Damn the World, Ride a Submarine - Chapter 160



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Episode 160 – Al Aqsa (Temple Mount)

China has made it clear that it wants to create a China-centric economic bloc through the RICE Pact.

It unilaterally notified the Indochina Peninsula countries, including Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, that trade would be impossible without the yuan.

Naturally, Central Asian countries also joined the RICE Pact system, and the world was divided into two economic systems: the dollar and the yuan.

It was becoming clear everywhere that this meant more than just an economic bloc; it meant a military bloc.

[ … Analysis of the wreckage of Iran’s Shahed series drones found that they contained semiconductors from China and Taiwan, as well as Russian components.

Some speculate that China and Russia, as well as Iran, are behind the recent 6th Middle East War.

There is no evidence that China and Russia cooperated to support Iran, but it is recognized as an established fact that there was at least arms support and tacit approval······.]

As if mocking the world that was not yet turning, the Earth was expressing with its whole body that it was reaching its limit.

[ … A great disaster, like God’s punishment, struck the United States.

The American homeland was attacked.

The attack on the American continent, which was in chaos, was a punishment from the Earth that seemed to rebuke human arrogance.

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck San Francisco, the same magnitude as the 1906 earthquake that killed 3,000 people.

The disaster didn’t stop there.

An unprecedented magnitude 8.9 earthquake has struck Washington, Oregon and southern British Columbia, Canada.

A tsunami warning has been issued for all cities in eastern Japan, with a tsunami expected to hit the country within the next nine hours.

The U.S. government declared a national emergency, and the National Guard and federal troops were deployed to the affected areas to help with recovery efforts and search for casualties.

It is difficult to predict how many aftershocks there will be in the future.

A group of experts analyzed the causes of unprecedented simultaneous earthquakes.

The shockwave from the California earthquake, triggered by the collision of the San Andreas Fault, is believed to have triggered an explosion that released energy stored for hundreds of years in the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

Analysis of geologic evidence along the Cascadia Fault has shown that it has been hit by more than 40 large earthquakes over the past 10,000 years, including a magnitude 8.7–9.2 earthquake on January 26, 1700.

It was a major earthquake in which energy that had been condensed for at least 300 years exploded all at once.

The consequences of the great earthquake that hit the United States are expected to go beyond the scorched earth of the American continent and have a major impact on the ongoing war in Ukraine and the 6th Middle East War······.]

It seemed as if the Earth was not waiting for humans to end themselves.

As the winter wildfires in North America continued unabated, an unprecedented earthquake struck several parts of the United States.

The aftermath of the earthquake sent a terrifying, massive tsunami crashing across the Pacific Ocean.

For the first time, Korea had to be grateful for Japan’s existence. Japan was a breakwater protecting the Korean Peninsula.

Even as the Earth was suffering, the war did not stop, and bloody revenge and slaughter continued.

Israel’s indiscriminate attack on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas unified the pan-Islamic state, which led to the collapse of the Middle East order.

As the Iranian forces that invaded Iraq got closer to Jerusalem, attacks by Syrian and Lebanese Hezbollah intensified.

The great earthquake in the United States seemed to have further instilled confidence in Middle Eastern countries that they would win the war.

Even Jordan, which had been taking a somewhat neutral line, declared its participation in the war against Israel and attacked Israel.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian military entered Iraq without a fight and began attacking Israel across the borders of Syria and Jordan.

Israel, sensing a crisis, had to withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to confront the Iranian army.

Israel seemed to be doing well at fending off Iran, but it seemed difficult to gain an advantage in the Middle East war that had become a large-scale war of wits.

It would take another week for the U.S. 5th Fleet to regain strength or for additional carriers to arrive.

The US operation to land ground troops in the Middle East also did not go smoothly because the aftermath of the great earthquake in North America was that great.

Meanwhile, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and self-generated armed groups in the West Bank began to cross the Israeli barrier, and the land of Israel was transformed into a scene of slaughter.

The land of the gods was transformed into a hell where only the instinct for killing remained. There were even suspicions that the chosen people were not chosen for sacrifice and warning.

It was becoming a hellish land where you had to pull the trigger and swing your sword at anything that moved in order to survive.

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Madness wasn’t just raging in the Middle East.

Russia’s cold madness was directed towards Ukraine.

NATO’s rapid reaction force was rushed to the Polish front, but Russia responded strategically passively and retreated to Lviv.

NATO and Polish forces, having regained control of Poland’s borders, were hesitating to advance against Russian forces occupying Lviv, Ukraine.

Russian troops had already occupied the corridor from Belarus to Lviv, Ukraine, which meant that Ukraine could no longer serve as a buffer zone to Western Europe.

The moment that role passed to Poland, they were anxious to defend their homeland.

Although no one said it explicitly, it appeared as if Ukraine was being abandoned.

Ukraine was in a precarious situation. Not only had Chernihiv, the Russian attack route for Kiev used since the First Russo-Vukovar War, fallen, but the combined Russian and Belarusian forces were also advancing toward Kiev from the west.

NATO was standing by, the US was in no position to help, and even our OSS was not equipped to send troops to northern Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Kurdistan, the Kurdish state, cooperated with the Iranian military and had northern Iraq recognized as their territory.

Although it was not yet recognized internationally, it was at least recognized as an independent nation within the Islamic world.

With this, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard presented itself as the liberation army of a weak country in the Middle East.

He declared that if Israel occupied the country, Palestine would become independent. However, it seemed difficult for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to become one country.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard began to advance around the Dead Sea into southern Israel, heading toward Beersheba. After Beersheba, the Gaza Strip was reached.

Israeli forces in the north were also gradually being pushed back by Hezbollah in Lebanon, and were barely able to hold off the Syrian advance in the Golan Heights.

Now, the Sixth Middle East War seemed to go beyond simply being an anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli war.

As the world situation began to tilt little by little, it was impossible not to think about post-war hegemony in the Middle East.

[ … Breaking news. The Egyptian military has declared its intention to participate in the war against Israel.

At the same time, Egyptian troops entered the Gaza Strip via Route 40 in the Sinai Peninsula.

The small number of Israeli security forces offered little resistance, and the Palestinians in Gaza welcomed the Egyptian army as a liberator···.]

Iran could not hide its embarrassment.

They were on the verge of invading Iraq, passing through Syria and Jordan, around the Dead Sea, and advancing all the way to the Gaza Strip in a arduous war.

However, the Egyptian army, which had been hesitating while watching the situation unfold, took advantage of its geographical advantage of being adjacent to the Gaza Strip and liberated it.

Iranian forces have lost their status as liberation forces in Egypt.

Israel lost most of its southern territory and was forced to withdraw its military and police forces from the West Bank to defend Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

But defending Jerusalem, surrounded by the West Bank, was not easy, as it was an isolated area under attack from three sides.

Eventually, the Israeli army was forced to retreat west of Jerusalem, which was captured by Jordanian forces.

The first thing the Jordanian army did when it captured Jerusalem was to ban Jews from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Jews were allowed to enter only as far as the Western Wall, as before.

It was a political action, not a religious one. It was a measure that took into account the hegemony and political influence of the Middle East and pan-Islam even in the midst of a chaotic war.

– Al-Aqsa Mosque: One of the three holiest sites in Islam and also a holy site for Jews. It is the place where Muhammad ascended to heaven and came down, and the place where Abraham attempted to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering.

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The Israeli army was barely holding off the Syrian army in the Golan Heights, but the tide of the war quickly turned when Iranian ground forces arrived in the Golan Heights.

With the Golan Heights breached, the Syrian army gained momentum and advanced rapidly to Nazareth.

Israel lost two-thirds of its territory, barely holding on to a piece of land wedged between the West Bank and the Mediterranean Sea.

The 6th Middle East War seemed to be coming to an end, but it was holding another spark.

The first to cross the Israeli border were the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and the first to liberate the Gaza Strip were Egypt.

The country that broke through the Golan Heights and occupied Nazareth was Syria, and the country that occupied Jerusalem was Jordan.

The land of Israel was torn apart as if it were divided into five parts.

– Five-body splitting: Another name for the splitting and slicing method, a punishment in which the head, both arms, and both legs are torn apart by pulling them in different directions.

The situation of the Gandujise was not limited to Israel.

– Pole-head position: Standing at the end of a large pole.

[ … Kiev, Ukraine, fell.

Ukraine, which was fighting hard without Western support, retreated to Bila Tserkva.

The Ukrainian government is reorganizing its forces, designating Odessa as its provisional capital.

For Ukraine, this means losing two of its most important cities, Kiev and Lviv, leaving only Odessa, Mykolaiv and Crimea to be defended by the OSS Black Sea Fleet. ······ ]

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When I woke up, I had to watch the world go crazy on TV.

Israel was on the verge of being wiped off the map and was in a situation where it was forced to fight Russia in southern Ukraine.

This manager requested an emergency security communication.

‘Ah~ What’s going on again…’

“Sir, it’s about to explode.”

“Huh? Where else?”

“It’s China.”

“ah…”

“Which direction are you going? To the Far Eastern Republic?”

“No. Troops are currently being massed in northern Vietnam.”

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