Tower of Babel

The news of the destruction of the combined fleet was finally brought back by merchant ships. Zhang Cheng did not order an indiscriminate attack. Except for warships and troop transports, even the ships transporting cargo were spared. The Baltic Sea is an inland sea, and the outlet is controlled by the British. They were captured The number of warships has little strategic significance. This operation was just to verify the possibility of armed helicopters seizing ships.

But despite this, the results were still extraordinary. Of the nine British strategic ships, four were sunk, two were scuttled, and three were captured. Another battleship, the converted aircraft carrier Fury, was captured. There were twelve cruisers, five were sunk, another four scuttled, three were captured, and of the twenty-four frigates, only three surrendered and the rest were sunk. This fleet will seriously threaten Finland from the side and rear. Finland It is also the land that the Allied Powers carved away from Tsarist Russia. Strictly speaking, it is not yet an independent country.

But the direction of the Black Sea is completely different. The Ottoman Empire is poor and weak, but it contains rich oil underground. It is the key to controlling the world's energy. It has great strategic significance and requires coordinated operations by maritime forces. Affected by the Battle of the Baltic Sea, the direction of the Black Sea directly changed the tactics. Joseph decided to use Scorpion helicopter gunships and Chinook transport aircraft to carry out ship-seizing operations. The mission of the Two-tailed Lion became to clear the coastal fortifications of Constantinople and block the Turkish Straits.

The conflict between Russia and the Ottomans has been going on for a long time. It is difficult to say which is right and which is wrong. The expansion of Tsarist Russia is certainly wrong, but Turkey cut off the trade between the East and the West and cut off people's financial resources like killing their parents. It has forged a five-hundred-year-old feud with the West. Western countries have been trying every means to dismember the Ottomans, and the Russian conflict is a very important part of it. Let’s not mention these nonsense, let’s just say that at the moment, the Ottomans joined the German-Austrian Alliance in World War I and were beaten violently by Russia. They had no place to redress their grievances. However, no one expected that the Russians were defeated by the Germans. Withdrawing from the war early, he suddenly became a rebel of the Allied Powers and became the target of public criticism.

Germany was defeated. Although Ottoman himself could not save himself and faced the fate of being dismembered, he decided to take revenge first. Maybe you can turn your merits into a crime! As a result, the Armenians in the Russian Caucasus became a punching bag. After retreating from the Russians, the Ottomans implemented a genocidal policy and massacred more than one million Armenians one after another.

Armenia was not an independent country at this time, but a borderland of Russia. Joseph was born as an Armenian, and he was very unhappy when his hometown was massacred by the Ottomans. Now that he had made great achievements for the first time, he needed some victories to consolidate military morale and prestige. After Joseph ascended the throne, he immediately sent people back to his hometown to contact the Armenians. At this time, Armenia had lost half of its population, and it immediately responded to the blood feud. The two sides hit it off immediately. Joseph immediately provided them with a large number of small arms and completely conquered the Armenian hearts. Joseph pointed his sword at Türkiye. This coincides with Zhang Cheng.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire was not the Turkey that it later became. Its territory included not only the Turkish peninsula, but also Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the surrounding territories of Saudi Arabia, and parts of Yemen. Although disintegration is imminent, has it not yet disintegrated? If the entire Ottoman Empire is captured at this time, the Gulf oil will be under control. At this time, people still didn’t know the preciousness under this desert. The main oil producing area now is the Southeast Asian region of the Philippines.

Petroleum resources are precious. Even if they are not used as energy, they are still important chemical raw materials. Ninety percent of human chemical products come from petroleum, such as chemical fibers, plastics, rubber, paints, explosives, and fertilizers, all of which are petroleum products. The Gulf region contains 70% of the world's oil, which is still an important resource even in the interstellar era. This is one of the reasons why Zhang Cheng is willing to pay for it.

Another advantage of taking down the Ottomans is that it completely opened up the situation of Soviet Russia being surrounded. It no longer faces the situation of other countries blocking the sea ports. At the same time, it can threaten Suez and increase its bargaining chips in negotiations with Britain and France. So even if Russia doesn't send troops, Zhang Cheng still wants to use Russia's name to kill someone. But Zhang Cheng thought too much. The furry bear's territory is relatively cold in the north, and it has a strong desire for the warm land in the south. The Supreme Council quickly adopted an action plan.

Some people may say that this is a war of aggression and an unjust war, but the current era is not the era of the rise of nationalist ideas, but the era of international movements. The national awakening and the wave of independence happened after World War II. At present, the ruling class around the world is arrogant, Cruelly exploiting the poor and the proletariat, as long as they send out the banner of attacking the local tyrants and allocating their land, they will get a response.

It's just that the original furry bear was very awkward in many aspects, lacked capital, and missed the opportunity for world revolution. Then, just after it recovered, it was hit hard by Germany, giving imperialism time to adjust. After the war, in order to avoid becoming red, they set off a wave of nationalist ideas and independence, and the international communist movement completely failed.

But Zhang Cheng would never give them such a chance. It will never be called a big beauty, become a beacon of democracy, and establish monetary hegemony to reap harvests all over the world. We will not ask them to launch aircraft carriers to discharge nuclear sewage all over the world to establish a fresh dollar. Research on technology to eradicate the genes of the world's population. Such a heinous reactionary regime must be destroyed.

Zhang Cheng is not a white lotus. He has never believed that any war of aggression will inevitably fail. On the contrary, this world is very cruel. There are many people who are ruled by foreign races, colonized, and even exterminated! Zhang Cheng didn't like the Western colonial approach, but the national integration policy also eliminated many foreign races.

As for the problem of post-war public security wars, it is not unsolvable. The best way is to build a mass base on the basis of dividing the land from local tyrants, follow the mass line, and remove fuel from the bottom of the cauldron. The work of suppressing bandits after liberation was actually a public security war. The most barbaric method is to build a steel Great Wall of drones, robots, and Skynet systems to jointly enforce law enforcement. Zhang Cheng decided to grab both hands hard.

Of course, post-war governance is a complex task. Even if you can help people live a good life, they may not win the center and support. Gratitude and enmity are not a matter of good and evil, but a matter of human nature. Everyone is like this. Saddam Gaddafi, despite all his faults, never treated the people badly, yet he ended up being betrayed by everyone. Rule cannot be separated from money, but money alone cannot maintain rule. Political power comes from the barrel of a gun. Force is very important, but force requires not only organizational structure, but also spiritual thinking.

Rule without faith is like a fortress on the beach. It is very easy to collapse and export revolution. In Zhang Cheng's words, it means that the spirit and will are weak and it is very easy to be taken over by evil spirits. This is true for a person, and it is true for a country, not even a civilization. Zhang Cheng knew this well.

No matter how unbelieving in God or materialistic you are, you have to admit that everything in life is fleeting and this little box is your forever home! But is this little box really your forever home? It was just a ball of ashes! There are many people who do not believe in the existence of souls and reincarnation. In fact, deep down in their hearts, they are not willing to disappear and cease to exist.

Religion is a very miraculous thing. Zhang Cheng does not deny that there are a lot of magicians in it, but it is also a method of governance. Do you mean to fool the people? Then come on and be someone who doesn’t fool the people! Can you answer the soul's questions? Is disappearance and non-existence the best answer? Then after I die, it will be natural to control the flood. How is it beneficial to the world? Zhang Cheng respects the religious beliefs of others and is prepared to negotiate with religious personnel to resolve many issues.