United States Invaded

by Ira Tabankin

  “Mr. President, we don’t feel that anyone in the world should have to make that decision. The United Nations is demanding that every citizen of the United Nations should have the basic human rights of water, electricity, and fresh, clean water provided free of charge to them.”

  “Mr. Secretary-General, I understand, we in the LSA will agree with this, do you have any objections if the nation takes over the local utility suppliers?”

  “President Brownie, no, we think that’s a good idea.”

  “Excellent, then we agree. The LSA government will nationalize the utility companies, and we’ll merge them into a single LSA national company. We’ll apply a usage tax to cover the cost of supplying these basic human rights.”

  “Mr. President, let’s make a joint announcement. I’m so pleased we can see eye to eye on this most-basic issue.”

  The two meet the press to announce no one in the LSA will go without the basic human rights.

  Rash and President Brownstone watching the two make the announcement, laugh. Rash says, “What happens when these new-unionized national workers demand a high wage and go on strike, the entire LSA will be shut down. They’ll be able to demand sky high wages because they now have the entire country held hostage. How can anyone not see this?”

  “Rash, welcome to the progressive paradise. I’m betting the union will wait until the middle of winter before they strike, forcing the LSA to quickly giving into their demands. Rash, I’m expecting a call from John, is there anything else we need to cover today?”

  “No sir, I can handle the rest, let me know when you decide to launch ‘Veiled Sword’ so I’m ready to handle the press.”

  “If I were you, I’d get ready very quickly,”

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  John Sessions, the Secretary of Defense, calls President Brownstone, “Mr. President, the major offensive has started. Over a hundred thousand civilians, mostly children, are being herded in front of the advancing United Nations’ Armor. They're advancing all along our border. Based on the numbers, the Secretary-General must have stripped most of the world’s armor to build such numbers. I bet we’re looking at most of the Russian modern tanks leading the charge.”

  “Just what we thought, you have my permission to launch ‘Operation Veiled Sword.' I repeat, you have permission to launch ‘Operation Veiled Sword.'”

  “Yes sir, thank you, I’ll keep you informed. Sir, I suggest you move to the White House shelter in case a couple of their columns break into DC.”

  “John, I’m already here, thanks.”

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  General Wilson looks at his encrypted tablet, “Listen up everyone, we’re a go, ‘Operation Veiled Sword’ is a go. Our weapons are free, pass the word to GO.”

  All along the front, missile batteries and artillery rounds fire. Their warheads are filled not with high explosives; they're filled with a gas. The gas puts everyone unprotected to sleep. When the warheads explode over the front lines and rear areas of the invaders, the civilians and children pushed in front of the invaders as human shields drop to the ground unconscious. The United Nations’ army didn’t carry MOPP 4 suits thinking the Americans would never use gas over their own territory. Tens of thousands of troops fall unconscious, armor drivers fall over inside the tanks and APCs while their vehicles are still moving. Many of the driverless vehicles drive over fallen troops, crushing them. Others end up against trees, or buildings.

  General Wilson reviews the reports, before ordering, “To make sure none of these bastards is playing possum, hit them with another volley." Minutes later, thousands of shells explode over the front. Some of the gas is carried by the wind covering American towns, causing the American civilians to also collapse unconscious. Hundreds are wounded from accidents. President Brownstone made the decision more American civilians would be harmed and killed in a normal attack than if the gas were used. While he didn’t like the idea of any Americans to be harmed by the gas, he felt he had no other choice. He couldn’t warn the local towns located at the invasion points because he knew the United Nations would discover the plan.

  The American military and militias move to tie and disarm the invaders. Military police and construction teams build barb wire enclosures to hold the invader's prisoner. When the United Nations’ troops wake, they find themselves disarmed, their wrists tied behind their backs, their own armor outside the fences aiming at the troops inside the prisoner area.

  “Mr. President, ‘Operation Veiled Sword’ appears to have been a total success. The shells missed only two invading groups; the shells landed in the invaders’ rear areas. The invaders moved quicker than expected. These two groups were hit by our armor and planes. The other groups succumbed to the gas. We moved in per the plan, disarming the invaders; we took their armor and were using it to guard the prisoner camps. I’m sending you video of the camps and us using their armor to guard the United Nations’ troops. Sir, the plan was a huge risk, but thankfully it worked.”

  “John, great job. I’m happy the integrators could get the shells made so quickly. Have the United Nations’ senior officers been removed for questioning?”

  “Yes sir, they all woke up confused and in a state of shock. We’ve already started interrogating the senior officers; some are very willing to talk, while others just curse us out for, as they say, us breaching international law on the use of gas. Nothing about them invading us being against international treaties and law. They say they were following legal orders to ensure America followed the laws of the United Nations. I seem to remember the Nuremberg trials ruling about following orders not working out so well for those who used that excuse.”

  “John, when did the United Nations become the Earth’s government? I must have missed the memo, maybe the email was accidently erased before it got to me.”

  Laughing, John says, “Mr. President, I think the United Nations’ computers must have crashed, I asked for a copy of the email; they couldn’t locate it. I think it’s time to launch phase two of ‘Operation Veiled Sword.'”

  “John, you have my permission to launch phase two, make sure our people are safe. I’d hate to have to break them out of international jails. Don’t misunderstand me, I will if any are captured. I will not leave a single person held in some other country’s jail unless they committed a crime in that country. Make sure Major Grover is standing by with his special teams.”

  “Yes sir, we plan to use the B2 fleet and fly the missions at night. F22s will fly armed escort for the stealth bombers.”

  “Cut the planes lose, let’s see what happens when Puten and the Secretary-General wakes up to the panic.”

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  American’s twenty B2 stealth bombers and fifty rebuilt F117 stealth fighters, are armed and made ready for phase two of ‘Operation Veiled Sword.' The planes are escorted by F 22 fighters with F15s flying backup. The US Navy has 100 Tomahawk missiles reconfigured for phase two missions as backups in case any of the B2s or F177s miss their targets. At 9:00 PM the launch order is given. The planes fly in their stealthiest modes. Their systems can plot the air defense radar footpaths and coverage maps, enabling the planes to fly through the holes in the air defense coverage. When the planes are over their targets, their bomb bay doors open, millions of leaflets are dropped over Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Havana, Sao Paulo, Lima, Mexico City, Cairo, Tehran, Bogota, Baghdad, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Riyadh, Giza, Jeddah, Kabul, Madrid, Novosibirsk, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Dayton, Cleveland, Newark, and Baltimore. The leaflets float to the ground. Mixed in with the leaflets are small packages that are sirens and loudspeakers screaming alert tones and messages in the local language telling the population to read the leaflets. Millions are awakened by the sirens and floating down loudspeakers telling them to go outside and read the leaflets.

  The leaflets tell the readers they are the targets of America’s nuclear arsenal. America has begun rearming their strategic missil
es with multiple warheads. America has 9,000 available nuclear warheads to enact revenge if required. The leaflets show images of the horribly burned and maimed children from the Minot explosion. The leaflets inform the world’s people if the United Nations' war against America isn’t stopped; their cities will be reduced to radioactive ash. They and their children will suffer more than any people have suffered in the history of the world. Each city is targeted with multiple warheads. America promises their homes will be destroyed. Their farmland and clean water supplies made radioactive and unusable. They will be killed by blast, heat, radiation, starvation or thirst. If the American citizens are going to be held hostage or killed by the United Nations, then America will do the same to the world’s people. The United Nations doesn’t represent peace. The leaflets tell the world’s people the United Nations is waging war against America, who is always the first country to respond to any disaster anywhere in the world. Americans are the most compassion-filled people in the world. These compassionate people are being attacked and killed by the United Nations. America stands for peace. However, if pushed, America will use its complete arsenal to ensure the world feels the same level of pain and suffering as the American population. There won’t be anyone anywhere to provide assistance to anyone in the world. The American people have had enough. America has provided trillions of dollars in foreign aid to the world’s needy. America has supplied food and water to the hungry and thirsty. America is saying enough is enough.

  The cities in the LSA that received the leaflets erupted into rioting. The leaflets scared the country. They knew the LSA was a supporter of the United Nations. The LSA hosted forces that led the attacks on the USA. They knew they were going to be a target of the Americans when the missiles and bombs were let loose. Gangs roamed the LSA looking for anyone suspected of being aligned with the USA. Visitors from the USA were sought out, women were raped then killed, men were usually tortured and then killed. A third of Chicago is burnt to the ground. The riots are based in the fear that people thought they had very little time left. They felt the war between the USA and United Nations is going to drag the entire world into darkness. The rule of law quickly broke down as people thought they had nothing to live for, and very little time to enjoy whatever pleasures they could find. Los Angeles resembled ancient Sodom and Gomorrah; there weren’t enough police to enforce rules, people did whatever they wanted to do. Stores were looted; entire streets set on fire. High-end car dealerships were broken into; cars stolen and crashed. Electronics stores looted and burned. Police stations were set on fire; fire departments didn’t respond. President Brownie called out the national police force to bring order to the cities in the LSA. The LSA national police fired into the crowds to put the rioting down. In Baltimore, Maryland, tens of thousands marched towards Washington, DC. They want to convince President Brownstone to make a deal with the Secretary-General to save the world. US army units positioned around the capital prepare for the attack.

  Colonel Reed tells his troops, “People; there are tens of thousands headed in our direction from Baltimore. They are civilians; we don’t want to be shown on the evening news shooting into the mob. We have to be careful of not looking bad. The world already thinks we’re to blame for most of the world’s problems. We will give them a volley fired over their heads, if they don’t stop and pause, we’ll fire again over their heads. If they don’t stop after those volleys, fire into the mob. Shoot to wound if possible. If not possible, do not allow them to breach the border and enter the city. Is that clear?”

  His command answers, “Yes sir.”

  The mob advances toward Washington chanting “Ban The Bomb,"" Sign the Treaty.” Onward they marched chanting. They held hands as they drew close to the Army troops surrounding the city. Colonel Reed picks up a hand held megaphone, “Attention, this is US Army Colonel Reed, you are advancing on the border of the United States. Turn around and go home before you breach the border. If you close to 50 yards of our position, you will be fired upon.”

  The Colonel turns to his people, “Prepare to fire. Ready, aim, fire.”

  The squad fires into the air above the mob who stops at the firing. They pause for a few minutes, someone in the mob says, “We will fire into you if you don’t stop right now.”

  The mob continues their forward march; they know no American would fire into the crowd. The Colonel orders the second warning round fired. The crowd pauses, realizing the shooting was above their heads, they surge forward again. The colonel says, “Squad, ready, aim, people, I’m giving you one last chance to stop before anyone gets hurt. Please stop now.” The mob continues to advance on the soldiers. Colonel Reed, with tears running down his cheeks, says, “Fire” The squad opens fire into the mob. The bullets strike the front line, panicking the mob. The front line of the mob stops in their tracks. Bodies lay where they fell, the back of the mob continues to push forward while the front of the mob is trying to turn around and run backwards. The two forces collided people on both sides fall when they run into each other increasing the panic. The army fires over the mob’s head. When the mob hears the gunfire, their panic increases. People are trampled; people are crushed under the mass of bodies trying to get away from soldiers.

  The mob breaks up; they break into stores and people’s homes, both to hide from the gunfire and to loot and rape.

  President Brownie goes on the news programs to beg for peace. He begs for understanding and promises that no nuclear weapons will fall on the LSA. President Brownie announces he’s going to Washington, DC. He says, “President Brownstone offered to come to Los Angeles, I’m saying we’ve reached a crisis point, we can’t wait for the planned meeting in two months. If President Brownstone agrees, I’m willing to fly to Washington DC today. I promised I would go and negotiate whatever is required to ensure no nuclear weapons touch LSA soil. We’ve all worked too hard to create a progressive country to sit back and allow it to be destroyed. I won’t allow that to happen. President Brownstone will you meet with me?”

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  Premier Xing of the People’s Republic of China makes a surprise announcement that it supports and sides with America. If the war doesn’t end against America, China will merge its strategic forces with America. China announces they proudly stand with America. The United Nations either has to be remade or China will join America leaving the United Nations. China rejects a one world government of elites. Many of the European cities that received American leaflets also receive Chinese leaflets saying they are backing up the American message.

  The cities that were bombed with leaflets realize the Americans and Chinese could have just was easily snuck into their country and bombed them with nuclear weapons. People are shocked, angry and scared. Scared for their children, scared for their lives. Scared the Americans will bomb them. Hundreds of millions try to flee the cities, jamming every road, every form of mass transit. Riots break out in every city. The cities are set ablaze. Millions fight each other to get out of the cities. Buses, trains, are overloaded causing tens of thousands of accidents. Causalities from the riots and trying to flee quickly exceed five million with more cities every hour being bombed by leaflets.

  Chapter 31

  Twenty US Air Force B2 stealth bombers are flying towards their targets, the Russian pipeline and oil fields. The B2s have timed their attack to take place at 2:20 AM local time. The bombers are almost invisible on the Russian air defense radar, in the dark overcast skies they can’t be seen from the ground. One by one the bombers releases their cruise missiles. When the B2s are over international airspace The Russian Federation’s oil and gas pipelines are destroyed and burning out of control. Their oil fields and offshore oil platforms are destroyed and burning. Thick black smoke covers the sites.

  President Puten is woken with the news; he’s furious at being woken and the loss of his oil. He grabs a small semiautomatic handgun from his night stand. He shoots his blond aide who’s sleeping next to him. He liked her. However, he needed to release his ang
er on someone. His guards rush into his bedroom to see if the president is OK.

  “Get her body out of here, get my bed cleaned and call the redhead. Damn I hate the Americans. I want the Defense Minister here in ten minutes.”

  President Puten’s phone rings, “Mr. President, the Minister of Energy is on the line.”

  “Sir, the update is, the fields will be out of commission for at least two years. Our only other option is the offshore oil rigs in the North Sea.”

  “I’ll send the Navy to hold the rigs.”

  While the two are speaking the US Navy attack Submarine USS Texas shoots torpedoes destroying the rigs.

  Russia’s available oil has been reduced by 85%; their economy is going to come to a stop without oil, their homes are going to be very cold without natural gas for heat. The Russian people are about to be very upset.

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  President Brownstone announces he’s happy to host President Brownie in Washington DC, “President Brownie, any time, any day you would like to visit, I’m ready, willing and looking forward to a productive face to face meeting. Just let my office know your plans so we can clear the air space around your plane. I’m happy to provide you with an escort across the country if you’d like.”

  The United Nations Secretary-General’s daily press conference is spent denouncing the United States of America. “When most of the world’s responsible countries are ready to scrap their nuclear weapons, the United States announces it’s expanding their nuclear arsenal. While the people of the world beg for peace and love, the United States threatens the people of the world with nuclear death. The United States launched a propaganda war against the peace loving people of the world. Millions have been injured or killed because of the actions taken two nights ago by the United States and their hawkish leader President Brownstone. The United Nations is even more convinced President Brownstone must be forced to leave office if the world is to have peace. I’m totally shocked this morning to hear Premier Xing has come out as an ally of the United States. The People’s Republic is the world’s most-populous country, yet their leader is siding with the warmonger President of the United States. Premier Xing has announced China has decided they, too, refuse to disarm. In speaking with President Putin, we have decided that if China and the United States don’t agree to sign the disarmament treaty, Russia and the United Nations will enforce a worldwide trade embargo against those countries that refuse to sign the disarmament treaty. President Putin has agreed to provide the full strength of the Russian Federation behind the United Nations. The Russian Federation has said it will put in place a naval embargo against the United States effective in 96 hours. President Putin has committed to putting 500 nuclear weapons available to United Nations’ in case America goes through with their threats of bombing the world’s cities. I beg President Brownstone to see the light and sign the treaty. We are pleased to hear President Brownie’s offer to visit President Brownstone and hopefully can move him to embrace peace. Thank you.”