Zhiguo said that when preparing for war, the United States was at ease with the country, and the United States knew that it was running for its life. 【】

It has been mentioned many times before, after the year. As world war became inevitable, both the Republic and the United States spared no effort to prepare for war. It has even brought some important industries into a quasi-wartime state, for example, in the past years, the Republic has allowed each other's major military enterprises to expand. Workers are recruited at the old proportions of normal times. The corresponding remuneration is paid by the central government at an additional cost of procurement. In this kind of all-out competition, the high level of comprehensive national strength of the two major powers immediately surfaced. Even in the eyes of many American news outlets. The comprehensive national strength of the United States is only about the size of the republic, and the war potential is even only the strength of the republic, because the comprehensive national strength of the two levels of major powers accounts for more than 50 percent of the world, that is, in addition to the European Union, the strength of many other small and medium-sized countries, including Russia, is almost negligible, so it is difficult for the United States to defeat the republic in a full-scale war when the difference in comprehensive national strength is two to three percent.

Influenced by this, from the very beginning, the United States has set a basic strategy of focusing on defense.

In accordance with this basic strategy, in addition to sparing no effort to build up the space force, the US authorities are also concentrating their efforts on strengthening the building of the navy. What's more. As early as around the beginning of the year, the US authorities and interest groups decided that if the United States could not keep the flames of war out of the country, it should choose to surrender at the last moment in order to preserve its homeland and lay the foundation for the next uprising and the future defeat of the Republic.

In this way, the foreign strategy of the United States is very clear.

From the position of the United States, there is no reason to abandon Russia. You know, after the war in India, only Russia in the whole world can force the republic to continue to strengthen the army building. Although an army that is the best in the world is enough to make the republic invincible. It can even help the republic dominate Eurasia, but the republic wants to completely defeat the United States. It is also necessary to have a heavenly army and navy that are the best in the world, especially a navy that can dominate the Pacific Ocean and send the land forces of the Republic to the other side. In other words, as long as the republic is forced to strengthen its land forces and must ensure land power, it will be difficult to challenge the maritime hegemony of the United States, and it will not be able to pose a threat to the US homeland. At this point, regardless of whether the United States has the ability to defeat the Republic or not, it will at least be able to ensure that it will not be defeated, that is, through a war of attrition that will last for several years, the Republic will be exhausted, so that the Republic will have to make peace with the United States in the face of strong enemies.

In retrospect, the United States had to woo Russia at all costs and encourage Russia to challenge the republic.

In fact, after the Korean Peninsula War, the United States has been courting Russia and has even offered to form an alliance several times. Although the situation at that time was that the economic relations between Russia and the republic were extremely close, and the global Great Depression made it unlikely that the United States would make it possible to do anything in the economic field, let alone satisfy Russia's huge appetites, and therefore it was unlikely that it would be possible to form an alliance, the United States' policy of co-opting made the Russian authorities realize to a large extent. Russia is not alone, on a number of major issues. It is still possible to cooperate with the United States, at least to use it. It is precisely in this way that on the issue of Ukraine's accession to the European Union, Russia made full use of the influence of the United States, and finally forced the European Union to abandon its eastward expansion.

It was not until the year of Lili that US-Russian relations entered a honeymoon period.

As we all know, the global Great Depression gradually dissipated at the end of the century, the global economy was on the fast track, and a new golden age has arrived. Unlike the Golden Age from the end of the Blade Century to the beginning of the Usher Century, the Golden Age of the Usher Era has a distinctive feature that is that the regionalization of the economy is very obvious. To put it more bluntly, the regional economic organizations with the three major economies of the Republic, the United States and the European Union as the core are becoming more and more influential on the international stage, and regional economic exchanges have completely replaced global trade.

In the case of the intensive bloc led by the republic, by the time of the year, intra-bloc trade accounted for 70 percent of the total trade of the bloc member countries, and it was among the bloc of countries with the republic as the core, including trade with friendly countries that had not joined the treaty for the time being. Internal transactions account for more than ninety percent of total trade.

The direct effect of such regional economic alliances is to cornering a number of independent countries.

By the end of the calendar year, the policy of non-alignment was still adhered to. And the countries that have not been allied with any country, nor have they joined any political-military alliance treaties combined, are less than one, and many of them are small countries with no influence, and only many of the countries that can be ranked are old.

Russia, of course, is not among them.

The problem is that the Commonwealth of Independent States, with Russia as its rule, is the sister of the global economy. Not only is it inferior to the intensification of the Republic, the Western Covenant of the United States, and the European Union led by France, Germany and Italy. Even minor international organizations such as the African Union, the League of Latin America, and the League of Arab States are inferior. According to a survey conducted by a European consulting agency at the beginning of the calendar year, if the GDP is used as the basis, the economic output of the Commonwealth of Independent States accounts for only the world's total, and if the industrial output is used as the basis, the Commonwealth of Independent States only accounts for Anhui in the world, both of which rank seventh. Of course, a measure of the strength of an organization. It's not just about the total economy and the value of industrial output. Including the area of the region, the size of the population, material resources, etc., even in terms of overall strength, the Commonwealth of Independent States ranks at most fourth, and the actual ranking is likely to be fifth or sixth.

All in all, Russia is definitely a "big country" with a foreign power and a middle power.

As mentioned earlier, after that, Russia's economic construction did not go smoothly, and it missed the golden period of getting rich, and therefore lost its strength to compete in the world.

Even so, this is the result of US-Russian cooperation.

You must know that at the end of the ugly years, as the Great Depression passed, it was not the European Union or Latin American countries that were the first to receive MFN status in the United States. Rather, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and other countries were allies of the United States and were the most favored nation of the United States during the Great Depression. In just four, Russia's trade surplus with the United States is too old. B dollars, the highest since Russia's independence, in the next 7 years. Russia's trade surplus with the United States has increased year by year, and the growth rate is around the tendon, until 24, affected by the political turmoil in the United States, Russia's trade surplus with the United States has decreased, but it is still more than 400 million US dollars.

According to official data published by the US federal government. During the Jun era, Russia received trade revenues from the United States as much as a dollar of Niu Ka. Although trade income alone does not mean much, after all, Russia only gets the depreciating dollar, but for the United States and Russia, such close trade exchanges are definitely a solid foundation for the two countries to move towards an alliance.

Having a huge dollar in hand, the Russian authorities naturally demanded that the United States export high-tech products to Russia in exchange for dollars.

It is precisely for this reason that at that time, the US Congress approved a technology export bill submitted by the president to mainly target Russia, that is, to take the Republic's technology export principle as the standard, and appropriately export high-end technology without affecting US national security, so as to enhance the global competitiveness of US enterprises.

In that year, the U.S. federal government approved the technology export contracts signed between several companies and Russia.

All in all, with the help of the United States, Russia's economy has improved.

The problem is that the essence of the alliance between the two countries is not just cooperation at the economic level and at the technological level. Strictly speaking, an alliance in the narrow sense refers to a military-political alliance, at least at the military level. That is, if the United States wants to win over Russia. There needs to be more sincerity, at least let Russia share the US military technology, and especially let Russia get some much-needed military technology.

You know, to. In the year of force, Russia still does not have a real strategic defense capability.

Excluding the vast territory, even in terms of strategic defense in key areas, Russia only has a limited intra-atmospheric interception capability, and does not possess orbital space interception capability. What's more, according to the estimates of the Military Intelligence Agency, by the year of the force, Russia will be able to ensure the security of Moscow and Fort St. Peter's at best, and in two, directions. At most, it is possible to intercept a field target at the same time. No doubt. Such interception capabilities are tantamount to ornamentation in a world war. You know, even the strategic ballistic missiles of the republic carry nuclear warheads to a minimum standard. It can also carry more than one old decoy warhead at the same time, and through the terminal booster trajectory correction technology, the terminal booster can be disintegrated into dozens of large fragments with a decoy effect. In this way, at most, only a few shells will be needed to saturate the strategic defense system of Moscow or St. Petersburg and complete a strategic strike on Russia's two most important strategic centers. In fact, perhaps it's nowhere near that complicated. According to a report by the Russian Observer Izvestia in the Year of Artillery, because the construction funds have not been in place for a long time and the brain drain is serious, Moscow's missile interception system has become useless and does not have actual combat capability at all.

This is clearly an unacceptable fact for a large country.

In a sense, it is precisely because of the lack of a real strategic defense capability, even if it is only the ability to intercept missiles against important cities. Only then did Russia dare not confront the republic on some major issues, so it could only swallow its anger and allow the republic to annex Central Asia step by step

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For the United States, this is naturally a great opportunity to woo Russia.

According to the intelligence held by the Military Intelligence Agency, starting with the four, the United States has planned to provide Russia with some advanced technologies related to the strategic defense system. Because the U.S. Congress had not yet approved a bill to export advanced military technology to Russia, much of the work was done secretly by fourth-class intelligence agencies, including deliberately leaking key techniques to Russian spies lurking in the United States

At that time, the military-technical cooperation between the United States and Russia was transferred from the stage to the stage.

Since the beginning of the year, taking advantage of the convenient conditions of the preliminary negotiations on the reduction of the third phase of the "London Treaty," the United States has successively provided Russia with high-energy lasers, isoparticle beam shooters, high-precision optical sights, and many other advanced technologies for building and improving the strategic defense system by using curtains, and even provided several sets of interceptors of an experimental nature. According to information in the possession of the Military Intelligence Agency. Russia's ability to conduct its first ground-based laser interception test at an early age is closely related to the help of the United States, otherwise Russia would not have been able to obtain the surface interception capability at this time. At the time, the MIA even believed. The interceptors that shot down the incoming missiles during the tests were not produced in Russia, but were supplied by the United States. Although this speculation was later ruled out. But the U.S. certainly sent people to the test, and it played a major role.

Except, of course, for the strategic defense system. U.S.-Russian military cooperation has also penetrated into other areas. Field.

Not to mention anything else, in terms of high-joint alloy armor, which is decisive in the construction of the army. In the case that domestic production capacity has not been able to increase, the authorities of the lack of countries approved relevant enterprises to open factories in Russia in the following year, and the United States approved the bill to export technology to Russia in the form of joint production in the second year. It is precisely in this way that before the infancy, Russia became the third country after the Republic and the United States to master the process of producing high-strength alloys. On this basis. Russia has only put forward the idea of a major refitting of the army in the year of the knife, that is, to replace the Xiagu main battle tank and the Gangkou series of infantry fighting vehicles that have been in service in the Russian Army for many years with a newly designed ground main battle platform, so that the Russian Army has stepped into the era of lightweight.

Whatever the kind of cooperation is, it can only be sustained if it is beneficial to both sides.

Military cooperation is no exception.

Ostensibly, the United States is working on Russia's side. By all means, Russia will become a global power in the true sense of the word. In fact, the United States has benefited from the cooperation.

In terms of helping Russia build a strategic defense system, the United States has benefited greatly. To know. In accordance with the "strategy of the balance of terror" that mutually assured destruction. As long as the Republic and the United States drop nuclear warheads at each other, neither side will let go of other great powers that have the power to dominate after a nuclear war, such as Russia. Because Russia has formed an alliance with the United States, the United States will not take the initiative to strike at Russia. The problem is that the republic has no choice, and when it comes to striking the United States, it will have to return Russia to the Stone Age. In this way, if it can help Russia build a relatively complete strategic defense system, the republic will have to spend more nuclear warheads on Russia. With a certain total number of warheads, this means that the number of nuclear warheads dropped on the continental United States will be greatly reduced. Although theoretically speaking, this will not enable the United States to completely evade the attack, after all, the United States is still the number one target of the Republic, but at least it will reduce the pressure on the US National Missile Defense system, minimize the losses suffered by the United States, and thus lay the foundation for the United States to rise after the war and regain hegemony.

This is true in terms of strategy, but also in terms of tactics.

Taking the joint production of high-strength alloys with Russia as an example, a very important reason why the United States cannot increase its domestic production capacity is that the United States lacks several necessary raw materials. Although the United States is also one of the three countries in the world that has all minerals, the other two being Russia and the Republic, there are not many reserves of these vital rare metals. In addition, the republic's resource enterprises occupy most of the world's rare metal deposits, so the United States can only put its hopes on Russia and obtain Russian resources through the export of technology. It is precisely for this reason that in the year of the bow, the United States accelerated the pace of changing the army's uniform, and put forward the idea of a comprehensive change of equipment in the field year. You know, without resources from Russia, it is almost impossible for the United States to redress the army at this time.

In the final analysis, a military alliance is only a prelude to a political alliance.

Although, according to international practice, military alliances should be built on political alliances, after all, the military is a continuation of politics, and without political alliances, there can be no military alliances, but in some special cases, such as in the cooperation of major powers. Military alliances often become prerequisites for political alliances.

For example, during the Second World War. It is precisely because of the military encounter with the same strong enemy. It was only then that Britain and the Soviet Union, which were politically completely opposed, formed an alliance.

At the basic level, the alliance between the United States and Russia is actually due to the fact that there is a strong enemy.

In the year of Tian, when the two major powers were putting on a posture and preparing for war, there were voices from both the government and the opposition in the United States whether they should form an alliance with Russia. Because Russia is not only unlikely to be an ally of the republic, but may become an enemy of the republic, in any respect, there is no reason why the United States should not ally with Russia under the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend. Coupled with the close economic ties of the previous years. In addition, under the premise of technological exchanges mainly in the military field, the United States should improve its relations with Russia and treat Russia as an ally.

It is important that the United States did not rush to take this step.

It is known that Russia is a neighbor of the republic. And it is the last neighboring country that still poses a real threat to the republic. And so it goes. If the United States is blatantly allied with Russia. The authorities of the republic certainly don't even have to think about it. Before the two countries sign an alliance treaty, they will send troops to attack Russia, and even start a separate war for this. Although it is good for the United States. At least it would buy the United States more time, but it would also cost the United States its most important allies, so that the United States would lose its hand in the next war. What's more, the Russian authorities are not stupid either, and it is absolutely impossible for them to be in conflict with the United States before the official war between the United States and the Republic.

It is precisely in this way that the United States did not take the first steps towards an alliance until the calendar year, that is, after Russia and the republic turned their backs.

In October of that year, that is, before Pei Chengyi's visit to France, Germany and Italy, the US Secretary of State, in his capacity as a special presidential envoy, visited Russia after visiting Kazakhstan and signed the "Moscow Treaty" with the Russian president in Moscow.

It was like this, after many bodies, Pei Chengyi went to France, Germany and Italy, and behaved extremely high-profile in Rome.

It can be seen from this that the events in Kazakhstan over the years can be regarded as the third cause of the Third World War.