Cyber Warfare and the New World Order

Whose Side are We on?

President Aliko Dangote was starting to grow a bit concerned about his Chinese allies. The recent change in leadership within the Russian Federation had given him pause, and was causing him and some of his military leaders and advisors to question the longer-term feasibility of their relationship with China. With the Allies now focused completely on China, it was only a matter of time until the Chinese economy collapsed and their military was destroyed. The Americans had been attacking dozens of key bridges and damns across the Chinese interior, which was starting to wreak havoc on their ability to govern and maintain control of their population of more than two billion people.

Then there was the war in Africa. The Americans and Europe had not taken an active interest in it just yet, and Dangote wanted to make sure they did not. The Chinese insisted that Dangote continue the war in the Horn of Africa, Central Africa and the Gold Coast. What Dangote himself wanted most was to work on integrating the half of the continent that he currently controlled. The Chinese had been using his soldiers to carry out a genocide of the Horn of Africa; from the reports that he had been receiving from his generals, they were killing nearly everyone that lived in Somalia and Sudan. He tried to concentrate on the bright spots. The war in Cameroon was finally winding down, and his forces had finished off what was left of the government forces there. The war in Nigeria was turning into a stalemate.

President Dangote had been a good soldier. However, he was going to go against his Chinese puppet masters soon. He was going to start working on a peace with the Nigerians after the New Year. His goal was to bring an end to the fighting by February. His forces and the Chinese had two and a half months left to accomplish their tasks before he would unilaterally call an end to the war. He was President of the largest country in the world, but his hold on the country was tenuous at best. On paper, he controlled more than half of the continent; in actuality, he really only controlled the major cities, ports, and mining and oil fields. He needed to produce a functioning government and law and order if he was going to maintain power, and that was not going to happen if his people continued to stay at war.

As Aliko Dangote sat at his mahogany desk in the massive Presidential office, he knew he was going to have to reach out to the Americans soon. He hit the buzzer near his desk for his secretary to respond. A second later a voice came over the speaker, “Can I help you with something, Sir?”

“Please arrange a meeting with my Foreign Secretary.”

“Yes, Sir.”

The meeting had more than one purpose. He planned to make his Foreign Secretary the new American Ambassador. Their current Ambassador was going to be coming home shortly; he had done a good job of keeping the African Confederation low profile and out of the spotlight, but now it was time to begin serious talks with the Americans. Dangote wanted to prevent them from waging their war on his continent. A war he knew he could not win was one that he wanted to avoid at all costs.