Chapter 333: No Eternal Enemy (Second Update)
Historically, in 1945, after the traitor Churchill was ousted from power, he was replaced by the current leader of the Labour Party, Attlee, and in the following months, Germany was defeated and surrendered, and Japan soon followed in Germany's footsteps.
At this time, although the Soviet Union gained half of Eastern Europe, its own vitality was greatly damaged, and although Britain did not suffer much loss of human life, it was also close to financial bankruptcy, and only the United States, the United States, which stood alone, became the world hegemon in one fell swoop with its powerful military strength and a frightening navy.
At this time, the British imperialists were still unwilling to withdraw from the world stage and still wanted to struggle. Churchill's Iron Curtain speech polarized the world and wanted to provoke a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, so that the British Empire could take a breather, but the American and Soviet governments were not fools.
From 1945 to the Korean War, the United States was basically busy with one thing, completely dismantling the-stirring stick Britain and establishing itself as the sole speaker in the capitalist world.
In the decade after 1945, the relationship between Britain and the United States was so strange.
From the perspective of the British, the traditional continental policy led to a fear of Hitler's control of the European continent, which led to a series of chaotic decisions, which led to the birth of Churchill, the number one traitor. In order to make the United States an ally, Churchill basically sold everything the British Empire could sell: 1) almost all naval bases in the Caribbean, 2) all the blueprints of British cutting-edge technology, including radar, the theoretical proof of the atomic bomb, etc., 3) the British mainland and all colonies were completely open to the United States.
In real history, the British idea was that the Allies landed in Italy and the Balkans from the Mediterranean, sat back and watched the beards bleed each other in Poland, and finally the Allies went down the mountain and cleaned up the two together, so that the-stirring stick was the only power on the European continent, and it had the aura of saving the people of Eastern Europe and the Balkans from the iron hooves of Soviet Russia, and divided the world equally with the United States. The idea is good
But the world never works lightly according to people's optimal ideas. After Operation Torch, Roosevelt put Britain in Casablanca, reassuring Stalin, showing the attitude that we were all allies before the elimination of Germany, and actually acquiescing to the general trend of the United States and the Soviet Union dividing Europe equally, and I have neither objection nor support the British Yankees' Mediterranean strategy. The British had no choice but to play an Angio landing battle on their own. As a result, Italy was almost pushed into the sea.
After the Yalta Conference, the new pattern of the United States and the Soviet Union dividing up the world has been decided, and only Churchill smiled bitterly in the group photo of the Big Three, and Keynes in Bretton Woods was almost begging the Americans to put a-stirring stick on trade dominance, and the Americans were unmoved. When the two news reached London, the British people naturally didn't understand anything, but the British elite who saw the signs tore Churchill's heart alive, which was also an important reason why Churchill was ousted in the British election.
After the war, the British who did not give up on-stirring sticks wished that the United States and the Soviet Union would fight immediately. On the one hand, Rolls-Royce's engines were given to the Soviet Union, which later became the source of the famous MiG-15 engine. On the one hand, talking about the Iron Curtain at the United Nations and playing the Cold War of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, are the British schizophrenia?
No, the British were wishful thinking at that time, they were planning to scare the United States with a powerful Soviet Union, and if they left me to stir up, who did Europe rely on for defense? For this reason, the Labour Party did not hesitate to raise the Soviet Union's self-respect. It's a pity that the Paris Peace Conference did too disgusting. The Americans do not want to be fools for the second time, and a strong Soviet Union is actually what the United States needs (otherwise how to collect protection money from Europe).
Other than that. The British talked a lot about how difficult the domestic economy was after the war, but the implication was that they wanted to repay their debts and get rid of the US debt owed by the Lend-Lease Act. The United States said that it wanted to rely on it, on the one hand, to contact the Soviet Union and Gandhi, and on the other hand, to step up the integration of Bretton Woods into the United Nations system, and the dust settled in 47 years. Bretton Woods entered the framework of the United Nations, and a month later, India became independent with the dual endorsement of the United States and the Soviet Union, and Canada signed the North American Defense Integration Agreement, and the British Empire became complete history.
The last bit of struggle of the British in history, the Suez Canal War. The last struggle of old Europe, Britain and France defeated Egypt on the battlefield, and was sanctioned by the United States and the Soviet Union outside the battlefield, France broke the kettle and proposed to form a co-monarch federation with Britain to confront the United States and the Soviet Union. I'd rather be a dog than a human. The United States and the Soviet Union were completely relieved, and then it was the Cold War game time that belonged to the United States and the Soviet Union in the real sense, and after years of struggle to no avail, Britain finally could not resist the strong women of the American imperialists, so they could only open their legs and enjoy it, and they were unwilling to be the little brother and suffer weakly.
For this more real history, when Hannah, Lin Han or the ** leader talked about this matter, in this plane where history was shattered, China, the Soviet Union and Germany joined forces to deal with Britain, and what kind of course the war should become, it is worth thinking about.
"India is too big to be fat, it should be liberated little by little, just like peeling an eggshell."
This was the agreement reached at the meeting of the three giants of China, the Soviet Union and Germany at the Leningrad talks.
But privately, China and Germany have a different view.
"The sun never sets on the empire cannot collapse too soon, and if it collapses too early, it will only cheapen the United States."
This is the opinion that Lin Han expressed to Hannah in private after the Leningrad Conference, and this view was later agreed by Chairman Lee Run-seok, the leader of the ** group.
Turning the world into a bipolar world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union, as was the case in the original historical plane, is something that neither China nor Germany wants to see. Germany in this plane, even if it becomes the third pole of the two poles because of the traverser, is bound to be the most vulnerable pole of the three poles due to its natural slight strength in population and territorial depth. The three major defects of Germany's main population being too poor, not being self-sufficient in resources, and being too small in depth are impossible to make up for no matter how much the traverser opens.
According to Lin Han's view: "Germany alone cannot become the third pole of stability." ”
Hannah agreed with him with silence. Although China has the potential to become the third pole, China's industrialization and modernization will require a long cycle of accumulation, and it will take forty or fifty years no matter how fast it is. In the forties and fifties, it was impossible to play this role.
Linhan's opinion was: "Pull in the doomed Britain, and pull them in when they fall into the abyss." Historically, the United States and the Soviet Union were dismembering the empire by unscrupulous means, and in this era, once the war between Britain and Germany was broken, what would the Americans think of the large number of colonies that were still under British control? Although it is said that the British are now forced to open the colonial market, what is more comfortable than taking the market in the hands of others than taking it yourself? ”
In Lin Han's view, when Britain and Germany began peace talks, the most anxious people were not Germans, but Americans. In the Anglo-American Washington Treaty, the Americans got a bunch of things, but some, like the colonial market, were still in the hands of the British at the other end.
In many cases, the comparison of strength is not the decisive factor in the outbreak of war, but what can be gained from the war and who benefits the most is the factor that determines the outbreak of war
"Once the Anglo-German peace talks are in the interests of the colonies, the contradictions between Britain and the United States will soon erupt. After all, the "peace" between Britain and Germany came too quickly, and the British had not much to lose in Germany, but too much to lose in the so-called "allies" of the United States. We only need to point out this, and this will be the source of the outbreak of Anglo-American contradictions. ”
"The British will struggle desperately to keep the interests of the colony. When they need allies, we can help them and make the Sunset Empire collapse more slowly. ”
Germany's problem, like China's, is that its ability to project troops overseas is very bad, and China is close to Asia, and has land connections with India and the southeast, and can still get a piece of the pie in this feast of dividing up "British beef." And because of Germany's tragic geographical location, it can basically only play soy sauce on the side.
Only the United States, with its powerful navy and long-range projection capabilities, will be the biggest beneficiary of this feast, especially now that the British Navy is completely wiped out, the United States has a stronger advantage.
On 20 August, when Germany replied to the British demands for negotiations, Ringham persuaded Hannah to raise the British as low as possible, so that the British felt that they had nothing to lose in Germany, and that the losses of the past war were entirely due to the stupidity of Churchill. At the same time, Lin Han also ordered the German public opinion machine to be activated, to create public opinion around the world, to advocate the theory of the American threat, and to continue to hype up the theme that the United States was the biggest beneficiary of the Anglo-German war.
According to Elinghan, as Britain and Germany sit down at the negotiating table, the most anxious Americans are most worried about precisely the most sensitive place at present: Southeast Asia. Here, the forces of China, the United States, and Japan are intertwined, and with the beginning of peace talks between Britain and China, the Soviet Union and Germany, the British can also withdraw part of their forces back to Southeast Asia.
Lin Han strongly suspected that in the past few days, the Americans are likely to make unusual big moves in Southeast Asia. Just before the end of the French War, stimulated by the heavy incident of the Japanese invasion of the Malay Peninsula, the U.S. Navy transferred two newly launched North Carolina-class battleships and the aircraft carrier Saratoga to the Pacific Ocean through the Guò Panama Canal. In addition to the presidential election, another reason was the rapid expansion of Japanese power in Southeast Asia, which made the U.S. Navy, which had not yet entered a full state, lose sight of the other.
When the battleship Yamato openly appeared in the harbor of Singapore, the shock to the hearts of the Americans at that time was extremely powerful.
So, under such a premise, secret negotiations between Britain and Germany first began.
There is no third update today, I will now go to write another "Reaper of the End Times", this month's more drafts, "The Reaper of the End of the World" will continue to be updated from the first of next month. However, this month, I will only backlog the manuscript and will not update it for the time being. (To be continued......)
ps:There is no third update today.,I'm going to write another "Doomsday Reaper" now.,This month's more drafts.,"The Doomsday Reaper" will continue to be updated from the first of next month.。 However, this month, I will only backlog the manuscript and will not update it for the time being.