Chapter 361 The arrow has been wound
In the United States in 1942, the person who was most dissatisfied with the early appearance of the Iron Curtain speech and the sudden emergence of McCarthyism was the current US President Wilkie.
In President Wilkie's eyes, the "bitch-bitched British fat man" and the "damn copter McCarthy", their clown-like performance in front of the media, completely disrupted his projected plans.
A series of events in Southeast Asia in the last month of 1941 made President Wilkie aware of a major event: "America is now more isolated than ever."
The actions of China, Britain and Japan in Southeast Asia have harmed the interests of the United States here. , which changed the distribution of power here, and gave the British government great confidence to abolish the Anglo-American Washington Treaty.
In the process, no country in the whole of Eurasia, except for the hapless Dutch, stood up to denounce such "immoral" behavior of these three countries, let alone speak for the United States of America. Everyone is either sneering or hiding from the sidelines, hehehe, watching the United States of America make jokes.
"No matter how strong the United States of America is, it cannot be the enemy of the world".
President Wilkie was well aware of this, and since then, he has been aggressively expanding his navy while considering how to break the "ice" of America's helplessness in Asia.
After a long examination, President Wilkie's final target was China.
He knows that China and Japan have inextricable contradictions on the Taiwan issue. And the British, because of the establishment of the Republic of Lanfang, are also very close to this place.
The best way to break the predicament in Southeast Asia is to pull China into the chariot of the United States. In President Wilkie's initial strategic concept, as long as he threw out the Taiwan issue as a bait, he would use China's strength to encourage China to do something in North Korea. It will be possible to greatly divert Japan's attention in the direction of Southeast Asia. Without Japan's help, the so-called "Second Anglo-Japanese Alliance" would have existed in name only, and without the help of the Japanese, how could the current British have the courage to unilaterally tear up the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement."
But President Wilkie had just begun to conceive the strategic approach of the United Nations, and damn Churchill came to the United States to shout about the "Red Iron Curtain", and even more hateful McCarthy, the "actor in front of the camera", attacked and blamed. The wave of "industryism" in the United States has directly made President Wilkie's idea of a joint China system come to naught.
What made Wilkie feel uneasy was that because of the performances of McCarthy and Churchill, as well as the political persecution that gradually emerged, not only did a large number of overseas Chinese in the United States leave the United States with their families and sell their property, but also German-Americans in the United States showed signs of instability. The German side is now beginning to hype that when the United States declared war on Germany during World War I, the US government flaunted the banner of "purging German spies." The old story of devouring German assets in the United States. Although the "red" Germany has made the wealthy German class in the United States dare not return to Germany lightly, many middle-class and ordinary people among the Germans have heeded Hitler's call to leave the United States and return to Germany because they are worried about a new round of political persecution. Although the number of these people is not very large, it is a very uncomfortable start to sound.
Later, President Wilkie's plan to unite Germany and control Britain also hit a nail on the side of the Germans. The Germans were not fooled by the pie drawn by the Americans, but leaked the proposal to the British, further worsening the already tense relationship between Britain and the United States.
And in April. With the visit of German Vice Chancellor Hess to the United Kingdom, and the speech of the Germans at the British Navy parade at the end of the month. Anglo-German relations began to break the ice and improve.
For President Wilkie, after he took office, a series of foreign policies of the United States have all been failures.
President Wilkie pondered deeply why this was the case, and in the end he believed that the root cause of the Yiqiē came from the "shameless" self-praise in the newspapers after he came to power. Although I know that most of these touts are behind the Germans' secret tricks. However, the newspaper has been brainwashing endlessly all day long, and over time, subtly, it has also made the whole United States collectively flutter, unconsciously losing its "normal heart".
Reflect on your decisions over the past year. Another mistake that President Wilkie felt was his outdated idea of the U.S. dollar as the settlement currency for international trade. Since this idea was put forward, it has not been echoed by any major or powerful country in the international community. The socialist front is on its own, playing virtual bookkeeping and disdainful of the various benefits and temptations offered by the Americans. And the British side is not to say more, because of this, the United States of America has reaped nothing but hatred from this old empire in decline.
The new President of the United States, Wilkie, has very limited personal influence on the current national policy of the United States.
Franklin who had his neck broken by Lin Han. Roosevelt was born in the Roosevelt family, which is a well-known big family in the United States, with very deep roots, and is also a famous political family, and his uncle Theodore Roosevelt is also a famous president in American history.
But Roosevelt, who was supposed to be in power in the United States during this period, died, and was replaced by Cactus Garner and Wilkie.
If Cactus Ghana can succeed in re-electing for a third term, relying on the team and prestige left over from the previous two terms, it will also have greater influence and autonomy in national policy, but the President of Ghana has failed to seek a third re-election.
And the new commander Wilkie, both in prestige and heritage, is much worse than the previous two. In fact, the consortium praised him for coming to power, precisely because of the weakness of this person's lack of "prestige", so that they could better control him. Born in the South, Ghana is a red-necked man with the support of the Southern Bloc and has too much influence in Congress. For the various consortia that secretly manipulate the direction of US policy and governance behind the scenes, they do not like such a powerful and authoritative president.
At this crossroads, which determines the direction of American policy and diplomacy, President Wilkie simply cannot let the chariot of the United States of America go according to the plan he envisioned. Many decisions made by Congress were forced to agree to by him.
And these plutocratic conglomerates hijacking the national decisions made by the US Congress for their own private interests will only lead the United States to the wrong track at this crossroads of history.
In March, before the start of the British parade in April, the British quietly transferred several capital warships to Asia to maintain order here. Although the two main battleships were all old goods sold by the Americans to the British, the two aircraft carriers that followed them were only escort carriers converted from cargo ships. But the British's move, coupled with the parade that began at the end of April, already hinted at something big about the future.
On 10 May, the British Government sent a diplomatic note to the United States, demanding the resumption of trade talks between the United Kingdom and the United States, and the contents and terms of the negotiations were all related to the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement."
The armistice in Europe has been going on for more than a year and a half. The British, having taken advantage of the fact that they could no longer bear the ravages of American goods in the markets of Britain and the colonies, finally tore their faces at this moment after feeling that they had gained confidence.
On the other hand, the US Navy, under the authority of the President, has also publicly announced that it will hold a large-scale "military exercise" in the Philippines in July this year.
In the past two years, a large number of capital ships of the British Navy have been put into service, and the US Navy, which has begun to build ships on a large scale together with Britain, has launched its main warships one after another like "dumplings" in the past two years. This is also the time of harvest.
In the past two years, the US Navy has received two North Carolina-class battleships, and four South Dakota-class battleships are also in service, and even the USS Alabama, which is the slowest to build, will join active service in August this year.
Due to the influence of the "excessive tonnage" of the Scharnhorst-class battleships, these Nandahota-class battleships were the same as the British George V-class battleships, and they were designed with a starting tonnage of 40,000 tons, instead of the historical 35,000 tons. The extra 5,000 tons of design redundancy allowed designers to design warships without being as stretched as before.
Not counting the old ship. The number of new battleships acquired by the US Navy surpassed that of the British Navy in the newly launched battleships. As for aircraft carriers, the two Essex-class aircraft carriers will also join the US Navy after September. Not only that, but five Iowa-class battleships and five Essex-class aircraft carriers are now being built simultaneously on the slipway in the United States.
When negotiators from Britain and the United States gathered in Washington for endless trade talks. President Wilkie's high-profile announcement that the US Navy would conduct "military exercises" in China in the South China Sea was undoubtedly an opportunity to wield a big stick and exert invisible pressure on the British.
While negotiations were still in progress, the third ship of the South Dakota-class battleships, the USS Massachusetts. It was also during the negotiations in May of that year that he joined the U.S. Navy with a high profile. At this time, the ratio of the new battleships of the US and British navies has reached five to four, and by the end of this year, when the two sides have built the last warship, the ratio will become six to five.
On the surface, the British only lost to the United States in building a new ship, but on the follow-up ships, Britain's national strength was only enough to start construction of two Lion-class battleships in the shipyard, while on the American side, the deep-pocketed five Iowa-class battleships started construction at the same time. Not to mention the pace of construction of American terror in terms of aircraft carriers.
If the old warships of that vote are taken into account, the overall advantage of the US Navy over the British Navy is almost more than twice as high, and this advantage will become greater and greater over time.
Relying on the overwhelming superiority of the navy, the United States is also full of confidence in the ongoing trade talks between Britain and the United States in Washington. Talks between the two sides began on 6 May and lasted until 20 May. The British wanted to throw their hands away many times and unilaterally close the door of the colonial market, but they were under pressure from the US Navy, which was really embarrassing.
The negotiations began in May, but the Americans deliberately announced that they would conduct military exercises in the Philippines in July.
In the process, in the face of the aggressive power of the US Navy in the Pacific, the British government could only desperately win over the Japanese. At the same time, the United States also lobbied Japan, luring the British to colonize and low-interest commercial loans, and making a bunch of promises.
What are the Americans doing?
There is no him, but I ask that at this critical moment, the Japanese stop jumping out and muddy the waters.
When the Anglo-US negotiations gradually reached a deadlock, the Japanese Government, which had ostensibly made a statement of "sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai" and had always pretended to turn a blind eye to the Anglo-US contradictions, finally received a long-awaited response on 15 May.
On 15 May, an envoy from London entered Mikasa Palace with a promise from British Prime Minister Attlee that the British would support the Japanese government's action in the Philippines and that the British government would assume its "responsibility" in the future war between Japan and the United States.
Here, the British played a little trick on words, and did not promise to declare war on the United States together with Japan, but the current Japan is not the Japan of the Russo-Japanese War, and Britain is not the world hegemon of the past.
If it had been the Japanese military headquarters that had been rampant in the past, the worthless promise of the British secret envoy, which was full of text traps, would have long ago encouraged these middle two to jump out and use the British as gunmen. However, the current Japanese military department is deeply influenced by Li Huamei, and the proportion of middle school and second students is not as high as that in the same period in history.
Discussing the matter afterwards, the commander of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, expressed his opinion to the emperor:
"The British couldn't help it, it seems that the Americans, in the negotiations in Washington, have forced them very badly!"
Emperor Chongren asked Li Huamei, "Your Excellency, what is your opinion?" ”
"It is precisely because the British can't bear it that we have to endure it even more! The more we endure, the more we get. Bear with it and ask the British for more conditions for war. ”
At this time, Japan's national policy toward war had already been decided, that is, to go to war against the United States. The strict conflict between Britain and the United States was the time for the Japanese to go to war for many years. Even better, in order to put pressure on Britain, the two friends were moving their main fleet to the Pacific Ocean in large numbers. This just gave Japan a great opportunity to see the right time and gather and annihilate the creation of zào.
"The arrow has already been wound, and we are just waiting for the time to shoot it now."
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