270: Chapter 370 The United States of America is now a mere shell of its former self; a new era is dawning (The End)

Li Yi, through his connection with Lieutenant General Sergei, made contact with the Cuban military. Cuba possesses iron ore reserves reaching 3.5 billion tons, oil reserves reaching 20 billion barrels, and natural gas reserves reaching 20 trillion cubic meters. However, because Cuba had been under a long-term blockade by the USA, it had no way to exploit these energy resources.

Li Yi reached an arms deal with Cuba, selling over 500 billion USD worth of various anti-aircraft missiles, UAVs, fighter jets, warships, and armored vehicles in exchange for 3 billion barrels of oil, 300 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and 500 million tons of iron ore.

After obtaining these weapons and equipment, Cuba immediately recruited over 1 million troops and began reorganization. Within less than a month, Cuba prepared to launch a war to break the USA blockade.

The USA sensed something but believed its long-term blockade of Cuba had been successful and would not be easily broken by Cuba. Even though Cuba had recruited a large number of troops, the USA believed they could only threaten the USA military bases in Cuba.

What the USA did not expect was that the war launched by Cuba quickly exceeded the USA's imagination. The attacks on the USA military bases in Cuba were merely an appetizer; the occupied territories were reclaimed without consuming much military strength.

Subsequently, Cuba launched full-scale airstrikes against the USA military bases in Florida, Texas, and other places responsible for the blockade. It not only dispatched "Tianlong" Series UAVs and "Eagle" series fighter jets but also launched a large number of "Tianlei" Series Anti-Aircraft Missiles for surprise attacks.

This suddenly caused the USA mainland to suffer large-scale strikes. The United States Department of Defense did not expect Cuba to be so tough against the USA and immediately dispatched a large number of fighter jets to bomb Cuba.

However, the fighter jets dispatched by the USA were shot down one after another by the "Tianlei" Series Anti-Aircraft Missiles launched by Cuba, suddenly turning their intervention into a joke. Enraged, the USA dispatched its Eastern naval forces, intending to launch an all-out attack on Cuba.

Cuba utilized the purchased "Flying Fish" series destroyers to conduct flexible operations, sinking over a hundred USA warships in succession. At the same time, Cuba used a large number of UAVs and anti-aircraft missiles to attack USA aircraft carriers, causing the USA to lose two aircraft carriers.

Only then did the USA realize something was wrong, but it was already too late. After losing a large number of warships and fighter jets, Israel saw that the USA was actually so weak and seized the opportunity to put forward more territorial demands, occupying some territory with its own troops.

Florida and Texas were very dissatisfied that the USA could not protect their safety and immediately declared independence, no longer being states of the USA. The USA sent troops to suppress them, but due to the excessive consumption of military strength, it was unable to suppress them immediately.

California, Hawaii, Alaska, and other states saw that the USA was at risk of collapse and chose to declare independence, breaking away from the USA. The USA suddenly fell into a state of total collapse.

Although the USA began to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from overseas military bases, it still felt that its military strength was insufficient. It could only carry out large-scale conscription. However, there were not many responses to the conscription notice; it even had to dispatch military police to force conscription to recruit enough personnel, who were then sent to various battlefields after only simple training.

Suddenly, wars broke out in various southern and western parts of the USA, but the USA troops sent to suppress them did not all support the suppression. Therefore, the number of troops actually fighting was not large, which instead incited dissatisfaction in more states, and they successively colluded to try to get rid of the USA's rule.

At this time, Cuba also completely controlled the surrounding airspace and waters, and there were no longer any USA fighter jets or warships conducting blockades. In order to completely get rid of the USA's blockade, Cuba continued to increase its attacks on the USA mainland, with the furthest attacks reaching the location of the White House.

Seeing that it could no longer control Cuba, the USA had no choice but to negotiate with Cuba, promising not to build illegal military bases in Cuba again and to withdraw all personnel from Cuba.

The USA recognized all of Cuba's territorial waters and airspace, abandoned its blockade of Cuba, and exchanged this for Cuba not attacking the USA mainland again.

The USA compensated Cuba with 50 billion USD to make up for the losses caused by the long-term blockade. The USA was not allowed to interfere in Cuba's foreign economic and military exchanges.

After reaching the negotiation agreement, Cuba also stopped its attacks on the USA. After all, Cuba's goal had been achieved, and it was impossible for it to land and fight in the USA.

However, after this turmoil, the USA could only control a dozen states in the eastern region; the other states had either become independent themselves or several states had formed new countries. The USA was already in name only.

The USA had originally planned to assemble troops for suppression, but it was opposed by the majority of the people. No one wanted to see the USA mainland fall into war, so it could only give up in the end.

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After the USA withdrew from its military bases around the world, the places it controlled that could become independent did so one after another, and wars also broke out in some countries.

For example, North Korea immediately attacked South Korea. Although the South Korean army had quite a few advanced weapons, its combat effectiveness was not strong. Soon, they either fled or surrendered, and in the end, North Korea occupied South Korea and became one country.

For example, the indigenous people of Australia began to resist, launching attacks on the Australian army, and finally forced Australia to agree to the independence and state-building of the western, northern, and central regions.

There were many other places that got rid of the USA's control. The USA's overseas military bases were basically lost, retaining only a portion in Europe.

Naturally, a lot of this was caused by Li Yi selling arms. Li Yi also harvested a large amount of mineral resources; for example, Western Australia, Colombia, Venezuela, and a series of other countries all used energy and minerals to purchase proxy arms.

As the USA lost its military hegemony, the world entered a state of great chaos and great order, but it soon returned to calm without triggering a larger war. After all, with Li Yi's massive sales of weapons and equipment, a balance of power among countries was re-established.

After Li Yi obtained a large batch of various mineral resources from this, he sold them all to the Multiverse Arms Trading System and finally unlocked 10 trillion-level weapons and equipment, and various interstellar warships could be sold.

In order to continue to utilize the Multiverse Arms Trading System, Li Yi had no choice but to sell interstellar warships to countries around the world, encouraging more countries to participate in the mining of interstellar resources.

As more and more countries joined in interstellar colonization, a Galactic Era quietly arrived. More and more people joined this carnival.

A brand new era unfolded before the whole world!