Chapter 598: The Root of the Contradiction
It would be great if he could join forces with the Empire to besiege the Newland Federation.
It's just that there are many problems that are not valid in the eyes of Bai Zhizhan, or that there is no need to worry, but in the eyes of politicians, they are very serious.
The most prominent stakes, and the most concerning, were actually the post-war relations with the Manman Empire.
In other words, after defeating traditional enemy countries such as the Nuland Federation with all their weapons, will the Empire become a new adversary?
If the answer is yes, then the victory achieved in this big war will be overshadowed.
To put it more directly, the Manman Empire is also a Western country, but it is just a rising industrial power, in order to realize its own interests, it challenges the old empires such as the Bran Kingdom and the Locke Republic, and only then does it come together with the Liangxia Empire, which is also a rising industrial power.
In addition, the Union of Nuland is also a newly industrialized country.
Before the outbreak of the last war, the Nuland Federation was on the same front as the Liangxia Empire and the Empire of the Man, jointly challenging and opposing the traditional powers, trying to obtain and defend their own interests by breaking the world order established by the old empire and gaining benefits through colonial rule.
During these decades, the three emerging industrial powers launched or participated in three representative wars of expansion.
Needless to say, the Liangxia Empire took advantage of the fact that the Luosha Empire was beaten by the Terr Empire, which was supported by the Bran Kingdom and the Locke Republic, in the Crimean War, and launched a war with the purpose of seizing the huge land hinterland and the Far North, and became the overlord of the East in one fell swoop.
As for the Riman Empire, it actively supported the Boer rebellion in the Nanxuan region, weakened the colonial rule of the Bran Kingdom, and weakened its hegemony.
If anything, it is the Nuland Federation that has made the biggest move.
When the Boers attacked the Kingdom of Bran, without warning, the Nuland Federation launched a war against the Span Empire for no spurious reason, taking away the Span Empire's colonies in the Caribbean and the Guia Sea, and thus becoming the overlord of the Western Hemisphere.
It can be seen that in the struggle for interests with the old empire, the initiative of the Nuland Federation is not below the Liangxia Empire and the Juman Empire.
The biggest difference is that the Sbann Empire has been chosen.
From the standpoint of alternating between the old and the new, the three new industrial powers are natural allies.
It's a pity that the gap between reality and ideals is too great.
Many people believe that the main reason for the Nuland Federation's participation as a member of the Confederate group in the latter part of the last World War was the unrestricted submarine warfare of the Waiman Navy in the sunset sea, especially the sinking of the cruise ship "Lucy" carrying thousands of passengers and crew, including more than 100 Nuland citizens, without warning, and that the Empire did not end the unrestricted submarine warfare.
Obviously, this is nothing more than propaganda rhetoric.
Fundamentally, it is still a matter of interest, and the most critical point is related to the Empire.
The Empire was trying to expand into the Western Hemisphere, and had been secretly in contact with several isolated continent countries with certain strength and ambitions, such as Mexico.
As for the legendary telegram, it is actually a fiction, or it was fabricated by the Nuland authorities.
The point is, the Empire would not have made any promises to Mexico to return California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
According to the information declassified after the war, before the Nuland Federation entered the war, all the Entente pursued was to keep it neutral.
As long as the Nuland Federation remained neutral, the Entente could be expected to emerge victorious in 77 AD.
So, what reason does the Empire have to tease the Newland Federation when victory is only a few months away?
However, with the help of isolated continental countries such as Mexico, strengthening its control over the Western Hemisphere and weakening the hostile countries was itself the basic strategy of the Empire in the last war.
In formulating this strategy, the Nuland Commonwealth did not expect to be an enemy.
Strictly speaking, it's not that it's not considered, it's that it's not seriously considered.
Obviously, it was the expansion of the Empire in the Western Hemisphere that pushed the Nuland Federation into the arms of the Confederate.
Before the Nuland Federation entered the war, the Liangxia Empire was still making its last efforts, that is, secret negotiations, and the imperial authorities had promised in principle that the Nuland Federation did not need to join the Entente group, nor did it need to send troops to participate in the war, as long as it continued to maintain gravity, it would recognize the Nuland Federation as the victorious country after the war, accept its status as the overlord of the Western Hemisphere, and would not get involved in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and safeguard the interests of the Nuland Federation.
In the circumstances, this offer was very tempting.
To put it bluntly, the Nuland Federation was able to obtain the same war dividends as the Liangxia Empire and the Juman Empire without moving a single soldier.
The key is that the Bran Kingdom is on the verge of defeat, the Luosha Empire is also under siege, and the Locke Republic has shed its last drop of blood.
At most, the alliance group will be defeated due to huge war attrition.
On the Entente side, the situation was the opposite.
The Liangxia Empire had stabilized the east, and the Manman Empire, after withstanding the counterattack of the Luosha Empire, was about to launch a final offensive on the Western Front.
According to the situation at that time, another battle could make the Locke Republic surrender, otherwise the army of the Romans would also be able to attack the city of Seba.
It was at this time that the incident of the "diplomat's telegram" took place.
As a result, before the imperial authorities could react, President Nuland announced that he had joined the Confederate bloc and subsequently declared war on the Entente.
According to the post-war disclosures, as well as some semi-public information.
It was not the malicious telegram that brought the Newland Federation into the war, but the most important national interests and irreconcilable contradictions with the Empire.
This problem was not even solved by the Liang Xia Empire.
The reason is also very simple, if the Entente group won the war, then it must be the Liangxia Empire that dominates the East after the war.
Fundamentally, the fundamental appeal of the Liang Xia Empire was to dominate the East and control the World Island.
The remaining Western Hemisphere has only one superpower.
The Empire?
Newland Federation?
If the Liang Xia Empire still values the alliance with the Manman Empire, what will it use to satisfy the Newland Federation?
From the perspective of the Nuland leaders, there will inevitably be fears that the Liangxia Empire and the Empire of the Gang Man will cross the river and tear down the bridge.
Just relying on promises, even if it becomes an agreement in black and white, there is no guarantee.
Obviously, there is no such problem with joining the alliance bloc.
Even if the Bran Kingdom has always been the leader of the alliance group, in order to win the Great War, it must recognize the supremacy of the Nuland Federation in the Western Hemisphere, especially on the isolated continent.
To say, this is also the core interest of the Nuland Federation.
It is this irreconcilable contradiction that makes the Nuland Federation the number one rival of the empire.
It is precisely for this reason that the imperial authorities have long recognized the need to defeat all powerful opponents before the end of this great war.
There can only be one superpower in the post-war world.
So, can the Empire take this opportunity to become a superpower?
To say, after defeating the alliance group, on a global scale, only the Riman Empire has the strength to compete with the Liang Xia Empire.
This is the root of the contradictions within the empire!