Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

President Obama appeared among the crowd, dressed in a simple gray shirt and black trousers.

He said with deep emotion:

"Please stand up and look around. What do we see? What do we think of... I think I see ruins."

Everyone stood up, sat down, and looked at the abandoned Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the bridge that was almost blown up.

The topic of Obama's speech today is:

"We will rebuild America from the ruins."

He recounted his investigation in detail:

"In my view, the greatest damage that the United States has suffered from the 16 years of political turmoil and racial conflict since 2017, as well as the increasing politicization of federal education funding, is that we have lost our intelligence, lost our brains. Our university research is in a mess, our research labs are in ruins, our railroads are 130 years old and no one is optimizing them, and our factories are closing down in large numbers and no one is taking over."

In short, Obama's speech was very inspiring.

Aside from his tendency to shift blame and absolve himself of responsibility, Americans really like this tactic.

He then criticized education:

"Many of our scientific research achievements are close to zero. Our medical achievements have plummeted, our aerospace technology is lacking, and our research in advanced engineering materials, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, biochemistry, data science, distributed classification, and even semiconductors and advanced agriculture has stagnated."

"What we can't ignore is that America's basic education is also in ruins. Most of our public education students can't do math calculations up to 100, can't guarantee a vocabulary of 500 words, can't write fluently in English, and can't even read the Bible."

Of course, Obama will not admit that he was responsible for the collapse of American education. During his presidency, in order to gain the support of teachers' unions, he tripled federal education funding and expanded the teaching force several times over. These teachers devoured education funds like pigs in schools, yet redefined student success, condoned students leading crazy behavior, forced good teachers to leave, and students' grades plummeted.

Obama thus concluded:

"We have to admit that America has become a mindless ruin, a primitive and chaotic fortress, a crumbling nation, a land without God."

Under such circumstances, the United States is a country that cannot be blessed by God.

This is a sentimental conclusion that both left-leaning centrists and right-leaning conservatives can agree on.

Both the Returnists and the Adventists felt that America had lost God.

Obama suddenly sat down in front of the American people and elites from all walks of life amidst the ruins, and like a philosopher from ancient Greece, made a firm promise:

"Therefore, I think it is time for us to regain God's glory."

"The United States will stop accepting immigrants, the United States will abandon its global center position, the United States will close its doors, clean its backyard, and get people back on track. We will close our borders and face up to the country's shortcomings. We will reduce unreasonable and complicated approvals, we will greatly promote industrial production, we will provide our citizens with sufficient goods and housing, and we need to help people find a way to live again."

Obama likened himself to a wise king, aiming to lead Americans in rebuilding civilization on their barbaric land. This time, however, the US will significantly close its borders, reduce inbound travelers, overhaul education, eliminate outrageous vetting processes, and provide substantial and abundant material resources.

It sounds like some kind of wilderness pioneering game.

To the Chinese, this sounds more like a 'closed-door policy'. Is the next step to open five ports for trade?

Obama's speech at the Lincoln Memorial outlined the general direction of his policies.

Economic recovery, industrial construction, re-education, closing borders, and information control—this doesn't sound like freedom at all, nor does it support financial recovery.

When Wall Street tycoons heard that Obama wanted to build a wall similar to the one Salazar-style blockade in Portugal and start rebuilding from the ruins, they were stunned.

Everyone thought that after seven years of hardship, the United States had reached an economic turning point.

Who knew that Obama's measures would resemble those of Federal Reserve Chairman Walter during the Great Stagflation of the 70s, slamming on the brakes and starting a complete rebuild from the ground up, with no one able to escape.

They went to Obama to complain, but Obama firmly rejected the financial sector's demands, wanting to focus his energy on rebuilding education and industry.

He criticized:

"I would like to convey a Chinese perspective to everyone: during the period of industrial construction, the financial sector should not take the lead."

The financial sector is putting pressure on Obama both overtly and covertly.

Obama replied:

"Let them do it if they dare. I'm curious, after the defeat in Hawaii, would the Pentagon still dare to drive tanks into the White House?"

Obama's determination to implement tough reforms reveals his true, assertive personality. His greatest reliance, ironically, stems from the weakness of his own country's financial and military groups, while Li Xinghe across the sea is terrifyingly powerful. This is undeniably a profound irony.

Helpless financial giants began to flee overseas.

US stocks, US bonds, cryptocurrencies, and financial and virtual assets have once again begun to plummet.

The United States can rebuild, but the financial sector, which has been severely damaged, cannot rest for even a day. This time, Wall Street tycoons are once again flocking to East Asia's financial center and to Li Xinghe's company.

However, it would be like throwing good money after bad if they went there; the good spots were already taken. But the disobedient tycoons wanted to experience the underground hotel of the Qingshan Command Headquarters.

After getting rid of these vampires, Obama began his diplomatic work.

Obama signed a crucial executive order: abolishing the five theater commands.

The legislation also included the repeal of hundreds of U.S. overseas bases, which were required to be transferred as soon as possible.

In short, Obama took a one-size-fits-all approach to the US overseas bases: no, none of them, not a single one.

Military spending will be cut by another $3000 billion.

In this legislation, Obama simultaneously certified U.S. military bases in states already recognized as U.S. territories, such as Alaska and Hawaii, as well as U.S. overseas territories like Puerto Rico, as overseas bases that "need to be abandoned and transferred," to demonstrate to the world the U.S.'s determination to completely withdraw from foreign affairs.

He even decided to abandon Guantanamo Bay!

This really scared the US military. The reason why Cuba, a communist country, has been causing trouble under the US's nose for so long is because Guantanamo Bay is in the hands of the US military. You can just throw that away?

Of course, in order to give Li Xinghe a platform to sign a peace treaty, Obama announced that part of Hawaii's ports would be opened as international naval ports, allowing warships from allied countries to dock.

For the world, the biggest effect of this statement is that Obama has finally made the most formal statement on behalf of the United States regarding the transfer of international hegemony, namely: the United States will immediately withdraw from the global competition for hegemony and dismantle the so-called five theater commands: Central, European, Indo-Pacific, Americas (including the former Northern and Southern Commands), and Africa, as well as hundreds of overseas bases.

So, who will emerge victorious in the struggle for global hegemony next?

......

Tokyo.

Looking at Obama's ambitious reform plan, Li Xinghe felt that Kenya, the hometown of his biological father, was probably the most suitable place for Obama.

"It sounds wonderful, as if the United States only needs to close its doors and rebuild for another 20 years to solve its political and economic problems. Our neighbor, President Putin, has been rebuilding Russia for a full 40 years, and he still hasn't restored its former glory."

Obama has finally stopped thinking like a global hegemon and started focusing on governing the United States as an American. This is a good thing.

Gao Tiao Wuyue, with her feet crossed, criticized:

"The problem is that Obama's demand to allow Canada and Mexico to become independent was strongly opposed by the Pentagon and some executive and financial departments. As a result, he was unable to mention allowing the two countries to become independent in his public statement."

By this time, Canada and Mexico had become a burden on the United States. Obama did not need the so-called 'glory of conquest' that these places brought, nor was he willing to continue maintaining the high costs of governing these two regions.

The only problem is that the American hawks and the military are unwilling to relinquish this last line of defense. They have already effectively lost Alaska and Hawaii; are they really going to allow Li Xinghe to take Canada as well?

When they hardened their stance, Obama softened.

In Li Xinghe and Gao Tiaowu's view, this was Obama's fatal weakness. He couldn't control the military. And the military would, in the days to come, deeply resent Obama amidst massive military spending cuts.

The lessons of the Hawaiian naval battle were so devastating that the Pentagon has recently become as soft as noodles, consistently complying with Obama's global retreat plan.

Gao Tiaowuyue, who surfs the internet every day, even wrote a diary entry:

"Actually, I think Americans definitely can't stand Obama's 'self-discipline and restoration of propriety' approach."

Young people addicted to drugs, middle-aged people on drugs, urban residents obsessed with entertainment, homeless people everywhere, and an uncontrollable gang economy—the kind of idyllic society that Obama envisioned is simply impossible to create on the vast land of the United States. Isolation is impossible, and controlling the situation is even more difficult.

The outcome is unlikely to be optimistic.

Meanwhile, the coalition navy was the first to enter Hawaii.

The First Pacific Expeditionary Force, with the Lanfang as its flagship and carrying multiple supply ships, destroyers, and survey ships, headed to the international open naval port in Hawaii.

The fleet, flying the flags of the coalition forces and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, entered the harbor with a sense of satisfaction amidst the hatred and fear in the eyes of the Americans.

It looks like they're showing off the privileges of the victors, and in fact, they are.

Squad Commander Chen Cheng happily raised his hands:

"Leaving Japan, the vast ocean is more suitable for men to venture out. You have no idea how annoying universities in Japan are. I was so tired of trying to get my master's degree. That professor even made me research 'how long it takes for a person to die after eating rice'."

They were received by a diplomatic attaché pre-arranged by the coalition forces. He remarked with a smile:

"I heard those people have been asked to retire."

Chen Cheng happily disembarked:

"As long as they stop researching 'which will kill you faster, eating ramen or eating rice,' that's utterly rotten."

However, the local military officer still made a joke:

"Then you've come to the right place. The professors here study every day whether men should have female genitalia and whether women should have male genitalia. This place should be quite suitable for you Nanjing people."

As is well known, the elegant language of Jinling always begins with a suspenseful opening and ends with a veiled conclusion.

"Hanging wall".

Chen Chenggang had just disembarked when he was called back aboard to see the latest intelligence report.

After reading it, his brows immediately furrowed:

"Damn it, this is really bad luck. Europe is already preparing for war, and we've only just arrived in Hawaii. What can we do in this godforsaken place? Go and exchange flying tips with Conan's dad?"

"I bet all you can do is masturbate in your dorm. We're in an international port area, not the Allied Forces Headquarters in Yokosuka, Tokyo."

The staff officers had no choice but to make jokes to amuse themselves.

Because Turkey has made another huge blunder; they dropped a dirty nuclear bomb on Kosovo, creating a nuclear contamination zone covering tens of square kilometers. (The last part, "你咏在你我空你林在在没呢," is a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly. It's likely a result of OCR errors.)

Taking advantage of this pretext, with Obama's "abolition of the five theater commands", the new Soviet Union was free from any constraints.

Along the Danube River, the newly formed Soviet Red Army, having just completed agricultural reclamation in the Varadkar border region and restored 200 million hectares of irrigated land, received orders to prepare for a southward advance.

"Comrades, Türkiye's last madness is over. Let us move forward!"

Chapter 140 Accelerating the Burning World, the Constantinople Speedrun Competition (4000 words)

New Soviet Union, Wallachia Border District.

Several assault groups have formed densely along the Danube River.

The fluttering red flags are nestled among the green fields, and the rolling Danube River reflects the two competing flags.

The Central Assault Group, commanded by a Ukrainian commander and a Chinese political commissar, will lead eight divisions plus auxiliary forces, totaling 100,000 men, across the Danube River.

There are not many bridges across the river at the border between Bulgaria and Romania, and the only one suitable for large-scale military crossings is the Russe-Djurju Friendship Bridge.

Therefore, the center of the battle between the two sides was very clear: the Friendship Bridge.

The frontline commander went to call for reinforcements:

"What about the volunteer assault brigade? Send them to the front to scout."

The Slavic region is a magical and chaotic place. Or rather, after years of clashes between left and right ideologies, the various ethnic groups of Eastern Europe, represented by the Slavic region, and even the delusional people of Central and Southern Europe, rose up and decided to participate in this world-destroying war.

The new Soviet Union had five volunteer assault brigades that received volunteers from neighboring countries; these military camps were practically breeding grounds for chemical weapons.

Here you can see veteran communists from Lithuania and Estonia, former Nazi battalion members from western Ukraine, Ukrainian nationalists, Polish anti-government lunatics, Romanian revenge fighters, Bulgarian government officials, and various communist and Tsarist Russian leaders from Belarus and Russia. At the same time, there is also a large community of extreme conservative Christians.

These Christians held an even more bizarre view: they believed that the resurrection of the new Soviet Union was ordained by God.

Since it's God's arrangement, then let's join God.

It could be said that I killed myself.

Aside from Christians, there are also many Orthodox Christians and Muslims. The former are closely linked to Tsarist Russian elements, identifying with certain Orthodox characteristics of the Soviet Union. The latter are purely opposed to Turkey's current fanatical tendencies, attempting to set things right and return to normal religious life.

The reason why these people, who occupy multiple ideological spectrums from the far left to the far right, and may even be in a state of confusion, can gather in the same military camp is very simple: they all hold accelerationist tendencies to varying degrees.

Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up even more!

Like the common slogan of the five volunteer assault brigades, they described it as:

"Burn down the old, outdated world and create a new, beautiful world."

Soon, a volunteer company was called up.

The commander told them:

"Hey, a volunteer assault mission is here. We need a few clever guys to advance to the reverse slope of the old trench outside the bridge pier and conduct close-range drone reconnaissance. They have a lot of Phalanx anti-aircraft machine guns with intelligent aiming systems. Fly carefully."

The team advanced rapidly, traversed the minefield, and deployed drones.

Drones fill the sky, waging a bloodless mechanical war. There is no bloodshed, no revolutionary fervor, only silently fluttering red flags, drones made of steel and plastic, and all sorts of special equipment.

The Turkish drones quickly experienced the most advanced anti-drone laser force, with large laser mirrors sweeping across the battlefield in the sky.

"This is the world's scariest laser mirror. Would you dare to look into it for five seconds?"