"You are making the hostility between the two countries intensify, Mr. Serov, you should know the consequences, you are the successor of Beria, you should know the fate of your predecessor. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Hudson Warrent's eyes twisted, "A security cadre should not leave no stone unturned. ”

Serov lit a cigarette with a blank face, and had to admit that the American ambassador did know a lot about the Soviet Union, and all the security cadres in the Soviet Union were too powerful. It was indeed able to frighten some people, and he took a deep breath and replied with a tone of smoke like an ice cube, "Even if I am shot now, it is impossible to let go of this opportunity, is Mr. Hudson Warrent satisfied with this answer?" ”

Striking a send-off gesture, Hudson Warrent shook his head, knowing that he didn't end up making the Soviets take a step back through diplomacy, and he didn't expect to get such a response in the Lubyanka after hitting a wall today. This was the first time in his career as a diplomat that he had seen it for the first time, and perhaps he should have gone back and devoted himself to writing an assessment of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union.

"Chairman, the Baghdad military is willing to negotiate with the Iraqi Communist Party, and as long as they leave Iraq safely, they can transfer power to the Iraqi Communist Party." Mortin, the head of the First General Bureau, came in and reported.

"Promise them that peace will be restored to Iraq as soon as possible, and as for the next work, we can help our Iraqi comrades." Serov deliberated and finally compromised the generals of these junta to go into exile with their possessions, because what he needed was speed, and he hoped that Iraq could calm down as soon as possible, so that some concessions would inevitably need to be made, so that the time saved could restore peace to Iraq as soon as possible.

This calm was based on the premise that the Iraqi Communist Party was in power, and while the two sides in Iraq were negotiating, Serov was still not idle, and compromise did not mean doing nothing, he just did not want to waste time. First of all, he went to the Ministry of Defence and attended a meeting devoted to the situation in Iraq.

At this meeting of the Ministry of National Defense, Serov came up with a plan for a huge military advisory group, and the number of military advisers in Iraq was finally set at 22,000, which was the largest foreign advisory group of the Soviet Union so far. That's more than 18,000 in Egypt, not to mention in Sudan, Syria and Indonesia. This shows how much he attaches importance to Iraq.

"I am not blindly taking risks and putting our motherland in a full-scale confrontation, but I also need to emphasize that one Iraq is not actually my goal, the purpose of controlling Iraq is the Middle East, and the bottom line of the Middle East for the Americans actually lies in two countries, one is Saudi Arabia, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, and the other is the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran." Serov stood coldly in front of the map of the Middle East and said in a flat tone, "In the next few years, I think that with the change of time and the changes in the political environment of our opponent the United States, the results of the war can be expanded." The next offensive targets are two small countries, Kuwait to the south of Iraq, and Qatar, these two countries are small in size, with a population of less than a million, they are very easy to digest, and most importantly, the military power is negligible, as long as you make a sudden move, you can occupy the whole country in almost a few days, and most importantly, the oil reserves of these two small countries are not lower than Iraq. ”

The marshals of the Ministry of Defense nodded approvingly, apparently accepting the rhetoric. If there is anything Brezhnev can be regarded as a lesson for Serov to learn, it is the sausage-cutting tactics that the first secretary is good at, and after taking control of Iraq, looking at the surrounding countries, it is still easy to find two fat sheep. Kuwait and Qatar are both more than 10,000 square kilometers in area and have a population of one million, and they are among the countries that can be easily wiped out.

Iraq and Kuwait have a territorial dispute, Iraq's land, originally the four provinces of Ottoman Turkey, was later formed by the British into an Iraqi colony, and one of the four provinces of Basra Province is called Kuwait County, which was carved out by the British and ruled by the Kuwaiti sheikh himself. Historically, the Arab region has always been tribal, with each tribe governing itself, and then the Ottoman Turks ruling each tribe. The chiefs of the Kuwaiti tribes were in charge of the land in this part of Kuwait. Accordingly, Iraq considers Kuwait to be its own territory.

As early as Kuwait's declaration of independence, Qasim declared that Iraq did not recognize Kuwait's independence. Since Kuwait was part of Iraq during the Ottoman Empire, Iraq wanted to extend its borders to southern Kuwait and appoint Kuwaiti sheikhs as Iraqi governors of Kuwait. At the same time, Iraq began to mobilize troops to the Kuwaiti border in preparation for the liberation of the Arabian Peninsula. Kuwait immediately appealed to Britain and Arab countries for support. Five thousand British, 2,000 Arab and 7,000 Wit troops and volunteers were rapidly deployed to the border area.

The final solution to the crisis was the initiative of President Nasser, who was still in existence at the time, probably with the aim of weakening Iraq and preventing the emergence of two Arab centres, with Nasser proposing a peaceful solution. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and ****** were contacted to form a force to replace the British army, defend the border between Kuwait and Iraq, and retain Kuwait's independence.

The Soviet Union and Britain sided with the United Nations in that territorial dispute, and the crisis ended when Nasser's initiative led to Iraq's recognition of Kuwait's independence. Then Iraq was plunged into a civil war, and there were no territorial differences.

A few years have passed, and the United Arab Republic has split into two more countries, Egypt and Syria. Without the overwhelming national power advantage of the beginning, Egypt and Syria are now pro-Soviet countries. The surrounding Saudi Arabia is in the early stages of its rise, but it has not yet had the influence it has later, and its military strength is far from becoming the hegemon of the Middle East. Iran and Turkey, the qualified hegemons, had territorial contacts with the Soviet Union on land and did not dare to act rashly. Therefore, although the situation in Iraq is relatively dangerous, it can be regarded as the fulfillment of Serov's vision.

When the time came to 1969, Serov stood in Moscow and looked around blankly, and he could only see that the situation was very good in the world, and this year's world was like this for the Soviet Union, and in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War was still going on, and the United States was already sleepy and just gritted its teeth and insisted, not wanting its own retreat to cause the collapse of Southeast Asia. Indonesia became the center of revolution in Southeast Asia, with Soekarno based in Jakarta, like a major power, constantly aiding the communists of the surrounding countries, and massing heavy troops to put strong pressure on Malaysia, and skirmishes were going on all the time. In Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Malaysia, there are not weak communist forces engaged in armed struggle. It has become the enemy of the governments of these countries.

In the Middle East, the Soviet Union won the respect of the Arab world by destroying Israel's nuclear facilities, Egypt, the largest Arab power, and Syria, a small military power, were very satisfied with the support of the Soviet Union. The Sultan, for its part, had already joined the Economic and Mutual Economic Association, which was a favorable complement to the Soviet economic system.

The pro-Soviet faction in South Yemen has gained the upper hand and will drive out the pro-Arab forces within a year to two years and become a nail in the coffin behind the Soviet Union in Saudi Arabia, and South Yemen will not have a historical collapse as long as the Soviet Union itself does not have problems. After all, the ultimate failure of South Yemen has a huge relationship with the Soviet Union's Goe map.

As for the periphery of the Middle East, the entire student body in Afghanistan has become the most pro-Soviet force, accepting the Soviet view of politics and history, reading Soviet books, and rejoicing in the achievements of Soviet construction, and of course this pro-Soviet force has become the largest political party in Afghan politics.

In fact, according to history, there will be an irreconcilable conflict in Afghanistan next year, that is, on the centenary of Lenin's birth, the students of major schools in the Afghan capital, holding high portraits of Lenin and demanding reform in Afghanistan, this rally, the student groups in this assembly disrespected the words of Mohammed, the founder of the Peace Religion, which angered the Afghan religious and tribal forces, and finally turned into a huge conflict, after this conflict, the socialist forces in Afghanistan began to be disappointed, so they began to prepare for an armed seizure of power.

As for Ethiopia next to Egypt, Emperor Haile Selassie I is a pro-American emperor, the national hero who was once in World War II, and finally chose to fully turn to the United States to consolidate his monarchy, Ethiopia's economy at this time is not good, and domestic conflicts have been more frequent than ten years ago, but in fact, the country finally changed color, and it has nothing to do with the Soviet Union at all, although the pro-Soviet forces have always existed, the last straw that crushed Haile Selassie I, It was the interviews of Western journalists during the famine in Ethiopia, and the extravagant life of Haile Selassie I during the famine, which became a source of anger for the Ethiopian people, and finally sent their own African allies to hell. The Ethiopian emperor died at the hands of the Virgin of Western Europe.

As the United States prepares for strategic retrenchment to heal the internal wounds of the Vietnam War, more countries will adopt an attitude of proximity to the Soviet Union. This is the world that the Soviet Union will face in 1969, and under such circumstances, how can the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union really ease up, and it is nothing more than to use the strategy of détente to stabilize Western Europe first, so as to accumulate US forces in other directions. (To be continued.) )