Roosevelt was well aware that the world landscape was changing drastically, that the British Empire had completely declined, and that although it still had the reputation of being the "empire on which the sun never sets", its industrial capacity had fallen to the fifth highest level in the world, and even with the addition of South Africa, Canada, and Australia, it was still not enough to confront the Germans, let alone the Axis Coalition. … ≦ Top Novel, www.

The crown of the British Empire has fallen, and the Americans are uniquely positioned to inherit it. First of all, the British colonies and the United States speak the same language, have a strong sense of identity, and have a strong connection with the United States. Roosevelt and the interest groups behind him had been eyeing the British to drop and the crown, and they were eager to manipulate the whole world as much as the British in order to get the most out of it.

Franklin? Roosevelt was eager to manipulate the war behind the scenes, to steer it in the direction he wanted. But the biggest problem he faces is the "glorious isolationism" of the Americans. Most Americans do not want to be involved in war, and live prosperously in the blessed land that God has given them to snatch from the Indians.

Roosevelt understood this well, and the war in the Far East was an excellent opportunity for the United States to rearm and revitalize its economy. But the Japanese no longer had the dollars to pay for scrap steel, aluminum, special metals, and oil, and if they continued, the Japanese would have to be forced to bow to Germany and Austria, and under their pressure, return to the position they had before the war began. So he needed to find a clever way to bypass the Neutrality Act and continue to support the Japanese so that the war could continue.

"We should see that if the Chinese win the war, then they will be placed under the control of Germany and Austria and become a member of the Entente. If one day we go to war with Germany, it is conceivable. At that time, we will face tens of millions of Chinese armed by the German-Austrian bloc, which will be several times the total number of troops we have with the British and the French combined. Therefore, I think that dismembering China is our best choice. Hopkins continued, the life and death of the Chinese and the Japanese have nothing to do with the Americans. But a dismembered China is in America's present and future interests, as the German-Austrian bloc did to Russia after the European war.

"This is indeed a problem! We need to bypass the Neutrality Act and continue to help the Japanese, but at the moment my authority can only approve a lump sum of no more than $50 million, which is certainly not enough. "While the Germans and Austrians provide about $3.5 billion a year in economic aid to China, I suspect there must be some secret treaty in which Beijing joins the Berlin-Vienna-Rome Axis bloc." There was a hint of doubt in his tone.

"It's a possibility. The Berlin-Vienna-Rome-Beijing axis, where the Germans stretched their hands from the continent to the Pacific Ocean, and now the position of the British in the Indian Ocean is shaky, and Wilhelm II's ambitions will soon expand throughout Southeast Asia. "Cordell? Hull also said worriedly.

"I fear more of the one in the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, if it were not for him, the British intrigues before the European war would have succeeded, and Germany would have been greatly weakened than it is now so difficult to control. Now they control almost all of Europe. The French had to hide their hatred. Roosevelt said, "Even if we give it our all." There is no guarantee that they will be able to defeat them. ”

"Mr. President, the most important question we should be concerned about now should be how much of a threat this poses to American interests!" Minister of War Henry? Lewis? Stimson added his opinion on the side, with a strong sense of worry in his words. "If they control the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, our living space will be compressed in North America."

"We need a war to redraw the world, and as we are now, our living space will be slowly compressed. In the end, he will suffocate to death, which is tantamount to chronic suicide. Only war can save America's economy, and even save ourselves. If Europe does not go to war, we will take the initiative to provoke a war ourselves, and we must also fight a war, otherwise. Sooner or later, the US economy will collapse again! Roosevelt looked up and said firmly.

"Berlin-Vienna-Beijing" ...... Is there any connection between the three? As everyone left the oval office, Roosevelt kept writing the names of the three places on paper, and he could slowly feel the threat clearly.

"What is the Habsburg emperor going to do?" Once again, Roosevelt muttered about the fact that the rise of China could cost Germany and Austria control of the colony of Annam, after all, this is the territory that France had previously wrested from the Chinese, and more than a third of the Chinese still live there.

This is where he cannot understand.

Roosevelt has always been eager to implement his "active interventionism" policy and use rearmament to promote the recovery of the US economy; in the latest "Navy Act," in order to cope with the naval arms race in various countries around the world, Congress has approved a naval rearmament program of more than $1 billion, and the US Navy has begun construction of six "Iowah"-class super battleships. However, the aid package to Japan was not approved, and Congress only allowed the Japanese to sell no more than $200 million in war bonds in the United States every year, and there was widespread "isolationism" in the United States, which led to the failure of Roosevelt's plan to "expand arms exports."

Even so, the United States' move to allow Japan to issue war bonds still aroused great resentment among the Chinese, and in many cities, huge anti-American movements broke out.

This made the Chinese almost completely fall to the German-Austrian group.

"Ah, Roosevelt finally couldn't sit still and was ready to jump to the front desk?" At the Hofburg Imperial Palace, Heldon Lee, who had been closely following the movements of the White House, actually had some expectations for today's outcome, because the United States had historically supported China's war of resistance against Japan, but now it is supporting the Japanese aggression, all out of interest considerations.

Lee Hayton was not worried that the Japanese would defeat China, and that the war with Japan and Soviet Russia would make the Chinese stronger. A civil war will devastate a country, but a foreign war will strengthen the cohesion of the whole country and the nation. In this world, due to his intervention, China did not have a civil war situation that lasted for more than ten years, and the domestic industry and economy have developed greatly. Although there is not a single so-called "leader", the country is running relatively smoothly.

Relatively speaking, China's industrial development mode was slower than that of Soviet Russia, but it was more balanced and stable, and if it had not been for the Russian invasion of the Far East, which disrupted Beijing's military deployment, the Japanese would not have had much chance of taking military risks, and the development of China as a whole would have surpassed Japan's industrial capacity around 1945 according to Helton's assumption.

In fact, in China, light industry has developed very rapidly, and the domestic national industry has basically completed the original capital accumulation stage, and more and more funds have begun to be invested in heavy industry projects.

Although a war between China was inevitable, Hayton hoped that he would be able to delay the outbreak of this war, which would be more beneficial to China.

But the surprise attack of the Russians still broke Hirdon's expectations. (To be continued......) R527