Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 565 - 270: Changes in Southeast Asia and Support from the Republic
"This year, countries signed the Geneva Convention mainly to protect civilians suffering from wars or armed conflicts."
"With the Soviet Union’s pressure, the French Federation was forced to withdraw from Vietnam after signing the Geneva Convention."
"But would France be willing?"
"Of course not."
"We just talked about the significant event on the United States side in 1954, right?"
"Exactly."
"The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization."
"The nature and purpose of this organization were previously mentioned, which is to constrain the development of the Republic while providing military aid to member organizations."
"The French Federation is one of the leading members of this organization."
"Although they were forced to withdraw from Vietnam, the French Federation is unwilling, and naturally, the United States wants to get involved."
"It’s naturally impossible for Vietnam to join a founding member of the French Federation’s organization."
"But Vietnam’s situation is also quite complicated."
"People should look at the map to understand."
Saying this, Yu Feng pulled out the map of Vietnam located south of the Republic, which many players have a general impression of because of playing the Huaxia series games.
But it’s more practical to look directly at the map.
As the map came into view, and with the distinctly marked colors, the Blue Star viewers in the livestream were stunned, feeling a strong sense of familiarity.
The top represents the color of the Soviet Union, the bottom represents the color of the United States, and there’s a river in the middle as the boundary....
This looks just like another Peninsula War, doesn’t it?
It’s just that Vietnam is not as wide as the Peninsula; rather, it’s very slim from top to bottom.
Seeing the question marks in the bullet comments, Yu Feng chuckled and said:
"Exactly."
"Everyone should understand by now, this is quite similar to another Peninsula."
"Except this one is elongated."
"France is not willing to just withdraw from Vietnam like that, and the United States, having just lost the Peninsula War last year, won’t let the Republic develop peacefully."
"Thus... they are up to their old tricks again."
"The United States, starting in 1954, began providing extensive military and material support to the forces in southern Vietnam."
"While carrying out a relentless bombing campaign on the north."
"However, Vietnam, having learned from the Republic’s experience on the Peninsula, began to engage in guerrilla warfare against the United States from the forests."
"Of course."
"Vietnam alone certainly wouldn’t stand a chance."
"But fortunately, they have big brother and second brother, the Soviet Union and the Republic, supporting them from behind."
"Now the war is ongoing."
"No one knows how long it’ll last."
The Soviet Union enters, France withdraws, France and the United States engage in covert actions, and the Soviet Union and the Republic step in to support Vietnam.
Overall, it’s still these Great Power struggles.
Compared to Europe, Southeast Asia has the advantage of having ancestors watching over them.
The wars in Vietnam and the Peninsula, with the support of the Republic, have been able to withstand the invasion of the United States.
Unlike Europe.
The satellite states of Europe, everyone’s well aware of the situation.
Except that the colonial powers have arbitrary control.
During proxy wars initiated by the United States, large numbers of nationals die. By the time a nation dies with hundreds of thousands of people, they’re all the same ethnic group.
Unlike the Peninsula War and Vietnam.
With the Republic backing them, it’s the United States who eventually couldn’t bear the deaths.
Because the ones dying were real United States soldiers.
Unlike the proxy wars in Europe where hundreds of thousands died with no relation to the United States, and none of them were United States soldiers.
So, naturally, it didn’t matter how many died.
Yu Feng contemplated this with some emotion.
It’s worth noting.
The United States is fully committed in its actions.
Southern puppet troops cried for help, rushing up the Peninsula with battleships, engaging in a deadlock with the Republic Volunteer Army for three years.
After being driven out of Vietnam, France formed a united organization, not involving France directly, and provided equipment and resources to fight.
Even though they have just started those little tricks now.
But Yu Feng estimated.
The United States, in the end, will likely clash with the Republic again.
Vietnam’s geographic location, although different from the Peninsula’s shape, is almost the same in terms of location, adjacent to the Republic’s border.
Moreover, it borders Guangxi and Yunnan regions closely.
If the Peninsula threatens the Republic’s capital, then if Vietnam is occupied by the United States, it threatens the Republic’s future maritime routes.
This is absolutely not something to be left unchecked.
What the United States can think of, the Republic has naturally thought of as well.
Therefore, as the United States intends to invade Vietnam.
The Republic certainly can’t sit idly by.
It’s just that they’ve freshly ended the Peninsula War, plus the Geneva Convention and other factors.
For now, both sides won’t openly clash.
They’ve just finished fighting.
But secret confrontations are inevitable; it’s just about providing support, the United States can have it, the Republic can equally help Vietnam find something in the jungle.
But all this is for later.
Since it has just begun, Yu Feng is uncertain about how long the fighting will continue.
After discussing the known information.
The Blue Star viewers in the livestream were quite satisfied. This session not only clarified the current state of Earth but also shed light on the hatred between the Middle East region and the United States.
It also resolved a mystery about Modern Warfare.
Why is the Middle East so hostile to the United States?
Turns out it’s because the United States manipulated regime changes there, unlike in Africa, where such deaths quickly vanish from history.
The middle east’s hatred will continue to persist; the United States has underestimated the cohesion of religion and ethnicity in this free federation.
Seeing the bullet comments discussing this in the livestream, Yu Feng glanced at other livestream channels.
Some, who skipped ahead quickly, were already up to 1957, but in comparison to his comprehensive approach, these were relatively single-focused.
However, the reports in newspapers could still break news.
Yu Feng informed his livestream audience of this, and then logged off at lightning speed.
Though logging off, he didn’t leave the game.
Instead, he organized the recently arranged camps, forces, and events by category.
Then instructed his subordinates to report the collected intelligence to him by category, after which he began skipping through the plot intensively since the latest streaming timeline has already reached 1957.
He needs to make up for lost time.
Simultaneously, Yu Feng realized something; the sudden quickening of the plot’s timeline by Polestar still relates to Great Power Struggles.
Because, from a player’s perspective, if one experiences a federation, there’s almost no feeling of Great Power Struggle activities.
It’s only when players rapidly skip through the plot.
At minimum, a few years later, when looking back at international events, do they realize that countries were already in conflict, and they were just aware of one result.
Yu Feng also discovered his own advantage.
It’s comprehensive information, paired with analysis and commentary, far surpassing other livestreams in terms of popularity.
Even if other livestreams have a quicker timeline, the information covered is less and the analysis less comprehensive.
So as long as he quickly catches up to the timeline progress of other livestreams, he’ll still draw a large audience to watch his channel.
As long as he keeps it up.
He’s bound to dominate the popularity rankings in the Cold War Clouds section for a long time.
....
Elsewhere.
Yu Feng’s intelligence has also caused quite a stir among Blue Star players on the gaming forum.
The main reason is it’s too comprehensive, covering all aspects within ’Earth’, combined with many correlations giving Blue Star players a new perspective.
Various intelligence data originally seemed unrelated, even incomprehensible in terms of purpose.
Now, through connecting to the policies of various countries, they found that it all fits together.
Conflicts between countries have never been about large-scale maneuvers; even the minor details are meticulously calculated, prompting many Blue Star players to explore further.
Meanwhile, many have rushed into Polestar’s World War II series due to the detailed explanations and the fascinating Great Power Struggles.
