American Strategic Deception Bureau

　However, although Dr. Kissinger was kicked out of President Nixon's travel team at the Secretary of State's insistence, this did not mean that he would fall out of favor. In fact, as far as Fieri knew, he was already President Nixon's staunch confidant.

　After all, although Kissinger's personal morality was not very good, he was very good at dealing with people, and he was particularly concerned about Nixon's feelings in the White House.

　For example, President Nixon was very wary of Jews in light of previous lessons. In order to please him, Dr. Kissinger, although a Jew himself, was very harsh on other Jews in the White House instead of joining forces with them, which put him on the same front as the leader.

　Therefore, although Nixon hated Jews, he was not wary of Kissinger and allowed him to participate in all secret meetings and behind-the-scenes operations.

　Furthermore, Kissinger lived up to Nixon's trust and remained loyal to his benefactor, serving him wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly from beginning to end.

　Moreover, the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon was far more than just a relationship between superiors and subordinates. They were quite in tune with each other and had a lot in common in terms of political views and personal preferences. After sufficient communication, they hit it off and regarded each other as confidants, which is the so-called harmonious relationship between monarch and minister.

　Therefore, Kissinger now serves as a kind of chief chamberlain in the White House, the only person who can see the president at all times and understand all of Kissinger's thoughts and fears. Once he leaves the White House, he can fully represent the president, doing anything that the president is unable to do.

　Although the position of National Security Advisor is actually dispensable, power comes from affairs, and the more things one does, the greater the power.

　Since Kissinger enjoyed such great trust from the president that he was given every possible task, his position was completely irrelevant. Even if President Nixon was forced to temporarily place him on the sidelines due to circumstances, he would undoubtedly recall him to a more important position once his success faded.

　Of course, this wasn't without its drawbacks—the price he paid was that, as a modern-day "court favorite," he was bound to President Nixon. Once the president changed, his good days would be over... but it seemed President Nixon wasn't even close to stepping down!

　So, Dr. Kissinger, who is highly tied to President Nixon, should have a long period of good times ahead of him.

　Therefore, although Dr. Kissinger complained about being excluded from Nixon's visit to China team, he did not take it seriously.

　What's more, in order to appease Kissinger, who was wronged in this matter, President Nixon gave him another prestigious job as compensation.

　"Although I couldn't go to Beijing this time and climb the Great Wall with President Nixon, the White House still gave me a good job. I will serve as the President's special envoy to Seoul, South Korea at the end of January to comfort our increasingly anxious South Korean allies."

　Dr. Kissinger said with a smile, "Ever since President Nixon ordered the large-scale withdrawal of troops from the Korean Peninsula, President Park Chung-hee has been very worried that South Korea would be abandoned by the US military and would have to face North Korea's military pressure alone, or even the next full-scale attack.

　You know, General Kim, who is on the north side of the 38th parallel, has never given up on the cause of unifying the peninsula!

　Just two years ago, North Korea organized a special forces team to sneak into South Korea and raid the Blue House, the presidential palace, and kill people. It forced President Park Chung-hee to draw his gun and shoot back. He was even hit by a bullet in the arm and was almost killed in the battle (the real event was slightly modified).

　The US military has already withdrawn 40,000 troops from the 38th parallel, and will continue to withdraw to a symbolic 1,000 or 2,000 troops. This is equivalent to basically abandoning the defense of the Korean Peninsula, and the South Korean army will have to rely on itself to resist the threat from the north. President Park Chung-hee is losing sleep over this!

　After all, he was a witness to how the South Korean army was crushed by the North at the beginning of the Korean Peninsula War more than 20 years ago..."

　"Wait, didn't the US military in South Korea already transfer nuclear weapons to the South Korean military? A full sixty atomic bombs and five hydrogen bombs, isn't that enough to eliminate the fear in President Park Chung-hee's heart?" Firi asked curiously.

　"Not to mention the world now

　Nuclear wars are being fought everywhere. The tiny Palestine has been hit by thousands of nuclear bombs at once. The most backward black people in Africa can experience the nuclear bomb bombing and internal combustion every few days. General Kim of North Korea may also have the courage to start a nuclear war.

　Even if General Kim of North Korea can deter Japan with nuclear bombs, what about Japan behind South Korea?

　Kissinger sighed. "The future information leaked from the UK also includes some information about South Korea. It might be hard to say about North Korea, which is currently closed. But among the South Korean people, it has long been known and they are hysterical about it!"

　"Well, that's true. South Korea has only been independent from Japan for a quarter of a century. But if they found out that in just another 30 or 40 years, they would become a semi-colony of Japan again, the people of that peninsula would surely be mentally devastated and unable to accept it, right?"

　Fili nodded in understanding. "Even President Park Chung-hee himself might have started rummaging through his Japanese military academy classmate album, hoping to build up some connections for the future, right?"

　In Cyberpunk 2077's timeline, Japan first allied with the United States to support South Korea in winning the Second Korean War, unifying the peninsula and, in the process, depleting the last of the US military power in Asia. Then, Japan stabbed the US in the back, seizing all of its influence in the Pacific—Hawaii and the West Coast became Japanese—while infiltrating and controlling a unified South Korea, turning it into a semi-colony.

　At that time, South Korea was ostensibly unified, but it still maintained an independent stance. However, it was basically just a country name. In reality, from economy to military to politics, everything was just the backyard of Arasaka Corporation, and it even suffered a terrorist attack from a military technology company.

　——That was not just a minor incident of hijacking a plane and crashing it into two buildings, but a major incident in which four million Koreans died at once!

　What’s even more tragic is that the attack that killed four million people was not considered a real war, but just a “warning of force”!

　Well, it seems that the 21st century is really an era where human life is worthless. It is normal for hundreds of millions of people to die at any time, right?

　In Cyberpunk 2077's worldview, humanitarian concepts have largely vanished. Wars are fought to maximize casualties. Massacres of villages and cities are commonplace for large companies, and the extermination of entire departments in internal strife is commonplace. It's even more deadly than Detective Conan. Things like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happen almost every day, and everyone is paralyzed.

　It is conceivable that most Koreans are emotionally unable to accept such a tragic, humiliating and dark future.

　Although Korea's resistance movement during the Japanese occupation was loud but inactive, with plenty of bizarre performance art, what about actual armed resistance? At best, it consisted of assassinating a few high-ranking Japanese officials and attacking a few police stations.

　However, through years of propaganda after independence, "anti-Japanese" has become the foundation of South Korea and an untouchable political correctness.

　In the future

　Because Yin Kaka was too flattering to Japan and denied the comfort women issue and the Korean labor compensation issue, his support rate plummeted. Some left-wing writers even wrote a song "Song of the Bastard" for him as a "cheer song" for Yin Kaka.

　On the other hand, even though he has done so many servile and humiliating things, he still has many supporters in South Korea, which shows that South Korea may not be as anti-Japanese as it appears. Just like Iran, the core of the anti-US movement in the Middle East, actually has extremely strong pro-US forces.

　Moreover, South Korea is still under a military government, and many military leaders and chaebols have inextricable ties to Japan. Even if South Korea were to become a Japanese colony again in two generations, these "traitors" would be confident that they could cling to their old Japanese masters and continue to enjoy wealth and prosperity.

　The most devastated are actually South Korean democracy activists: The future of South Korea is either a defeat by North Korea and a Kim dynasty, a military junta, or a Japanese colony? With absolutely no hope for democracy and freedom, how can they bear this?

　Order.

　In addition, in terms of military aid, Nixon also tried his best to approve a large order and generously transferred a large number of equipment to South Korea. After all, those unused guns, ammunition, artillery and tanks would rust in the warehouse, so it would be better to give them to the South Koreans as gifts.

　Finally, Dr. Kissinger will also bring a message to the Blue House, stating that in order to maintain stability on the peninsula, President Nixon will continue to condone Park Chung-hee's use of force and bloody suppression of South Korea's left-wing democrats during his term of office, and will allow him to be re-elected indefinitely and become a lifelong dictator.

　Obviously, those South Korean democrats who had been counting on the United States to be God and give them political and economic support have been completely abandoned by the United States, the "beacon of democracy", and have become sacrifices to appease Park Chung-hee. At first glance, it seems a bit pitiful, but the problem is that counting on the United States to promote the democratization of South Korean politics is just their wishful thinking, and the White House has no obligation to fulfill their dreams!

　But even so, the United States still cannot guarantee South Korea that Japan will regain control of South Korea in the future.

　Therefore, in the eyes of Koreans, their future is one without security, independence, democracy, freedom, or even the hope of becoming prosperous - South Korea is still very poor these days, Seoul is as dilapidated as an Indian slum, and the "Miracle on the Han River" will have to wait for more than ten years.

　There is no hope at all, only despair upon despair. It is really hard not to feel depressed!

　The resulting ideological confusion and total collapse of values ​​among the Korean people are probably inevitable.

　Of course, ever since the British frigate traveled to the world of Cyberpunk 2077 and returned with tons of "future information," which was widely disseminated and believed by countries around the world, almost no one in the world, except the Germans and the Japanese, has had their values ​​​​collapsed.

　While Americans certainly accepted the fate of disintegration and division, could the Soviets accept their country becoming "an oil company disguised as a country"?

　In short, the Soviet ideals collapsed, the American confidence collapsed, the British felt the sky was falling, and the French, realizing they would be Germany's junior brother in the future, could not help but complain. The Chinese, realizing they would still be dominated by Japan in the future, were also filled with anger.

　When South Africa learned that it would become a Japanese colony in the future, both white and black South Africans were more or less mentally devastated.

　So, it's normal for Koreans to have their minds in disarray—other people's values ​​are crumbling, so why shouldn't yours be too? Do you think you're superhuman?

　"

　No matter what era it is, the fate of small countries is so sad, Dr. Kissinger.

　For South Koreans, on the front lines of the Cold War, the fate they faced was a choice: General Kim, the military government, or the Japanese governor-general. They truly lacked the luxury of American democracy. Allowing a small, frontier nation to embrace democracy and freedom was like giving a monkey a luxury watch.

　These cowardly and evil left-wing petty-bourgeois intellectuals in South Korea, who lack the courage to raise the red flag to greet the Kim regime in North Korea and instead secretly kneel and punch, demanding democracy and freedom, deserve to be trampled upon by the military government and the Japanese, beaten six times a second until they scream.

　The flower of liberty needs the blood of tyrants and patriots to feed it, and he who does not know this, and is not willing to die for it, is unworthy of citizenship."

　According to the Cyberpunk 2077 timeline, Firi said to Dr. Kissinger, "Besides, South Korea's future is bleak, but do the Japanese really like that future? How many bodies must be buried beneath the towering tree of Arasaka Corporation?"

　"Indeed, Japan's royal family, chaebol, and bureaucrats would rather not see Japan rise again, defeat China and the United States, and swallow up the Pacific than have their families become stepping stones and be wiped out by the Arasaka family who came from nowhere."

　Dr. Kissinger nodded and said, “But there is nothing they can do except strengthen their defenses.

　However, there are many ambitious people in Japan who are carefully observing society, looking for someone who looks like Saburo Arasaka, someone who can lead Japan to glory. They want to invest in advance and cling to him so that they can soar to the sky together!

　After a thorough investigation, it was discovered that there was no such person as "Arasaka Saburo" in the entire Japanese upper class who made his fortune in arms and security. The Japanese public and upper class have now reached a preliminary consensus that this is because this person has not yet changed his name:

　Anyone who frequently plays Japanese warring states games or watches Japanese Taiga dramas knows that famous figures in Japanese history frequently changed their names, sometimes even their surnames. So, if foreigners only know their given names and not their biography, it might be hard to understand why Kido Takayoshi and Katsura Kogoro, or Uesugi Kenshin and Nagao Kagetora, are actually the same person? Their given names and surnames are completely different!

　Similarly, if you traveled back to Japan in 1560 and looked for "Tokugawa Ieyasu" everywhere, you would definitely find no such person.

　——Because the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate at that time was called "Matsudaira Motoyasu"!

　Now, the news about Saburo Arasaka and the future rise of Arasaka Corporation has spread all over the world.

　So, even if this person still wants to change his name, he probably won't be called Saburo Arasaka anymore, but will change to another name to avoid being targeted.

　In this way, it is probably impossible to find out "who is Saburo Arasaka" and "where is Arasaka Corporation".

　It's impossible to do it.

　According to the speculation of Japanese folk scholars, Mr. Saburo Arasaka, who was originally going to become Japan's "uncrowned emperor" and the iron-blooded overlord of the Pacific Rim in the future, should be roughly a nouveau riche, similar to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the only "world man" in Japanese history who came from a grassroots background.

　Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in a humble family. He changed his surname and claimed to be his father everywhere, and made up stories to get close to famous families. There is no such person as Arasaka Saburo, and it is suspected that he "fabricated" his background.

　Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan; Arasaka Saburo integrated Japan.

　Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops across the sea to start the war of aggression against Korea, claiming to conquer the Ming Dynasty; Arasaka Saburo also crossed the Pacific Ocean and marched eastward to America.

　Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army once invaded Seoul and Pyongyang, and took over most of Korea; Arasaka Corporation also once marched as far as the Mississippi River.

　Toyotomi Hideyoshi's strategy to conquer Korea ultimately failed; Arasaka Saburo's strategy to conquer America was also unsuccessful.

　After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, Tokugawa Ieyasu won the Battle of Sekigahara, seized Japan, and established the shogunate. Toyotomi's descendants retreated to Osaka Castle.

　After Saburo Arasaka was defeated, the Japanese government regained power, confiscated many of Arasaka's industries, and reduced Arasaka to an ordinary zaibol.

　To sum up, Saburo Arasaka is the modern version of Toyotomi Hideyoshi!

　If one could cling to his thighs ahead of time, wouldn't that be like grabbing a shortcut to heaven for a small figure who thought himself capable in reality? If one could help him change his fate, perhaps one could even become a daimyo, a millionaire feudal lord in Southeast Asia or America!

　In short, although Japan had just risen at this time, after "foreseeing" the future glory, the ambitions of many Japanese grew rapidly - it was only more than 20 years since the end of the Pacific War, and the old devils who had beaten the Americans and British back then were not dead yet!

　Even the emperor remains the same, and the era name is still Showa!

　Therefore, the Japanese devils at this moment are not the future herbivorous social animals. They still have some ideas about the hegemony of "Eight-Cornered Houses"!

　More importantly, after witnessing the United States lose the Vietnam War and learning about the "collapse of the United States" thirty years later, the invincible image of the "American imperialist army" also collapsed in the hearts of the Japanese people - in other words, the Japanese are now less and less afraid of the US military!

　This will undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty for the United States to control Japan:

　How can a dead futures trader who is about to die make the future overlord of the Pacific bow down to him?

　The US government is not unaware of these undercurrents within Japan. However, due to cultural barriers, it cannot accurately and promptly understand the underlying dynamics. Furthermore, lacking reliable leverage within Japan's leadership, the US struggles to intervene in Japan's internal affairs.

　In fact, since General MacArthur left office in disgrace, the Allied Occupation Command was disbanded, and Japan's politics normalized, the United States' means of controlling Japan have been limited to exerting pressure at the diplomatic level and manipulating various Japanese media to launch an opinion siege on Nagatacho.

　The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office, often touted as a lackey of the US, certainly doesn't obey the Japanese government, but it also doesn't particularly listen to the Americans. The US can't manipulate the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office to attack Japanese leaders it dislikes, but can only negotiate cooperation.

　The United States lacks a tentacle that can penetrate deep into Japan's core political circles to grasp the direction of Japan's operations and make it serve its own strategic interests.

　If they really rely on brute force, like the Soviet Union launched the "Danube Operation" and sent troops to suppress the "Prague Spring", and threatened the Tokyo government with US troops stationed in Japan at every turn... well, it is possible, but the international image will be completely ruined, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

　The United States' soft and hard power are now in shambles. Not only is its national and military power at a low point, but its morality is even deeper in the depths.

　In this situation, the only correct response is to remain calm, swallow the insult, and maintain strategic focus.

　Otherwise, if we insist on going to war again, this country will really collapse.

　"Even if Japan truly had an ambitious Arasaka Saburo, his rise to power would take 20 to 30 years. By comparison, if we can't galvanize the will of our people, then the country's disintegration and decline will probably only take a few short years."

　Fili sighed and said, "So, Doctor, enough of the small talk, let's get down to business. Regarding the government-sponsored scheme to create a fictional English-speaking alternate world for the entire population, here's what I think..."

　Looking at the "World of Ice and Fire" setting collection handed to him by Ferry, Dr. Kissinger touched his fat square chin and said, "Oh, there are illustrations at the back? They are so beautiful. Did you hire an art studio?

　What? You hand-painted it yourself? Amazing, brother Ferry, you are really talented..."

　At the same time, on the other side, Mrs. Marita and Mrs. Nancy had already started chatting about family matters in a familiar manner.

　Since most of Marita's private life as a "slave wife" and "harem queen" was generally non-mainstream, she soon couldn't keep up with Nancy, the real housewife, on topics such as fashion, perfume, cooking, and parenting that "normal housewives often talk about."

　After a moment of awkwardness, Marita quickly shifted the conversation to travel, recounting her hometown in Germany and trips she and her husband had made to Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Bali. She then went on to share various beauty tips and her friendship with Marilyn Monroe, much to the amusement of Nancy, a 2-meter-tall "giant." For a while, they were both laughing and chatting happily.

　Firi drank coffee alone, looking at Kissinger's increasingly plump figure, wondering how this guy could live to be a hundred years old?

　——No matter from which angle you look at it, Dr. Kissinger's fat head and big ears do not look like someone who can live to be a hundred years old.

　Hunchback, obesity, heart problems, severe myopia... In short, he is a typical fat otaku man with glasses.

　Dr. Kissinger's longevity is even more remarkable given the regimen he has adhered to throughout his adult life. Generally speaking, the medical community believes that if you want to live a long life, you should abstain from red meat, get plenty of exercise, quit smoking and drinking, and avoid prolonged sitting and excessive stress. However, Dr. Kissinger has, throughout his life, defied all these health experts: staying up late, drinking alcohol, overeating, and indulging in fried foods. Like many Germans, Kissinger includes sausages and schnitzel at almost every meal, accompanied by copious amounts of beer.

　Like most academics, Dr. Kissinger often stayed up late reading and writing. The sheer volume of reading and writing meant he had no time for exercise. Whenever he felt stressed and couldn't sleep, he would resort to overeating to relieve the pressure. The more he ate, the fatter he got, and the fatter he got, the more he ate...

　He looks like an orange cat. As he gets older, his body becomes bigger and bigger, and his weight becomes more and more exaggerated.

　Even more tragically, Dr. Kissinger also suffered from severe osteoporosis, which not only caused his hunchback, but also greatly reduced his athletic ability. Although he once served as the president of the North American Soccer League, he was only able to watch and never played on the field.

　Kissinger's only hobby may be playing chess, if that can be considered a sport.

　Although Dr. Kissinger's osteoporosis had improved significantly thanks to the "H-therapy" of the female "Tantric Masters" in his original plane of transcendence, his hunchback problem had not been completely resolved, and his obesity was still worsening...

　At the same time, over the years, Firi has not seen Kissinger become more restrained in his drinking and overeating.

　So, how did this chubby guy manage to live to be a hundred? Was it really just good genes passed down from his ancestors?

　Anyway, for the vast majority of ordinary people, if they follow Dr. Kissinger's example and use eating more sausages and schnitzel, sitting and watching instead of participating in sports, or unhealthy decision-making pressure as a way to live longer, it is basically impossible to do so...

　Dr. Kissinger, reading the materials, hadn't expected Fieri's thoughts to diverge so much, even to the point of contemplating his longevity genes. He was simply carefully evaluating Fieri's wildly imaginative proposal, his brow furrowing, then relaxing.

　"Well, your deception plan is quite feasible and doesn't cost much. You just need to hire some people to make up a story. But if you want to convince people, it would be difficult to rely on just a few tattered medieval clothes or cast iron swords."

　After a while, Dr. Kissinger quickly finished reading the "Settings" and flipping through the hand-drawn illustrations. He rubbed his temples, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened his eyes and said to Firi, "Over the past few decades, in the United States and Europe, there have been people claiming that they were abducted by alien UFOs, met all kinds of strange aliens, and experienced many incredible things.

　But because they couldn't produce any evidence, it has always been just folk literature, and no one took it seriously.

　Now, alien UFOs really appeared (the UFO at Stonehenge in the UK), time travel really happened, and a Polish-speaking world was discovered, but these were only widely recognized by the world because of real evidence.

　If you want to invent a magical world where people speak English, you need to at least use some magic items to make it work!"

　"Want some magic items? That's easy. Just take some magic items from that Polish-speaking other world, modify them a little, put up a sign with English inscriptions, or even wrap them in an additional layer. Isn't that enough?"