The first update

On the one hand, there are the Soviets, who are fierce and arrogant, trying to control the situation in Africa, and on the other hand, they are the old power South Africa, which secretly extended its claws to East Africa and tried to extend its sphere of influence to the whole of Africa. Although Aideed is a warlord, he needs to know the balance between the pros and cons of the two superpowers, and he needs to choose a reliable power to surrender. Just like Eva, the foreign spokesman, told him, you decide who you are better with.

So this is an opportunity to show that South Africa under Boer rule is in decline, but the multinational group they control still has some influence in Africa, as the leaders of small African countries agree, South Africa's EO has a military force that can subvert a country.

Of course, Barlow, the founder of Strategic Resources, was also very angry at the sudden upheaval of the Soviets, and the government of Sierra Leone had intended to sign an agreement with South Africa's EO to help quell the rebellion of the Revolutionary United Front, but the Soviet military company intervened in the order and lost the order. Charles, who also lobbied the leader of the Liberian Patriotic Front in Barlow? Taylor was also caused by the Soviets' troubles, which caused him to lose orders that belonged to EO.

Strategic Resources South Africa's mission is to help African countries quell wars and return the land with abundant rare metal resources. But the Soviets saw it too, and unlike EO, which was only responsible for business, the Soviets also wanted to be able to operate their sphere of influence in Africa.

So Barlow felt a pang of displeasure when he saw Victor, the merchant of death, appear in front of him. When he turned his head sideways to look at Otto beside him, the other party smiled very strangely.

"Mr. Otto is President Aideed's biggest supporter. He financed arms. Even militia armies. Ava introduces Victor to the chaebol behind the Aideed's forces. Without Otto's support, Aideed would never have become the largest local warlord in Somalia.

"As Mr. Victor has seen, we are creating tomorrow, a tomorrow without white American control." Otto sat across from Victor, smiling politely, but with indifference and sarcasm in his eyes.

"Of course, we also have to consider whether we need to work with South Africans, because I don't want anyone to support President Aideed on the one hand and our opponents on the other hand. South Africans are at least not like what some people do in Mozambique. On the one hand, they support the government forces, but on the other hand, they collude with the opposition. ”

Otto unceremoniously shook off the dirty things that the Soviet military company had done in Mozambique, but Victor still had a breezy expression, because it had nothing to do with him.

"That's because EO can't do this for the time being, as far as I know, in the whole of Africa, EO sells the most arms besides me, on the one hand, negotiating with the government army to help quell the rebellion, and on the other hand, selling arms to the rebels, isn't that what you do best?"

Victor opened the briefcase. He took out a document and threw it in front of Otto and Barlow, "Half a year ago, you wanted to open an oil pipeline in Namibia. Because he failed to negotiate a relationship with the government army, he deliberately incited the local armed forces to rebel. In the end, the government had to accede to your request. ”

"You also signed another contract with the government forces to wipe out the local armed opposition, and you slaughtered at least three or four villages. With the opening of an oil channel, you will be able to sell arms to the opposition and coerce government forces into signing contracts to exterminate the opposition forces. That's something that only you can do. ”

Victor exposed Barlow's old bottom, and by the way, let the people around Aideed see what kind of goods the other party was.

Barlow's face couldn't hold back, he stepped forward to stare at Victor with an indifferent expression, leaned in front of him and whispered, "If you dare to say a word of nonsense, I can guarantee that you won't be able to leave Mogadishu alive." ”

"Threaten me?" Victor's smile froze on his face, his elbows propped up on the table, looking at each other with a disdainful expression, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Barlow, and said in a non-hurried tone, "Let me tell you what will happen next, first you will receive a call from a very high-ranking South African government official, and he will first say a few polite words to you on the phone, indicating that EO has made a significant contribution to South Africa's tax revenue." And then he will coerce you to withdraw from the competition with the Soviets, will you believe what I say? ”

Barlow shook his head, looking at each other as if he were watching Victor tell a joke.

"Of course you won't believe it, and you even think it's ridiculous. But when the other person says this, you will feel angry and resentful, and you may argue with reason. But in the end, you have to compromise. For the same reasons as the government departments you trust. ”

"Your white Boer government in South Africa was forced to abandon the apartheid law in 1990, but South African President De Kler knows that the so-called sanctions are only the result of South Africa's desire to develop nuclear weapons, not the rights of your lowly black people in South Africa. Therefore, in order to protect the last interests of the Boers, they must have the support of external countries, especially the permanent members of the United Nations. Therefore, the Soviet military organization, which was expanding its influence in Africa, naturally became the object of their co-optation. The South African government needs our support to alleviate the oppression of both the internal and external environment of the country. ”

"As for the war in Somalia, it was originally a private agreement between us and the South African government, which could work with us to exploit Somalia's mineral resources. Now, do you still think it's a very incredible thing to receive a call from South Africa's Deputy Minister of Defence? ”

Looking at Barlow's pale face, Victor was unusually calm, and of course the whole room was silent, because no one thought that there was actually South Africa's intervention behind this transaction. Suddenly, the silence was shattered, and Barlow's satellite phone remembered a series of rapid ticks. When he picked up the phone, his hands trembled.

On the other end of the line, Mafatsu, who claimed to be the deputy minister of defense, asked EO to abandon the competition with the Soviet Union, claiming that it was a deal between South Africa and the Soviet Union, and that EO had connections in the government but that it was better not to get involved in the state-to-state deal.

"The other side is not just a multinational group, the boss behind them may be the top of the Soviet ******. South Africa is now going to join the Soviet Union, so it won't help you, so stop it. It's for God's sake to help you once, otherwise you don't know how you might lose in the end. ”

After putting down the phone, Barlow said to Ava and Otto, "We're pulling out of this deal. ”

With that, he left the room without looking back, leaving Victor, Otto, and Ava behind. The atmosphere was as uncomfortable as the end of winter.

"So, did President Aideed choose his trade partner?" Victor packed the bag of diamonds on the table into his suitcase. He didn't pay any attention to the pale face of Otto next to him, but he still said a word to warn the arms dealer who wanted to play the Soviet idea.

"Don't think that South Africans can stand up for you, you have no idea who the boss is behind me? Or do you really naively think that I haven't been caught selling arms by Interpol in the Middle East, in Africa, or in South Africa for so many years, and it's just my luck? My boss behind the scenes, but the man who controls the arms trade and the war conflicts around the world, Somalia is just a small area. ”

"Gentlemen, the weapons downstairs and that truck are yours, and it's a pleasure to work with you." Victor put on his sunglasses again, and just like the legendary merchant of death, he left the Olympic Hotel with his black briefcase.

After exiting the gate, Victor made an affirmative gesture to Colonel Kozye, telling him that they had won the deal.

"I didn't expect the other party to win over South Africa's EO company to enter the game, and it seems that Aideed's interior is not a sure thing." Victor carefully collected the diamonds, which were circulated to England and France, where they were "laundered" in the diamond market, and then transferred to Victor's anonymous account, where the funds eventually flowed into Moscow.

Each blood diamond transaction yielded him millions of dollars, and together with the abundant mining of local mineral resources and the sale of drugs, Viktor and the Soviet military company became an invisible multinational group in this land.

"And Colonel Kozye, you don't have a good relationship with the South African side. Knowing that the political purpose of this deal was greater than the economic purpose, EO representatives actually appeared at the negotiating table. Victor was a little dissatisfied with Kozye's methods, and if it were him, it was a question whether Strategic Resources would still exist.

"Forget it, it's over, and I don't want to pursue it anymore. Now I am most curious about how useful this batch of anti-aircraft missiles used against the Americans is. ”

Victor's mood is now half worried and half excited, and once his weapons against the Americans are effective, there is no doubt that the CIA will want him as an important target after Aideed, and it is not ruled out that Moscow will make the decision to abandon the child in some cases.

"Let's take these things one step at a time, after all, we are all puppets in the hands of ******." Victor said to himself. (To be continued.) )