The 334th Peace Comes, Europe in the Red Circle

"The Brit raised by a female cousin!"

On the morning of 20 August, upon hearing the news that peace talks had begun between Britain and Germany, Cactus Garner cursed in a faux puff. After the defeat of France, Britain could no longer carry on the war under the joint squeeze of China, the Soviet Union and Germany, which he had predicted, but he did not expect it to come so quickly.

"Only three months away!"

Cactus Garner hated in his heart that if Britain could support it for three more months, wait until the US election was over. As long as he Ghana can continue to be re-elected, he will definitely tear his face and let the United States enter the war, and the military-industrial complex forces behind Ghana are also willing to support the president's war policy.

However, the British are too useless and too clever to be self-conscious. It was precisely because they cleverly introduced the Japanese into Southeast Asia that the Americans, who had already regarded this place as their own confiner, were forced to transfer the main warships of the Navy from the east coast to the west coast to suppress the very dishonest Japanese who were ready to move. So much so that there was a gap in the Atlantic direction, and when the German Navy made a high-profile attack at the end of July, the strength of the US Navy in the Atlantic was simply powerless to confront.

"Churchill, you are playing with fire and setting yourself on fire!"

Now Churchill's reputation in Britain has become as bad as that of his predecessor Neville Chamberlain, and the President of Ghana, who sighed a little about his fate, began to have a headache about the world situation that Britain and the United States would face after the armistice between Britain and China, the Soviet Union and Germany. In August, the President of Ghana and the curtain chat, has been exhausted? A single means wanted to sabotage the peace talks between Britain and Germany, but at this time, the anti-war situation in Britain was flourishing, and the conditions for peace talks put forward by the German side were not excessive, so it was not easy to sabotage the peace talks.

This peace talks not only involve Britain and Germany, but also include the Soviet Union, Germany, China, and even the French, who were stabbed by the British not long ago. and Spain, which was pulled to the negotiating table. The venue for the negotiations was Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, a neutral country in Europe.

By August 1940, the empire on which the sun never set had lost the following territories in South Asia.

On the Indian and Pakistani side, they lost Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir, and these forces were basically occupied by the Soviet Union. And when the Soviet Red Army moved south in the north of India and Pakistan. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the Chinese side also sent several thousand troops and tens of thousands of migrant workers to fight together, and in August they regained the lost territory of Aksai Chin, which means "China's White Rock Beach" in Turkic language, "since ancient times."

The Asekechin region is basically a semi-no-man's land, and it didn't take much effort for the PLA to occupy it. Tens of thousands of migrant workers are mainly tasked with logistical maintenance, building roads in Xinjiang and strengthening China's ties with the region.

(Note: The Asekeqin region is the only way for Xinjiang-Tibet transportation and has high strategic value.) During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the establishment of the Extension Bureau was under the jurisdiction of here. After the British annexed Jam-Kashmir in 1846. Claimed that Ladakh (an area originally under the local government of Tibet, China, and part of Kashmir) should be ruled by the Anglo-Indian government. Without waiting for the Qing government's consent, the British occupied Ladakh. Later, in the demarcation of the border between Ladakh and Tibet, in order to find a shortcut to invade the hinterland of China's Xinjiang, the British invaders sent Johnson, an official of the Survey Bureau of India, to infiltrate the southern Xinjiang region in 1865, from Ladakh to Aksai Chin, and finally to Hotan in Xinjiang, where he "surveyed". A line was drawn, and this is the Johnson Line. This line assigned nearly 30,000 square kilometers of land, including Aksai Chin, to British India. Aksai Chin became part of Anglo-Indian Kashmir, but the British government was not aware of the Qing government at the time. In the late 50s, China built the New Tibet Highway in the Aksai Chin region, which caused dissatisfaction in India. India then categorically made territorial claims to Aksai Chin on the basis of the Johnson Line, and the Sino-Indian border dispute in the western section arose.)

On the Myanmar side. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has occupied most of Kachin and Shan States, and these lands that have been connected "since ancient times" are now being returned to China. In addition, the three neighboring provinces of Sagaing, Mandalay, and Kayah have been "incompatible since ancient times". The local settlements did not belong to the Han Confucian cultural circle, and the People's Liberation Army did not directly send troops to occupy them, but the local warlord forces controlling these three provinces, with the covert support of the People's Liberation Army, also declared "autonomy and independence" and "founded the country" from the rule of the British. The British colonial army in Burma only took advantage of the "distance" to firmly hold a few provinces near the sea. However, the leaders of the local powerful military factions in these provinces, who used to rely on the British, also started to think differently after seeing the bright prospects of "making their own decisions" after the establishment of the three provinces after the establishment of the autonomous state. It's just that under the suppression of the British colonial army, for the time being, they can only be honest, and the British rule here is already shaky.

In addition, a piece of land in northeastern India, bordering Tibet and the Kachin region of Myanmar, has also fallen into the hands of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the past few months. After the People's Liberation Army occupied the area, it encouraged them to establish an independent state in line with the principle of "national autonomy".

The ethnic groups of the northeastern states of India, including Arunachal Pradesh in southern Tibet, because of their similar appearance to the Chinese, often faced various racial discrimination in other parts of India in later generations, because the girls of Northeast India have lighter skin and are very different from other Indians, making them even more India's specialty: the target of the attention of the bow and the adulterer. Historically, the people of the northeastern states of India have always wanted to become independent from India, and India has not invested any money in these regions, which have been severely backward due to development. Even in the 21st century, many northeastern Indian Bonders have been discussing online that many want to leave India for China.

China has not made further progress in the Indochina Peninsula and northeastern India, and the main problems are supply problems and the harsh humid tropical climate conditions. The PLA's biggest enemy here is not the British colonial army with limited combat strength standing in the way, but the local mosquitoes, dysentery and other strange tropical diseases. Non-combat attrition due to disease is even ten times greater than the loss of personnel on the battlefield.

At the Leningrad tripartite meeting, Stalin did not kindly encourage China to annex the northeastern states of India, but Chairman Lee Yun-seok did not take his lead with great joy. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) repelled the British colonial army in Arunachal Pradesh, and when it entered the area, it supported the locals in preparing for an independent statehood.

At the time of the negotiations in Amsterdam, the demands of China and the Soviet Union were to demand the areas they occupied. "Independence" from the British and free statehood. In this war against Britain, the slogan of China and the Soviet Union was a "just war" against the imperialist colonial policy, and the Chinese side only recovered the lost territory "since ancient times" in the northern Burma areas it occupied. Those that are really not related to "since ancient times" do not belong to the Han civilization system. Only then did they let them establish an independent state.

As a price, China, the Soviet Union, and Germany were willing to endorse Britain and recognize Britain's suzerainty over the remnants of India -- the Soviets did not want to dismember Britain prematurely, because they wanted to block Germany in Western Europe, and if Britain completely lost India, its national strength would inevitably decline greatly and it would no longer be able to pose a threat to Germany, which occupied Western Europe. And the German side did not want to dismember Britain prematurely, because it did not want to cheapen the Americans.

Germany's demands on Britain were simple: simply to return Nigeria and Cameroon, their colonies in West Africa. As for the colonies in East Africa, they don't want it.

The French were pulled to the negotiating table. For the sake of the belonging of the Annam region, after all, China has included the northern part of Vietnam. And the establishment of the People's Republic of Vietnam in the area south of the 17th parallel of the north latitude had to give an "explanation" to the French.

The Spaniards were brought to the negotiating table for the Gibraltar question, and on this point, both Germany and the Soviet Union, and even the hapless French, unanimously demanded that the British abandon the fortress of Gibraltar. Demilitarize the area and return Gibraltar to Spain. The fortress of Gibraltar was demilitarized. The benefits for the Mediterranean countries speak for themselves. When this issue was discussed, the Italians, who had been invited to act as an "audience" to help wave the flag, also stood up and "raised their limbs" in support of this request.

All of the above is the bottom line of the negotiations between China, the Soviet Union, and Germany, and of course, during the Amsterdam negotiations, the demands put forward by the victorious countries of the three sides will be "more excessive". The Soviets, for example, demanded that the Suez Canal be neutralized and internationalized. The Germans also demanded the return of some of the territories lost in the First World War in German South-West Africa and East Africa.

According to the bottom line of the three countries, the British could keep at least most of the Gyeonghua region of India, and Burma could also keep some of it. Compared with the "Anglo-American Washington Treaty" that killed people and did not see the bloodless robbery of Britain, although the three countries of China, the Soviet Union and Germany cut a few pieces of meat on Britain, they were not as fatal as the former.

Negotiations began on August 21. By August 23, the Americans had joined in.

The reason why the Americans joined in was naturally to stir up, because with the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement" signed with the "British traitor" Churchill half a year ago, the problem that the Americans were most worried about was that once the four countries (referring to China, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Britain) ceased war, the British who had freed up their hands would have a great possibility of reclosing the door to the colonies.

In fact, the British meant it, and Germany and the Soviet Union were behind it.

The "Anglo-American Washington Accord" was a great robbery by the United States against Britain, and when Germany and the Soviet Union negotiated with Britain, they took the initiative to recognize the "endorsement" of British interests in the remnants of the Indian Peninsula, in order to encourage the British to protect their own interests and to sow discord between Britain and the United States.

After the "British traitor" Churchill stepped down, he took out the contents of the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement" on the German radio station to the British, and explained to the British one by one the sinister intentions behind it, and more and more British civilians have also understood that this agreement, which can be called a loss of power and humiliation of the country, has harmed Britain. The British could ignore the lesser of two evils when there was a German threat, but when the armistice began, the content of the agreement was extremely glaring.

Negotiations began on August 21 and lasted until September. During the negotiations, the German navy eased the naval blockade of Britain and allowed the flow of food and necessities into the British Isles, but the arms and minerals were still under severe attack. And the British government, which did not want to fight any longer, also agreed with the German Navy to inspect the freighters entering Britain at sea.

But it was not all smooth sailing during the negotiations, and there were back-and-forth as the Americans were playing tricks on the way and the British wanted to keep more. On 3 September, in the Gibraltar area, the Luftwaffe flew three batches of its 150 HE117 bombers and dropped 150 seven-ton "Little Heraxes" on the Gibraltar fortress in one fell swoop, one of which pierced the concrete layer and detonated the ammunition depot of a large fortress.

In the next few days, the Luftwaffe made a series of sorties, and within three days dropped nearly 500 small Heraxes on the fortress of Gibraltar, relying on this "small probability" hit, and destroyed a number of artillery batteries one after another. At the same time, the German Navy once again intensified its blockade of the inflow of supplies into the British Isles. To cooperate with the actions of the Germans. The Soviet Union and China have also made "changes" on their respective fronts.

On the French side, Darlan hated the shameless behavior of the British in attacking the French fleet, and also ordered the French fleet in the Mediterranean to block the Mediterranean shipping lanes. Now that India is in an emergency, if the British want to increase their troops against India, the nearest route is to take the Mediterranean, and even the remnants of the French Navy have "defected". Let the British be more passive at the negotiating table.

The British, who had already been tossed to death by this war, were at this time, like the French not long ago, only thinking about ending this "damned" war as soon as possible. In the process, although the Americans who forcibly intervened were secretly stirring up shit, China, the Soviet Union and Germany all knew that the United States was the real and most terrible enemy, and they were very vigilant against it. Although the actions of the United States were disgusting, the negotiations continued as usual.

On 5 October, Britain, the Soviet Union, Germany, and China finally signed the "Amsterdam" agreement in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

According to the content of the agreement, both China and the USSR got what they wanted, and Afghanistan and Pakistan succeeded in "independent statehood". Northeast India was separated from the British Commonwealth, and the three provinces of Burma were also freed from British control.

The Germans, on the other hand, regained Nigeria's lost territory in World War I, with the windfall of Cameroon, Nigeria's neighborhood.

Spain was the lucky one in this war, and they reclaimed the centuries-old fortress of Gibraltar. The fortress of Gibraltar was permanently demilitated by the Soviet, German, French and Italian countries, and the remaining British forts were dismantled.

Of this war, the British were the most unhappy, in a sense. Their losses even surpassed those of the French - at least the French had little to lose in this war in their overseas colonies except the loss of Annam. The British, on the other hand, lost a large area of land in great humiliation.

The day the Amsterdam Accord was signed. The headline on the front page of The Times read:

"We were robbed! The people who robbed us were not only the three robbers of China, the Soviet Union and Germany, but also the so-called "ally" of the United States. ”

The war in Europe, which lasted almost a year, ended.

However, the contradictions have not been eliminated, but have intensified.

The British, whose navy was completely destroyed, licked their wounds and began the hard work of rebuilding the Royal Navy. Compared to the original historical plane of Britain in 1945. Although Britain has suffered heavy losses, it has not yet reached the point of exhaustion as it did then. The war lasted only a year, and the British cried out that they could not afford to use the Lend-Lease Act, and they did not borrow much from the United States. By the time negotiations began in August, many orders in the U.S. had already been suspended.

China, the Soviet Union and Germany. is busy digesting the dividends of the war.

And the Americans, after the failure to stir up, are having a headache about how to get the British to continue to fulfill the content of the Anglo-American Washington Agreement. The greatest misfortune for the Americans was the end of the war, and the vast number of commercial orders made by the British in the United States were almost all suspended. Although Britain paid the loss of default, the loss of benefits from the United States was also not small.

When the news of the start of armistice talks between China, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Britain in Amsterdam broke, the stock market on Wall Street in the United States fell sharply on the same day. After the peace agreement was signed, a bunch of military stocks related to it leaked by more than 10 percentage points.

Whether it is the Ghana New Deal or the Roosevelt New Deal on the historical plane, it is essentially a way to alleviate the economic crisis through the state to print money and depreciate the currency, and it is not these two New Deals that saved the United States, but Germany launched World War II to save the American economy.

But in this plane, the war ended "early" after less than a year, and although the United States sucked countless blood from the European countries in the war, it did not suck enough blood.

However, China, the Soviet Union, Germany, and the United States are all beneficiaries of this war, but the benefits they receive from each other are different.

There is no need to say anything about the United States.

Germany has given the most and done the most, and has not received the most benefits comparatively.

The Soviet Union and China made little effort, but both achieved the goal of greatly expanding their spheres of influence.

In the process, one country skillfully walked between China, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Britain and the United States, and "accidentally" picked up a big cake.

That country is Japan.

In order to balance the power in Southeast Asia, the British took the initiative to lure the Japanese into the Malay Peninsula in May 1940. After this. The Japanese side used various channels and excuses to continuously increase troops on the Malay Peninsula. By the time of the armistice in August, Japan had 80,000 troops on the Malay Peninsula, making it the largest military force in the country.

The British, who were attracted elsewhere, had less than 20,000 colonial troops and could only control a small area around Singapore. The so-called invitation to God is easy and difficult to send God. After the war ended in October, the Japanese refused to leave the Malay Peninsula.

And at this time, there were no British even decent navy, and they were simply not able to drive out the Japanese navy. As for the initiative to invite the Americans into the Malay Peninsula to expel the Japanese, it was even more impossible for the British. Japan is just a "thief" who can only "take shortcuts," and the United States is the real "great god." There was a lesson from the British traitor Churchill, and the politicians of the British Isles would not make this mistake again after all.

When the British were still suffering from the Japanese refusing to leave the Malay Peninsula, November 1940. The news of the U.S. presidential election is finally here.

Delusional against American tradition, referring to the third presidential election of Cactus Ghana, only received 40 percent of the votes, and finally lost the presidential election to the Republican candidate, Wendell, an entrepreneur from Indiana? Wilkie.

The defeat of Cactus Garner was not unexpected.

Between 1939 and 1940, his biggest mistake at this turning point in history was the snake and the rat.

By May 1940, he had prematurely revealed his position by sending a fleet to escort British merchant ships throughout the journey. Offended a large number of isolationists in the country, so much so that when he ran for president. Voters who oppose him openly shout that "if you choose Ghana, you will choose war" and that "to choose Ghana is to send your son to the battlefield in Europe."

And Roosevelt in the original history was not as difficult as he was, at least in this regard. Historically, when Roosevelt participated in the third presidential election, he also faced a similar problem, but because Roosevelt did not have too blatant "favoritism" during the 1940 administration, and this person successfully "acted". Or deceived a large number of voters.

And Cactus Ghana does not have such a good situation. The British Navy had fallen too early, and if he hadn't taken a clear stance and pulled the British, Britain would have pulled out of the war earlier, and he had no choice at this point. In addition, this person's diplomatic methods and governing methods are too crude and not feminine enough, and it is too easy for voters to see through his essence. It is not surprising that a large number of isolationists have lost their votes.

The real mistake of the President of Ghana is that he has already made the first year of junior high school, but he has not made it to the fifteenth. After the end of the French campaign, Britain became increasingly difficult. In July and August, when Britain was in the most difficult and needy days, he did not have the courage to risk his own political life and once again send the US Navy to escort the whole process. If he did, the British would have been able to support the US presidential election for a few more months, and he would at least have kept the votes of the "belligerents" and "bellongs" in the United States.

As a result, he backed down at this critical moment.

Britain's premature withdrawal from the war and its forced integration by China, the Soviet Union and Germany caused widespread discontent among the "elites" in the United States. In the content of the "Amsterdam Agreement", the Soviet Union and Germany recognized the interests of Britain in the Indian Peninsula and took the initiative to "endorse" it, which gave the British a lot of confidence. These American elites can imagine that after the war, the British will secretly use all kinds of means to oppose the "Washington Accord" in order to restore their national strength, and eventually make the paper agreement a dead letter. Although it is currently impossible for the British to reclaim the Caribbean islands sold to the Americans, elsewhere they have a way of making the Americans feel "disgusted".

The best example is that after the signing of the "Amsterdam Agreement", the British immediately suspended the export of technology to the United States.

And these have become evidence of the cactus Garner's incompetence.

It is not surprising that the president of Ghana, who was abandoned by both radicals and isolationists, lost his third re-election bid.

When the bell rang for the New Year in 1941, the war in Europe was over, but the war planes mobilized by the United States because of the European war did not stop because of this.

Republican-born Wendell? President Wilkie, after coming to power, continued Ghana's armaments policy.

The U.S. Navy plans to continue to expand its military without change, while the production of military products that was halted by the withdrawal of orders from the British will continue as before, except that the customer has become the U.S. Army.

In his speech to Congress, the new President Wilkie said to all the American people:

"America is dangerous right now! In old Europe, from Berlin to Moscow and then to Beijing, an extremely dangerous red axis has been formed. They collude to threaten the interests of the liberal capitalist world. ”

"Adolf. Hitler, the man who was once considered the most anti-communist in Germany, has finally torn off his "anti-communist" hypocritical mask and revealed his true colors. This German man was a very well-hidden Bolshevik, as evidenced by the recent events in the Belgian and French occupation zones! ”

President Wilkie's speech to the American people referred to the "socialist reforms" carried out by Germany in the zone of occupation of Western Europe, the Germans relying on bayonets and gallows, and the Belgian and French war territories.

In Belgium, the Germans forcibly distributed the landlords' land to the poor peasants, as they did in the Chinese Revolution, and in the cities they confiscated the factories and nationalized them. Then the Germans propped up the local Communist Party and established the so-called "Soviet government", which took over the factories in the name of the state. The Germans claimed that they were carrying out a "National Socialist" transformation of Belgium, and that they would also evacuate Belgium as soon as the socialist transformation of Belgium was completed.

In the French occupation zone, the Germans restored the legitimate political status of the French Communist Party in France, not only releasing all the members of the French Communist Party in the control area, but also forcing the Vichy government to release the French Communist Party members throughout the country. With the acquiescence of the German garrison, the French Communist Party was gradually taking control of the positions of the relevant key departments in the occupied territories. The German argument for the fact of the occupation of France was that they had not only come for revenge, but also for the liberation of the French people. The German government has unilaterally reached an agreement with the French Communist Party to set a planned timetable for a full withdrawal of troops. And in the German prisoner camps, a large number of former French soldiers who had joined the French Communist Party had been released early.

Now in France, the French Communist Party is organizing its own armed forces, and when Germany withdraws, the French Communist Party will officially take over all German-controlled areas.

For the entire capitalist world, Germany's turn from brown to red shook the world even more than the defeat of France in three naval battles by annihilating the Royal Navy and defeating France within a month.

In 1929, Lin Han proposed to Hannah in Kiel the idea of reddening Europe and the entire world island, which was becoming a reality step by step.

Today's chapter, it's really cool, a big chapter of 7,000 words, if you like it, give it more praise.

By the time I wrote this chapter, I had finally written out the way out for Germany. I feel that this chapter is the climax of the book. The plot of Europe in the red will be written in one or two more chapters later. (To be continued......)

ps: Today's chapter, it's really cool, a big chapter of 7,000 words, if you like it, give it more likes.

By the time I wrote this chapter, I had finally written out the way out for Germany. I feel that this chapter is the climax of the book. The plot of Europe in the red will be written in one or two more chapters later. R1292