“Mr. President, it’s so delightful to see you healthy.

As soon as US Presidential Chief of Staff William Lexi returned to Washington, he went directly to the White House without even returning home to meet President Franklin Roosevelt, who looked very unhealthy.

Roosevelt was still lying on the hospital bed. This was the doctor's instructions that there was no way to treat stroke these days, and resting in bed was probably the only way to relieve the condition.

"Hi, William." Roosevelt waved his hand weakly at the visiting William Lexi.

"Admiral." Hopkins, who was staying with Roosevelt, stood up and shook hands with the dusty general.

"How is the situation in the Hawaiian Islands?" Roosevelt asked. "Can you win in the short term?"

"Some hope." General Lexi replied, "The Japanese have actually given up there... The Japanese army in the Hawaiian Islands have not received any reinforcements for a long time. The situation in the South Pacific is similar, and the Japanese troops stationed there are hunger. Logistics transportation has been completely cut off, and no Japanese ships can be seen on the sea, and there is no trace of Japanese planes in the sky."

"Is this because they are in a tough battle on the mainland?" Roosevelt asked.

"Not all," William Lexi shook his head, "I think the lack of oil is the main reason. We have achieved very good results in the continuous bombing of Southeast Asian oil fields and the activities of US and Soviet submarines.

The confirmed tonnage of sinking exceeded 250,000 tons in June, and in July and August, due to the addition of the Soviet Navy, the sinking tonnage exceeded 350,000 tons. If we consider the results of the mines, the Japanese lost at least 1 million tons of merchant ships in the three months from June to the present. In fact, they have been defeated by us!"

"I defeated the enemy, but I can't win!" Roosevelt smiled bitterly, "This is probably the most helpless thing in the world, right?"

William Lexi suggested: "President, if we can make peace with Europe, we may have a chance to defeat Japan."

His opinions represent the opinions of US military generals on the Pacific battlefield, and there is also a market in the United States. If Germany can evacuate from South America, it may be able to pay tens of billions of dollars to end the war in the Atlantic.

But Japan must be defeated completely!

"We should make peace with Japan!" Roosevelt told William Lexi, "as long as they are willing to return the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands to the United States."

William Lech nodded, "Is it to concentrate on dealing with Germany?"

Although the Japanese devils were hated, many "rational" Americans still realized that the European community ruled by Germany was the biggest enemy of the United States. So William Lech was not too surprised by "Han Japan".

Roosevelt shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint many people this time, because I neither intend to destroy Japan nor have the ability to defeat Germany... What the United States needs now is a complete version of peace, and has atomic bombs and missiles that can protect itself with all countries."

Roosevelt's abacus was very precise, because the results of the Battle of Bermuda have shown that the United States could not defeat Germany at all.

If you can't beat Germany, then it's meaningless to defeat Japan. Because the Japanese cannot replace their black hair and yellow skin, they can't become blond and blue-eyed Aryans!

When the war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union, Belarus, controlled by Germany, immediately negotiated peace with the Soviet Union, which also showed that Germany's attitude towards Japan was not as good as that of the Slavs in the world led by Germany.

So in the future world, Japan and the United States actually have common enemies! Therefore, keeping a Japan that occupies Southeast Asia and has a strong navy will be a trouble for Germany, not the trouble for the United States.

Roosevelt looked at William Lech with a frown, and then said, "Mussolini will visit in a few days, and I will discuss with him face to face the issue of US-Japan peace talks and US-European peace talks. Before that, I hope to launch air strikes on Iceland and Ireland with B-29 bombers."

"What?" William Lexi was stunned for a moment, "Mr. President... You just said you wanted to have a peace talk and bomb Ireland at the same time?"

"Yes." Roosevelt nodded, "Air strikes on European mainland are necessary conditions for the success of peace talks."

Will it be?

William Lexi was stunned for a while before hesitating to Roosevelt: "Mr. President, there is a straight-line distance of about 3,200 kilometers from Newfoundland to Ireland. Although the voyage of B-29 can be flew back and forth, it cannot carry many bombs, and Ireland is not a German home..."

"I know." Roosevelt interrupted William Leach, "but bombing on the European land can bring peace to us."

William Lexi shook his head, and he also felt that Roosevelt's brain might be confused.

"Mr. President, it is unlikely that the bombing of Europe will bring peace. The only thing that can bring is Germany's crazy revenge! Our big cities may become targets of various German missile attacks! There will be missiles covering the sky and sun flying towards New York, Boston and Washington!"

Roosevelt smiled helplessly and said, "Admiral, if there were no missiles that covered the sky and the sun, would the American people and Wall Street agree to pay about $200 billion in compensation?"

"Mr. President..." William Lech was almost stunned by Roosevelt's remarks, and just stared at the US president in a daze.

Roosevelt slowly continued and said: "Admiral, I think you must know the situation that the United States is facing better than me, but you are not willing to admit it.

The United States is failing, and the reason for the failure of the United States is not that the American soldiers are not brave enough, nor that the American generals do not know how to command, but that the science and technology are backward! Because Germany ruled Europe and then mastered most of the European scientific research strength, their R&D capabilities are currently far beyond the United States. So the gap between us and Germany is not narrowing but expanding."

The US President sighed: "Admiral, in 1942, the German remote-controlled missile was dragging a wire, and could only attack targets a few thousand meters away, and could not fly too fast. But now, the Germans already have missiles that can be used for rockets that can be driven by hundreds of kilometers away. But we... have not even made missiles that can be truly wireless remote-controlled!

Don't you understand? The delay in the war will not bring a turning point to the United States, but will only further widen the gap between us and Germany. Therefore, early peace is truly beneficial to the United States!"

The United States' cutting-edge technology achieved a comprehensive catch-up in Europe in history because of World War II. Not only did a large number of scientists flee to the United States because they were Jews, but Britain also gave a lot of technology to the United States for free. Most of Germany's scientific and technological wealth after the defeat was occupied by the United States.

Now, Americans are not so lucky. Not only are there not many European Jewish scientists coming to the United States, but even the technology from the United Kingdom has been interrupted since the second quarter of 1943.

On the other hand, Germany, because it settled the British mainland in 1943, obtained almost all the cutting-edge technologies mastered by the UK. Although Germany also has similar technologies, the technical routes taken by both sides are not necessarily the same, and there are considerable differences in the development process. Therefore, the British technical data can provide German research departments with many useful references, thereby accelerating technological progress.

So starting from 1943, in many cutting-edge technical fields, the gap between the United States and Germany has not only not narrowed, but has become larger and larger. After the Battle of Bermuda, Roosevelt had already realized that the delay of the war was extremely unfavorable to the United States, so he made up his mind to pay huge compensations to end the war during his term of office.

To make the American people and Wall Street accept the reality of defeat, it is very necessary to get more missile bombings...

After fully understanding Roosevelt's intention, General William Lexi was so shocked that he couldn't even say a word.

There was a dead silence in Roosevelt's ward.

"Admiral," I don't know how long it took, but Hopkins broke the silence, "I think you fully understand the President's painstaking efforts?"

William Lexi nodded silently.

"We can't win, right?"

"It's impossible to win, but the enemy cannot completely conquer the United States!" William Lexi replied.

Defeating on the Atlantic does not mean that the United States is unable to defeat the invaders on its own. Now the United States is a country that has been completely mobilized, with a population of more than 100 million and the world's most powerful industrial production capacity. It can fully arm an army of more than 20 million people!

"Do they need to completely conquer us?" Roosevelt asked back.

"They..." William Lexi shook his head in pain.

Roosevelt smiled bitterly and said, "The purpose of the Germans is not to conquer the United States... What they want is the right to print money, the right to print money all over the world! This can only be obtained by defeating the United States. If we are unwilling to hand over gold, they can also obtain the right to print money. Just defeat us with an atomic bomb, bomb big cities on the east coast, and force us to use all our air power to protect ourselves. Then we can easily seize Canadian and Caribbean islands, and perhaps Central America.

At that time, the United States was completely blocked on its homeland, and the whole world would know that the United States was completely defeated. And the banknotes issued by a completely defeated country... are waste paper to the whole world."

"I understand." William Lexi nodded, his face full of pain and helplessness.
Chapter completed!