Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 82 Diplomatic War
A few hours before the Assistant Secretary of State arrived in France, Athens. The old republican garden, who arrived in advance, "paid a long visit to the Greek Prime Minister.
Because the Ministry of Defense of the Republic is releasing the war reports of the fierce days one after another, the open and secret struggle between the two countries' deputy foreign ministers, Yan in Athens, has not attracted much media attention.
In fact, the Western news media know in their hearts that what happened to the United States in Greece can only be said to be self-inflicted.
After World War II, it was a mistake for the United States to bring together two contradictory countries, Greece and Turkey, for the sake of its own national interests. History has shown that membership in the NATO bloc has not changed Greece's relations with Turkey, but has complicated the issue.
It was the financial crisis that really led to the parting of the ways between the United States and Greece.
Although according to the propaganda of the Western news media. The eight-year financial crisis was caused by the greedy financiers on Wall Street, but after the Great Depression caused by the financial crisis in the year of the Force, many economists cried out for the Wall Street financiers, claiming that the eight-year financial crisis was actually run by energy interests close to the US government. You know, the family of US President George W. Bush, who started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and left the White House after the financial crisis of the year, relied on the oil family.
According to a more reliable statement, as early as the Bush Sr. administration, that is, before and after the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, US energy interest groups were very dissatisfied with the situation in the Gulf region. Although at that time the United States could not deal with Iran, which had high morale. It was not difficult to deal with Saddam Hussein, who was at the end of his rope. With the support of the energy group, Bush Sr. personally authorized uranium, and by providing false information and other means, he convinced Saddam that the United States would not take action against Iraq's annexation of Kuwait, which led to Saddam Hussein sending himself to the gallows at the end of the Cold War.
By taking advantage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush Sr. sounded the clarion call for entering the "post-Cold War era" with the extremely splendid Gulf War. Perhaps the last thing that the US energy interest groups did not expect was that the Soviet Union would come to the debut before Bush Sr. ran for president again, and the American voters, who were tired of the Cold War, did not give much face to the victorious Bush Sr. and sent Clinton, a Democrat from Little Rock, Arkansas, to the White House.
The emergence of Clinton only delayed the arrival of the crisis. In the 2-year election, George W. Bush took the will of his father and became the first president in American history who did not win the support of the majority of voters in a disgraceful election. The information leaked by Si Zaili in the past years shows that the incident that shocked the world was itself a conspiracy planned by uranium, to be precise. It has an inseparable relationship with uranium, because as early as a few months ago, the four intercepted relevant intelligence that the terrorist organization was training pilots and preparing to carry out an earth-shattering terrorist attack on the United States. With the strength of four. It is not difficult to stop the attacks of terrorist groups, the key is not to do them.
It must be admitted that George W. Bush did what his old age failed to do, pushed Saddam Hussein to the guillotine, and helped America's energy interests take control of the world's oil depots. Although George W. Bush did not do it thoroughly, and it was not until the year of his birth that Republican President Frederick allowed the US military to invade Iran, and finally withdrew the US troops deployed in the Gulf region to the country in a very disgraceful way, but George W. Bush can certainly be regarded as a very important president in the history of the Republican Party, and since he has begun, the Republican Party has become the spokesman of the major interest groups in the United States.
It was he who detonated the financial crisis that was stunned for a long time.
Putting aside all superficial phenomena, the Gulf War has already laid the foundation for the financial crisis of the scorching years.
With George W. Bush entering the White House, the United States fighting Iraq in Afghanistan and spending trillions of dollars to help the American energy conglomerate push oil prices to the top of $4 a barrel, and the financial crisis can no longer be avoided. In a sense, the main reason for the financial crisis in the past year is that the US federal government has spent trillions of dollars on the war, and in the absence of being able to convince taxpayers to pay for this expenditure, the US authorities can only collude with Wall Street financiers to raise war funds by speculating on real estate, indiscriminate financial derivatives and bonds, and finally shearing sheep around the world in the form of a financial crisis, so that the world can pay for the military action of the United States acting as the world's policeman and monopolizing energy interests.
Mother is undoubted, except for the United States. All States are victims.
In a sense, it was the financial crisis that led to the drastic changes in the global landscape a few years later, and the republic seized an unavoidable opportunity to have the strength to compete with the United States, breaking the pattern of one dominant power, and finally forming a situation in which the two powers competed for hegemony.
In fact, as a small country in southern Europe, Greece has little to do with the great powers.
The problem is that if the United States wants to shear sheep all over the world, Greece will get mold.
Because in the early part of the century, certain actions of Greece caused Turkey to change its strategy of relying entirely on the United States, which caused the United States to encounter a lot of trouble during the Iraq war, so when planning global sheep shearing, American interest groups used Greece as a breakthrough to attack the eurozone. It is precisely in this way that Goldman Sachs actively helped the Greek authorities to join the eurozone when economic indicators did not meet the standards. In hindsight, Goldman Sachs' move is already preparing for the later detonation of the Greek sovereign debt crisis.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the U.S. adopted a policy of suppressing the exchange rate first and then rising, and Figure 1 needed to vigorously suppress other important currencies, including Jiqi. Let the U.S. valley ... The action of shearing sheep of Munenari Angryda. In this case. Greece's sovereign debt crisis became the trigger for the euro.
From this point of view, Greece is just a poor victim. The address of this site has been changed to: Eliminate the heart, delete please log in to read!
In fact, if the United States withdraws at this time, Greece will not part ways with the United States, at least the left-wing parties in Greece will not be able to monopolize power, and they must form a coalition government with the middle parties, so that Greece's political transformation will not be carried out completely, leaving room for future transformation.
The financial crisis of Jin's eight-year year hit almost all countries hard, and at the same time laid the foundation for the financial tsunami in Likou year.
According to the accepted version. The three main causes of the Great Depression, namely the war between the Republic and Japan during the East China Sea War, the excess liquidity in the global financial markets, and the severe excess of industrial productivity, were all related to the financial crisis of the year. Thus, the frenzied financial crisis was the trigger for the Great Depression.
With the advent of the Great Depression, the global economy suddenly entered a collective winter.
At this time, for many small countries, what is most needed is a little heating.
The problem is that the United States has not given enough help to its many allies at this time. Because there are so many allies, it is impossible for the United States to take care of all its allies when the Great Depression comes. According to an unsigned article by Reuters in the first form, the Great Depression broke out. The U.S. federal government with the main ugly pound. The state government and a major interest group have reached a secret agreement, and in a situation where self-preservation is difficult, the United States must adjust its alliance policy and treat its allies differently. Of course, it is the neighboring allies such as Canada, Mexico and Central America that need to be taken care of, followed by the influential and committed countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, then the strategically important countries such as Turkey, Djibouti, Singapore and Spain, and finally allies such as Greece. It is precisely for this reason that during the Great Depression, the United States did not adopt a non-discriminatory trade policy, and while opening its markets to countries such as Canada and Mexico, it erected trade barriers to Greece and other allies. Keeping the goods of many countries out of the country.
From the standpoint of the United States, there is nothing wrong with this policy of differential treatment.
Strictly speaking, if the United States does not do this, I am afraid that the United States will fall before the Great Depression is over.
The problem is that this became the direct cause of forcing Greece to "transfer".
During the Great Depression, life was not easy for any country. For the vast majority of small countries, all that is needed is a small amount of preferential trade policies. To put it mildly, whoever can give the most small countries a taste during the Great Depression will have the most allies after the Great Depression is over. Because they believed that the advanced technology mastered by relying on industrial restructuring and the power revolution could withstand the tremendous pressure brought about by the Great Depression, the leaders of the countries such as Ki used the war with Japan to trigger a financial tsunami during the East China Sea War, and brought the world into the Great Depression.
See it from this ear. It is not Greece that is willing to lead the republic to cooperate, but it has to cooperate with the republic.
When the Kurdish crisis exploded. Some Western news media have pointed out that before the United States supports Turkey, it must first consider whether it can pass the threshold of Greece. If Greece does not have the support, not only will the war expenses increase a lot, but the US troops participating in the war will also encounter more challenges. In addition, because it is unable to use the air bases in Greece, the US Air Force will either deploy fighter jets in Italy and Malta, thousands of kilometers away from Turkey, or deploy fighter jets in Turkey, the former will inevitably lead to a reduction in combat efficiency, while the latter will have to take greater risks.
Of course, almost no one holds out hope for the diplomatic efforts of the American authorities.
In the words of a Reuters commentary, the United States should not ask Greece to fulfill its obligations as an ally and open its military bases and territorial waters and airspace to the US military, after all, the United States has not done what an ally should do on major issues closely related to Greece's interests. For the United States, the best outcome is that Greece will not be affected by this war and will take any action that is unfavorable to the United States during the war, so the United States should concentrate its efforts on stabilizing the mood in Greece and not make excessive demands on the Greek authorities.
As the news media of Western countries, it is very rare for Reuters to be able to talk to this point.
To put it bluntly, the US authorities should focus on guarding against Greece not turning back at this time, rather than letting Greece shed blood for Turkey.
In fact, Reuters hit the nail on the head of the United States.
Although before the outbreak of the war, the US authorities had been openly demanding that Greece fulfill its responsibilities as a NATO ally and facilitate the US military going to Turkey, in the official contacts between the two sides, US diplomats never formally demanded the opening of the country's borders, nor even asked the Greek authorities to provide military bases, but only hoped that Greece would fulfill the minimum obligation, that is, to maintain neutrality.
Needless to say, this is a very low requirement.
Even so, the attitude of the Greek authorities is still very ambiguous and has not given a positive answer to the United States.
It was for this reason that the US assistant secretary of state, who was in charge of European and North African affairs, had to fly from Cairo to Athens on the day of the outbreak of war to request an official meeting with the Greek prime minister.
The problem is that the US Assistant Secretary of State is still a step too slow.
Because the Republic's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs was the first to arrive in Athens, the American assistant "arrived at the Prime Minister's Office and was taken to the Drawing Room." Didn't immediately get ugly to Chang Dun's heart"
It was only after about the time of the thug that the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office came to inform him that the Prime Minister was about to speak via television and asked the US Assistant Secretary of State to return to the embassy and wait for further dissipation. The new address of this site has been changed to: a few goo, please log in to read!
There is no doubt that this is very impolite behavior.
What's more, it's a very clear hint.
On the way to the embassy, the assistant secretary of state spoke to Mrs. Loeblin on the phone and said that the Greek authorities were likely to make a very important statement right away, and that Greece's diplomatic position was likely to change drastically.
This warning did not mean much, at most it prepared Mrs. Loebling psychologically.
At 4 o'clock in Athens time, about the minutes before the US Assistant Secretary of State left the Prime Minister's Office, the Greek President made a televised speech to the nation on television, saying that the Greek government would submit a bill to the parliament to withdraw from NATO in accordance with the powers granted by law, and that during the parliament's deliberations on the bill, Greece would recall its representatives to NATO headquarters and temporarily suspend the performance of its obligations as a member of NATO.
That is, the Greek government announced its withdrawal from NATO.
Although legally. This will only make sense for the Greek government if it is approved by parliament, but with a coalition of left-wing parties controlling nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament and the prime minister's prestige in full swing, the Greek parliament is likely to pass the bill within a week.
For the United States. This is perhaps the most undesirable outcome.
In fact, there is nothing the United States can do about it.
Before Greece. France has already announced its withdrawal from the NATO bloc twice, once in the years of the power century and once just a few years ago. Although Mangla is not a big country like France. Without France's national strength and influence, but as an independent country with equal status, the United States did not treat France and therefore Greece.
In a sense, this statement by the Greek Prime Minister is not only directed at Turkey.
As a military and political alliance born in the early days of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the NATO bloc has become a tool for the United States to dominate the world since the day it was born. Although after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the NATO bloc ushered in its most glorious period, controlling almost the entire European continent, but at the beginning of the century, the NATO bloc began to go down. Since the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, the influence of the NATO bloc has become weaker and weaker because the relative strength of the United States has declined sharply and it has had to have some concerns in international policy. After the devastation of the Great Depression, and in the rush of the century, with France once again announcing its withdrawal, the NATO bloc basically existed in name only.
Greece's announcement of its withdrawal from the NATO bloc at this time is tantamount to the last straw that crushed Luo Zhu.
Even before the United States reacted, the French authorities expressed their support for Greece's choice, actively welcomed Greece's greater role in Europe's common defense, were willing to facilitate Greece's participation in Europe's common defense activities, and were willing to give Greece more help in military cooperation.
All in all, France no longer feels lonely.
Of course, the French authorities would certainly have secretly thanked the republic, and without the efforts of the republic, Greece would certainly not have announced its withdrawal from the NATO bloc at this time. In fact, when it was reported, it was bold to speculate that Greece's withdrawal from the NATO bloc was not the "credit" of the Republic alone, but the result of the Republic's secret cooperation with France, and even Germany and Italy, because just after the French authorities expressed their position, the German and Italian authorities also said that they would consider basing their national security on the common defense of Europe, so as to promote the process of political integration of the European Union, and the implication was that they were about to withdraw from the NATO bloc. According to the analysis, in this earth-shattering conspiracy, Greece has once again fallen into the hands of the big powers, and the benefit obtained by France and Germany is that it has smashed the dominant position of the NATO bloc in European security affairs, and made the EU-led European common defense system the only choice for the collective security of European countries, thus providing the most solid foundation for EU political integration. The Republic has gained even more benefits, one of which is the establishment of a quasi-alliance with the EU, i.e. on the premise of ensuring economic interests. The republic will not seek military and political hegemony in Europe or even in the Mediterranean, and the European Union will dominate the Indian Ocean and so on. Give the Republic the highest support. The mother is undoubted. This is a conspiracy against the United States.
Whatever one may say, this is an absolute disaster for the United States.
Although at Mrs. Loblin's request, the US Assistant Secretary of State still met with the Greek Prime Minister that evening and very tactfully suggested that the Greek authorities should be more cautious on the issue of whether or not to withdraw from the NATO bloc and should not take such drastic measures. But once again, U.S. diplomatic efforts hit a wall, with the Greek prime minister making no commitments or even communicating head-to-head other than to give the U.S. assistant secretary of state the diplomatic protocols he deserves.
All in all, the Greek authorities have already made a decision and will not go back.
By this time, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic had already taken the hard-won diplomatic results and flew out of Athens and flew to Cairo on a high-pitched business plane that had just been purchased in bulk by the authorities of the Republic.
While no one thinks Egypt will be in this muddy water, it doesn't mean that the republic won't be diplomatic.
It is clear that US Assistant Secretary of State Shuji, who had nothing to gain in Athens, fell behind the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic.