Later

Since Mr. Van der Linde's tavern speech, the entire VDL Party has entered a full-blown explosive mode.

The newspapers daily promoted the ideal of resistance, and every morning, as soon as people woke up, they would immediately go to the war news propaganda office set up by Mr. Van der Linde to listen to the latest news broadcasts.

The VDL Party even arranged for personnel to conduct ideological guidance every night to let the people know the reasons for their resistance and their true enemies.

And thus, the great war began!

Since Mr. Dutch Van der Linde's passionate speech, the VDL Party's forces have been fully mobilized.

Mr. Van der Linde's enemies this time include not only the million-strong Europe Allied Forces but also the United States Federal Government.

For Mr. Van der Linde, both sides are enemies, but for the United States Federal Government, uniting with the Van Der Linde Government to face external threats is currently most in their interest.

After all, if there's internal chaos combined with external invasion, then the United States truly has no chance of resisting.

The people of this newly established country lack a sense of belonging. If the Europe Allied Forces truly achieve continuous victories, then those who flee or betray the country will certainly be everywhere.

To ensure the stability of the front lines and internal peace, they can only choose the Van Der Linde Government, which has an extremely high internal sense of belonging, as a tool to stabilize the interior.

On March 28, 1901.

The United States New Federal Government in the American East sent a negotiating representative, Tracy Hedward, to discuss internal stability negotiations and an agreement to unite against external threats with Mr. Dutch Van der Linde.

They say bald men are incompetent, and those who lose are exiled. But facts prove that bald men are already among the tall ones.

The United States Federal Government initially held the idea of pacifying internal affairs before resisting external threats, but they compromised even before the war began.

They truly can't handle this mess.

If they insist on trying, they won't even be able to be exiled in the end.

Mr. Dutch Van der Linde rejected the proposal from the American East Federal Government.

There is no easing of class struggle, and the current encirclement is Mr. Dutch Van der Linde's encirclement of the capitalist elite, including the United States Federal Government. How can there be an alliance?

Moreover, one is in the West and the other in the East; the distance itself is so vast that their mutual invasion wars would require them to deal with it themselves. An alliance or non-alliance has no meaning whatsoever for external matters.

Mr. Dutch Van der Linde's non-alliance move greatly angered the United States New Federal Government in the American East.

President Theodore Roosevelt reportedly threw a massive tantrum in the United States New Congress, constantly shouting and claiming that Dutch Van der Linde was destroying the United States and shattering everything.

Subsequently, he even issued a statement claiming that the United States had reached its current state solely because of Dutch Van der Linde, and that all future hardships of the United States would be caused by Dutch Van der Linde's non-alliance policy!

Dutch united the poor class, so President Theodore could, of course, unite the rich class.

Following Mr. Dutch Van der Linde's non-alliance policy, the United States New Government began to frantically publish various political newspapers one after another.

"Dutch Van der Linde, a deceiver who steals fame! The United States with him will be completely overthrown..."

"Mr. Dutch Van der Linde's ruling area does not allow the rich to exist. His actions are even more terrifying and radical than feudal monarchy. Middle-class and above citizens need to be constantly vigilant to prevent their property from being forcibly confiscated by Dutch Van der Linde, and they may even face life-threatening danger..."

"Dutch Van Der Linde, the American Great Western King, a true bandit, a bandit who sets his own rules to rob. His hypocrisy and..."

Although there are many poor people in the United States, there are also many rich people.

Not only are there many rich people, but there are also many middle-class individuals and working people who can maintain their basic needs and a certain level of comfortable living.

These people all live in the cities of the American East and originally had no good feelings for the West. Now, seeing the policies of this Great Western King in the newspapers, they immediately felt their scalps tingle.

If Mr. Dutch Van der Linde is truly as the newspapers describe, then these people will undoubtedly become the real sacrifices.

No one is willing to hand over their wealth, and in the existing comfortable environment, no one is willing to change casually.

So the public opinion and direction in the American East completely shifted. The chasm between the poor and the rich widened further due to the combined efforts of Dutch Van der Linde and Theodore Roosevelt.

Hatred of the rich, hatred of the poor, the two sides are almost completely opposed, like gender equality.

For a time, the lives of the poor in the American East became even more miserable.

But this is just a microcosm of American internal society.

What will truly decide which side wins this war is the actual display of military power.

On March 30, 1901.

After Mr. Dutch Van der Linde's decision for total war was issued, this news finally reached Europe.

After the sea supply routes of the British Empire, the French Empire, and the Russian Empire were fully opened, these three governments completely shifted their focus to invading the United States.

However, Italy was an exception in this.

Its relationship with France had not been good recently, but it also didn't want to bother with transporting supplies itself, so it paid the British Empire to transport supplies for its soldiers.

This made the British Empire's already cumbersome work even more complicated, and it even had to expend great effort to ensure the long-distance ocean supply routes.

Because of this, the British Empire's government even held a special seminar.

The pressure of transporting supplies for 500,000 people across the ocean for the British Empire almost made the entire empire's gears run at high speed. Almost overnight, the United Kingdom spent a huge sum of fifty million pounds to drive this war, and because of the existence of sea transport routes, they would need to spend over a million pounds every day from now on to transport supplies for the million soldiers on the front lines.

And this will continue to increase at a very high rate as the war progresses.

This level of expenditure was no small sum in this era. In addition, relations between the British, French, and Germany had become increasingly tense in recent years. When they launched an attack on the United States, they also had to deploy their other troops along the German border to prevent the German Second Reich from launching a sneak attack, which added another huge expense and pressure.

For this reason, the British seminar had to formulate a lightning war plan to quickly end the war.

They prepared to shorten the war period as much as possible, with a limit of two months, to end this overseas war.

Otherwise, the German Second Reich might have some ideas about them.

On April 3, 1901.

The British-French Allied Forces, which had already reached American waters, officially launched their attack.

Although the United States Government had been a lapdog for Europe for many years, its development speed and remote location still posed a great threat to Europe.

No one was willing to let such a large country develop freely. Canada was the beginning of British containment of the United States, and when it was time to kick a man when he was down, they certainly wouldn't hold back.

The British-French Allied Forces' declared reason for this expedition was to help the United States eliminate the Van Der Linde Government, similar to 'cleansing the ruler's side'.

However, the areas of New Hanover, Lemoyne, and the other four large states where Dutch Van der Linde was located were not suitable for naval landings.

After all, according to intelligence from the French Empire and the Russian Empire, Dutch Van der Linde had long-range coastal defense cannons. To advance from the water, they would need to drive their warships into Flatiron Lake, but Flatiron Lake was clearly not a suitable landing spot. Warships crammed in there wouldn't even have room to disembark, and once inside, they would be right in range, making them pure sitting ducks.

So the British-French Allied Forces ultimately decided to land in the American East, first subduing the United States Government, and then dealing with Dutch Van der Linde.

And Russia's landing plan was the same old one: Washington State.