"Perhaps, this is God's punishment of America, a tribulation of fate, which we cannot avoid but choose to fight to the end with our European friends." President William Taft's answer was more theological.

A geopolitical dispute or a national fortune dispute?

In this world, except for the authoritarian emperor who led the rise of the Ocean Empire, I am afraid that no one can answer this question, it is more speculation.

Now is the priority

It was to mobilize all the forces that could be mobilized to block the sharp offensive frenzy of the Japanese army, and to hold out as much as possible until the end of the year, until the day when Britain, France, and other world powers were free to intervene in the situation in North America.

Such an answer silenced the senior American officials in the room, and although it was not satisfactory, it may be the only solution.

Today's United States no longer has the ability to confront the Ocean Empire head-on, and has also lost its traditional influence in South America, and its power has shrunk into a corner of North America, and it can only use the power of Europe to resist the Ocean Empire's attempt to intervene in the situation in North America.

Early June

After a short rest, the Japanese army sent troops to continue northward, successively conquering Milwaukee, Green Bay and other Michigan lakeside cities, occupying a large area of land in the north of the Great Lake, and obtaining ports facing the Atlantic.

Britain was outraged by this, publicly announcing that the Royal Fleet and the Canadian Navy would blockade the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, strictly prohibit any passenger and cargo ships from entering and leaving the Japanese-occupied area, and impose many sanctions.

After arriving in London at the end of June, Japanese Foreign Minister Masaaki Matsumoto launched a series of whirlwind diplomatic actions, and in early July, he went to Paris and Rome to pay homage to the European powers, expounding on Japan's policy, and stressing that Japan has completely ceased military action at present......

Early July

A shocking news came from Russia that Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, together with the eldest princess Olga, the fourth princess Anastasia, as well as the little crown prince Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia, and several personal servants, were secretly executed.

The news was subsequently confirmed by a high-level of the Russian workers' government, and this high-level person expressed his anger;

The abdicated tsar still secretly colluded with the imperialists, united with the 14 countries and the rebel white bandits to interfere in the internal affairs of Tsarist Russia, betrayed the nation and the country, and brought great disasters to Russia, which should be severely punished, this is the people's judgment.

This incident caused an uproar in the world, and the most difficult to accept was that of King George V, a cousin of Nicholas II, who had originally intended the new Russian bourgeois government to facilitate the exile of the Tsar's family in Britain, and the British government and parliament agreed.

However, George V, considering that the British Labour Party was more sympathetic to the Russian workers' movement and feared a chain reaction, rejected the proposal to go into exile, but did not expect to harm his cousin's family.

In a public address at Buckingham Palace, George V emotionally accused the Russian workers' government of being the "enemy of the world" and that Britain would unite "all the forces of justice" against "usurpers who defy the crown and restore the ...... of law and order".

Subsequently, high-level officials of the foreign, French, Italian, German, Austrian, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, and Norwegian kingdoms successively made speeches on policies hostile to the current Russian government, and the number of countries intervening in Russia rose from 14 to 21 at once.

This somewhat brutal action of the Russian workers' government touched the sanctity of royal power and provoked public outrage.

Among them, Britain, France, and the United States were the most angry, Britain was mercilessly slapped in the face, and France was furious and heartbroken because the new workers' government completely refused to recognize the huge loans of tens of billions of francs.

Speaking of France, it is also unlucky, the main battlefield of the Western Front of the world war is in France, and while suffering huge human losses, rich France has become a debt-ridden France.

Before the war, France was a famous usury kingdom, and it could live a very prosperous life just by eating interest, so it neglected the development of the industrial field, did not catch up with the second industrial revolution with electrification as the main feature, and was left behind by advanced industrial countries such as the United States, Germany, and Britain, and its comprehensive strength was far behind.

Before the pustules were revealed, France was still living in a powerful dream, singing every night, and having the energy to point fingers around the world.

After the outbreak of the world war, the large-scale invasion of German troops shattered the illusion......

Before the war, France invested about 60 billion francs in countries around the world, and more than 60% of its investment was concentrated in European countries.

Among them, France lent the most to Russia, at 11.3 billion francs, followed by the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Spain and Belgium, which together amounted to more than 60 billion francs.

Although France's foreign capital exports are second only to the Ocean Empire and Britain, the Ocean Empire has invested abroad to develop industry, support commodity exports, expand the financial industry dominated by banks, or set up factories and invest in industry.

This unproductive usury capital export makes France reap huge interest every year and becomes a usury in Europe, so it is called "usury imperialism".

Of France's population of more than 40 million, about 5 million rentiers live in luxury, relying on the interest generated by the huge loans they lend around the world.

After the outbreak of the war, the old world continued to be broken, and these usurers also fell into the abyss.

Originally, before the war, France had 8.6 billion francs of claims against the Ocean Empire, but by the end of June 18, it had already owed the Ocean Empire 5.5 billion gold loans, which was equivalent to 55 billion francs (14 years before the war).

During the war, France issued currency indiscriminately, causing the value of the franc to plummet, and it was particularly painful to repay the strong gold loans.

What particularly devastated the French was that the 11.3 billion francs lent to Russia were in vain, and the money lent to the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary had a more than eighty percent probability that they would not be returned, but the money owed to the Ocean Empire had to be repaid.

The huge psychological gap, how much more than a "miserable" word?

The Ocean Empire was not much better, the new Russian workers' government brazenly killed the Tsar's family, and after the incident was exposed, it attracted the angry condemnation of the imperial royalist public opinion, and a shouting and shouting of killing was inevitably involved.

After all, the two parties are the in-laws of the marriage, how can they be indifferent?

It is impossible to show sympathy for the Russian workers' power from the standpoint of the feudal emperors, which would be deviant and would be safer to follow the crowd.

This mystery was revealed earlier than the original history, due to the influence of the butterfly effect, and many major historical events have become unrecognizable.

Fortunately, the war in Europe was imminent, and the Russian workers' power was given ample time to react to the formation of a Russian workers' and peasants' army to fight the White Russian rebels and resist foreign intervention.

Early July

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front, the battle clouds were thick.

After the signing of the Brest Treaty, Germany and Austria-Hungary invaded Poland, Lithuania, Courland, Livland, and Estland. and took over the Ardahan, Kars and Batumi regions.

as contractually agreed;

Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine and Finland, immediately withdrew its troops from Finland, Ukraine and the Aland Islands, guaranteed the immediate signing of a peace treaty with Ukraine and recognized the peace treaties between Ukraine and Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey.

The problem now is that the 2nd Army is stationed in Kyiv and controls about 290,000 square kilometers of land from western Ukraine to Crimea, which is about the size of three Zhejiang provinces.

As a member of the Entente bloc, the Ocean Empire did not recognize Russia's separate peace with Germany, nor did it recognize the relevant treaties, which became a hard nail in the coffin on the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

The German 5th and 9th armies marched into the Caucasus and approached Western Ukraine with the million-strong Austro-Hungarian army, forming a sandwich between the north and the west.

The German-Austrian army totaled about 1.7 million, including 630,000 German troops and more than 1.1 million Austro-Hungarian troops.

7/7/18

After the ultimatum failed, the German-Austrian forces concentrated 3,140 artillery pieces and launched heavy artillery shelling simultaneously on two battlefields, the northern and western fronts, which were 171 kilometers wide.

For a time, the artillery fire was full of fire, shaking the heavens and the earth......

The battle for Western Ukraine began

The Second Army of the Ocean Empire Expedition did not show weakness, and immediately dispatched an air force fighter group to attack, staging a fierce battle in the air over western Ukraine.

As groups of fighters from both sides roared and chased through the air, the roar of engines shook the sky, and the Royal Air Force once again showed its dominance over the skies, shooting down one German fighter after another, and crashing into the black soil of western Ukraine in a long black smoke.

By the second day of the fierce battle, the superiority of the Royal Air Force of the Ocean Empire was already obvious, and only the few remaining German planes dared to take the risk of a battle, and the air battle entered the tail sweeping stage.

At this time, the German-Austrian army could not wait to launch a general attack, and the German-Austrian troops all over the mountains poured up like a flood along the passage opened by artillery fire.

in the sky

The Royal Air Force of the Ocean Empire flew out, and the H-2 bombing secrets nicknamed "The Farmer" roared by, bombarding the artillery positions in the rear of the German army indiscriminately, with flames billowing and gunpowder smoke everywhere.

The Russian soldiers standing on the front-line positions, with the support of artillery fire, opened fire together with the fire of the remaining heavy machine guns in the open bunkers, and cooperated with the heavy machine guns in the trenches to carry out "over-shooting" and hit the German-Austrian forces fiercely.

Dense bullets rained down from the sky, killing and injuring a large number of German-Austrian soldiers, and the front-line battlefield was very fiercely contested, and the corpses were all over the place, revealing the bloodiness and cruelty of the war.

The strength of the Russian army, which had strengthened its weapons and equipment, jumped and struggled to support it under the ferocious attack of the German-Austrian forces, and the few areas that were broken through were recaptured after being put into reserve for a counterattack.

Fierce battle for a day, solstice and twilight.

The German-Austrian forces were bleeding from their heads on the defensive line, leaving more than 17,000 corpses in disarray, and the general attack did not make any progress under the tough counterattack of the defenders.

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