Chapter 929: Egyptian Mediation

"The Soviet Union still hopes that both Cuba and the United States will exercise restraint, and the stability of Central America also requires the local powers to shoulder international responsibilities, and this is not the time for personal emotions to dominate policy, and the maintenance of peace requires the local regional powers to maintain calm judgment and not misestimate the situation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info"This attitude of the Soviet Union, on the surface, seems to be nothing wrong.

But in fact, for the United States of America, this is a very humiliating statement. The Soviet Union attributed the confrontation in Central America to the confrontation between Cuba and the United States. When did the United States and Cuba fall to the same level?

Public opinion in the United States exploded at once, and words such as arrogance and arrogance appeared in the major media. Hatred of the Soviet Union pervaded the United States, and Soviet flag burning occurred in some important locations, and these photographs were collected by the Soviet Union and used for domestic propaganda against the Soviet people, and the hostility between the two countries grew exponentially from the government to the people.

"Seizing every occasion to humiliate the United States, trample on their self-esteem, trample all kinds of American values under their feet, humiliate them, and get angry Americans to support Reagan, we are going to fight, unprecedented confrontation. This is what Reagan wants, and this is what I want, and the Cold War cannot continue endlessly, and someone must bow his head and admit defeat. ”

Serov crossed his fingers on his chin and said with an indifferent smile, "It is the responsibility of our generation to give Reagan the opportunity to mobilize public opinion, defeat the strongest United States, and end this tug-of-war that has been going on for decades." ”

"In terms of economy, it is still necessary to improve the potential of information and exploitation, and the ideological aspect must not be relaxed, and if we do a good job in these two aspects, no one can do anything to us." The room sank briefly, and then all the members of the Central Presidium nodded at the same time.

The Soviet Union's willingness to mediate the confrontation between the United States and Cuba, while at the same time defining the United States as a regional power, continued to ferment in the United States, and Americans were angry and remembered Reagan's definition of the Soviet Union, an evil empire. Many people who originally looked at Reagan were not pleasing to the eye, but for the first time, they felt that the president, who was born as a third-rate actor, was so far-sighted.

Under this undisguised humiliation, Reagan's approval rating reached a new high. Almost the vast majority of Americans believe that the Soviet Union should be taught a lesson, and the current Soviet Union does not respect the United States enough. By the eighties, most Americans, under the influence of the mainstream media, already considered the Soviet Union to be a superpower on an equal footing with themselves.

It is already very difficult for Americans to recognize the enemy as equal to themselves, and now the worst enemy is humiliating his own country. In any country, this is enough to make people feel angry. You know, this has spread all over the world. If there is no response, I don't know what other countries will think of the United States.

"In fact, sometimes, I think the general secretary of the Soviet Union is not easy to deal with, but often when I think so, the other party has a not very clever judgment." Reagan smiled and accepted the Soviet Union's divine assist, and at the same time happily taunted the enemy.

Confrontation was exactly what Reagan's administration wanted, and this humiliation of the Soviet Union was right in the middle of that, helping Reagan rally supporters. In this case, regardless of whether the Soviet Union had a deep purpose or not, Reagan would have chosen to accept this generous gift.

The spokesman of the US State Department immediately responded to the Soviet Union, and his tone was slightly tough, accusing a certain anti-American country of plunging the Americas into chaos, and the United States absolutely cannot sit idly by and watch the situation deteriorate, maintain the stability of the Americas, and the balance of the world, the responsibility of the United States, and the military spending of the United States in the next year will continue to increase and complete the Star Wars program that is being prepared.

The next day, a cartoon appeared in the Soviet Komsomolskaya Pravda, in which the main character was the current US President Ronald Reagan, plus the towering US dollar, with the note saying that Reagan was ready to step on the US Treasury to reach the moon. The name of the inscription is even more noticeable, it is Serov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

"What's this, I've seen a lot of battles, I've seen several presidents of the United States, Nixon also received my works back then, Reagan should feel lucky." A few days later, when someone asked about it, Serov did not hide his versatility at all, and drew a picture of Reagan after his Alzheimer's disease, and after humiliating the United States, he began to humiliate Reagan again.

The humiliation of the connection has brought the anti-Soviet sentiment of the United States to the extreme, and even aroused the criticism of Western European countries, and some worried views have been thrown out, saying that the Soviet Union's move is not intended for world peace, and now that the United States is so strong, the Soviet Union is so tough, and if the Soviet Union really controls the world, it will not be a good thing for all countries, etc.

Similar concerns put a lot of pressure on the USSR Foreign Ministry, what to do? What should I do, do the old people govern the country, it is normal not to be able to respond quickly, Comrade Gromyko is seventy-six years old, what is the wonder of not being able to respond due to lack of energy?

This arrogant attitude made this criticism spread even more rapidly, and Western Europe, which had quite a lot of criticism about the Soviet Union, persuaded the Soviet Union to respect the United States, instead of exacerbating the already unpeaceful peace situation in the world like Reagan.

The difference between Reagan and the leaders of Western Europe is that he didn't just talk about it, just a few days after the Soviet Union said that the United States was a regional power, a huge armed conflict broke out in North and South Yemen, an armed force in Democratic Yemen was attacked, nearly 100 soldiers were ambushed, the battle lasted for several hours, and when the reinforcements arrived, only a corpse was seen. The armed group that attacked Zao has disappeared.

"A handful of imperialist lackeys are taking control of our compatriots and making them civil war with us!" Democratic Yemeni General Secretary Ali? Nasser blamed North Yemen's armed forces for the conflict and vowed to retaliate. In due course, we will put an end to this divisive situation and complete the reunification of the country.

The conflict between North and South Yemen has also suddenly become intense, with both North and South Yemen shelling each other on the border for several days in a row. The armies of the two countries are also constantly moving towards the border, and the situation in the Arabian Peninsula seems to be tense all of a sudden.

This is very bad for the Soviet Union, the Soviet-backed democratic Yemen is more than three times the size of the US-backed North Yemen, and it seems that it should have an absolute advantage from the map, but in fact it is a map that deceives, just like the land of Siberia is a tundra, and most of the population and arable land of the entire Yemen are in the hands of North Yemen.

North Yemen is Shiite in power, South Yemen was originally Sunni, but the country is controlled by a group of atheists who follow the policies of the Soviet Union, and the atheism in South Yemen is deepening, because although South Yemen has small oil reserves, because the population is small, the people of the country can also get a good guarantee, so that atheism has begun to gain a foothold.

Most of Yemen's oil reserves are in South Yemen, and these fields should have been discovered after Yemen's reunification. However, there was a big spy leader in the Soviet Union, and after the pro-Soviet faction took initial control of Yemen, he began to use local resources to help the pro-Soviet parties gain a foothold, at least for the time being, the economy of South Yemen is not strong, but it is still slightly stronger than North Yemen.

The conflict at this stage was of course unfavorable for the Soviet Union, and the population of South Yemen was already small, which was a huge disadvantage for a place like the Arab region where numbers were still an important factor in the war. In a full-scale war, South Yemen was at a disadvantage, and the Soviet Union was inevitably in need of support.

No one wants to spend more, and the USSR was certainly no exception. Especially in the face of Reagan, so the conflict between North and South Yemen is by no means a good thing for the Soviet Union, and the investment in a war is too great. No matter how detrimental it was to the prestige of the USSR.

"Contact Egypt and ask Egypt to mediate the war between North and South Yemen, why bother with the same race? When necessary, North and South Yemen will be reunified! Serov had to ask Egypt to intervene to prevent the conflict between North and South Yemen from expanding.

Shia-controlled North Yemen was not a mortal enemy for the Soviet Union. The Houthis that caused great trouble for Saudi Arabia in later generations were the Shiite forces in North Yemen. Later in the conflict crisis between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It's not just about oil, it's no longer the result of the Western forces being the result of it, and the Western forces are probably going to have a hard time reconciling their differences. With regard to the struggle between the Sunnis supported by Saudi Arabia and the Shiites supported by Iran, the possibility of developing into a full-scale tribal war is now being gradually planned. So based on this consideration, North Yemen is not unable to win over.

If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet Union helped Egypt in the Middle East war, Egypt, which had been defeated in successive battles, believed that it would have been successfully usurped by Saudi Arabia and would not be able to lead the Arab world alone. Serov helped Egypt, and today is harvest time. Egypt today is still the birthplace of Arab nationalism and the number one power in the Arab world.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia do not have good relations, the two have different ideas, Egypt wants to unify the Arab world, and Saudi Arabia's theory of peaceful teaching of the world is in conflict with Egypt's ideas. The confrontation between the two is also intermittent, and the relationship is good and bad.

"Moscow wants us to mediate the conflict between North and South Yemen? In fact, I want to do the same, and showing goodwill to the Soviet Union is only one aspect, and this is a good opportunity to expand our influence. "Mubarak has received strong support from the Soviet Union in his rise to power, but Mubarak has not yet been able to convince everyone that it is too dangerous to start another war against Israel, and the conflict between North and South Yemen is just such an opportunity.

Half a month after the conflict erupted between North and South Yemen, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak publicly called for a ceasefire between the two sides, and Egypt's call was immediately endorsed by Syria, Iraq and Iran.

This mediation shows that Egypt's leadership of the Arab world is still useful and that Saudi Arabia cannot solve everything with money.