The Monroe Doctrine by James Rosone & Miranda Watson

Author:James Rosone & Miranda Watson [Rosone, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Front Line Publishing Inc.
Published: 2021-03-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

NATO Plus One?

SHAPE Headquarters

Mons, Belgium

General Lisa Yeager wished the American delegation could be here in person instead of attending via video from NORAD and the Pentagon. She understood the need for security, but some meetings were best held in person. At least the President-elect was on the call. However, her screen showed she was muted, as she wouldn’t be participating in the call. She was still nearly six weeks away from assuming power, but she couldn’t be coming into the White House with zero support or knowledge of the world situation.

It had come as a bit of a surprise when the Vice President had lost—then again, the country was reeling from one crisis after another for the last eighteen months, and rightly or wrongly, the administration in power was being blamed for it all.

“Ahem,” said General Sir Nick Carter. “I don’t like this one bit. For all we know, the Russians are in on this.”

General Sir Nick Carter was the United Kingdom’s Chief of the Defence Staff. He’d flown in just to attend this emergency meeting of the senior NATO leadership.

“The Russian Far East has been ravaged by COVID-24, while the Chinese guest workers appear to have escaped unscathed,” countered Lieutenant General Hubert de Mauny, the French general in charge of Allied Joint Force Command out of Brunssum. “I’m not sure about you, but that seems like quite the coincidence, doesn’t it?”

“Right now, we need to address the growing problem of these Chinese submarines sinking our commercial ships in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. We’ve seen an incredible number of ships sunk,” declared General Markus Kneip from the German Army. “The sinking of these freighters and oil tankers is going to have a seriously negative effect on the continent in the coming weeks. If the Russians were really in cahoots with the Chinese, then why would the Russians not only sell European oil and LNG, but make even more available to fill in the gaps the sinkings have created? Therefore, I think it is safe to say the Russian offer is legitimate and something we should consider.”

Chancellor Helmut Zimmer pushed his chair back and stood for a moment. Everyone stopped talking and looked at him, waiting to see what he was about to say.

“What we have been discussing is important. But what no one has talked about yet is why the Chinese are waging a war against NATO and the West. When the Chinese launched their surprise attack against the United States, they also carried out a surprise attack against Europe. Not only was it a military attack, but they also systematically attacked our people on social media and the internet. In the span of less than an hour, social media was blanketed with all sorts of these deep fake attacks, depicting our forces carrying out coordinated first-strike attacks against their country, therefore justifying their own use of force against us,” the Chancellor angrily explained.

“I think we need to figure out why the Chinese did this so we can determine how best to counter it,” he continued.

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