Chapter 476: Spending
a lot of time to support a country is widely criticized. Unless it has other purposes, almost no country is willing to do so.
But if you go along with the flow and belittle a country, you can also shirk your own responsibilities. I believe that most countries will choose to do this.
The current status of the flu and the current situation in the United States are exactly like this. It is not just Arthur and Australasia who are cheating the Americans, but also the Allied Powers represented by Britain and France, the entire World Alliance, and all European countries.
There is no way, everyone needs to pass the blame. After all, almost all European countries have performed poorly during the flu.
If I had to describe the current situation of Americans, if it weren't for the fact that the flu hasn't ended yet, I'm afraid the European coalition forces would have already been dispatched.
Now it is no longer a question of whether the Americans are willing or not. The United States has been convicted. In addition to paying compensation, the only way left for the United States is to use force to resist.
But the question is, can Americans really withstand the coalition forces of the World Alliance? Not to mention the United States, the previous huge allies could not withstand it, but now the first, second, fourth, fifth, and sixth powers are united.
Of course, although they are temporarily unable to set foot on American soil, the World Alliance also has means to sanction Americans.
First, all member states of the World Alliance jointly proposed to freeze all foreign assets of Americans as compensation to various countries.
You know, almost all the Allied powers owe foreign debt to the United States. If Americans' foreign assets are really frozen, this loan will not have to be repaid.
Countries like Australasia that have signed a reparation loan agreement can also directly void the agreement and cancel their debts with the United States.
To describe it in one sentence, the United States has lost money this time. Tens of billions of dollars in foreign debt have been written off, and there are still a large number of American assets abroad. This is not a small sum.
What's even more terrible is that the responsibility for the death of millions of Europeans from the flu is the biggest burden on the US government.
If this matter is not handled well, at least it will be hostile to all countries, and at worst it will become a sinner of all mankind. A crime against humanity is enough to dissolve the US government on the spot.
If Britain and France really wanted to blackmail the United States, the deaths of tens of millions of people in the colonies alone would be enough to bankrupt the U.S. government.
The U.S. government naturally does not dare to bear such a huge responsibility. Let alone one U.S. government, even ten U.S. governments combined do not dare to bear such a huge responsibility.
But no matter how much the U.S. government denies it, European countries insist that the real responsibility for the flu lies with the United States, and it is impossible for Americans to escape.
The current situation in the United States is not good either, let alone the casualties caused by this flu. According to statistics from some American media, the average life expectancy in the United States has dropped by 12 years in mid-October compared with the beginning of the year. The growth in average life expectancy caused by industrial and technological progress has also instantly dropped back to its original state.
Faced with pressure from domestic and foreign media, the public, and even the country, the U.S. government can only stay in the White House like a turtle. After all, the flu is still raging. European countries dare not take the risk to come to the United States, and the opposition parties are not fools. He would impeach Wilson at such a moment and let his own people take the blame.
This also means that although President Wilson's status is now in jeopardy, as long as the flu does not end, President Wilson's status will be relatively stable.
Everyone knows that being president of the United States during a flu is not a good position, and President Wilson is likely to take the blame.
What everyone didn’t expect was that the flu, which started killing people in August, gradually disappeared as winter approached.
Although it will not disappear completely, it is indeed not that serious anymore, and the number of infections and deaths in various countries are falling crazily.
By the end of November, the number of infections in Europe had dropped below 3 million, and the number of infections in the old powers, led by Britain and France, had dropped below 500,000. The flu seemed to be over.
Although governments of various countries do not dare to let down their guard yet, they have already contacted each other, waiting to let the Americans take the blame and ask for some compensation.
On December 17, 1918, the World League plenary meeting was held in Geneva. Representatives from almost all member states attended, which also symbolized the importance that countries attached to this meeting.
As soon as the meeting began, Britain and France pointed their finger at the United States. The British representative even openly declared that the World Alliance should punish the culprits who caused the world to suffer, and called on all member states to unite to deal with the evil enemy.
At the call of Britain and France, Russia and Italy also nodded to express their support for Britain and France.
Although Australasia was low-profile, it also supported the actions of Britain and France, which also set the tone for the meeting.
Under the premise that Britain, France, Russia, Australia and Italy all support sanctions against the United States, even if other countries have objections, it is impossible to influence the decision of the World Alliance.
What's more, almost all countries are waiting to impose sanctions on the United States and obtain compensation from the United States to appease their domestic people, but no country will express opposition under such circumstances.
The reason why all five major powers agreed to impose sanctions on the United States is also very simple. They all owe the United States US$2 billion in foreign debt.
This is a foreign debt of up to 400 million pounds. It can be abolished only by imposing sanctions on the United States. If you think about it with your toes, you will support Britain and France. With the support of the five major powers, this meeting completely went astray. Countries are already adding new crimes to the United States. Using chemical plants to conduct virus research is already the smallest crime. There are also crimes of deliberately releasing viruses, crimes against humanity, etc. It seems that the United States must be directly eliminated and deprived of all its property to compensate itself. .
The British representative also openly declared that the flu was the United States' attempt to wipe out all countries in the world.
As for the evidence, the best evidence is that influenza mainly targets young people aged 20 to 30 years old.
Logically speaking, young adults have better physical fitness and cannot be the group of people who die the most from influenza.
However, statistics from various countries have overturned this view. More than 70% of the people who died were young adults between 20 and 40 years old, and the majority of them were young people between 20 and 30 years old.
It goes without saying what young adults symbolize to a country. These people are not only a source of excellent soldiers, but also mainly excellent workers and labor force. They are an important guarantee for the industrial and economic development of a country.
The British even prepared more physical evidence and witness for this. A large number of biological experts from prestigious European universities came to the podium with their research results and explained their research results to other countries: A biological expert from Oxford University said that the number of deaths caused
by The culprit, most of whom are young adults, is a new strain they named K1.
This strain has no resemblance in nature and is not even identical to most previously circulating influenza strains.
There is every reason to suspect that K1 is a new type of virus developed artificially, specifically harming young and middle-aged people in various countries around the world.
What's even more terrible is that the K1 virus did not appear at all in the influenza outbreak in the United States in March. But since the second round of influenza broke out in Europe in August, the K1 virus began to appear frequently, killing millions of young Europeans.
Why did the K1 virus not appear in the United States at the beginning of the influenza outbreak, while the European influenza outbreak was accompanied by the emergence of a large number of K1 viruses? The biological expert also has a bold guess, that is, the K1 virus was artificially released by the United States, but it was eventually introduced by carelessness. Just the United States.
Of course, there are more bold guesses. In order to avoid suspicion, the Americans even blamed Australasia, deliberately allowing the K1 virus to spread back to the United States and packaging the United States into the role of the victim.
Such research results aroused the interest of all European countries. After circulating them to each other, everyone believed what biological experts said that the K1 virus was most likely artificially released by the United States.
Immediately afterwards, the famous biology professor of the University of Paris in France directly took out a virus sample and declared that it was a replica K1 virus produced by the Biological Laboratory of the University of Paris based on a large number of experiments. It was almost identical to the K1 virus currently circulating in the world. This confirms the theory that the K1 virus was man-made and spread.
People have no doubts about the biologist's statement that he has copied the K1 virus. After all, no one has any intention of testing the power of the virus for themselves.
Besides, this meeting only needs a legal excuse to impose sanctions and declare war on the United States. As for whether what these experts say is true, representatives from various countries are not too concerned.
However, these information and research results are forged. As long as all the country representatives here believe it, then it will be authentic information certified by the authority.
Whether it is true or false is not that important. What is important is whether anyone believes it, or whether anyone is willing to believe it.
The meeting led all countries to agree that the virus was created and spread by the United States, which fully confirmed the accusations of the U.S. government.
In the end, the four permanent members and five representatives of the elected members of the World Alliance jointly announced that the United States was the culprit of the American influenza pandemic and announced that they would combine the power of all countries in the World Alliance to jointly sanction the United States.
The biggest effect of this meeting is to convince most Europeans and most countries that the United States is the culprit of the virus.
There are even many Europeans who firmly believe this. After all, one country may deceive people, and dozens of countries cannot unite to deceive these people.
Although the World Alliance has adopted a decision to impose sanctions on the United States, countries are obviously not ready for a war against the United States.
After all, the United States is a great power, and it is separated from most members of the World Alliance by at least one ocean.
If you want to sanction the United States, in addition to gathering a powerful navy, you must also prepare at least 500,000 army troops.
But the war in Europe had just ended a few months ago, and coupled with the troubles caused by the flu, countries did not dare to rashly launch a war.
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