Chapter 44 Chapter Forty-Three

Global Waterloo II "Operation Torch" (Excerpt from Armin Von Long's "World Massacre") The "Operation Torch" to attack North Africa was a gesture by the Anglo-American side to appease Stalin.From the day we attacked the Soviet Union, he has been nagging the British to "immediately open up a second front in Europe."This request was nothing more than empty shouting, and Stalin himself knew it.The British are so weak that there is no talk of a second front. But as soon as Japan, unwilling to be tricked, attacked Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt gleefully entered the world war, Stalin's demands became aggressive.The American Federation, which has not damaged a hair, has reaped the benefits of fishermen, and is fortunate to be far away from the range of bombers, but it itself has the potential to send 10 million troops.Its energy for producing military equipment is unlimited, but the Soviet Union has reached the point where it is difficult to support.

Yet the war-gambling President had only a half-trained and expanding army of freshly conscripted officers led by officers who had never been in battle.People in the country are panicking.Mild rationing laws set off howls of protest; the austerity measures we Germans have taken for granted look like the end of the world to pampered Americans.Worse still—this was their Achilles' heel, and Roosevelt knew it—the American people, like the Italians, could not afford heavy casualties on the battlefield.This fact determined Franklin.All of Roosevelt's war decisions, including the North African landings.

Roosevelt's solution to the problem can be thoroughly dissected.The formula for the United States to win the world empire has two aspects; 1. Germany first. 2. Use the bloodshed of others to bleed Germany.How Roosevelt did this will be the subject of long-term study by political and military historians. Roosevelt's Dilemma Roosevelt's people did not share his "Germany first" goal.All they wanted was revenge for Pearl Harbor.As Wake Island and the Philippine Islands fell to yellow-skinned invaders, American racial violence intensified.Tens of thousands of Americans of Japanese descent were incarcerated in concentration camps for exactly the same reasons as the Jews on the German lines: they were a security risk in wartime.Roosevelt's tearful indignation at our protests over the security measures taken by the Jews was completely missing from the Japanese.

Translator's Note: The harsh treatment of Japanese immigrants was caused by war hysteria.They were not mass-murdered, and when the war ended they were all alive and got their property back.Of course, this matter itself cannot be justified, but it is different from the Jews.General Long didn't see him. But the president soon discovered that war wasn't all about drinking and having fun.Along his Atlantic coast and the Caribbean, the coastal cities are brightly lit at night, just providing targets for our submarines, making them fly around late at night.Heart-pounding emergency calls poured in on Roosevelt, either asking for arms support or operational support, from the retreating Philippine Guards, from the Hawaii Command, from the desperate Chinese, and from the defense of the British mainland. From the army, from the British army in Africa, Burma, Australia, and India, and the loudest and most ugly cry is from the Soviet Union.But the wartime production in the United States has not yet been arranged, not to mention that Roosevelt still needs equipment for his own army and navy.He was having a hard time.

Even so, British and American planners had to work on a second front battle plan.The officers of the U.S. General Staff had never smelled the smoke of the battlefield. They all thought according to the rules in the textbook: launch a strong attack on the coast of the Channel as soon as possible, and then cross the northern plains to Berlin.But the British opposed the proposition.They proposed operations in Norway, in North Africa, in the Middle East; anywhere in fact, except where we could muster a large force.Let the Red Army destroy the German armed forces; if that would leave a small and weak Russia after the war, so much the better!

As it became known later, there was a "transatlantic pen and ink lawsuit" between the staffs of the two countries, and you came and I argued endlessly.Roosevelt also allowed letters, memos, visits, and meetings to continue endlessly.He never gave strong support to General Marshall's American program of (1) massing men and supplies in Britain; French emergency landing; 3. Otherwise, launch a full-scale attack across the Channel in 1943.Roosevelt did nothing to help it, because he had completely different plans of his own. Roosevelt's basic battle plan, the Battle of Midway, freed him to destroy Germany on his own terms.

Before that, there was an invincible Japan staring at his back, and he did not dare to let go of us.Had Yamamoto Fifty-Six succeeded at Midway—and he certainly should have been able to—public opinion would have forced Roosevelt to throw all his strength in the Pacific.But after the Nimitz-Spruance victory, he could put his "brain in the thick of the woods" to use the blood of others to win his own dominion over the world.In fact, this is to keep the Soviet Union fighting at any cost. Franklin.Roosevelt's basic plan to win the Second World War was to attack Germany from behind with a brutal and outnumbered Russian army.Everything else is secondary.Ruthlessly and resolutely he saw the most favorable opportunity.Militarily speaking, it was a brilliantly brilliant plan; sadly, it worked like a charm.

This explains why America's war supplies are so ruthlessly distributed.He ruthlessly withheld Pacific forces, nearly breaking them in the deadly battle at Guadalcanal, while flooding the ungrateful and insatiable Russians with supplies through the Persian Gulf and the Northern Sea Route.He also sent sufficient supplies to the British in Egypt via the Cape of Good Hope and the Red Sea, but the beleaguered Rommel's army ran out of food and ammunition due to Hitler's neglect.In this way Roosevelt could be sure that when his raw troops landed in French North Africa with negligible Vichy resistance, our valiant African regiments in El Alamein, two thousand miles away, It will be at a disadvantage and the situation will be chaotic.

Roosevelt's trick He also cleverly shifted the responsibility for breach of contract that did not open a second front in France to the British. He allowed the “transatlantic pen and ink lawsuit” to drag on until Marshall reported to him from London that the two staffs were deadlocked.Admiral Ernest.King had been pushing for a turn to the Pacific; Marshall, frustrated and exasperated, had been with George.The same ignorant and dogmatic man in Washington suggested to the President that the only way to deal with British intransigence was to turn all over the Pacific. This was exactly the time Roosevelt had planned would come.He still has the true colors of grace and generosity, through his confidant Harry.Hopkins told the Joint Chiefs of Staff that it was wrong to "pick up their cups and walk away."Roosevelt liked to say a few homely words to conceal his deep scheming.The Western Allies had to find a place to fight the Germans in 1942 to show their faith in the Russians.Since the British were indeed so cautious, and since they had fought so hard and their strength was exhausted, he would not gladly accept their proposal: that French North Africa seemed to him perfectly suitable.

Marshall warned that the opening of a Mediterranean theater would be tantamount to canceling the cross-channel attack in 1943; but he did his military duty and followed Roosevelt's decision.So on the surface, "Operation Torch" was Roosevelt's concession to the British, but in fact it was right in his arms. English translator's note: Feng.General Long here claims to be able to see into the hearts of others.As far as I've seen - sometimes close by - Mr. Roosevelt was a shrewd, handy problem solver who solved everyday problems based on common sense as well as his intimate knowledge of historical circumstances and logistical constraints .He also had enough self-knowledge and understanding of others. Whenever matters that required long-term considerations, he completely trusted people with foresight such as Marshall and King.

Churchill took on the responsibility of breaking the bad news to Stalin, because Roosevelt had put American troops into a sure-fire operation after posturing "bowed" to him.French North Africa was the least effortful contact.The invasion force did not come across a single German soldier.It was also out of range of German aircraft.All he has to worry about is the "honor" of France (which is no longer a problem because of his deal with the chief compromiser Darlan), that an anomaly of weather or tide may drown a few American soldiers, or Wetting their feet while wading ashore gave them pneumonia.The logistical equipment of this armada is truly breathtaking.Mass production and organization was, and is, America's forte. Stalin was furious at Churchill in Moscow; but of course he wasn't really angry.This is purely a political show.Stalin had always seemed willing to obey Roosevelt; probably because, as the world's number one butcher himself, he was also willing to bow to the politician boss who was good at sending others to carry out the slaughter for him. There is a fascinating passage in Churchill's memoirs, detailing how rudely Stalin treated him during that long meeting in the Kremlin, and then took him into his private residence, where he was served wine and vodka, and Mo Lotoff was also invited to serve as an accompaniment to the jokes, and happily enjoyed a midnight snack of a whole suckling pig; Churchill declined this delicacy because of a splitting headache.The image has survived - the number one Bolshevik eating a pig with relish, accompanied by the weary and sickly aged number one imperialist. It was a clever move by the British to hold back their plans to land in France *The Battle of Dieppe in September, as evidenced by the fact that most of the Canadian invasion force was either killed or taken prisoner at our hands .What a welcome the Anglo-American forces, especially the fledgling American soldiers, would have received had an attempt been made to land in France in 1942 or even in 1943.But in the North African landings, they were just as relaxed and happy as Roosevelt planned, as if they were having a tea party; and they did not teach them until Rommel marched across the Great Desert after the Battle of El Alamein. For the first time, I tasted the piquant taste of real war. English translator's note: Feng.Long purposely belittled a transoceanic offensive unparalleled in history in terms of scale, difficulty, and achievement.If the operation seemed easy, it was because it was well planned and perfectly executed.Otherwise it would not have been a fiasco like the Gallipoli landings, but a failure of incomparable scale.