"Ignoring international law and our national flag, Japan attacked our Yangtze River patrol fleet and attacked its escort Meifu oil tanker!" In the White House in Washington, Roosevelt had a copy of the New York Times in front of him, and it was rare to dedicate an entire page of headlines to the story.

"Damn it! Can anyone tell me what exactly these Japanese monkeys want to do?! Roosevelt flicked up in anger and pointed at the Secretary of War Harry in front of him. Haines. Woodlin growled.

Woodlin was speechless, it was true that the Japanese army was now forming a threat. However, in the view of the War Department, Japan is at most threatening Asia, and perhaps threatening the Tiger, an important ally of the United States in Asia.

However, it absolutely does not dare to directly clash with the United States, after all, most of Japan's resources need to be provided by the United States. If it loses the supply of the United States Chapter 735 White House Reaction Country, Japan will be able to carry out the war for half a year at most and then collapse on its own.

This is the greatest dependence of the United States, but it seems that this dependence no longer exists. The actions of the Japanese now are clearly intended to provoke a war, and there is no point in attacking a patrol gunboat that poses no threat to them.

Such an approach is tantamount to forcing the United States to go to war against them!

"Hopkins, tell me about it! Why would these damn Japanese monkeys go crazy, I really can't figure out why they would choose to attack our gunboats. After Roosevelt finished his fire at the Secretary of War, he turned to Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins.

"Don't these bastards know that their lifeblood is in our hands?! Don't these damn Japanese monkeys know that they're forcing us to strangle them with the tigers?! ”

Hopkins shrugged. He said to Roosevelt: "Your Excellency, you shouldn't ask me this question. Instead, I'm going to ask those damn Japanese monkeys. Our latest news is that they are playing the role of a slaughterer in the occupied territories, and they have gone crazy to think of it. A bunch of crazy people, it's possible to do anything. ”

Obviously, Roosevelt was not satisfied with Hopkins' answer to the White House reaction in Chapter 735. He frowned and wanted to say something, but saw the Minister of Finance, Henry Jr. Morgan Cord said.

"Your Excellency, it seems to me that there are about two scenarios for Japan's actions." Roosevelt listened to Morgan's words and couldn't help but be intrigued. Turning his head, he said, "Oh?!" Henry, what do you think?! ”

"First of all, the Japanese army is not monolithic. There are radicals among them. And these people are likely to frantically choose to attack us and cause the established fact of war. Little Morgan looked down in thought and said softly.

Such examples are not unprecedented, and the Manchurian Incident, the attack on Fujian, and even Shanghai were in fact the actions of these radical Japanese soldiers. They kidnapped the whole of Japan with the war, so that they had to continue to go to war. ”

The rest nodded. This is also the result observed by the United States. Of course, if the United States takes a closer look, it will find the figure of the Japanese imperial family behind these wars. Unfortunately, Asia has never been a focus for the United States. They paid more attention to the situation in Europe and the Soviet Union.

It is a pity that the entire United States, from the top to the middle and the middle of World War II, misjudged the entire situation in Japan. They really think that the emperor is nothing more than that rubber stamp in a constitutional monarchy.

But I didn't know that in fact, the entire Japanese navy and army were firmly in Hirohito's hands! This situation did not begin to be discovered by the United States until the end of the war.

In fact, when Hirohito said that the entire Japanese army had chosen to surrender, the United States was extremely shocked. He couldn't imagine that a person's rights could be so great.

No restraints, no resistance. Just because of his words. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Japanese troops from south to north laid down their arms like this.

"There is another possibility: Japan is testing our attitude, or they are testing our bottom line!" Morgan Jr. paused and continued: "Japan cannot tolerate our control of their lifeline forever, and in fact our interests in Manchuria absolutely do not allow us to give up the three eastern provinces. ”

"We are natural enemies with Japan. If Japan wants to continue the war and get rid of our control over their oil and steel, then invading the three eastern provinces is a must. And most of our investments are in the three eastern provinces. In other words, it is simply impossible for us to sit idly by and watch the Japanese invasion pass. ”

Little Morgan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "There is no compromise between us and Japan!" ”

Roosevelt was silent, not even a single person in the entire office spoke. After a long time, Roosevelt said in a deep voice: "Spread the news." We need the people to be prepared, war could come at any time. Maybe we're facing the enemy. More ferocious than we thought! ”

Subsequently, the whole United States was plunged into a big discussion about the Japanese shelling of the Panay! Everyone was furious and angrily denounced the damned Japanese monkeys!

At this moment, the will of the whole United States seemed so unanimous. This is not surprising, since the United States has historically traded far more with Japan than with China. As a result, the United States was always hesitant to intervene in the Sino-Japanese War.

According to statistics, in 1937, the United States exported $288.588 million to Japan and only $49.703 million to China. In 1938, U.S. exports to Japan were $239.575 million, while exports to China were only $34.772 million.

As far as investment is concerned, it was estimated in May 1940 that the total amount of U.S. investment in Japan amounted to $500 million. Even, American capital held $100 million in Japanese government bonds at that time!

That is why the United States has hesitated and met with resistance to war against Japan.

It is precisely because of this that the US ambassador to Japan and the representative of the appeasement faction to Japan, Joseph . Gru once claimed.

"It is in our immediate interest that Japan should remain a strong, prosperous and productive country under conditions of peace, justice, stability and security. Our mutual trade and other relations should flourish in the future as they have in the past. ”

All this shows that the so-called "just war" is in fact nothing more than a war of interests.

But the situation is completely different now, whether it is oil, steel, or imported rare metals and raw materials, the trade volume between the three eastern provinces and the United States is far more than that of Japan!

Even, the investment in the three eastern provinces means that the United States absolutely cannot give up the three eastern provinces. As a result, the situation has completely reversed from the historical situation.

The United States will absolutely not allow Japan to invade the three eastern provinces, and even for this reason, the US Congress is still discussing whether to sell more warships to the three eastern provinces in an effort to protect the US capital interests in the three eastern provinces.

Capital kidnapping! This is the complete kidnapping of capital, and in fact this kind of thing has happened in the nations of later generations. The mutual kidnapping of capital leads to the fact that although the big countries are fighting openly and secretly, they will never watch another country lie down.

Because of the mutual penetration of capital, once a big country collapses, then all countries will be implicated. The most obvious examples are China and the United States.

Neither side wants to see the other collapse like this, but both sides want the other to be less aggressive and try to control themselves.

The U.S. strategy is to continue to support pro-Americans, including those supported by the Democracy Fund. It is also commonly known as the Belt and Road Party.

The policy adopted by China is the kidnapping of capital and interests. Forcing the United States to have to make concessions on certain things, to maintain a balance between the two sides.

The reason why the United States was able to get rid of the Soviet Union without any scruples was that there was basically no economic interest between the United States and the Soviet Union. But the relationship between China and the United States is more complicated, and the interests of the two sides are too deeply entangled.

As a result, the United States is tied down in the face of China, and when they grit their teeth and want to do it, they find that the country has inadvertently grown into a behemoth.

When the United States vigorously launched the denunciation day, the three eastern provinces also held a meeting because of this incident.

"I don't think the U.S. will get involved in the war lightly, at least not yet. Therefore, it will not be easy to get involved in the war. Yan Zhengqing looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "But with our production capacity, it is still a little short of fighting to the death with Japan." ”

"Although the United States will not go to war against Japan, it is still okay for us to encourage the United States to cut off some of its trade with Japan." Yan Zhengqing paused, and continued with a smile: "Who told us to kidnap so many interests of the United States?!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, in fact, it's not just the United States?! Britain and Germany were actually kidnapped by the three eastern provinces, and the interests were not a few.

"I basically agree with the Governor's opinion." It was Yang Ziren who spoke, and he has now adapted to his identity as a member of the three eastern provinces. smiled at Yan Zhengqing.

"But we can't delay the war against Japan, and the situation in Nanjing is not good now. It had already been a war of attrition, and Lu Han's 60th Army had just arrived in Changsha. I'm afraid that Nanjing won't be able to withstand it......"

Yang Ziren said everyone's thoughts, and the war has been going on for more than a month and a half. The Wehrmacht, which had no heavy artillery firepower, had been supporting Nanjing for more than half a month with the former defenders of Nanjing.

According to the reports of the battle, more than 6,000 were killed and more than 14,000 were wounded. The entire Nanjing garrison now has less than 100,000 troops, and they are facing more than 200,000 Japanese troops with heavy artillery and aircraft support!

The hardships of the battle can be imagined. Will they be able to support Lu Han's 60th Army until it reaches Nanjing?! Everyone has a question mark in their hearts, but no one can say it.

"If you can't stand it, you have to stand it!" In the silence, a trace of fierceness flashed in Tu Qianjun's eyes, and he said fiercely: "The people of our national defense army, there are those who died in battle and did not retreat!" said to resist, and if the bones become slag, you must also resist! ”rq！！！