There was no doubt that Allen's sudden departure had caused enormous trouble for Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D.
After all, once the US Government and military executives had all fallen into deep comas, no one was left to order the US Army at the border to halt its original plans.
As a result, just hours later, hundreds of thousands of fully armed US troops marched forth and brazenly launched a full-scale invasion of Canada and Mexico.
With their pitiful military strength, neither country lasted even two hours before suffering a complete rout.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were like lambs awaiting slaughter before the world's most powerful air force, killed by aerial bombs and missiles of every kind.
The armored vehicles and tanks on the ground were even more like iron coffins. Before they could travel very far, they were blasted to pieces.
By the time the high officials and politicians controlled by Charm woke up, everything was beyond remedy.
The orders they had personally issued and signed directly tore apart the hypocritical mask that the propaganda department had spent years building.
At the same time, they shattered their original strategic objectives, forcibly turning their northern and southern neighbors—who had posed no threat whatsoever—into hostile nations.
Although the International Security Council and S.H.I.E.L.D. both stepped forward afterward to explain the full circumstances behind the incident, the hatred unleashed by the war could not possibly fade so easily.
This was especially true for those who had lost loved ones and friends in the war. For a long time to come, they would be filled with hostility toward the United States.
Not only that, they might launch retaliatory attacks within the United States along the thousands of kilometers of shared border.
As a result, in just a few days, the current US President and