American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Dr. Kissinger lamented, “If it weren’t for this war, how would the civilized world know who the Vietnamese are?”

　Huh? Fighting the Vietnam War with the United States was a blessing for the Vietnamese?

　This counterintuitive statement left Firi a bit stunned, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it seemed to make some sense.

　After all, the fate of "Vietnam" as a country and "Vietnamese" as a group is sometimes not the same...

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　Since the rise of modern nationalism, intellectuals in various countries have generally believed that the fate of the country and the nation are tied together.

　Only when the country is strong can the nation be happy; if the country declines, the nation will also suffer misfortune.

　As the saying goes, "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of his country"!

　This may sound reasonable, but in reality, if we set aside our subjective emotions and examine history carefully, we will find that the prosperity of a nation and a country cannot always be equated. As the Chinese saying goes, "When the country is in misfortune, the poets are fortunate." Similarly, due to certain historical paradoxes, the counterintuitive phenomenon of "when the country is in misfortune, the nation is fortunate" can also occur in this world.

　The strength of a country naturally depends on the size of its territory and its financial wealth; the strength of a nation depends on its population size and distribution.

　Unfortunately, the two are often inconsistent and may even deviate from each other.

　The decline and fall of a country is sometimes accompanied by the extinction of a nation, but sometimes it allows the nation to multiply and expand!

　For example, if we look at it from the perspective of the political system of "China", then China's modern history is a history of humiliation that has lasted for a hundred years: the territory was lost, the territory was dwindling, and the country's fortunes plummeted to the bottom, which made people of insight sigh and lament, and they did not hesitate to fight to save the country and the people.

　However, from another perspective, for the "Chinese nation" or the Han ethnic group, China's modern history presents a completely different picture:

　With the sound of a cannon in the Opium War, the Chinese people, who had been confined to their homeland in the Central Plains for a long time, finally broke through the shackles of the Qing Dynasty and technological conditions. Thousands of them began to go to Southeast Asia, to Northeast China, and even to America, establishing countless Chinatowns and Chinatowns, thereby greatly expanding their nation's living space and sphere of influence: this is simply a history of expansion full of courage and passion!

　Many of the modern-day overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese throughout Southeast Asia have ancestors who resolutely set sail southward during the turbulent times of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, or even earlier. However, in terms of overall numbers, the majority of the Chinese in Southeast Asia came after 1840.

　In addition, before modern times, the number of Han people in the three northeastern provinces was pitifully small due to the Qing Dynasty's "willow-twig border control."

　Those territories on the map that belonged to the Qing Dynasty did not necessarily belong to "Chinese" at that time!

　Many of China's border lands were only truly "consolidated" in modern times.

　Similarly, the more than 200 years of British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent is a tragic and humiliating history stained with blood, tears, and countless bones. Yet, at the same time, Indians were able to take advantage of the British Empire's conquest of the seven seas, embarking on a magnificent global migration.

　It can even be said that wherever there are British colonists and the Union Jack, there are their Indian servants, black tea and curry.

　So, as the British Empire crumbled and came to an end, more than 30 million Indian immigrants, a byproduct of this colonial empire, bravely left their homeland and settled in more than 200 countries and regions around the world. From the snow-capped Canada to the scorching sun of black Africa, to cities like London, Liverpool, and Birmingham in the UK, they are all filled with the curry-flavored English and pungent body odor of Indians.

　Before World War II, there were only 8500 Indians in Britain. But by the 21st century, the number of Indian and Pakistani immigrants in Britain had reached nearly five million!

　So much so that an Indian became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom! How rebellious is this?

　Clive, who conquered Bengal, and the Duke of Wellington, who won the Battle of Assaye. If they knew about this, they would probably be so shocked that their coffins would not be able to hold them down.

　Next, for the Vietnamese, the century from the French invasion and colonization to the end of the Vietnam War can be described as a century of devastation, displacement, and misery. After the end of World War II, most countries in the world were enjoying relative peace under the iron curtain of the Cold War, but Vietnam turned the Cold War into a

　The war in Vietnam lasted from 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

　But on the other hand, it was during this half-century of war that the Vietnamese people took advantage of the imperialist invaders and, like dandelions, drifted to many corners of the United States and Europe, where they took root, multiplied, and established Vietnamese communities, greatly expanding the living space and influence of this marginalized small ethnic group.

　Before the Vietnam War, Vietnamese immigrants in the United States were negligible. After the war, the number of Vietnamese-American citizens swelled to over a million: from "Little Saigon" in Westminster County, California, to the Vietnamese shrimp fishing villages at the mouth of the Mississippi River. If it weren't for the Vietnam War, how could Vietnamese people have appeared on American soil?

　Similarly, throughout the Cold War, Vietnam, a nation embroiled in war and steeped in martial virtue, dominated global news media for decades, accumulating influence disproportionate to its size. Surrounding Vietnam are Malaysia, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, all once ancient civilizations with rich histories and large populations. Yet, in the modern Western world, none rivals Vietnam's fame.

　Even the American naiveté who can’t even read a world map knows that there is a place called Vietnam, which once caused American soldiers to shed a lot of blood!

　Even the Vietnamese who did not immigrate overseas actually expanded their living space and gained many benefits during these decades of war. The Vietnamese immigrants along the Tonle Sap Lake infiltrated into the core area of ​​the ancient Khmer Empire on a large scale with the help of the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War and the Vietnam-Cambodia War. Otherwise, how could the Vietnamese skip the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and get involved in this land of fish and rice next to Angkor Wat?

　(In the early 19th century, when Thailand and Vietnam divided Cambodia, Tonle Sap Lake was also Thai territory, and Vietnam only got the area east of Phnom Penh.)

　In short, the Vietnam War certainly brought countless sufferings to the Vietnamese people, but it also gave this weak nation an opportunity to take off.

　All I can say is that in this world, yin and yang always coexist, and fortune and misfortune are interdependent.

　Author's words: PS: Larry, the "Prime Minister's Cat" at 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's official residence in the UK, is actually 17 years old this year.

　The Labour government is currently planning a grand funeral for the cat in line with the Queen's farewell ceremony.

　Chapter 404: A Cult Next to Disneyland

　May 1968, Anaheim, Los Angeles, USA, next to Disneyland

　Once again, Phili, who had just returned from Vietnam, stood outside the walls of Disneyland, at the entrance of an abandoned large resort hotel. Looking at the huge purple skull graffiti painted on the wall and those familiar "chicken soup for the soul" mottos, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

　It's been so long, Charles Manson!

　After accepting my "teachings," you and your "Manson Family" finally stopped inexplicably going to Beverly Hills to torture and kill female celebrities. This is of course a good thing. But why did you run to Disneyland next door to harm children?

　As a result, not only did he receive complaints from parents of children, but he also used his supernatural powers to deceive the Disney employees and police who came to his door and leave.

　Walt Disney himself called me and asked for help!

　——Who made Fili, in the current American upper class’s perception, be considered an expert at cleaning up messes?

　Moreover, when it comes to supernatural powers and other mysterious things, the bigwigs outside the circle are just like ordinary people. They subconsciously think that the FBI and CIA must be hiding some cards: just like Trump always believed that there were UFO wreckage in Area 51 before he became president.

　Well, the current FBI Director, Mr. Hoover, had some minor grudges with Walt Disney before - he mainly seized on the founder of Disney's weaknesses and used some of his pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic remarks before World War II to intimidate and blackmail the Disney Company.

　Although more than 20 years have passed since the incident, the current FBI director is still Edgar Hoover.

　Therefore, Walt Disney preferred to go through the police station and the CIA - then, he stayed in Los Angeles for many years and developed a lot of cult informants (the witch Zoe and her disciples). Phiri, who seemed to have experience in dealing with supernatural events, was caught by the CIA director of the Langley Building.

　So, Fili sighed, touched the purple skull holy emblem hanging inside his shirt, and walked into the abandoned resort hotel.

　——It is called a hotel, but it is actually a large building complex, covering an area of ​​at least ten acres, almost the size of a village.

　I have to say that the base chosen by the Manson family is quite unique. As soon as you walk in, you feel like you are playing a game.

　For example, standing in front of a hotel where there is a row of rusty cars parked, occasionally a few good cars that have been modified to the point that the brand is unrecognizable, and there are also many broken metal components scattered around, one can feel a sense of homage to GTA (Grand Theft Auto).

　Walking into the hotel lobby that was obviously burned, the battle-damaged scene, which seemed to have experienced many gunfights, revealed a strong taste of the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".

　Next, the hotel corridor with mottled paint, peeling wallpaper, moldy floors and dim lighting looked a bit like "Fallout".

　The hotel room is littered with various debris and vaguely shows some traces of human life.

　It seems to have some flavor of "Left 4 Dead"

　The dry swimming pool that has long been filled with silt and overgrown with weeds, and the hotel courtyard that has turned into a forest, have a smell of "State of Decay".

　The restaurant, which was once magnificent, is now filled with piles of garbage and a half-collapsed ceiling, just like the style of "Escape from Tarkov".

　The once exquisite and elegant little garden is now overgrown with overgrown plants, making it look like the Amazon rainforest, giving it the feel of "Lost Light".

　As for the empty small market with nothing left except signs and price lists, it reminds people of "The Division".

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　Well, even though this resort hotel is in such a dilapidated state now, it was once quite bustling and prosperous just five or six years ago.

　Thanks to the huge flow of visitors attracted by Disneyland, the hotel is hard to book during the peak season, and the small market attached to it is also doing a booming business.

　Tourists who come from afar usually stay in hotels near Disneyland. After playing the attractions in the park, they go to other attractions outside, visit the beach, go surfing, or browse the desert scenery, making the entire area prosperous.

　But the problem is that Disney is like that greedy Donald Duck, always wanting to make all the money from just one person.

　So, within a few years, Disneyland built its own resort hotels and a fairytale-themed shopping street within the park. This made it more convenient for tourists, with affordable rooms and priority admission to the park. As a result, all the resort hotels outside the park lost their competitiveness and quickly declined. Eventually, unable to maintain their facilities, they were forced to close and abandon their properties to stem losses, becoming haunted houses and ghost villages.

　——This is also why local businesses where Disneyland is located are basically full of resentment.

　From the perspective of developing the local economy, the massive investment in an amusement park should have benefited surrounding businesses, leading to shared prosperity. However, the result was that Disney took over all of tourists' expenses, including food, clothing, housing, and transportation. This resulted in surrounding businesses experiencing even worse business than before Disney arrived: their regular customers were drawn away to the hotels and commercial areas within Disneyland.

　So, which neighbor would have a good impression of Disney, which has taken away all the business?

　——If we talk about the early version of the cyber giant, it is probably not DuPont that gave people rides on homemade airplanes, but Disney, which seemed to have unlimited joy!

　Then, in any Western capitalist country, abandoned buildings are prone to breeding homeless people, which then evolve into gangs or degenerate into cults. Since leaving Malibu Beach, the Manson Family has been traveling around Los Angeles in an RV, staying in Venice Beach, Ragusa Beach and San Gabriel for a period of time. Finally, half a year ago, they set their sights on this Feng Shui treasure land next to Disneyland.

　Next, Manson and his female followers cleared a corner in this abandoned resort hotel and settled down there, organizing black mass activities such as group meditation and group sex. The kind of lewd music that made people feel as if a cat was scratching their hearts could be heard clearly even on the nearby highway... and then it attracted many hippies and homeless people who were already living in tents nearby.

　——Looking at so many naked and bold girls wandering around them, they immediately became as restless as monkeys!

　This decadent and stimulating atmosphere attracted even more young women and will-o'-the-wisp boys, who, driven by their teenage hormones, frequently visited the place, hoping to sleep with a woman or "collect" a handsome man. Furthermore, Manson had fully awakened, becoming a Level Zero priest of the Prince of Lies. It was easy for him to deceive a bunch of young people, wasn't it?

　In this way, the Manson family took only three months to transform the ruins into a nudist community full of apocalyptic wasteland style.

　At this time, under the shadow of the Cold War nuclear crisis, after being influenced by various radiation wasteland apocalyptic science fiction works for ten years, those apocalyptic wasteland female adventurers with exposed breasts, buttocks and long legs and smoky makeup have long been the dream objects of many American teenagers.

　Now they see that in reality, there actually is such a nude camp of beautiful girls that is like a paradise on earth. Their graceful figures, big breasts and plump buttocks make their hearts flutter. There is also an uncle who speaks very philosophically, telling you some things that although you can't understand them, they feel very powerful... How can these guys who are born to love death not rush over like moths to a flame?

　In the end, even some children who were taken to Disneyland by their parents followed the "big brothers and sisters" they had just met here to "explore" the ruins, and watched these naked guys playing the "human connection game" with great interest.

　Obviously, when the parents of these children found out that their children had gone to watch a lewd nude party, their first reaction would not be to blame themselves for not taking good care of their children. Instead, they would angrily complain to the local police and Disneyland management.

　——Just like those "Chinese parents" who would call for a ban on computer games every day, believing that games were corrupting their children.

　What's more, according to Disneyland, the Manson family's cult next door to the park seems to have actually molested children!

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　Then, after a series of twists and turns and bureaucratic procedures, the whole thing was thrown onto Firi's head.

　In short, when Fili walked through the large area of ​​rubble and came to a relatively clean and tidy small cement square, he saw a group of naked men and women, lifting their legs and hips, dancing in a crazy circle in the square, surrounded by a large round bed that was found from somewhere.

　The naked Charles Manson sat in the middle of the big round bed, holding a crying little blonde girl in his arms.

　He was using the help of a naked black-haired girl to spread the blonde's butt apart, pretending to penetrate her...

　"Hey! Stop it! You bastard! Let go of that loli! You're committing a crime!"

　Seeing this, Fili, dressed in military uniform, was immediately shocked. "Even if you want to have a lolita party, please find a dark basement or a secret lolita island, right? How can you hold an open-air party next to Disneyland? This is too embarrassing for Disney!"

　What if the tourists on the top of the castle see it through a telescope?

　However, before Manson could react to his sudden shout, Lori's mother came to stop him.

　"Oh, officer, please don't interfere with Manson's spell. My daughter and I are both volunteers!"

　The only woman present who was wearing clothes, a blonde young woman in a blue and white striped dress, grabbed Firi and spoke threateningly.

　Firi:? ! !

　Then he learned from the other party that this naked blonde loli had been diagnosed with cancer some time ago. Due to the relatively poor level of medical technology nowadays, according to the hospital, the success rate of the operation is only 30%, and the fee is very high.

　So, the poor single mother of the blonde loli, unable to afford the surgery, had to resort to extraordinary means to save her daughter's life. Finally, through some connections, she found Manson...

　After hearing the whole story, Fili could no longer say any words of moral condemnation, but just quietly retreated to the corner.

　There is no other way. Since parents can accept surgeons using scalpels to cut open their children, they can also accept "Tantric masters" whipping their daughters. Compared with life and health, less important things like chastity can only be thrown behind the wall for the time being.

　In short, Fili stood aside with his arms folded, watching Manson, who was already a fifth-level Tantric master, deflower the crying little girl, perform his magic, and then fuck her until she fainted. Then he handed the blonde girl, whose crotch was still stained with blood, to her mother's arms, and took an envelope full of banknotes from the mother's hands. The money in it was probably the money that the single mother had scraped together from her family's bankruptcy...

　At first glance, she looked like a housewife who had devoted herself to a cult. Not only did she donate all her property to the cult, she also gave her daughter to the cult leader to abuse.

　The only difference is that Manson, a Level 5 Tantric Master and Level 0 Pastor, actually cured terminally ill patients.

　As for whether he will trick the single mother into continuing to donate money...only God knows.

　After the mother and daughter left, the rest of the crowd dispersed. Several "Manson Girls" worked together to dismantle the round bed and carried the mattress to a building that still looked intact. Then Fili approached Manson again and said sarcastically to him, who was still shirtless and barefoot, only hastily wrapped in a loincloth. "You could have done this somewhere more secluded. Why did you have to do it in an open-air plaza next to the highway?"

　"Because doing so... makes it seem more ceremonial?" Manson thought about it and found a reason to answer.

　"I think it's because it's more exciting this way! Mr. Antisocial Manson!"

　Fili pointed to the nearby Disney Castle and said, "Having a group orgy at the entrance of Disneyland, with tourists from all over the world watching you ride on a woman and show off your prowess, must be pretty cool for you, right?

　But unfortunately, Disney cannot appreciate your performance art. This kind of scene is still a little too early for children!

　So, Mr. Walt Disney entrusted me to bring you an ultimatum. He doesn't mind you bringing your followers to live in this ruin, nor does he mind you turning it into an illegal nudist camp - there are already enough nudist camps in Los Angeles nowadays.

　If you really like outdoor sports for men and women, Disney can even give you a mobile transparent greenhouse with a dome!

　However, you and your people must restrain yourself and stay out of sight of the park's visitors. You must not try to seduce underage children to join your "family"... Okay, stop casting spells on me. This trick won't work on me, Manson!"

　Looking at Manson, whose pupils were already sparkling with a magical light, Fili sneered disdainfully and pulled out a pistol, pointing it at his head. "Don't think that just because you have a little bit of extraordinary power, you can look down on everyone! Now, I hope you can make the right choice!"

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　Chapter 405: Can Nixon still become a Watergate candidate?

　Two days later, in the San Fernando Valley, a northern suburb of Los Angeles

　Phiri and Dr. Kissinger stood side by side at a huge and noisy construction site, watching as the roar of cement mixers, heavy trucks, pile drivers, and cranes accompanied the initial shape of the "Garden of Eden" on the blueprint. More than a year after the groundbreaking, the construction began.

　As for the "Eden Town" billboards with pictures of naked beauties and beautiful gardens, they have already been erected around the construction site and on the roadside.

　Although pre-sale properties are not yet a common practice in the US real estate market, many interested potential buyers have already inquired about the situation.

　It has to be said that the last generation of America's "infrastructure maniacs" engineering team, whose swan song before its inevitable decline was indeed quite impressive.

　Such vigorous efficiency and aggressive work style to meet deadlines are no longer common in the United States, which is now in a state of decline.

　——Although it was only the late 1960s, the negative impact of deindustrialization and happy education on American society had already shown many signs. Coupled with the consumption of the long Vietnam War, the entire American society was eventually filled with bugs from top to bottom.