Chapter 1477 - A Depression (1/2)

Whether Trump was alive or not was no longer relevant to the UA.

Even if Washington and Lincoln crawled out from their coffin, it would be difficult to save the situation faced by the country at this moment, let alone someone with no experience in politics.

However, the situation was different for Celestial Trade.

A reasonable explanation or excuse could legitimize the aggression and settle the sequelae left over from the war.

While it was not difficult for Celestial Trade to use its technology to create an identical Trump, humans after all were inseparable from society. Even a perfect AI would face many obstacles during the integration of society.

In the short term, this proposal could be flawless, but it would inevitably create problems down the road. In Jiang Chen’s blueprint of Earth Federation, this kind of risk could not be tolerated. He didn’t want to solve a historical problem during the final battle with Harmony.

Jiang Chen required a “Zhang Yaping-like” president to manage the “trophies” of this war for him.

Based on Trump’s answer, he could consider sparing him.

Just when Jiang Chen’s helicopter took off to Coconut Island, Nouveau York, on the other side of the globe, was plunged into an unprecedented depression due to the war. Even the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007 did not make people living here feel so much despair.

The tunnels, bridges, and highways that connected to the outside were all blocked by the military checkpoints of Celestial Trade. Now the entire city of Nouveau York was under martial law. Everyone was ordered back home. Except for a short period of time during the day to go to the nearest rescue station to receive necessary food and medicine, no one was allowed to stay outside for a long time.

Offenders would be detained for espionage.

The martial law would last for one month, but everyone knew that it was unlikely to be lifted before this war ended…

Long Island Port, Nouveau York, cargo ships slowly approached the port.

After the ships docked, the ladders were lowered.

Groups of soldiers walked off the deck with large backpacks on their backs.

Although there were some white soldiers, most of them were Asian. They also all carried different equipment. For example, some people were equipped with the S1 kinetic skeleton as well as a quadrotor drone in their backpack. And some people just had an urban camouflage on, not only did they not have any body armor, but they also only brought the outdated AK-47s.

Excluding the enclave of Hawaii and Alaska, the forty-eight states on the mainland of the UA would require at least 48 divisions of Celestial Trade.

Even if Celestial Trade disregarded the sparsely populated inland states with weak industrial capabilities, it would be difficult to occupy the entire country by just relying on Celestial Trade’s own force. This was also taking into consideration the 50,000 reserves Xin injected into the army more than a week ago.

From the beginning, Ivan adopted a blitzkrieg strategy.

The air force, paratroopers, and amphibious assault forces were all concentrated together on an assault against East Coast. With air superiority, air raids were launched against military factories, oil fields, and electric power plants, then armored units swept across the country at the fastest speed to disintegrate the remaining forces and prevent the states from completing war mobilization.

As for occupation.

It could be left to Celestial Trade’s tributaries.

As early as two months ago, Santos mobilized a national reserve of five hundred and twenty thousand and gathered all the troops across the country to respond to the call for war from Celestial Trade. And the 100,000 force that just landed was only a small fraction of the more than 600,000 troops from Moro, and two of the divisions were from Madagascar.