War and Peace

By the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the United States had originally wanted to establish diplomatic relations with Latveria, but Doom had been humiliated before, so he had no intention of doing that.

Of course, the United States, which controlled most of the world's media channels, had declared internationally that Latovinia was a dictatorial, backward, barbaric, impoverished country. What its people needed wasn't a stable, happy life, but freedom-freedom by the United States' standards.

Doom loved this country so much that he wouldn't allow anyone to slander it, much less destroy it.

To bring freedom to Latovinia, while Doom was heading north to repel the enemy, the United States backed a member of the former royal family who wasn't even in the line of succession and put him on the throne as the emperor of Latovinia's government in exile. Then, under the pretext of restoring the country for this emperor, it redeployed all the troops from its military bases in the nations south of Latovinia and launched a massive invasion.

...Then two of Doom's warriors completely crushed that army.

Perhaps influenced by Doom, the two women artistically melted down all the American weapons, equipment, tanks, and armored vehicles, shaping them into a throne. They threw all the American soldiers into it, making their bones into reliefs on the throne.

A statue of Doom sat atop the throne. The artist who carved it was highly skilled, vividly capturing the Latovinian Monarch's haughty bearing—the pose was based on the Lincoln Memorial.

Latovinia's actions made its position clear. It didn't need the freedom and democracy brought by American soldiers, nor did it want a former royal family member ruling it as a puppet.

But this clearly enraged the United States military. At the time, American forces were continually