Chapter 171 The War Can't Be Fighted

The main forces of the United States on the island country are the Air Force and the Navy. After the first day of fighting, the Navy and the Air Force suffered heavy losses. The equipment advantage of the United States was not reflected, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was similar.

Now, if the army is mobilized again, the conflict in Hokkaido will become even more intense, and there is no guarantee that this is a trick of the Soviets, who are trying to start a new world war!

By then, the European battlefield will be in chaos. Can the European army at this time stop the rolling Soviet armored torrent?

Can't scale up!

The U.S. military had just gotten out of the quagmire of Vietnam and could not get stuck in a new quagmire! The U.S. was not prepared for a new world war at all!

Now is not the future. The Soviet Union has collapsed and the United States is the only country that dominates the world. It will punish the disobedient minions when it has nothing to do. The global village must follow the will of the United States. At this time, the United States is weak and the Soviet Union is strong! Although it was only a few years before the Soviet Union declined, these few years were the most difficult time for the United States. Unfortunately, Carter caught up.

Carter was extremely depressed at this time. He had thought that with the help of this opportunity, the 311 civil aviation airliner crisis would pass. Now, the situation was just as he hoped, and the public's attention had indeed shifted away from the 311 air crash. However, a bigger problem had been placed before Carter. Whether to fight or not, it would be disadvantageous to the United States!

At this time, his think tanks were obviously divided into two factions. The tough ones wanted to solve the problem through military means, while the more concerned people did not want to continue to expand the scale of the war.

"Now is the time to test us. Our army is not supported by taxpayers to eat free food!" Harold said, "We will never fear war!"

"But we can't afford a new world war now! The Soviets have recovered from World War II! Moreover, we both have huge nuclear weapons. Once a war really breaks out, even a nuclear war, it will be a devastating blow to us! Our country has never been a battlefield in World War II, but what about now?" said Brzezinski.

The United States was the only country that benefited from World War II. The war did not break out on American soil, and all the world's wealth flowed to the United States.

However, if a conflict occurs with the Soviet Union now, the war may spread to the US mainland.

We can't continue to expand the scale of the war!

"I also feel that we cannot expand the scale of the war any further, otherwise, Europe will also be in danger," said CIA Director Admiral Fittner.

"The Soviets have seized on this weakness of ours, which is why they are so fearless! I don't believe that the Soviets really dare to start a world war! If we do nothing now, the Soviets will only eat up the entire Hokkaido!" General Harold raised his voice.

"Report, the latest battle report, a Soviet armored force attacked Otaru, and now, Otaru Port has been occupied by the Soviets." Just as the two sides were arguing endlessly, a piece of news made everyone shut up.

Damn it! Are the Japanese all ****? Why can't they stop the Soviets? The first batch of Soviet troops that landed were just a few people, but they were able to march straight in and cross the entire island country of Hokkaido?

Moreover, now, the Soviets have actually occupied the port of Otaru!

Otaru is a small port town located on the west side of Hokkaido. After coal was discovered in Sapporo in 1873, Otaru became a prosperous commercial city as a coal export port outside Sapporo. In addition to being a foreign commercial port, Otaru is also the main fish distribution center in Hokkaido and an industrial city, with glass as its main processing industry.

Due to its geographical location, trade with Russia was once prosperous here.

Now, the Soviet occupation of Otaru Port immediately made the situation worse, because the Soviets no longer needed to go around Kunashir Island. After occupying Otaru Port, the Soviets could directly transport a large number of personnel and equipment from the opposite Primorsky Krai! At this time, the Seventh Fleet of the US Army in Japan was still in the Pacific Ocean, and it was even more impossible for it to go around the Sea of ​​Japan to stop the Soviet fleet, and the Soviet fleet must have set off at this time!

This war cannot be fought! Unless the United States mobilizes its army from the country to fight the Soviets in the Hokkaido region of the island country, otherwise, the island country’s self-defense forces will not be enough to fill the Soviets’ teeth!

Damn it! The Soviets are going to occupy the entire Hokkaido! By occupying Hokkaido and obtaining an ice-free port, they can go out to the Pacific Ocean at any time and threaten the US hegemony in the Pacific Ocean!

"Mr. President, solving our problems now is no longer a military issue. We need to meet with the Soviet ambassador urgently and try to resolve the problem through diplomatic means," said Vice President Walter.

Diplomatic means! If you can win, fight. If you can't win, talk about reason. This is a universal truth! Now, the United States is out of reach and lacks sufficient response methods to the deterioration of the situation in Hokkaido. Now it can only hope for diplomatic means. It's really painful. At this time, the United States really doesn't have enough courage to fight a full-scale war with the Soviet Union. Moreover, the loss is an island country, not the United States, not a NATO ally, but just a vassal country.

"Okay, make an appointment for me to meet with the Soviet ambassador immediately," said President Carter.

During the Cold War, both sides had nuclear weapons. Any misunderstandings might lead to the outbreak of a world war. Therefore, the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union had a direct communication channel, which was a hotline.

This is a two-way telegraph circuit that passes through Washington, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki and Moscow. The Washington-London section relies on the world's first transatlantic telephone cable. For insurance purposes, the United States and the Soviet Union also opened a backup radio communication line from Washington to Tangier (Morocco) and Moscow.

Although it was only a telegram and not direct voice communication, it was, after all, a channel for direct communication to prevent misunderstandings between the two sides from causing war. However, the calls at that time were too unpleasant. It didn't feel like a conversation at all, but just like reading a speech. It was not until 1971 that, with the advancement of technology, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to upgrade the military hotline system to a more advanced satellite transmission mode, with two American international communications satellites and two Soviet "Lightning-2" communications satellites performing information relay tasks, so that the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union could achieve real voice calls.

Now, given the crisis level of the situation, it has reached the point where a hotline needs to be used. However, President Carter still hopes to communicate with the Soviet ambassador first before deciding how to negotiate with the Soviet General Secretary next.