Chapter 1077 Chapter 1073 America’s Dilemma (First Update)

He couldn't control himself, and as if some irresistible will moved his finger to the button and pressed it, Happy Hogan opened the trunk and the door without any resistance. Although Tony Stark never asked him to park here, and he did not know the person who knocked on the window, at this moment he obeyed the order very naturally, as if this order occupied all the thinking ability in his brain, All his thinking threads serve this command, and only by satisfying this command can he do the next thing. Peter Parker was surprised to see the man he had met in the hospital humming as he put his handbag into the trunk, then opened the car door and sat next to him, as relaxed as if he were riding a Greyhound bus instead of What a limousine.

He didn't notice anything wrong, and the silence in the back seat continued until Happy Hogan stepped on the accelerator and drove the car forward, leaving the hospital's underground garage. Peter Parker tried to find something to talk about with the man in the back seat, who looked about the same age as him. "Do you know Tony Stark too? I mean, I'm grateful for the new treatment technology you used on me in the hospital, and I'm glad I have almost no scars. If May saw me covered in scars..."

"I'm not a doctor, kid. The reason why I helped you is because you were not the target that night, and you were lucky enough that the fragments in the attack drone's warhead charge did not kill you. Damn it, I will not resurrect a frozen corpse in the morgue." Salomon interrupted him mercilessly. He stretched out his hands and pushed the car door on both sides. It was a little crowded to accommodate two people. The back seat suddenly widens into a seat that can seat three people effortlessly. Although the back seat of this car could originally accommodate three people, it was now much more spacious. The bumps caused by Happy Hogan when he passed the speed bump made Peter Parker accidentally hit the car door sideways. He looked on dumbfounded. With the extra space in the back seat, the brain can't comprehend the situation. But the initiator had no interest in making him understand. "Have you ever wondered why you had such abilities after a spider bit you? You are a science and engineering enthusiast. Tell me, does what happened to you conform to the physical laws of the real universe?"

"Sorry, I didn't hear clearly..."

"Your ability comes from the recognition of an extradimensional creature. You are like one end of the spider web that constantly sends out vibrations from the real universe to transmit information to higher dimensions. You spend your life sending the information to the center of the spider web for that creature to chew. .Your spider sense is essentially a short-term ability to predict the future, but this ability is too intuitive for you to detect. If your ability continues to strengthen, you will be able to see all the future, just like Like all witchcraft that peeps at the thread of fate." Salomon continued, minding his own business, "You will not have descendants, and you may not even live to see yourself grow old, and you will wander in this world alone. Until death. All spiders follow the same principle and constantly stage different possibilities. Your essence is the other end of the spider web. Everything you experience is the vibration of the spider web. Finally, your own joys and sorrows are wrapped in the web. The cocoon becomes nourishment for that creature.”

"Okay, I don't quite understand..."

"You don't have to understand, Peter Parker. You will never leave New York City in your life, and your goal will never even leave Queens. Tony Stark turned against me because I stood against him and his interests. , then why did you do this? To satisfy your inner sense of justice, or to show off your abilities?" Salomon stared at the teenager in front of him curiously. Since that attack, American society has experienced considerable turmoil. The Norfolk Naval Base fire that took two full days to attack completely destroyed the United States' ability to manufacture Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The explosion of a large number of ammunition caused the destruction of materials and personnel in the logistics department, and brought unprecedented obstacles to the U.S. Navy's operations in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. The military had to allocate logistics tasks to some smaller navies on the east coast. However, some ports that cannot dock aircraft carriers are still unable to complete all tasks.

But after that attack, there were two different voices in the American public.

Although there are many voices asking the White House to come up with a practical retaliation plan, because no one in this world has ever brought war to the United States, this has hit the self-confidence of the United States to some extent, and at the same time inspired many people's patriotism. Enthusiasm, with the Republican vote base and many right-wing voters represented by retired military police as the main group. However, there are still some voices that indicate that the enemy possesses hypersonic missiles that cannot be intercepted by the current air defense system and possesses weapons of mass destruction. These people suggest that the White House use peaceful means to solve the problem, such as lifting economic sanctions, etc. The current president and His staff are all Democrats, and after overnight meetings at numerous think tanks, the day after the attack the current president delivered a speech condemning Latvinia's attack on the American mainland. That speech seemed to say a lot, but the actual content was almost nothing. It neither expressed the idea of ​​​​improving relations with Latvinia, nor proposed military operations against Latvinia. After the speech, many officials were dispatched Visited Europe and promised to pass a weapons support plan in an attempt to break the new system planned to be established by some European countries and Latvinia.

With the exception of the UK, many European countries have not had much practical response to this approach.

Now the powerful military strength displayed by Latvinia has completely broken the military hegemony of the United States. As can be seen from the destruction of American communication satellites, positioning systems and military satellites, Latvinia has the ability to bring the entire Europe and the United States into information stagnation. technology, and Latovinia also demonstrated it. During the last demonstration, Latovinia's territory expanded several times, covering almost the entire southeastern Europe. Now the U.S. Navy and Air Force cannot reach Europe, and the Aegis tactical system has become a waste in Europe. Compared with Far away on the other side of the Atlantic, Latovinia is closer to Europe. The past NATO system continues to be cold in Europe, and this US-led system is inevitably disintegrating.

The destruction of Wall Street that night was an even more vicious move. Investment management companies such as BlackRock were the main group on Wall Street. Under the attack of the giant plasma cannon of the war engine, servers storing large amounts of data were completely destroyed. Although it can be repaired by uploading data to a server elsewhere, this takes a long time. However, this is not the key issue. The destruction of data on Wall Street cannot destroy the established wealth relationship, but the security economic environment that is destroyed with the attack is fatal. Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange lost power in the second When the market opened, the market was still closed. It was foreseeable that the Dow Jones Industrial Index would fall irreversibly, and a large amount of money would flee the stock market. This would cause immeasurable losses to the U.S. economy, which has abandoned a large number of manufacturing industries and relies heavily on capital account surpluses to earn profits.

Even if the White House follows the practice since the 9/11 attacks and links the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with giants such as the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Treasury Department, Verizon Telecom, and New York Consolidated Edison, Measures such as holding a meeting together with the heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, investigating a large number of transactions in the weeks before the attack, and transferring many staff of the New York Federal Reserve Bank will not be able to save the U.S. economy in a short time. The only solution is to launch a war on terror, like we did with Iraq.

This will not only give confidence to capital and citizens, but also create a safe trading environment.

But Latvinia has the most advanced military technology in the world. If the United States declares war, the United States will no longer be safe, and even the President of the United States will no longer be safe. It does not take five minutes for a hypersonic missile to directly lock on the location of the President of the United States for a precise strike. This is fatal for a country that relies on votes, because it means that no key figure can appear at a certain location for more than five minutes. . Moreover, the declaration of war does not mean that Wall Street will be safe. The current move to close the market is not so much that the power grid and communication network were damaged in the attack, but that the Federal Reserve and the White House are trying to find ways to retain the capital that is about to flee.

The plan for European capital to flee to the United States went bankrupt, so in the short term the only option was to cooperate with Latvinia.

After seeing that the United States can no longer provide a safe trading environment, American capital will ruthlessly choose to flee, but where to flee is very particular. The Regent of Latovinia had long been prepared to swallow up this fund and use it on a territory that had now expanded several times.

Therefore, the Democratic Party must either give up the election and hand over the position of president, or completely surrender and negotiate peace with Latvinia. No matter which option is adopted by the White House, it is a complete dead end. It is a suggestion made by Stephanie Malick, the chief executive of the Immortal City, after studying 9/11. No one understands how the American economy works better than the Malik family. The Malik family, a German family, came to the New World before the founding of the United States. To some extent, the Malik family is one of the major shareholders in the United States. .

Under the precise blows of a scalpel, the United States' society and economy were in chaos.

Peter Parker's discharge from the hospital comes at the right time, as the streets of New York are now almost the epitome of disorder.

"So, do you want to be a superhero that attracts everyone's attention, or an unknown street kid?" Salomon looked at him, "I'm not being your life mentor, I'm just asking you again, do you want to live? Go down or die miserably?”

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