Chapter 955: Yin Ligen
"It stands to reason that there should be news!" Serov, who was in Moscow, was suffering from gains and losses, and the stricken Gaddafi had nothing to do, but he began to worry, is the Libyan leader too calm?
This cannot be blamed on Serov, in the strategic layout of the Soviet Union, Egypt is much more important than Libya. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info population, golden waterways, and leadership are all factors to consider, so even Egypt has no resources but deserts. The Soviet Union also had to respect Egypt, and it also needed to develop policies around Egypt to prevent Egypt from turning back. The surrounding Sudan and Ethiopia were all pinned down around Egypt as an ally of the Soviet Union.
Libya was nothing compared to Egypt, and the USSR had no shortage of oil. In order to prevent Gaddafi from resenting the Soviet Union, Serov did not take the initiative to station troops in Libya. Libya was more of a fuzzy zone in the eyes of the Soviet Union, because Serov did not pay much attention to the country either. It wasn't until this time that Reagan made a move, and even someone he was so careful was caught off guard and began to plan actions for profit.
But why didn't Gaddafi react? This is a question that Serov considers. He didn't know much about Gaddafi when he was young, the revolutionary leader who came to power in a coup d'Γ©tat, and he was bold and ruthless in his early years, and took the initiative to send agents to attack the United States, and even created the Lockerbie air crash to fight against the United States.
However, this arrogant move ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Gaddafi, who was more courageous than Saddam, had to bow his head and behave. Now the Soviet Union is strong and ruthless, and Gaddafi's confidence is still there. So not only did he not be afraid, but he took the initiative to take the blame, which was regarded as a reaction to the US bombing of Libya, and the image of a madman was fully revealed.
Gaddafi did not regard the death of the American hostages as an unacceptable thing at all, but it was difficult to summon Chebrikov and Mendelev to discuss for the sake of Serov in Moscow. Plans failed?
It was not until the personnel of the Ministry of Operation Execution returned home via Egypt that the general secretary watched Mendelev's interrogation of the operation process from the monitor, and finally determined, "You are really a madman, more daring than me." β
The military delegation that has already arrived in the Soviet Union will give feedback to the Ministry of Defense on the investigation report of the Soviet air defense system, and this matter does not need to be personally cared about by the general secretary of the military blindness, and besides, it is not the Soviet Union itself that is a shame, and France's radar early warning mechanism is not ineffective, and the United States has slapped the Soviet Union and France in the face this time.
The general secretary, who was convinced that diligence could make up for his shortcomings, began to make up for the class, analyzing the person Gaddafi, and the Lockerbie air crash had just been awakened from his sleeping memory. Fill in Gaddafi's early experience, plus recall the experience of the second half of Gaddafi's life in his mind. It can be regarded as a complete preliminary understanding of Gaddafi as a person.
Gaddafi is the weakest of the Arab powers, with a population that is pitifully small compared to other countries. But he is more daring than Assad and Saddam. As long as Gaddafi feels that he still has a big brother to take care of, he will dare to do anything.
But this person must not have a good vision, because at the time of the Lockerbie air disaster, the Soviet Union had begun to come to an end under the leadership of Goto, and the decline has been seen by all countries, France is still trying its best to help the Soviet Union defuse external pressure, and Gaddafi still dares to do this kind of thing, and he simply does not know the preciousness of life.
"This mad dog, if you get it right, can really bite." Serov had to admit that it was really reasonable for Ligan to say that Gaddafi was a mad dog, and the collapse of the American hostages this time was considered to have cut off Gaddafi's back road. If this madman still feels that it is not enough, he can still remember the Lockerbie air crash in the future, and he should not be stopped.
The general secretary can recall another person who had a similar fate as Gaddafi, Mussolini, Hitler's idol in his early years. The country is not strong, the leader loves to die, and in the end, he succeeds in dying and dies, which is really similar to ......
Now that the American hostages have been killed, it has not been leaked, so it shows that there is still room for maneuver in this matter. I also have to make up for the follow-up actions and end perfectly. Because Serov knew that Reagan had already found a replacement for the dead, he did not fall into the Iran-Contra outbreak at the end of last year, and certainly not this time.
The U.S. chicken-blood effect continues, and it's unrealistic to expect Reagan to get rid of a few hostages. What's more, it is not easy for the leaders who are so desperate to confront the Soviet Union to find a second one, and it will be a loss to the Soviet Union if they are lost. It can be said that if there is any crisis in Reagan's political life, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union will absolutely stand up for it as long as it is necessary. Help Reagan defuse the crisis, and then continue the confrontation.
Now the death of the American hostages, Serov knows, Reagan does not know for the time being, so? Pick up the phone and call Smolensk Square, and ask Foreign Minister Gromyko to come to the Kremlin, the two of them should seriously plan.
"After Irangate, Reagan has also been challenged, and this time it may weaken Reagan's prestige." Foreign Secretary Gromyko's words were full of excitement, and Reagan was one of the rare presidents in the United States who fulfilled his promises, not for the election. When Reagan said that he wanted to wrestle with the Soviet Union, he was wrestling with the Soviet Union, and the entire socialist camp could feel Reagan's undisguised hostility.
"Comrade Gromyko, you misunderstood!" Serov had to prepare for Gromyko's assumption that Reagan would get into trouble, because it was unrealistic, and would the Soviet Union think that someone had died to remove the general secretary from power? No! So why think the United States will? Human rights above all else? Just listen to it. A few dozen people is not a big deal for any country, and if it is beneficial to the country, it is okay to do it yourself.
"It's almost impossible to expect this to bring down Reagan. In fact, I wish Ronald Reagan was re-elected! We can poke this out and make the United States more hostile to Libya. But we must take the initiative and shoulder the international attitude of the Soviet leaders, rescue the American hostages, provide good offices, and ensure the safety of the hostages. It was necessary to get a hand out before Reagan could put pressure. Serov stood up and said word by word, "I don't want Reagan to step down, but the Americans must appreciate this time, let the Soviet Union free the American hostages, and slap the American conservatives in the face." β
"So, I'm going to start preparing now and start working on the Libyan hostage crisis." Gromyko laughed too, is this a thing? It's interesting, I don't have admiration in my heart, but I can try it.
"Wait until the U.S. Sixth Fleet leaves at the beginning! Let them spend a little gas money. This sentence exposes the essence of the first greedy miser in the Soviet Union, and it is not a bad thing to calculate the cost more than anything.
Libyans waving Libyan flags marched in support of their leader. In the face of the power of US imperialism, Gaddafi, who was born at the bottom, knew very well what ordinary people were thinking, and it was not difficult for him to incite these people to love him, and many people cheered with tears in their eyes that Gaddafi was safe and sound.
The smoke of gunfire in Tripoli and Benghazi has cleared, and the announcers on the radio recount the names of people killed by the airstrikes, including Gaddafi's adopted daughter, and this mixture of sadness and dissatisfaction with the United States will translate into support for Gaddafi, at least for now, as long as the United States and the Soviet Union do not send troops over.
"Libyan mid-level officers and above were not at their posts at the time of the air strike, and I remember that Komsomolskaya Pravda had already reminded Libyans that the US attack was imminent? Is that so? A Soviet technical officer was somewhat dissatisfied with the inspection of the Soviet surface-to-air missile battalion, and muttered dissatisfiedly to his companions.
"These Arabs don't let us touch the weapons systems they produce, but they can't maintain them themselves. Sometimes I would rather have our weapons at the hands of the Israelis, at least they know how to fight. Another officer with a slightly higher rank was also helpless, and after communicating with the Soviet technicians stationed here, he got this not very good answer.
"Forget it, Israel is an enemy of the Arabs, and besides, Israel can't buy many weapons." The officer who had just begun to speak stopped. The Soviet Union did not have much negative propaganda about Israel, but it always emphasized that Israel was an anti-Soviet country, and warned Israel every year not to try to develop nuclear weapons, otherwise the Soviet Union would ensure that all Israel's leading countries would be nuclear-armed.
The Soviet Union's military investigation team is still slowly investigating the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the air defense system, while the United States is in a state of revelry, and the Internet in this era is far less developed than the communication media, and people listen to whatever the traditional media say. The vast majority of Americans believe that Reagan's decision was not wrong, so what if it was?
Both the White House and the Pentagon were very satisfied with the leaked news, which was obviously a big victory for the United States, but a piece of news came out of Libya and quickly spread to the whole world.
When the United States received the news, it was as if a major earthquake had ushered in, and the hostages held by the United States in Libya were killed because they were going to escape from prison.
This news quickly washed away the joy of the Americans at the complete victory of the military operation during Operation Golden Canyon. Libya has hostages from the United States? How many? Why don't ordinary people know about it! This is a question on the minds of many people.
Many people hope that the White House and the Pentagon will come out to refute the rumors, but as time passes, the US government has not refuted the news of the existence of the hostages, because the decision-making speed of the entire Golden Canyon operation is fast and the time is relatively sudden, and the US government did not expect Libya to take hostages in the name of a country. Even Reagan and senior government officials heard the news, and their faces became even more ugly.
The pain that followed the joy ensued, and Serov found a good opportunity to pick up the sticks and smash them at Reagan, directly making Reagan dizzy.