United States Invaded (6 page)

Puten continues, “It is our hope that the United Nations, which was founded to preserve world peace, will vote to enforce whatever ruling The Hague hands down. We also hope the United Nations agrees to enforce the destruction of the world’s weapons of mass destruction. I am making it my life’s goal to ensure these horrible weapons are never used again. Russia is proud to announce we are seconding 50,000 soldiers to United Nations disarmament and peacekeeping forces. Russia agrees with President Reid; there’s no reason why private citizens should own a firearm. We in Russia don’t allow private ownership of firearms, our violent crime rate is a fraction of that of the USA’s. Removing military styled firearms from the world’s streets will dramatically improve the lives of all of the planet’s citizens. Our children will never have to grow up afraid of a drive-by shooting. Our children will never be afraid to play outside again. President Reid and I are convinced we can, and will, make this small planet we all share, a safer home for all of us. Thank you and good night from Moscow.”

Rash looks at President Brownstone, “Sir; this is really going to open the floodgates. The media will appoint Puten the second coming within an hour, and why not? He’ll never allow the United Nations entrance into Russia…”

“Rash, you’re wrong, yes he will. He’ll invite them into Chechen; he’ll hand over the very dirty job of disarming the rebels to them, only this time the 50,000 promised Russian troops will be tied up elsewhere. He’ll get Chechen cleared out without the loss of a single Russian life. He’ll never get rid of his own WMD, He’ll say he is, he’ll go on TV to show Russia scrapping some old useless weapons systems to show the world he’s good to his word. Hell, I bet he does this very soon, this will show the world he’s a man of peace, just forget all of that bullshit about Europe and oh, do you want to know about those 5,000 tanks massed along the Iranian border? They’re for the protection of the Iranian people. You just watch. He and Reid just pulled off a very special coup.”

Steve, looking very worried said, “Sir, what are we going to do? We can’t allow you to be tried at the World Court; the World Court hates America more than the United Nations does. It’ll be impossible for us to even make our case let alone have you tried in a fair and balanced manner. Plus, sir, the most-important point is we, YOU, didn’t do anything. Hell, we didn’t know what caused the blackout when it happened. We didn’t know until the New York City Fire Department reached the power generating facility. We can’t afford to fight the entire world at the same time; we have many millions of people who lean to the left or who actively support the LSA. The instant polls already show these people believe Reid. We’ll end up fighting on every front including inside our own country. Reid threw a perfect breaking curve ball at us.”

Rash looks thoughtful, “Mr. President, Steve, we can’t, or even if we could take on the entire world, I know we don’t want to. The risk far outweighs any potential positive outcome. We developed the personality testing for handling WMD before anyone else, why don’t we just make all of our procedures public? We should up the ante in their game, but up the ante
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Why don’t we suggest a meeting of the world’s nuclear club, the announced and the assumed to own such weapons such as Israel and Japan?”

“Rash, I fear that whatever meeting we call will fall on deaf ears because we’re calling it. We’re being accused of killing another world leader; no country is going to trust us not to do it to their leader. I have to admit; Reid pulled a fast one on us. Having Puten request, the United Nations perform the disarming was a good slight of hand for him. We’re innocent, however in the eyes of the world we’re guilty; we’re going to have to prove our case to the world and make it so iron clad no one will be able to break any holes in it. No matter what we say, or which documents we release, who’s going to believe us? Many think I led the coup against President Obsma; I got him impeached so I could take over in a military coup. You hear them every day chanting and picketing outside the White House fence. Even if President Obsma came back to life and told them I didn’t arrange to have him killed, his followers wouldn’t believe him. We’re innocent and have no logical way to prove it. We’re living the perfect Catch 22.”

Steve pours himself a fresh cup of coffee, as he takes his first sip, his face drains of all color, Steve grabs his chest falling over onto the floor, the President yells, MEDIC! MEDIC! The doors to the Oval Office are thrown open, three secret service guards rush in, followed by a US Navy Captain carrying a medical bag. The agents shove the two couches away so the doctor can have access to Steve. He rips Steve’s shirt open while placing a large patch of nitroglycerin on his chest, “When is the ambulance due?”

One of the agents talks into his microphone, “Doc, six minutes, we can have Marine One here in five if needed.”

“Get Marine One here right now, where’s the mobile stretcher?”

“On the way, almost here.”

Two agents and two nurses push a hospital bed into the Oval Office; the halls of the White House have been cleared, air traffic over the city has been halted, the secret service has issued body armor to Rash and the President, additional agents take up positions around the White House armed with automatic M4 assault rifles. Four agents are on the roof holding stinger anti- air missiles. At first none knew if the person down was the President; the secret service and White House medical staff responded as if it was the President.

“Doc how is Steve?”

“Mr. President, he’s had a heart attack, he’ll be in Marine One in two minutes and at the hospital within another four. I think he’s going to be OK. Everyone is waiting for us at the hospital.”

“Doc, I, the country needs him, take care of him.”

“Mr. President, we’ll give him the best care we can provide. I've got the secret service to get his personal doctor to the hospital with his files as quickly as possible. I understand the secret service is going to fly his doctor on a ‘copter to the hospital.”

Within a minute Marine One lands, armed Marines form an armed corridor between the White House and the helicopter. Within two minutes of landing Marine One is back in the air with the President onboard. President Brownstone and Rash go over what happened with the secret service agents and a second doctor who arrived in the Oval Office. The lead secret service agent talks into his microphone, he stands saying, “Mr. President, Mr. Press Secretary, please stand up, don’t touch anything, don’t place your hands near your mouth. Please just take a few steps away from the coffee table. Sir, who brought the coffee?”

“Agent Jonson, I really don’t remember, I looked up to see someone pushing in a fresh cart with the coffee and tea. I thought to myself that I was just going to call for some when it arrived.”

The agent, nods, he speaks into his microphone, “Condition Zebra Black. Repeat Zebra Black. Oval Office. This is NOT a drill; this is actual Zebra Black.” Alarms sound in the White House. Agents lock the House down; no one will be allowed to enter or leave. The kitchen is locked; five agents guard the kitchen staff. Even the trash is sealed and taken for testing.

The agent looks at the confused President, “Sir, the coffee may have been poisoned; we have specialists coming to test it. Please don’t touch anything that was on that cart. Is Steve the only one who drank the fresh coffee?”

“Yes, he got up to get a fresh cup almost as it was being pushed into the room.”

“Sir, we want to take you to the bunker, please come with us.”

Before the agent can finish five additional agents enter the office, “Mr. President, we have to go right now. Please come with us. The White House is on total lockdown.”

Rash and the President walk towards the elevator to the bunker, “Mr. President, how could anyone have gotten anything inside the White House without the agents checking it?”

“Rash, that’s a very good question, one that’s bothering me too.”

“Agent Jonson, I only want agents I personally know to be with Rash and myself.”

“Sir…”

“Agent, if something was put in our coffee, I don’t know who to trust, so I don’t want anyone near us I don’t know.  Am I clear?”

“Yes sir, I’ll arrange it.”

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Meanwhile in Moscow, the Russian Federation Defense Minister and President Puten are sharing a bottle of Vodka. The Minister turns towards President Puten, “Mr. President, what if President Brownstone isn’t found guilty?”

“Minister, the peace loving people of the Russian Federation, will help bring him to justice. The world will see Russia as the ‘good guys.' President Reid and I have spread around enough gold to ensure President Brownstone is found guilty no matter what is said inside the courtroom. We’ll provide military support to Reid’s LSA to bring the murderer to justice. Having our forces supporting President Reid will give us control of the world except for China, which we’ll get soon enough. The American markets will close to China when the world’s financial markets blackball the American dollar. This will push China’s economy into collapse, when it does; we’ll be ready to step in and ‘help them.’ We’ll be the world’s only superpower ensuring our control over the world’s assets.”

“Mr. President, a good plan as long as President Brownstone doesn’t come up with one of surprises the Americans are known for.”

“This time they won’t have time to come up with one of their nasty surprises. They’re going to be kept off balance on all fronts.”

Chapter 4

The twelve members of OPEC agree to meet in the Grand Hotel Keminiski. In order to arrange for the member’s security, the hotel has been closed for four days so each country’s security forces can screen every inch of the hotel. Any hotel guests still in the hotel when the security screens begin are paid to move to other hotels. OPEC, as they normally do, rent the entire hotel for a weekend meeting. Only the Saudi member, the Prince, decided to stay elsewhere. He never stayed in the same hotel as the other members. He liked to be protected by his own handpicked security teams.

None of the OPEC members are happy, they are on the verge of losing one of their largest customers. In addition, the technology the Americans are using, can be and has started to be, deployed by other countries cutting deeper into OPEC’s income. OPEC knows if the trend isn’t changed very quickly they will have lost the “golden goose.”

The Venezuelan minister starts the meeting off, “My friends; we have to stop the Americans from expanding their domestic oil and gas production. The fracking technology is soon going to be adopted by every country.  We’re going to lose trillions of dollars, our organization is going to collapse, and our economies are going to fail. Our people are going to starve and revolt. All of our countries are going to be turned inside out, none of us can afford to change our basic economic model. We don’t have the time or the resources to change. I suggest we throw all of our support behind the LSA’s case against President Brownstone. If Brownstone is taken down, there’s a very good chance Reid can merge the LSA and USA together; he will stop their domestic production and sign a new-exclusive agreement with us. He will sell us their latest military technology and pay us in precious metals for our oil. My friends, our time is running out, did any of us really believe the Americans would change so quickly, or be able to ramp up their domestic production so quickly? We in Venezuela didn’t. I know most of you like us, thought OPEC could manipulate the American press forever, they and their Hollywood executives would take our money to convince the public that fracking was wrong and damages the environment. This President Brownstone is a very dangerous man. We’ve made offers to him; he removed our people’s diplomatic status, and he sent them home! This isn’t a normal American politician who can be easily purchased.

“My friends, according to our latest projections the USA will cease importing oil and gas from all of us in less than twenty months. Every month sees their imports decrease. I propose we do everything within our power while we still have some, to bring Brownstone down before we all become a third rate country.”

Saudi Prince Azaid takes the podium, “Fellow members of OPEC, We haven’t always agreed on everything, our governments aren’t the same; our philosophies aren’t the same. We in Saudi agree with the esteemed representative from Venezuela. Our internal projections agree with the twenty-month timeline of when the USA will no longer require any oil imports. Our intelligence organization has discovered that President Brownstone has secretly ordered the construction of huge underground bunkers to hold a new-strategic reserve containing over one billion barrels of sweet crude. Added to their existing 727 million barrels this will provide the USA with over 180 days of supply if oil production was cut to zero.

“We’ve also discovered that he has instructed the US Navy to start development of small nuclear reactors for new warship construction so they can travel around the world many times without needing to be refueled. Our science branch estimates these new reactors will enable these new ships to operate for 25 years on a single core. These same small reactors will also be able to provide electrical power for the country, allowing America to shift away from using oil to generate electrical power. 

“President Brownstone announced his goal to bring manufacturing and product creation jobs back to the USA. I suggest we contact Premier Xing to sound out his support. If Brownstone is successful in bringing home factories to the USA, China will be the single country the most hurt. A partnership between us and China will be very powerful, maybe powerful enough to force President Brownstone to slow down his programs.