Chapter 219: The Question of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has not stopped in modern times. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The sadness of infoAfghanistan lies in its geographical location, on the east-west-north-south transportation artery, and every powerful country wants to pinch this transportation in its hands and become its own territory.

And the woolly bear in the north, a large area of the country is in the high latitude area, but also hope to go south, Tsar Peter the Great once set a goal for his descendants: to advance south to Constantinople and India, rule there, rule the world! When Russia has free access to the Indian Ocean, it will be able to establish its own military and political domination throughout the world!

In the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Russia and Britain came close to fighting for Afghanistan. After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, after healing the scars of World War II, also began to look to the future. In the 50s, Afghanistan and Pakistan had a serious dispute over the Pashtunistan issue, and the two countries were on the verge of war. The Soviet Union found an opportunity to express its firm support for Afghanistan's position on this issue, and at once pulled Afghanistan into the arms of the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately, although the relationship between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union entered a short honeymoon period at that time, it was not a country that was easily at the mercy of others, and Afghanistan was getting farther and farther away from the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union orchestrated a coup d'état and wanted to prop up a puppet. However, it will soon become clear that the situation in Afghanistan cannot be solved by a puppet, and the contradictions within Afghanistan are too complicated, and only when the Soviet Union personally occupies Afghanistan can it be settled!

According to history, the real war will not be launched for two years. But now. Scheming politicians are beginning to plan ahead.

And Andre, who came from later generations, knew that this was a bad move. Right now. Since Andrei has been able to get in touch with the high-level, the stakes are here. It must be made clear, even to the displeasure of Andropov!

This was just a family affair, it was not discussed on the ******, Andropov was only used to test Andrei's strategic insight, and he did not expect that Andrei would think more deeply.

"Right now, our relationship with Afghanistan is somewhat stiff, and the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan has aroused our concern. I think the situation in Afghanistan will definitely become more and more unfavorable for us. Andrei said.

Andropov was satisfied, Andrei, although in the Far East, paid attention to more places, such as South Asia, and Andrei had already noticed the problems in Afghanistan!

"Andrey, how do you think we should deal with Afghanistan, and if there is a situation that is not in our favor, should we use our force? Solving the Afghan problem, as is the case with the island nation now? Andropov asked.

The Soviet Union succeeded in occupying the northern part of Hokkaido, which made the Soviet top very excited, so. The military's involvement in Afghanistan's internal problems when needed is already being considered at the top level.

"Nope. Absolutely not. Andrei's words surprised Andropov for a while.

"Afghanistan is not the same as the island nation." Andrei said: "Islanders. The Yamato people, the main nation, are very servile. As long as we are scared of them, they will obey us incomparably, you see now, we have occupied Hokkaido for a few months, and the islanders on our territory honestly accept our rule, not a half fart. However, Afghanistan is different, Afghanistan is full of tribes, contradictions are prominent, the largest Pashtun ethnic group, the population does not account for half of the population of the whole country, such a country is inherently unstable, and the people there are also born warlike, they will fight for a head in the country, let alone succumb to foreign forces, if we use the same means as Hokkaido to solve the Afghan problem, it will definitely fail. ”

Andrei said with certainty, and when he had finished saying these words, he looked at Andropov, and at this time, the old man's face was cloudy.

We cannot use force to solve the Afghan problem, otherwise, we will suffer defeat!

If it were another person, a young man in his twenties, who talked about the defeat of Afghanistan, then Andropov would definitely think that this was a madman, the Soviet Union, with tens of millions of troops! The power that makes the whole world tremble, fight an Afghanistan, and it will not be able to take it? Will it be sure to fail?

However, it was Andrei who spoke, this young man, who had already shown an amazing talent, in terms of tactics, he could fly fighters, participate in front-line air battles, and in terms of strategy, he proposed to attack Hokkaido from Kushiro, which has proven to be the most correct choice, allowing the Soviet Union to occupy the northern part of Hokkaido at the minimum cost!

Fighting Afghanistan, will it really be that hard?

"The biggest constraint on us is logistics." Seeing that Andropov did not agree, Andrei continued: "We are attacking Hokkaido now from the sea, and the four eastern islands of Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island in the north, and Primorye in the west are all our territory, and it is relatively easy for us to attack from any direction. But what about Afghanistan? Pakistan in the east, Iran in the west and south, we can only attack from the north, and there, just in the mountains, the mountains are a good place to fight guerrillas, as long as a small group of Afghans is active there, it will cause considerable trouble for our logistical supply, and the air supply, which cannot provide sufficient supplies, will greatly increase our combat costs. ”

In later generations, the United States and Pakistan bases could be used, while the Soviet Union could only use it from the north, where the long Hindu Kush Mountains were limited, and the Soviet army's entry into Afghanistan was always about 100,000 people, and the huge army strength could not give full play to its advantages at all.

André knew that he had to do his best not to let this happen! Although my current strength is still very small, I must do my best!

Convincing Andropov in front of him first is the first step in reversing history, and Ustinov and others all supported this plan.

"And if we want to go south, we don't necessarily have to go from Afghanistan." "After all, we have three routes to choose from," Andrei said. ”

Originally, Peter the Great envisioned three routes for his descendants to go south from Russia: one was from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus in Turkey to the Mediterranean; the second is from the South Caucasus to the Persian Gulf via Iran; The third is from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea via Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the shortest, but the shortest, but the most deceitful. (To be continued.) )