Merlin's capabilities in information warfare and asymmetric warfare were once formidable.
This is just the opinion of American experts; their observations and opinions are only for reference.
Ultimately, the decision still needs to be made by the decision-making level.
2024 marks the quadrennial AmeriKings showdown between the Elephants and Donkeys, with the Elephants making a strong comeback.
The Donald Party has done nothing commendable in the past four years, and in this operation against Merlin, it has lost face globally.
The worldwide mobs were completely wiped out, and the encrypted data was publicly exposed and discredited.
In international diplomacy, they have become increasingly alienated and disaffected.
The Donald Party is in a state of utter chaos.
By this time, the general election was over, and the Democratic Party chose to back down, leaving the mess to the Republican Party to handle.
"I have high hopes for Merlin. His actions were self-defense, and I can completely understand them."
Targeting Merlin is a foolish act by the Donald Party; they are pushing our allies toward other countries.
Yes, Merlin is a natural ally of ours, and America hopes to become friends with him. We can cooperate in many areas, and the Democrats' politicians are a bunch of idiots.
Yes, magic is cool, and America needs to devote more energy to magical research in the future.
We must teach everyone magic.
Making everyone possess magic is something no one else would even dare to dream of. Even in fantasy worlds, magic isn't this widespread.
The scandals Merlin exposed were mostly done by his predecessors, and not many of them were related to him.
They're masters at shifting blame.
In fact, the alternation of the American donkey and the elephant, and the replacement of an unreliable one, in a sense, also gave Merlin and the American people room to ease tensions.
No matter how he performs in front of the media, with the examples of the previous four years as a precedent, the outside world will think this is reasonable.
"I think we need to pause Merlin's actions; we have no means of retaliation."
"I agree. It is impossible to block Merlin's capabilities in the field of computers through any means. Our current cyber warfare forces cannot compete with it."
A battle in which all actions are exposed to others will only result in meaningless sacrifices.
Moreover, Merlin has no stance on the forces of Earth; he is completely neutral.
When our strength is insufficient, we can compete within Merlin's rules. Once we have a sufficient grasp of magic and countermeasures, we can consider other actions.
"I agree. When I saw William being parasitized by Merlin, I even suspected that everyone around me could be Merlin."
In this situation, confrontation is clearly unwise.
Furthermore, Merlin's sanctions haven't kicked us out of the current magical system; we can still obtain magoin and still log into the magic forums.
"This operation was meaningful. More of Merlin's abilities were exposed. This was not a failed operation, but a successful test."
We've learned more about Merlin, which is a good start.
We are currently collaborating with Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple to analyze Merlin's speaking logic, intonation, and pauses.
We will compare the audio with existing online materials to see if any new findings are made.
Unfortunately, Zheng Li did not speak English when he appeared in public, despite his status.
In fact, when Zheng Li published a paper under the pseudonym Merlin, the American team compared the features of all the existing papers on Blue Star based on the paper's word choice, sentence structure, punctuation usage, and other characteristics.
They identified hundreds of authors whose papers shared more than 60% similarity with the authors. Excluding those who have passed away, there are still about a hundred living authors.
The American team investigated each case individually but found no suspicious evidence against Merlin.
Regarding Zheng Li's public remarks, they believe that while both are opportunities, pauses in speech can reveal a person's characteristics more clearly.
The primary target of the investigation was the hundred or so authors of the papers who were suspected of wrongdoing.
"However, it is important to note that the operation must not be carried out in a high-profile manner. All actions must be referred to in metaphorical terms so that Merlin does not become aware of them."
The amount of data generated by the Blue Star Internet is massive. No matter how powerful Zheng Li's biological cloud is, it can only conduct targeted investigations and cannot achieve scanning-style reconnaissance.
The American side also did not believe that Merlin was omniscient and omnipotent in the Internet field.
"The official response to this incident is lukewarm, with no direct comment. They are also trying to divert attention from the incident by finding new hot topics in major countries."
The Americans are arguably the best at media manipulation on Earth; they can easily hype things up and frequently use this tactic to divert attention.
Many American companies have also adopted this tactic.
Merlin's public appearance had a profound impact on Earth. America's international influence declined significantly, and many countries removed their hidden agents from their borders.
The intelligence network built up over decades was destroyed in an instant.
More seriously, with Merlin around, rebuilding such an intelligence network will be far more difficult than before.
Even if you want to reach 500,000, you'll still worry about what to do if Merlin exposes you again? And Merlin exposes you indiscriminately and without any blind spots.
America's soft power has been severely damaged.
More seriously, the exposure of the encrypted data has brought the substantial unification of the Europa League one step closer.
The cooperation that was almost finalized fell through when the two parties decided to jointly purchase biological storage technology. The Europa League made it clear through private channels that it did not trust America.
Magic can influence and modify matter at the atomic level, a technology currently known only to China and Russia. Both countries keep this secret extremely tight-lipped, classifying it as top secret.
America was supposed to find out this month, but the time it took to acquire the biological storage technology and thus learn the secret has been delayed again.
China indirectly gained more strategic time, and the ability of magic to influence and modify matter at the atomic level was more important than China thought.
The bottleneck in high-precision materials was also severe, with many technologies that China could not achieve, fundamentally due to material limitations.
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