The Rise of the Third Reich - #1259 - Chapter 1259 Finale 2

“Mr. President, Air Force One is ready and you can depart at any time.”

The elderly President MacArthur stood at the window of the Oval Office of the White House, nodded to Secretary of State Dulles, finally sighed, and slowly lowered the curtains.

Thin curtains and thick floor-to-ceiling glass windows could no longer block the tens of thousands of Americans protesting outside like a tsunami calling for the president to step down. President MacArthur understood the indignation of the American people outside, because as an American hero, After ascending to the throne of the presidency, he still deeply disappointed the American people and himself who supported him after a nine-year term as president.

Yes, even he himself was disappointed!

Because just two weeks ago, he had already made the decision to accept the Atlantic economic integration proposal proposed by Rudolf Hess, Prime Minister of the Aryan United States… just after the Americans secretly conducted underground nuclear tests in Australia!

Letting the United States possess the atomic bomb at all costs was what MacArthur began to promote immediately after he was elected president. He squeezed out huge sums of money from the already very tight finances and invested in the Manhattan Project in Australia.

And this secret weapons project, which cost billions of dollars and lasted for more than ten years, finally succeeded not long ago!

The United States now has the atomic bomb!

At the same time, the United States also violated the “European Community-U.S. Peace Treaty” by setting up a base in Australia to develop and experiment with jet aircraft before the 10-year restriction period (restricting the development of jet aircraft) expired. It also launched the United States’ first jet fighter in 1956 (the first year after the 10-year restriction period ended).

In addition, MacArthur also invested heavily in the twilight zone of the “treaty”, that is, conventional submarines. Based on the Type 21 U-boat – because the development route for nuclear submarines was determined early, the Type 21 U-boat was made public after the war and sold to many South American countries. The United States naturally had a way to obtain the drawings – and developed several models. Closed-cycle diesel engines and compressed liquid oxygen gas supply technology have also been developed for medium-sized (underwater displacement 1,500-3,000 tons) and large (underwater displacement more than 3,000 tons) high-performance submarines. This gives the U.S. submarine force the ability to truly submerge and lurk underwater for long periods of time.

Under MacArthur’s order, the U.S. Navy also developed cruise missiles that can be used for shallow launches to cooperate with large-scale, high-performance submarines, giving the United States the lowest level of strategic counterattack capabilities.

And now the United States has an atomic bomb! It can be said that the plans laid out by the two former presidents Truman and Kennedy in 1945 have now achieved success.

But what surprised “heroic president” MacArthur was that the United States, which could stand up again, was now facing unprecedented difficulties, and these difficulties were simply impossible to solve through military means.

Because the United Aryan States with Germany as its core now has super powerful military power!

This intercontinental country born out of World War II has achieved much greater achievements than the United States in the past decade or so.

Now the United States only secretly possesses an entry-level atomic bomb with a yield of 20,000 tons, and because it is too big, it has no actual combat capabilities. The Aryan United States has at least 10,000 miniaturized nuclear warheads that can be used in actual combat, 500 of which are hydrogen bombs with a yield of 5 million tons! Enough to wipe all humanity off the face of the earth!

The United States now only has entry-level jet fighters, while its opponent, the Aryan United States, has supersonic fighter jets that exceed 2.3 times the speed of sound, and are also equipped with advanced mid-range and short-range air-to-air missiles, with a combat radius of more than It has a range of 1,500 kilometers and can be refueled in the air. The performance can completely defeat American jet fighters!

No matter how big the conventionally powered submarines owned by the United States are, their actual combat capabilities cannot be compared with the nuclear submarines equipped by the Navy of the United Aryan States. The latter are completely epoch-making super underwater killers.

What’s even more frightening is that the United Aryan States now equip their underwater killers with submarine-launched ballistic missiles with a range of up to 1,500 kilometers!

These terrifying ballistic missile nuclear submarines are likely to be lurking underwater near the east coast of the United States. In just ten minutes, they can completely level the east coast.

Moreover, the United Aryan States probably also possess more powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles. Although they have never admitted to possessing such devastating weapons, they used a huge launch vehicle to launch a manned spacecraft in early 1958. The spacecraft was launched into a space orbit 300 kilometers above the ground, thus achieving the first manned space flight in human history.

But here in the United States, there are no rockets that can launch artificial satellites, and of course there are no artificial satellites that can launch…

In the competition to explore outer space, the United States has lost the first and second games and is far behind the Europeans!

But what made MacArthur feel most at a loss was the huge disadvantage of the United States in economic competition.

Economic issues are now the main issues MacArthur has to face as President of the United States!

With the impetus brought by the huge reparations from the United States, the process of Aryan unification has been rapidly promoted in the past ten years. By 1955, when Hitler died, the countries included Germany (including the German Monarchy), France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary-Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Denmark, and Ireland. 17 countries, including the United States, have joined the Aryan United States.

However, Hitler’s death did not cause the Aryan unification process to slow down or even reverse as the American people imagined. Because Aryan unification is not just a political process, but also an irreversible economic process.

A huge market with a population of 550 million, rich resources, vast land, developed economy, and leading technology gradually appeared on both sides of the Atlantic with the process of Aryan unification.

With the death of Hitler, who was too racist, the obstacles that hindered the flow of population, resources, capital and technology among the states under the Aryan United States were gradually and completely removed.

By 1958, the states of the United Aryan States had truly achieved economic unification and had also achieved “liberalization” of their internal economies. After the Nazi Party came to power, Germany began to establish a set of private capital and a planned economy. combined economic system. This system did play a very good role in the 1930s and 1940s, helping Germany get out of the economic crisis and concentrate resources to prepare for war.

However, in the process of establishing the Aryan United States after the war, many problems arose in this system. It is mainly the planned economic system of each state (each state imitates Germany in its economic system) that limits the formation of a unified Aryan market. At the same time, it also caused two serious problems: local protection and industry monopoly.

So after Hitler suffered from severe Parkinson’s disease, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering and Albert Speer, who helped him come to power, began to carry out economic reforms. Various unreasonable controls within the Aryan United States were gradually eliminated, and at the same time the power of each state government to intervene in the economy was reduced – it had to be reduced, otherwise there would be no state integration, and even the customs and monetary union would be reduced to nothing. form, so that Aryan unity is a false appearance.

The purpose is to strengthen the economic integration and liberalization of unified states (it can only be liberalized, otherwise states will have serious conflicts over the formulation of domestic trade plans). After the policy was implemented, it significantly increased the economy of the United Aryan States. Vitality and efficiency, while breaking regulations and administrative monopolies and promoting investment.

The liberalization of the flow of people (mainly the flow of Slavs to the west) has greatly promoted the economic development of Western Europe, led by Germany and France. The concentration of population itself generates huge demand and productivity.

Previously, Hitler prevented the large influx of Slavs into Western Europe. On the surface, this protected the employment of Germans and French people, but at the same time, it also prevented France and Germany, especially Germany, from obtaining sufficient labor and technical talents. The “insufficient” population has restricted the formation of super cities and metropolitan areas, making it impossible for the Western European economy to fully enjoy the dividends generated by population agglomeration.

So after Hess and others lifted various restrictions, the economy of the United Aryan States began a new round of take-off.

The huge and unified market began to exert terrifying power!

At the same time, the U.S. economy, which originally had the largest unified market in the world, began to suffer from a narrow market.

Of course, the “narrowness” of the United States is not really “narrow”. It will always have the status of the world’s second largest market.

However, the large American companies and the working class who are accustomed to enjoying the world’s largest market find it difficult to tolerate the smallness of the world’s second largest market. Because the main international competitiveness of large American companies originally came from the large local market – with the support of the largest market, the costs of American companies investing in technology and new product development can be borne by more consumers. , so it is easier for American companies to obtain economies of scale. At the same time, we can also base ourselves on the United States and expand overseas, spilling the scale effects brought by the large American market to the international market and win more profits for American companies. With sufficient income, American companies can pay relatively high wages to workers, and high wages further stimulate the development of the domestic market in the United States, thus forming a virtuous cycle.

But now, the emergence of a unified Aryan market that is much larger than the American market has given large European companies a greater scale effect than American companies. At the same time, the opening of markets such as India, the Middle East, and most of Africa to the United Aryan States (these markets also accept American goods, but set up higher tax rates and non-tariff barriers) has given European companies additional scale advantages.

Therefore, in the so-called free markets of Central and South America (excluding New Asbania) and the markets of Rome and New Asbania, where American and European (Aryan) goods can enjoy equal treatment, American products without scale advantages have grown rapidly over the past ten years. Over the years, he has been losing ground.

In the end, American products almost shrunk to the mainland, and the originally huge market became narrower.