Gundam 00: Rise of China

"And they will definitely avoid our People's Revolutionary Alliance and go find some easy targets to bully."

Inside the car, Wang Ye's tone suddenly turned serious, and his gaze became resolute.

"Such as unregulated illegal mines, illegal plantations in war-torn areas, and outdated local warlord forces."

"These targets have no high-end resistance capabilities, which allows the Celestials to regain the face lost in the defeat in Ceylon and also to make a strong impression in the public eye."

"So that they can continue to package their false idea of ​​'eradicating conflict' to the outside world."

"What is even more alarming is that they are very likely to launch probing attacks on our weakly defended small and medium-sized bases in order to assess our military's true combat capabilities and test our bottom line."

"In my opinion, all military bases stationed abroad, on the border, and within the country, including small and medium-sized bases, must immediately raise their alert levels in preparation for unforeseen circumstances."

General Gao listened quietly, his expression composed, nodding slightly from time to time.

Just as Wang Ye finished explaining his insights and was about to continue analyzing the subsequent risks, General Gao suddenly raised his hand and gently interrupted him.

"I've already arranged everything you've thought of."

"After all, I'm your teacher."

General Gao wore a refined smile as he looked intently at Wang Ye.

"The top leadership had long ago foreseen and made comprehensive preparations for the problems currently facing our military."

"However, I have something else to discuss, and I'd like to hear your opinion on it."

"Latest intelligence summary from the Foreign Affairs Department: The situation in the Republic of Taliban, the backyard of the Union, has become unusually turbulent recently."

General Gao slowly analyzed the situation, his tone calm yet every sentence revealing the essence of the matter, and of course, he also tested his student Wang Ye.

"Taliban has been suppressed by the Union since the old era."

"After entering the solar energy era, it was forced to submit to the orbital power supply system controlled by Union."

"However, Union has long implemented differentiated management on it, with resource allocation and welfare distribution being severely uneven, resulting in decades of deep-seated resentment."

"Adding to the old grudges, the region has no sense of belonging to the Union and is extremely hostile."

"Taliban?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Ye repeated the country's name in a low voice, and the complete plot of the original work instantly surged into his mind, with countless details rapidly connecting.

After organizing the intelligence, Wang Ye looked up and tentatively spoke.

"Does the teacher mean... that the sudden appearance of celestial beings has given rise to unwarranted delusions in the Taliban?"

"Observing events and their forms is easy, but observing the underlying trends is difficult."

Just like when he was lecturing Wang Ye on the podium back then, General Gao gently stroked the inside of the thermos, his tone carrying the clarity and composure that comes from having experienced the ups and downs of politics and the military.

Beneath his perfectly refined and scholarly image lies a sharp insight!

"Looking back on the past is easy, but predicting the future is the hardest. However, if we try to create a new situation based on the old, we can see through the calculations in some people's hearts at a glance."

"The Taliban is currently in a critical period of leadership transition, but the current leadership is facing low approval ratings and its re-election is in jeopardy."

"When they are desperate, they will do anything to consolidate their power and gain leverage in the succession process."

"The emergence of the Celestials, through their confrontation with the Human Revolutionary Alliance and the AEU, has initially demonstrated factors that are different from the existing power structures of the three major powers."

"This makes the Celestial Beings extremely prestigious in weak regions, and such factors that could induce changes in the situation are now in sight."

"Do you think the current Taliban government might try to use this power to check and balance the Union and seek a way out for itself?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Ye's heart skipped a beat, completely confirming his guess.

He understood perfectly and sneered inwardly.

After all, probably no one in the world understands the stupidity and cunning of the Taliban authorities better than Wang Ye.

In an effort to incite public opinion and consolidate their power, they have raised the banner of anti-Union in a high-profile manner, gambling with the fate of the nation in an attempt to attach themselves to the divine.

The naiveté of the heavenly beings to uphold so-called "justice" and thus stand on the side of the oppressed and weak.

But they couldn't see through the underlying rules from beginning to end.

The concept of "heaven and man" is essentially a sharp blade nurtured behind the scenes by powerful nations.

Even the fiercest hunting dog will bite anyone, but why would it bare its teeth at its owner, this vicious dog?

Because he's the owner, he's the one who's raising it!

No, the Taliban probably anticipated this as well, but they also had their own agenda.

Just like the ending in the original world.

The Union army was pressing in with the intention of quelling the rebellion, but after weighing the pros and cons, the Celestials ignored the Union's main force.

Instead, they categorically defined Taliban as the source of the conflict and launched a full-scale attack against it.

It's utterly ridiculous.

The so-called celestial beings who claim to be righteous are not even as good as the Archangel, who caused trouble everywhere in the later stages of the Seed world.

Even the Archangel, under Lux's leadership, was able to treat everyone equally and fight on both fronts.

In contrast, the "Heavenly Beings" are nothing more than hypocritical henchmen who seek personal gain and avoid harm, and who selectively enforce the law.

Seeing that Wang Ye's eyes were deep and focused, indicating that he had grasped the whole situation, General Gao timely posed a crucial question.

"Since you've seen through the situation, what do you predict Celestial Being's Gundam will do after Taliban descends into chaos?"

Wang Ye answered in a deep voice without the slightest hesitation.

"They will selectively ignore the Union's military operations and unilaterally label Taliban as the source of the conflict."

"All strike firepower will be directed only at Taliban armed groups and will never actually touch the Union's core military strength."

Upon hearing this, General Gao nodded slowly, his expression calm, as if he had everything under control.

After a long silence, he sighed softly, his tone filled with undisguised contempt.

"You're very accurate."

"The current Taliban government is attempting to use foreign forces to pursue its own interests and gamble the nation's fate with public opinion; it is by no means a benevolent entity."

"But at its root, it is the Union's long-term oppression and differential treatment that has sown the seeds of this centuries-old resentment and calamity."

"They only dare to punish the weak, but not to trace the root cause. They pick on the easy targets and talk about eradicating war in vain. This hypocritical rhetoric of the divine is ultimately self-deception and burying one's head in the sand."

"But what's even more tragic is that ordinary people in Taliban have had their passion go to waste, and have become puppets who are blind to the truth of the situation."

With just a few words, General Gao completely exposed the hypocritical nature of the celestial beings.

Wang Ye knew that General Gao never uttered pointless sentiments.

His analysis of the situation on all three sides at this moment is by no means a simple commentary; it must be part of a strategic plan.

Wang Ye immediately stopped dwelling on the surface-level situation and went straight to the core issue.

"The student understands."

"So, it seems our army has already taken action ahead of schedule?"

"Is it simply because we are constrained by our consistent neutral and stability-maintaining foreign policy that we cannot directly intervene in the situation?"

"Um."

Since everyone in the car was one of his own, General Gao stopped saying those high-sounding words.

"We have ideas about Taliban."

"Especially after you repelled the Gundam head-on, no matter what methods you used, as long as you achieved your goal, that's commendable!"