The smartest thing for China to do was, of course, to encourage the Western countries and the Soviet Union to fight each other, and China stood by and watched the excitement, cheering them on while handing them a stick and a machete from time to time.

When a piece of meat is cut off from them, or an arm or a thigh is removed, we make a false sigh and show sympathy, and then we take the meat, this arm, or this thigh and roast it.

In fact, compared with Western countries, China had reason to maintain better relations with the Soviet Union than Western countries, and the reason was simple:

First of all, the geography of China and the Soviet Union dictated that it was best to maintain good relations between the two. China and the Soviet Union are neighbors with long borders. As long as the two countries confront each other, the border areas of both sides should definitely have more than one million soldiers, because the long national border needs such a large army to maintain, and only a million troops can protect such a vast area.

Moreover, in the face of the Soviet Union, China was in a natural position of weakness in terms of terrain. The territory of the Soviet Union encircled China from the west and north, and China's important strategic locations such as stables, Haijin City, and Harbing were all covered by Soviet short- and medium-range missiles.

The Soviet Union's Moscow and other large and medium-sized cities are far away in Europe, and China has to use long-range missiles and intercontinental missiles to threaten them.

The Soviet Union was able to carry out saturation attacks on China's large and medium-sized cities with relatively low-value short- and medium-range missiles, and China bombed with long-range missiles and intercontinental missiles, not to mention whether its national strength could bear it, even the accuracy was unpredictable.

If there is a confrontation between China and the Soviet Union. It is definitely China that suffers, and the Soviet Union can take a good time and deal with it calmly, even if it loses part of its territory, it is not at all insignificant. But. China's northern borders are terrified in the event of an invasion, because the stables are directly exposed to the opposing side's troops.

In the sixties, thanks to Taizu, Zhou Shoufu and a large group of leaders who came out of the battlefield, they dared to sleep peacefully under the threat of the Soviet Union, and only then did they dare to tear their faces against the Soviet Union.

If China and the Soviet Union confronted each other, China would spend a lot of manpower, material resources, and immeasurable energy to deal with it. Naturally, China's modernization process will be greatly affected.

Therefore, there is a reason for China to have good relations with the Soviet Union, and there is a realistic demand.

Second, compared with Western countries, the Soviet Union had less inner needs for China, which means that the possibility of the Soviet Union waging war against China, and the internal impetus for waging war against China, were much smaller than those of Western countries: the Soviet Union had a huge land area. It can really be said that the land is sparsely populated and extremely rich in resources, and when every inch of the territory of other countries is crowded with people, there are still many places in the Soviet Union that no one has set foot in, and many areas are still primitive areas where no one has visited, and there are still huge resources waiting for them to explore and mine. Countless fine timber is rotting because no one has cut it down, and countless coals are spontaneously combusting. Countless water resources are flowing ...... vain, because people don't care at all, there are too many.

Faced with the overcrowded and resource-poor land of the Chinese, the aspirations of the Soviets were really not strong.

Western countries, on the other hand, with more scarce resources and more mature land development, covet China's "vast land" land, and even if they do not want to occupy this land, they are afraid that China's huge population will flow to the West, so they must guard against China and set up many obstacles to China.

Because of this, Guo saw the delicacy of Sino-Soviet relations. The central bigwigs also saw the subtlety of Sino-Soviet relations, which is why Li Guanding made this phone call.

In his previous life, the central bigwigs saw this subtlety, and they have always maintained friendly relations with Russia after the disintegration, and have been advancing and retreating together on major international issues.

It's just that this polar bear is extremely dishonest. Often, words are broken not long after. Especially in the Iraq and Libyan wars, in the early stage, they were very bullish and tough, shouting protests and sending troops, and their words and deeds were far tougher than China's condemnation.

But when the Western countries really started to do it, they retracted at once, they didn't dare to put a fart, and they threw China on the dry shore many times, and in the face of the war "victory" of the Western countries, and in the face of the Middle East countries being cleaned up by the United States, China was very embarrassed and could not advance or retreat.

You must be careful and careful when dealing with this kind of country, otherwise you will be easily betrayed by others, and there will be no place to cry when the time comes.

But China still has to use them, and it has to make them serve China's interests.

The purpose of Li Guanding's phone call was very clear, that is, China could not sit idly by and watch the Soviet Union lose too much, and it could not sit back and watch them roll back in disgrace.

On the one hand, China does not want the Soviet Union to get out of Afghanistan and get out of the quagmire of the war in Afghanistan, and there is no other "better" place and way to consume their military, national strength and resources in the future. In particular, we do not want the Soviet Union to shift the focus of its work to economic construction after withdrawing its troops, because the rapid economic development of the Soviet Union is very unfavorable to China.

On the other hand, if the Soviet Union suffered a crushing defeat in Afghanistan and went back in disgrace, the Western countries would be greatly relieved, and their fear of the Soviet Union would be gone: as a country's regular army, with super good equipment and a large number of people, and it could not fight a group of resistance groups, then this army is too vegetable, what is there to fear? Although these resistance groups are supported by the United States and China, and are nominally just a rabble, their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of ordinary countries' armies, but they are resistance organizations after all, and they are not regular armies after all.

If the Western countries were not afraid of the Soviet Union, their dependence on China would be greatly reduced, China's bargaining chips with the Western countries would be greatly reduced, and it would be much more difficult for China to obtain high-end technology, especially military technology, from the Western countries, and it would even endanger some military cooperation projects that had already been launched, a situation that China does not want to see.

Therefore, China has a reason why it is necessary not to let the USSR lose too much, and there are enough reasons to keep the USSR in Afghanistan and slowly dry their national strength by boiling frogs in warm water, and slowly boil them to death.

However, in the previous life, the Soviet army did not have a real military defeat in Afghanistan, but more of a political failure, an economic failure, and the national strength was really unable to hold on to the withdrawal of the army, how could this happen in this life?

In response to Guo Shucheng's inquiry, Li Guanding replied: "The reason why the Soviet army has failed again and again is mainly because China and the United States have increased their assistance to the Afghan resistance groups. In particular, the United States has increased financial assistance, received a lot of foreign mercenaries, and added many officers with actual combat experience, which has greatly increased its combat effectiveness, especially since the United States has provided a large number of satellite pictures for the resistance groups, and sent experts to tell them how to study the pictures, so that they can know the actions of the Soviet army well.

In addition, as the Soviet army learned about the world after going abroad, they found that not only Western countries were much more developed than them, but the lives of the common people were much richer than theirs, and even the situation in China had changed, and the living standards of the common people began to approach them, and the common people in many areas were far richer than them. If this development continues, it will not take a few years for China to surpass them in an all-round way. And even in armament will be more advanced and better than them.

The supplies and weapons they seized from the resistance were far better than theirs, these rabble ate and drank spicy, ate and clothed better than them, and the resistance could throw away brand-new weapons at will in order to escape the blows of the Soviet army, and could replenish them in a short time, and the appearance was more regular than the regular Soviet army. None of them dared or were willing to throw away weapons that were not very good.

This qiē greatly reduced the morale of the Soviet army, and the soldiers became disgusted with the war and lost confidence in the future. Many soldiers and even officers sold intelligence to the resistance, and some even defected to the resistance, allowing the resistance to carry out several effective sneak attacks against the loopholes of the Soviet army.

Yesterday, under the command of a defected Soviet officer, the resistance group attacked the headquarters of a Soviet division, not only capturing the division commander and chief of staff of the Soviet army, but also blowing up the logistics base of the Soviet army.

More dangerously, the two captured senior officers could not stand the torture and the temptation to emigrate to the United States and receive a large bounty and surrendered, providing the Resistance with a large number of Soviet secrets, so that the Resistance could see the possibility of eliminating the Soviet army in the mountains, thus increasing their self-confidence. When the news reached the United States, the United States was equally overjoyed, and the military experts they had sent had already gone to the battlefield, and resistance groups and guerrillas of different types had assembled there under the orders of the United States. ”

Speaking of this, Li Guanding was obviously a little dissatisfied and said: "The United States is hiding this from us, and obviously they also know that we in China do not want this kind of thing to happen." We still get information through our intelligence agents and some intermediaries. ”

Guo Zhuocheng understands very well that the United States is concealing this information, and now who does not hide it from other countries? Who doesn't have their own little ninety-nine in their hearts? Anyway, it's all for the good of their own country.

Guo Shucheng smiled: "Since they are hiding it from us, it's just right." No matter what we do, there is a reason to reply to them. ......, Director Li, how did your superiors think about this matter? What are you asking me to do?"

As he spoke, he smiled again and said, "I know, you want me to be a whistleblower again, using my connections abroad, and unknowingly letting the Soviet Union know about it, right?"

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