Chapter 430: Western Europe Doomed to Decline
For Wieland's careful thinking, Chris didn't care too much, anyway, compared to the previous umbrella, as long as the old foolish Wieland didn't do anything on the earth to affect his own plans, Chris didn't bother to target him, anyway, according to Wieland's approach, the final possibility was more likely to just play himself to death, not to mention that he wanted to go to a place more than 40 light years away, which was not so easy...... At least until Osborne Industries or the Covenant advances aerospace technology to a certain extent.
The companies Chris met with were much simpler than the first three, because the latter four were much smaller than the first three, even if one of them was Mars Industries, the largest arms manufacturing group in Western Europe.
Since World War II, most of the military in Western Europe has actually been controlled by the U.S. military, and the major powers that can basically be militarily independent are actually Britain and France, and these two countries have long been in decline, so Mars, who is known as the largest weapons manufacturing group in Europe, may have its own uniqueness in technology, but in terms of size...... Not to mention that it is compared with Osborne or Stark, even the new five powers are greatly inferior.
It's just that McCarron, the president of the Mars Industrial Group, is still very uninteresting, and he is still a British arrogant face when facing Chris, I really don't know who gave him the confidence, or is it the time when the sun never sets on the empire? And Chris almost laughed angrily after seeing the cooperation conditions they gave, it's okay to say that he wants to join the Star Alliance, but he wants technology, money, and the right to speak...... Who gave you the courage?
Chris knows that the current Mars industry is really bullish to a certain extent, because with the rise of the new Russian Empire, the current Western European countries have begun to use the original European Union as the system and begin to further cooperate closely, which is not only to prevent the new Russian Empire, but also to deal with the increasingly changing and faster international situation.
It was in this context that the Mars Industries Group was put to the fore and became one of the leading conglomerates in Europe.
So this time Mars Industries came to negotiate business with Chris, in fact, there is a certain political meaning, which is why Macallan dared to open his mouth.
But apparently, the Europeans, or The Macallan, still overestimate their own importance...... For Chris, and for the United States.
In the past few decades, the United States has attached great importance to Europe, especially Western Europe, because Western Europe is a natural ally of the United States, and if the Americans want to always be the world leader, who is his opponent? It's Russia, it's East Asia, it's the disobedient Middle East.
Since the Age of Discovery, Europe's economy has been based on the exploitation of the whole world, even now, snatching raw materials from Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia, and then using its technological generation gap to export industrial products and plunder the wealth of the world except for the United States, while guarding against Russia.
So in this respect, the interests of the United States and Europe are the same, to suppress the world and strengthen themselves.
But the times are different now, there are big powers in Asia, although the threat of Russia is gone, but a more powerful new Russian empire has emerged, Israel dominates the Middle East, the African Boer Republic and Wakanda face off, and the South American duo rises.
At the same time as the rise of these forces, they were accompanied by the great improvement of their own science and technology, and the resources that were originally used for export to meet their own domestic production were slightly insufficient, so how could they still export to Europeans at a low price as in the past?
Therefore, Europeans now want to import resources to these regions, let alone have any pricing power, so many materials in Western Europe today have to import from the United States, the former boss.
However, American things are not cheap, and the American capitalists are not good at stubble, and in this case, they are very decisive in raising export prices.
What's more, today's Europe is not only no longer in the leading position in science and technology, but is in a backward state, so the products they produce are completely uncompetitive, and the economy of the entire Western European region is in a mess, which has even led to some small countries in the south, central and northern Europe regions beginning to move closer to the new Russian Empire.
It can be said that Western Europe, which was already in decline, began to accelerate sharply under the changes in the international situation.
In this case, Western Europe, as an ally of the United States, is naturally a big little general, and to some extent, it has actually been reduced to the point that the southern stick is equal to the foot basin chicken, or even inferior.
After all, the southern stick and the footbasin chicken are interesting, and they know that they are nothing when they leave the United States, so they have become more and more obedient this year, but what about Western Europeans? Not only is it not interesting, but because of its continuous strengthening of internal cooperation, it has begun to become more and more disobedient.
Even if it were not for the containment of the new Russian Empire, the United States would have wanted to abandon Western Europe.
And this time McAllan will be on Chris's meeting list, to a large extent, the United States wants to ease relations with its European allies and pull the European little brother, after all, the two sides have been cooperating for decades...... But looking at it now, the other party is a little uninteresting, so it's no wonder Chris.
So without speculating for more than half a sentence, in the face of the lion's mouth-opening McCarron, Chris directly kicked the other party out of the office.
"By car, let's go back to the UK!" Kicked out of the office, McCarron angrily returned to his car and said to his assistant.
"What's going on, Macallan!" Seeing Macallan's performance, a white figure appeared behind him and asked.
"The negotiations failed, Osborne didn't take us seriously at all, damn Chris Osborne, if it weren't for the fear of problems, I really want to send you now...... Hmm......" McCarron's words were covered by someone behind him before he could say anything.
"Shut up!" The man behind whispered in McAllan's ear.
McAllan immediately became honest when he heard this, although the person behind him was his subordinate, but Macallan, who knew the other party's ability, did not dare to underestimate the other party, since the other party did this, there must be a reason.
It was only after the car was far away from the Osborne Group that the hand on McCarron's mouth was released.
"White Ghost, I need an explanation!" The Macallan said in a deep voice.
"Damn, you shouldn't say the rest of the story, Osborne isn't as simple as it seems! Don't let me deal with Chris Osborne, we should be glad they don't! The white ghost said a little angrily, he will follow Macallan this time, because he thought that this time it was just an ordinary business negotiation, and he didn't expect that Macallan would say that kind of thing in a hurry, if it was heard by Osborne's people, they were afraid that they would not survive tonight, and the scene where the entire handcraft was wiped out by the Shimada family and Osborne together was still his indelible nightmare.
That's right, McCarron's men are the only survivors of the Hand that was wiped out that year, the White Ghost.
At that time, the white ghost left the United States very decisively and went to Europe, and has been living by McCarron's side all these years, as for revenge or something, he never thought about it, but he never thought that the new master now wants to fight with Osborne, the white ghost said that he is very congested, after all, compared with the previous hand, the current Macallan, the power is still a little worse, especially the strength of the other party is limited to Europe, and Osborne to fight? Isn't that looking for death?
"What? You're not sure either? Hearing the words of the White Ghost, McCarran was very surprised, he knew the ability of this ninja under his command, he had let the other party assassinate some competitors over the years, but he didn't expect that the other party would be so afraid of Osborne.
"Hmph, I'm not sure of ten!" The white ghost said with a white eye, he lost the backing of the Hand Clan, and even the Shimada family didn't dare to mess with it, let alone Osborne?
"Well, it seems that the relationship with Osborne, we can only think long-term!" McCarron said a little unwillingly, obviously he was still very worried about Chris's attitude, after all, he finally took advantage of the opportunity of the change in the international pattern to come to the forefront of Europe, but this is only the first step in his plan, he doesn't want to be trapped in Europe for the rest of his life.
"It seems that our European children are not very satisfied with the current situation, and their understanding of their own situation is very insufficient!" Chris said, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a cigar in his mouth.
"How are you going to plague Europe again?" Ariel Hansen, behind him, asked.
"Since they like to engage in the EU, then I think it is enough for them to have a seat in the UED, and just the extra seats can be given to the Star Alliance, right? Also, Anna's side is almost ready, after the industrial fair, let Konstantin return to the UK to preside over V's work! Chris sneered.