1915 Presidential Speech During the Second War

"They don't want to talk to us at all!"

The Foreign Secretary sighed.

This is the first time in his life that he feels so useless. Maybe the word "useless" is not in his dictionary, and he needs to use more noble language to explain the feeling caused by this word.

He is very useless now.

Pengeo had already made a gesture of begging for mercy, but the federal people did not give them even the slightest possibility or hope.

There is no problem in letting ministers be tried as war criminals.

They have a way of fixing these little things.

But asking the emperor and even members of the royal family to be tried as war criminals is obviously embarrassing people.

No, it’s not an embarrassment, it’s a direct rejection.

Do you want His Majesty the Emperor to agree that you will be tried or even hanged as a war criminal?

Will he agree?

Even if he fights to death, he will not agree!

It's all about death anyway, so why should you wrong yourself?

Other members of the negotiating delegation were also very depressed. The Federation had made it clear that it was not willing to cease the war, but they were likely to be held responsible for the unfavorable negotiations.

The deputy leader sat aside and said, "How about we relax the conditions a little in other aspects and lower the requirements."

"If His Majesty and the royal family are not involved, we can select some from the nobles and hand them over."

"So they gain face and we get the results we want?"

After hearing this, the Foreign Minister felt that this was also a solution.

Any opportunity that may lead to further negotiations must be firmly seized!

Moreover, negotiation is mainly about talking, and there is room for discussion on everything.

Even if it doesn’t exist, it must be made!

After the negotiations started on the second day, Pengeo raised the argument of "non-royal responsibility".

According to the head of the delegation, Minister of Foreign Affairs Pengeo, the war between them and the Federation over Nagaril was purely a private act of a small group of generals.

Without communicating with the military and His Majesty the Emperor, they sent troops in advance and triggered a war.

After the war broke out, taking into account some fait accompli, the military continued to send troops to the Nagaril area to speed up the pace of the war.

Simply speaking from the perspective of the cause of the matter, the royal family should not bear any responsibility.

Those who really need to bear responsibility for this should be those generals who launch wars without authorization!

The military also needs to bear a considerable part of the responsibility. They failed to prevent the war in time and allowed the war to intensify.

Pengeo is willing to escort these generals and the generals responsible for decision-making in the military department to the federal government as war criminals who caused the outbreak of the war.

Purely from the perspective of expression, there is not much problem with the Pengjiao people's statement, but the purpose of this negotiation is not really to bring peace.

The federations did not recognize the explanation given by Pengeo and demanded that Emperor Pengeo must plead guilty and accept federal trial.

It only took five days from the time the two sides sat down to negotiate until the negotiations finally broke down.

Emperor Pengeo was extremely angry after getting the final result. Even in the cold weather, which was not suitable for large-scale operations, the Pengeo Empire still began to plan a large-scale attack!

Less than a week after the armistice, the world where the long-lost peace has just emerged is once again shrouded in the clouds of war!

Federal television and the media frantically criticized the ugly face of the Penteo people.

They said that in order to refuse to admit the crimes they had committed, they refused to confess to the more than 300,000 federal soldiers who had died in action, and rejected the federal requirements in the bilateral armistice negotiations.

The actions of the noble Pengeo royal family and nobles are undoubtedly the greatest humiliation to the heroic soldiers who have sacrificed their lives!

The federal government refuses to discuss the peace talks further, and the Pengeo people must pay the price for their arrogance!

The rejection of the armistice, which was likely to cause social dissatisfaction, broke down because the Pengeos could not agree to the "reasonable" demands made by the federation.

Not only did the people not have any dissatisfaction with the federal government, they directly changed their attitude and demanded that the Pengeo people be severely punished!

Sometimes politics is complicated, and sometimes it's so simple.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is nothing more than the same thing, two manifestations.

Either conform to public opinion or manipulate public opinion!

On the third day after talks collapsed, Mr. Trueman gave a nationally televised address.

The place where he spoke was in the conference room of the Presidential Palace. In order to make this televised speech play the role he needed, extra care was taken in the layout of the venue.

In most cases, during the televised speeches of the Federal President, the background wall should be composed of the federal flag and national emblem, and the background should be dark.

This can reflect the solemn and solemn atmosphere.

But today the context is different.

Like a mosaic, mottled, at first glance the lake seems to be one piece.

Since the lens does not switch the focal length and is placed close, even if people want to see it, they may not be able to see clearly what is on the background wall.

When the time reached eight o'clock, Mr. Trueman walked to the podium. He seemed to be older than when he was sworn in as President of the Federation.

Part of the hair has also turned gray.

Different presidents have different styles. There is no shortage of serious presidents in federal history, but there is also no shortage of active and enjoyable presidents.

Mr. Trueman is a man of action and a responsible president.

People will also have some subtle mentality due to his changes in appearance.

"Thank you very much for taking a moment to watch my speech during this period. Everyone has been talking about 'peace and war' recently."

"I know that some people think that the demands we made in the peace talks are excessive and that we lack the sincerity of the peace talks."

"This is also the issue I want to discuss with you today."

"Should this war end here?"

He paused for a moment while speaking and acted very calmly, without too much subjective emotion. This also made his words particularly convincing!

After a few seconds, he turned slightly sideways and the camera began to zoom out, "You must be curious why the background is so strange today."

"I invite everyone to come with me and take a look!"

He left the podium and walked to the backdrop as the camera advanced.

Only then did people notice that the mosaic-like tiles on the background board were not real tiles.

But one-inch black photos!

The lens moved closer and closer, and soon the clear portraits were displayed on the TV monitor.

Mr. Trueman's voice came from off the screen.

"These are the best guys in the Federation. When the evil military group headed by Pengeo launched an undeclared attack on us, they stood up immediately."

"They are no different from me, from you, from the federal people in front of the television or more."

"They have parents, relatives, loved ones and even children!"

"But they also have a heavy responsibility, which is to guard the simple, mediocre, but safe life of people like us."

"They died at the gunpoint of the Penteo people. They were not invaders, they were just guardians. They just wanted to prevent all of us from being harmed!"

"Just because of this small responsibility, they left us forever!"

"Leaving their parents, their relatives, their wives and even their children!"

The lens gradually zooms out, and more photos appear in the lens, including Mr. Trueman standing next to the background board at the edge of the frame.

He was full of emotions, and the angry and radical emotions in his voice were increasing layer by layer, making everyone grit their teeth, and some pictures seemed to appear in their minds.

Artillery fire, smoke, battlefield...

Mr. Trueman took a deep breath and sighed heavily, "I am afraid of death. I believe most people are as afraid of death as I am."

"So do they!"

"But for a belief in their hearts, they defeated the fear of death!"

"They did it!"

"They protected our peaceful life and the prosperity and beauty of the Federation, but they lost their most precious lives forever!"

"Those families who have lost their children, their husbands, their fathers, and their loved ones are bearing more pain and sorrow than we ordinary people!"

"We owe them!"

"We owe them a life. I just want those who took their lives and destroyed world peace to lower their heads and seriously repent and apologize for the crimes they committed."

"The emperor of the Pengeo Empire, the royal family, their noble ministers, owe them."

"Three hundred thousand heroic spirits are staring at us!"

"We cannot let their sacrifices become meaningless, and we cannot let down more soldiers who are fighting on the front lines!"

"Today, we must repay all the pain that has been inflicted on us twice as much!"

"Justice is never inclusive!"

"The blood sins they committed must be ended with their blood and lives!"

"If those who caused these terrible things are not brought to justice, this war will never stop!"

"Until the day we destroy them completely!"

"I swear in the name of the President of the Federation!"

"No one's death will be in vain!"

On television, Mr. Trueman aroused the emotions of everyone watching.

The enemy suddenly came and killed our people, and then found that they couldn't defeat us. You want to end it all by saying sorry?

No, never!

At this time, the federal society is still in the period of revanchism. You talk about tolerance and forgiveness, which has a basis.

After all, there are so many religious people.

But when you talk about great revenge, it still has a basis!

This is not the death of thirty or fifty people, this is the sacrifice of more than three hundred thousand people!

This can affect potentially millions of families!

No one can make these millions of families give up their hatred and desire for revenge!

No one has the right to ask them to do that!

Blood debt.

Must pay with blood!