Chapter 960: Reagan Looks at France
Serov, who has been messing with Khrushchev for a long time, can't wait to come out from time to time to make a big fuss. The www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" finally seized this opportunity to comment on how the Libyan hostage crisis should be resolved almost every few days, either to be concerned about the progress of the Soviet Union's mediation, or to help Reagan say a few words.
And what Reagan hates the most is precisely the last option, Reagan has always taken anti-Soviet as his own responsibility, this time because of the hostage crisis, he did not dare to express his position at will, but he still had to listen to the comments of the enemy, even if this kind of flat talk was to help him speak, Reagan said that he could not accept this humiliation, which was more uncomfortable than the slap in the face at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Serov and the actions of the Soviet Union almost made Reagan, who had been making trouble for the Soviet Union for several years, feel like a clown.
In his long career as an actor, Reagan accepted such a clown role for the first time, and it was completely forced.
But Reagan still has to put on a look of the great friendship between the Soviet Union and the United States, and he can't be a little disgusted with the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and now the whole United States is staring at the Libyan hostage crisis, and even two or three photos of the hostages that have leaked out of Libya will be packaged and reprinted by the media in the United States regardless of party affiliation......
"I almost want to strangle Serov." In the White House office, Reagan said unabashedly in front of his close friend CIA Director Casey that he had no demeanor in the outside world, this is the real Reagan now, without any acting skills.
"He is so cunning that he forces us to compromise, and the spirit that the United States has just gathered is beginning to be consumed!" CIA Director Casey is also worried, the other side is doing its best to rescue the people of your country, and the United States at this time cannot accumulate hostility to the Soviet Union.
Since Reagan came to power, he has been creating an atmosphere mainly in international politics. However, they are opposed to the realpolitik of the old Republicans, complaining that they do not care about the nature of the regime when forming alliances with foreign countries; They also oppose the traditional internationalism of the Democrats, believing that it is naïve for them to rely on international organizations and economic development to promote democracy, and that they value "strength". There are two main political philosophies of neoconservatism: first, liberal democracy and autocracy are incompatible, and democracies should stand up against tyranny; Second, the United States and its values are paramount, and the United States should shoulder its global mission.
The whirlwind of neoconservatism that Reagan hung up has now hit the wall, and it is the United States itself that has hit it. When it comes to the security of their own people, the American people are directly attracted by the Soviet Union's preemptive action, and they don't care what the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union is now.
"Ordinary people are short-sighted, all our problems are because of the existence of the Soviet Union, and if the Soviet Union is defeated, the whole world will no longer have a source of problems, even if we are a problem, without a reference, there will naturally be no threat." Reagan complained helplessly, walked to the window and looked at the lawn outside the window, but his heart could not be still.
The cozy scenery outside the White House could not calm Reagan's mood, and Reagan was also thinking about remedies when he calmed down for so many days, but after a closer look, the Soviet Union had done almost everything in one step, and now there was no room for the United States to exert influence. The Soviet Union made a lot of preparations at the first time, and the United States wanted to be more sincere than the Soviet Union, unless Reagan personally stepped in to suppress Gromyko.
Reagan, who had just finished fighting Libya, was now personally going out to discuss the rescue of the hostages? The hostages have been rescued, the president's face has been lost, and the Americans may still think that the president has lost face and continue to oppose the wave in advance. Faced with this consequence, Reagan had to ask for help from the Soviet Union, and the disgusting in the ninja's heart made Serov comment from time to time.
"When this incident passes, we are slowly regaining the lost faith." When these words were uttered, CIA Director Casey could clearly feel the helplessness in the tone of his close friend Reagan.
This time, the United States was completely held hostage by the Soviet Union, and was also kidnapped by the media with morality, so it could only make a friendly appearance and cooperate with the Soviet Union, and the initiative was still safe on the side of the Soviet Union.
"What's this, hasn't Western Europe been held hostage by us for decades? In the future, the United States will slowly get used to it, and when the situation is clear, we will knock on the United States at any time. Serov drank a glass of lemonade in a hurry, compared to Gromyko's return from time to time, and then to Libya, and then to France to discuss the INF treaty. The general secretary's life was very pleasant, and he was on vacation in Sochi, on the shore of the Black Sea, very leisurely.
Who said that the general secretary can't take a vacation, an ordinary worker has 150 days of vacation a year, why can't he take a break and rest, should he be the general secretary? Not only did he take a vacation, but he also took the second secretary and the chairman of the Council of Ministers on vacation.
Naturally, the general secretary could not go to Indonesia and Greece for vacation, but could only come to the health resort of the Soviet Union, the summer capital of Sochi.
Stalin first began to cultivate the enthusiasm of the Soviet leaders to go on vacation to the south. The Soviet government built him a green grove villa in Sochi. After Stalin's death, Khrushchev took the lead in building his own personal resort in scenic Sochi. His villa is located in a primeval pine forest, bordering the seashore, and has a total length of more than 10 kilometers of cement walls built around it, which is very spectacular. In addition, Khrushchev built a total of twelve dacha for his senior officials along the Black Sea coastline. Now Serov is in one of them.
When Reagan was in a hurry, the general secretary was going to take a vacation, and at the same time to prepare for the next round of fighting, because since Gromyko said, it seems that the progress of the intermediate-range missile treaty has accelerated a little, and Serov does not know whether it has something to do with the Soviet Union's intervention in this hostage incident, or whether the United States is just confusing the Soviet Union, but it is always right to be prepared.
"According to Reagan's character, he may fight Libya again before leaving office." Serov, who was strolling in the forest, and Ligachev, who also came out, as for the chairman of the Council of Ministers Tikhonov, this octogenarian really came to recuperate.
"Won't it?" Ligachev still thinks that American presidents are generally quite normal, and of course Reagan is indeed somewhat abnormal.
"Everyone else can say, Reagan, I said a long time ago that if he was in the Soviet Union, he would be more suitable to be the chairman of the KGB." Serov smiled, if he remembered correctly, Reagan really fought Libya again in history before leaving office. You said that Kadazuo provoked someone, and he was targeted by Reagan and must be used as a whetstone.
The two of them wandered around for a while, and then began to walk back. It is not a matter of concern to the Soviet Union what Reagan is feeling in at the moment, and Serov himself is still very satisfied with this guidance, and after taking out the United States in the future, he may have to snatch the weapon of human rights from the big killer. When the time comes, democracy, freedom, and human rights will be in the chest, and people will block and kill......
I have to say that his hooligan thinking has never changed, and he should read Suslov's anthology to cultivate his sentiments.
Because the Soviet Union made a little progress of the hostage crisis from time to time, the Libyan hostage crisis has not passed, and at the same time, Egypt, Syria and Iraq sent coalition troops to Libya, which made the Arab countries feel that they have the same hatred and hatred, and taking advantage of this crisis, the Soviet Union is also cultivating the Arab countries' goodwill towards the Soviet Union, which has lasted for decades and will continue to do so in the future.
Because of Moscow's will, Gromyko is also very busy, so this negotiation is destined to be not short at the beginning, whether it is Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko or US Secretary of State Scholz, it is impossible to stay in Libya for a long time, they still have their own affairs, almost every half a month in North Africa to exchange positions.
Every bit of progress or impasse in the negotiations was widely reported around the world, and soon Serov made another move, sending an open letter to French President Francois Mitterrand, "because in the Libyan hostage issue, the mustard between the Soviet Union and the United States may lead to an increase in mutual distrust in the rescue of the hostages, in order to ensure the safety of the American hostages, and at the same time defuse the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union." At this time, another world power was needed to join, and France, which had a traditional influence in Africa, would be a good, even the only candidate, and the Soviet Union had no doubt about this. ”
In this open letter, Serov asked France to exert its unique influence and build up a rich country to join in the mediation. This letter to the USSR put France in a very high position.
In fact, France has been looking forward to such an opportunity, and after the Libyan hostage crisis, France was a little dissatisfied in its heart, knowing that they were opposed to attacking Libya together with the Soviet Union, and now all the pictures have been taken away by the Soviet Union.
It was not too late for the Soviet Union to react and took the initiative to ask France to join in the mediation, and in this case, of course, France would not refuse, and this was an opportunity to exert French influence.
Before you know it, it's mid-June, and it seems that this tug-of-war is going to continue because of the entry of France. More France needs to increase the interests of one side in the negotiations. The representative of the United States was very self-conscious about this matter, but France, a very important power between the United States and the Soviet Union, must be appeased by the United States before defeating the Soviet Union, and can only accept reality.
France's entry has continued to raise the issue of the Libyan hostage crisis, while also prolonging the negotiations. Reagan, who was already a low-key man because of the hostage crisis, suddenly discovered that the French were really not good birds.
The constant tussle between the United States, the Soviet Union, and France, coupled with the occasional lifting out of Libya, has passed another month in the blink of an eye.