readytorunbook Chapter 391 Actions for a Just Cause
Chapter 391 Actions for a Just Cause
"Multinational fleets have intervened in the inhumane civil war in the Southern New Continent..."
"The UN peacekeeping naval flagship, the UNS Mir aircraft carrier strike group, has entered the Gulf of Guyana..."
The nuclear destruction of the Southern New World has been a long time in the past, and under the shadow of nuclear darkness, the continent has lost its former vitality—just as Alice had estimated.
The lush rainforests of the Southern New World were ignited by nuclear flames, and the fire burned the rainforest until radioactive rain fell from the sky obscured by nuclear dust.
The original cities, those magnificent cities built brick by brick by humankind, each of them was dominated by a giant crater. In the instant the nuclear bomb fell, it claimed 100 million lives, and in the following weeks, even more lives were lost to burns and radiation.
But this is still not the end, or even the beginning of the end.
The ruling party in the Southern New World was not a solid, efficient, and unified organization. After the National Workers' Party came to power, it did not purge the capitalist giants, the old military aristocracy, and a considerable number of vested interests.
Thus, in order to seize the remaining supplies after the nuclear bombs fell, interest groups in various places dug out the surviving weapons in underground warehouses—survivors of restoration organizations in various places, members of the National Workers' Party, and even the old Glenarda military aristocracy—they squeezed the last batch of manpower and sent the last batch of able-bodied laborers to the battlefield.
"Young men! For the sake of the Yuan chieftain, advance!"
On the dilapidated highway, an officer in a tattered uniform brandishes a pistol. The "child" he speaks of still bears the faint insignia of his school uniform. His childish but broken fingers manipulate an MP-40 submachine gun, firing at the "enemy" in the distance.
"Brothers! Down with these thugs with sticks!"
On the other side of the position, a man in a coat held a Gew.98 rifle, followed by several "young men" holding "Iron Fist" pistols. Under the blood and dust, the same school uniform could be vaguely seen.
The sporadic sounds of gunfire pierced the deathly silence, only to soon turn into death itself, from which there was no escape. A classmate wearing the same school uniform pulled the trigger, and a bullet pierced through his classmate.
After the fighting ended, the officer ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up. He dragged the target he had just shot out of the sewage. From that day on, all salvageable supplies, such as canteens, weapons, belts, and rations, had to be confiscated in order to sustain their survival.
Exhausted, he turned the lifeless corpse over and tried to remove the armor from the enemy's chest.
Then, he opened his eyes wide and saw the corpse's face.
Long, long ago, he made a promise to each other to survive, to persevere through the pain of national subjugation—until a new life began.
But a new life did not come; he broke his promise—which in turn broke him in return.
He looked at the corpse before him, imagining those moments when they had gazed at the stars, searching for the alien insects, but now he had killed him with a bullet—he pulled out a photograph from his pocket, and then pulled out an identical photograph from his dead brother's pocket, but one that was now stained crimson with blood.
After a long while, a gunshot rang out from the wilderness.
This is no one's fault; history marches on relentlessly—Alice decided to destroy the Southern New World because she didn't want other places to be destroyed.
Information about the ships that launched the nuclear missiles, as well as the orders and records, were completely sealed off. The official explanation given was that "Glenada's research into destructive weapons has gone out of control."
This information will be completely erased, becoming one of the many "necessary evils that must be erased" since the beginning of humankind.
Upon hearing the outcome of the trial, Alice simply murmured, "If someone comes to judge us, we're ready."
No matter how you try to erase it, Alice is still directly responsible for the annihilation of hundreds of millions of humans. That ship, the nuclear bomb on it, and the launch order all passed through Alice's hands.
And now, the UN peacekeeping force that has entered the waters near the South New World is also Alice's doing.
Major powers voted in favor of the peacekeeping operation, establishing several UN humanitarian peace zones in the southern continent, based on the pre-war national borders.
The HMS Mir carrier battle group consisted of the Forrestal-class aircraft carrier HMS Mir as its flagship, eight Leahy-class destroyers forming the fleet's air defense network, and two Type 1144 cruisers serving as the fleet's main anti-ship force.
A large number of civilian cargo ships and free-roaming transport vessels were mixed in, carrying four fully equipped UN heavy peacekeeping forces. Each of the three countries, Amelansi, Yugoslava, and Lucy, had drawn a mechanized division, and the remaining division came from the Global Star Defense Department (a UN-affiliated peacekeeping force).
Compared to regular military vehicles, UN forces vehicles are required to be painted pure white, marked with the letters "UN" in standard capital letters, and bear the blue UN emblem.
While the Air Force does not require white paint, it still needs to be painted with the light blue United Nations logo.
Amid the crashing of the waves, two F-14D "Bear" fighter jets from the aircraft carrier "Mir" were towed to the steam catapult, their F110-GE-400 turbofan engines emitting dazzling exhaust flames.
In an instant, steam catapults launched the fighter jets into the sky—two F-14Ds, guided by an E-2D early warning aircraft, provided air cover for the fleet and the planned landing point in Guyana, while agents deployed through Black Ops had already taken control of Victory Port, the largest port Glenada had previously built in Guyana.
Today, the light blue flag representing UN peacekeeping forces is raised, and cargo ships bring fully equipped UN peacekeeping troops ashore. All parties in the UN have unanimously decided to make Operation Just Cause, a peacekeeping operation in the South New World, a precedent for international cooperation.
At least for now, all countries outwardly agree that the United Nations Council General Office will be fully responsible for the reconstruction of the Southern New World, and humanity has at least taken a step toward cooperation.
Fully armed soldiers jumped off the cargo ship, and a blue helmet was handed to them—unlike their ancestors from ten thousand years ago—for the sake of absolute peace, these armed soldiers, dressed in different camouflage uniforms and wearing blue helmets, had the right to fire on enemies of peace.