Chapter 577: World War II Expands The United States Enters the War
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In fact, it was also a deliberate rumor from Hitler and Roosevelt to test the reaction of the Chinese Empire or the Entente powers, and then finally make a decision on whether to form an alliance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.infoββ
The British and French ambassadors to the United States hurriedly met with important US government officials and demanded that the Roosevelt administration act prudently. At the same time, the top leaders of Britain and France also summoned the US ambassadors to Britain and France one after another, indicating that Britain and France are highly concerned about the US-Germany negotiation of an alliance, and calling on the United States to abandon the alliance with Germany.
In fact, what the United States and Germany really looked at was the attitude of the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire was in the midst of internal struggle at this time. Because of the ruling party's support for the large-scale investment in opium production in the Golden Triangle by imperial businessmen, as well as the large-scale smuggling of opium, heroin, and high-purity methamphetamine series of drugs by imperial businessmen around the world under the banner of pharmaceutical exports, especially the large-scale export of drugs by imperial businessmen in Japan, Japan has become the world's largest drug-infested country, and this policy has led to fierce criticism from a series of political parties and non-party personages such as the imperial opposition party, the Minsheng Party, the People's Rights Party, and the Republican Party. ββ
The opposition parties demanded that the Imperial Government abolish the "legal" drug export protection policy for Imperial merchants and stop the drug trade, which is an anti-human act, but the ruling Democratic Party of Japan believes that as long as Imperial merchants do not sell drugs to the citizens of the Imperial and do not harm their own people, the ruling party believes that this policy will be abolished once this policy is abolished. The Imperial Government will lose up to 1 billion dragon dollars in revenue every year. At the same time, the ruling party is well aware that the opposition party's criticism and accusation of the ruling party is actually just to drag the ruling party out of power. The proposal was therefore rejected.
As a result, the ruling party and the opposition parties have been fiercely attacking each other for a long time, and the IQ of the people of the empire has continued to increase. Wealthy citizens of the Reich became increasingly concerned about the lives of people in other countries, and soon became dissatisfied with the Reich government's semi-open support for the drug trade. Although the people of the empire hated the large-scale import of opium into China half a century ago. Many people support the imperial government's retaliatory drug trade, but more and more people think that the imperial government has exported the drug trade for decades, which can be regarded as revenge for the empire that has been poisoned, and it should not go on like this, because many international drug smuggling groups have targeted the wealthy people of the Chinese empire, and sold drugs to the Chinese empire through various smuggling channels, because the citizens of the Chinese empire are the richest. ββ Unprofitable drug dealers have their sights on the people of the empire.
After the Chinese Empire defeated the British Empire in the ninth year of Guanghua and finally forced the British Empire to give up the export of opium to China, the Imperial Government, the National Police Agency and the Public Prosecutor's Office frantically cracked down on drug traffickers in the country, and reduced the drug addicts of the Imperial National to a minimum through compulsory and semi-compulsory drug rehabilitation operations. By the 20th anniversary of Guanghua, the number of drug addicts in the Imperial State had dropped to less than 12,000, the lowest rate of drug addicts in the world. In the Chinese Empire, drug use and drug trafficking were serious crimes, which dealt a heavy blow to the domestic drug trade.
But in the forty years of Guanghua. Due to the fact that the national strength of the Chinese Empire has increased several times and the people's living standards have been greatly improved, it is not only the world's largest trade exporter, but also the largest consumer country. This has bred the frenzy of drug cartels for ultra-high profit chains, and at the same time, wealthy Chinese people are more likely to seek mental stimulation after they have no worries about food and clothing, which has led to a surge in the number of drug addicts.
Although the imperial government intensified its efforts to combat drugs at home, the people of the Chinese empire, who had entered a democratic society, were still not satisfied with this, and they were not satisfied with the government's anti-drug efforts, and soon at the instigation of the opposition politicians, they targeted the ruling party and secretly supported the international drug trade of imperial merchants. ββ
At the same time, although the international forces did not dare to openly confront the Chinese Empire, they did not miss any opportunity to give the Chinese Empire any opportunity to make trouble. The profits of the British opium trade were so huge that all countries are now jealous of the huge profits in this field after the Chinese Empire replaced the British, so they also added fuel to the fire to accuse the Chinese Imperial government of supporting the international drug trade, and demanded that the Chinese Empire completely abolish this policy.
When the news of the United States and Germany preparing to form an alliance came out, the ruling party was too appeased on this issue, considering that bad relations with the United States and Germany would affect the empire's current huge economic income, and based on its immediate interests, the imperial government only announced that it was highly concerned about the Anglo-German alliance and did not make every effort to prevent it, and as a result, it was fiercely attacked by the opposition parties.
Partisan strife aside, there is also no unity of opinion within the ruling party of the Reich. The imperial side wantonly manipulated the theory of the threat of virtue and Germany, saying that the alliance between the United States and Germany would form a trend of attacking the Chinese empire from east to west, which was a serious provocation to the national defense and security of the Chinese empire. The military called on the imperial government to take a tough stance on the United States and Germany and prevent them from forming an alliance.
But in fact, the emperor said one thing and did another. Due to the absolute world hegemony of the Chinese Empire, no country in the world is an opponent of the Chinese Empire in terms of conventional military forces, not to mention that the nuclear forces of the Chinese Empire make no country dare to carry out military provocations against the Chinese Empire. In this environment, the international security environment of the Chinese Empire can be said to be the safest, and it does not have to worry about external military threats at all. Therefore, in the peaceful environment of the treaty era for more than 20 years, the civilian clique of the imperial government has repeatedly reduced and reduced the military construction appropriations of the imperial army, which is almost to the extent that the four armed forces of the imperial navy, land, air and space will be cut off forever.
The era of peace was undoubtedly the saddest era for the imperial side, until after the outbreak of World War II, the imperial side found an opportunity and was eager to join the war as soon as possible. ββOnly in this way can Congress allocate funds to the military and strengthen the military's strength. But it is clear that the Imperial Government longed for the role of "arms dealer" during the First World War, and it will continue to play this role during the Second World War. In this way, the imperial side is still restricted, and the military expenditure applied for is still unchanged.
Under such circumstances, the imperial side urgently needed to find an excuse to ask Congress for military spending, so the alliance between the United States and Germany became the most favorable excuse for the imperial side to expand its armaments and war. The problem is that once the imperial government succeeds in preventing the US-Germany alliance, it is clear that Congress will not be able to turn to the military. Only by allowing the alliance between the United States and Germany to succeed can the Imperialist side force the Congress to allocate funds and increase the investment in imperialist affairs.
This entanglement caused the Imperial Government of China to waver on the matter of the alliance between the United States and Germany, and the determination of the United States and Germany to form an alliance had already been formed, and the Chinese Empire would fall into a situation of diplomatic passivity if it intervened rashly, so the Imperial Government finally expressed its strong concern about the preparation of the alliance between the United States and Germany. The United States and Germany have also issued statements one after another, saying that the alliance is in no way aimed at the Chinese Empire. Although everyone who understands it understands that it is a political lie and cannot be believed, the imperial government can use this to appease the people and guide public opinion.
Britain and France were very nervous about the United States switching to the Allied camp, although the United States was no longer the powerful country it was before World War I, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the United States was significantly strengthened after the Roosevelt administration's purge. Although Britain and France are most worried about maritime security at present, and the United States does not have a strong navy, the United States has a strong industrial base and oil production after all, which is undoubtedly a huge help to Germany.
At the same time, what worried the Entente the most was the intention of the United States to join the Allies. Obviously, it is impossible for the United States to attack Europe head-on without a strong navy, so Roosevelt's move can only have one purpose, that is, the Americans are eyeing Canada in the British Commonwealth.
In fact, Roosevelt was plotting to invade Canada, because Roosevelt's deepest enemy was still the Chinese Empire. The US think tank believes that the US side can conceal the strength of the Ground Self-Defense Force and the Air Self-Defense Force, but the strength of the Maritime Self-Defense Force cannot be hidden, and if it wants to develop a strong naval force, it is obviously necessary to build super or ultimate warships, and it is obviously difficult for those behemoths to evade the detection of the intelligence officers of the Chinese Empire.
As a result, Roosevelt's think tank came up with a strategic plan to establish great depth on the American continent. This plan is aimed at the powerful maritime military power of the Chinese Empire, and the US Self-Defense Forces should avoid a naval battle with the Chinese Empire and compete with the Chinese Emperor ** on land and in the air. As far as the US Self-Defense Forces are concerned, the fiasco of the last Sino-US war is still fresh in their memories, and in order to create an asymmetrical force to fight against the Chinese emperor as much as possible, Roosevelt's think tank believes that the US strategic depth should be expanded, and the annexation of Canada will be the best choice, because once the Sino-US war breaks out again in the future, then the Americans can no longer easily say defeat, and must fight tenaciously.
Roosevelt was very confident in this, because the will of the Nazi American army under his leadership was very high, and it would not be as vulnerable as before.
Britain sent a note to the United States, putting pressure on the United States to abandon the idea of joining the Allies. However, because Britain and France could not come up with something that could satisfy the interests of the Americans, they were strongly rejected by the Roosevelt administration, and the relationship between Britain and the United States took a sharp turn for the worse.
On June 25, 1941, the great course of human history took place - the alliance between the United States and Germany, and the Second World War expanded.
On June 26, the Roosevelt administration ordered the U.S. Self-Defense Forces Army, Navy, and Air Force to enter a state of war, and crossed the U.S.-Canada border that afternoon to invade Canada.
The next day, Canada declared war on the United States.
On the 27th, Britain and France declared war on each other with the United States, and the flames of World War II spread to the American continent. (To be continued) RQ