Chapter 617: Follow-Up (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) 4300 Words, Please Vote for Me!!!

No matter what the US government or the mysterious organization does next, one thing cannot be changed, that is, the carnival of public opinion!

Whether the White House is attacked or the president is rescued, it is the biggest whirlpool of public opinion this year. Almost everyone is expressing their opinions. There are two voices in the current American public opinion field. One is naturally the traditional American superpower-starting a war!

This voice is very loud, and many Americans feel insecure. After all, even the White House, the center of the United States, has been captured by terrorists, so where is the country safe. This strong sense of insecurity has made many people choose to support the United States in retaliating against this terrorist attack.

And North Korea naturally became the target!

Many people are calling for war against North Korea.

But this voice has encountered an obstacle, that is, the attitude of the countries surrounding North Korea.

Will Russia allow the United States to start a war against North Korea?

Can China allow it?

Just think about it and you will know that it is impossible.

They can't let the Korean Peninsula become a frontier base for the United States, and Japan and South Korea are unwilling to do so.

For Japan, North Korea is indeed a security threat, but war is not an option they want. After all, North Korea is too close to Japan, and their missiles can threaten Japan at any time. Japan has never thought of putting itself at risk for the reunification of South Korea.

Let alone South Korea. If a war really breaks out, they will be the first to be affected. Don't think that South Korea, like China, always desires reunification. For many Koreans, they are against reunification.

South Korea's development is deformed. The big chaebols preside over the entire Korean economy, which leads to the fact that the economic dividends are not enjoyed by the vast majority of the grassroots people. The social resources obtained by the grassroots Korean people are originally very scarce. South Korea is one of the countries with the greatest living pressure in the world. If the peninsula is unified, it will inevitably make South Korea's economy tilt towards the backward North Korea, so that there will be fewer resources left for the South Korean people. (This can be seen from the economic assistance provided by West Germany to East Germany after the reunification of the two Germanys)

This has led to many Koreans, especially young people, not being enthusiastic about the reunification of the peninsula, and even very rejecting it.

Well, what good does it do for the United States to attack North Korea?

No, not only will they have to go through war, but they will also have to bear the consequences of unification.

So the most serious opposition is South Korea.

Even though South Korea has played an ignominious role in this matter, it has to stand up and oppose it.

So there are a lot of voices in the United States to start a war, but among the upper class who really control the fate of this country, they all hold a conservative attitude towards war. After all, North Korea... what is the benefit of conquering it?

That is a poor and desperate poor mountain and water, even the food needs external aid. It takes a lot to conquer it, but not much is gained, and even has to face the interference of two major powers!

Even the United States feels terrified when facing the joint efforts of China and Russia.

War means are not cost-effective.

And another voice in the public opinion field is more interesting.

They are reflecting.

Reflecting on why the United States is the country most vulnerable to terrorist attacks in the world.

There has never been hatred without reason in this world. If the United States is really good, who would bother to trouble the United States?

So what happened to the United States?

So a group of people began to reflect.

This reflection is terrible.

The United States has always had a strong anti-war mentality. Since the Vietnam War, this trend of thought has been very popular in the United States.

They believe that the reason why the United States is targeted is that the United States has launched too many unjust wars. Although the United States often says that they attack a country in order to liberate those countries, in fact, they have brought nothing but chaos and war.

Iraq and Afghanistan have confirmed this.

Except for Saudi Arabia and a few small countries in the entire Middle East, no country has a good impression of the United States.

And it is precisely these people who have become the main force of terrorists.

So many people began to increase their efforts to call for the withdrawal of US troops from those places, and some people were even more radical. They wanted the United States to withdraw its troops from the world.

This is of course impossible. The international social order led by the United States relies on those overseas garrisons. They have troops stationed in all transportation hubs around the world. This is the guarantee of American hegemony. Without these, what can the United States use to suppress the entire world?

Without the guarantee of force, the US dollar will be worthless.

In short, public opinion has been very lively during this period.

In order to calm down these public opinions, President Benjamin, who had just finished the operation, had to give a speech in the ward.

This may be the most peculiar presidential speech in the entire history of the United States.

Benjamin did not even remove the various catheters in his body before he started working.

There was no way. Although he called for reform and military spending cuts, he never thought of withdrawing the United States from the world. He is still the president of the United States and still has to put national interests first.

His reform is to cut defense spending, replace force with diplomacy, and invest more money in people's livelihood, so as to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and increase employment.

Just as Benjamin was giving a speech, Kay and Margaret were outside the ward.

"Thank you, Kai." Margaret was very grateful to Kai, even though Kai shot Benjamin. But Margaret is not an ordinary woman. In her opinion, Benjamin was rescued without much damage, which was the biggest victory.

"You're welcome... By the way, how long are you going to keep me?"

Kai has not returned to Los Angeles since this incident. It's not that he doesn't want to leave, but Margaret and Benjamin's enthusiastic retention has delayed his trip again and again.

Margaret and Benjamin are both frightened by this incident, and they are extremely distrustful of the security around them. After all, the facts are there. The White House was easily breached and the president almost died in the White House. This level of security is something that no one can rest assured about.

And because of the previous terrorist attack, only Benning died in the White House presidential guard... Even if the Secret Service repeatedly emphasized that they would send elites to protect the president's safety, the president and his wife would have to believe it.

But the president's safety cannot be left unprotected, so the couple thought of Kai.

They hoped that Kai would stay with them for a while, and Margaret even thought about letting Kai be their personal bodyguard. But this decision was protested by the Secret Service and several other departments. Even the bigwigs in Congress persuaded the president not to embarrass the Secret Service. After all, if the president really did this, it would undoubtedly tell the people that he, the president, did not trust the government. This was a very serious political incident and would greatly undermine the morale of the people.

So Benjamin had to give in. He was the highest official in the government. If even he did not trust the government, how could the people still have trust in the government?

As a condition, Benjamin asked Congress to authorize him to lead the new team of the Secret Service and his guard.

On this point, Congress did not force it.

It could not be forced. What could they say? The White House was breached. Is there anything wrong with the president not trusting the original team?

So Benjamin sent his most trusted Banning and Davis to re-form the presidential guard. Their loyalty had been tested, and Duke was also absorbed into the presidential guard. Another thing is that Duke's ex-girlfriend... the woman who shut Duke out is now under investigation. Because she left her job just before the attack.

Although she said that it was her boss, the head agent of the White House Department of the Secret Service, who gave him leave.

But now all the secret agents in the White House are dead... and there is no place to verify.

In short, under the guiding ideology of "better to believe than not to believe", she took a leave. As for when she will come back.

That's not clear.

Of course, the president's wife is indispensable in this, but she herself does have loopholes, which is also a problem.

It takes time to form a new presidential guard, so Margaret hopes that Kai can serve as temporary security during this period.

"Kai... Banning and the others need time. I know this is very troublesome for you, but I don't trust anyone now. I can only trust you."

After all, they are friends, and it's hard for Kai to refuse. Although he thinks that such attacks will happen again, how can he say it? The president of the United States is the most popular target in the world. Basically, those countries that are unhappy with the United States will take him as a target.

"Okay... but I can only stay for a week at most. There are still a lot of things waiting for me in Los Angeles."

In fact, if the White House had not been attacked, public opinion should still be in Los Angeles. After all, the war that took place on the US mainland was boring enough for Americans to talk about for many days. But now the White House has stolen the limelight from Los Angeles.

But the problem is that the limelight being stolen cannot solve the problems that Los Angeles needs to face now. The Los Angeles police are still working overtime.

So one week is the limit.

Benjamin is very busy. He just gave a TV speech. The live broadcast equipment in the ward has not been removed in time. Old Edward brought a few military people to the ward. Old Edward is now the Deputy Minister of Defense, acting as the Minister, because the Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan is still recovering in the hospital. Among the hostages, she and the president were seriously injured. The others did not involve the secrets of Cebers, so they were not in any trouble, except for the unlucky ones who were shot.

Looking at Old Edward's expression, you can tell that this is a big deal, so soon the temporary guards of the president asked those who were still cleaning the live broadcast equipment to leave the ward immediately.

Margaret did not enter the ward. Although there is no such thing as the harem interfering in politics in the United States, generally speaking, no one would like the first lady to be too involved in these confidential events. After all, the president is elected, and the first lady is incidental. (There are exceptions, such as President Carter's wife, who will attend her husband's ministerial meeting, and Clinton's wife also participates in state affairs, but most first wives do not get involved in these things.)

Kai was left behind.

Old Edward looked at Kai and then at the president.

"Margaret is a little nervous now..." Benjamin looked helpless. After experiencing this kind of thing, no one can look at it calmly, including Benjamin, but he did not show it as obviously as Margaret: "And I believe in Kai, he has proved himself. If it is too confidential, I will let him go."

Old Edward did not say anything, Kai was also his acquaintance.

What he was going to say next was indeed confidential, but it didn't matter to Kai.

"Our people checked the body of the female terrorist and found something."

That is Zero. Kai took the initiative to say that Zero was peculiar, which was why the military would first examine Zero's body.

Benjamin knew why Edward didn't insist on letting Kai leave.

So he let Edward continue.

"The woman's body had traces of transformation. Our scientists found traces of genetic engineering and a large number of drug transformations on her body. They concluded that this was a fairly mature transformation technology! Although it is not yet confirmed whether this transformation is universal, we believe that our enemies will definitely not have only one such transformation warrior."

Benjamin frowned. He had actually been thinking about whether this terrorist attack was launched.

There are many suspected targets, a bunch of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, and countries in the world that hate the United States, and countries that have the ability to do it. There are too many.

But if you think about it carefully, every suspected target has reasons that show that they did not do it.

For example, those terrorist organizations in the Middle East do have motives, and they are also willing to destroy the United States. But the problem is that these people can only use AK47 and RPG as weapons. They don't have the technology or the ability to do such a big thing.

The same is true for those countries that hate the United States. Most of them are living a miserable life. For example, several countries in South America have domestic inflation and are struggling to make a living. They don't have the ability to do it even if they want to.

And those countries that can do it don't have such a big motivation.

For example, the other four members of the five permanent members, China and Russia both have such capabilities. Russia can only say that it hates the United States, but it hasn't hated it to the point of blowing up the entire United States. On this point, the United States and the Russians have a big cognitive bias.

Because of the propaganda of the Cold War, many Americans believe that Russia hates them and wants to destroy them.

But for the Russians, the most important thing for them now is development, so that Russia can return to the position they think it is. For the time being, they have no interest and no time to destroy the United States.

Let alone China in this world, Huaxia in this world is a sophisticated isolationist. Apart from their own sphere of influence, they rarely express their opinions on the affairs of other countries. The United States has always regarded them as enemies, but Huaxia is a little indifferent to the United States. It is completely because the United States needed such an enemy after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, so it forced them to arrange it.

But the top leaders of the United States are very clear that the Chinese are not interested in them.

And even if the two countries have ill intentions towards the United States, they will not use this method. International rules have their own ways of playing. Terrorism is too low. No normal country will use this method.

So after a circle, Benjamin himself was confused and couldn't figure out who had this ability and motivation.

"Regarding this female cyborg...Kai, do you have anything to add?"

In fact, even if Benjamin didn't keep Kai, Edward would talk to Kai about this matter later. They hope to know the performance of this cyborg and how to deal with it.

"That woman...her fighting ability is not bad, but her shortcomings are obvious. Once she starts fighting, she loses her mind and has no rules at all. It's not difficult to deal with her. A well-trained team can cooperate to kill her. If the opponent's cyborgs are all at this level, there is nothing to worry about."