Chapter 737 Sit-in War in the Persian Gulf
"Bolshevik?" The slave owner muttered this well-known term. The term was ordinary, but its meaning shocked the world. No matter whether it was a woman from a wealthy family in the United States like Louisa Morgan, or a descendant of a political family like Alice Roosevelt, they had never seen Sheffield so nervous, as if they had seen the appearance of a natural enemy.
"What's wrong with you?" Edith Rockefeller had never seen this man show any sign of fear, but after knowing him for so many years, she finally saw it this time.
"Someone who wants to kill us has appeared!" Sheffield regained his indifferent tone and said, "For the next fifty, one hundred years, or even forever, this kind of person will be the reason why we can't sleep well."
"These socialists? Just them?" Louisa Morgan gritted her teeth and slowly became indifferent. "What can they change? It's not like they haven't appeared before."
"It's a world war now, and everything is uncertain." Sheffield said, but he didn't know how to start.
Whether from a national or personal perspective, the significance of this revolution within Imperial Russia is simply digging up the graves of slave owners. From a national perspective, the Soviet Union and the system it represents are natural enemies of the United States of America. Since entering the new century, the United States has no longer posed a fundamental threat. Britain and France are nothing more than vested interests of the old era. Any citizen of the United States believes that the colonial empire is a thing of the past and that the future must be the American century.
But the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Union, and even the countries influenced by the Soviet Union, are completely different. The real challengers to the United States of America are actually only two well-known ones.
From a personal perspective, as Sheffield, this is a question that does not need to be explained. What the slave owners hope for is class solidification, and it would be best if the world would never change, and even technology would not progress, so that they can always maintain their current status. However, the greatest feature of the Bolsheviks is that everyone is equal. Regardless of whether it is truly achieved, they have indeed tried to do it.
To put it bluntly, if Sheffield had something called a nuclear bomb right now, it would be dropped on Petrograd immediately.
"I hope the Allies 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, his face full of worry.
Unfortunately, he also understood that this was impossible. Not to mention the current world hegemon, Britain, Sheffield could not even get the United States to respond to this matter. The reason was very simple: it was still a problem of that world hegemon.
If you don't reach that position, you won't consider things from that perspective. The world hegemon is Britain now, so we 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 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 suppression fell on the United States.
In simple terms, the United States, which did not want to be the world hegemon, would have the attitude of "it's none of my business" even if it knew about the emergence of the Soviet Union. If there were any problems, please go to Britain. The United States, which became the world hegemon, would not think so. This is a typical example of the ass determining the head.
Even if it was to interfere in the Soviet Union's invasion war, the United States sent troops for only one reason: if everyone else sent troops and I didn't, I would appear to be out of step with the group. It was purely for the sake of maintaining unity among imperialism.
Compared to the slave owners who were uneasy across the Atlantic Ocean, and the Allied Powers who were mourning the death of the Russian Empire, at least for now, the whole of 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 the dawn of victory. As for the United States of America which has just announced its entry into the war, can that group of country bumpkins fight a war?
Contempt for the United States was a common thought in this era, especially among the imperialist powers. Neither William II nor the German military officers believed that the Americans could replace the Russian Empire in the Allied Powers.
As long as we defeat the Allies in one fell swoop before the Americans land in Europe, they will naturally give up.
Not to mention what the Germans think, facing the frequent demands from Britain and France for 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 the British must find a way to solve this big problem. As a member of the masses, the United States does not have the responsibility to take the lead.
The result of the urging from Britain and France was that the US Navy Chief of Operations William Benson sounded the whistle and led the most powerful Atlantic Fleet to the European battlefield with the US Navy, which had become the de facto second navy in terms of tonnage.
This was what the slave owners and the Minister of War and the Minister of the Navy had agreed upon before. The Atlantic Fleet would enter the Mediterranean and, together with the British and French fleets, restore the Allied camp's complete control of the Mediterranean.
As for the rest, everything remained the same. On the west coast, troop transports loaded with soldiers set off, heading for the Persian Gulf. Before the local soldiers set off, the combat troops of the American Philippines had already set off, becoming the first troops to enter the battlefield after joining the war. Don't look down on the expeditionary force reorganized from the colonial army. The colonial army of the Philippines is at least more powerful than the local soldiers who have no war experience.
The Allied forces on the Eastern Front did not stop their offensive just because of the collapse of the Russian Empire, and continued to pursue the enemy relentlessly. The British and French forces on the Western Front took advantage of the absence of the main German corps and continued to try to make a breakthrough.
In the Persian Gulf, however, an unprecedented type of warfare emerged. The Stars and Stripes and the Southern Cross flag echoed each other. The commander of the 42nd Division, which had already arrived in the Persian Gulf, and the division chief of staff Douglas MacArthur, was chatting and laughing with John Connor at the headquarters of the Ottoman Eighth Army in Kuwait City.
As for the entire 42nd Infantry Division, its base was just opposite the 27th Army. The two sides' positions could even see each other's flags with the naked eye. The two armies engaged in a sit-down battle face to face without firing a single shot.
"Colonel MacArthur, the country's intention is to let you train here, not to really fight. The federal government's intention is very clear, to preserve strength as much as possible. And we will not let you pass through our defense line into Mesopotamia. Even if we, the citizens of the United States, agree, the soldiers below still have to consider our compatriots in the north. Letting you pass is undoubtedly an act of rebellion, and the soldiers' compatriots will be in danger." John Connor poured MacArthur a glass of whiskey and said in a friendly manner, "When your subordinates are trained, they should go to the European battlefield, but I estimate that it will take at least half a year. General Pershing is a strict person, and it will take longer, not shorter."
"Should I go back and tell our soldiers that the next battle is to sit down and stare at you?" Douglas MacArthur smiled helplessly, "What kind of war is this?"
"Sit-down war!" Brown came over and clinked his glass with Douglas MacArthur's, saying meaningfully, "But I believe the soldiers like this way of fighting. According to the domestic plan, we will send about 100,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf for training. We have been here for several years and welcome the citizens of the country to come."
"Well, maybe for the soldiers, the sit-in war is really a happy war." MacArthur held his forehead and said, "Just think of it as a necessary process before reaching Europe."
I went out today and came back a little late, so this is just one chapter.
(End of this chapter)
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