That's all Eder's focus on the Finnish game so far, although at most the first half is counted, and there is still a second half to watch. But where does he have so much energy to pay attention to, and he still has a bunch of things to pay attention to.

For example, the North African Legion, which was fighting in Tunisia, also attracted his attention. Of course, the fighting here was not at all as important to Romania as Italy was to it.

Because Tunisia has always been a pain in the hearts of Italians. After the unification of Italy, the first attention was paid to Tunisia, which was still in the Hussein dynasty at that time, and its geographical location was very important to Italy, as long as Italy took Tunisia, it could form an iron gate with Sicily in the Central Mediterranean.

And in addition to its geographical location, Tunisian arable land is also very important to Italy, with 9 million hectares of arable land in the country, which shows the temptation of Italy with less land and more people. Therefore, Italy invested a lot of energy in Tunisia, and the first colonial company it formed was the colonization of Tunisia.

The rest of the world was well aware of Italy's attempts, but France, which had seized Algeria, had the same intentions. And no matter what France wants to do, in 1881, France suddenly sent troops to take Tunisia, which frustrated Italy's intentions and dealt a heavy blow to Italy's colonial heart.

Now that there is another opportunity to get Tunisia, Mussolini, as the leader of Italy, will naturally not let go of such an opportunity, especially after the Italo-Romanian coalition army invaded Tunisia, he naturally sent a large number of troops and materials to ensure the offensive of the army.

And with the North African Corps trying to ensure it, it naturally had less supplies to transport to the Italian army in eastern Libya. It has invisibly reduced the power of Italy to prepare to enter Egypt to snatch the fruits, in fact, the Italian side is also clear about this.

It's just that it's a two-choice choice, either eat Tunisia alone without any interference, or fight for Egypt with Romania, and most likely not be able to do so. This question is actually very easy to do, and it is not difficult at all.

At present, the North African Army under the command of Antonescu and Messer has arrived under the city of Tunis, but the French army has been organized by General Dashanliu and is relying on the city of Tunis to wait for reinforcements.

In the face of the defending French army, the North African Corps currently commanded by the two does not have the strength to gnaw this bone for the time being, and can only wait for support from behind. In addition, in order to better besiege the city of Tunis, the two also sent a report asking the Italian Navy to join the blockade of the city.

I heard that this proposal, which was likely to trigger a naval war between Italy and France, was hotly debated in Italy, but in the end, Mussolini, as the leader, decided to ask the navy to mobilize the main warships to join the blockade of Tunisia, and it is now up to the French army to react.

It is also worth mentioning that at the moment the island of Malta is completely out of strength and attacks are carried out on the route from Italy to Tripoli. After successive air and sea strikes by Italy on the island of Malta, the defending air force could be regarded as a complete loss. In addition, its supply fleet suffered several successive sea and air attacks, and also lost a lot of supplies and fuel.

Although Britain and France still have a lot of military strength, they need to use a lot of places, the Western Front has to confront the German army, Tunisia has to contend with the Romanian and Italian armies, and the Middle East has to face the main force of the Romanian army. So for the island of Malta, it seems to be powerless.

Even if they know that the location of this island is very critical, and there is no spare strength to spare power, this fact cannot be changed, unless a large power suddenly joins them, otherwise the result will not be changed.

At present, the United States is most likely to join, but the United States is allowed to lobby in every possible way, and the United States, which is not ready, will not move at all, and its President Roosevelt even privately told the British and French envoys that the United States has no strength to intervene in this war at present, and can only provide various material support.

In fact, he is right, the United States is still in a state of semi-mobilization. At present, the only thing the United States can do is the navy, but the navy alone cannot defeat the Axis camp.

As for the Army, thanks to the post-war disarmament, the US Army had only a size of more than 100,000 people before, and although it has undergone several successive expansions, the US Army is now worth a million people, and most of them are new recruits who have just entered the barracks.

Everyone knows that there is no way to fight a war with new recruits, at least they must be trained decently.

In addition, the United States is not willing to join the battlefield now, so wouldn't it be good to consume Britain and France first? The American people have not forgotten the final outcome of the last war.

So in the absence of a choice but not to give up certain locations, the island of Malta is the best choice. Besides, even if Malta is abandoned, the British still have Gibraltar firmly in their hands, and as long as they control it, the Italian navy will not be able to reach the Atlantic.

In fact, for Romania, there is another important matter that needs to be solved urgently. If you look at the map again, there is one place that stands out to what is now Romania.

That's right, it's the Black Sea straits, and Romania has always been tempted by this Turkish enclave in Europe. If it weren't for the need to deal with Britain and France now, Romania would have taken action.

In fact, after Eder became the king of Bulgaria, Turkey was extremely wary of Romania and kept building various fortifications in this eastern Thrace.

However, at the diplomatic level, Turkey was very friendly to Romania, not only rejecting the intention of Britain and France to use the Black Sea straits to make moves, but also taking the initiative to change the navigation conditions after Romania took back Western Thrace.

And given Turkey's interest, there is little support in Romania for the proposal to seize the Black Sea straits. (Sometimes I really don't know why there is such a big gap between the local chickens during World War II and the local chickens now, and they are more sober during the Cold War than now.) ）

But now, with Romania on the battlefield, the proposal for the Black Sea straits is once again being talked about. However, this time it was not intended to use military means, but to use the principle of territorial exchange, in exchange for it, at least to ensure that Romania had some control over the Black Sea straits.

And privately, Romania brought up the matter with Turkey, first testing Turkey's reaction.

The result of the trial was not bad, Turkey did not veto it, and said that they needed to discuss such a major matter.

Although there is still an intention to delay, it can at least prove that Turkey is not clinging to this land. What Romania has just seized in exchange for the Syrian region that it has just seized is, of course, not the whole of Syria, but the north-central part of Syria, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the territory.

Of course, this is only a preliminary condition, and Romania can give more chips, but Turkey needs to do more.

However, Eder could wait until the Suez Canal was captured, and if Romania captured Suez and the Turks had not answered, then some pressure would have to be put on it.

But that's all for later, and we'll wait for the results to come out now.

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