Chapter 888: Rules and Order (II)
With the subsidence of the war in Albania, the European people were able to usher in the New Year of 1945 in a relatively peaceful atmosphere, but looking at the world, the flames of war are raging in Asia: in East Asia, the Japanese army, which has accelerated the pace of aggression against China, launched offensives one after another, and the 3rd Front Army advancing from the north road conquered Lanzhou and Xining, cutting off the main land channel for Soviet and Russian supplies to be transported into the hinterland of China, and the 1st Front Army advancing from the middle road arrived on the Qinling-Dabashan line, and bombers taking off from the front-line airfield attacked the capital Chongqing day and night. It greatly dealt a blow to and weakened the confidence and morale of the Chinese military and people, and the 2nd Front Army, which advanced from the south route, formed a clamping force on Kunming, further compressing the strategic depth of the Chinese side; In South Asia, Japan and Hindustan jointly launched a series of stormy attacks on the Indian Federation, which caused the Indian Federation, which was already in sight of victory and close to joining China, to collapse, and large areas in the central and southern parts of the Indian subcontinent returned to the hands of Japan and its puppet allies, and the elite Indian Federation Army barely cobbled together more than 300,000 troops to fortify on the west bank of the Indus River. India, with a population of 400 million, will probably complete its reunification in a different way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Just after the New Year, the Western Allies held a summit in Limerick, Ireland, to focus on Asian issues, which are geographically distant but closely related to the global landscape. From the perspective of their own strategic security, European countries do not want the emergence of a superpower in Asia that is powerful enough to peep into the Middle East and even Africa, nor do they want Russia, which straddles the Eurasian continent, to re-emerge under the dominance of another ideology. At the beginning, European and American countries joined forces to aid Soviet Russia, in order to use the Russians to contain Japan's military deployment and curb their military expansion, and before Japan and the Soviet Union negotiated an armistice, this strategy did play a very significant effect, the main force of the Japanese army was transferred out of South Asia and Australia for a long time, and the situation there changed greatly, but now it seems that the idiom of raising tigers is really suitable for the Russian Soviet Republic. The Russians braked halfway this time to allow the exhausted but still powerful Japanese army to withdraw from the Northeast Asian theater, and at once reversed the situation in the Indian subcontinent and Australia, which was equivalent to a resounding slap in the face of the Western allies!
The heads of the Western allies expressed their contempt and indignation at the bad behavior of the leaders of the Soviet Union who did not count, signed but did not admit their accounts, and changed their faces faster than turning a book, but despite their large numbers, it was not easy to effectively punish the Russians for violating the agreement. On the one hand, the Russians were rich in land and resources, and their economy and defense industry were self-contained, and they were not afraid of external blockades, and they could seek trade with the Japanese if necessary. On the other hand, since the founding of the Soviet Union, Soviet Russia has always been on guard against the interference and subversion of the European coalition forces, they have placed important industrial resources in the Ural Mountains far from the hinterland of Europe, in the western regions bordering European countries, and the layout of road traffic facilities and civilian industrial buildings has fully taken into account the needs of defense, coupled with the ideological group advantage and the reformed military service system, such Russia is absolutely a nightmare for all invaders......
Even so, there were many voices at the summit that encouraged the German Emperor Wilhelm the Younger to use force against Russia, and the German Empire he dominated had replaced the hegemony of the British Empire, and the most tempting goal at the moment was undoubtedly to challenge Napoleon's unfinished business. The good deeds even made a comprehensive deduction for the defeat of Soviet Russia and the arrival of troops in the Far East, they believed that the defeat of Soviet Russia would require the mobilization of 2 million to 2.5 million troops, although this figure exceeded the current active military strength of all European countries combined, but with Germany's current mixed military service system and 85 million native population and nearly 200 million colonial population, it was very easy to recruit and equip 3 million troops, and if the Western Allies started a war against Soviet Russia, then it would not be difficult to gather 5 million troops. That's ten times more than Napoleon's army in Russia! Of course, in the mode of modern warfare, the number of troops is not the key to victory, and the biggest enemy faced by any army trying to conquer Russia is not the Russian army, but the vast Russian land and harsh and complex climatic environment. Troops from Europe would have to travel 2,000 kilometers from Belarus and Ukraine to the Ural Mountains, and maintaining a large army of 2,000 kilometers into the enemy's hinterland would consume an astonishing amount of logistical supplies, which may not be able to be sustained for long by the Western Allies. Kaiser Wilhelm the Younger, like his father, had the same ambition to conquer the world, but at the same time a miserly man, interested in projects with small investments and large returns, and wary of those with large investments and uncertain returns. Therefore, he scoffed at those who presumptuously talked about the total conquest of Russia by force, believing that it was nothing more than the exchange of tens of billions of dollars for some mineral resources of low value, some labor with a very low level of education, and the trouble of maintaining law and order in a large area, and absolutely a bloodless investment.
Since the defeat of the US-British camp, the main rivals of the Germans have become Japan and Soviet Russia, the former being a potential rival thousands of miles away, and the latter a tiger on the side of a couch with the potential power to break into the heart of Europe and subvert the European order - eliminating this threat does not require the occupation of Russia, but only the prolonged weakness or division of the country - which may sound more difficult than the occupation of Russia, It's a veteran politician's forte. As early as when the fierce war between Japan and the Soviet Union was in full swing, Germany and its puppet servant states stepped up their infiltration into Soviet Russia, secretly inciting the discontent of the Russian people, secretly supporting political forces opposing the Soviet and Russian governments, and even plotting against the middle and high-ranking officers of the Soviet and Russian armies, and achieved certain results. In the summer of 1944, the reason why the top leaders of Soviet Russia negotiated peace with the Japanese when the battlefield situation was very good was not because they had a tradition of accepting what they saw, but because under the condition that European and American countries were gradually reducing aid, Soviet Russia's economy and society could no longer afford the huge consumption of the front. After more than two years of war, the Russians not only paid a heavy price of more than one million casualties, but also caused economic retrograde due to the forced pressure of the military industry, and the people in many areas lived a hard life of lack of food and medicine, especially in the winter of 1943, the phenomenon of starvation and freezing to death in some remote areas was repeated.
During the summit, both William Jr., who was the leader of the alliance, and Joachim, the two-crown king who was regarded as a model of the Ming Emperor, did not mention the severe punishment of Soviet Russia, but talked about the prospect of the Turkish Republic joining the League of Nations and the Western allies. As we all know, the Turks and the Slavs are feuds, the grievances between the two empires of Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire span hundreds of years of history, after Tsarist Russia was replaced by Soviet Russia, Ottoman was overthrown by the Turkish Republic, the relations between the two countries have not been substantially improved, the Soviet Russian top leadership in the recovery of Eastern Europe at the same time, never forgot the idea of seizing the Dardanelles, Germany and Ireland actively wooed the Republic of Turkey, undoubtedly to the outside world to express a signal to suppress Soviet Russia. At the same time, military officials or generals in both countries have consciously or unconsciously revealed the current situation of their countries' major military buildups, and most of the weapons and equipment that the military focuses on purchasing are offensive types, especially those with a combat radius of more than 2,000 kilometers and capable of bombing the industrial regions of the Urals from Belarusian, Ukrainian or Turkish airfields.
The Council of the League of Nations suddenly informed the liaison representative of the Soviet Union to the League of Nations that the applications for membership that had been repeatedly submitted and rejected by the Soviet Union since 1928 had entered the candidacy examination procedure, which meant that as long as they passed the qualification test of the Council of the League of Nations, they would be able to become full members of the League of Nations, enjoy various trade preferences of the League of Nations members, and greatly increase their voice and influence in the international field.
However, the shrewd Russian rulers soon realized that this was a trap tailor-made for them by the Western Allies, and once Soviet Russia became a full member of the League of Nations, they could indeed enjoy all the conveniences they expected, but at the same time, they would also be subject to all kinds of supervision and restrictions by the League of Nations, and what was even worse was that the right to interpret the established provisions was in the hands of the six major members headed by Germany, and the first question they raised in examining the qualifications of Soviet Russia was the legitimacy of the Soviet Russian army's occupation of northeastern China and northern Korea. Unless the Russians can prove that they are helping the Chinese and Koreans to free themselves from Japanese colonial rule and provide them with sufficient safe and reliable living conditions, the Russian army must withdraw from these areas.
In order to verify the answer to this question, the League of Nations organized an investigation team composed of representatives of more than 10 countries to go to the Far East, and despite the Soviet and Russian efforts to cover up and induce them, the investigation team still collected sufficient evidence to prove that the Soviet and Russian occupations in these areas were of a colonial nature, especially in the northeastern region, where sovereignty clearly belonged to the Chinese Government, and the colonial occupation was resisted by the League of Nations Convention. If the Russian side is unable to change this practice within half a year and refuses to withdraw its troops, then the League of Nations will veto the candidacy of Soviet Russia.
The Russians, who tried their best to embellish and quibble in order to join the League of Nations, completely lost their fierceness on the battlefield, while the Japanese were much more direct. As soon as the rainy season ended, the Japanese army fighting on two fronts launched a new offensive against the Chinese government army and the Indian federal army, and they have done their best to invest troops and equipment this time, and as long as they can succeed, it will not be long before the entire Far East (including East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, that is, Afghanistan, East of Kazakhstan, north of Australia, west of the Pacific Ocean, and south of the Arctic Ocean) will become the cornerstone of Japan's attempt to dominate the world.
This is a situation that the Western Allies and the United States do not want to see, and it is also a nightmare that every person who hates the atrocities of the Japanese army does not want to appear!
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