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　Tom cursed as he watched the people dancing in circles around him, but it was of no use and there was no way to escape.

　Seeing that the refugee boat had cracked and was leaking water, and the deck had begun to tilt slightly, Tom became increasingly panicked. After thinking carefully for a moment, he jumped up and found a radio walkie-talkie left behind by a big boss. He pulled out the antenna and started tuning the frequency, trying to call for help: "Please, anyone who is willing to come and save me, please help me. I hope they can contact the Shanghai Police Patrol or the police station in the city!

　This broken ship is taking on water and can’t hold out for much longer, and the people on board just sold an atomic bomb…”

　A few hours later, a police speedboat finally came up and took away Tom and six newborn furuna puppies, and of course the criminals lying in a pile - when the Sydney police learned that someone was trading nuclear bombs here, they were really terrified and felt like they were facing a great enemy.

　On the third day, a fairly detailed report on the supernatural events was sent to Canberra and appeared on the desk of Australian Prime Minister William McMahon. Before that, reporters from all walks of life had already swarmed around Tom's apartment building and published many brilliant articles in various tabloids.

　Allies?

　Chapter 651: The Crazy Imagination of the Australian Kangaroo (Part 1)

　William McMahon, the current Prime Minister of Australia who took office in March this year, is a far-right politician who emphasizes white supremacy and conservatism. He is the last holdout of the infamous "White Australia Policy" and has been described by news media around the world as a warmongering madman.

　——Although to be realistic, he was just a cautious person who did not dare to offend the military or modify the national war policy.

　Before becoming prime minister, he served as foreign minister for three years. During this period, Australia followed the US military to participate in the Southeast Asian war and signed military cooperation agreements with twelve Southeast Asian countries and local warlords. At its peak, there were more than 20 Australian soldiers fighting in various parts of Southeast Asia for years.

　Even after the United States withdrew from the Vietnam War and completely withdrew from Southeast Asia, the previous Australian Prime Minister still insisted on sending 100,000 Australian troops to fight on the vast battlefields from the Malay Peninsula, Java Island to Papua New Guinea, and continued to bloody suppress indigenous uprisings in various places.

　——With a population of only 12 million, Australia has been organizing an army of 100,000 to fight a long overseas war day after day for several years, and sending about 1% of the population, including the most able-bodied male labor force, to fight in a distant overseas battlefield. This can definitely be called warmongering.

　Moreover, due to the increasingly serious and completely out-of-control global nuclear proliferation, the indigenous monkeys in Southeast Asia have generally obtained miniature atomic bombs and used them as firecrackers, causing the Australian army to be constantly hit by nuclear bombs on the front line, resulting in huge casualties. Last year, more than 10,000 Australian soldiers were killed and more than 50,000 were injured.

　A considerable number of the injured have suffered from radiation sickness and it is estimated that they will find it difficult to return to society, and may even die within a few years.

　Although the Australian army retaliated with US nuclear bombs, flattening Aboriginal towns and creating nuclear contaminated areas, for Australia, a country with a small population, such a war of attrition that cost the population was simply not enough to outlast the Asians.

　What's even more terrible is that although Australia had not yet undergone large-scale deindustrialization during the Cold War, it has not become a resource-rich country in the 21st century that relies on selling minerals and agricultural products to make a living. It is still busy offending major customers and trying to decouple from major sellers, starving to death with its ore.

　However, due to population constraints, Australia, with a population of only 1200 million at the time, had developed some steel, shipbuilding, automotive, and chemical industries, and produced its own fighter jets, tanks, and warships. However, these so-called "domestic" advanced equipment still relied heavily on the United States for key components and various technologies, with Australia being able to produce only the shell and skeleton.

　For example, the so-called "self-made" warships of South Korea and Japan in the future will actually rely on the United States to supply everything from weapons to radar.

　In addition to insufficient technological accumulation and the inability to achieve self-manufacturing of the entire industrial chain, Australia's military production capacity is also very limited.

　During the Russo-Ukrainian War of the 21st Century, even the entire European Union and the United States, after exhausting their stockpiles, could not produce enough artillery ammunition to aid Ukraine. Even if South Korea were brought in to produce ammunition, its supply would only be one-fifth of Russia's. As a result, Russian troops on the front lines could fire 10,000 rounds per day, while Ukrainian troops could only fire 2,000.

　Of course, it is impossible for Australia today to build an ammunition production line to prepare for a world war. Otherwise, what will happen after the war?

　Therefore, since the outbreak of the Vietnam War, over 100,000 Australian troops have been engaged in constant combat overseas, maintaining high-intensity operations. The massive amount of munitions and ammunition consumed annually is not something Australia's limited military manufacturing industry can independently produce and meet its own needs. Instead, large-scale arms purchases are required to sustain the Australian military's wartime expenditures. The small amount of munitions and ammunition produced domestically in Australia is merely a complication.

　Of course, in the past few years, when the Australian army cooperated with the US army to fight the Vietnam War, the US Pentagon had always been responsible for the logistical supply of the Australian army.

　Not to mention weapons and ammunition, even rations, clothing, bedding, gasoline, medicine, cars, airplanes and almost all the daily necessities of Australian soldiers are provided free of charge by the generous Uncle Sam. The wealthy Pentagon even specially provides additional bonuses and allowances to Australian soldiers.

　At the same time, the United States also provides Australia with hundreds of millions of dollars in financial subsidies every year as a reward for its participation in the US war.

　But since the outbreak of civil unrest in the United States last year, President Nixon, with the support of public opinion, launched the Second American Civil War, used force to destroy Congress, and forcibly stopped the overseas war. Since then, the United States has completely stopped all free aid to Australia, including financial aid and arms and ammunition.

　From now on, every bullet fired by Australian soldiers in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, every artillery shell and grenade, every rifle lost, and every tank and armored vehicle blown up will all be paid for by the Australian federal government in Canberra!

　For the Liberal Party government that dominated Australian politics at the time, this was a bolt from the blue, like doomsday news!

　It should be noted that despite being geographically close to Asia and economically dependent on Asia, white Australians generally refuse to accept their identity as an "Asia-Pacific country," and instead consider themselves the eastern outpost of Western civilization, the "furthest reaches of Anglo-Saxon civilization."

　In the eyes of right-wing white Australians, they are a new-age crusader state, trapped in a "sea of ​​barbaric aliens."

　Australia

　The wars and confrontations between Asian countries are not just games between countries, but a great holy war similar to the Crusades in the Middle Ages and the battle between the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Kingdom of Heaven) and the Arab Alliance. It should be supported by the entire Western world!

　According to the ideology of Australia's white right, the rise of Asia is the greatest threat to Western civilization. Any powerful Asian nation is Australia's enemy and target of suppression. Even if the power disparity is huge, Australian knights must bravely draw their swords against the "Asian barbarians"!

　Thus, in the first half of the 20th century, Australia frantically provoked Japan, shelling Japanese warships, completely ignoring the fact that the Anglo-Japan Alliance had not yet been dissolved. In the mid-20th century, Australia desperately clamored about the Indonesian threat. Even after the Indonesian coup and the rise of a pro-American regime, Australia did not let up its hostility. In the second half of the 20th century, Australia once again became frantically anti-China, frequently sending its few shabby ships to stir up trouble around China.

　Do you feel like a mad dog, relying on your crazy roar all day long to provoke the foreign countries around you and try hard to make your presence felt?

　As for whether they can defeat their opponent if they really provoke him, the Australian kangaroos, who call themselves the "guardians of Western civilization," are not afraid!

　Just as the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Crusades had the entire European Christian world as its backing, the white Australian regime similarly positioned itself as "the spearhead of Western power projected into Asia." According to white Australians, they also had the entirety of Anglo-Saxon civilization as their backing.

　According to right-wing white Australians, as long as Australians bravely launch a "holy war" against Asian pagans of color, the entire Western world will be obligated to provide Australia with all the resources for the war! From funding to arms! From diplomatic support to sending troops to help fight!

　The victory of white Australians is the victory of the Western world, and the failure of white Australians is the failure of the Western world!

　When the U.S. military withdrew from the Vietnam War and retreated from Southeast Asia, the Australian army that still held its ground was the Knights Hospitaller of the new era!

　The entire Western world has an obligation to support the "great cause" of white Australians! This is what the Australian warriors deserve!

　In their view, Australia is not only a jihadist nation defending the borders of Western civilization, fighting for survival space against the "pagan barbarians of Asia." As a glorious jihadist, it also has the obligation and authority to cleanse Western social mores and "correct" practices that white Australians perceive as capitulation and betrayal—for example, the current Nixon administration's "erroneous thinking" of attempting to détente with the Soviet Union and China.

　But the problem is that all of the above views are just the opinions of Australians themselves and do not represent the will of the United States of America.

　Just like Ukraine's Zelensky, who believes he is defending the entire Western civilized world against the Russian army, and deserves the generous support and generous rewards of the entire Western world, and is also qualified to point fingers at Europe and the United States. However, the American rednecks scoff at this and refuse to acknowledge it at all.

　Similarly, although Australian politicians have always wanted to establish their status as a "frontier of Western civilization" and a "modern Crusader principality," relying on public opinion output to turn it into a global consensus and unquestionable political correctness, they have forced the American boss to continuously provide them with blood transfusions.

　The problem is that the US government doesn't buy into this. Or rather, its attitude is changing all the time.

　Even if they seem to agree and recognize Australia's outpost status for a while, they may immediately change their attitude once the political party or government changes.

　Just as the Europeans of the 21st century found it impossible to use moral blackmail to coerce Trump into continuing to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia, the Australians today are also unable to use moral blackmail to coerce President Nixon into continuing his generous support for the Australian military's war in Asia.

　No matter how eloquently the Australian ambassador spoke in Washington, no matter how he threw a tantrum, no matter how he cried and wailed like a nagging woman, he was unable to continue to fleece the Nixon administration, let alone prevent Nixon from visiting China and the Soviet Union, or the US military from completely withdrawing from the quagmire of the Asian battlefield.

　In short, after the last batch of American aid was exhausted, Australia had to fight the war entirely on its own financial resources starting in 1971.

　The Australian military can still purchase various weapons and ammunition consumed by the United States, but the Australian government must pay for them, and no credit is allowed!

　As a result, Prime Minister William McMahon, who had just come to power in March this year, was faced with the dilemma of huge military expenditures and high fiscal debt.

　——With Australia's limited national strength, it feels a bit presumptuous to want to compete with the United States and build a defense line stretching thousands of miles in Southeast Asia to prevent the fall of "dominoes": the financial and military resources are simply not enough!

　But it is impossible to let the Australian army withdraw from Southeast Asia and return to the mainland. For the Australians who had fought bloody battles with the Japanese army for New Guinea during World War II, New Guinea centered on Port Moresby and a series of islands east of Java are the Australian version of the "absolute national defense circle" and the "Manchuria and Mongolia lifeline", which cannot be easily given up.

　A left-wing politician might have pushed for a withdrawal, but Prime Minister McMahon was a Liberal, and his pro-war stance was unwavering.

　To this end, Prime Minister McMahon had to work hard to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, as he dared not end overseas wars and could not reduce Australia's military spending. This meant drastically cutting welfare benefits and significantly increasing taxes, including freezing pensions for retirees.

　Funds, cancel most medical, housing and education subsidies, issue large amounts of government bonds, significantly increase personal income tax, transaction tax, inheritance tax, and even borrow money from international banks.

　Obviously, all of the above-mentioned things are basically offensive.

　Not to mention, right now, amidst the global Great Depression, Australia's economy is already in shambles, with unemployment skyrocketing year after year... In this difficult environment for people's livelihoods, further tax hikes and welfare cuts are still being made? It's easy to imagine how miserable Australia will be this year.

　When the economy is bad, public security is certainly not going to improve. In any case, Sydney and Melbourne have become increasingly chaotic in the past two years.

　As a result, within just a few months after taking office, Prime Minister McMahon had fallen into the point of being condemned and reviled by the public.

　But what can we do about it? Who made the US refuse to send money to Australians anymore?

　As a result, the Australian athletes who were fighting bloody battles in the tropical islands and rainforests of Southeast Asia could only shed blood and tears, lose their lives and money...

　Oh, what a miserable life!

　In addition to the messy economy, the huge fiscal deficit, the complaining polls, the quagmire of war, and the deteriorating public security, the serious lag in the current supernatural competition is also something that makes Prime Minister McMahon feel very bad.

　Speaking of which, since the advent of the supernatural a few years ago, supernatural events have emerged one after another in Europe and the United States, from magic to flying saucers, from traveling to the future to traveling through another world, all of them are like an explosion blooming all at once, making people dazzled.

　The various artifacts collected from the other world are so numerous that they can even be used for an exhibition.

　But Australia has embarrassingly become a forgotten existence. It is so peaceful that no supernatural events have ever occurred in Australia.

　Of course, even if one's innate conditions are relatively poor, it seems that it is not impossible to make up for it through acquired efforts.

　In fact, after confirming the emergence of supernatural powers, although Australia, with its small population and weak national strength, could not compare with the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was definitely not doing nothing. After all, all it took was to get some naked men and women and have sex until dawn every day, and there was a chance that supernatural powers would be cultivated! This was much easier than the space race or the development of nuclear weapons!

　As long as you are willing to sacrifice a little bit of your moral integrity, any country has the ability to join this super power competition!

　What's more, since the United States and the Soviet Union have taken the lead in being shameless, can the integrity and face of other countries be greater than those of the United States and the Soviet Union?

　So, when nudist camps began to spring up all over the United States, Australia also followed suit.

　As early as 1968, the Australian government imitated the American Bali nude women's prisoner-of-war camp/superhuman training base and built its own "superpower research base" in Cape York, Queensland, one of the few tropical rainforest climate areas in Australia.

　But strangely, despite Cape York's climate being similar to Bali's and its geographical proximity, the results of the "cultivation" achieved by Australia's uninhibited young men and women at the Cape York base are vastly different from those achieved at the American-dominated nudist camps in Bali.

　——Although Bali's brothels are notorious, thanks to the young women the US military has recruited from all over the Pacific Rim and the strong American soldiers who take turns to go to the island and have sex with them, Bali has been able to export more than a dozen level 5 "Tantric Masters" who can use H therapy to the United States every month.

　In contrast, the Australian Nudist Camp Experimental Park in Cape York is quite large, but from 1968 to the present, Australians in Cape York have only produced two Level 5 "Tantra Masters" who can use H healing techniques, and the "success rate" is even less than one per year!

　This is no longer just a matter of losing to the United States, but... we have even lost to India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka!

　Even in a conservative place like Egypt, after going all out, it has trained more than a dozen level 5 Tantric masters who can cure all diseases in the past two years.

　Even in the Solomon Islands, which had only been independent for a few years, three "Tantric masters" emerged from the local indigenous people - although all of them were poached by the United States with high salaries.

　So much so that some people are making jokes to mock the Australian kangaroos for their appalling sex skills, which are suspected to be ranked last in the world!

　For Prime Minister William McMahon, this is simply a slap in the face in various ways!

　How had Australia become like this under his leadership? Not only could it not win on the battlefield, but it could also not win in bed?

　However, although this matter is embarrassing and shameful, McMahon has never enjoyed a good day in the past few years. He has been criticized and abused in various ways, and he has long been accustomed to it and numb. Therefore, he has an indifferent attitude towards it - just pretend not to hear it.

　The problem was that while Prime Minister McMahon could ignore some of the yelling and complaints, there were some things he simply couldn't afford to ignore.

　An urgent report he received today showed that someone was smuggling miniature atomic bombs in Sydney!

　Oh my god, that was an atomic bomb! Even if it was just a small thing with a TNT equivalent of a few thousand tons, it would at least flatten several city blocks!

　Fortunately, the miniature atomic bomb that was transported to Sydney has been seized. It seems to be lost munitions from the Vietnam battlefield. This time the seller is the South Vietnamese boat people, and the buyer is the Latin American anti-government armed forces, not the local Australian gangs.

　But the question is, who can guarantee that the South

　The Vietnamese boat people only have this one nuclear bomb? They might have sold a lot of them before!

　What made Prime Minister McMahon even more headache was that what was secretly brought to Sydney was not just an atomic bomb, but something even more outrageous.

　"Aliens that look like jellyfish? Are there really such things? Have you watched too many Hollywood sci-fi movies?"

　Author's Note: PS: There's a debate in Western history about Alexander the Great returning to his capital of Babylon after his triumphant expedition to India. The surrounding states came to pay tribute, but there's some doubt as to whether the Romans were among them. Greek historians claim envoys from the Roman Senate came, but the Romans themselves later vehemently denied this.

　Chapter 652: The Crazy Imagination of the Australian Kangaroo (Part 2)

　Of course, if it was just discovered that someone was smuggling nuclear bombs in Sydney, Prime Minister William McMahon would not be so frightened.

　After all, this is not the Cuban Missile Crisis of ten years ago.

　If, during the first decade of the Cold War, people around the world were still generally terrified of nuclear weapons, with the mere mention of nuclear war conjuring up images of the end of the world, then over the past year or so, London, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Leningrad, and Frankfurt have all been bombed, with Vietnam and Palestine nearly annihilated. Despite the tragic deaths, the locals have continued to live their lives as usual.

　I have never seen these cities become doomsday ruins after being hit by a nuclear bomb, and the local human civilization has not collapsed.

　——In this case, even if a nuclear explosion occurred in Sydney, it would seem to be the same as natural disasters such as major earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis to ordinary people. The frequent planting of mushrooms in the past few years has made some people no longer so afraid of nuclear explosions.

　In addition, although Australia has not yet suffered a nuclear attack, Australian senior officials are actually no strangers to nuclear explosions.

　For example, the Australian troops on the front lines in Southeast Asia have been bombed almost every other day in recent years and have become numbed by the bombing.

　The most recent nuclear explosion Australian forces encountered occurred just over a month earlier, in late July 1971, during the Fourth Brunei Campaign in Borneo. The Borneo United Front's Red forces once again deployed suicide kamikaze planes, carrying atomic bombs, to bombard the defending positions, nearly wiping out 500 British troops and 300 Australian reinforcements. The improvised Brunei government force of 4000 also collapsed beneath the mushroom cloud.

　In early August, the "Borneo Red Bandits" invaded Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of the Brunei Sultanate. Sultan Bolkiah fled in panic, taking his valuables with him. The Sultanate of Brunei, a member of the Commonwealth and a British protectorate, was declared doomed. A red flag was immediately raised at the gates of the Brunei Royal Palace.

　Although the exasperated British, with US approval, dispatched bombers from an air base in Singapore to drop six hydrogen bombs across Borneo in retaliation, reportedly killing over 100,000 people and drawing condemnation from the United Nations, overall, it was nothing more than impotent rage.

　By this point, the counter-revolutionary forces of the "free camp" had been largely driven out of Borneo, Southeast Asia's largest island (also known as Kalimantan). Only 800 Australian troops remained stationed in Banjarmasin, at the island's southernmost tip. But they would not hold out for long if the enemy launched an attack.

　In addition to the nuclear explosion in Borneo, the Australian army has also suffered heavy losses in East Timor, the Spice Islands and the Malay Peninsula. The high-intensity security war has exhausted the Australian kangaroos, and the mushroom clouds of nuclear bombs that rise from time to time have brought them to the brink of mental breakdown.

　As Western whites gradually lose their overwhelming advantage in military technology on the battlefield, the Australian army's operations in Southeast Asia are becoming increasingly difficult. The Canberra authorities' delusion of filling the military vacuum after the withdrawal of US troops and establishing regional hegemony in the Western Pacific is rapidly shattering.

　No matter how loudly those right-wing racists who advocate white supremacy sing the high-sounding slogans of "New Crusade" and "White Civilization Jihad", the morale of the Australian army is rapidly declining, and the number of people evading military service is increasing.

　In particular, the Canberra authorities, under pressure from all sides, were forced to accept more than 400,000 war refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and other places, and settled them in Sydney, Melbourne and the Murray River Basin. The morale of Australian soldiers on the front line plummeted.

　——It seems that we, the authentic white Australians, are feeding mosquitoes and eating bullets in the rainforest, while our homes behind us are being stolen by the indigenous monkeys?

　What kind of war is this? Who is conquering whom?

　It can be seen that white supremacy is all a lie. It is those old men who don’t go to the battlefield who are singing high-sounding slogans and coaxing these poor people to die!

　They say that white people are the most noble, but in fact they want to use yellow monkeys to replace the ecological niche of poor white people. It seems that only rich people are real white people?

　But no matter how much complaints there are on the front lines or how much unrest there is in the rear, the war machine that has already started is not so easy to stop.

　As a mediocre politician who lacked courage and was not good at changing his mind, Prime Minister McMahon did not have the courage to suppress the pro-war faction, nor did he have the courage to bear the historical stigma of "strategic contraction (loss of troops and territory)". He could only grit his teeth and continue to maintain the war, watching the situation continue to deteriorate.

　Now, the atomic bomb has been brought to Sydney... Thinking of this, Prime Minister McMahon suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

　Wait

　It seems that even the former Japanese Empire only managed to overcome resistance from the military and the pro-war factions and successfully end the war after its homeland was hit by two atomic bombs. Does this mean that Australia today also has to wait until its homeland is hit by nuclear bombs before seizing the opportunity to withdraw from the war?

　In short, ever since the Americans opened Pandora's box of nuclear weapons abuse, nuclear proliferation has become uncontrollable. Especially with the widespread adoption of miniaturized nuclear weapons, the former nuclear umbrella has completely lost its effectiveness, and no country in the world can guarantee its own nuclear security.

　Therefore, Prime Minister William McMahon actually had a premonition that Australia's major cities would one day follow the footsteps of New York, London and Paris and suffer a terrorist attack from a miniature atomic bomb, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries... and he did his best to take some preventive measures.