Chapter 286: Chain Reaction
The time difference between Washington and London is five hours.
When the battleship Ramillis tragically sank by itself, the President of Ghana, the "Cactus" of Ghana, was preparing to have lunch at the White House in Washington, and then his Secretary of State, Hull, came to the president's table and handed him an urgent military intelligence from London.
When he saw this telegram, the president of Ghana was always shocked, then slightly happy, and finally frowned. In just a few seconds, the US president's face changed three times.
"What? The Royal Navy is gone! Are you sure you didn't get the wrong telegram? ”
"I also wish I had taken the wrong telegram."
Ghana and Hull's Q&A is similar to Churchill's and the female secretary's answers.
The President of Ghana sighed to the Secretary of State.
"The balance of the Old World has been broken!"
Hull was equally worried: "In the telegram, after the victory, the Germans had already released balloons of peace talks to the British by means of a broadcast. We fear that the British, who no longer have a navy, are likely to yield to the Germans in the near future. ”
The President of Ghana nodded: "That's what I'm worried about. ”
Like the British, the United States does not want to see a united Europe, and they adhere to the so-called "continental equilibrium" policy. Now that the British Navy has been completely wiped out, and the British have lost their naval supremacy in the Atlantic overnight, the damage caused by this fiasco can be said to be fatal for the British island nation.
Although there are still several large warships in the shipyards of the British mainland that will be launched within a year, the British Isles, which do not have sea control, will not survive the next year unless they can receive strong external assistance.
After a moment of silence, the President of Ghana ordered:
"Send a telegram to Churchill at once, and sue him. The United States of America will give its full support to the British government in the fight against the Red Plague from the East! Well, that's what it means to send him electricity. ”
Hull hesitated, "Why don't you discuss it with your staff?" ”
"There is no time, Churchill must be in a hurry now, and it is the most desperate time for the British, we must give them a little hope!"
Although Ghana is not as black-bellied as Roosevelt, he can climb to the presidency. The same elite figures will not fail to see the terrible variables of the European landscape after the end of Britain.
At present, the isolationist sentiment in the United States is very strong, and there are a large number of isolationist members in Congress who demand that the United States not meddle in European affairs and make war money behind closed doors.
But these people are not "important", they are not the key figures who really determine US foreign policy.
Lin Han once half-truthfully told Hannah that the United States is actually a big conglomerate disguised as a state. The people who are really secretly manipulating the country are the many plutocrats who stand behind the Democratic and Republican parties. For example, Nockfeller, Morgan, DuPont, etc., and even Roosevelt, who was killed by Lin Han, was himself a famous Roosevelt plutocracy in the United States.
The United States needs a divided Europe, and in the same way, the United States needs a war-torn Europe, the American plutocratic conglomerates, the military-industrial complex. I'm waiting for World War II to get bigger and bigger, so let's make this big meal a good supplement.
How could Britain be able to withdraw from the war at this time?
On this plane. Roosevelt, who once attacked and suppressed the American plutocracy, died, and the president of Ghana, who came to power, did not have much interest in attacking and suppressing the domestic chaebol consortiums.
After instructing the secretary of state to send a forced injection to Churchill, who was on the other side of the Atlantic, who was struggling with anxiety on the other side of the Atlantic, the president of Ghana ordered his staff to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the great changes in the European landscape. The direction of the change in the national policy of the United States.
Deep down, the president of Ghana, like the dead Roosevelt, had a sense of mission to bring the United States of America to the top of the world, and in his heart he very much wanted to get involved in the war in Europe, which would put the United States on the throne of world hegemony.
The only one preventing him from doing so at the moment. It is not the so-called "isolationism" or "anti-war atmosphere" in the country. When people of later generations talk about the United States during this period, they always have to say how strong the isolationist atmosphere in the United States was at this time.
In fact, these things are just smoke, and whether the United States will enter the war or not can only depend on the opinions of the upper echelons and the interests of the chaebols who collude with the upper echelons behind the scenes.
"For the plutocracy that controls the United States, what reason should the United States of America not enter the war?"
When the President of Ghana convened his staff to discuss the next change in the national policy of the United States, in the secret room of the Scharnhorst, which was returning home, Lin Han, who was not carrying anything, and Hanna, who was also missing, were lying in the same bed, discussing similar topics as the President of the United States.
After the battle, Lin Han and Hannah, the dog man and woman, celebrated the victory in a foolish way. After the incident, the two began to discuss the topic of rectification.
Lin Han said: "The United States will definitely enter the war, and we cannot have illusions about this. ”
When the war broke out in Europe, the British Empire and France kept issuing a large number of orders, bringing huge profits to the United States of America and the military-industrial complex of the United States, but Britain and France were not the biggest and most important "customers" of these greedy plutocracy, the real biggest and most important customers were precisely the United States of America itself.
"Only when the United States personally participates in World War II will the U.S. government pull out a huge amount of military spending from the treasury for arms procurement. Imagine how much military budget it would cost to arm more than 10 million American GIs! How much money will it cost to build more than 100,000 planes to carry out strategic bombing against Germany! How much huge profit can these military budgets bring to the plutocratic conglomerates in the United States? ”
"If we look at the history of later generations, we will understand that the best example is the Vietnam War. When Kennedy was president, the United States was already planning to withdraw from the quagmire of Vietnam, and then what? Then he was shot in the head, because the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam would mean the end of the war, and the profits of the military-industrial complexes would be reduced. Not to mention the second Iraq war of the Bush era in the 21st century. In both wars, the anti-war atmosphere in the United States was very strong at that time, but did they stop the war? No! Besides, the so-called anti-war atmosphere and the domestic climate, these things are very clear to you and me, as long as the media is well controlled, the people in the propaganda department should not be too stupid, and the attitude of the people can be completely manipulated and reversed. During the First World War, what the so-called Zimmerin telegram was, I think you also know very well. ”
World War I. The United States entered World War I because of the so-called "Zimmerin Telegram", declaring war on Germany. However, after the war, there was a theory that the so-called Zimmering telegram was forged by the British, and the US government also took advantage of the trend to "believe". Zimmerin's telegram was nothing more than a ready-made reason for the Americans to enter the war. The United States really wants to declare war on Germany, are they still afraid that they will not be able to create an excuse? The "Maine Incident" written and directed by the Americans in history is an excellent example.
According to Lin Han's view, even if Germany did not ally with Japan in this plane, it would not take the initiative to declare war on the United States because of the Pearl Harbor incident, but the possibility of the United States declaring war on Germany is extremely high. The only thing that could make Americans hesitate to get involved in the war in Europe was the current fragile alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany.
When the Soviets and Germans joined forces, the illusion that the two sides were like wearing a pair of pants made the Americans feel intimidated by getting involved in the war in Europe. But how long this fragile alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany will last, even the top leaders of the two countries have countless in their hearts.
The total destruction of the British Navy caused a ripple effect around the world, not only in the United States.
In Moscow of the Soviet Union, Stalin received the news of the German Navy's victory in the Third Battle of Norway at about nine o'clock local time.
For Stalin, who had long sharpened his knife and waited for the best time to arrive to "slaughter the cow", the fall of the Royal Navy made him happy and worried.
Happily, after this battle, the weaker British were no longer able to interfere with the actions of the Soviet Red Army in Central Asia, and the Soviet Union had less of an obstacle to extending its influence into the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans.
Worryingly, the dangerous "German ally" to the west was victorious, and the combined energy of the traverser and the supreme head of the German state easily annihilated the already weak German navy several times the strength of his British navy. The energy that erupted from the combination of this historical "accident" and the power of the state really made Stalin wary of it.
Lin Han told Stalin about his future history, and Stalin did not dare to believe all his words, nor did he dare not believe them. However, the "qualitative change" that took place after the Germans and Lin Han, the "traverser", were really visible to Stalin.
Mixed joy and sorrow is Stalin's current state of mind.
That night, as the lights remained on in the Kremlin, Stalin convened senior party officials to discuss the impact on the Soviet Union of the changes in international shape that had followed the fall of the Royal Navy.
Originally, Stalin's idea was to wait for the large-scale land war in Western Europe to begin, and when Germany and Britain and France were fighting on land, he would take advantage of Britain's complete flawlessness to pick up the bargain in Central Asia.
But now that the British Royal Navy was completely destroyed, and Britain was most likely forced to negotiate peace with Germany, Stalin began to sit still.
Into the Mediterranean, wading into the Indian Ocean, this is a dream that the Slavs have had for hundreds of years since the time of Tsarist Russia, and Stalin did not want to miss this best opportunity.
At this time, Stalin had already decided not to wait any longer. The millions of Soviet Red Army troops on the borders of Afghanistan and Turkey will show their sharpened minions in the near future. At the sound of Stalin's order, a million Red Army troops would cross the border and enter Afghanistan and Turkey. As for the Iranian side, because of Stalin's prudence, he did not want to open too many fronts, and at present the Soviet side is tempting it by guò political means, and there is no idea of solving it by force for the time being. (To be continued......)