Chapter 755: Permanent Neutrality
Behind the peaceful brilliance of the so-called permanent neutral country, there must be a military force strong enough to protect itself. Sweden and Switzerland are all soldiers, everyone must receive military skills training at the age of 20, and Sweden's military technology is also the top existence in the whole world; Switzerland is even more awesome, that is the wallet of the whole earth, the world's major financial institutions are in Switzerland, once a country wants to annex Switzerland alone, it will be counterattacked by the whole world, Hitler did not dare to touch Switzerland, who else dares?
At present, the seven permanent neutral countries in the world actually have their own difficulties.
In 1515, the Battle of Marignano broke out on the European continent, and a war began between Gaul and Edavia, but the soldiers on both sides were Swiss mercenaries. After this fight, the Swiss man is almost extinct. From then on, Switzerland declared permanent neutrality and did not receive international recognition until 1815, three hundred years later. Since then, however, all wars have been spared. Both World War I and World War II were spared.
Sweden had to be neutral, Sweden was a powerful country at the time, and Finland was also part of Sweden. In the early days, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, but it was a powerful force in Europe! Later, Sweden became independent from the Kalmar Union, waged wars everywhere, and became a local hegemon, doubling its territory. It's a pity that Finland broke away from Sweden later, and Sweden is not easy to mix now, and in the end it can only be an honest permanent neutral country.
Finland was even more unlucky, originally part of Sweden, and during the Napoleonic period it became a grand duchy under the rule of the Russian Empire, and later finally became independent and fought with the former Soviet Union. Although the Soviet Union was disgraced by terrain, climate and other reasons, Finland could not turn over in N years after the fight, and finally became a permanent neutral country. Stay away from war.
Needless to say, Costa Rica and Turkmenistan, such small countries, with and without an army, are not as good as the whole of permanent neutrality, which sounds good. Or like Ireland, it directly surrounded the Eagle Country, let Britain bully it for a thousand years, and finally became independent, and first organized itself into a permanent neutral country, in order to let the Eagle Country not pay attention to itself.
These are not the unluckiest yet, the most unlucky permanent neutral is Austria. People don't want to be a permanent neutral country at all, right?
In fact, during World War II, Austria's earliest intention was to join Germania. At that time, Hitler wanted to expand the Germanic territory, so he put pressure on the Austrian government to recognize the legitimacy of the Austrian Nazi Party, and even asked that he be allowed to participate in Austria's zhengfu affairs.
At that time, the Austrian Chancellor was even more simply, directly holding a referendum to decide whether to merge with German, and if the referendum passed, he simply joined German.
As a result, before the referendum began, the Austrian Nazi Party overthrew the regime, and when the Germanic army entered Austria, not only was it not resisted, but was welcomed by the local population, and Austria became a Germanic province willingly. To this day, Germain reflects on his mistakes in the war, and when he mentions Austria, he does not admit that he occupied Austria, but merges and unites Austriaγγγγγγ
And after the defeat of the Nazis at the end of World War II, Austria became four regions, which were occupied by the Eagle Country, Gaul, the former Soviet Union and the Stars and Stripes, at that time Austria was not even a country------ who would spit out the meat in their mouths?
It was also Austria's luck that after a few years of partition by several countries, it caught up with the Berlin conflict in 1949, when the Germans were divided into East and West Germany, with the Soviet Union accounting for half and the Stars and Stripes for half. Then the two countries did not want to fight, so they had to sit down and talk at the end, and when they talked, the Soviet Union suddenly proposed that Austria must become a permanently neutral country.
This proposal was very sudden, how did the Germanic affair involve Austria again?
In fact, this idea was the result of careful consideration by the then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who felt that it would be very beneficial for the Soviet Union to keep a buffer zone between the two powers. But the West did not approve of this proposal, because if Austria was neutral and Switzerland was neutral, then their garrisons would be separated.
The second meeting was a great result in Moscow, and after the talks, all four countries withdrew their troops from Austria, and Austria became a permanent neutral country from that time.
To sum up, if you want peace, you either have interests in other countries, such as Switzerland and Austria, or you are strong in yourself, such as Sweden. A small country like Costa Rica wants real peace in the event of a real war?
Comparing the wars and chaos in various parts of the world, why is China peaceful? That is based on a strong military foundation, and the Qing Dynasty has closed off the country, so it is peaceful enough, right? The guns will smash you open! Peace must be built on sufficient military strength. Like the Netherlands, you want peace and want neutrality?
I'm going to hit you, what can you do?
Xiao Peng and a few people walked around the street and stopped in front of a three-story villa, You Mei stopped: "We have arrived." β
This is a very beautiful three-story villa, with a small yard, Xiao Peng looked at the national border on the ground and smiled: "Your parents' house also straddles the two countries! But why is most of it the Dutch area? It's not enough to put a sofa in your Belgian location!"
Her parents' house is also on the border, but it is part of Belgium that is less than a meter long, so what can be done with this distance?
You Mei's answer made Xiao Peng scratch his head: "Oh, my house is on the third floor in Belgium." The first and second floors belong to the Netherlands. β
"What's that?" Xiao Peng's eyes widened, how else could he divide borders like this?
"This kind of three-storey villa is not allowed under Dutch law, but Belgium allows this kind of construction, and as you can see, there is a small piece of land in this house that belongs to Belgium, so we can build a Belgian apartment on Dutch territory," Yumei explains. β
"It turns out that the national border can not only be divided left and right, but also up and down, I can really open my eyes!" Xiao Peng's eyes widened.
There was a dog barking in the yard, and Yumi pushed open the courtyard door and said with a smile: "Black Bean, I'm back!"
"Hey, the dog is good. Xiao Peng exclaimed.
Yumi's family has a Groanda dog. It is a native Belgian dog breed. We Chinese people are used to calling it: Belgian Shepherd.
The name Belgian Shepherd actually refers to four different dogs, including the Malinoa, the Groanda, the Tampiren and the Lacanos Shepherd, but when it comes to China, all of them are called 'Belgian Shepherds', which are four extremely intelligent medium-sized working dogs. But it can even be compared to Demu, very smart, easy to train.
Let's just say that these four kinds of dogs have no other shortcomings except for their ugliness.
However, when he saw 'Elizabeth' and 'Elizahei' beside Xiao Peng, 'Black Bean' barked loudly a few times and then ran to the puppy house with his tail between his legs and said nothing.
You Mei was stunned: "Black Bean is a very fierce dog, why is he suddenly so honest?"
Yali laughed, "That's because 'Elizabeth' and 'Elizabeth' are more fierce." β
When 'Elizabeth' and 'Elizabeth' heard this, they rubbed around Arie's legs, constantly coquettish.
Jimma laughed, "I finally understand why I took them with me wherever I went in Gaul, they were so smart! β
Hearing the barking of the dog, the door of the room also opened, Xiao Peng was stunned, a bunch of people came out, Youmei's grandmother, grandfather, father, mother and others came out, and Mignolet and Carrasco, who came back early, were also here. After everyone hugged Yumi very warmly, Yumi's grandfather asked, "Won't you introduce your friends?"
"Of course, guys, let me introduce you to you, this is my good friend. Yumi happily introduced everyone to her family.
Belgians are similar to Chinese people in this regard, and they like the feeling of family reunion.
You Mei's grandmother is a woman of Japanese descent, and her eyes lit up when she saw Xiao Peng: "Are you a Japanese national?"
Xiao Peng coughed dryly: "I am from Huaxia." β
The old lady obviously had a trace of disappointment on her face, but she quickly regained her smile and still hugged Xiao Peng very warmly, Xiao Peng can also understand that an old lady from the Japanese country, who has been in a foreign country for more than 50 years, is naturally eager to see her fellow countryman, this is human nature, and the whole world is the same.
"Don't stand at the door, everyone come inside. Yumi's father greeted.
After a few people sat down, Xiao Peng smiled and took out two kraft paper-wrapped boxes from the bag in his hand and handed them to him: "This is a little bit of our heart, I hope you can like it." β
"So what's the polite do. Yumi's father took the box and opened the outer package directly, and Westerners like to open the gift in person.
"Wow. Take a look at what this is. He pulled out two black boxes from inside.
Xiao Peng said with a smile: "I went to Scotland a while ago, and I heard You Mei say that you have nothing to do and like to drink two glasses, I don't know if you are satisfied with these two bottles of wine!"
Youmei's father smiled: "Satisfied! So satisfied!" looked at Xiao Peng, smiling even happier.
Yumi's mother took the box from her husband's hand: "Great, we drank it while we were eating in a while!"
Yumei's father glared at him when he heard this, and snatched the box from his wife's hand: "I'm going to keep these two bottles of wine for Yumei to celebrate when she becomes a mother! Do you know what kind of wine this is? Gran Grasso's forty years! Xiao, how did you buy this wine?"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "This is what I sent to me as a thank you after helping a local man in trouble in Scotland." β
Yumei's father said happily: "Wow, kindness is really rewarded, you sit down first, and I will put this wine away." After saying that, I ran up the stairs, not knowing where to hide the wine.
Yumei's mother smiled: "Don't mind, he's like this, he's still like a child when he's so old." β