Chen Ke felt that the attitude of the Soviet Union was not normal, while Uncle Iron Man felt that it was normal for the Soviet Union to remain silent for the time being.

When China and the Soviet Union were founded almost at the same time, the CPSU, including Comrade Lenin, believed that the Soviet Union had finally been liberated from the predicament of being attacked from all sides. Even if China took advantage of the territorial issue, the Soviet comrades gritted their teeth and endured it at that time.

Facts have proved that the judgment of the CPSU at that time was very correct, and the real peace between China and the Soviet Union for nearly 20 years allowed the Soviet Union to avoid being besieged by the enemy on all fronts. The only headache for the Soviet Union in the Far East was that Soviet citizens preferred to live and work on the Chinese side of the border. This trouble is the whole trouble. In 1935, the Soviet Union finally reduced its forces to five divisions on the Sino-Soviet border, which were mainly prepared for a surprise attack by Japan or the United States on the Bering Sea area.

In the Caspian region of Central Asia, the Soviet Union only had to guard against Iran and the British colonial armies in the Middle East, which were very weak and weak opponents. The Caucasus is facing Turkey, which is not at all the Ottoman Empire, which fought a long war with Tsarist Russia, but a weak country. In Central and Northern Europe, Poland and the Baltic states, the strategic situation of the Soviet Union could even be called good. The surrounding countries were weak and were no match for the Soviet Union.

Uncle Iron Man's strategic view was that a new world war would begin sooner or later, and the Soviet Union's trade with China, as well as the aid it received from China, allowed the Soviet Union to survive the initial hardships. The Great Depression gave the Soviet Union the opportunity to import advanced equipment from Europe and the United States, and the Soviet Union's industrial strength grew by leaps and bounds.

In 1940, steel production in the USSR reached 22 million tons, which was comparable to the level of Germany. Although the Soviet-Finnish war was not fought well, the Soviet Union still carved up Poland through various methods from 1939 to 1940, regained control of the three Baltic states, and the road to Europe was once again open to the Soviet Union. Strategically, the Soviet Union had shifted from a defensive to an offensive.

At this stage, there are two things that are beyond the expectations of Uncle Iron Man, the first is that Germany cleanly solves France. In Uncle Iron's plan, Germany and France should have a war of blood and blood.

The other problem is that China's performance is simply amazing. China, which is moving southward, has swallowed Australia and New Zealand, as well as a series of islands in the Central Pacific. With the help of China, the entire colony of the Western Pacific gained independent status. These regions are already part of the China-led Western Pacific system.

Recently, China's hand has even reached out to the United States, and Chen Ke's public speech in the United States has made clear China's anti-colonial stance. The Yankees' hardline attitude toward China has a strong sense of coercion recognition. This surprised Uncle Iron Man. It was only in the 30s that the United States recognized the Soviet government and officially established diplomatic relations with the USSR. And the relationship between China and the United States has reached the point of strategic communication.

China's national strength also made Uncle Iron Man feel very uncomfortable. According to China's own data, China's steel production has reached 45 million tons. This figure is the Soviet Union and Germany combined. China has a population of nearly 800 million, a fact that the world basically recognizes. 800 million people plus 45 million tons of steel is a devastating force. The most nonsense is that in the conversation with the Chinese comrades, the Chinese comrades believed that by 1942 China's steel production might reach the level of 60 million tons. Intimidating other countries by declaring their strong industrial production capacity is also a kind of strategy. But the output of 60 million tons is too outrageous. Uncle Iron Man now thinks that perhaps there is a lot of water in China's announced 45 million tons of steel production in 1940.

On the whole, Uncle Iron Man found that his judgment of Europe was probably accurate. It's just that the judgments of other regions outside Europe, especially the two powerful countries of China and the United States, seem to have lost their accuracy. Uncle Iron Man's judgment of strategy has a lot of deviations.

First, Britain, with the support of the United States, may still have the ability to wage war with Germany. However, Britain had no intention of reaching a compromise with the Soviet Union.

Uncle Iron Man contacted Britain several times, hoping that Britain would agree that the Soviet Union and Britain would jointly flank Germany. It was originally a very talkative content, but now it has become a deception. The Soviet Union hoped that Britain would first land in Europe to fight Nazi Germany, and that the Soviet Union would cooperate with Britain to flank Nazi Germany. Of course, Britain was completely opposed, and they demanded that the Soviet Union send troops to attack Germany first, and Britain would find a way to cooperate with the Soviet war. Both countries want the other to be able to strike a blow and pick the fruit from behind.

Of course, theoretically Britain was now being blockaded by German submarines. In order to obtain anti-submarine equipment, Britain sold its military bases in many parts of the world to the United States in exchange for 50 battered destroyers. At this stage, Britain is indeed unable to fight on the European continent. But the British were very firm, and they first demanded that the Soviet Union should not enter Western Europe, and that the Soviet Union should not join any alliance against the colonies.

This can't help but make Uncle Iron Man start to seriously consider the future strategic process.

The Soviet Union promised to act alone in Europe, and if war against Germany were to be waged now, and at the same time to support China's anti-colonial actions unequivocally, it was not certain that Germany and Britain would join forces against the Soviet Union. Britain also stood behind the United States, and since the United States and the Soviet Union could not talk about any friendly relations, the Soviet Union was likely to be able to confront these three countries with the strength of one country.

If this were the case, the Soviet Union would have no choice but to unite with China and use the Sino-Soviet alliance against the other industrial countries of the world. This was a huge gamble, and the Soviet Union could not guarantee whether China would be willing to participate in such a war. And from the intelligence it has received from the Chinese side, China is desperately trying to digest the newly acquired Western Pacific region. Uncle Iron Man is perfectly able to understand what China is doing now. But the time for war was fleeting. If China is given a few years to digest the Western Pacific, God knows how far the strategic situation in Europe has developed.

It was not only the Soviet Union that colluded with Britain, but Germany was also constantly demanding peace with Britain. Britain's wartime prime minister, Fat Fat, did not want to make peace with Germany or unite with the Soviet Union. What he really wanted was to join forces with the United States to counterattack the European continent.

In this sense, Chen Ke was also obviously aware of this fact, otherwise why would Chen Ke go all the way to the United States to negotiate with Roosevelt?

After the rectification and purge, the Soviet army solved the mountaineering doctrine in the troops, and surpassed the German army in terms of the number of troops and equipment. Uncle Iron Man was not afraid of the German army. Instead, the thing to do now is to reach an agreement with Britain to exclude the United States as much as possible. As soon as the Soviet army defeated the German army, Eastern Europe, which had been longed for since the time of Tsarist Russia, would completely fall into Soviet hands. Even Western Europe may well have opened its doors to the Soviet Union.

Thinking of China's victory, Uncle Iron Man felt very regretful. Before the war, no one could have imagined that China would be able to fight all the way to thousands of miles away. From the current Soviet-German border, all the way to Spain, which is still in a fierce civil war, is only 2,000 kilometers away at most. At the time of the fall of France, the United Kingdom was too busy to take care of itself, and the United States was not yet fully armed, the Soviet Union was confident of a comprehensive victory over Germany. Take advantage of this golden opportunity to complete the liberation of Europe.

In that case, the Soviet Union would have to temporarily distance itself from China, at least to fool Britain first. If the Soviet Union is like China, under the banner of colonial liberation, it will completely destroy Britain with a clear sword. Then this short-term Soviet-British military alliance simply cannot be reached.

After determining the near-term strategy, Uncle Iron Man also began to think about what to do. Since the banner of anti-colonialism cannot be raised now, the only banner left is anti-fascism.

The advantage of not having a common ideology is that when the two sides are at war with other ideological countries, it is very convenient for them to communicate with the people in their own camp. Uncle Iron didn't want to hide anything from Chen Ke, so he directly told Chen Ke his judgment of timing.

Although Chen Ke has no bottom in his heart about the combat effectiveness between the Soviet Union and Germany, Uncle Iron Man is really an independent person and a person who does not listen to persuasion. Besides, why is China attacking cities overseas, and then saying that the war of the Soviet comrades will not perform well? The Soviet comrades were not child's playmen, they knew the horror of war and would try to fight every battle well. The current history is not the history of the Chen Ke period, and Chen Ke has no bottom on what will happen in such history.

So Chen Ke finally said that he respected the opinion of the Soviet comrades. It is just recommended that the Soviet Union not be deceived by the British, after all, the British are very famous for their cunning.

Of course, Chen Ke also has some egoistic ideas. If a full-scale war breaks out in Europe, the pressure on China will be greatly reduced. As long as they can support India's own independence, the British are limited in what they can do at the moment.

In terms of independence, Chen Ke is a staunch believer in Grandpa Mao. It's better to have a father and a mother than to have oneself. In the history that Chen Ke saw, no one in China can be relied on, and only itself can be relied on. As long as the Soviet Union is not stupid enough to join the whole world in besieging China, it is not uncommon for China to face a joint siege by Europe and the United States. The purpose of China's southward march was to try to establish a system that could resist the siege of Europe and the United States. Perhaps because Chen Ketai is accustomed to a Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and can help China hold Russia in the north, it is a responsible major country and a strategic partner that can be called the best strategic partner.

For China now, that's enough.