Chapter 961: Diplomatic Battlefield
"As mentioned in the national communiqué, the total strength of the new United Kingdom's active force is 465,000, of which 394,000 are currently deployed in Ireland and Wales, 53,000 are deployed in overseas military bases such as the Azores under the Allied military agreements, and 21,000 are on League of Nations peacekeeping missions. In other words www.biquge.info none of the active forces of the new United Kingdom have been sent to Palestine and none have been involved in the Palestinian armed conflict. The so-called Irish Foreign Regiment is a mercenary organization established under the laws of the country, acting under mercenary contracts, and is not appointed by the government and the army of the country, and its position does not represent the government and the army of the country. At the same time, we solemnly remind the Government of the Arab Kingdom that, as a member of the League of Nations and a signatory to the Convention of the League of Nations, it should abide by the provisions of the Convention of the League of Nations concerning the inviolability of the right of civilians to life and should not infringe on the right to life of innocent civilians for any reason......"
In Limerick, the capital of the New United Kingdom, at the national defense press conference, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense issued an official statement to reporters from all sides, reiterating once again that the actions of the Irish Foreign Legion in the Palestinian areas do not represent the political and diplomatic position of the country, they are only fulfilling the employment contract with the Jews, and the mercenary organization has never violated the laws and regulations of the new United Kingdom and the proclamation of the League of Nations Convention, which can be regarded as a model of law-abiding and timely payment of taxes, and the new United Kingdom and the Arab Kingdom still maintain normal diplomatic relations.
During the media question time, a journalist from Italy lost no time in asking: "Mr. Speaker, as far as I know, mercenary organizations are not military personnel recognized by the Geneva Conventions and do not enjoy the protective provisions of the Hague Convention on military personnel and prisoners of war. ”
The valorous-looking spokesman for the Ministry of Defense replied without pause: "It is necessary to explain here that in accordance with the powers conferred by the laws of our country, our Ministry of Defense has reviewed the basic guidelines established by all mercenary organizations in our territory, and they can only accept protective employment contracts, and may not be involved in actions that endanger the legal status of a certain government." We can make a simple analogy: the Irish Foreign Legion is a merchant who sells armor, and they accept the employment of Palestinian Jews, essentially selling armor to Palestinian Jews, and this armor will only work if certain actions of the government of the Arab kingdom endanger the lives and property rights of Palestinian Jews. It is true that mercenaries are not protected by the Hague Convention, and if the army of the Arab Kingdom treats members of the Irish Foreign Legion inhumanely, the country will not take any interfering action, but the military commanders of the Arab Kingdom need to be reminded that if they use retaliatory measures, then their opponents can also bypass the restrictions of the Hague Convention and take reciprocal retaliatory action against the army of the Arab Kingdom. ”
The Italian journalist did not give up on asking: "As a major R&D and sales country in the international arms market, your country, as a major R&D and sales country, should welcome the emergence of such a situation, given that the Arab kingdom is supposedly seeking cooperation with mercenary organizations in Europe and America, and that the armed conflict in Palestine could turn into an international mercenary war and a testing ground for all kinds of new weapons and tactics?" ”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense sneered: "Before the League of Nations imposes an arms embargo sanctions, any country can export weapons and equipment to the Arab Kingdom, including Italy." As far as we can tell, an Italian cargo ship loaded with 50 P-43 tanks and thousands of tons of military supplies sailed into the port of Jeddah in the Arab kingdom about yesterday evening, and these weapons and equipment may soon appear in the Palestinian areas. ”
The Italian reporter hesitated for a moment and lost the opportunity to ask questions continuously, and the reporter from Switzerland rushed to ask: "The new United Kingdom has responded with relative leniency in the previous large-scale immigration of Jews from various countries to Palestine. As a result, the fact that a large number of Jews with the citizenship of the new United Kingdom have emigrated to Palestinian areas, and that most of these Jews have retained their nationality and that their military trained them before leaving for Palestine, does this indicate that your country is in fact involved in the Palestinian armed conflict? ”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense replied unhurriedly: "Yes, I deeply admire the courage of more than 100,000 Jewish residents of my country who have moved to Palestine without hesitation. According to the country's constitution, citizens who have been approved by the government to move abroad may voluntarily retain their nationality, while the majority of Jews who have moved out of their country do choose to retain their nationality. For those who retain their nationality, the Ministry of Defence conducts basic military training in accordance with the national military service law, so that they can have the most basic self-protection capacity in extreme situations. In accordance with the law and regulations, and in terms of reasonableness, there is nothing wrong with this move. ”
"However, the presence of 100,000 militarily trained Jews in Palestine will inevitably exacerbate the conflict there and even prompt the forced secession of Palestinian Jews from the Arab kingdom," the Swiss journalist continued. If in the near future, your country sends troops to maintain peace at the call of the League of Nations, and this relationship will inevitably be biased towards the Jewish side. ”
The spokesman of the Ministry of Defense smiled calmly: "This is just your personal speculation, in fact, my country has never been involved in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Arabia, nor has it been involved in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Arabia. ”
Swiss journalists seemed satisfied with the answer, and then reporters from the United States, France, and Austria-Hungary asked questions, and the spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of the new United Kingdom answered them one by one.
Today's international arena is not as easy to control as this press conference. On the issue of the armed conflict in Palestine, Germany, the unipolar hegemon, is not willing to intervene, as long as it can protect its oil interests in the Middle East, it does not care whether the Jews are independent or slaughtered. In this way, Palestine has become a fist ring in which various countries fight openly and secretly, and they are involved in Italy, a "-stirring stick" that has to intervene in everything, Spain, a "sound worm" that is accustomed to following the trend, Luxembourg, a "peacemaker" who is keen on mediation and mediation, and Austria-Hungary, a "conductor" who has no fixed position and gives support votes for support, and even France, the "Gallic plague chicken" who is held hostage by the Western allies and is insincere and weak, has repeatedly made wild remarks.
On the real battlefield, the belligerents pay attention to strategy and strategy, but on the battlefield of diplomacy, the means of deceit and wits and courage are also commonplace. At a time when the spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of the new United Kingdom was announcing in no uncertain terms that it had no intention of intervening in the chaos in the Middle East, the Mediterranean Task Force of the New United Kingdom Navy, composed of the main ships of the First Fleet, had quietly sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar and was about to reach Palestinian waters in the near future. Looking at Europe, the strength of this two-aircraft carrier battle group is not too domineering, not to mention Germany, which has 23 combat aircraft carriers, even Italy and Austria-Hungary, all have 3-5 modern aircraft carriers. But for the countries of the Middle East at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, a fleet of this size could easily control their territorial waters, invade their shores, and even overthrow their regimes.
It is true that the "Feniana", which serves as the flagship of the task force, is currently the first-class combat aircraft carrier in Europe, and a wing of IR-44T carrier-based fighters is enough to seize air supremacy in the Palestinian area from the air force of the Arab Kingdom, but it is also true that as announced by the Ministry of Defense, the new United Kingdom has no intention of overthrowing the ruling class of the Arab Kingdom, and then cultivating a new regime or directly replacing it, and they send a fleet into the Mediterranean, and even close to the Palestinian theater of operations, which is nothing more than fulfilling their agreement with the Jews to cooperate. Unless there is a direct threat that the carrier-based aircraft on board the "Fenian" are likely to be involved in the battle, they will only sit on the sidelines. The other aircraft carrier in the task force, the St. Patrick, was different, carrying 20 land-based IR-39 fighters and eight IK-40 bombers, as well as 36 Jewish pilots who flew these land-based fighters - all outstanding graduates of the Tipperary Flight Training Camp and trained in the New United Kingdom Navy to fly aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. According to the plan, they will fly these land-based aircraft to the field airfield in Tel Aviv as the fleet approaches the Palestinian coast, and then plunge into the battle against the armies of the Arab kingdom.
At the same time, a delegation of the Arab kingdom, led by Ben Abdul himself, is actively lobbying the Italian military and political top in Rome in an attempt to get them to curb the international forces that support the Palestinian Jews behind the scenes, especially the New United Kingdom and the United States. Their valuable gifts made the Italian military and political dignitaries indignant at the Jews' intentions to divide the Arab kingdom, and their plans to purchase large quantities of military supplies also brightened the eyes of the industrial giants. Although the Zionist branch in Italy tried every means to prevent the Italian government from making a decision that was unfavorable to the independent establishment of the Palestinian Jewish state, under the combined influence of the Italian military, political and industrial circles, the intervention of the Italian government was almost a foregone conclusion, and the Italian Admiralty had even secretly issued a directive to prepare for war, requiring the naval ships stationed in Taranto and Naples to prepare for combat sailing.
In recent years, with the revival of the U.S. Navy, Italy has returned to the fourth position, but it is still firmly in the second place in Europe, and the total tonnage of its main ships is twice that of the new United Kingdom Navy, and there is no pressure on a task force of the new United Kingdom alone, but the news of the Italian Navy's secret mobilization of ships soon leaked out, and Austria-Hungary, which has long regarded Italy as the number one imaginary enemy, reacted quickly. Rumors of Jewish bribery in the Austro-Hungarian leadership made Italians immediately cautious.
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