Chapter 165: Old Roosevelt's Worries

Washington, in a few months, the US election will begin again, and the old Roosevelt, who has already announced that he will not run for president, is naturally still the president of the United States.

The sudden outbreak of war in Asia is absolutely not good news for the United States.

Although the United States received many orders from Britain within half a month of the outbreak of the war, from the perspective of foreign politics and US overseas interests, this war was definitely not what the old Roosevelt wanted to see.

The United States can watch a big war break out in Europe, and it can also watch Britain and Fan Yize fight a big war, but definitely not now.

In the eyes of the United States, the current Britain is completely unprepared, and the war provoked by Fan Yize is quite unfavorable to Britain.

In fact, it has been a month since the outbreak of the war, and the colonial troops in various parts of Britain have been abandoning their colonies every day, and half of the hundreds of thousands of colonial troops in British India have become prisoners.

The region from Bangladesh to Myanmar and then to the plains corridor south of the Himalayas has completely fallen under Fan's control.

The British ground support force was only late, but the reinforcements supporting the British and British India had little hope of changing the tide of the war, and in the face of Fan Yize's powerful offensive, it was difficult for the British military force in Asia to play a decisive role.

Today, the elder Roosevelt officially submitted to Congress a bill to support Britain, which included increasing support for Britain in various materials.

In the past, the United States also provided a lot of supplies to Britain, but this time Roosevelt's bill to Congress was proposed for the first time to directly support the British on the battlefield and deliver the materials directly to the war zone and hand them over to the British.

In the bill, the United States also submitted a comprehensive aid plan for Russia, and the United States will hand over supplies including steel, food, and weapons to Russia.

As soon as the two bills came out, there was not much turmoil in the US Congress, because Roosevelt Sr. had already persuaded most of the people, although some still obstructed it, believing that it was better for the United States to continue to watch the fire from the other side.

However, from the perspective of future US security interests, there is such a strong opponent as Fan Yize in the Pacific, and US interests in the Pacific cannot be guaranteed at all.

Fan Yize's rise is so terrifying that many people in the United States are worried that in the future, the United States will completely lose its interests in the Pacific Ocean, and it will be difficult for the Pacific Ocean to become a natural protective barrier for the United States.

The boss unites with the third to suppress the second, which is almost the same truth of the great power game.

Britain has played a very good game with this method, and all kinds of English Channel have watched the local game of Europe from afar, suppressed the rising France, and now suppressed Germany, and also beware of Russia.

In the same way, although the United States has a strong isolationism, in fact, every person in power in the United States wants to participate in the competition for world interests and the game of great powers.

The reason is very simple, the president of the United States cannot interfere in the affairs of the states, and the only job of the Lord is to do things with the consortium, so the expansion of new interests abroad is what most American presidents want to do.

The rise of Fan Yize, or the endless annexation of Fan Yize, has forced the United States to consider its own safety.

If the capture of East British India is that Fan Yize really needs a piece of territory to develop, the capture of Japan and Korea has exposed Fan Yize's great desire for territory, and then he conquered most of Siberia, which makes the United States have to worry that the Philippines, which is next to Fan Yize, will become someone else's thing one day.

Now Fan Yize has made a comprehensive attack on the British colonies, which makes the old Roosevelt really feel that it is difficult to sleep and eat, and human desires. Hope is endless, and there will always be better and greater benefits to desire.

In order to convince the majority of Congress, Roosevelt Sr.'s bill was passed, and a large number of factories in the United States were all accelerated, and a large number of materials were transferred to various ports on the West Coast, some of which would be shipped to the Philippines and most of which would be shipped directly to Australia.

However, the old Roosevelt who came out of Congress was still very dissatisfied, and he was confident that this bill would pass, but another bill was rejected by Congress.

That is to recruit more soldiers and then transport more troops to the Philippines.

The members of the Diet, who are closely related to the chaebols, are able to accept the support bill for the creation of wealth for the corporations, but they still retain great vigilance and restraint against the war.

In their view, the United States did not need to send soldiers to the Philippines, and Britain, with a large amount of material support from the United States, had been able to arm more colonial troops to resist Fan Yize's invasion.

Fan Yize, who does not have a lot of troops, will be scattered as the occupied area expands, and eventually will not be able to capture more areas, which will give Britain enough time to counterattack.

The outcome of the war will change from an offensive phase to a stalemate phase, and the final result will be a gradual reconquest of lost territory and victory for the British.

However, the elder Roosevelt did not think so, but he could not convince most of the people in Congress to support his plan to increase the number of troops, and in the end he had no choice but to leave Congress.

In fact, the elder Roosevelt also agreed with the results of the internal analysis, but he saw it more clearly, that is, Britain had lost all access to British India, its main overseas colony, and Australia.

These two colonies had been completely cut off from the rest of the British colonies by Fan Yize.

Fan Yize's attack was very purposeful, after landing from Bengal Province, the troops launched an attack directly to the west, and when they landed in Sri Lanka, they landed in Karachi, a city on the western coast of British India.

On the other hand, the first batch of British reinforcements arrived in Karachi and were easily resisted, and after two days of fighting, the British reinforcements dropped more than 10,000 prisoners and fled back to the Middle East.

British India, whose entire sea area was blocked, faced with Fan Yize's attack from the north and south, and lost all rescue, how long could the British hold out in British India?

The situation in Australia is not much better, if it were not for the fact that Australia is large enough, in the eyes of Roosevelt Sr., Australia has been included in the territory of Fan Yize.

The United States' support is actually taking risks, and the old Roosevelt is also taking risks, because he can't find out Fan Yize's pulse, and he doesn't know whether the United States' move will allow Fan Yize to directly start a war against the United States.

Therefore, the elder Roosevelt hoped to increase troops in the Philippines to deter Fan Yize, so that Fan Yize would not dare to attack the United States casually.