The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Soon, based on the clues, the British police arrested 24 suspects in the UK.

What threw the British off guard was that the 24 suspects arrested included people from the Middle East, black people, and even white people who were British natives.

Moreover, these British locals are all families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan or Iraq.

According to the Times, these people's husbands and children died in Afghanistan or Iraq, but they received no pensions, which made them dissatisfied and resentful of the British and American governments and led them to join extremists.

When the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

According to the announcement of the British Ministry of Defense, the British government will assume the obligation to pay pensions to all disabled soldiers. Previously, the British Ministry of Defense had raised the maximum limit of the one-time pension for disabled soldiers from 15.215 pounds to 28.5 pounds.

This move was intended to encourage the British army to fight bravely and not be afraid of war.

But now a scandal has broken out that the families of the soldiers who died are not receiving pensions and that the pensions have been embezzled.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

The standards for pensions for disabled soldiers and deceased soldiers in the UK are already much lower than those in the US, which makes soldiers and their families quite dissatisfied. Now that this kind of thing has been reported, it makes people even more dissatisfied.

Instead of hating these British people who join extremist organizations, ordinary British people are full of sympathy for them.

The current government, on the other hand, has been continuously granted large numbers of special approvals.

An angry crowd surrounded Downing Street, demanding an explanation from the government.

For example, there is a soldier who participated in the protest. This retired soldier lost both legs due to stepping on a landmine on the battlefield in Afghanistan last September. He also suffered serious injuries to his head, elbows, nose and jaw, and more than 9 other parts of his body.

However, according to the disability pension standards, he can only receive a pension of 15 pounds for the loss of both legs, serious injuries to his head and elbows, and no pension for injuries to other parts of his body.

This made the soldier and other family members very dissatisfied, because the pension of 15.215 pounds is far from enough to meet their future living needs. This time they demanded an increase in the disability pension standard and more compensation.

This has also made many families whose relatives died in Afghanistan and Iraq but have not received any pensions so far extremely angry. They denounced the government for destroying their relatives' lives but embezzling the pensions.

Britain participated in the Afghan war and made great sacrifices, but gained no benefits at all in Afghanistan.

After all, it is the United States that needs Afghanistan, a strategic location, to maintain its world hegemony, not Britain.

As early as the Falklands War, the British had already recognized the reality of the decline of British hegemony, and there was nothing they could do no matter how unwilling they were.

If the British were not willing to accept the dismantling of the British and French global colonial system by the United States and the Soviet Union and forced Britain and France to give up the Suez Canal, and still had some small thoughts, then the heavy losses suffered in the Falklands War made the British face up to the reality.

Although the British won the Falklands War, they suffered greater losses, and most countries in the world no longer had any respect for the British.

The Commonwealth is, in fact, already defunct in name only.

Since the 80s, Britain has implemented a strategy of being tied to the United States, and has been deeply tied to the United States in order to maintain its status as a great power and get a share of the world's resource pie in the competition with the United States.

The biggest pillar of London finance now is to turn gray money from all over the world into white and earn fees in the process.

London's housing prices and consumption are maintained by attracting wealthy people to buy castles and luxury houses. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, which are the top three permanent members and the bottom two permanent members, have officially emerged since the 90s, and this view has been widely accepted.

Many countries aspire to become permanent members in order to replace Britain and France.

This incident triggered even greater unrest, with the British people demanding that the British army withdraw from the Afghan battlefield.

If the oil fields acquired by the British in the Iraq War were second only to those of the United States, then the battlefield in Afghanistan was completely unprofitable and a pure loss-making business.

More importantly, the British army suffered heavy casualties on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

The United States is paying close attention to the outbreak in the UK.

The United Kingdom is the most important ally of the United States, and its status is far higher than that of other allies. The so-called Japan and South Korea are far less important than the United Kingdom.

Through Britain, the United States can maintain a strong influence on Europe. At worst, even if the United States is squeezed out of Europe one day, it can rely on Britain to exert influence on Europe.

Besides, in every war, Britain has always stood firmly on the side of the United States.

The United States absolutely cannot accept a major change in Britain's position.

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The United States feels a little powerless at this time. There are the North Korean nuclear issue, the Iranian nuclear issue, the Palestinian-Israeli issue, the Latin American issue, the African issue, the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the EU and Russia getting closer, and now such a big thing is happening in the UK again.

This has made the United States exhausted.

George Walton used to think that as the U.S. military expanded to nearly two million troops and massively increased military spending, the U.S. military should be full of martial virtues, able to fight whomever it wanted, invincible, and the whole world had to be polite to the United States.

But now, George Walton has discovered that this is not the case at all. The battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq are like two bottomless pits, and investing hundreds of billions of dollars every year seems not to be enough.

The solid defense line of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan has trapped Israel tightly. Israel almost lost its country twice. It can be said that a single move can affect the whole body.

The joint forces still have about 500,000 troops in Iraq, but the Arab coalition has also deployed more than 300,000 troops around Iraq. Moreover, the remnants of Saddam and other forces are not dead yet and cannot be defeated no matter what.

The mountainous areas of Afghanistan have been a problem for the U.S. military, no matter what they do, they are unable to deal with them. The U.S. military has a large number of donkeys and mules, but in the mountains of Afghanistan, the guerrillas can never be completely eliminated. After one group is eliminated, another group will grow up.

South America collectively turned left, and strong men appeared one after another from the sky.

Chavez of Venezuela and Andrew of Colombia carried out drastic reforms in Venezuela and Colombia, nationalized many industries, and were very active in South America, even shouting out such treasonous words as "South America is South America for South Americans."

Brazil, Argentina and Peru have also seen the left come to power, and it won't be long before Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia will completely turn left.

What makes the United States even more uncomfortable is that Cuba's foreign exchanges are becoming increasingly frequent, which is driving Americans crazy.

Even now, many Americans go to Cuba specifically to treat their illnesses, which is a great irony.

In the latest proposal on Cuba, most countries in the world voted in favor, only the United States and Israel voted against it, and were beaten up and looked down upon. (End of this chapter)