While the fierce battle over the port of Brest was going on, Li Le was pondering how to modify a series of problems that had already taken shape. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Everyone is lamenting that if Europe could be unified, would a European Union become one of the world's top super-empires like the United States.

Taking a step back, everyone may have a question: if Germany had completed the great cause of reunifying Europe during World War II, would it have been able to compete with the United States and form a Cold War with a different flavor.

Before Li Le crossed over, he had thought about it countless times, thinking about whether Germany would really form a stable and unified Europe if Germany really defeated the enemy one day.

This question bothers many people who like World War II, but most of the military fans who love Germany and love World War II are only analyzing the problem from the perspective of manpower and material resources, as well as weapons and tactics, and few people have touched the core of the problem.

What is the core of the problem? The core of the question is why this Europe is in chaos as it is today, with countless countries but never able to achieve unity in the true sense.

Everyone knows that there is a famous saying that describes Chinese history, which is called that the general trend of the world must be divided for a long time, and it also accurately summarizes the history of Han culture for thousands of years.

In any case, there will always be a group of wise and heroic people on the map of China, who will bring together the divided territories to form an effective centralized state.

Many dynasties in ancient China, while summing up the lessons and lessons of their predecessors, were all striving to maintain the central idea of great unification.

From the Han Dynasty's attempt to establish a unified nation ideologically, to the Jin Dynasty's resistance and rejection of the feudal system, then to the Sui Dynasty's formation of a centralized feudal system, and then to the Tang Empire's attempt to expand its territory......

From the reflection on the establishment of the Song Dynasty to the rough political ecology of the Ming Empire's attempt to separate powers.

In any case, in Asia, a group of Chinese-speaking people have played the great unification to the extreme, and they have gone to the extreme from the system alone.

Why didn't the Europeans have such a process of great unification? At this point, it is often the end of the day - the Europeans have always been divided, so they do not have such a unified basis.

Those who see this will nod their heads, thinking that such a conclusion is enough to support their own views, but this is only a simple beginning of the problem of European division!

Yes, this is only a small beginning, and when you analyze it carefully, there is a deeper level of relationship here, and it is also the root cause of Europe's delay in really standing up.

This root is the nation! Hearing this answer, many people will sneer with a sneer: "I thought I was going to say something, but that's what I said?" ”

Indeed, there are many ethnic groups in Europe, and it is not a matter of one or two days, because the emergence of the national question in the Balkans, the European powder keg, is the most direct response to this problem.

But who raised the national question to a level that has made countless great powers throughout Europe talk about it? This starts with an earlier analysis.

Britain, a country that cannot be avoided when talking about world history and European history, is also a country known as the European-stirring stick, the empire on which the sun never sets, and the country that once dominated the world.

The rise of Great Britain is inseparable from its superior maritime geography. It's as if Japan is still struggling to survive, and it is directly related to its isolation overseas.

As a country that has been excluded from the core mainstream circle of Europe for a long time, Britain took advantage of the rise of seafaring technology, and eventually defeated Portugal, Spain, France and the Netherlands to become the strongest maritime country.

When Britain expanded rapidly and rose, barbaric Prussia was still in a state of division at this time, thinking about how to merge every day.

As a result, Britain seized India, ran Egypt, seized Burma, pioneered Australia, crossed the ocean to develop Canada, and even occupied half of the United States for a time.

In the midst of their crusade to the east and west, the European powers were stunned to find that the once small country had turned into an empire on which the sun never sets, and the world's number one maritime power.

The white sails covering the sky cross the Atlantic, conquering the ancient and mysterious China, and are invincible across the seven seas. The best and most fertile land in the world has almost become the possession of Britain.

Genius British heroes have come out and ruled the planet with the theories that Britain is best at, and this behemoth is no longer something that one country can defeat, or even one country dares to challenge alone.

And Britain's method of world domination is simple to say, but it is extremely clever in operation, and it can be summed up directly in one word - money!

Yes, money! A vulgar word. When Britain expanded, the method adopted was very simple, that is, to use money to maintain its empire.

Although the method is simple, because of its simplicity, it has become the strongest barrier that the other party cannot break!

After opening the door to a place with guns, Britain began to dump goods in exchange for a large amount of resources and money, and then fed back to each other among the colonies to form a complete trade system.

The great powers that were born later, including France and the later independent United States, as well as Italy and other countries, suddenly discovered that at this level, playing the colonial system with the British, whoever played would die!

Why? Because Britain had acquired a complete colonial system and held almost the best colonial position in the world, he had now done so and began to use the colonies to feed back the colonies.

Other powers, including France and Italy, at this time, if they wanted to establish a firm colony, they could only learn from the British, invest first and then operate......

Imagine a poor robber with only weapons left, who comes out to rob and has no money to prepare? Therefore, under the exclusion and arbitration of the British, the colonies of these countries were in a state of half-dead backwardness.

Look at the British colonies: the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Iran...... Almost all of them are good places with a certain economy and production capacity.

Look at the colonies of other countries: Libya, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Algeria...... Nowadays, it is almost a poorer third world country.

One only has to compare the achievements of these countries today to show how great Britain was in the competition between the two sides under the colonial framework back then......

If Britain can lose under this advantage, then it will be a hell of a loss. So the other countries had to retreat and compete for advantage in another place - Prussia!

Yes, Germany back then was a soft persimmon, or rather a Germany that had not yet formed a unity, a trash can used by the European powers to take out the garbage.

However, after playing Prussia for decades, a ruthless man played Prussia to unify, so Germany defeated France and became the boss of Wilhelm of the German emperor, which suddenly changed the strategic pattern of Europe.

Now, everyone has nothing to play, and there is no spirit of unification, and there is a European-stirring stick on the top of the head, and no one can make waves, how can this be played?

Russia's westward advance, squeezing Poland, finally tightened the last string in Europe, and everyone did not know what to do next.

I don't know which genius it is (this is definitely a genius), eighty percent is still an American, and suddenly figured out a truth.

He pointed out a new path of development for the people of the world: under the colonial system, if we can't play Britain, then we can change the game and erase the advantages of the British, won't we be able to defeat Britain?

Stimulated by this idea, people all over the world worked together to finally come up with an effective solution - a nationalist revolution!

After this banner was raised, the European powers, who prayed to Britain every night before going to bed, immediately found that it was a "royal flag".

Under the banner of the nation, all countries have found a magic weapon to kill Britain. As long as the world nationalist revolution is instigated, will Britain's unbreakable colonial system collapse in an instant?

France, as a traditional European power, has long dreamed of the collapse of Britain; Germany, which had just risen, also felt that this was an opportunity to reap the benefits; Italy, intending to rebuild the Roman Empire, also raised its hand in favor of this approach; Russia, which has moved westward, has long dreamed of chaos in Europe......

Coupled with the United States, which is far away from the European continent and fuels the troubles, this worldwide conspiracy against Britain has quietly risen.

Britain's most important means of maintaining its colonies, "money", and Britain's most things, has become worthless waste paper in the face of this conspiracy.

No matter how rich you are, and then you deal with the colonies gently, but people don't talk to you about this, they only talk to you about independence and independent development......

As a result, the colonial system, which had been impregnable, began to loosen before the First World War, which was also the result of the joint efforts of the rest of the world.

As everyone knows, when everyone stabbed the British with a knife and I stabbed the British with a knife, this trend of thought also fundamentally disintegrated the last possibility of European unification.

In ancient Europe, there were no capable people, and the unification of the situation and ideology was not completed, so that the unification of Europe missed the time; And the modern nationalist revolution, both spiritually and legally, completely destroyed the hope of European unity.

However, in the early days of this nationalist revolution, many countries were beneficiaries, including Germany, France, and even Italy and Japan.

This is also the reason why these countries have fueled the flames and turned what should have been a small fight on its own into a trend of thought that swept the world.

And if someone lifts the table, they naturally need to pay for the table, but this bill seems a bit expensive now.