Chapter 1259 Finale 2

"Mr. President, Air Force One is ready, you can leave at any time."

The elderly President MacArthur stood at the window of the Oval Office of the White House, nodded to Secretary of State Dulles, finally sighed, and slowly lowered the curtains.

The thin curtains and thick floor-to-ceiling glass windows could no longer block the protests of tens of thousands of Americans outside who were demanding the president's resignation. President MacArthur understood the indignation of the American people outside, because he ascended the presidency as a great American hero, but after a nine-year presidency, he still deeply disappointed the American people who supported him and himself.

Yes, even he was disappointed!

Because just two weeks ago, he had made a decision to accept the proposal of Atlantic economic integration proposed by Rudolf Hess, Prime Minister of the Aryan United States... just after the Americans had secretly conducted underground nuclear tests in Australia!

MacArthur immediately began to push for the United States to have atomic bombs at all costs after he was elected president. He squeezed out a huge amount of money from the already very tight finances and invested in the Manhattan Project far away in Australia.

This secret weapons project, which cost billions of dollars and lasted for more than a decade, finally succeeded not long ago!

The United States now has an atomic bomb!

At the same time, the United States also violated the European Community-US Peace Treaty and established a base for the development and testing of jet aircraft in Australia before the 10-year restriction period (restricting the development of jet aircraft) was over. In 1956 (the first year after the end of the 10-year restriction period), the United States produced its first jet fighter.

In addition, MacArthur also invested heavily in the gray area of ​​the "treaty", that is, conventional submarines. Based on the Type 21 U-boat as a blueprint - because the nuclear submarine development route was determined early, the Type 21 U-boat was made public after the war and sold to many South American countries. The United States naturally had a way to get the drawings - developed several medium-sized (underwater displacement of 1500-3000 tons) and large (underwater displacement of more than 3000 tons) high-performance submarines, and also developed closed-cycle diesel engines and compressed liquid oxygen supply technology. This enabled the US submarine force to have real underwater long-term submergence and lurking capabilities.

Under MacArthur's order, the US Navy also developed cruise missiles that can be used for shallow firing to cooperate with large-scale high-performance submarines, giving the United States the lowest level of strategic counterattack capability.

And now the United States has an atomic bomb! It can be said that the layout of former presidents Truman and Kennedy in 1945 has now been successful.

But what surprised "Hero President" MacArthur was that an America that could stand up again was now facing unprecedented difficulties, and these difficulties could not be solved by military means at all.

Because the Aryan United States with Germany as its core now has a super powerful military force!

This intercontinental country born out of World War II has achieved much greater achievements than the United States in the past decade.

Now the United States only secretly has an entry-level 20,000-ton equivalent atomic bomb, and because it is too big, it has no actual combat capability at all. The Aryan United States has at least 10,000 miniaturized nuclear warheads that can be used in actual combat, of which 500 are 5 million-ton equivalent hydrogen bombs! Enough to wipe out all mankind from the earth!

The United States now only has entry-level jet fighters, while its rival, the Aryan United States, has supersonic fighters that are more than 2.3 times the speed of sound, and are also equipped with advanced medium-range and short-range air-to-air missiles, with a combat radius of more than 1,500 kilometers, and can also be refueled in the air. The performance can completely beat the American jet fighters!

And the conventional-powered submarines owned by the United States, no matter how big they are, their actual combat capabilities cannot be compared with the nuclear submarines equipped by the Aryan United States Navy, which are completely epoch-making super underwater killers.

What's more terrifying is that the Aryan United States is now equipped with submarine-launched ballistic missiles with a range of up to 1,500 kilometers for their underwater killers!

These terrible ballistic missile nuclear submarines are likely to be lurking underwater near the East Coast of the United States. It only takes a dozen minutes to completely raze the East Coast to the ground.

Moreover, the Aryan United States may have even more powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles. Although they have never admitted to possessing such destructive weapons, they used a huge carrier rocket to launch a manned spacecraft into a space orbit 300 kilometers above the ground in early 1958, thus realizing the first manned space flight in human history.

On the other hand, the United States did not even have a rocket that could launch an artificial satellite, and of course there was no artificial satellite to launch...

In the competition to open up outer space, the United States has already lost the first and second rounds, and is far behind the Europeans!

However, what made MacArthur feel most helpless was the huge disadvantage of the United States in economic competition.

Economic issues are now the main problem that MacArthur, as the President of the United States, has to face!

With the impetus brought by the huge reparations from the United States, the process of Aryan unification has been rapidly promoted in the past ten years. By 1955, when Hitler died, the countries included Germany (including the German Monarchy), France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary-Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Denmark, and Ireland. 17 countries, including the United States, have joined the Aryan United States.

However, Hitler's death did not cause the Aryan unification process to slow down or even reverse as the American people imagined. Because Aryan unification is not just a political process, but also an irreversible economic process.

A huge market with a population of 550 million, rich resources, vast land, developed economy, and leading technology gradually appeared on both sides of the Atlantic with the process of Aryan unification.

With the death of Hitler, who was too racist, the obstacles that hindered the flow of population, resources, capital and technology among the states under the Aryan United States were gradually and completely removed.

By 1958, the states of the United Aryan States had truly achieved economic unification and had also achieved "liberalization" of their internal economies. After the Nazi Party came to power, Germany began to establish a set of private capital and a planned economy. combined economic system. This system did play a very good role in the 1930s and 1940s, helping Germany get out of the economic crisis and concentrate resources to prepare for war.

However, in the process of establishing the Aryan United States after the war, many problems arose in this system. It is mainly the planned economic system of each state (each state imitates Germany in its economic system) that limits the formation of a unified Aryan market. At the same time, it also caused two serious problems: local protection and industry monopoly.

So after Hitler suffered from severe Parkinson's disease, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering and Albert Speer, who helped him come to power, began to carry out economic reforms. Various unreasonable controls within the Aryan United States were gradually eliminated, and at the same time the power of each state government to intervene in the economy was reduced - it had to be reduced, otherwise there would be no state integration, and even the customs and monetary union would be reduced to nothing. form, so that Aryan unity is a false appearance.

The purpose is to strengthen the economic integration and liberalization of unified states (it can only be liberalized, otherwise states will have serious conflicts over the formulation of domestic trade plans). After the policy was implemented, it significantly increased the economy of the United Aryan States. Vitality and efficiency, while breaking regulations and administrative monopolies and promoting investment.

The liberalization of the flow of people (mainly the flow of Slavs to the west) has greatly promoted the economic development of Western Europe, led by Germany and France. The concentration of population itself generates enormous demand and productivity.

Previously, Hitler prevented the large influx of Slavs into Western Europe. On the surface, this protected the employment of Germans and French people, but at the same time, it also prevented France and Germany, especially Germany, from obtaining sufficient labor and technical talents. The "insufficient" population has restricted the formation of super cities and metropolitan areas, making it impossible for the Western European economy to fully enjoy the dividends generated by population agglomeration.

So after Hess and others lifted various restrictions, the economy of the United Aryan States began a new round of take-off.

The huge and unified market began to exert terrifying power!

At the same time, the U.S. economy, which originally had the largest unified market in the world, began to suffer from a narrow market.

Of course, the "narrowness" of the United States is not really "narrow". It will always have the status of the world's second largest market.

However, the large American companies and the working class who are accustomed to enjoying the world's largest market find it difficult to tolerate the smallness of the world's second largest market. Because the main international competitiveness of large American companies originally came from the large local market - with the support of the largest market, the costs of American companies investing in technology and new product development can be borne by more consumers. , so it is easier for American companies to obtain economies of scale. At the same time, we can also base ourselves on the United States and expand overseas, spilling the scale effects brought by the large American market to the international market and win more profits for American companies. With sufficient income, American companies can pay relatively high wages to workers, and high wages further stimulate the development of the domestic market in the United States, thus forming a virtuous cycle.

But now, the emergence of a unified Aryan market that is much larger than the American market has given large European companies a greater scale effect than American companies. At the same time, the opening of markets such as India, the Middle East, and most of Africa to the United Aryan States (these markets also accept American goods, but set up higher tax rates and non-tariff barriers) has given European companies additional scale advantages.

Therefore, in the so-called free markets of Central and South America (excluding New Asbania) and the markets of Rome and New Asbania, where American and European (Aryan) goods can enjoy equal treatment, American products without scale advantages have grown rapidly over the past ten years. Over the years, they have been losing ground.

In the end, American products almost shrunk to the mainland, and the originally huge market became narrower.