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Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Japan.

Roosevelt pinched the chess pieces and looked absentmindedly at the chessboard in front of him. The clouds are growing in Europe, and the Soviet-German arms race is being carried out at an extraordinary pace after the injection of American capital. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has sent special envoys on several occasions in the hope of rallying the United States to jointly prevent and contain the outbreak of war in Europe. In Asia, there are various signs that Yang Qiu has also gradually adjusted his economy to transfer to armaments, and the army under his command is also storming Afghanistan, and the situation in Central Asia and Arabia has been overshadowed by planes and tanks. In the same way, Japan's armaments are not weak, the docks are crowded with all kinds of warships waiting to be launched, the tarmac is densely packed, and even the army has been expanded by hundreds of thousands.

A world storm has finally risen! It is only a matter of time before the Versailles system, which strangles the United States and leaves American goods with no way out. But at this time, Beijing, which he has been paying the most attention to, has not yet had an unclear attitude. "Harry." Roosevelt casually placed the pieces inside the squares. Compared with the chess game in front of him, this big game of chess in the outside world has made him more and more cautious, looking at Hopkins who is playing chess with him: "Guess what, what is Yang Qiu playing?" ”

As a staff member, Hopkins knew very well what he thought, but he didn't look up, and continued to look at the chessboard with a cigarette without any image: "I hate guessing puzzles, but I think that Mr. Yang Qiu should be waiting for Prime Minister Chamberlain's choice." ”

"Chamberlain?" Roosevelt was immediately interested. He knew that his old friend had a gap in his chest and was a very rare strategic talent, so he couldn't help asking: "Harry, you mean, he will meddle in European affairs this time?" ”

"He's already intervened once." Hopkins finally looked up, his triangular eyes full of pity. I don't know if it's because I lament that my chess skills are not as good as Roosevelt, or because I lament that the American system has limited the hands and feet of their generation. He said to himself: "In the last war, he lacked logistics, was unstable at home, and dared to send troops to Europe before even the threat of Japan was eliminated. Now that there is a fleet and very good planes, will he still be afraid? He is probably now thinking about how to deal with the UK. Like many others, he wanted a British legacy, a great British legacy, and a desire to intervene in Arabia and Central Asia, but none of that could be bypassed the British. So he's waiting. If Prime Minister Chamberlain needed him, then he would attack the Soviet Union with all his might, and if he didn't need it, I can't think of anything crazy he would do. ”

"He was different from Chamberlain, who was pushing the war out with compromise and appeasement, and he was flexing his muscles. Tell Stalin not to mess with me. I was thinking that he must want to avoid the Soviet Union and Japan in order to make Europe fight more intensely, to make Japan more completely destroyed, and even to see us dragged into the vortex. It's a pity that he met you. Hopkins jokingly complimented: "Withdrawing from the Philippines would allow Japan and China to have overlapping interests." When Japan moves south, it will become a front line of conflict. At that time, Japan will have to deal with China before it can deal with us. As soon as Japan moved south, Stalin would have considered Japan to begin to fulfill the Pact of Flanking. In order to consolidate his position and cover up his previous defeats, he will definitely order revenge and attack on China, and even seize China's position in Arabia! Therefore, Yang Qiu needs to face a two-sided situation. had to be forced to get involved in a deeper war. ”

Roosevelt nodded, in order to lure Japan south. He has made very big concessions, and if it weren't for the economic crisis and the prevalence of isolationism, the loss of the Philippines alone would have been enough for Congress to impeach him, and MacArthur has so far refused to forgive him.

Hopkins continued: "Japan is too close to China to be victorious unless we can destroy both Chinese fleets and all the shipbuilding capacity along the coast." So Yang Qiu and you have the same goal, and the two of you even surprise me like brothers. But he wants Japan to clash with us first when it goes south, and you must want to see the Chinese navy paralyzed. So what to do is to weaken the USSR and tear Europe apart! As for the war between Beijing and Tokyo in the Pacific, it will take at least two to three years, as long as the time is right to return to the Philippines, then we will win. ”

Roosevelt really wanted a war between China and Japan to reduce the trouble of American hegemony in the Pacific. But this is the secret in his heart, after being stabbed by Hopkins, his face is also a little uncomfortable, and he smiled: "Harry, I really should let you be my general." ”

"General? Hehe, I don't want to be kicked in the ass by MacArthur. ”

Roosevelt also smiled and asked, "So what are we to do now?" ”

"You know that better than I do." Hopkins stood up, his expression slowly serious: "Yang Qiu is a person who puts the country first, as long as he ensures that China can get enough benefits, he will not break the most basic rules of the game." But the USSR was not! They have completely and completely broken the rules of the free world, divided people into hierarchies and dictatorships! If the Soviets and Germany really come together, then the United States of America will see a terrible Europe, a destructive Europe! If even Britain ends up falling, the United States will have a catastrophe!

Franklin!

On the eve of the redrawing of spheres of influence, with a dozen agreements in the pockets of every nation, we are all ready to carry out and accept the betrayal. The squabbles and spat of parliament are just a waste of spirit, and profit is the only criterion of the world of capital. For the sake of reality with potential dividends, by any means! Any alliance is possible. In this regard, the Soviet Union and Germany have set an example. Yang Qiu also understood deeply, so he hadn't interrupted any of the ways yet. He could join forces with Germany, he could sit down with Britain and talk, and he could even go to compromise with Stalin! The ultimate goal of each of these three choices is the minimum cost, the maximum gain! For us in the United States, the USSR, Germany and Japan are destined to be saboteurs, while Britain, France and China are all potential adversaries, so they should be allowed to consume, to break, to build! But no one should be allowed to quit the game. ”

Amid Hopkins' sonorous voice, Roosevelt pushed the wheelchair to the window. Washington is going through a second wave of economic crisis, and at this time he really desperately wants war to break out, and only through the war can the United States be truly reborn. But the question is, how big is the war? When to intervene? How to meddle? Will the Soviet Union and Germany sweep through Asia and Europe, or will China and Germany storm Britain and France? Or will China, Britain and France take the opportunity of the war to completely eliminate Germany, a hidden danger in Europe, and then take the opportunity to eliminate the red threat in one go?

At this moment, he felt as if he was in an empty and monotonous labyrinth, with countless options. Fortunately, relying on its unique geographical advantages and strong industrial capabilities, the United States still has enough opportunities to control its destiny, while those countries in Europe and Asia that are on the front line of conflict have very few opportunities to choose. Thinking of this, he slowly turned his head, and without waiting to speak, Hopkins had already guessed the idea, and smiled slightly: "I know, you must want to drive me away!" Well, remember to reimburse the ferry ticket, a trip to China and the Soviet Union costs a lot of money. ”

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Hopkins smiled and freely agreed that when Roosevelt set off for a tentative visit to Beijing and Moscow, the world outside the window was already lightning and thunder.

At the critical juncture when Britain and France were concerned about the movements of the Soviet Union and Germany, on February 12, 1938, Hitler suddenly set aside Motolov and summoned Austrian Chancellor Hüschnitge. He demanded that the Austrian government ban the party, legalize the Nazi Party, force it to reshuffle its cabinet, ask him to appoint the Austrian Nazi leader Seth as Minister of the Interior, Holstnow as Minister of Defense, and for the first time proposed the merger of Austria and Germany. After half a month of coercion and inducement, Hüschnitge finally succumbed to the threat of war, but many pro-British and French Austrians were unwilling to join Germany, so he had no choice but to announce a referendum on whether to join Germany.

Hitler was furious when he heard the news, fearing that the referendum would fail, so he immediately issued an ultimatum to Austria, demanding that Schüschnigg immediately resign and that Seiss be chancellor, otherwise the German army would march into Austria the next day. Schuschnigg trembled with fright, and immediately moved out of the Treaty of Saint-Germain and appealed to Britain, France, Italy, and other countries that were obliged to guarantee Austria's independence. But the Chamberlain government was still struggling with Soviet-German contacts, the crisis in Afghanistan, and the belief that a German-Austrian merger was inevitable, so it rejected the request for protection. France simply dodged in the name of the national election, and Italy will not intervene.

After all three countries were unwilling to intervene to offend Germany, Hüttunig once again capitulated and agreed to all of Hitler's demands.

On March 12, 1938, when the long-planned German tanks quickly crossed the German-Austrian border to occupy Austria, and by March 14 Hitler excitedly announced in Berlin that his homeland had officially become a German state.

Without waiting for the world to digest the news, Afghanistan will make a comeback!

On March 17, just three days after Hitler announced the annexation of Austria, the Chinese Air Force suddenly dispatched 212 bombers and 172 fighters to bomb the border town of Termez in Turkmenistan and Herat, a key city in western Afghanistan, for 10 days. Although the Soviet army resisted hard and shot down 7 and wounded 17, it paid a heavy price for 97 planes of all types, more than 10,000 tons of ammunition and food, more than 1,000 soldiers killed, and thousands of tanks and equipment of all kinds lost!

The almost undefended sky made Stalin furious, and while personally going down to the grassroots level to demand that the development of new aircraft be strengthened, he even shouted the slogan of saving the Soviet sky with blood and sacrifice, and asked Beria to lead the research and development of new weapons. At the same time, he stepped up his efforts to get Motolov to contact Germany, hoping to reach an agreement as soon as possible to purchase a batch of fighters capable of defending the Soviet Union.

After a series of secret talks and meetings, in the spring of April 1938, Berlin abruptly let Motorov leave on the pretext of refusing to cooperate. When the world thought that the Soviet-German negotiations had broken down, Ribbentrop secretly arrived in Moscow on a special plane. Also on this day, Gu Weijun, Vice Premier of the Republic of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived in Riyadh on a cruiser for a visit, and after a brief exchange with Ibn Saud, his figure secretly appeared in the Rose Palace in Tehran on the other side of the strait.

The storm whirlpool is already unstoppable