American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Please, could you guys not move so fast?

　Speaking of which, as a destroyer with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, the Yukikaze should not have even a ship doctor.

　But the problem is that the people operating this ship are Americans, but it is not an American ship!

　The Yukikaze originally belonged to Japan, but was later compensated to Taiwan and renamed the Danyang. Now, after undergoing another luxurious renovation, it has been transferred to South Vietnam. However, South Vietnam was unable to spare its own naval officers and soldiers to take over the ship, so it had to entrust the US Navy to take over...

　It is conceivable that as a hastily assembled ship-receiving team, the American naval officers and soldiers who flew to Taiwan to receive the ship were obviously rather mediocre in their professionalism.

　If, when the Yukikaze was still a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy, every department and position on board was staffed by top experts, and the captain could even dock in one go using just his feet to steer the ship, then by the time she was renamed Danyang, it was already a makeshift crew operating by instinct.

　At this point, the people responsible for operating the Yukikaze are not even a makeshift team, and can only be said to be doing a perfunctory job.

　Therefore, the crew on this ship is not only improvised, but also seriously understaffed. Just getting the ship moving is the limit, and tugboats are needed to pull it in and out of the harbor. Otherwise, careless operation will inevitably lead to dangerous maneuvers such as "scratching the ship" or "drifting."

　Furthermore, the Navy hadn't considered temporarily assigning a doctor to the Vietnamese ship—wasn't that the Diem government's job? And as for the few days when their own people were temporarily operating the ship? The crews were all strong men, and since there wasn't a war going on right now, wouldn't it be enough to just find a random medic to make do?

　Next, General LeMay decided to return home on the "armed yacht" Yukikaze. This was purely a spur-of-the-moment decision without consulting anyone in advance. Moreover, from the time he made the decision to the time the Yukikaze set sail from Yokosuka, less than forty-eight hours passed.

　His adjutants and orderly were in a state of panic. Although they had urgently loaded the ship with high-quality food and drinks, and even hired a chef and maid to ensure General LeMay's quality of life at sea, they had forgotten, or perhaps hadn't anticipated, the need to find a doctor to accompany the ship...

　In addition, General LeMay had been in good spirits during the first half of the Pacific crossing, so when they passed Hawaii, no one thought of asking him to disembark for medical treatment or to send a military doctor aboard—there was only the last leg left, so why bother?

　As a result, when there were less than three days left to sail from the US mainland, General LeMay's health suddenly deteriorated and he collapsed in public.

　Could it be that General LeMay received some terrible bad news in the days after leaving Hawaii, which made him exhausted?

　Then, because of Monroe's "kind" recommendation, Ferry once again became the scapegoat and was forced to play a cameo role as a doctor.

　"It's better to check General Li Mei's blood pressure first! People with high blood pressure should not be injected with stimulants casually."

　Fili rubbed his throbbing forehead with his hand and said to the black medic, Garrett, "You should be able to do something like taking blood pressure, right?"

　"This... I learned it during training, but I'm not particularly sure. I'll try my best.

　..." the black medic said awkwardly.

　"What? Forget it! Let me do it! Just give me the blood pressure monitor and stethoscope, and then you can get out of here!" Fili, in a bad mood, shouted in a domineering manner, "Also, Miss Monroe, please step aside! There's really nothing to see in an old man's body..."

　-

　The results of the preliminary physical examination, conducted using extraordinary means, were mixed.

　The good news is that General Li May did not suffer a sudden heart attack or stroke, nor did he suffer from any terminal illness. It was just that due to his old age, fatigue from the journey and two injuries, he was physically and mentally exhausted, so he fainted in public.

　The bad news is that General LeMay is already quite old, and his vital energy is waning, causing his organs to fail, or rather, age and deteriorate significantly. Given the immature technology for organ replacement, he's probably just holding on.

　It's like an antique car that has been running for a long distance at extreme conditions and has been hit twice. Even if it can still start, it probably won't run steadily.

　It wasn't difficult for Ferry to wake General LeMay, but getting him back to a state where he could get out of bed and work was a real challenge.

　Even healing techniques cannot be used casually, because the essence of healing techniques is to mobilize human vitality to heal diseases and wounds.

　If the adventurer is young and strong, even if he is seriously injured, his vitality is still very strong, and it is not difficult to mobilize and guide it to heal the wound.

　On the other hand, if the person being treated is already old and frail, with their vitality depleted, then unless their life energy can be replenished from outside, abusing healing spells will only overdraw their already limited vitality, as if they had been drained of their essence by a succubus.

　The final result is either a vegetative state or a seemingly solemn corpse...

　What should I do? Fili hesitated for a moment. It seemed that there were many ideas that he could try, but they all had various hidden dangers.

　After much deliberation, he decided to resort to external plug-ins.

　"System! General Li Mei looks like an old man with broken carts. What do you think we should do?"

　[Isn't this simple? Please use the rejuvenation technique to replenish his vitality!]

　"Rejuvenation is a druid's magic. How can I use it?"

　[Then, let's switch to something more advanced? Iollum's immortality technique?]

　"It's even more outrageous! How could I possibly use the forbidden spells of the Archmage of Netheril?"

　[It seems the host's aptitude is quite ordinary! How about switching to a spell that my Lord Dark Sun is more proficient in? How about Resurrection of the Dead?]

　"Not so good! General LeMay is not dead yet!"

　[In that case, I can only bless the patient! But the blessing of His Majesty Dark Sun... I'll look for it. How about a Tyranny Blessing?]

　"Will this have any side effects? Like turning him into a deformed zombie, or a cyberpsychopath who only attacks people mindlessly?"

　[Rest assured, host. If the opponent is merely a mortal, lacking the aptitude to cast spells, this will at most only make him more violent and aggressive, more eager to kill the weak and hypocrites, and, to a certain extent, more in line with His Majesty Dark Sun's preferences.]

　"Sounds a bit like... Khorne from the Chaos Four? Never mind. As the mastermind behind the Tokyo fire attack, the Cuban bombing, and a series of strategic bombing operations, General LeMay already has acquaintances all over the world... Being a bit more belligerent doesn't seem to matter."

　Fili curled his lips in disapproval and, following the system's advice, injected a purple mark of divine power into General Li Mei's body.

　Then, as a cover-up, he called in General LeMay's orderly, the black medical soldier Garrett, as well as the eager-to-help Marilyn Monroe and her ex-husband DiMaggio, who hurriedly wiped General LeMay's body and poured him an enema laced with a trace of amphetamine...

　Then, while no one was paying attention, he quietly pinched the purple skull holy emblem hidden in his pocket and whispered a spell.

　The next moment, General Li Mei opened his eyes, jumped three feet high from the bed, sat up, holding his butt, and yelled at the top of his lungs: "Ah! What's wrong with me? What just happened?! Who's poking my butt?!"

　-

　All in all, thanks to Fili's "miracle healing", General Li Mei, the "Tokyo BBQ Master", was successfully awakened less than two hours after fainting, and he looked in good spirits, at least his voice was quite loud when he cursed.

　By the time he woke up the next morning, General LeMay was refreshed, rosy-cheeked, and full of energy. He also had a healthy appetite, devouring all three meals. For lunch, he devoured five steaks, ham and eggs, and roast chicken. On the third day, General LeMay even rekindled his youthful enthusiasm, f**king a Japanese woman who was sleeping with him until she screamed in pleasure.

　Such a heroic performance, even if he used India's God Oil or Spain's Golden Fly, could at least be described as being as vigorous as a dragon and a tiger, right?

　The only regret is... well, it seems that General LeMay's hair has suddenly fallen out quite a bit, and in just a few days, it has turned into a "Mediterranean" hair. At first glance, it looks like "I'm getting balder, but also stronger."

　Seeing the immediate effect of enema hydrotherapy on General Li Mei, the other people on the Snow Wind were also quite interested and talked to Ferry,

　Marilyn Monroe and others approached him, asking about the pros and cons of this health therapy, and even wanted to experience it themselves.

　——In the eyes of white people in Europe and America, enema is probably similar to cupping in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a common medical method with a high degree of acceptance.

　After all, in the Middle Ages, European doctors basically had three tricks: bloodletting, enema and vomiting. Unless you were so poor that you had to rely on lying down for medical treatment, and still wanted to spend money on medical treatment, it would be difficult to escape getting hurt.

　During the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the groundbreaking and romantic French transformed enema from a medical procedure into a fashionable trend. Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV were both enthusiasts of enemas, particularly coffee.

　French nobles even carried a large needle with them when traveling so that they could perform enemas at any time, just like an old smoker carried a pipe.

　So, if after hundreds of years, enema health care becomes fashionable again in Europe and the United States... maybe it is not impossible?

　Regarding this topic, Philly, who had something to hide, was somewhat evasive, but Marilyn Monroe was very excited and told everyone about her personal experience of receiving spa treatments without any shyness. She even used her own skin that had become so smooth that it could be broken, as if she was doing an advertisement.

　Perhaps, if the new movie that 20th Century Fox has arranged for her to shoot is not satisfactory, she will really open a spa?

　At this time, Ferry also realized that General Li May had indeed received bad news a few days ago: the Viet Cong and Ngo Dinh Diem were causing trouble again!

　First of all, the Viet Cong's underground assassination team had just blown up the Brooklyn Hotel in Saigon, which was the officers' dormitory of the US military stationed in Vietnam. More than 200 US officers and soldiers were buried alive in the rubble, including several of General LeMay's old subordinates!

　Secondly, the Vietcong's activities in the South Vietnamese capital were already so rampant, but as the South Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem remained indifferent to it, and regarded other warlord armed forces supported by the CIA in South Vietnam as intolerable thorns in his side.

　As soon as General Le May left Saigon, Ngo Dinh Diem mobilized his troops and organized three infantry battalions. Ignoring General Le May's stern warnings, he headed north again to Bang Nganao in Dak Lak Province to use force to attack the Hmong militia armed by the CIA in the local area!

　As a result, the South Vietnamese Army and the Hmong Army, who were supposed to fight the Viet Cong side by side according to the Pentagon's plan, fought fiercely for a while. After receiving the news, General Li May, who felt that he had been tricked and ignored, was so angry that he almost broke down...

　Well, even General Le May in the past wouldn't have tolerated such an affront. Now, under the influence of Cyric's divine power, General Le May has become even more cruel and tyrannical... Ferry secretly lit a candle for South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

　In short, in the twilight of December 20, the Yukikaze slowly sailed into San Diego, the southernmost naval port in California.

　Los Angeles is just a two-hour drive north of San Diego.

　Finally... I'm going home!

　The aftermath of the disastrous midterm election defeat.

　The Democratic Party suffered crushing defeats in both the Senate and House elections, giving the Republicans control of Congress. This has left the ruling Democratic Party with a limp government, with only a small majority. So, after the midterm elections, the Democrats launched a torrent of accusations and attacks against the president.

　Leaders of the black civil rights movement accused the Kennedy administration of being "not progressive enough" and failing to fully promote true equal rights for all. They demanded that the federal government show greater determination and strength to suppress racial discrimination among white people and allow the people of all races in the United States to truly integrate into one.

　Meanwhile, the Puritans and moralists of the Democratic Party in the Southern states, while clinging to white supremacy and shamelessly refusing to fully recognize the human rights of people of color, criticized President Kennedy and his brother's absurd actions from a moral perspective. In particular, the president's appointment of Marilyn Monroe, his "chief mistress," as the nation's spokesperson and his subsequent travels throughout Asia as a model for the United States was a truly depraved act.

　Speaking of which, this kind of attack on the president's personal behavior is really boring.

　Although in theory, the United States is a country founded by Puritans, it advocates morality and regards Europe as the "morally corrupt old continent."

　But in fact, from the Civil War to the 21st century, apart from President Carter (Emperor of the United States), a moral role model nicknamed "Good Jimmy," which other president has truly lived up to his integrity and could confidently claim that "my heart and my actions are as clear as a mirror"?

　Not to mention President Harding, who was corrupt, addicted to gambling, and had affairs with both men and women (he even allowed a male prostitute who sold his ass into his cabinet); President Grant, who lived an extravagant life, had many mistresses, and lived a life of debauchery; President Hoover, who was barely a good man in his early years, but became more and more evil as time went on; and President Nixon, who always acted like a gangster, had close ties with many American gangs, and was like a super-enhanced version of Professor Moriarty.

　Even President Franklin Roosevelt, who won World War II in a wheelchair, was not only resilient in state affairs, but also in bed. Even paralyzed legs didn't prevent him from finding mistresses and maintaining a harem in his free time. Because he couldn't move his legs, he couldn't have sex with a woman himself; he needed another woman to support him. So, at the very least, he was surrounded by women in bed.

　Compared with the presidents before him, although President Kennedy was a little more extravagant and even brought his mistress to the White House, it was far from out of line - there were even some presidents before him who let their mistresses sit in the Oval Office to help draft presidential orders!

　As for the voices denouncing Attorney General Robert Kennedy as a "redhead" and a "Bolshevik hiding in the White House," they were even louder.

　Even a small matter like his wife falling into the swimming pool at a party and getting wet in public was criticized over and over again by those hypocrites.

　The Kennedy brothers were well aware that the moral accusations leveled against them were ultimately motivated by ulterior motives. The key issue was their use of minority groups, leading Irish Catholics and Jews in a power struggle against white American Protestants. This not only deeply angered traditional American conservatives, but, due to their overly drastic measures, had even begun to undermine the nation's own national interests.

　After all, the social disorder caused by the frequent unrest caused by black people hurts the people of the entire United States.

　Therefore, a considerable part of the American middle class and centrist political forces, as well as the Poles and Italians who had strongly supported Kennedy in the last presidential election, were tired and impatient with the black civil rights movement that was becoming increasingly intense under the protection of President Kennedy.

　Even the Irish, who were the president's iron supporters, showed a tendency to waver and split - because the upper-class Irish could fight for power from the white Protestant nobles and aristocrats, while the lower-class Irish could only suffer losses from black parades and zero-dollar shopping.

　But it was impossible to turn back now, because African Americans in the United States were already furious. More than a century ago, the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville predicted that once blacks "join the ranks of free men, they will remember that they have long been deprived of almost all civil rights and cannot be on an equal footing with white people. They will feel extremely angry and will not hesitate to regard white people as enemies."

　Today, a series of federal court rulings favoring equality and progress have ignited hope in the hearts of black people. The flame of the black civil rights movement has been ignited and is spreading like wildfire across all 50 states. If we stop it at this moment, the consequences will be unimaginable.

　Martin Luther King, the most prestigious leader of the Black civil rights movement, could still follow the example of India's Mahatma Gandhi, simply engaging in non-violent non-cooperation movements and teaching his followers: "This is not a conflict between blacks and whites. This is a struggle between justice and injustice. We not only want to improve the status of Black people, but our goal is to make society as a whole progress. Even if we are arrested every day, even if we are exploited every day, even if we suffer defeat every day, we should not stoop to the point of harboring hatred towards those people."

　While Marilyn Monroe was strutting the runway in Asia, the United States had just experienced "a long, hot summer" of social division and discord. In every city from the South to the North, the anger of people of color and left-wing groups was burning with disappointment.

　In the Southern states, 150,000 black protesters were

　Hundreds, if not thousands, of black people were lynched, tortured, or assassinated by the KKK. As a supporter of the Black movement, President Kennedy was powerless due to legal constraints.

　The reason why the awakened African American community in the United States can maintain great restraint and use non-violent and peaceful activities to fight against the violence of white racists under such severe persecution is because they still have hope in Washington and believe that the president supports them.

　If at this time, the federal government directly extinguishes the flame of hope of people of color and refuses to completely abolish racial segregation and racial discrimination, it will be tantamount to destroying the moderates of the black civil rights movement and pushing blacks to the side of radicals and militants.

　Next, what African Americans in the United States will do is no longer just hold rallies, march in the streets and buy things for free. Instead, they will carry out terrorist attacks everywhere like the Irish Republican Army, and the whole of America will never have peace.

　——Just as the British Empire could not stifle the Irish independence movement with a single decree, the United States could not silence black people with a single order.

　As a major supporter of the black civil rights movement, President Kennedy's political influence would have collapsed before this.

　The only thing that made Kennedy feel a little relieved was that the Soviet Union, America's old rival, was now in trouble of its own.

　Because, no matter how embarrassing the US invasion of Cuba was, and no matter how heavy the price it paid, the result alone was that the red flag of socialist revolution fell from the island of Cuba, and the Soviet Union lost its only bridgehead in the Western Hemisphere that could threaten the heartland of the United States.

　As a result, a fierce debate erupted in the Kremlin over the question of "Who Lost Cuba?" and quickly devolved into harsh accusations and collective complaints against Khrushchev. This further troubled Khrushchev, leaving him with neither the will nor the energy to take more decisive foreign action.

　This creates a relatively relaxed external environment for the fierce political struggle within the United States, without having to worry too much about external interference.

　In light of this, President Kennedy, despite his own wavering and hesitation, ultimately decided to push the civil rights movement for people of color forward to the end. He also continued to promote various progressive causes with a strong left-wing tinge, such as health care benefits, funding for urban slum reconstruction, and increased agricultural subsidies. He also urged Congress to pass a broad and comprehensive civil rights bill guaranteeing that "race has no place in American life or in the laws of the United States."

　——Although he had countless moral flaws, President Kennedy was not like the white leftists in later generations who only knew how to pretend and perform performance art. Instead, he wanted to promote social progress in a practical way and cut the flesh from the big capitalists and the wealthy and powerful!

　In his opinion, if President Roosevelt could do it, he should also be able to do it.

　Roosevelt's achievements were certainly fueled by the Great Depression, but didn't he also have the momentum of the Black Civil Rights Movement to draw upon?

　Of course, President Kennedy had to pretend to be more restrained in the face of the moral attacks from the moralists in the southern states.

　Furthermore, President Kennedy was a complete philanderer when it came to women, easily disliking the old and liking the new. He was definitely not a loyal man. The reason he slept with Marilyn Monroe that spring was simply to get a taste of America's most famous female star.

　Now that the achievement has been achieved and Monroe has been given a heavy-weight return gift, everything is settled between them.

　Therefore, President Kennedy did not plan to invite Marilyn Monroe to attend this year's White House Christmas banquet.

　And for the last few days of the year, the federal government had no other work schedule for Marilyn Monroe.

　In other words, from a national perspective, Marilyn Monroe's role as "America's first national spokesperson" has come to an end.

　Well, not only Admiral Curtis LeMay, but even Marilyn Monroe's luck was sucked away by the Yukikaze?

　She is also out of date - so the promise that the company president made to her before also needs to be appropriately downgraded.

　In short, after Marilyn Monroe arrived at the headquarters of 20th Century Fox with a large group of people following her, the two managers who received her said very sincerely that due to the company's vanity and investment mistakes in the "Cleopatra" project, the company's finances are now very difficult. In recent months, there is really no money to shoot new movies. They hope that Marilyn Monroe can understand the company's difficulties.

　However, the promise President Spyros Skouras made to her would not be completely broken. Coincidentally, 20th Century Fox had a fairytale-themed puppet movie co-produced with Disney. It was already in production, so how about asking Marilyn Monroe to voice the heroine?

　——Of course, since I was only voicing the puppets and didn't even show my face, the salary and treatment were naturally just for show.

　Marilyn Monroe was initially incredulous about 20th Century Fox's actions, and then she was so angry that she fell backwards.

　What? Let her voice the heroine of a puppet movie!

　Come on! Are you kidding me? What kind of status is this American sweetheart? And what kind of status is this puppet movie?!

　Isn't this just too good? It's almost insulting!