This was an aggressively offensive declaration, devoid of any language of inclusion. The atmosphere of war permeated every word. To those unwilling to accept reality and addicted to pleasure, it was terrifying totalitarianism—whether Americans who had fully embraced Anglo-Protestant thinking, or Western and Eastern Europeans who had accepted neoliberalism. Yet it was also a treaty imposed at the city gates. The state of war between Latveria and the United States had not ended; officially, the United States would merely withdraw its already dwindling fleets and troops from Southern Europe, completely losing control over the Mediterranean Sea and the surrounding nations. This meant Latverian forces would advance unimpeded through Southern Europe and the Middle East, spreading "Unified Truth" through warfare and completing the second-stage operational objective of trampling Jerusalem and Constantinople beneath their hooves.
Salomon knew perfectly well that this agreement could be torn up at any time. He knew that, in the coming period, the United States would wildly exaggerate Latveria's threat, sharply increase military spending, and attempt to control the regions around Latveria. The CIA might even organize opposition groups to ignite wars, using its usual methods to manipulate public opinion and wage cognitive warfare. Thus, he declared to everyone that Latveria would accept humanitarian aid from certain nations for war-torn regions, but any nation or organization attempting to subvert "Unified Truth" would face the most direct retaliation. Latveria would not hesitate to trigger nuclear war, replacing ideological annihilation with physical extermination of its enemies. People such as the Syria Civil Defence and the National Endowment for Democracy would be executed on the spot once discovered.
This was a severe warning. Everyone knew he possessed both the capability and the resolve to carry it out.
All information was broadcast through North America's communications networks to the televisions, computers, and