The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 2216: Last day for double monthly tickets!!! Request double!!!

Chapter 2216: Last day for double monthly tickets!!! Request double!!!

Benjamin sighed regretfully.

"I know that, but the only sorcerer we can contact at Kamar-Taj is Strange... You're right. He may not have a chance to become the Sorcerer Supreme this time. Maybe we can look forward to the next one?"

"The next term?" Ms. Carter smiled bitterly. "Mr. President, didn't you read the last words in the Sorcerer Supreme's file? The Ancient One lived for at least a thousand years! For the next term, let alone whether Strange will be alive, it's even a question whether the United States will still exist."

In fact, the United States rarely talks about its own history, especially to others. Because there is nothing to talk about, and it will run out of things to talk about. After all, it is too short. As for how long the United States can last... Americans have never considered this question before!

Or strictly speaking, after the Cold War, the United States has never considered it at all!

In fact, people today simply cannot understand the fear that the United States had for Russia. Now, more than 30 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the United States is still making every effort to discredit the Soviet Union. Whether it is movies, books, games, or historical revisions, as long as it is about the Soviet Union, it must be backward, such as self-destructing trucks, radiation engineers, etc., while as long as it is about the United States, it is advanced, such as hypersonic transmission and weather controllers. And it is not difficult to find that the villains in Western movies, whether they are terrorists or arms sellers, are basically Russian images. Their behavior is quite a bit, not only to dig up graves and whip corpses, but also to completely erase them from history books. There must be a reason for such a reaction, and I think this reason can also strongly explain why the Soviet Union was so powerful?

Nowadays, many people still focus on the Soviet military. It is true that the August 7 military exercise scared the whole of Europe, reduced the Tsar bomb by half, and created a mushroom cloud seven times higher than Mount Everest, but what can it do? The Soviet Union had the ability to destroy the United States with nuclear weapons, but the United States also had the ability to destroy the Soviet Union. What the Americans feared from beginning to end was not that the world would explode and we would all be destroyed, but that the United States was afraid that I would die but you would be alive and well. The only way to achieve this situation is through ideological output.

Isn’t this a coincidence? The ideology that the Soviet Union possessed at that time was the most invincible.

To put it another way, in the European battlefield of World War II, when the United States was still watching the fire from the other side of the river, when Britain was busy with Dunkirk, and when France was still busy cutting the sides of the national flag, it was the Soviet Union that took up the anti-fascist banner at the cost of 2600 million people. Founded in 1922 and fought in World War II in 1939, strictly speaking, it was not yet an adult. After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union was directly crippled, but the strange thing is that after World War II, the Soviet economy was still able to recover quickly. The first manned space flight, the first space station, and the first lunar exploration, it is impossible to achieve such achievements by capital operation, because the bottom economy is crippled and there is no capital. All of this requires labor and the creation of the working people. The existence of the Soviet Union really shows that a country can live well without capital but only the people! These are not said by the Soviet Union, but the strength shown by the Soviet Union, which is very scary. Once this kind of thing is known to American workers on the other side of the ocean, what will happen? Imagine that one day an American worker holds a wrench and shouts: Evil old dog of capital, your worker grandfather is here. This must scare the capitalists to death. Therefore, during the Cold War, the United States would find ways to promote "free thinking" to young Soviet people through satellite TV, books and newspapers, but would strictly control any news about the Soviet Union in the United States. And the above is only at the level of social system. As we said before, the Soviet Union has an invincible ideology, that is, communism. This competitiveness is unprecedented. No matter how the West discredits it now, or because of our own lack of knowledge, we have some misunderstandings about this idea, but we cannot deny that if an idea does not have a strong appeal, it is not enough to make people or countries who have never met, go to help other countries without hesitation. For example, if I go abroad and meet a fellow villager who asks me for help, I may still murmur in my heart, but if this buddy directly takes out a copy of Mao's Selected Works from his collection from his arms, then my vigilance will be greatly reduced.

Everyone knows the story of Bethune. Why did a Canadian die on the Chinese front? It was because he was a member of the Communist Party. What if it was the capitalists who took money to do things? This is simply not feasible. It is too vulgar and insulting. There are many Communist International fighters like Bethune, and what drives them is the Soviet belief. Or we can say that it was never the Soviet Union that was strong, but this idea. The Soviet Union was just a concrete manifestation of this idea. The stories of these people are by no means accidental. It was under the influence of Soviet culture that a new human power began to awaken, and the working people stood up from the oppression and slavery. This idea was like dry wood meeting fire in that era of exploitation. Revolutions were everywhere. There is no need for other forces to fuel the flames behind the scenes. Just hearing about it will make people shout: Are there any kings, princes, generals, or ministers? The Soviet Union’s goal of struggle is never a single regime in a certain country, but the entire bourgeoisie and capitalist system. Therefore, the appeal of the Communist Party is extremely exaggerated.

It is under the nourishment of this communist culture that the Soviets have formed a unique national character: equality, fraternity, courage to sacrifice, and selfless dedication. Whether it is Stalin or Khrushchev, even Brezhnev, they all come from lower-class families, one father is a cobbler, one father is a farmer, and one father is a worker. This is a common situation in the Soviet Union and an exception in the United States. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Even the fear and blockade of the West as if facing a great enemy cannot block the light emitted by the Soviet Union. Therefore, after the start of the Cold War, sweatshops in Western countries almost disappeared, and the 8-hour work and two-day weekend system came out. Schools and hospitals can also be enjoyed by civilians, and the black system in the United States has begun to gradually die out. The capitalists will not find their conscience. All this is fought for by the working class themselves, and the confidence of the working class to do so is precisely because of the existence of the Soviet Union. Che Guevara, the revolutionary son of Latin America, came from a wealthy family and later devoted himself to the revolution for the sake of communism. Before his death, he once said: After we leave, they will build schools and hospitals for you and increase your wages. This is not because they have a change of heart or because they have become good people, but because we have been here.

Since the birth of communism, it has been suppressed by feudalism and capitalism, because the capitalists in power are capitalists, and the communists are here to share their power and revolutionize their lives. In the final analysis, the strength of the Soviet Union has never been in its external military force. The communist ideology is the core competitiveness of the Soviet Union, and this competitiveness is unprecedented. The strength of the Soviet Union also lies in the fact that it has been dead for more than 800 years, and there are still communist disciples in the world who are cheering for it. Many people say that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was because its military was too backward to beat the United States, but looking through the Cold War data, we can find that there were actually very few direct conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union. Even the day before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Soviet army was still the most powerful in the world, and its number of nuclear weapons was enough to plow the entire earth three times. But as I said before, the strength of the Soviet Union lies in its ideology. Without this ideology, the Soviet Union is just an empty shell. When Yeltsin stood in front of the White House and smiled foolishly with Clinton, if the original Soviet ideology still existed, he would have died times.

In short, that country scares Americans so much that the fear reaches deep into their bones!

When this country collapsed, the United States also ushered in its heyday. Perhaps it was because of long-term repression, or perhaps it was because of the revengeful psychology after the fear was removed, which made the United States suddenly full of confidence!

The Americans of this period were already arrogant and thought that they were the chosen nation and that all of North America was the promised land given to the United States by God!

They are confident that they will continue to be strong.

They have never considered that the United States will become weaker or even perish!

It is also because of this that the United States has made many policies that now seem suicidal, the most typical of which is the outsourcing of manufacturing!

Although this policy has not been directly issued in the United States, Americans from top to bottom are tacitly carrying out such actions. They do not want to use expensive domestic labor or expensive raw materials. They want to make big money, the kind of money that is easier!

Thus, various high value-added industries began to emerge, such as the financial industry.

Of course, if the United States remained strong, they would not have such pessimistic views.

But now... isn't the situation different?

Benjamin shook his head helplessly, as even the best cook cannot cook without the rice.

This is the current situation in the United States. What can we do?

But this is also why Benjamin needs Kamar-Taj even more.

Especially after knowing the existence of the great guardian.

Neither Strange nor Kai had any special means to conceal the existence of the Great Guardian. This thing is the greatest defense for mankind, and once it is known to others, then it will be known.

In Benjamin's vision, if the United States wants to become strong again, it must fight another world war. At the same time, the United States needs to win the victory without incurring huge losses. Only in this way can the United States replicate the grandeur of the first two world wars and make a fortune again.

But the problem is that a world war is equivalent to a huge gamble, and the United States has no confidence that it can win again.

And unlike the previous two world wars, there may not be a winner in World War III!

After all, everyone has nuclear bombs!

It has been said before that nuclear bombs cannot destroy humanity. This is self-evident, but it has not been said that nuclear war will not destroy a country!

Once an unlimited nuclear war breaks out, the major countries in the world will definitely be destroyed in an instant!

The atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 made mankind face the threat of the end of civilization for the first time. Today, 1.25 nuclear warheads are still hanging over the world - a full-scale nuclear war will trigger a ten-year nuclear winter, and 90% of the population may die of famine; local conflicts will also make all mankind pay the price. Scientists warn: civilization may regress a thousand years, but humans will not become extinct. From the Cuban crisis to AI nuclear control, we are still dancing on the edge of a knife. Einstein predicted: World War IV can only be fought with sticks and stones.

If a nuclear conflict breaks out between the United States and Russia, the two countries may use more than 6000 nuclear warheads. These weapons are enough to destroy all major cities, hundreds of millions of people will die in the heat and shock waves, and hospitals, power grids, and transportation systems will be completely paralyzed. But the real deadly threat is still to come - the nuclear winter effect: burning cities will eject 1.5 million tons of smoke and dust into the stratosphere, blocking the sun for up to ten years. Global temperatures will drop by 10°C, crops will fail on a large scale, and 90% of the population may die of famine (research data from "Nature Food").

Breakage of the ecological chain: Marine plankton dies due to reduced light, destroying oxygen production and the basis of the food chain, and ultimately leading to the collapse of the biosphere.

Even a nuclear conflict between regions (assuming 100 Hiroshima-class nuclear bombs are used) would result in the direct death of 5000 million people, and smoke and dust would cause a 20%-40% reduction in global food production. A war that seems "controllable" may actually make all of humanity pay for regional conflicts.

A nuclear war will not destroy humanity, but civilization may regress a thousand years!

After a nuclear war, there will still be a large number of people in rural and remote areas around the world who have not been directly affected. They may rely on underground bunkers, seed banks (such as the Svalbard Seed Bank in Norway) and primitive agriculture to survive. Some scientists believe that the population after a nuclear war may drop sharply to tens of millions, which is equivalent to returning to the level of the Stone Age. The power, medical and industrial systems will collapse, and survivors will face radiation sickness, resource competition and extreme climate. Knowledge will be interrupted and technology will be lost. It may take hundreds of years for humans to rebuild modern society.

In this situation, the United States has nothing better to do than to start a Third World War.

Moreover, they cannot replicate the environment of the United States in the first two world wars, because if the Third World War really breaks out, then the United States will definitely be the center of the war, or even the source! They themselves are the protagonists!

In the first two world wars, the protagonists were all in Europe, and the European countries fought each other. But what about the United States? They themselves were actually outside the war, otherwise the United States would not have such a strong isolationist sentiment during the two world wars.

Because the two world wars actually had nothing to do with the United States in essence. Even the war between the United States and Japan did not pose a threat to the U.S. mainland!

Its industrial capacity and population have not suffered any blow.

While other countries were fighting each other, they were focusing on development and dumping all kinds of weapons and commercial products.

But the United States definitely does not have such conditions for World War III!

So this approach won't work.

In this case, the only way is to overtake on the curve.

What? You mean peaceful development? Haha, with their industrial capacity lagging far behind, the gap between them and other major industrial countries will only widen!

So Benjamin hopes to make America great again from other aspects!