CHAPTER 622: CHAPTER 299: [THE APPROACHING 1980S] (4K)

Yu Feng continued:

"Then it’s 1975."

"In that year,"

"the Republic successfully launched a recoverable satellite."

"There was another breakthrough in satellite technology."

"But the speed of this is quite astounding."

"Because at this point in 1975, only the United States and the Soviet Union had mastered this technology, yet the Republic surpassed the British Commonwealth and the French Federation."

"Although the Republic’s technological starting point was low,"

"I must say,"

"the speed of progress is truly fast."

"It also requires vast territorial support, otherwise, even if you want to catch up, you can’t."

With a large territory, it signifies a strong foundational support.

It means having a basic industrial system, constant error tolerance, and a huge pool of talent.

Perhaps in other countries, due to limited population and resources,

you can only find one talented person in ten thousand, and even by using the nation’s full power, you may only find dozens or a hundred people capable of leading in technology.

But in the Republic,

these talents are calculated in tens of thousands, and it happens every year.....

The vast base has become an amplifier.

Even some relatively niche fields, because of the Republic’s large population, have become less niche.

Thus, the Republic’s technological development accelerates year by year.

Yu Feng looked at the information and said:

"In these five years, the Republic has continued to focus on its own development."

"But it has completed three major arrangements by leveraging the standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union."

"The first is the deployment of the nuclear deterrence system (DF-3)."

"The second is independent energy development (Daqing Oil)."

"The third is the return to the United Nations, becoming a permanent member, a huge identity transformation."

"If these 5 years marked the period of the United States’ decline and the Soviet Union’s expansion, then for the Republic, these 5 years were a period of opportunity."

"In the standoff with the two superpowers, the Republic completed the deployment of the nuclear deterrence system, gaining security assurance."

"The original bipolar struggle."

"Has now changed to a triadic game, and the Republic at this point has jumped out of the chessboard, becoming a player."

"But it still needs to focus on self-development."

"Even though the deployment of the nuclear deterrence system allowed the Republic to jump out of the chessboard,"

"the heritage of the Soviet Union and the United States is still there."

"Their vast bases are even more exaggerated than the Republic’s."

"This is why only the Republic has emerged after World War II."

"Even the British Commonwealth and French Federation have always been overshadowed by the United States."

"Their basic structure is too small."

"Insufficient to confront the United States."

"This gap will only widen with the passage of time."

"Thus, in the timeline after [Global Counter-Terrorism], only the Russian Federation and the Republic will be able to contend with the United States."

"The situation in the Gulf War and the Afghanistan War shows this clearly."

"From World War II to the time these wars occurred, the gap between the United States and other countries widened significantly."

As the revelations end,

Blue Star Players gain some understanding of ’Earth’s situation during this period.

They have a general outline now.

And they must admit, observing the development from a third-person perspective, the feeling is indeed different.

Inserting into the perspective of ’Earth NPCs’ at this time, who would have thought that the Soviet Union, now so glorious and rapidly expanding, would collapse in just over a decade?

Who would have thought that the United States, now mired in domestic public opinion and financial crises and forced to contract under Soviet pressure, would deliver a slap to the whole world in a decade or so?

Who would have thought that, though the Republic has jumped out of the chessboard and become a player, it would become the entity to succeed the Soviet Union in counterbalancing the United States?

Substituting ’Earth NPCs’ perspective at this time, who could have imagined it?

Perhaps telling them about some of the actions of the United States during [Global Counter-Terrorism] to the ’Earth NPCs’ in 1975 would seem reasonable to them.

But if you were to tell them that the Soviet Union would collapse and the Republic would rise, those ’Earth NPCs’ would probably think Blue Star Players were crazy.

How could this be possible?

Indeed, regardless of how times change, it shouldn’t turn out like this, right?

In fact,

If it weren’t for Blue Star Players having played the later timeline DLCs,

putting themselves in the ’Earth NPCs’ shoes,

they would not have thought that the Soviet Union at this time would collapse in a decade, which is just too outrageous.

And given the ’Earth NPCs’ stereotypes about the Republic, they surely wouldn’t have thought that the Republic would rise later on.

It can only be said that the evolution of the era has been too rapid.

So much so that, if not for knowing the actual subsequent storyline timeline,

even the Blue Star Players wouldn’t have imagined it, nor could the photon supercomputer calculated it.

After all,

the strength and decline of the Soviet Union and the United States has its traces to follow.

Placed in anime, movies, or novels,

it would only be two powerful forces because of some issues, becoming strong at one moment, or declining at another. They would eventually endure by pulling through, either by continuing to thrive or endlessly weakening.

But the Republic was different.

This was like a cheat script.

Because in the perception of ’Earth nations’ then, the Republic was still a declining force, it didn’t seem like it would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those two powerful forces.

Yet, in just a few short decades, it had become like that.

Isn’t this a joke?

The feeling of being stronger than him, indeed, he might grow to stand alongside the two major Federations; then what power must I achieve?