American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Sadat, the next generation Egyptian leader who succeeded to the throne in a critical moment, tried to negotiate a ceasefire with the United States, but the White House's attitude was to only accept surrender!

　Hit by a wall, Sadat and the remaining Egyptian leaders pleaded with the Soviets for direct military intervention, but the Kremlin declined. Although the Soviets had deployed significant forces in the Eastern Mediterranean, a direct confrontation with the US military in the Eastern Mediterranean theater, with Turkey, a NATO member, in the way, would have severed the sea routes, leaving the Soviet front lines without supply lines and making it impossible to fight.

　Therefore, Brezhnev only expressed his willingness to continue to supply arms to the Arab coalition, and no further matters were discussed.

　So, looking at the American missiles and bombers flying back and forth overhead, the cities that were rapidly turning into ruins under the repeated ravages of floods, bombings and poison gas, and the casualties of tens to hundreds of thousands every day, the Egyptian government finally despaired.

　At 6 a.m. on June 10, the new Egyptian President Sadat announced Egypt's defeat and demanded the surrender of the Egyptian army on the Suez Canal front.

　That afternoon, Syrian President Assad also issued a letter to the nation, solemnly announcing the end of the Fourth Middle East War and the defeat of the Arab coalition due to the heavy-handed intervention of the United States. However, he refused to surrender his troops, merely withdrawing the remaining Syrian government forces near the Golan Heights back to the capital, Damascus. Both Israel and the United States expressed understanding and acquiescence in this, ordering a halt to their bombing and missile attacks on Syria.

　Why is Israel so lenient towards Syria but so harsh towards Egypt?

　First of all, Egypt is the leader of the Arab world, and Israel must concentrate its forces on attacking the primary target, so it can temporarily let Syria go.

　——Just like both were Axis powers in World War II, the punishment imposed on Germany by the Allies was obviously much more severe than that imposed on Italy.

　Secondly, due to the terrain, Israel and Syria are separated by mountains. Before the annexation of Lebanon, Israel had no way of crossing the Golan Heights and controlling the Syrian territory to the east. Even if the Israeli army crossed the mountains and reached the outskirts of Damascus, it would not be able to hold the land there.

　Therefore, even if Israel wants to expand, taking the Golan Heights in the direction of Syria is already the limit, and it really cannot be greedy for more.

　Third, Israel was currently busy planning its invasion of Egypt and had no energy to plunder Syria.

　——Although Syrian cities such as Damascus, Aleppo and Raqqa are also good, how can they compare with the fertile land of Egypt on the banks of the Nile?

　It’s better to eat up Egypt first and put the fat sheep in your pocket! Syria can wait until next time to mess with it!

　Two days later, on June 12, part of the advance team of the US 101st Airborne Division, the 1st Marine Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, escorted by the Sixth Fleet, arrived in El-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula and Sharm el-Sheikh in the south of the Sinai Peninsula.

　Because these two cities are located in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt considers them to be its sacred territory, so they were not destroyed with atomic bombs.

　When the Israeli army was initially unfavorable, it simply withdrew from the Suez Canal Zone, maintaining a firm control over the two cities further from the canal. Therefore, Israel had no need to destroy the two cities, leaving their ports and infrastructure intact.

　After arriving at El-Arish and Sharm el-Sheikh, the US advance team joined up with the local Israeli garrisons and continued to advance westward, preparing to enter the two sides of the Suez Canal and accept the surrender of the main force of the Egyptian Army.

　Initially, the American troops, who had been badly beaten in Vietnam, were very worried, fearing that the Egyptians' fighting spirit would be as strong as that of the Viet Cong, and that they would encounter "talking date palms" or "talking sand dunes" before they could walk a few steps, and then "boom" and get on a homemade plane.

　Therefore, many soldiers thought that there would be a fierce battle in the process of taking over the canal area, and many of them brought double ammunition.

　But the American soldiers soon realized they had been worrying too much. The Egyptian army, already without supplies for two weeks, was in a state of disintegration, like the Russian army after the February Revolution—let alone resistance, they lacked even the desire to fire into the air.

　How should I put it? The inflammatory power of nationalism doesn't seem to be as strong as those educated youth imagined.

　It is not possible to mobilize the poor to fight alongside those passionate young people simply by shouting a few passionate but empty patriotic slogans.

　In fact, after receiving the surrender order from the Cairo government, many junior officers of the Egyptian Army drove directly to Shamsha

　Ih took the initiative to find the US military to negotiate and asked the US military to take full responsibility for the surrender and not to hand them over to the Jews because they were worried about retaliation.

　As for the lower-level Egyptian soldiers, they had been left unattended since the end of May, their superiors busy seeking escape routes or fleeing with their funds. These half-starved soldiers had no objection to entering the prisoner-of-war camp and eating a full meal, even if the enemy was the murderer who destroyed Egypt.

　- After all, ever since the time of Cleopatra, Egypt's history has been a history of continual conquest by foreign races, isn't it?

　Let's not even mention the eras when the Eastern Roman Empire, the Arab Empire, and the Ottoman Empire ruled Egypt. Even during the Mamluk dynasty, when Egypt was supposedly "independent," the "Mamluks" who occupied Egypt's ruling class were either Turkic lords from the distant Central Asian steppes or mountain dwellers from the Caucasus. "Mamluk" means slave, so "Mamluk Dynasty" was a derogatory term used by outsiders. The Mamluk regime in Egypt called itself the "Turkic State." Later, as the Turks lost power and Circassian mountain dwellers from the Caucasus took power, the country became the "Circassian State."

　In other words, the ruling class of medieval Egypt did not consider themselves Egyptians at all, and even the country's name was made up.

　——You know, even the Hu emperors of the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty still called themselves "Son of the Central Plains" and "Lord of China"!

　In view of this, we can roughly get a glimpse of the status of indigenous Egyptians in medieval Egypt: they were only slightly better than American Indians.

　Then, with the decline of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt's re-establishment of independence in the 19th century, the founders of the new dynasty that ruled Egypt were also Albanians from across the Mediterranean. This dynasty experienced several ups and downs, and was once destroyed by the British. However, it was later revived as a British protectorate, barely surviving until the 1950s. This was until the last Egyptian king, King Farouk I, known as the "Fat Rat Thief," was overthrown by Nasser. In other words, the history of Egyptians controlling their own destiny actually began with Nasser's coup, a period of less than two decades.

　The last time an indigenous Egyptian dynasty appeared on the banks of the Nile River was during the reign of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC!

　In short, no matter how turbulent history may have been, since being conquered by Persia and then Macedonia, these regimes have consistently adhered to a policy of virtually refusing to allow native Egyptians to serve in the military (with occasional exceptions). The Egyptian military and ruling class were composed entirely of outsiders. For over two thousand years, native Egyptians were solely responsible for paying taxes and performing labor service in peacetime, only to be slaughtered indiscriminately during war.

　For the Egyptians who had not had any contact with the military for more than two thousand years, their martial ethics could not be said to be insufficient, but completely eradicated!

　Therefore, most Egyptians, after despairing, became indifferent and numb to the fact that they were once again conquered by foreign races.

　Perhaps they thought - "Oh, it seems that we Egyptians are really destined to kneel. If I had known this, I would not have listened to Nasser's nonsense."

　Thus, the US military approached the Egyptian troops stationed on both sides of the Suez Canal without encountering even the slightest resistance. The Egyptian Soviet-made tanks and armored vehicles were scattered in the desert, and the tank crews sat lazily beside the tanks, their eyes dull and their fighting spirit gone.

　When the 1st Marine Division's M113 armored vehicles appeared on the horizon, the Egyptian soldiers had already raised the white flag and thrown their rifles aside. Then, with a familiar look on their faces, they asked the confused American soldiers for cigarettes and Coke, or if they didn't have any, just some food.

　The stunned American soldiers subconsciously took out their least favorite cans of Spam luncheon meat and threw them to the beggar-like Egyptian soldiers. Then they realized that they seemed to have given pork to a group of Arabs, who regarded pigs as demons and plagues.

　But then, the American soldiers were even more surprised to find that these Egyptian soldiers were not picky about food at all and quickly ate up the canned luncheon meat!

　Well, once a person is very hungry, he will not care about food anymore.

　Furthermore, their doctrine prohibits the consumption of pork simply because the Prophet Muhammad observed that pigs in the Middle East were constantly eating garbage, which was considered filthy and unclean. Eating this food frequently could easily lead to illness. But if people were truly unable to survive, eating pork wouldn't be a big deal.

　In short, within a week, the US military easily disarmed all 100,000 Egyptian soldiers scattered on both sides of the Suez Canal (the rest deserted), expelled all Egyptian local government officials, and then declared martial law in the Suez Canal area.

　After being disarmed, the Egyptian soldiers were obediently escorted to open spaces surrounded by barbed wire on the banks of the canal. They set up camp inside the barbed wire using their own tents and rags obtained from somewhere. They lived a boring life eating biscuits, canned food and chickpeas provided by the US military every day.

　According to their thinking, the war should be over at this point, and they just need to eat prison food for a while and then go home.

　What would happen in the future? These Egyptian soldiers, who had received little education, had no idea and were too lazy to think about it.

　After such a nightmarish failed war, the false fire of nationalism and grand narratives can no longer arouse their interest.

　All they wanted was to leave the battlefield and return home—if they even had a home to return to.

　But let these Egyptian soldiers

　What they never dreamed of was that they would not be able to eat the rations provided by the US military in the prisoner-of-war camp for very long.

　On a morning that seemed no different from any other, when the Egyptian prisoners walked out of the tent sleepily, ready to see what breakfast the Americans had provided them today, they were surprised to find that the guards of the prisoner-of-war camp had suddenly been replaced by Israeli troops from the US military overnight!

　Furthermore, these Israeli soldiers did not bring trucks full of food. Instead, they were all heavily armed and had machine guns set up...

　Then, accompanied by screams, curses and popping gunshots, Egyptian soldiers in one prisoner-of-war camp after another fell in a pool of blood.

　Afterwards, the Israeli army was too lazy to dig a grave to bury the bodies. Instead, they used bulldozers to push the bloody corpses and the Egyptians lying in the pile pretending to be dead into the Suez Canal!

　In a short time, the 190-kilometer-long Suez Canal was filled with swollen corpses, and soon made headlines in newspapers around the world.

　Author's Note: PS: The new trailer for "Showa Utopia" has been released, and Japanese netizens have been praising it, in stark contrast to the widespread criticism of "Assassin's Creed: Shadow," which featured a black samurai protagonist. Japanese people say they can't tolerate parody or diversity, but they can't tolerate white arrogance.

　After the release of "Showa America Story", there will surely be a lot of follow-up fan fiction like "Cyberpunk 2077" and Dark Horse, right?

　Chapter 482: Washington Chariot Road

　"The Suez Canal Massacre? 100,000 Egyptian prisoners of war massacred by the IDF?"

　Sitting in his office at the devastated US Forces Vietnam headquarters on Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong, Fieri used incense to mask the stench of feces and rotten fish thrown in by protesters, flipping through a newly bought newspaper and grumbling, "Logically, I should be surprised by something that pushes the boundaries of modern warfare. But why am I not surprised at all?"

　"Perhaps it's because there have been too many such unethical incidents recently? Anyway, for a long time to come, the liberal camp probably won't be able to use the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners in the Katyn Forest as an excuse."

　Dr. Kissinger stuffed his nostrils with toilet paper to block out the foul smell from outside. He watched TV and said in a muffled voice, "The United States' rash intervention in the Middle East at this time is already an unprecedented mistake. No matter what it does next, it will only make things worse.

　However, from Israel’s perspective, the massacre of Egyptian prisoners of war might not be wrong – considering that post-war Israel wanted to control the entire Suez Canal, collect tolls, and even planned to occupy land in the Nile Delta to build Jewish settlements…”

　Firi thought about Dr. Kissinger's vague statement and understood it instantly.

　If these Egyptian soldiers, who have undergone military training, were simply sent home, they would likely quickly become a host of radical anti-US and anti-Israel armed groups. Israel's future ambitions to control the Suez Canal, or even colonize Egypt, would be jeopardized.

　Just like the timeline before Firi traveled through time, in the early 21st century, after the United States won the Iraq War, destroyed Saddam’s Baath Party regime, and occupied Iraq, it faced a problem: what to do with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police, and government employees left behind by the old Iraqi regime?

　At that time, Paul Bremer, the leader of the US occupation authorities in Iraq, happened to be a very smart man. He used his "amazing wisdom" and decided to imitate the "anti-Nazi" policy in Germany after World War II, and dismissed all the military police and officials of the Saddam era from their public posts!

　Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police, and officials lost their jobs in an instant, their social status plummeted, and even their livelihoods became a problem. Consequently, these experienced fighters joined forces with extremist religious groups to form various underground armed groups to resist the US occupation forces.

　As a result, the US military was forced to fight an endless and lengthy security war in Iraq, which was almost conquered by a single order.

　However, although Paul Bremer's blanket dismissal approach can be said to be adding fuel to the fire and driving fish into the abyss, he is afraid that Iraq's "vibrant civil groups" lack "professionals with military and administrative experience."

　But retaining these military and police officers from the old regime wasn't necessarily the right approach—most of the remnants of the old regime would struggle in the new one. Wouldn't it be even more dangerous for them to secretly collude with rebels while wearing official uniforms?

　If we refer to the mischief made by the "Manchu remnants" in the cultural circles of New China, we will know how troublesome it is to have "someone in the court who is good at rebellion" - those were the pedantic intellectuals who had no fists or courage but only pens. If they were soldiers with guns and officials in power, the collusion between the inside and the outside would be even more terrifying.

　To sum up, it is inappropriate to lay off all employees, and it is also inappropriate to recruit all employees. Screening and selection are required, but we do not have the statistical and investigation capabilities to do so.

　So, faced with such a resentful surrendered army and a government with ulterior motives, what should the foreign conquerors do?

　In fact, in ancient times, when tyrants encountered similar situations, they had a simplest solution: kill!

　As long as all the military personnel and government officials of Saddam's old regime were slaughtered and their bodies were used to build the world's tallest skull tower,

　Well, I believe that the whole of Iraq will be silent and will not dare to express any opposition to the US military occupation and rule in the short term.

　Without the joining of professional military personnel from the former regime and the infusion of martial ethics, it would not be so easy for extremist terrorist armed groups to set up shop.

　But as a result, Iraq was stabilized, and the concepts of democracy, freedom, human rights, etc. that the United States wanted to promote around the world all failed.

　Fortunately, in this dimension, the American concepts of freedom, democracy and human rights had already collapsed during the Vietnam War, so it doesn’t matter if they collapse again.

　——As long as I have no morals, I won’t be afraid of being morally kidnapped!

　What's more, the Suez Canal POW massacre was just a little bloodier and the scale of the killing was a little larger.

　When it comes to breaking the boundaries of order, rules and political ethics, there is something even worse happening recently!

　"Indeed, the Suez Canal Massacre was just an ordinary act of inhumanity. But I don't know how to comment on Israel's annexation of Jordan politically! It's even uglier than India's annexation of Sikkim!"

　Firi sighed, "Not only did they use the Bible as the deed, but they also sent FBI agents to break into the UN building and drag away the Jordanian representative..."

　Because Israel's land was struck by too many atomic bombs during the war, its water and soil were contaminated. So after the war, Israel, having emerged victorious thanks to the support of an American son selling his kidney, naturally sharpened its sword and demanded exorbitant prices from its neighbors.

　Among them, Syria did not cede any more land except the Golan Heights, which had already fallen in the last Middle East war.

　But after losing the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt was forced to cede the entire Suez Canal zone and the northeastern part of the Nile Delta to Israel.

　Egypt itself has to accept Israeli troops stationed there, and Israeli advisers have to be placed in all major government departments, which is equivalent to semi-colonialization.

　The worst-hit country was Jordan - although the Kingdom of Jordan joined the war the latest and ended it the earliest, and dealt the least damage to Israel, it was almost a battlefield atmosphere group.

　But after the Fourth Middle East War, Jordan suffered the most severe punishment: its country was directly destroyed and its entire territory was incorporated into Israel!

　The White House and Congress have made their decision! Jordan, ruled by descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, is now facing the fate of a subjugated nation!

　Wait! Directly destroy a country? A UN member state?

　Please, this is no longer the colonial era of the 19th century when European powers dominated the world and exterminated peoples and occupied lands at will!

　What do you Americans and Jews think of the UN Charter? How can you so easily annex a UN member state?

　In response to this question, the Israeli representative took out a Bible and confidently declared at the United Nations General Assembly that more than 3,000 years ago, the great and omnipotent God Jehovah had given the Jewish people the "land of Canaan, flowing with honey and milk."

　The territory of "Canaan" includes not only the west bank of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, but also the east bank of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea.

　As early as the time of King Solomon and King David, Jews lived in the land that is now the Kingdom of Jordan.

　Now, as the successor of King David, Israel's taking back the lands of the Kingdom of Jordan is nothing more than a "return to historical normalcy"...

　Well, does that make sense? Actually, there is some truth to that.

　In ancient history, there has indeed never been a place called "Jordan" in the Middle East.

　The territory of what is now the Kingdom of Jordan was indeed once Jewish territory over 3,000 years ago. Of the twelve tribes of ancient Jews in biblical times, two lived on the east bank of the Jordan River.

　Later, when the Crusaders went east to establish the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Crusaders did not stop at the Jordan River. Instead, they also took the lands east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, enfeoffed them with Frankish lords, and raised the cross flag of the Kingdom of Heaven.

　In the subsequent wars and changes, the Jordan River has never become a frontier of confrontation between Muslim countries to divide their borders.

　Throughout history, the lands on both sides of the Jordan River have always been incorporated into a country together, or taken away by another country together.

　For example, during the Ottoman Empire, present-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan were actually a single administrative region, and the combined territories of the three were collectively referred to as "Palestine." In other words, modern-day Jordanians also called themselves "Palestinians" in the early 20th century.

　It was not until after World War I that the British army defeated the Ottoman Turks and took over the Middle East, and then divided the Palestinian region into two along the Jordan River. The west side was the Palestinian colony, and the east side was given to the Arabs and named Transjordan - this is the origin of the Kingdom of Jordan.

　In other words, Jordan itself was part of ancient Palestine, and even more so, part of the "Jewish State" and the "Land of Canaan" in even older times. It was entirely because Britain, with its talent for stirring up trouble after World War I, forcibly carved out the Kingdom of Jordan from the scraps of a map to appease the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad who had been fooled into rebellion by "Lawrence of Arabia" and whose homeland ultimately became a British and French colony.

　So far, Jordan has not completed its "national construction" and "state construction", and its foundation is as unstable as sand.

　This is a country created entirely by the Ansa people on the map.

　The Angolan people should erase it from the map!

　——If Israel regards itself as the successor of the geographical concept of "Palestine", then both sides of the Jordan River should indeed be unified.

　But the question is, is Israel the heir? Not at all!

　To Palestine, Israel is a conqueror, a colonizer, and even a destroyer!

　What qualifications do these foreigners from Europe have to claim the inheritance rights of the entire "Greater Palestine"?

　What’s more important is that there are so many new national borders that have only just been drastically changed in this century!

　If everyone demands a "return to historical normalcy," wouldn't the whole world be filled with smoke and war, with everyone fighting each other in chaos?

　However, in this world, violence ultimately decides everything, and fists are the boss.

　Israel, which is relying on the power of others to bully others, obviously has an absolute advantage in military power and has the courage to trample on all the norms of the civilized world.