Chapter 171 It is not a good thing to be too precise in your abacus
The most important thing for the country is to sacrifice and fight.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese chronicle "Zuo Zhuan" gave a highly generalized explanation of the seriousness of war.
There is a similar statement in the "History of the Peloponnesian War" written by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
War is a very, very serious matter. Even if the two sides are extremely disparate in strength, the stronger side may not be able to achieve its strategic goals as in pre-war deductions.
In the current era of modern warfare and the proliferation of self-media, the party launching the war must face moral tests and internal pressure at all times.
Before the White House announced this decision, Jeffrey wanted to fight to the death, because in his opinion, if he persisted, there might be a turn for the better. If he launched a war now, he would never have another chance. .
For this purpose, he found No.2, who was also a confidant.
“Sir, launching a war now is a wrong decision. Regardless of whether the final result is victory or defeat, it will cause substantial losses to the federation.
Victory will cause a huge economic burden. It is impossible for us to completely conquer these two places. Instead, the war will increase the cohesion between their citizens
The aftermath of the war will create a permanent hatred of the Union between the two places. "
The other party asked: "Don't they hate the Federation now? "
"No, there are still voices among the people that are friendly to the Federation. Once the war starts, these friendly voices will be annihilated. ”
“It is impossible to change the status quo by relying on public opinion. "
"What if it fails? If it fails, our global system will completely collapse, no one will pay for our national debt, and the entire capital market will collapse. ”
"It won't fail." The other party's tone was cold.
Jeffrey felt incredible about the opponent's confidence. He couldn't imagine that the No. 2 player in this federation was at this level.
The other party was already very annoyed, but it became even more annoying when he saw Jeffrey questioning himself. Considering that both of them were senior members of the Donkey Party, he felt that it was a bit ridiculous that Jeffrey actually had a conscience:
"What I want to say is that it will not fail this year. The Federation can delay it until next year anyway."
"But what about next year?" Jeffrey asked.
"That's what the elephant party needs to consider." Jeffrey listened to the words spoken right in front of him, but felt that they were coming from far away, and he felt a chill.
"You mean" Jeffrey hasn't finished speaking yet.
The other party directly interrupted: "That's right!
We can't win this year's election. The huge burden in the past four years has made all Donkey Party supporters choose not to vote. We can't win this game no matter what.
So as long as we don't fail this year, the Xiang Party will be the one to face it. ”
Jeffrey thought more: "We keep raising the federal funds rate, keep raising interest rates, and then start wars everywhere. The next White House will have no way to do anything about the status quo?"
His tone was full of dryness.
The other party said: "Yes, you found out, we have no chance of winning, so we need to consider the general election in four years.
Everything we are doing now, the boss thinks it is for him The general election consideration is actually for the parliamentary election in two years and the general election in four years.”
We are all senior people, and that’s enough.
Jeffrey finally understood what they wanted to do. They raised interest rates to the point where there was nothing more they could do. After the next appointment, they were unable to raise interest rates to continue playing the numbers game. They started fighting everywhere and let the latecomers find ways to clean up the mess.
War will lead to inflation. Raising interest rates now and adding no more in the future will make it impossible for them to use interest rate increases to control inflation.
In other words, in these four years, although they were unable to fight back due to China's breakthroughs in technology, they were able to maintain the prosperity of the US stock market in the last year by raising interest rates and going to war. , various data are eye-catching.
As for people's true feelings, it doesn't matter.
After the Elephant Party enters the White House after the election, it will face an unprecedented difficult situation. The collapse of the US stock market, the financial crisis, and the aftermath of the war will all be dealt with by the Elephant Party. This is obviously not a situation they can handle.
The collapse of the U.S. stock market, soaring unemployment, and inflation will all explode in the next four years, and the Donkey Party will make a comeback four years later.
In fact, everyone has been able to maintain a decent attitude. Apart from the candidates, everyone takes turns stationed in the White House. Other stakeholders think it is good.
It’s just that the result in 2016 was beyond everyone’s expectations, and the successor’s unconventional behavior disgusted most of the political animals in Washington.
Therefore, rather than alternating between donkeys and elephants, it is better to make him stink and destroy him, so that future voters will awaken their painful memories and form a certain degree of stress reaction when they see similar characters. important.
A large number of the military-industrial complex in China’s self-media are the voices of die-hard supporters of the Elephant Party.
From the perspective of donation, the complex gives 45% to the donkey and 55% to the elephant. There is not much difference in the proportions.
Supporters can be discussed, but hardcore fans cannot be discussed.
What the media won’t tell you is that from Truman in 1950 to Kennedy in 1961 to Xiao Hei in 2011, the number of wars waged by donkeys is much more when they are in the White House.
This is very counter-intuitive. Because these self-media people don’t know it themselves.
When you have to investigate the deeper reasons behind it, you will find more interesting things.
That is, many military-industrial complexes are listed companies. Take Lockheed Martin as an example. About 40 members of Congress in the Amerikan Congress hold its stocks. Among them, the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party maintain a roughly 50-50 ratio. .
If we rank the market value of the stocks held by these holders, four of the top five holders belong to the Donkey Party.
Therefore, the Donkey Party is highly tied to the military-industrial complex in terms of capital operations.
This is why even if the Donkey Party does not receive enough support from the military-industrial complex in terms of political donations, they can still make up for this shortfall from the capital market, or even go beyond it.
The first person to mention the military-industrial complex was President Eisenhower. He defined it in his presidential farewell speech and warned people to be wary of the military-industrial complex.
However, he did not revise the speech until the last minute. The previous draft had always been called the Congress Military Industrial Complex. In the speech, Eisenhower removed Congress, which was originally the first priority. If you experience it carefully, you will understand its secret.
Even Eisenhower did not want to offend this huge interest group.
After American announced its personal resignation, American’s capital market showed amazing enthusiasm. U.S. stocks rose across the board, and the world was discussing war. Room-temperature superconductors and topological semimetals seemed to be growing overnight. Disappeared without a trace.
“This is a very abnormal performance. The market has always hated uncertainty, and war is exactly what brings this uncertainty. In the past, when war broke out, investors were used to selling stocks sharply and turning to Safer assets in the traditional sense, such as gold and bonds.
Only with the passage of time will the stock market show its due flexibility. As the situation stabilizes or the scope of the conflict becomes clearer, the stock market will recover quickly.
The market performance this time was abnormal and began to rebound rapidly as soon as the war was announced. When John Lynch, chief investment strategist of OPLFinancial, talked about this matter, he believed that this was because compared with The uncertainty brought by war is even greater than the uncertainty brought by China's technological breakthroughs.
He believes that over the past ten years, people have become accustomed to intensifying geopolitical conflicts. People have become desensitized to intensified geopolitical tensions. People's emotions have become weak. This is not uncertainty, this is Certainty.
More people believe that the future world will be like the last war, with the two giants from the East and the West forming two camps, which will make China's technological breakthroughs a limited threat." Wall Street Journal 2024 Special Issue .
After the war started, the entire Amerikan was like a machine filled with gasoline and started running at full speed.
But this machine is quite weird. Compared with ordinary machines, it is more like a suture monster. The army operates at the slowest speed, while the financial and public opinion systems operate much faster.
“I think America is crazy.”
“Looking at China’s development in the field of technology, it would be strange if they weren’t crazy.”
“Not only that. , it’s strange that they don’t start a war.
They are always accustomed to describing their opponents as easy to defeat in a short period of time, viewing diplomacy and negotiation as signs of weakness, and belittling advocates of peacemaking and the environment. Naturally, they will launch a war.”
"They are a little too crazy just to start war in two regions at the same time."
Officials from the space ports of various South American countries have been discussing the explosive news of the past two days while having a buffet breakfast in the hotel, about Ameri Ken will die personally.
Everyone thinks this is irrational behavior.
After breakfast, they came to the conference room. Zhou Dan came into his suit and had been waiting for a long time.
“Everyone, since Mr. Wright is not in Shenhai, he cannot communicate with you in person, but he still attaches great importance to the friendship with you and the countries behind you, and he will communicate with you through remote connection. ”
After saying that, Chen Yuanguang's face appeared behind him, filling the entire screen. Because the screen was so large, it gave people a sense of oppression.
The picture was quickly adjusted. A complete face was really scary. Even though Chen Yuanguang looked handsome, after the adjustment, he was sitting in front of the table. On the table was nothing but a computer monitor and a notebook. None.
"Hello everyone, I am Wright Chen. I am very happy that our Trail Blazers Rockets have received so much attention from so many people. I am very happy to see you all here."
All countries in the audience The delegates have all heard more or less about Chen Yuanguang's deeds. In their understanding, he should be a rebellious and absolutely self-centered person. However, the impression Chen Yuanguang gave them was completely opposite to what the South American media told them. .
“Guangjia Aerospace has always been committed to space mining. Recyclable rockets are the only way to go in space mining. We hope to provide rocket launch services to organizations other than Guangjia Aerospace.
This will be conducive to our technology iteration. The more rocket launches, the better. It will also help us obtain a certain amount of cash flow. Any organization that wants to survive and live well needs as much cash flow as possible.
We mainly have these two purposes, and we will never make any demands other than money. "
Chen Yuanguang's words had a hidden meaning. Everyone was expressionless. Even if they felt that Chen Yuanguang was right in their hearts, they would not show it directly.
"If you are interested in our aerospace project If so, we can have some joint research and development projects. Unlike some institutions that only recruit locals, Guangjia Aerospace will make some attempts at international scientific research cooperation.
Of course, this kind of scientific research attempt requires participants to fully prove their strength and be able to provide assistance to our research and development projects. It is not unconditional. ”
Ever since Liang Mengsong gave him a lot of advice on topological semi-metals, Chen Yuanguang realized that the top experts in any field have their own strengths, and may be able to find and fill gaps in areas where he is lacking.
After saying this, the officials from various countries in the audience finally couldn't stand it any longer, and everyone began to communicate privately.
"The terms offered by the Chinese are good, and they are much more sincere than the Americans."
"They are talking about cooperation, and you need to show your strength."
“This actually means that you can trade. Your ability is strength, and being able to come up with money is also strength.”
"Are em richer than the Chinese? Or in front of the richest Chinese in the world? Are you as crazy as the Americans?"
Chen Yuanguang interrupted: "Wait until I finish. You are welcome to ask questions later.”
After finishing speaking, the audience became quiet.
Chen Yuanguang continued: "You are here to see the latest sea launch of the Trailblazer 2 rocket. Taking into account the upgrade and iteration of the core components of the Trailblazer 2, this is our first launch.
The last launch failed, it was beautiful and exploded into a firework in the air”
All the officials present here also know about this matter. Because of the rare failure of Guangjia Aerospace and Chen Yuanguang, it was well known that it was hyped by European and American media. During that time, relevant news could often be seen on social media.
These news, without exception, all question the level of Light Armor Aerospace. There are also many American media alluding to the fact that Light Armor Aerospace’s technology comes from SpaceX. The previous cooperation between Light Armor Aerospace and SpaceX has made They stole technical secrets.
The last failure was precisely because their technology was updated and iterated, and the previous technical secrets could not guide subsequent updates and iterations.
Many people believe this rhetoric, even in China. However, with the successful development of room temperature superconductors and topological semimetals, more and more Chinese people believe this. The less.
But the officials here have seen too many lies and deceptions from the European and American media. Everyone has been desensitized. Coupled with the death of Joseph, they have become extremely disgusted with Amerikan.
So they don't believe it at all.
“Considering that we have adopted a lot of new technologies, I cannot guarantee that its launch will be 100% successful. I just hope that if it turns into a gorgeous firework in the sky, then I hope Everyone can give me some time and encouragement.”
(End of this chapter)