Chapter 694: Progress is rapid

You say a good Soviet Mao girl, who did you learn from this fancy trick? Is it with her husband www.biquge.info Pen, Fun, Pavilion? Serov was violently retaliated against at night, and this turbulent wave gave him the illusion of a broken pelvis, but it didn't matter, he was the winner in the end, and the chirping Valya still lost.

"We have to give assistance to Mobutu, otherwise we will lose all of Africa, and now almost all the countries of North Africa have close relations with the Soviet Union, including Sudan, and the war has just broken out, Sudan has already received the support of all Arab countries, those Arabs are doing whatever it takes to do this, the Arab nationalism spread in Egypt occupies the dominant position in many countries, and the combination with the socialist movement in the Soviet Union has had a huge impact on the Arab community." U.S. Secretary of Defense Schlesinger said worriedly, "We must intervene immediately, otherwise the consequences cannot be assessed." ”

As he spoke, Defense Secretary Schlesinger's eyes kept on Secretary of State Kissinger, because the United States' support for Israel in the Middle East war is now at the worst in history with Arab countries. If Israel defeats the Arabs to the ground, Arab countries that have lost confidence may compromise in the face of US pressure.

But several wars in the Middle East have been drawn, and the most recent Arab coalition has regained lost territory. This has given confidence to the entire Arab world, even though the Soviet Union has promised the United States not to intervene directly in the Middle East war. However, the Arab countries, which have risen in confidence, have turned a blind eye to the pressure of the United States, and even the negotiations to settle oil in dollars have made little progress because of the fierce opposition of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.

Although Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some other countries have expressed friendship to the United States, they have also said that they must take into account the opinions of several military powers in the Arab world, and you must know that there are several military powers in the Arab world, all of which are pro-Soviet.

Defense Minister Schlesinger is also Jewish, but his dissatisfaction with Kissinger is also true, he believes that in the last Middle East war, the United States should support Israel at all costs and defeat all Arab countries, and the Soviet Union will never dare to really go to war with the United States, and may back down.

"I also think we should come to Mobutu's aid, but we can't send troops directly. You know, we still have a lot of questions. Kissinger did not insist on his own views this time, although he believed that the United States should recuperate for a while because of domestic problems, but it was absolutely impossible to let the Soviet Union do whatever it wanted.

Kissinger believed that the power of the United States and the Soviet Union was roughly in a state of equilibrium, and because of the astonishing arsenal of weapons in the nuclear age, even if one side increased its military strength a little, it would not bring about any effective change in the situation, so Kissinger was not very worried about the growth of Soviet power. While Schlesinger acknowledges that the two superpowers are currently roughly evenly matched in strategic weapons, he fears that in the coming years the Soviet Union will gain superiority in strategic weapons, thus putting the United States in a dangerous position.

Schlesinger was wary of the Soviet Union's strategic intentions, believing that détente was only a tool for the Soviet Union to advance its own strategy, and that the real purpose of the Soviet Union was to seek superiority. However, since the Soviet Union wanted to de-escalate, it meant that the Soviet Union believed that it was in its own interests, and in this case, the United States must insist on bargaining and not allow the Soviet Union to easily get what it wants.

"We are indeed under tremendous pressure from the Soviet Union right now, and I myself agree, that in this case we will come to the aid of the DRC, and at the same time communicate with the allies, knowing that our allies are very dissatisfied with us. We can't get help from France's power in Africa...... "Ford is also a bit frustrated, with France and the United States often at odds over East-West relations, relations within the Western alliance, and regional situations. The Nixon administration had made some efforts to improve relations with France, but with little success. The joint oil embargo with Arab countries in the wake of the Middle East war brought relations between the United States and France to a low point.

The Soviet Union has always made small moves in Africa, but has never touched the sphere of influence of the French, this friendly attitude, France did not see the expansion of the Soviet Union, and the pro-Soviet forces in France since the death of Charles de Gaulle have been unprecedentedly strong, occupying half of France, plus the price of gold and exchange rates, Ford needs to set the tone for the future government.

There are also problems between the United States and Japan, between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, which make Ford have to put the stability of his allies first, and the G-7 meeting is the reason why he thinks about American allies.

A few hours later, President Ford went to Congress and said that the United States would come to the aid of the DRC because the United States could not ignore the shadow of the Soviet Union behind Sudan, "As long as I am president, we will not allow détente to become a permit to fish in troubled waters, and détente must have a dealing." ”

Subsequently, the U.S. Congress allocated $300 million in aid to support Mobutu. At the same time, the United States began to mobilize transportation forces to send military aid to Kinshasa, and at the same time, the American media condemned the war as having the shadow of manipulation by the great powers, and the United States must restore peace to Africa, which is the international responsibility of the United States, and so on......

"It's so noble, isn't it for profit? Do they really see themselves as saviors? Then why didn't the United States, the world's largest grain-producing country, allocate a little food to help the DRC? Seeing firsthand that half of the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in starvation, we support that Sudan did not starve so many people to death. Serov, who had just bought an electric razor, kept rubbing his chin that if the United States wanted to help Mobutu, in fact, it would be far more effective to send food than to arms.

In the 70s, the world economic crisis and the oil crisis were famous, but in fact they were problems encountered in Europe and the United States. There is a problem that more countries in the world are encountered, and that is the world food crisis, which is experienced by most countries in the world. Especially in third world countries, there is a widespread food crisis, and Africa is the hardest hit area.

If the Congolese were fed, with twice the population of Sudan, the DRC army would not have had it so easy for the DRA to capture more than 10,000 people on the first day, even if the blacks were a little less talented in warfare. 400 Congolese soldiers were killed......

"The management of the prisoner of war camp is entrusted to us, we send cadres ourselves, and at the same time let the political commissar of the Sudan People's Army enter the prisoner of war camp to maintain order, these soldiers have room for reform, the blacks are still relatively easy to fool, and even the pacifist Sudan can be suppressed, and it should not be a problem for the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Serov put down his razor and ordered, "Let Comrade Zinev pay attention to this problem." ”

In the first week, the Sudan People's Army (SPA) made rapid progress and directed its advance on Kisangani, the third largest city in the north-east of the DRC, which has direct rail links to the capital, Kinshasa, from which the most geographically difficult Congo River can be navigated.

In Kisangani, the Sudan People's Army (SPA) met with its first large-scale resistance, and in the city there was a division of the DRC, whose commander was a close confidant of Mobutu, who shrugged off the SPA's persuasion to surrender, saying that the United States would soon support the Congo, and that even if Sudan had the Soviet Union behind it, it would never be an opponent for the Americans.

The importance of Kisangani is at stake in the progress of the Sudan People's Army, which must be dealt with during the dry season, or they may be trapped in the Central African country if the roads run out of favour when the rainy season comes.

The gravity of the matter cannot be underestimated, and the fighting broke out suddenly, and the Sudan People's Army, after completing the shelling, rushed into Kisangani with tank divisions as arrows, launching the first battle since entering the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For a whole day, the city of Kisangani was filled with gunfire, and there was a big gap between the quality of the Congolese army and the Sudan People's Army.

After a day of firefighting, the Sudan People's Army lost less than 100 casualties, killed 400 Congolese soldiers, and captured more than 2,000 prisoners, and captured Kisangani the next night, leaving the rest of the Congolese soldiers missing.

The Congolese army on the Sudanese border has largely disappeared because the Congo River separates the Congolese army on the border from the mainland, and in the first week of fighting, the Sudan People's Army annihilated all the Congolese troops that were blocked by the Congo River and unable to retreat. They were sent to one prisoner of war camp after another, which had already been established.

After the occupation of Kisangani, the railway was quickly restored without damage and became a transit point for the Sudan People's Army (SPA) in its assault on the Congo, a period of war at a time when one third of the total number of Congolese troops had disappeared. This took Mobutu by surprise, not knowing that it was because of a problem with his deployment, which had led to the northern army being blocked by the Congo River, but thinking that there were people in the country who were against him, he contacted the Sultan.

So while purging the opposition, Mobutu began to appeal to Western countries, especially the United States to intervene in Sudan's aggressive actions, otherwise the whole of Africa could be controlled by the Soviet Union.

Trains of military supplies were delivered to the Sudan People's Army (SPA) on the railway in Kisangani, while black South Sudanese troops were responsible for the stabilization of Kisangani, and the Sudan People's Army (SPA), composed of Arabs, continued to march after a two-day break, preparing to use the railway to attack Forte Congo and attack Kinshasa.

Mobutu's appeal attracted the attention of Europe and the United States, who all hoped that the Soviet Union would stop Sudan's actions. But the Kremlin, which had already made a plan, turned a deaf ear, and the Americans were obviously more practical than the countries of Western Europe, and they contacted Zimbaba and Boweit to provide assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and at the same time, US Air Force transport planes have also been dispatched to transport military supplies to the Congo to support Mobutu.

The SPA Air Force arrived before the United States transport aircraft arrived, but instead of dropping bombs, they dropped leaflets against Mobutu. (To be continued.) )