable tricks of the US government.

The most important reason why the Americans suffered a big loss at Midway Island is that more than half of the power of the US Navy is in the Atlantic Ocean.

The little devil also knew about this, so Yamamoto 56 made up his mind to attack Pearl Harbor.In this way, it will take three to six months at the earliest for the Americans to bring back the Atlantic fleet.

Because Bai Shujie knew that the memo specifically reminded the president: "Don't be tempted by politics to protect that archipelago, because doing so violates a sensible assessment of American interests."

That's why Bai Shujie formulated a "robbery plan" to "take chestnuts from the fire" and put it into practice, because the loss of the Philippine Islands was within the limit that the American devils could bear.

In this way, the "Emperor" MacArthur of the Philippines is like eating two flies, so he naturally needs to explode!

After all, what happens next, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.