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"What a joke! Who will help us solve the difficulties we face? "In the chamber of the U.S. Congress, a congressman waved his fist and glared angrily at him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The isolationist policy of the United States has always been prevalent, and many Americans are reluctant to get involved in European affairs, believing that they do not need to intervene in other people's affairs, and that the most important thing is to develop themselves.
Because of such polls, the top level of the US government is also vacillating on whether to be overly involved in the war in Europe, and cannot come up with a unified decision.
President Roosevelt sat in his place, looking at the bickering congressmen with more helplessness on his face.
Isn't so-called democracy the embodiment of meaning at such a time? If he can really control the big picture, then this democracy is no different from a dictatorship.
It is a pity that many, many Americans did not realize that war was imminent, at least did not see through it, and that this war was a world war that the United States had to fight.
Even if the United States does not participate in the war against Germany and does not stop this war of European unification launched by Germany, then the United States has another war to fight!
To the west of the United States, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Japan, which had long been at war with the United States, was still expanding on the land of ancient China.
Ignoring the warnings of the United States, Japan has expanded its war of aggression against China in an all-round way. This has brought the relations between the United States and Japan to a freezing point, and it has also made the defense line in the Asia-Pacific region built by the United States extremely tense.
In fact, the United States had been waiting for a war with Japan for a long time, and Roosevelt and the United States under his leadership had long been ready for war against Japan.
Even an idiot would not think that the mighty United States, before the Second World War, was not even prepared to participate in the distribution of spoils.
The fact is that the United States not only has, but several programs! Some helped Germany carve up the British colonies, and some defeated Japan's monopoly of the Pacific.
There are always people who feel that Japan's decision to launch the Pacific War was an idiot's decision, and it foolishly gambled with its own country's national fortunes, and finally lost all its fortunes.
As everyone knows, before the start of the Pacific War, Japan was already strategically oppressed into a corner by the United States, and became a state where it would starve to death if it did not fight back.
There are only two paths facing Japan's top leaders: one is to start a war with the United States, and the victory or defeat can be reversed by their own hard work; The other is to passively wait for death, waiting for the United States to make the first move, and it will definitely lose......
Japan, which has become accustomed to gambling on the fate of its own country and has won twice in a row, in this case, how can it be possible to choose the second way to die?
Therefore, whether it was the Japanese emperor or the doer, Yamamoto Isoroku and others, in the end, they all resolutely carried out the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and no half of them raised objections.
Of course, before the war, Japan actually had its own calculations and analyses. It's not a blind gamble, and we'll analyze that later.
Now, in the congressional chamber, the arguing American lawmakers are discussing whether the United States should send more volunteers to help Britain out of its predicament.
"Let 100,000 or more American youths go to Europe and fight to the death for those noble lords?" A lawmaker banged on the table and questioned his political opponent.
Another parliamentarian helped on the other side, and his words were echoed by many people: "Who is going to shed blood? That's our American kids! ”
Roosevelt was a little dismissive of these men's remarks—if it was necessary, and there was no other way, to let hundreds of thousands, if not millions, die, for the sake of this country!
If the European continent is occupied by the Germans, then for the United States, it will really be one more terrible enemy! This is something that the United States is unwilling to accept, and it is not a good future.
Especially, when Roosevelt got some news...... These messages were more invincible than the German panzer divisions and more uneasy than the German submarine threat.
"There is intelligence that the Nazi Party in Germany is abandoning their radical national policy!" Thinking of this, he opened his mouth and said to Marshall, who was beside him.
Marshall is now the chief of staff of the U.S. Army, and he is also a senior U.S. general who supported Roosevelt by secretly sending troops "voluntarily" to Crete to carry out bombing missions.
He heard Roosevelt's mouthless opening without a tail, and talked about a topic that had nothing to do with the war, frowned and thought for a while: "This makes me very uneasy. ”
Roosevelt nodded and said approvingly: "I am not afraid of the Germans' war of expansion in Europe...... Even the most invincible army could not allow Germany to dominate all of Europe! ”
"Soon they will be in chaos on their own, draining Europe's production capacity and dragging down Germany's own industrial ......," Roosevelt said, looking at Marshall.
Earlier, one of the reasons Roosevelt sat firmly in Washington and watched Hitler's crusade was that the Nazi Party itself was like a flame that could not last long.
Recently, however, the Nazi Party's national policy toward the Jews has begun to be adjusted, and there have been fewer voices promoting the superiority of the Aryans, and the new argument of the Greater German nation has been chilling.
Roosevelt was scared, the enemy was changing, and it was changing for the better, and it made him feel the pressure.
The other side is trying to refine Europe's chaotic national theory, and is trying to integrate European industry - and this is by no means good news for the United States.
The United States is not afraid of Hitler's invasion like Genghis Khan, even if it sweeps across the whole of Europe, but at the same time it is destroying the whole of Europe.
That kind of rule will not last long, and it will drain Europe with its last drop of blood. The remaining wreckage of the ruins does not pose a threat to the United States.
But now the Germans are trying to build Europe, and they want to find a spiritual identity for Europe, under which development will be possible......
"Now, they've exceeded our expectations, which is bad." Roosevelt finally gave his own evaluation, a "very bad", which exhausted his thoughts.
Hearing his own president say this, Marshall opened his mouth to suggest: "Mr. President...... The question now is how to intervene in the war between Britain and Germany. ”
"The newspaper has been doing it, but the effect is not obvious." He explained with some depression: "The people don't care much about the sinking of two civilian ships now. ”
"Plus!" Because it was too noisy, he drew closer to Roosevelt: "Now the problem is concentrated on the sea, on the Atlantic...... This makes us very passive, the Germans are too aggressive. ”
Everyone knows that the main reason why Britain is now passive everywhere is not a frontal battlefield. No matter how strong the German army is, having an English Channel is enough to withstand a million heroes.
The hard thing to deal with is the German Navy submarines, and the damned aircraft carrier fleet that is now rampaging across the Atlantic. For some, it is said that it is the German carrier-based aircraft, and the warships with extremely high speed!
With these weapons and equipment, the British Navy's huge fleet had no brute force, but it could not prevent the other side from attacking its own lines of communication.
If such a problem continues, next month or the next month, Britain itself will collapse, and there will be no need for the Germans to fight at all!
If the United States wants to save Britain, it is not enough to rely on soldiers and supplies, it is necessary to strengthen the transportation lines in the Atlantic, and nothing else.
As long as the supply of Britain itself is restored, then Britain itself will be able to hold on, and even have the spare strength to help the United States weaken Germany!
If it could not restore the supply of the British mainland, Britain would have to wait for itself to collapse, and resisting the expansion of the Germans would be nothing more than empty words.
"You are an army general, and you have to help the navy find a way...... The plan to send transport ships from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic...... It's really ...... It was too hasty. Roosevelt depressed the latest plan.
Even Roosevelt himself admitted that the recent losses of American ships at sea were somewhat too great.
More than 100 transport ships from the United States were sunk in the British transport fleet. In most cases, it is not possible to say so, because many of those ships are still nominally United States......
If you look for German theories, what the German side gives is also some perfunctory. Both sides know what the facts are, and the United States wants to use the issue to play its part, but the parliament does not buy it.
Isn't it Roosevelt's plan to let more American volunteers enter the British mainland to fight at this moment.
"Silence! Quiet! The officials who maintained order banged on the table and loudly reminded the quarrelsome councillors, but there were still people talking about it, making the whole room look very noisy.
"I think, first of all, we have to build transport ships faster, cheap, sturdy, easy-to-use transport ships." As an army general, Marshall's advice was not professional.
He first gave his opinion on the damage resistance or stop loss: "In addition, build more and more advanced destroyers, escort these ships, and transport as many supplies as possible to Britain." ”
After talking about the method of dealing with German submarines, he turned his attention to the German fleet: "As for the fleet of the Germans...... Find a way to sink them! ”
As a high-ranking American general, Marshall knew that the best defense was offense. Blindly parrying the enemy's attack is not a good choice.
If it was possible to gather forces and sink the German fleet, then the British Navy could concentrate on dealing with submarines, and the pressure would naturally be much less.
"As for how to sink ...... Then it depends on the naval side. I don't understand naval warfare, it's their duty. In the end, Marshall threw the blame on the Navy and said to Roosevelt.