The Balkanization of America

by Ira Tabankin

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  “Honey it’s not that bad, at least you’re not in jail. Ron got you released from custody.”

  “He did; I’m upset thinking some of the FBI agents want to arrest me for murder. I tried to save the shoppers; I tried to take down the terrorists, and they want to arrest ME? What happened to the FBI? Political correctness has gone way too far. I think some of the FBI agents should pack up and move to the LSA.”

  “I’m sure they’re not that bad or they would have already moved.”

  “Want to bet?”

  “Same amount as usual?”

  “Of course, if I lose I kiss you, if you lose, you kiss me.”

  “It’s a bet, how will we determine who won?”

  “Ask Ron about the agents.”

  “Agreed. Why don’t you try to relax, you have to stay in the house until Ron says you can leave, you might as well chill. At least you don’t have to wear one of those ankle GPS devices. You wouldn’t even be able to walk your son. He’d be really pissed at you.”

  “He knows I love him; he’d understand, I hope. Honey, I’m wondering how many other terror teams are out there, are we safe anywhere anymore?”

  “Then they’ve won, they want to make us scared and off balance. The LSA wants us to lose trust in our government. That way they look like a good alternative.”

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  “Sir, I’ve spoken to the French and UK defense ministers; the French want to stay out of another world war; the British have cut their military to such an extent they have nothing to spare.”

  “John places us on DEFCON 2; I don’t like what my nose smells the Russians are up to. My gut says they are going to take all Europe.”

  “Mr. President, Prime Minister Walder of Germany, is online 1.”

  “Madam. Prime Minister I won’t ask how you are. I think I already know. What can I do for you?”

  “Mr. President, I won’t ask you to supply us with troops or armor, I know neither can get here quick enough to make a difference.”

  “Madam. Prime Minister, you’re correct, it would take us at least three weeks to move an armor battalion to Germany, our estimates are the war will be all but over by that time.”

  “Mr. President, there is one asset you have that my military people think can make a difference and one that can have an impact very quickly.”

  “Madam. Prime Minister, please don’t ask for any nuclear weapons…..”

  “Mr. President, no, never, I couldn’t use them over my own country. I’d like to discuss leasing your SSGN submarines. I understand you have two in the Med or the Atlantic. Each armed with 154 cruise missiles.”

  “I personally don’t know their current locations; we can contact them. In order to make their use legal, I have two requirements; one is a signed lease agreement, and the other is at least one German senior officer to be on board to turn one of the launch keys when they launch.”

  “Mr. President Germany accepts both of your requirements. We thank you for allowing a German officer to fire the missiles at the Russians.”

  “I’ll have John Sessions send you a basic lease agreement, if you can get your officers to Rota Spain we’ll pick them up and take them to the submarines. It would be helpful if at least one of your officers had submarine experience.”

  “Mr. President I’ll have our people in Rota in six hours.”

  “Excellent, tell them to tell the guard, code diamond.”

  “Will do, thank you, Mr. President. By the way, how much is the cost to lease each submarine?”

  “Madam Prime Minister, the rate for wartime lease is $1.00 per submarine unless their lost in which case the cost is their replacement cost which is $1.2 billion. So don’t lose them.”

  “Mr. President, I don’t know what to say.”

  “Good luck, Madam Prime Minster, I suggest you leave Berlin ASAP.”

  “I plan to, I’ll call you soon.”

  Seven hours later the USS Ohio takes on three German officers who will fire the cruise missiles at the Russian troops invading their country. The USS Ohio reaches her firing location in the Mediterranean Sea. The Ohio’s captain informs the German general; it’s time. The German takes the launch key from the captain; the boat’s XO hands his launch key to the German Naval captain, on the count of three, and the German’s turn the keys setting in motion the launch of 154 cruise missiles. Coming in very low, their missiles slip under the Russian air defense radar looking to the west for German fighters. The cruise missile warheads contain 166 sub-munitions. 100 missiles spread their softball sized bombs across the Russian front lines. 54 missiles attack the Russian rear and supply depots. The attack catches the Russian troops by surprise slowing up their advance, giving the Germans time to begin organizing their armored defense.

  After firing all of her cruise missiles, the Ohio turns around to head back to the US to be rearmed. Her sister, the USS Florida, replaces her in the Med. Waiting for orders to fire her 154 cruise missiles.

  At dawn, Russian and German armor meet in the world’s largest tank battle. Germany sends 900 tanks against the Russian 4000 tanks. The Germans have the advantage of fighting from fixed heavily defended positions; the Russians will advance right into the German kill box. Armor piercing sabot tank rounds fly between both sides. Tanks fight and destroy each other starting at 2500 meters, within an hour the battle is down to 100 meters, point blank range where each shot is a kill. At 1:00 PM, the Germans, are down to 175 tanks, the Russians bring up their reserve of another 2,000 tanks. At 1:30 PM the battle is over. The Germans have lost all of their armor while taking out 2800 Russian tanks. The Germans have nothing left to slow the Russian advance when the USS Florida’s 154 cruise missiles arrives. The missiles rudely surprise the Russians. Tons of supplies are destroyed, thousands of soldiers are wounded and killed. Thin skinned vehicles are torn apart; eleven tanks have their tracks damaged. The Russian advance is slowed long enough for Prime Minister Walder and her staff to escape to London.

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  “Mr. President, the Canadian Prime Minister is online one.”

  “Ladies and gentlemen, let me take this, take a short break.”

  “Hello, Mr. Prime Minster, I’m sorry we haven’t met yet as I’m sure you know we’re a little busy down here trying to turn the country around. Now, what can I do for you?”

  “Mr. President, given that Quebec has left the confederation, I have a rather radical proposal to suggest to you.”

  “I guess I ought to sit for this one,”

  “Mr. President that might be a good idea.”

  “I’m sitting, what’s your proposal?”

  “Mr. President, you made an announcement that you’re opening the United States up to other territories, is that correct?”

  “Yesss, are you going to suggest what I think you are?”

  “Our two countries have shared a lot; we’re almost the same. I’ve recently learned that Ontario, Newfoundland, and British Columbia want to join the LSA, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and the North West Territories would like to join the USA. That is if you’ll have them.”

  “Mr. Prime Minister of all of the reasons for your call, this one wasn’t on my list. I’m overjoyed. I suggest we plan to meet as soon as possible.”

  “I was hoping you’d say that I can be in Washington tonight.”

  “Please stay at the house with us, bring your wife, mine would love to meet yours.”

  “We’ll see you at 7.”

  “We’ll share a causal dinner together.”

  Returning to the conference room the President tells his cabinet to sit, he explains the call from the Canadian Prime Minister.

  Ted says, “Are you serious? The provinces that want to join us have as much oil as we do, we’ll be the world’s largest oil producer, not counting the other minerals they have. I for one vote yes.”

  “Randy?”

  “If the people vote to join with us, then I too vote yes, it has to be their choice. I wo
n’t accept the government telling the people they’re going to give up their culture and history, it has to be the people’s decision.”

  “Randy, I don’t know why we can’t forge a combined culture, we can celebrate and teach our combined history, Alvin?”

  “I agree with Randy.”

  “John?”

  “We could use their military and their Arctic rights to help buffer the Russians.”

  “Does anyone have any objections?”

  As the President looks around the table, only State says, “Mr. President, I suggest you contact the United Kingdom’s Monarch, he has the right to know in advance he’s about to lose a part of his kingdom.”

  “Very good point, I haven’t talked with the king yet, it’ll be an interesting first call.”

  Everyone the President looks at nods no to having any objection. “Then it’s agreed, Sarah and John would you, please join us for breakfast tomorrow?”

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  “Harold, I understand we’re about to grow with the addition of some of the Canadian provinces and Puerto Rico.”

  “Yes, Nanny, our west, and east coast is going to expand, as is our population, tax base and industry. On the other hand so is the USA. I’m not sure which of us got the best of this deal, they got the oil and minerals, and we got the major population centers and ports.”

  “On the surface it looks like we got the best end of the deal, we don’t want our lands strip mined and fracked. We agreed to do everything possible to clean our air and water. Look at the progress we’re making in LA after mandating 40% of the automobiles driving in downtown LA have to be hybrids. Soon the air over LA will be as clean as Portland’s. Harold, are you concerned about the large demonstrations against our religion mandate?”

  “Not at all, they’re just temporary, soon people will see we’re right, the only way to fairly deal with the large numbers of religions is to mandate all have to be equal. Some churches are huge while some have only a handful of people; this isn’t fair, by mandating all must cease public expressions all become equal. In this way, we’re respecting all of them, plus teaching the children that religion isn’t the best answer. It will take us two- or three generations to fully reduce the people’s dependence on religion. They need to rely on us, not on a nonexistent God. Who’s heard or seen this God in 2000 years? I believe God was made up, how can all of the different stories all be correct? How can there be one God, and at the same time be so different? It’s all made up, the sooner the people realize this and stop relying on a children’s story and rely on us the stronger our society will be.”

  “I fully agree, plus, I’m sick of having to cater to these people, just a week ago I had to do a photo op where I washed some homeless person’s feet. You have no idea how bad that person smelled. I’m telling you we need to set up showers and restrooms for these people, they stink, we can’t have them in our beautiful cities.”

  “I’ll look into it.”

  “What’s the status of our new military forces?”

  “They’re going to be making a raid into America very soon if they’re successful we’ll be a nuclear power.”

  “Harold, I thought we announced the LSA was a nuclear-free state?”

  “We did, but that doesn’t mean anything, we need them to make sure the Americans leave us alone.”

  “Won’t Brownstone know we were behind the attack and reciprocate?”

  “How? They're not our troops. We don’t control them; I’m going to leak right after the attack that Puten ordered the attack to strip the USA of their nukes.”

  “Do you think Brownstone will fall for it?”

  “Yes, we made sure his military intercepted messages from Puten to the troops based in Seattle. While the troops attacks the American base, we’ve made plans for attacks on DC and ten major airports. We’ll confuse the American security forces.

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  “Crystal Palace, this is AWACS 025 we’re holding track on four C130s flying very low due east from Fort Lewis. Do you want us to send our fighter escort to take a look-see?”

  “AWACS 025, Crystal Palace, we’ll try to contact them, hold your escorts for now. We have a good idea where they’re heading. We have a little surprise waiting for them. Update us on any course changes they make. Crystal Palace out.”

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  The Colonel and his men fly very low thinking this will hide them from the American FAA radar network. Their only risk will be when they have to pop up high enough for him and his men to parachute from the planes onto the base. “Sir, very bumpy ride, we’re so low we could hit telephone lines, I swear we’re flying under them.”

  “Si, we’re low to stay below their radar, there’s nothing that can see us this low. We’re safe from all of their air defense missiles. The only thing we have to worry about is a lucky shot from someone taking a potshot at us, which is very unlikely since the planes are wearing USA markings. We even copied the tail numbers from USA C 130s. We should have total surprise on our side.”

  “Colonel, pilot here, please come up to the cockpit, we’re being questioned by their FAA.”

  “Captain, what’s going on?”

  “Listen.”

  “US military flight of four heading 090 degrees, flying below Angels 500, this is Spokane office of the FAA, please respond.”

  The Colonel picks up the handset, “Spokane FAA, Captain John Rogers, USAF, commanding flight of 4 C130s on a low-level training flight. Over.”

  “Captain, we show you flying almost due east at less than Angels 500, we have no flight plan filed for your flight, you are flying very close together and very low, please confirm, MAR.” (Military Assumes Responsibility)

  “Spokane, we confirm MAR, we confirm flight of four heading due east, we plan to fly to Maelstrom do a touch and go then return to Fort Lewis.”

  “Roger USAF flight of four, be careful out there. Watch your altitude, you don’t want to hit the mountain.”

  “Roger Spokane, we’ll be careful, we don’t intend to run into anything.”

  “Colonel, I thought you said they couldn’t see us this low.”

  “I was told they couldn’t, they must have better radar and sensors than we thought.”

  “Colonel, one hour to target.”

  “Roger.”

  “People, listen up, in one hour we’ll arrive at the base, the planes are going to pop up, we’re going to jump onto the runway, remember the plan. Hit hard and quick. Once we control the base, additional planes can land with support troops.”

  55 minutes later the C130s pop up so the troops can jump, as the last man exits the planes; all four planes are hit by surface to air missiles. The Colonel looks up seeing his airplanes blowup, thinking, crap, somehow they knew we were coming, they were waiting for us. 7.62mm rounds start taking out his people floating down to the base below them. LAVs and Bradley fighting vehicles pull onto the runways firing into the sky at the paratroopers floating down to their death.

  Major Grover is standing in the middle of the runway holding a fully automatic M14. Grover is smiling; he likes it when a plan comes together. He’s mentally counting 80 sets of body armor and 80 of the new Russian assault rifles not a bad day’s business.

  “Major, we’ve accounted for them all, 74 KIA, and six taken prisoner. We’ve collected all of their equipment. We’ve got ourselves a nice surprise, one of them had a list of radio code phrases on him.”

  “Captain, excellent work. Burry the dead in a mass grave outside the base. I’ll take control of the prisoners.”

  “Yes, sir.”

  “Admiral Zander, Major Grover is on the line for you.”

  “Major, what’s your report?”

  “Sir, we got them all; we have 80 sets of their equipment; we destroyed their planes; I have six prisoners.”

  “Excellent, I’ll send a plane to pick you and your team up with the prisoners.”

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  “President Reid, the attack on the American base must have fail
ed. We lost contact with them just after they jumped from the planes. Neither the pilots nor the troops have reported in since they jumped onto the American base. We have to assume the American’s captured or killed them all.”

  “They must have been tipped off; we must have a spy in our midst, find them, do whatever you have to, we can’t afford to have an American spy in our inner circle.”

  “Yes sir, we’ll start questioning everyone with a lie detector, someone will know something.”