When did the proud Britons suffer such a loss?

In their eyes, only they reap the share of others, how can they allow others to reap themselves? The British government was very unhappy with the speculation of Jewish conglomerates over the pound and gold, and it would be intolerable to fight over oil – the three oilfield companies were not government property, but they were also closely related to the government, so Baldwin decided to retaliate.

The reason for the retaliation was not limited to some economic interests, but more importantly the temptation to explore Libya - a colony closely linked to Egypt, which the British originally thought was a barren land and had little interest, but now that the oil was discovered, the situation was very different, and it instantly had high economic value and strategic significance. What's more, in the eyes of the British, Italy was much easier to deal with than the French, not to mention that there were tribal forces resisting in Libya itself, Italy only openly owned the whole of Libya, and actually controlled only a 100-200 km strip of land along the northern coast, or more simply only a small area around the isolated strongholds of Tripoli, Benghazi, and Tobruk, and nothing else was officially regulated.

"We got in touch, a man you may have heard, called Omar Mukhtar...... "Chamberlain is at the heart of the Cyrenaica resistance, with a highly mobile Bedouin camel cavalry, not very numerous, probably between 800 and 1,000 at best, and the other main armed forces are groups of tribal militias, usually disguised as obedient civilians, wielding all kinds of variegated weapons, in the event that the Italians are left alone or in trouble, These seemingly harmless tribal civilians will immediately rush to the ground.

Baldwin recalled it carefully and nodded: "I remember, I heard that this person is still related to Kemal?" ”

"When the Turks fought against Italy, Mukhtar and Kemal were friends, but now ......," Chamberlain shook his head, "I am afraid that the old relationship can never be restored, and now Turkey and Italy have a very close relationship." ”

It is completely wrong to say that Italy, an imperialism, will not expand, in fact, Italy has three obvious expansionist moves: the first is between 1889 and 1996, Italy occupied Italian Somalia and Italian Eritrea, gained a foothold in the Horn of Africa, and then used it as a base to continue to expand in the direction of the Mediterranean - Egypt did not dare to touch, it was Abyssinia that it touched, and as everyone knows, Italy was completely defeated in 1896, and then ended the first wave of expansion;

The second wave of expansion began with the Italian-Turkish dispute in 1912, when Italy and Ottoman Turkey fought for Libya, which was considered a more important war before the outbreak of World War I, which profoundly changed the future history, precisely because of the sharp contradictions between Italy and Turkey, and the territorial disputes between Italy and Austria-Hungary, and these disputes and conflicts were all "recognized" by the Entente - many of them were hollow dumplings, but the Italian government and the top brass were extremely excited at the beginning, which eventually led Italy to turn its back on the Allies and join the Entente

In the Italian-Turkish dispute, Mukhtar led more than 20 young men to ambush a small force of Italian cavalry, and from then on embarked on the road of armed resistance. At this time, a detachment led by the Turkish officer Kemal was attacking the Italian garrison near Benghazi, and in the spirit of mutual cooperation, Mukhtar led people to join his command and was accepted.

Kemal once described Mukhtar as follows: "The Italians believed that the place where only poisonous snakes could survive was precisely the paradise where they fought." Many times, when I doubted that my team would die of thirst in the depths of the desert, Mukhtar always found a way out for everyone. This assessment speaks volumes about Turkey's mode of operation, which relied on small detachments to work in tandem with Libyan guerrillas, deliberately luring the Italian encirclement army into the heart of the desert and then skillfully transferring it out, leaving the Italians to die of exhaustion in the desert.

As a defeated country in World War I, Turkey finally signed the Treaty of Lausanne with Britain, France, Italy, Greece and other countries, completely abandoning Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and other places that belonged to the former Ottoman Empire, and recognized the British annexation of Cyprus and Italy to the Zozekanissos Islands, and Italy got Libya as it wished. When Kemal had to return home, he consulted Mukhtar and others to go to Istanbul with him, but Mukhtar replied firmly: "The homeland is precious to the world!" ”

In order to win the Italo-Turkish war, the Italians creatively used aircraft in combat and carried out bombing operations for the first time - this is the root of Italy's later obsession with strategic bombing and the birth of Duhei, the authority on air supremacy theory. In terms of the spirit of innovation, the Italians are not lacking, what the Italians lack is the down-to-earth work enthusiasm and style, of course, the weak national strength also limits Italy's efforts.

As for the third expansion, the clues are now revealed: Italy occupied Albania at the end of World War I, and then Albania ceded the island of Sazan to Italy in exchange for Italian withdrawals, and historically, in April 1939, before Germany completely annexed Czechoslovakia and attacked Poland, Italy sent more than 40,000 troops to occupy Albania in a blitzkrieg and announced that the country would be included in the protection - a move that was also recognized by Britain and France. It is a significant achievement for Italy's expansion in Europe. However, Contini has no mind to care about Albania at the moment, and he does not think that it is a good option for Italy to intervene in the Balkan powder keg, and his main focus is still on Libya.

And now, the British are also starting to focus on Libya.

"Since he can get Kemal's attention and say that he has something to offer, I wonder what he thinks of the current relationship between Italy and Turkey?"

He thought it through, because Italy and Turkey have a common interest in opposing Greece, and it is not necessarily possible to say that Turkey is willing to cede Libya. Of course, he understands Kemal and is not going to reach out to the Turks at the moment......"

"It seems that this is a man who knows how to measure himself, and he can now gain a better and more powerful power, the friendship of Great Britain, what does he think about this?" Baldwin asked.

"It's complicated, it's intriguing...... Chamberlain shook his head, "it's not the same as what we've encountered before......"

"Tell me about it." Baldwin immediately became interested.