The Soviet Union's brutal solution to the Baltic crisis, as well as its compromise and concession to the Soviets in Western Europe, sparked fears among the remaining member states. This was undoubtedly a major blow to the three remaining countries of Georgia, Armenia and Moldavia, bent on removing the hat of the SSR. Moldavia and Armenia immediately chose to shut up and stop chanting separatist slogans.

The other member states, which were not very centrifugal, protested against the unilateral revision of the Supreme Constitution by the Soviet Union, but because they were given great economic autonomy, they did not complain much. In the past, national autonomy was based on great political rights and limited economic autonomy, but Yanayev is now doing the opposite. The member states have finally been given the coveted autonomy in economic development, so it doesn't matter whether they are independent or not.

But one of the most radical leaders of the member states, Georgian President Zvyad Gamsakhurdia, who once chanted that "Georgia belongs to Georgians", also relented after witnessing the tragic fate of the three Baltic states. As an ultranationalist, he admired Gorbachev's weakness, but after seeing Yanayev's torrent of steel, Zviad began to consider another way to break away from Soviet rule. Even Stalin, who was born in Georgia, Georgia, was the most eager to break free from Soviet rule, and pursued a high-pressure ethnic policy towards the country.

Zviad turned his attention to the Americans, believing that the failure of the independence of the three Baltic states was due to the lack of a strong armed force and excessive dependence on foreign aid, so he needed to buy the most advanced tanks and warplanes from the United States. Especially before the entry into force of Yanayev's revised constitution, there was an armed force sufficient to counter the Soviet army. Zviad never wanted to resist the Soviet attack head-on, only to get the other side into a crisis in Afghanistan. Even if most of Georgia fell, he could continue to fight guerrilla warfare against the Soviets.

So when Bush received a message from Georgian President Zvyad asking for help, he immediately summoned Dick Cheney, the secretary of defense, known as an intelligence expert. As a former White House chief of staff, he planned Desert Storm, and was undoubtedly the best person to analyze this message for Bush.

"I'm sorry Dick, but I let you get here so late." As soon as Dick entered the president's office, Bush stood up and said with a slight apology. Dick was a little flattered by Bush's small move, especially when he saw National Security Adviser Brent next to the president, he knew that tonight's events would definitely not be simple.

"What's going on, Your Excellency." Dick asked with concern.

"You take a look at this first." Bush, who had been discussing with Brent for a long time, handed a piece of paper to Dick Cheney.

What Bush showed to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was a private message sent to him by the Georgian president, but Dick Cheney read a few succinct words that could not be more concise. He raised his head in the middle of the ring and said slowly, "The president wants to ask, should we sell arms to support Georgia?" ”

"That's right." "I think we should secretly sell and dump our advanced tanks and warplanes to Georgia to help them build an army strong enough to resist the Soviets," Brent said. ”

"So what kind of things can they afford us, given Georgia's financial strength?" Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney unceremoniously asked, "The most advanced tank of the M1 series?" Or an F15 or F16 fighter. Of course, I believe that with Georgia's current financial resources, it should be able to afford 6 or 7 of these fighters at once, but does this make any sense for the huge aviation combat forces of the USSR? It doesn't make any sense at all. Even if they could shoot down a hundred Su-27s or MiG-29s of the Soviet Union, they would have thousands of locust-like fighter jets that could flood and obscure the entire Georgian sky. It would be more reliable for you to sell our ICBMs to others, at least the Soviet Union had to take into account the feelings of the other party when it did it. ”

Dick Cheney was telling the truth, and Brent was not in the same direction as he was thinking, the former thinking about how to squeeze Georgia's financial power out of it with arms sales, and the latter thinking about how to suck Georgia's blood out of it in a long way.

"Taking a step back, what would Georgia be able to do even if it received a large amount of military aid? A unit with amazing combat effectiveness is not built up by piling up weapons, but by long-term training and running-in. Can they do step-to-tan synergy? Is it possible to do barrage? Can tanks be airdropped like the USSR? None of them can be, this is the same reason why Saddam Hussein, who claims to be the fourth most powerful country in the world, can only be a target in front of the United Nations army. ”

"Okay, don't make any noise, be quiet." Bush stopped the bickering between Dick Cheney and Brent, "What do you think we should do to reassure Georgia and at the same time succeed in clandestine arms sales?" ”

"It's almost impossible to sell high-tech and sophisticated weapons, though." Dick Cheney said, "If we export the Hummer to Georgia in a civilian way, it would be a viable way." There are also UH1 helicopters, which can be exported to Georgia with humanitarian relief vehicles after dismantling the weapon system, and as for the tanks, it is not impossible to disassemble and transport them to the territory of Georgia, but it will be a little more complicated. By the way, we can also import some 107mm rocket launchers from our neighbors in the Soviet Union to Georgia under the banner of agricultural tools. And in doing so, Georgia can also transform them into a local weapon system, and it also saves the trouble of importing equipment from us. ”

"Even if the Soviet Union were held accountable, it would be in accordance with international law. They had no other reason to intervene unless the amended constitution of the USSR came into force immediately and deprived all the member states of their sovereign status. But changes to the constitution and changes in policy would trigger a series of chain crises, and the Soviet Union did not turn around so quickly. It would take at least three to five months, which would be enough to give Zviad a huge amount of arms. Of course, it can also bring a huge amount of revenue to the government. ”

"And Turkey, as our ally, can also send arms to Georgia and Armenia through its borders, and if it can, it would be better to turn against the Azerbaijani leaders, so as to create a crisis in the south of the Soviet Union. Of course, we must also grasp the issue of the three Baltic countries with disdain, and don't the leaders of the other two countries want to establish regimes in exile? We gave them weapons and financial support to create trouble for the Soviet Union. ”

"As long as the Soviet Union does not go to war with the member countries, then our plan has been achieved. The Soviet Union must first settle the interior before it can afford to go abroad, but the external crisis that fanned the flames made it impossible for him to concentrate 100% on dealing with domestic events. ”

This was Dick Cheney's policy of arc-shaped encirclement, creating incidents in the member states that acted as a barrier to the Soviet Union's westward advance, leaving him no time for other strategic positions. The United States and its allies took advantage of this time to remove the chess pieces deployed by the Soviet Union one by one. From the Middle East to Africa, the seeds of the communist revolution have long been the object of their eradication.

"Wonderful, then the Soviet Union would be locked in a dividing line. When he broke through the barrier, he realized that he had no allies in this world to work with. Bush smiled and said to Dick Cheney, "Then we'll leave this matter to the CIA, because these dirty deals are what agents do best." ”

"And there's another place where we need to include it in the target of wooing." "Chechnya is also a region that has always opposed Soviet rule, and if we can rebel, we can stir up a revolutionary fire on Soviet soil," Brent said. ”