The performance of stopping the vehicle and rescuing the hostages was completed, but the exercise did not stop, but started the next subject immediately.
Owen's brows furrowed deeply, but the president didn't say anything. He could only continue to watch.
The next subject is also clear at a glance. Several terrorists have taken hostages and are hiding in a small warehouse. What Alpha has to do is to capture the warehouse and rescue the hostages.
If he hadn't seen what he just saw, Owen might still have some expectations, but now, he has no doubt that Alpha can capture the warehouse, but it's hard to say whether it can rescue the hostages.
Irving and the president stood high up. This time their observation location was no longer an observation vehicle, but a building near the warehouse.
The view here is excellent. Presidents Irving and Wolfsky stood on the observation platform, and the exercise officially began.
Rumbling, an armored vehicle drove up in the distance. Owen looked at the armored vehicle and then at the warehouse not far away. There were black lines all over his head. Russia uses this thing to fight terrorism?
After the armored vehicle drove to a certain position, it stood ready. Owen turned his attention to the battlefield. Two Alpha teams were sneakily hiding on both sides of the warehouse, out of sight of the enemy.
At this time, an Alpha soldier appeared on another rooftop in the distance. Owen and the others could see it from the observatory where they were, but they couldn't see it from the warehouse where the hostages were.
Owen originally thought this was a sniper, but judging from his equipment, it seemed that he was not. This Alpha was a little different. The weapons he carried were not guns, but several rocket launchers.
Well, Owen's nerves are now strong enough, tanks have appeared, and things like rocket launchers don't seem to be surprising.
The warehouse is divided into two floors, with windows on the first and second floors. Owen found that there were shadows of terrorists shaking behind the windows on the second floor.
On the first floor, the terrorists are negotiating with the military using the hostages, constantly making demands on Alpha on the opposite side.
After the commander quietly gave the order, the Alphas on both sides began to move silently against the wall, and soon came to both sides of the window.
Owen noticed that Fuze, the team commander, was counting down with hand gestures, three, two, one...
The attack begins!
When the last finger was withdrawn, Fuze smashed the glass on the window with the butt of his gun, and then threw several grenades in.
Sure enough~~
Owen mourned for the hostages, but that was not all. Then the Alpha soldier on the roof suddenly stood up, knelt down, picked up the rocket launcher, and fired a stream of white smoke.
The Alpha's rocket launcher was extremely accurate. The rocket with white smoke flew directly into the second floor window and exploded into a ball of fire, followed immediately by the second one.
The two floors of the warehouse were blown into rubble at the same time, and then a group of Alphas began to shoot inside from the window. The machine gun guy even put his DP28 on the window and fired a burst of fire into the inside.
After fighting for more than ten seconds, Alpha kicked open the door and rushed in. With a burst of gunfire, he killed the surviving terrorists.
Owen thought to himself that it was indeed the case. It seemed that this was going well. If it didn't go well, the armored vehicle's artillery might have to come again.
After the subject performance was over, all the alpha soldiers and soldiers dressed as robbers in the exercise lined up at the entrance of the warehouse. After the queue was sorted, Fuze ran over and saluted: "Report to the president, the anti-terrorism operation exercise is completed, the terrorists are all
He was shot to death, please review him, sir..."
President Wolfsky saluted, and then he and Irving got off the observation platform. The two entered the warehouse and walked around. If this was not an exercise, then the ground must be full of corpses of terrorists and hostages.
After coming out of the warehouse, the president looked at Irving, his meaning was obvious, and asked Irving to comment.
Owen was speechless. He really didn't know what to say. From his point of view, these two missions were failures. The terrorists were killed, but basically none of the hostages were alive. If this kind of thing happened,
In the United States, it would definitely be criticized, but in Russia it doesn't seem to be unacceptable.
Owen was in a dilemma. President Wolfsky seemed to understand Owen's difficulties and asked Fuze to disband the team, and then the three of them went to another place.
"If you have any ideas, you can tell me now. What I want to hear is not a compliment, but your true thoughts."
President Wolfsky looked at Irving with sharp eyes, and so did Fuze. Irving organized his words.
"I'm sorry, you two, but from my perspective, the previous two anti-terrorist operations were all failures..."
After hearing what Irving said, Fuze was very unconvinced, but the president didn't say anything, so he couldn't say anything.
The president acted like he was all ears. Seeing that they could still accept it, Irving continued: "In the counter-terrorism efforts of the United States and other Western countries, ensuring the safety of hostages is a very important indicator, but according to my observation just now, Russia is not
, killing terrorists seems to be your first goal."
After Owen finished speaking, Fuze and the president did not object. On the contrary, they all nodded in agreement.
"The hostage is the key to the mission. When the enemy no longer has the hostage, the mission is completed."
Fuze took it for granted, and Irving held a moment of silence for all the Russian hostages.
"You continue..."
The president nodded.
"And..." Owen pointed to the armored vehicles in the distance, "Is it necessary to use these heavy equipment to fight against terrorism?"
Owen went on to say several other things. There was no doubt about Alpha's ability, but their attitude towards the hostages was really unacceptable to Owen. Those were human lives.
Fuze was obviously unconvinced, but President Wolfsky spoke first: "First of all, let me explain the issue of weapons and equipment. You may have some misunderstandings about our use of tanks and artillery to fight terrorism..."
Owen expressed his willingness to hear the details, and the president continued: "Nearly all the terrorist attacks Russia has encountered since the founding of the country came from Chechnya. They could not defeat us on the frontal battlefield, so they tried to use terrorist attacks to force us to withdraw our troops or agree to their conditions..."
"Terrorists in other countries are just ordinary people with submachine guns. Their weapons are very ordinary and they may have received some military training.
But Russia is different. The terrorists targeting Russia are all professional soldiers. Can you imagine that Dudayev, the leader of the largest terrorist organization in Chechnya, was the commander of the Estonian garrison during the Soviet period. They have superb military skills and are provided by Western countries.
Advanced weapons, so other countries only use sniper rifles and assault rifles to fight terrorism, but in Russia they need to use heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and armored vehicles, because the enemy's weapons are not much worse than ours..."
The president's explanation made Owen feel that there might have been some misunderstandings about Russia before. No matter what, their behavior towards the hostages could not be a misunderstanding.
The president seemed to have guessed what he was thinking: "But you are right, Russia does not pay enough attention to the hostages. Although we also want to rescue the hostages, we care more about killing terrorists. I know that this is very inhumane, and the West
This has been used to attack us, but we have reasons to do so."
"You should still remember the 1995 Budyonovsk hostage incident in Russia. This incident is considered one of the most failed crisis management incidents. The initial attack by the Russian army caused more than 30 casualties. At this time, the Russian government saw
The number of casualties was softened, and the remaining terrorists were promised to leave safely to ensure the safety of the hostages.
But after this incident, terrorists became more and more aggressive and launched many terrorist attacks one after another. Those terrorists believed that this kind of behavior was feasible. Terrorist attacks broke out more and more frequently in Russia. Later, we figured out that we must be tough when dealing with terrorism.
After all, there is no possibility of negotiation. Discover one and eliminate the other.
The Western set of negotiations does not apply to us. Only by scaring them and making them realize that they will get nothing even if they launch a terrorist attack can we truly reduce the risk of terrorist attacks.
occur……"
Owen was speechless.
"Of course there will be sacrifices in doing this. Western countries have been attacking us on this point, but the effect of our doing so is very obvious. Since Russia has demonstrated its tough attitude through actions, the number of terrorist attacks in our country has been more than
It has dropped by 9 times before. Terrorists all know that launching terrorist attacks in Russia will only lead to one end, that is, they will be destroyed. The Russian-style counter-terrorism will not grow any grass. No matter what weight they have in their hands, they will not be able to achieve their aspirations. Russia refuses
Negotiate and refuse to compromise. We have only one principle in dealing with terrorism. As long as we see it, we will eliminate it immediately, even if we sacrifice hostages."
"Now, do you still think what we did is inappropriate?"
The president and Fuze both looked at Irving. Irving suddenly didn't know what to say. Russia is taking a completely different path to counter-terrorism. Terrorists are crazy, so they are crazier than terrorists. Terrorists are bloodthirsty, so they are better than terrorists.
Also bloodthirsty.
The approach is extreme, but the effect is amazing.
The number of terrorist attacks has dropped nine times compared to before, and most of the terrorist attacks in Russia now are actually phone threats and bomb attacks. There are very few who actually take hostages, because they know that even if they take hostages, the military will
Will not throw a rat trap.
In comparison, the United States may care more about the safety of hostages, but the results are not as good as Russia's from the data point of view.
Russian-style counter-terrorism may be barbaric, violent, or bloody, but it definitely has its uses.
Owen's lips moved, but he didn't know how to refute. The Russian anti-terrorism method was definitely unacceptable to him, but he couldn't say that this method was without merit.
A smile appeared on Fuze's lips, and he felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment when he saw Irving deflated.
"Sorry, I can't give you any useful advice."
Irving finally said that as a supporter of American-style counter-terrorism, he could not accept Russian-style counter-terrorism, let alone make any suggestions for improvement. In his opinion, no matter what, they were human lives, and no reason could be used to kill them.