Tower of Babel

The news of the destruction of the combined fleet was ultimately 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 Empire. The number of warships captured is of 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 aircraft carrier converted from a battleship, the Furious, was captured. Twelve cruisers, five were sunk, another four were scuttled, and three were captured. Of the twenty-four frigates, only three surrendered and the rest were sunk. After these captured warships formed a fleet, they would be severely damaged from the side and rear. Threatening Finland, Finland is also an Allied power. It is the territory cut off from Tsarist Russia in this intervention war. Strictly speaking, it has not experienced the founding war and is not yet an independent country.

But the direction of the Black Sea is completely different. The Ottoman Empire is poor and weak, but its underground contains rich oil resources. It is the key to controlling the world's energy and has great strategic significance. After the war, it needs a maritime force to control sea power. It is urgent need warships. Therefore, affected by the Battle of the Baltic Sea, the direction of the Black Sea directly changed the style of play. 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 blockade the Turkish Strait.

The conflict between Russia and the Ottomans has been going on for a long time, and it is difficult to say which is right and which is wrong. It is certainly inappropriate for Tsarist Russia to expand, but Turkey has cut off trade between the East and the West, cutting off people's financial resources like killing their parents, and has forged a five-hundred-year-old feud with the West. Western powers have been trying to find ways to dismember the Ottomans, and the conflict between Russia and Turkey is one of them. Quite an important part. Now let’s not mention these nonsense things. 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. Withdrew from the war early, suddenly became a rebel of the Allied Powers and became the target of public criticism.

After Germany was defeated, although Osman himself could not save himself and faced the fate of being dismembered, he decided to seek revenge first. Maybe you can turn your merits into a crime! As a result, the Armenians in the Russian Caucasus became a punching bag. Since the Russians retreated, the Ottomans implemented a genocidal policy and massacred more than one million Armenians one after another. This time, in response to the call of the Allied Powers, they sent troops to intervene in the Russian Revolution.

Armenia was not an independent country at this time, but a borderland of Russia. Joseph was an Armenian. He had been very unhappy after his hometown was bloody massacre by the Ottomans. Now that he had made great achievements for the first time, he needed military victory 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, the Armenians had lost half of their population, and they immediately responded to Turkey's blood feud. The two sides hit it off immediately. Joseph immediately provided a large number of small arms and completely conquered the hearts of Armenians. Joseph pointed his sword at Türkiye. This coincides with Zhang Cheng.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire was not Turkey. 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 the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire is imminent, the key is that it has not yet been disintegrated? If the entire Ottoman Empire is captured at this time, the Gulf oil will be under control. At this time, people did not know the treasures under this desert. The current main oil producing area is the Southeast Asian region of the Philippines.

Even if petroleum is not used as an energy source, it is still an important chemical raw material. Ninety percent of human chemical products come from petroleum, such as chemical fibers, plastics, rubber, paints, explosives, and fertilizers, all of which are petrochemical products. The Gulf region contains 70% of the world's oil. Even in the interstellar era, oil is still an important resource. 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 no ice-free port or the sea entrance being blocked by other countries. At the same time, it can threaten the Suez Canal and increase its bargaining chips in negotiations with Britain and France. Therefore, even if Russia does not send troops, Zhang Cheng still wants to use Russia's name to do something. 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 approved the war plan.

Some people may say that this is a war of aggression and, yes, an unjust war. However, 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 asserting In anger, they cruelly oppressed the proletariat, and as long as they sent out the banner of attacking the local tyrants and allocating their land, they would get a response.

It's just that the original Mao Xiong was very weak in many aspects, had insufficient 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, divide and rule, 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. They will not be asked to drive aircraft carriers around the world to discharge nuclear sewage to establish a fresh water dollar. The heinous reactionary regime that researches genetic technology to eliminate the world's population and uses money and medicine to harvest the world must be destroyed.

Zhang Cheng is not a white lotus. He has never believed in the nonsense that a war of aggression is bound to fail. On the contrary, this world is very cruel. There are many people who are ruled by foreigners, colonized, and even exterminated! Zhang Cheng didn't like the Western colonial style, but the great integration of ethnic groups also eliminated many foreign races.

As for the problem of post-war security war, 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 draw fire from the bottom. 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 complicated task. Even if you help people live a good life, they may not win loyalty and support. Gratitude and enmity are not a matter of good and evil, but a matter of human nature. This is the case for everyone. Saddam Gaddafi, despite all his faults, never treated the people badly, but in the end he ended up betraying his relatives, leaving his body and dying. 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 building a fortress on the beach, which is very easy to collapse and export revolution. In Zhang Cheng’s words, those who are weak in spirit and will are very easy to be taken over by evil ways. 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 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 unwilling to believe that they will disappear and cease to exist after death.