Chapter 277: 【Polarization in 1985】(4k)

Yu Feng brought out the data on the American Federation from the past few years and began, "The American Federation has been quite busy these past few years."

"And they have successfully reversed the offensive and defensive roles, beginning to expand their influence once again."

"First is the newly inaugurated leader of the American Federation."

"They abandoned the 'human rights' policy of the previous administration, wanting to suppress the Soviet Federation's ideas and a series of policies by occupying the moral high ground."

"Because after a few years, the American Federation also realized something."

"If one only talks about morality, the Soviet Federation doesn't care at all."

"The fact that the American Federation could come to its senses so quickly..."

"... has something to do with the fact that they themselves have been doing this for many years."

"After all, back when the American Federation was being overbearing..."

"... they would bomb the Vietnam Federation if they said they would, and bomb the Cambodia Federation if they said they would. At that time, protests from countries all over the world were everywhere."

"But the American Federation did what it wanted regardless."

"So when the American Federation discovered that it couldn't beat the Soviets with force, it wanted to suppress the other side via the moral high ground."

"The result was..."

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"The other side simply ignored you and continued doing exactly what they were doing."

"In these past few years, the American Federation has also experienced the feeling of being bullied with nowhere to complain."

The Blue Star friends in the stream couldn't help but laugh.

After all, before the Soviet Federation expanded to its peak, the American Federation was truly overbearing—hitting whoever it wanted, bombing whoever it wanted. Now, it turns out they can't beat the Soviet Federation.

They wanted to use the same tactics others used on them to deal with the Soviet Federation.

The result...

【Soviet Federation: You have no morals, but you also overestimated me...】

Yu Feng continued, "The newly inaugurated American Federation leader started a hardline policy against the Soviet Federation."

"First, of course, was solving the internal problems of the American Federation."

"They pushed the 'Economic Recovery Act,' with tax cuts as the core, striving to reverse economic stagflation."

"And it was indeed effective."

"Because the American Federation's inflation rate that year dropped from 13.5% to 10.3%."

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"It could be considered effective."

"Then came the trouble-making for the Soviet Federation."

"As mentioned earlier."

"The new American Federation leader was a hardliner against the Soviet Federation, so when the Soviet Federation couldn't control the Poland incident in Eastern Europe..."

"... the American Federation went through the Vatican Federation."

"They transported a large amount of funds and equipment to Poland."

"Used to let the labor unions in Poland resist the Soviet Federation."

"This makes it easy to understand."

"Why, after the Soviet Federation couldn't intervene and let Poland resolve it internally, it still dragged on for so long without a resolution."

"Because the American Federation had long been providing financial support behind the scenes."

"At the same time."

"This year."

"The newly inaugurated American Federation leader pushed forward upgrade plans for many strategic weapons, including the B-1 bomber."

"This brought no small amount of pressure to the Soviet Federation."

"Then came 1982."

"This year."

"The American Federation's Secretary of the Navy proposed the '600-Ship Fleet' plan, the focus of which was to use quantity to suppress the Soviet Federation's nuclear submarines."

"But how to put it..."

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"That year, the Soviet Federation had as many as 14 nuclear submarine accidents."

"I reckon if they just hung on a bit longer, they might have blown themselves up."

"Not only that."

"The American Federation was also deploying missiles all over Europe."

"The hardline attitude and style of the American Federation's new leader caused worry among many European citizens."

"So in this year."

"Many anti-nuclear events broke out across Europe, with as many as millions of citizens resisting the American Federation's deployment of missiles in Europe."

"This can be considered a strategic divergence between the American Federation and Europe."

Yu Feng flipped through the data.

And the Blue Star netizens in the stream could perceive just how hardline the American Federation's attitude was through their actions over these two years.

After all, compared to the previous 'human rights' methods, the current American Federation was directly pushing hard for military equipment upgrades, deploying missiles, and even building warships."

It looked exactly like they were trying to make up for all the years they had fallen behind.

Yu Feng continued, "Then came 1983."

"This year."

"The American Federation proposed the 'Strategic Defense Initiative,' also known as the Star Wars program; this was announced publicly."

"I have collected some internal reports from the American Federation here."

"According to the report analysis."

"The purpose of this plan was to induce the Soviet Federation to focus its energy on the production of anti-missile weapons, forcing the Soviet Federation, whose military spending was already skyrocketing, to continue increasing its military output."

"According to the American Federation's internal reports, it was estimated that this could drag down the Soviet Federation by 1.5% of its annual national GDP."

"Everyone just learned what the Soviet Federation was like during this stage."

"There were constant domestic complaints, they had already started restricting the purchase of supplies, and under the influence of the Poland incident in Eastern Europe, other federations and countries were also breaking out in incidents, while the Afghanistan Federation war quagmire was still increasing military spending consumption."

"Under such circumstances."

"The American Federation openly announced the 'Star Wars' program, forcing the Soviet Federation to invest heavily in the research of space weapons and anti-missile weapons."

"I feel that estimating a 1.5% drag on the Soviet Federation's GDP is even conservative."

"This move by the American Federation is too ruthless."

The Blue Star netizens in the stream also gasped.

There was such a thing?

That is too ruthless.

Damn, why didn't we think of that?

This move by the American Federation to drag down the opponent's economy seems to have opened a door to a new world for Blue Star players.

It seems that sometimes war is not just a contest on the battlefield.

If this kind of method is deployed, it is also quite toxic.

The Blue Star netizens in the stream were letting their thoughts run wild.

And Yu Feng continued, "Of course."

"This year was not just about this one thing."

"NATO also 'organized' an exercise, a simulated nuclear strike exercise."

"That's right."

"It was that incident where the 'misjudgment' led the Soviet Federation to the highest level of national alert, only to find out in the end that it was just an exercise by the other side."

"This incident also exposed many weaknesses of the Soviet Federation."

"It was equivalent to the American Federation baiting the Soviet Federation into using its ultimate move."

"This..."

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"There's no way to describe it."

The American Federation's strike was too ruthless and too precise.

It wasn't just baiting the Soviet Federation into an arms race when its economy was near collapse; it was also precisely seeing through the chaos of the Soviet Federation's internal command system through an exercise.

An exercise actually caused the entire country to go to the highest level of combat readiness.

Such consumption is not just a little bit.

And yet, no fight broke out, and in the end, they found out they had been played.

This was a huge blow to the prestige of the Soviet Federation and the trust of the domestic citizens in the Soviet Federation.

Yu Feng continued flipping through the data: "Immediately after was 1984."

"This year."

"While the Soviet Federation's economy continued to deteriorate, the American Federation, through its previous policies, had already achieved economic recovery, with a GDP growth of 7.2% that year."

"Now."

"They had even more time and money to consume the Soviet Federation."

Hearing this.

The Blue Star netizens in the stream couldn't help but nod.

Indeed.

Before, the American Federation's economy was still in decline, but because it wasn't dragged down by foreign wars, it was much better off than the Soviet Federation.

Anyway, everyone was in negative growth, but yours was more negative than mine, so I'll just drag you along and see who dies first.

But now.

The American Federation's economy was not only not in negative growth, but actually grew by 7.2%.

It had already reached the standard of economic recovery.

This means that now, only the old rival, the Soviet Federation, was constantly investing in military spending, causing the vicious cycle where the proportion of military GDP and output continued to expand.

The American Federation had completely jumped out of it.

It was already growing.

Even if it dropped a little, they wouldn't be afraid at all.

Because it was always maintaining stability.

While the Soviet Federation was constantly declining.

The Blue Star netizens were getting a headache just watching.

The Soviet Federation really has the worst luck... who could have imagined that the American Federation would suddenly recover economically and start growing its GDP.

Yu Feng looked at the data and said, "This year."

"The American Federation hosted the Olympic Games."

"And the Soviet Federation was absent, citing safety issues."

"This Olympic Games also became a propaganda tool for the American Federation."

"The American Federation took advantage of this opportunity, which had the world's attention, to showcase the prosperity after its economic recovery, while simultaneously promoting liberal values to citizens and tourists from all over the world."

"And this set of liberal values of the American Federation—freedom, equality, and the inclusion of multicultural values."

"In that era."

"Caused quite a sensation and led many people to pursue 'freedom' and head to the American Federation."

"Thinking about it, it's understandable."

"After all, in the world at that time."

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"There were still many countries that had not truly been liberated. The output of these values to foreign athletes and tourists during the Olympic Games was a shock that those tourists and athletes had never felt before."

"It was a shock."

"So it could be like this?"

"This was probably the most common thought among foreign tourists and athletes at the time."

"Of course."

"This wave did not start here."

"But its spread was inextricably linked to these Olympic Games."

"Then came 1985."

Yu Feng flipped through the data and said, "This year, the leader who brought economic recovery to the American Federation won the election and was successfully re-elected."

"And then."

"After being re-elected, they implemented 'containment' against the Soviet Federation."

"Secretly providing financial aid to the 'Mujahideen' organization in the Afghanistan Federation."

"There might have been weapons, but there should have been very few."

"Because it was secret aid, it belonged to the category of causing trouble for the Soviet Federation."

"So it definitely couldn't be done in the open."

"And transporting weapons and such, the target is too obvious and too easy to investigate."

"It's better to just provide financial support."

"Anyway, the American Federation's economy has recovered now, so financial support doesn't matter."

"On the contrary."

"If this little bit of financial support could cause big trouble for the Soviet Federation, then the American Federation would have made a huge profit."

After all, for the American Federation, what is a few hundred million dollars in support?

But this support could allow the 'Mujahideen' in the Afghanistan Federation to buy many guns and ammunition, causing greater casualties for the Soviet Federation.

And these casualties, fed back into the Soviet Federation, led to greater pressure.

For the American Federation, it was simply too worth it.

Yu Feng flipped through the data and said, "Then there is the development of technology."

"In this year."

"The American Federation's technological hegemony was basically consolidated."

"Its domestic computers were already two generations ahead of the Soviet Federation."

"Computers being two generations behind."

"The impact of that is also in all aspects, of course... if the Soviet Federation had scientists whose human brains were more powerful than computers, like the Republic, then just pretend I didn't say anything."

"It's just that this technological gap is real."

"There's really no way around this."

"Let's look at the overall situation of the American Federation over these few years."

"First is the financial aspect; with the combination of the US dollar interest rate hikes and economic sanctions against the Soviet Federation, they had drained the Soviet Federation's foreign exchange in just a few years."

"Then in terms of propaganda, the Russian-language audience of Voice of America reached as many as 30 million."

"You have to know."

"The Soviet Federation during this period had a population of about 280 million."

"And Voice of America had 30 million listeners, which is equivalent to one out of every nine Soviet Federation citizens being a listener of Voice of America."

"This is undermining the foundation of the Soviet Federation."

"I already said it before."

"The values of 'freedom,' 'equality,' 'inclusion,' and 'diversity' promoted by the American Federation and their propaganda."

"For the citizens anywhere in the world at that time, the impact was quite significant."

"So the situation in the Soviet Union is really..."

Hearing this.

The Blue Star netizens in the stream felt their scalps tingle as they thought about this.

Because putting themselves in that position.

They didn't know what to do either.

Externally.

There is an American Federation eyeing them like a tiger, engaging in some kind of space race; if you don't research, you fall behind, and if you do research... you have to increase military spending."

And the domestic citizens are already very dissatisfied due to the long-standing food crisis and economic crisis, and the various Eastern European countries are already in turmoil internally."

Then the American Federation's propaganda radio station, promoting that set of 'freedom' values, already has 30 million listeners within the Soviet Federation."

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"In this situation."

Even if it were visualized as data, treated as a game to control and save this federation, the Blue Star players wouldn't know where to start, because if it were visualized, they would find."

The entire federation is floating with red minus signs.

Various values are constantly declining, and there is simply no rising data."

It belongs to a situation where even if the panel is visualized, it cannot be operated."

Anyway, the Blue Star players can't think of how to save the Soviet Federation, but the Soviet Federation can still hold on for a while; after all, it didn't collapse until 1991."

Let's see what else the Soviet Federation can stir up in these few years."

Yu Feng analyzed and summarized the situation of the American Federation over these few years, which formed a sharp contrast with the Soviet Federation. Yu Feng put down the American Federation's data: "Alright, next it's the Republic's turn."