American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Yes, even now, there's "Lolita." Published in the United States in 1958, it resonated with readers and became an instant hit. It remains incredibly popular and enduring in the US today, indirectly fueling the thriving child trafficking market.

　"Oh, Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desire! My sin, my soul..."

　Fili recited famous lines from "Lolita" with great emotion while caressing Juanita's petite body. "Hmm, it was fleshy and felt wonderful to the touch. Her light brown skin was more delicate than silk, absolutely smooth and bouncy, so moist and juicy that you couldn't let it go and couldn't stop lingering."

　Unfortunately, this Latina girl from Colombia had no intention of cooperating with the fun and instead sounded puzzled.

　"Master, if you want to fuck me, just fuck me! You can use any hole you want, why bother with all that?"

　Juanita rubbed her cheek against Fili's chest expertly, muttering, "You're making me feel stuck..."

　Well, you are quite naughty, you should be locked up and trained properly!

　Smelling the pleasant fragrance coming from the ends of her hair, Fili couldn't help but feel a little distracted, and almost couldn't help but do it to this little girl on the spot.

　But after a while, he finally suppressed the impulse in his heart - even in such a pornographic work as "A Song of Ice and Fire", there is still a taboo of "not sleeping with a girl who has not had her first period". As a decent and civilized person, it is better for him not to cross the line too much.

　Anyway, Juanita had already signed a soul contract with him, and there was no way to escape the fate of being a bed slave in this life, so why rush?

　"Oh, what a bummer! Let's get back to work! Hey, I didn't ask you to leave. Come back and sit down!"

　Fili put down "Lolita", then pulled back Juanita who was about to slip away, and held her while reading the newspaper.

　Well, just like holding a cat, I would stroke and knead her slightly protruding breasts and moist little mouth for entertainment, while reading the newspaper and writing and drawing.

　Then, Firi was shocked by the headlines in today's newspaper.

　"Huh? Conquering nature? A grand experiment in taming hurricanes? There's actually such a thing going on lately?!"

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　It has to be said that human civilization in the early days of the Cold War was in an era of passion, full of endless imagination and creativity.

　Americans of this era not only dreamed of rushing into space and landing on the moon, but also tried to conquer nature and control hurricanes.

　- For example, in 1961, when the US imperial army was sweeping across the Caribbean, conquering the Dominican Republic again, and making a move to target Cuba, another group of military scientists in the Pentagon were trying to tame hurricanes (typhoons in the Western Hemisphere) in the Caribbean!

　In fact, as early as 1947, the US military launched "Operation Cirrus," led by Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Irving Langmuir. The program deployed aircraft to drop catalysts like silver iodide into hurricanes, redistributing the energy within them. This ultimately weakened the winds of hurricanes making landfall in the United States, mitigating the damage. Alternatively, it could force hurricanes to change direction and make landfall in countries hostile to the US, akin to a divinely-inflicted natural disaster.

　It has to be said that this idea is very bold and the experiment is very successful. It does have an impact on hurricanes, but it is a bad impact:

　The hurricane chosen by the US military as a test subject had originally moved away from the American continent. However, under the influence of the catalyst, it unexpectedly turned back and made landfall in North America, causing a massive natural disaster along the southeastern coast of the United States!

　This is really a case of overdoing it and it's all your own fault!

　There was no other way. Computers had just been invented at that time, and it was impossible to simulate such a large-scale experiment. We could only go by our intuition.

　As for the destructive power of the "I Think" technique, it will naturally hurt yourself before hurting others!

　After this setback, the US military, which had been arrogant because of winning the Second World War, finally realized that it was not as easy as expected to seize the power to dominate nature from God, so they finally became much more cautious.

　It wasn't until this year, in 1961, that the Pentagon conducted its second hurricane intervention experiment, Operation Hurricane. This experiment also involved seeding the storm clouds with large quantities of catalysts, such as silver iodide. This time, however, the catalysts were flown directly into the eye of the hurricane, creating a blast right there in the center!

　Well, this idea sounds very risky, but fortunately, the aviation technology in the United States was advanced enough at that time to support this crazy plan.

　Unlike Project Cirrus, Project Hurricane was more conservative. It no longer attempted to weaponize natural hurricanes, but instead sought to combat and mitigate wind disasters. Specifically, it would inject large amounts of silver iodide, dry ice, urea, and other catalysts into the eye of the hurricane. The heat released as water vapor formed ice crystals would disturb the air pressure field in the area, causing the eyewall of the hurricane cloud to collapse and the wind speed to decrease accordingly.

　Unlike the "Cirrus Plan" that brought disaster upon itself in 1947, the summer of 1961 trial

　The "Hurricane Project" being tested seems to have achieved some positive results. The maximum wind speed near the center of the hurricane used as the experimental subject was weakened by 10% after the catalyst was sprayed.

　Although the effect is not very obvious, the media still hypes it up, claiming that this year Americans have conquered hurricanes after conquering space!

　Well, after all, it was the Cold War era where everyone was competing with each other, and no matter what achievements the two major camps made, they had to exaggerate them to overshadow the other side.

　As for this technology of artificially intervening in hurricanes, can it be put into practical use and be promoted?

　Firi is very pessimistic about this.

　Because, as far as Firi could remember, until the early 21st century, artificial rainmaking during droughts was common. But whether it was a typhoon in the Pacific or a hurricane in the Atlantic, there was no artificial intervention; the most they could do was provide early warnings and preventative measures.

　From Florida in the United States to Japan and the southeastern coast of China, wind disasters still occur every year.

　Therefore, this method of artificially intervening in hurricanes was either too expensive to be worth the effort, or too ineffective to be effective. In either case, it was never adopted further, becoming a mere flash in the pan of technological development, a symbol of the unbridled human imagination… and nothing more.

　However, in addition to space, the moon and typhoons, what President Kennedy wanted to conquer more was the human world on Earth.

　In May 1961, Kennedy sent Vice President Johnson to visit Saigon and found that the situation in South Vietnam under the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem was on the verge of collapse.

　According to a report by Colonel Lansdale, head of the CIA's military advisory group in Saigon, by the spring of 1961, out of the entire South Vietnam's population of 1300 million, 600 million people and half of the land had surrendered to the Viet Cong, and another 400 million people were under the control of the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao religious organizations. The Saigon authorities actually only ruled a quarter of the country's population and land. It is no exaggeration to say that they were standing on the edge of a cliff.

　Although the United States provided a large amount of financial and material assistance to the Ngo Dinh Diem government, Ngo Dinh Diem has not had a single day of peace since he came to power with the support of the United States. The political system is extremely corrupt, the economy is in a mess, and there is no sign of improvement.

　In the rural areas of South Vietnam, the returning home groups organized by the landlords attempted to re-confiscate the farmers' land and were fighting a fierce battle with the farmers who had been allocated land during the Anti-French War - for their homes and fields, the farmers would really fight to the death.

　In the cities of South Vietnam, the already fragile local industry and commerce were instantly overwhelmed by the dumped American goods, and more than half of the factories went bankrupt. At this time, the American industry had not yet been hollowed out, and the United States still had the most powerful industry and agriculture in the world, enough to crush the world.

　Despite the depressed industrial and agricultural production, Ngo Dinh Diem continued to levy heavy taxes and plunder, making life miserable for the people under his rule.

　This practice of driving fish into the deep naturally led to a large number of people who could no longer survive raising red flags and joining the Viet Cong. Under normal circumstances, spontaneous resistance from the people would be difficult to defeat the regular government army. However, Vietnam's situation was very special. The rebels had reliable foreign aid in the north.

　As early as 1959, the Hanoi authorities in North Vietnam opened up the famous "Ho Chi Minh Trail" - called the "Chang Son Road" by the Vietnamese side - through Laos, and continuously transported cadres, soldiers, ammunition and other supplies to the guerrilla areas of South Vietnam. The supply volume reached 20,000 tons per month.

　Well, North Vietnam couldn't produce so many weapons and ammunition on its own. But Ho Chi Minh had backers, including China and the Soviet Union, which were his arsenals! They might not have given him many heavy weapons, but when it came to bullets, bazookas, and grenades, they had plenty!

　Relying on officers and veterans from the north, the South Vietnamese guerrillas were organized and trained. Relying on imported weapons and ammunition, the guerrillas possessed the same level of light weapons firepower as the government forces. However, the fighting will of the two sides was worlds apart... It is no surprise that the South Vietnamese government collapsed quickly.

　Even worse, even though the Viet Cong were clearly unable to defeat the southern Viet Cong, Diem, a devout Catholic, simultaneously launched a religious war in South Vietnam, suppressing the Buddhist majority and seizing land to distribute to Catholic refugees fleeing from the Red River Delta in the north.

　As a result, the traditional religious forces that could have been relied upon as allies actually joined the Viet Cong, making the Ngo Dinh Diem regime even more isolated.

　Seeing South Vietnam in chaos, President Kennedy, who was far away in the White House, was also very anxious. The "New Frontier" slogan he shouted during the campaign was not to abandon the "old frontier" of the American camp.

　So, after convening a think tank for discussion, President Kennedy decided to launch a "special war" against South Vietnam.

　Specifically, simply giving money and supplies to Diem was no longer enough. But sending the US military directly to fight on his behalf seemed excessive.

　Therefore, as a compromise measure, Kennedy approved the cooperation between the CIA and the Pentagon to send more than 100 special forces and more military advisers to intervene in the training of the South Vietnamese army and strengthen its anti-guerrilla warfare capabilities to fight against the increasingly fierce offensive of the Viet Cong in the north.

　Firi's view on this "special warfare" plan is that it is as imaginative as taming a hurricane.

　Please, were the more than 100 special forces soldiers sent to Vietnam a Captain America per capita? How could they have completely wiped out hundreds of thousands of Vietcong guerrillas?

　Besides, the US military has no good experience in anti-guerrilla warfare to teach.

　Others? In the past, when suppressing small countries like Nicaragua in Central America, they were still beaten badly by the Sandinista guerrillas, and finally achieved victory only through deception, assassination and the enemy's naivety.

　Faced with the current situation in South Vietnam, the Pentagon could only come up with a combat plan that, at best, would have South Vietnamese soldiers carrying American weapons board American helicopters under American command to repeatedly fly to guerrilla areas for large-scale sweeps.

　But this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. As long as the momentum of South Vietnam's economic collapse is not reversed, the Viet Cong guerrillas will have an endless supply of troops.

　Furthermore, those South Vietnamese soldiers, who were owed wages, were probably not willing to fight the elite Vietcong. Instead, they would rather fly to some remote corner in a helicopter, burn, kill, and loot, then find a few fellow villagers to "borrow heads" and fly back to claim the credit.

　The result was that the more we suppressed the "Red Bandits", the more they appeared, until in the end even the trees could talk.

　This kind of "special warfare" couldn't even deal with the drug lords in South America, let alone the Viet Cong, who had a stronger mass base.

　Author's words: PS: Today someone made a video of a nostalgic game, and I suddenly realized that the "Travel Frog" that was extremely popular a few years ago has disappeared.

　Not every game can have the tenacious vitality of Red Alert and World of Warcraft.

　Chapter 70: From today on, I will be a teacher bitch

　In addition to launching a wildly imaginative "special war" in the "Bamboo Curtain" battlefield in Southeast Asia, President Kennedy also went to Vienna in June 1961 to meet with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and hold a summit between the two countries.

　Before the summit, Kennedy's impression of Khrushchev was still that of the old-fashioned man who spoke vulgarly and clamored for a date with Marilyn Monroe during Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959. He believed that Khrushchev should be easy to talk to and not difficult to deal with.

　But the problem is that Khrushchev's various vulgar behaviors were largely just a deliberate disguise to "establish his own character."

　This is not to say that this "Corn Emperor" is so gentle and polite behind the scenes, but that he is actually not that easy to talk to.

　The easing of tensions with the United States, which he had strongly advocated during his last visit to the United States, was only a short-term expedient before he could gain a firm foothold.

　Now that Khrushchev had completely dealt with his competitors and achieved absolute control of power in the Soviet Union, there was naturally no need for him to continue to bow to the United States.

　In this dimension, President Kennedy easily won the Dominican Republic War in the spring of 1961, avoiding a disgraceful defeat at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. But Khrushchev also didn't see such a one-sided victory as anything to boast about.

　What’s worse is that the victory in invading the Dominican Republic made Kennedy a little "floating", causing him to have overly high expectations for this summit.

　According to American think tanks, the Soviet economy is now increasingly dependent on Western loans and trade, and can leverage this to gain momentum.

　But Khrushchev believed that the United States had already gained advantages in too many areas, so the Soviet Union could not make any more concessions.

　As you can imagine, the Vienna Summit did not yield a happy outcome. Kennedy had hoped to achieve some progress on limiting nuclear testing and European security. However, apart from reaching an agreement on a ceasefire in Laos, the two sides achieved almost nothing else during the summit.

　Even the ceasefire agreement on the Laotian battlefield, which was agreed upon by both sides, was ultimately proven to be a pitfall:

　The result of this ceasefire was that the Viet Cong's Laotian revolutionary allies actually controlled the entire Laotian territory through which the Ho Chi Minh Trail passed. From then on, the Viet Cong could legally bypass the "bamboo curtain" of the 17th parallel north, and continue to infiltrate and attack the territory of South Vietnam.

　However, then again, the US military had not yet entered the Vietnam battlefield on a large scale, and the South Vietnamese army was being beaten badly by the Viet Cong on its own soil. The South Vietnamese generals were more keen to preserve their strength so that they could try to get their hands on the presidency one day, rather than fighting the Viet Cong.

　In such a powerless situation, how could the United States force the North Vietnamese to accept a ceasefire agreement that was unfavorable to them?

　In addition to the Laotian ceasefire issue, the German issue is another important topic of this summit.

　The issue of East and West Germany was a focal point in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 5s and 60s: Should the two Germanys merge? Should the two Germanys establish an army? These were debated repeatedly by both camps at the time.

　In fact, the Soviet Union was not very determined to control East Germany. Beria once thought of giving up East Germany in exchange for the United States ending the Cold War. After Khrushchev came to power, he also thought about whether it was possible to merge East and West Germany while ensuring Germany's permanent neutrality.

　But after repeatedly overtures to the West met with setbacks, Khrushchev by 1961 had given up on using East Germany as a bargaining chip—the West refused to pay and only wanted to take it for free. He also believed that détente between the US and the Soviet Union was hopeless, and that tit-for-tat struggle was the only option.

　On January 6, 1961, Khrushchev officially abandoned his plan to ease relations between the US and the Soviet Union and began to engage in a war with the US, focusing on Third World countries as the main battlefield: "Unlimited support for the just wars of nations struggling for liberation!"

　In Europe, the Soviet Union also decided to maintain the long-term coexistence of the two Germanys as the Cold War front line of the Iron Curtain confrontation.

　As a result, West Berlin, which was occupied by NATO forces,

　, and became an enclave embedded in the territory of East Germany, which made the Warsaw Pact very uncomfortable.

　What’s even more terrible is that West Berlin was not only a bridgehead for NATO forces behind the Iron Curtain, but also a transit station for the outflow of East German population.

　There was no way around it. The East German government was a classic in its secret police work, but its economics were far worse, with both industry and agriculture in dire straits. Meanwhile, West Berlin was a model city for Western development, even more developed than the rest of West Germany. This contrast only served to unbalance the East Germans.

　As a result, since the division of East and West Germany, more than two million East Germans who despised the poor and loved the rich have fled to West Germany through West Berlin!

　For East Germany, whose total population was only tens of millions, such a large-scale and drastic population loss was like bleeding from the aorta!

　——Isn’t that roughly equivalent to 200 to 300 million Chinese people migrating overseas?

　Although at the same time, 500,000 people fled from West Germany to East Germany, such as Chancellor Merkel's family, the ratio was still too disproportionate.

　Generally speaking, the more intellectual and technically talented people were, the more keen they were to flee to West Germany, while the poorest and most disadvantaged people would instead flee to East Germany.

　In a sense, this was also East Germany's own fault - under the CMEA system, the Soviet Union set the overall development direction for East Germany and only allowed East Germany to focus on developing one or two branches of modern industry to avoid duplication of construction with other Warsaw Pact countries.

　But the problem is that East Germany’s higher education system did not adjust accordingly, but continued to develop comprehensively as it did before World War II.

　This resulted in many East German university students who did not choose the right major becoming unemployed upon graduation, and it was impossible for them to find a job matching their major in China.

　If they don't want to waste the skills they have learned through hard work, what else can they do except try their luck in neighboring West Germany?

　In addition to East Germans, many Poles and Czechs also fled to the West through West Berlin as a transit point.

　In order to plug the gap in West Berlin and establish a complete Iron Curtain isolation zone, Khrushchev confronted Kennedy at the Vienna Summit, demanding that British and American troops withdraw from West Berlin and make Berlin "demilitarized" and "neutralized."

　He advocated that Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union withdraw from Berlin together, and that West Berlin and East Berlin be merged into a free city, which would be neither under the control of the Soviet Union nor the United States.

　Obviously, this was a lie to Kennedy: Although there were no Soviet troops stationed in Berlin, the city was surrounded by the territory of the German Democratic Republic. Did you see the hammer and sickle on the East German flag? If there were no Soviet troops stationed in Berlin, Berlin would definitely be annexed by the socialist camp!

　So President Kennedy immediately rejected Khrushchev's proposal and said that the free world would never give up West Berlin.

　Even when Khrushchev threatened that "if anyone interferes with this plan, war is inevitable," Kennedy simply looked Khrushchev in the eye and bluntly retorted, "Then there will be a war very soon. Sir, this year will be a cold winter."

　After the summit, Kennedy privately complained to James Reston, editor-in-chief of The New York Times, that Khrushchev must have believed that he was young and inexperienced and could be easily manipulated with a little intimidation. Unless Khrushchev could change this idea, there would be no results.

　Having failed to scare Kennedy at the Vienna Summit, Khrushchev announced upon his return that the Soviet defense budget would be increased by 3 billion rubles and that preparations would be made for another nuclear weapon explosion test in September.

　After returning to the United States, Kennedy also delivered a televised speech, saying that "we will not be allowed to be driven out of West Berlin by force." He announced an additional $32.5 billion in annual military budget, called up the reserve forces, tripled the conscription quota, expanded the Army by four divisions, and expanded the Marine Corps by two divisions.

　Khrushchev threatened: "Mr. Kennedy, if war breaks out, you will be the last president of the United States."

　Kennedy delivered a televised address to the American people, saying, "If war breaks out, it will be launched from Moscow, not from Berlin... Only the Soviet government could use the Berlin border as a pretext for war."

　Khrushchev immediately warned the world that the Soviet Union was now capable of producing a nuclear bomb with an explosive power equivalent to 1 million tons of high explosives and had rockets capable of delivering such a bomb. Kennedy urged the Americans to build more underground shelters and send more troops to West Berlin.

　In this way, the battle between Khrushchev and Kennedy continued to escalate and entered a stalemate. The two stared at each other from a distance, waiting to see who would blink first.

　During this period, due to the media hype, the mood of the American people became tense again. The Pentagon took the opportunity to sell a wave of anxiety, sold a lot of "doomsday survival kits" produced by the military, and built a new wave of shelters.

　At the same time, the sky over Europe was covered with dark clouds, and to ordinary people it seemed that war was about to break out.

　In fact, this was essentially everyday life during the Cold War. Except for those living in remote mountainous areas, ordinary urban dwellers, reading newspapers and watching television, would be startled every year or two by similar news: in 1948, the United States threatened to use an atomic bomb on the Soviet Union; in 1950, World War II nearly broke out in Korea; in 1956, during the Suez War, the Soviet Union threatened to nuclearize France...

　As for the city of Berlin, which was the focus of the fighting, it was in chaos, and the people of East Germany rushed to flee to West Berlin.

　In July alone, 30,000 East German refugees fled into NATO-controlled western Berlin. In the first ten days of August, another 16,000

　Tens of millions of East German citizens fled across the border into West Berlin, most of whom were doctors, technicians and skilled workers, seriously affecting the completion of East Germany's five-year plan.