"What?" Roosevelt's face changed dramatically when he heard this, "William, are you talking about a formal proposal?" ”

William. Raisi is the President's Chief of Staff and has overall responsibility for the work of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhen the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided that the United States could not win the war, he had to advise the president to sue for peace as soon as possible.

I can't help it! Even if 10,000 Wall Street is not happy, you can only ask for a stop loss!

That's why Roosevelt asked this question.

William. Leahy nodded a little bitterly and said: "Mr. President, now we definitely can't build an atomic bomb in a relatively short time, and Germany only needs to occupy an important island in the Caribbean Sea, and then it can use the Me264 to load atomic bombs to bomb the continental United States, if not New York and Washington, but somewhere in Florida...... So the Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that if our fleet suffers heavy losses in the Pacific, perhaps peace should be sought with greater sincerity. ”

"The Germans can give 500 billion euromarks if they want it?" Roosevelt asked, somewhat annoyed.

"You can try to pay a little less...... Leahy smiled bitterly, "100-20 billion US dollars should still be acceptable, after all, the United States now spends more than 80 billion yuan a year on military spending." Moreover, no matter how precious $500-100 billion is, it cannot be compared to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans in Miami. ”

This is a very serious statement, but it is a statement that can be made openly in the United States. Losing money for the precious lives of the people of Miami is quite right in the United States!

And now that the United States is in the middle of a general election, no candidate, whether he wants to run for president or congressman, will dare to openly say that the lives of the people of Miami are not as good as 500-100 billion dollars.

Whoever dares to say that, political life is over.

And even if the city of Miami is given up and the German atomic bomb is bombed, the 500-100 billion dollars can be saved? As long as the United States does not have an atomic bomb, it will not be able to stop Germany's advance in the Caribbean, and sooner or later this atomic bomb will fall on the heads of the people of Washington and New York.

At that time, the money will have to be lost!

So even Wall Street understands this account...... can mix into the status of a Wall Street tycoon, no one has ever encountered a loss-making business, if he didn't stop the loss in time, he would have lost all his net worth and committed suicide by jumping off the building.

"Maybe in the name of reparations," said Army Chief of Staff Admiral Marshall, seeing that President Roosevelt was silent, "and $20 billion may be an acceptable ...... in the name of a 100-year low-interest loan."

Before Marshall could finish speaking, President Roosevelt suddenly stretched out his hand and interrupted: "I understand the meaning of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, peace talks are always an option, and it is necessary for the United States to help the European people get rid of the suffering caused by the war." I will leave Ambassador Hopkins to mediate through Mussolini.

But such a humiliating peace...... It can only be achieved as a last resort! Until Germany occupies Trinidad, we don't need to think about really paying money to Europe yet. ”

Roosevelt did not dare to wait until Germany occupied Cuba and Puerto Rico before considering losing money, because that would mean sacrificing several southern states. Those territories are the votes of the Democratic Party of the United States, and if he, the president of the Democratic Party, dares to say this, he will kill the Democratic Party if it spreads.

But it's still too early to pay for it, Roosevelt is not reconciled, the Senate and the House of Representatives are not reconciled, and the backstage bosses of Wall Street are even less reconciled.

"Now the first thing is to end the fighting in the Hawaiian Islands...... Even if it can't be completely over, there must be a temporary break. Roosevelt said, "I will ask Hopkins to discuss peace with the Germans, not really to pay reparations, but to create a false impression on the Japanese, and to persuade the Soviets to send their Pacific Fleet."

At the same time, the army must prepare for the Caribbean operation with all its might! We must defend Venezuela and defend the island of Trinidad...... Do whatever it takes! ”

……

Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union under siege.

Stalin in the bunker met Molotov and Kuznetsov, who had arrived from Chelyabinsk. Molotov, on behalf of the Political Bureau, the Council of People's Commissars, and the Supreme Soviet, petitioned Stalin to leave Moscow.

At the same time, Molotov and Kuznetsov also brought the US military delegation in Chelyabinsk to make a proposal.

The Americans hoped that the Soviet Pacific Fleet would take advantage of the decisive battle between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the US Pacific Fleet to break out of the "island chain" of the South Kuril Islands and enter the Pacific Ocean to fight side by side with the US Pacific Fleet and fight together against Japanese imperialism.

"Rushing to the Pacific?" Stalin smoked his pipe, his eyebrows twisted. "Are you sure you can succeed?"

"Yes," Kuznetsov said, "the Americans planned very well and absolutely succeeded." Moreover, now the main force of the Japanese Navy has left for the central part of the Pacific Ocean to fight a decisive battle with the US Pacific Fleet. As long as we can avoid the area where Japanese shore-based aircraft are concentrated and break through from the vicinity of Kamchatka, the probability of success is extremely high. ”

Stalin took a few more puffs of his cigarette and pondered: "Will Japan start a war with us ahead of schedule because of this?" ”

This was what Stalin feared the most, and now was the most dangerous moment for the cause of GCISM, when the Soviet Union was already facing defeat on the Western Front, and Japan was eyeing the Far East.

The location and climate of the Far East, as well as the topography, made it impossible to fight in winter, and it was much colder there than in Moscow. Once the winter begins, it is common to have temperatures below zero, and most Japanese people can't afford it.

So Stalin thought about dragging it out for days, and dragging it out day by day.

"Comrade General Secretary, if the Pacific Fleet breaks out of the island chain, the Japanese may postpone their attack because of this." Molotov said to Stalin, "Because our Pacific Fleet is very powerful, with not only large surface ships, but also many submarines, which pose a great threat to Japan's maritime communications."

Other than that...... The Americans are also ready to enter into peace talks with Germany. If successful, it would put Japan at a considerable disadvantage, and it would abandon its aggression against the Far East. ”

"Peace talks?" Stalin snorted rather disdainfully, "It can't be done." ”

"Comrade General Secretary," Molotov shook his head, "the Americans do not rule out the payment of reparations. ”

"What?" Stalin's face suddenly became complicated when he heard this, "The Americans are willing to accept the armistice conditions offered by Germany?" ”

Molotov said: "There is such a possibility...... The economy of Europe is now on the verge of collapse because of the long war, and the situation is very similar to that of 1917. If Germany could not extract enough wealth from the United States, a proletarian revolution after the war could not be ruled out. ”

A proletarian revolution or something, certainly Molotov's good intentions, is very unlikely. However, whether the United States of Europe can be born smoothly or not is directly linked to the money of the Americans.

Therefore, if the Americans are willing to pay for it, they can still buy a humiliating peace.

But is peace between the United States and Europe necessarily a good thing for the Soviet Union?

Stalin rubbed his eyebrows, he was really a little desperate now. If the United States loses money to buy peace, then will the Soviet Union have to face the Japanese invasion alone! Even if Belarus remained neutral for various reasons, it would be difficult for the Soviet Union to win, right?

But now the Soviet Union is no longer a player in the world hegemony gamble, but has become a big card -- the big card used by the Americans to contain Japan, the big card used by the Germans to divide Russia, and at the same time the big card used by the damned White Russian empress to hold the eastern territories of the Russian Empire.

Only when all three aspects are settled can the USSR be maintained!

……

"Imperial Marshal, this is the latest report on the changes in the situation on all fronts." Lieutenant Colonel Piper, who looked handsome, stood straight behind Hersman and handed the few briefings he had just received in the folder to Hirschman, who was having breakfast.

On the opposite side of the table sat Chloe, who had already dressed up, and Hirschmann had cooked her own breakfast. Although there were several servants in the house, Chloe would always prepare breakfast and dinner by herself whenever her husband was at home, and would be very considerate to ask Hersman about his food requirements, and according to the advice of the family doctor and the rationing, she would make a very reasonable and elaborate plan for making breakfast and dinner. A plan is usually made every week, and the ingredients and condiments used are accurate to the gram...... Chloe is such a very strict German wife.

But Hersman still enjoyed this well-organized life, so he would always eat all the food under Chloe's smiling gaze - eating at home, waste is not allowed!

There was nothing important in the briefing, and Hersman quickly flipped through it. Now the Eastern Front is still fighting in the Caucasus and Crimea, Moscow is a long siege, and everything else is already devastating, and even Minsk, which has held out for a long time, surrendered in late June.

As for the Atlantic-Caribbean theater, it is now the calm of the eve of the war, with both sides moving troops and not much conflict for the time being.

The Argentine army's operations in Brazil did not go well, only taking two or three states in the south of Brazil, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro had not yet been occupied. However, this did not affect German operations along the northern and eastern coasts of Brazil.

In addition, there is the Indian battlefield, the Indian Bolshevik Party occupies a large territory, and also carried out the agrarian revolution and the caste revolution under the guidance of the Bolshevik Party in the Soviet Union - this naturally moved a cheese of the upper caste class, and now the camp of the revolutionary forces and the first forces in India has gradually become clear!

Just as Hersman closed the folder and was about to concentrate on breakfast, his personal secretary, Natalie, suddenly walked in briskly with a rather surprising news.

"Ludwig, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just called, and the United States is willing to discuss the issue of reparations with us."