MM Racing Chapter 203
Chapter 203
: Eagle Nation’s Worries
Facing Austin’s eyes, President Joseph directly pulled an old face.
Even Vice President Miranda, who is known as the most powerful woman in Eagle Country, couldn’t help but frown.
It should be said that since the disintegration of the Soviet Union more than thirty years ago, the Eagle Kingdom has dominated the world and has no rivals.
Even though the Dragon Kingdom at that time had a draw with the Eagle Kingdom on the Koryo Peninsula, it was the only country that forced the Eagle Kingdom to sign an armistice agreement.
But at that time, the Dragon Kingdom had not yet developed. Neither its weapons, equipment nor economy could compete with the world’s major powers, and its influence was limited to the Far East.
However, with the rapid development of the Dragon Kingdom in the past ten or two decades, the economy has become the second largest in the world. The military has caught up in terms of size and advanced equipment. Even the shortcomings of the navy and air force have also improved in the past two decades. Great growth has been achieved in development.
Now the Dragon Kingdom is one of the few countries in the world that can produce its own fifth-generation fighter jets and large aircraft carriers.
As the most populous country in the world, its economic strength is enough to affect the whole world. Even because of its large population, it needs to import a lot of goods every year and has close commercial exchanges with other countries in the world.
It is also one of the five seats in the Blue Star United Nations.
Although there has been no war in the Dragon Kingdom for more than 40 years, in the international arena, as long as the core issues of the Dragon Kingdom are not involved, the Dragon Kingdom is peaceful.
In global trade, we also advocate win-win cooperation, rather than banditry like Western countries.
But no one dares to ignore the Dragon Kingdom.
The Golden Triangle area where the legion rose is backed by the Dragon Kingdom. Once a military operation is carried out against the legion, the Dragon Kingdom will definitely not be bypassed.
And that place in Southeast Asia where there are many jungles…
Everyone in the President’s Office was reminded of the war that broke the defenses of all Eagle Nation people decades ago.
South Vietnam War.
The Eagle Nation fought in the jungles of South Vietnam for fourteen years! More than 20 billion US dollars were spent, more than 46,000 people were killed, 100,000 non-combat casualties were lost, 150,000 were wounded, and 5,000 were missing or captured.
As a result, because of the 17th parallel drawn by the Dragon Kingdom, they did not dare to cross it and were unable to attack the important industrial town in the north of South Vietnam.
The war was mired in quagmire for more than ten years. In the end, large-scale anti-war demonstrations broke out in the Eagle Country, and anti-war sentiment spread throughout the Eagle Country.
Even the big capitalists and companies are stuck in the quagmire of Eagle Country, and the benefits of the war have not been able to outweigh the damage of the war.
In the end, Eagle Country had to withdraw from South Vietnam in despair.
It was also because of the failure of the South Vietnam War that the Eagle Country was in a weak position in the two-power struggle with the Soviet Union, shrinking its global strategy and canceling many military bases in Southeast Asia.
Now the Eagle Nation wants to launch a military attack on Myanmar’s newly emerging armed forces, and the nearest military bases are 260 kilometers away.
“I don’t think Congress will agree to our intervention in Myanmar’s civil war.” Secretary of State Antonio was the first to say this at this time.
Although Myanmar also has plain areas, it has more mountainous and jungle terrain. Once it falls into it, it may be the quagmire of another South Vietnam War.
Now the Eagle Country’s economy has declined a lot, and it is still supporting the Cossack Principality’s war in Eastern Europe.
If it were to fight the government of a small country like Asia and Syria that was caught in a civil war, it would be okay. However, according to various known intelligence submitted by the Ministry of National Defense, the Corps has a large number of short-range ballistic missiles and anti-aircraft missiles that can hit an altitude of more than 20,000 meters.
Small-scale air strikes will definitely not work. At least electronic warfare aircraft must be sent to paralyze the enemy’s radar and air defense systems, just like the Gulf War.
But in the Gulf War, oil interests instigated the Congress to vote for the war.
What is valuable in Myanmar?
There is also the risk of provoking the Dragon Kingdom.
What if Dragon Kingdom draws another line? Should Eagle Country fight or not?
Fight, if the Dragon Kingdom sends troops, it will be a new Goryeo War.
Without a fight, there would be no way to completely clear out the enemy’s logistics and production base, and it would be another South Vietnam War.
No matter how you think about it, there is no benefit to Eagle Country.
“However, the emergence of the Legion is not necessarily a very bad thing.” Secretary of State Antonio stood up and said to everyone: “We have always wanted to return to Southeast Asia and build a military base in the Kingdom of Siam, but the Kingdom of Siam has never been able to allow.”
“After the Myanmar Civil War this time, the Legion will definitely threaten the Kingdom of Siam. We can speed up negotiations with the Kingdom of Siam and restart our more than a dozen military bases in the Kingdom of Siam.”
“This way, even if there is a military operation against the legion in the future, there will be a forward base.”
Just like during the South Vietnam War, the Eagle Kingdom first hoarded war materials and troops in more than a dozen military bases in the Kingdom of Siam, assembled troops, and then invaded South Vietnam in one fell swoop. It relied on these more than a dozen military bases in the Kingdom of Siam to continuously expand Conduct a protracted military attack on South Vietnam, the Khmer Kingdom and the Laotian Kingdom.
“Indeed, I agree with the Secretary of State’s suggestion.” Defense Secretary Austin agreed.
“And after restarting the military base in the Kingdom of Siam, we can also monitor the southwest region of the Dragon Kingdom.” Austin said seriously: “The southwest region of the Dragon Kingdom has always been the rear area of the Dragon Kingdom. There are many heavy industries, and even A space launch base in Dragon Kingdom, we can monitor all of these by building a large military base within 400 Siam!”
President Joseph couldn’t help but nodded.
Intervening in the Burmese civil war will definitely be opposed by the parliamentarians, because no matter how it is fought, it may become the Koryo War or the South Vietnam War.
But the parliamentarians will certainly not object to the resumption of the military base in the Kingdom of Siam.
The money and supplies needed to restart a military base all come from the national treasury, and the gentlemen in Congress can make a lot of money.
And to deal with this new military group in Myanmar, why do we need to arrange more than a dozen military bases?
You don’t even have to pay the lease fee. Just use the excuse that the Eagle Army is stationed to help the Kingdom of Siam balance the situation in the region, and you will be left with a large amount of lease fee.
Moreover, the Eagle Army’s presence in Southeast Asia will inevitably make the Dragon Kingdom nervous and expand the Eagle Army’s encirclement of the Dragon Kingdom.
Anyway, just make trouble.
So next, several people had a discussion on how to persuade the Kingdom of Siam to restart its military base.
Vice President Miranda even said that he could personally go to the Kingdom of Siam to convince the King of Siam and the Siamese government.
And when the Eagle Nation planned to take advantage of the civil war in Myanmar to return its sphere of influence to Southeast Asia.
At Longguo News, Liu Xiao, who had just returned a few days ago, also received a new task.