Chapter 739 The sit-in battle in the Persian Gulf
"Bolsheviks?" The slave owner chanted this powerful term. It was an ordinary term, but its meaning shocked the world. Whether it was a woman from the top wealthy family in the United States like Louisa Morgan or a descendant of a political family like Alice Roosevelt.
, I have never seen Sheffield so nervous before, as if he saw the appearance of a natural enemy.
"What's wrong with you?" Edith Rockefeller had never seen this man show any emotion called fear, but after knowing him for so many years, she finally saw him this time.
"A kind of person who wants to kill us has appeared!" Sheffield regained his indifferent tone and said, "In the next fifty years, a hundred years, or even forever, this kind of person will be the source of our inability to sleep."
"These socialists? Just them?" Louisa Morgan gritted her silver teeth and slowly looked like she didn't care. "What can they change? It's not like they haven't happened before."
"Now is the time of the world war, and everything is hard to say." Sheffield said, but he didn't know how to say it.
Whether from a national perspective or an individual perspective, the significance of this revolution within imperial Russia is simply to dig up the ancestral graves of slave owners. From a national perspective, the Soviet Union and the system it represents are the foundations of the United States of America.
Natural enemies, since entering the new century, the United States no longer poses a fundamental threat. Britain and France are just vested interests in the old era. Every citizen of the United States believes that colonial empires are a thing of the past, and the future must be the American century.
But the Bolsheviks, the Soviet Union, and even the countries affected by the Soviet Union were completely different. The real challengers to the United States of America were actually the two well-known ones.
From a personal point of view, as someone from Sheffield, this is an issue that does not require explanation at all. What the slave owners hope for is the solidification of classes. It is best that the world will never change, and that technology will not even advance, so that it can last forever.
To maintain their current status, the biggest characteristic of the Bolsheviks is that everyone is equal. Let’s not say whether they have truly achieved it, but they have indeed tried to do it.
To put it bluntly, if Sheffield had something called a nuclear bomb in its hands right now, it would be dropped on Petrograd immediately.
"I hope that the Allied Powers and the Central Powers will stop immediately and solve this biggest problem first." Sheffield sighed softly, then looked at the map hanging on the wall, with a sad look on his face.
Unfortunately, he also understood that this was impossible. Not to mention the current world hegemon, the United Kingdom, Sheffield could not even get the United States to respond to this matter. The reason was very simple, and it was still the problem of that world hegemon.
If you don't reach that status, you won't think about things from that perspective. The current world hegemon is the United Kingdom, so you can only rely on the British to suppress the Bolsheviks. If the British can't do it, the United States will not do it at all.
This is different from the attitude of the United States after World War II. After World War II, the United States of America was already the undisputed world hegemon. At that time, the Soviet Union was not a problem for the British, but a problem for the United States. Naturally, the responsibility for containment, suppression, and containment fell on
On the United States.
To put it simply, if the United States does not become a world hegemon, even if it knows about the emergence of the Soviet Union, it still has an attitude that it is none of my business. If you have any problems, please go to the United Kingdom. If it becomes a world hegemon, the United States will not think so. It is a standard ass.
Decide on your head.
Even if it interfered with the Soviet Union's invasion war, the United States sent troops for only one reason. If everyone else sent troops, I would appear unsociable if I did not send troops. It was purely to maintain the unity among imperialists.
Compared with the restless slave owners across the Atlantic Ocean and the miserable Allied camp, at least for now, Germany is cheering for the collapse of the Russian Empire. The war has been going on for more than three years, and it seems that Germany can already see victory.
The light is coming. As for the United States of America, which just announced that it will join the war, can those rubes fight?
Contempt for the United States is a common thought in this era, especially among the powerful families of the imperialist powers. Contempt for the United States is even more common. Neither William II nor the German officer corps believes that Americans can replace imperial Russia.
status among the Allied Powers.
As long as they defeat the Allied Powers in one go before the Americans land in Europe, the Americans will naturally retreat.
Not to mention what the Germans think, in the face of repeated requests from Britain and France to urge the United States to take concrete actions, the attitude of the federal government and Sheffield himself will not change. There is a problem in the world, and this problem is very big, but this big problem is the United Kingdom.
People must find ways to solve the problem. As a member of the common people, the United States does not have the responsibility to lead the charge.
The result of the urging from Britain and France was nothing more than to have the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations William Benson lead the most powerful Atlantic Fleet to blow the whistle and rush to the European battlefield with the U.S. Navy, which has become the de facto second navy in terms of tonnage.
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This was what the slave owners, the Minister of War, and the Minister of the Navy had said before. The Atlantic Fleet would enter the Mediterranean and, together with the British and French fleets, restore the Allied Powers' complete control of the sea in the Mediterranean.
As for the rest, everything was business as usual. On the west coast, troopships loaded with soldiers set off, with the destination being the Persian Gulf. Before the local soldiers set off, the combat troops of the American Philippines had already set off first, becoming the first troops to enter the battlefield after participating in the war.
Don't look down on the expeditionary force that was reorganized from the colonial army. The Philippine colonial army at least has a higher combat effectiveness than the local soldiers who have no war experience.
The Allied armies on the Eastern Front did not stop attacking because of the collapse of the Russian Empire and were still pursuing and fighting fiercely. The British and French Allied Forces on the Western Front took advantage of the absence of the main German army and still tried to make a breakthrough.
However, in the Persian Gulf, an unprecedented method of warfare has emerged. The Stars and Stripes and the Southern Cross echo each other. The commander of the 42nd Division and Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, who have arrived in the Persian Gulf, are in Kuwait City. The Ottoman Eighth Army
The headquarters of the army group, chatting and laughing with John Connor.
As for the entire 42nd Infantry Division, it was stationed opposite the 27th Army. The positions of both sides could even see each other's flags with the naked eye. The two armies faced each other in a sit-down battle without firing a single shot.
"Colonel MacArthur, the domestic intention is to let you train here, not to actually fight. The federal government's intention is very obvious, to preserve its strength as much as possible. And we will not let you enter Mesopota through our defense lines.
Mia, even if we, the citizens of the United States, agree, the soldiers below still have to consider our compatriots in the north, allowing you to pass an unintentional act of rebellion, so that the compatriots of the soldiers will be in danger." John Connor fell for MacArthur.
Holding a glass of whiskey, he said pleasantly, "When your subordinates complete their training, they should go to the European battlefield, but I estimate that it will take half a year anyway. General Pershing is a strict person, so it will only take longer."
short."
"Should I go back and tell our soldiers that the next battle is to sit down and look at you?" Douglas MacArthur said with a helpless smile, "What kind of war is this?"
"Sitting war!" Brown came over and touched Douglas MacArthur with the wine glass in his hand, and pointedly said, "But I believe the soldiers like this way of fighting. According to the domestic plan, there are still about 100,000 soldiers dispatched.
, came to the Persian Gulf for training, we have been here for several years, and welcome domestic citizens to come."
Chapter completed!