Moscow, icy and snowy.

It's the coldest time of the year, and it's the end of '79, and it's about to cross the door of '80.

In the Kremlin, the heating was blazing, and standing in front of the huge map, Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, with a fiery look in his eyes, looked at the map as if he were looking at his lover.

The unique resolute lines on his face and a pair of dark-framed glasses made him look a little polite, but this person had never dragged the slightest bit of mud and water, and he was definitely a hardliner in the Soviet Union.

Now, he was looking at the map, and on the map, both places, were what he valued the most.

"It's hard to choose." "Now, the situation in Afghanistan is getting worse day by day, and we want to retake Afghanistan into our camp, and we can only use force," Ustinov said. ”

Just in April of this year, in the south of the Soviet Union, a coup d'état took place in Afghanistan, when a group of young Afghan military officers staged a coup d'état that overthrew the Daoud regime. It's just that this time it didn't become any major news, and the eyes of the whole world were on the Far East. After all, the Hokkaido War was in full swing at that time.

Afghanistan has not stopped in modern times. The sorrow of Afghanistan lies in its geographical location, which is located on the main transportation route of east, west, north and south, and every powerful country wants to hold this transportation in its hands and make it its own territory.

For the Soviet Union, it was to open up the passage to the south, after all, a large area of the Soviet Union was in high latitudes, and Tsar Peter the Great had set a goal for his descendants: to advance south to Constantinople and India, rule there, and rule the world! When Russia has free access to the Indian Ocean, it will be able to establish its own military and political domination throughout the world!

Under this line of thinking, Lao Maozi made a lot of efforts, such as in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when Tsarist Russia and Britain almost fought for Afghanistan.

After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, after healing the scars of World War II, also began to look to the future. In the 50s, Afghanistan and Pakistan had a serious dispute over the Pashtunistan issue, and the two countries were on the verge of war. The Soviet Union found an opportunity to express its firm support for Afghanistan's position on this issue, and at once pulled Afghanistan into the arms of the Soviet Union.

At that time, the relationship between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union entered a short honeymoon period, but unfortunately, Afghanistan did not want to be manipulated by others, and in recent years, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union have become more and more distant, and finally reached the point where they want to meet each other.

The Soviet Union orchestrated a coup d'état and wanted to prop up a puppet. However, it will soon become clear that the situation in Afghanistan cannot be solved by a puppet, and the contradictions within Afghanistan are too complicated, and only when the Soviet Union personally occupies Afghanistan can it be settled!

Now Ustinov is thinking about whether to start a war and invade Afghanistan.

The country's grain harvest is bumper every year, the industrial output value is increasing, and at the same time, thanks to the continuous growth of world oil prices, the foreign exchange reserves of the Soviet Union have also risen to a new high, so to speak, the country has the ability to support a new war, and the belligerent Ustinov has long been impatient.

But at the same time, in the other direction, there is also a good opportunity now.

Of course, it's an island nation.

That foolish President Carter, who actually caused trouble in the Hokkaido region, and now, the terrible situation of a Soviet worker being killed, this is a perfect opportunity, and the Soviet army can use this as an excuse to provoke a new war in Hokkaido at any time.

So, now in front of Ustinov are two roads, whether to go south, or to continue to expand in the east?

Both paths are tempting.

Ustinov's eyes, one moment to Afghanistan, the other to the Far East, were clearly hesitant, and finally, he turned his head back and asked a young officer: "Andrey, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Andrei, although he was young, was highly valued, and he obtained an ice-free port in the Far East out of the Pacific Ocean, which was Andrei's masterpiece, and now, when Andrei returned to Moscow, he was summoned to participate in the planning of this kind of national decision-making, and in his heart, he also knew that there was a great responsibility.

Afghanistan is a fire pit that you can't step on, it's an imperial graveyard.

The war in Afghanistan was a turning point in the Soviet Union's transition from prosperity to decline, and before the Soviet Union launched the Afghan War, although various domestic contradictions in the Soviet Union had begun to come to the fore, the Soviet Union was still a huge empire after all. Moreover, the high price of oil at that time allowed the Soviet Union, a country that mainly relied on the export of oil as the mainstay of its economy, to obtain a steady stream of foreign exchange reserves, and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was also based on the affluence of the national treasury.

I thought that I could solve the Afghan problem with a quick knife and get a passage to the south, but who would have thought that I would suffer the same end as the United States.

It's easy to invade, it's easy to occupy, it's not easy to defend, it's full of mountains, it's simply the world of guerrillas, and it's not at all under the control of the Soviet Union.

At the same time, the war in Afghanistan made the world see the hegemonic behavior of the Soviet Union, and even more so that Saudi Arabia and those countries did not hesitate to rely on self-harm to attack the Soviet Union, they continued to increase oil production, causing international crude oil prices to plummet, and finally, the price of a barrel of only a few dollars made the Soviet Union lose as much as it exported, which greatly hit the Soviet economy.

Afghanistan, what was the use of the USSR? Gain access to the Indian Ocean and break the blockade of the Western world in the Pacific and Atlantic? What are the birds used for? It's better to defeat the island nation completely and rush straight out of the Pacific Ocean!

If it was before, the Soviets would have thought about it at most, but now, the national strength of the Soviet Union is increasing, and the Soviet Union finally has the ability to be in an advantageous position in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union! "Marshal, since you have asked for my opinion, then I will boldly state my opinion." "Afghanistan is of little use to us, it's not worth the fight," Andrei said. ”

Andrey has a clear banner.

Hearing the words of Andrei, the little guy, Andropov looked at him with bright eyes, and he admired his son-in-law quite a lot, yes, Afghanistan is not as important as before, but it is very difficult to convince the people in front of him to abandon the course determined in the time of Peter the Great.

"Andrey, you say we will sit back and watch Afghanistan turn into a hostile country?" Sure enough, someone spoke.

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