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In addition, the Franco regime in Spain was also the target of Mustache's active wooing, so Kerim did not initially think that Mustache would turn against his most important ally and an important potential ally at the same time in order to woo himself. In fact, it is precisely because the British know this that they are so tough in negotiations

But since the outbreak of the European war, Italy's unbelievably bad performance has made the mustache finally make a surprising choice, the Italian army Taicai he has long known that the Krim rebels have repeatedly created a number of defeats of three or even five times the strength of the Italian army, and now the Arab League's army is not inferior to Italy's, and its development potential is even better, if the strength is only compared to the land, the Arab League will have no problem fighting three Italy.

In fact, if it weren't for the great expectations of the Italian navy, the mustache was afraid that he would have kicked out of Italy and won over the Arab League, but the Battle of Taranto completely exposed the Italian navy's external strength and middle strength, and the mustache, who was completely disappointed with him, immediately ignored the inevitable strong opposition of the Italians in the future, and sent representatives to conduct secret discussions with the Arab League, that's a big loss.

As for Spain? They had already shed their blood in the brutal civil war and the war against Morocco (the two combined, killing more than a million). The total population of Spain at this time is less than 30 million, and the economic losses are even more alarming. If Franco did not know each other, the mustache did not mind being destroyed by the way, putting it directly under the control of the Third Reich

Germany's lack of overseas colonies was an advantage at this time, as the mustache did not worry about the expansion of the anti-colonial struggle, as Churchill did, but encouraged the Arab League to liberate more colonies. Because most of those territories belong to enemy countries. This clears the biggest obstacle to negotiations

Klim was overjoyed to learn of this German attitude, and the balance immediately tipped in favor of the Axis powers, and when the mustache agreed to provide the Arab League with comprehensive jishu and military assistance (of course, the "quantity" aspect was not as good as the previous cooperation with China. But it wasn't necessary. The Arab League is a vast country. The population is not small, but it is still incomparable with China. Klim soon decided to sign a formal treaty of alliance with Germany against the Allies. However, considering the previous support of the Soviet Union and China for the anti-colonial struggle in North Africa, Kerim rejected the mustache's request for the Arab League to join the "Anti-Comintern Pact", which the mustache did not mind much, anyway, even if the Arab League was willing to join, they would not be able to reach the Soviet Union, and it would be good to be able to help deal with the West

Although the negotiations between the two sides were conducted in secret, the progress was astonishingly fast, and all the negotiations were completed in less than a month from the beginning of the contacts. According to the German-Arab Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, which was duly signed between the two sides, the German government will provide the Arab League with a huge amount of aid worth no less than $1 billion over three years (only pure aid, not counting trade between the two countries). It helped to establish a small but fairly complete military and backbone industrial system, and the mining industry, which Klim regarded as the backbone of the future Arab economy, also developed rapidly with the help of Germany, such as Morocco's phosphate mines (accounting for more than half of the whole Shijie), Algeria's iron ore mines (with total reserves of about 4 billion tons), and oil and gas with huge potential (not to mention this). It is worth mentioning that those Chinese geological prospectors who were stranded in Europe due to the outbreak of the European war also received orders from China and went to the United Arab Emirates to help them explore mineral deposits, which further deepened the friendship between the two peoples and objectively helped Germany

With the support of Germany, the new Arab League quickly grew stronger, but this was also thanks to the good foundation left by the Western colonizers in North Africa. You must know that the Spanish and French governments originally built Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (Note 1) to a near-local standard, although there was no industrial base left due to positioning, but the average literacy rate of residents in the three places has been as high as eighty or ninety. At the very least, the progress of primary industrialization is much faster than that of China, and the industrial strength of more than 30 million people who have completed primary industrialization is at least not inferior to that of Spain today

First of all, the German Navy can anchor and replenish any port along the coast of the United Arab Emirates, which will undoubtedly greatly expand the combat range of German ships, and the Luftwaffe can also use the airfields in the Arab League through negotiation and conditionality. In exchange, Germany had to unconditionally send no less than one fully armored army group and no less than three air wings of the Luftwaffe to North Africa to assist in the war effort, but only against the Allies.

Secondly, the Arab League exports all kinds of minerals to Germany first, of course, the reverse is also true, because the economies of the two countries are extremely complementary (even similar commodities, such as Morocco is rich in phosphate rock, while Germany needs to import, North Africa is in short supply of coal and potash, and coal and potash are precisely Germany's two dominant resources). Therefore, this article can be regarded as reciprocal benefit, and cannot be called a unilateral requirement.

The real key point is the third point, which is that the mustache asks Kerim to march into Egypt, take control of the Suez Canal, and continue to march east to sweep the Middle East. In this way, not only would Britain directly lose a large number of colonies, but the sea communication between Britain mainland and its most important colony, India, would have to go around the Cape of Good Hope in a large circle, which would not only waste money, but also give German submarines more warplanes, and in a sense, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was cut off

Note 1: Compared with these three places, Libya's foundation is relatively much worse (mainly because the degree of industrialization of the suzerain, Italy, is too low, even inferior to Japan, and Italy attaches less importance to Libya, after all, Libya has a small population at that time, and its resources have basically not been explored. But its population was small, less than a tenth of the total population of the Arab League at the time, so its impact was not significant. (To be continued......)