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81_81266" Mr. Ambassador. It has been less than a month since the FΓΌhrer's envoy Accardo's envoy Guf left the United States, and it stands to reason that I should not be in such a hurry to come to you at this moment to talk about these issues, but we are deeply disturbed by the cooperation between Germany and Turkey in the Middle East. As soon as they met, President Roosevelt of the United States expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation in the Middle East.
The German ambassador came, of course, prepared, and the position had already been communicated to this important diplomat. So the German ambassador immediately replied to Roosevelt: "Mr. President, Germany has no interest in American interests in the Middle East, we are only working for world peace." β
Roosevelt was tempted to slap the table and shout to the German ambassador, "You are waging war!" but he eventually gave up the useless hysterical rant: "I only see a new war, and I do not see any idea of ending it in Germany." β
"Mr. President, Germany had hoped for peace with the Soviet Union in the west and Britain in the east. You can also see that both the defeated Vichy France and the northern Britain have signed peace treaties with Germany. The German ambassador replied: "But the refusal of the Stalinist government in the Soviet Union and the former British royal family in Iceland to enter into peace talks with Germany has made the FΓΌhrer deeply concerned about the state of war facing Germany." β
"You know that we are a peace-loving people, and in order to achieve peace, we have to intensify our attacks on the British colonies in the Middle East that support the British royal family in Iceland, so that the war will end more quickly. Finally, after a long speech of more than half an hour, the German ambassador summed up the bitterness of the German people in expanding the war.
You invaded Poland, you invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, France, England...... You've reaped all the benefits, you've almost cleared the threats, and now you're saying you're not playing. When did you Germans become so shameless?
After scolding him with indignation in his heart, US President Roosevelt finally had a chance to speak: "However, if you provoke a war in the Middle East, it will affect US oil exploitation, and this may affect the friendly relations between Germany and the United States! Germany has already made enemies on all sides, and I believe that Yuan Xian would not want to see the United States become an enemy of Germany, right?"
"Of course, Mr. President!" the German ambassador nodded in agreement with Roosevelt: "The German government has never wanted to be an enemy of the United States, both of us are rich and powerful countries, and a war between us is enough to collapse the world system." This is clearly a very unwise decision. β
"Well, Mr. Ambassador, we in the United States attach great importance to the stability of the Middle East, which is also a common interest between Germany and the United States. Roosevelt thought for a moment and then said, "If I can convince some of the local Arabs to sell some of the oil to Germany." And to ensure that the oil can be shipped to Germany, will the Middle East be able to maintain the status quo?"
The German ambassador seemed embarrassed, apparently not receiving instructions at home about what to do after the American compromise. However, he still showed great negotiation skills, played the "drag" card, and said to Roosevelt: "I must ask the country before I can reply to you, the President of the United States, and I hope you can understand my distress." β
Roosevelt nodded, and this compromise in the United States was a temporary decision of Congress. The plan he had been leading to use Britain to restrain Germany was on the verge of collapse, and many discordant voices were emerging within the Congress, which were gaining strength to challenge Roosevelt's alliance with the Jews.
This includes the Nazi Party in the United States, some isolationists, and even many parliamentarians from rival parties. They look at German-American relations from a different perspective, and feel that even if a strong Germany emerges in the future, there is nothing to worry about. They are confident in the economic superiority of the United States, and they feel that it is very unwise to get involved in a war with unknown outcome at this time. Unfortunately, this argument has the support of the majority of the population. They believe that the United States should not be involved in the war in Europe again.
In fact, not all of the U.S. investments paid off, and the Roosevelt regime provided Britain with tanks, planes, and even warships in exchange for many overseas military bases that originally belonged to Britain, which allowed the United States to maintain a relative advantage in the future.
Recently, however, Britain's national power seems to have been drained, and the British government can no longer effectively exercise its absolute control over the colonies, and some methods of selling colonial privileges in exchange for American aid have not been very useful in the last two months. But on the other hand, the operation of the American "volunteers" in North Africa is like a bottomless pit. Every month it consumes oil extracted from the Middle East and needs to be replenished by domestic military factories producing tanks and airplanes. In the Battle of Tobruk, for example, Patton used up 400 tanks in one go, all of which had to be replenished from the U.S. mainland to the North African theater.
As a result, there are different voices in the United States: if Germany guarantees American oil interests in the Middle East. So why do we need to help the British and the Germans fight to the death in North Africa? Isn't it necessarily better for Germany and the United States to live in peace than to suppress Germany?
Roosevelt was completely dragged down by this short-sighted argument, and this approach of focusing only on immediate interests was nothing short of self-deception. Germany is different from the United States in that it is a continental country, and once the situation is opened up, Germany will have many advantages - this country is naturally much more closely connected with Asia, Africa and Europe than the United States, which is outside the world.
There is no need for Germany to do anything deliberately, and the Iron Axis will isolate the United States from the mainstream international environment. When the time comes, if people don't play with the United States, how can the United States use the strength of North and South America to wage war against the whole of Asia, Africa, and Europe? At that time, it will really be caught in a war of equal strength.
Now to go to war with Germany, it is just right to "take advantage of his illness to kill him", but the idiots in Congress are thinking about how to draw a line with the British royal family in Iceland and establish a stable cooperative relationship with the powerful Germany.
Although many people of insight still supported Roosevelt, and the United States was still sending arms and equipment to North Africa, Roosevelt felt resistance and felt that he was powerless. In this way, as long as Germany establishes its strategic superiority in North Africa and takes the Mediterranean Sea and the Balkans into its pocket, the United States will almost be kicked out of the international situation ahead of schedule, and at that time it will be the real tragedy to the extreme.
Of course, the investment in the Soviet Union was clearly not paying off as it should be. Although the Soviet Union sent large quantities of raw materials to Alaska through trade, much of the military aid did not reach the front lines, and the Soviet Union did not have a strategic purpose of pinning down the German army on the frontal battlefield.
In other words, the current implicit alliance between the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, in which only the United States has been playing the role of attrition, is clearly not a situation that Roosevelt wanted to see. He hoped to be able to consume the strategic resources of the German army on various battlefields, instead of using the United States' own strategic resources to fill the two bottomless pits of the Soviet Union and Britain.
Now that Germany has extended its claws of war to the US-dominated Middle East, this move that would have made the US capitalists rage in the past has been endured by the US capitalists. Their decision to offer a partial compromise in exchange for German concessions is clearly an expression of their dissatisfaction with the refueling strategy of the United States in supporting its allies -- if you support Britain and the Soviet Union in such a way that you only see investment but do not return on it, we will be disrespected!
"Send a telegram to the British Crown, we are going to be fully defensive in North Africa. Thinking of this, Roosevelt reluctantly said to the secretary behind him: "The aid to the Soviet Union has also been suspended, and I told Stalin that we Americans can't afford to supply him with such a way of playing." β
"To strengthen the sense of American presence in the Middle East, we really can't transfer Patton over!" He added: "We must act on the premise of the fundamental interests of the United States...... The production of oil in the Middle East must be ensured! One of our divisions must be transported to the Middle East and the garrison there must be strengthened! The Turks must be careful. β
This is Roosevelt's well-thought-out countermeasure, he decided to shrink the United States' investment in North Africa and the Soviet Union, and strengthen the United States' power in the Middle East.
At this time, he no longer considered when it would be most advantageous for the United States to enter the war, and he was now trying to maintain the existing international situation to ensure that the United States would not be driven out of the entire world war in advance by Germany's quick victory. He was now a little bit of a reluctant to leave, just gritting his teeth and waiting, waiting for a great change in the international form.
The two sides are still waiting for an opportunity, if Germany preemptively moves in the Middle East and wins victory in North Africa, then the United States is out of the game, and Germany directly wins the world war; of course, if the United States gets the opportunity to enter the war in advance, then Roosevelt will win, and the United States will be involved in the war, and the world will become even more confusing.
Roosevelt was gambling that he did not think that it was a long-term solution for the United States to stay out of the situation, and he felt that it would be advantageous for the United States to be involved in a world war. This was a thought shared by him and many others behind him. They firmly believe that the United States will be the world leader of the future, not a lonely ghost who has been left out of the world circle.
"Now, it's up to us what our opponents think!" Roosevelt sighed and said, "Whether we plan to defeat the United States in one breath and climb to the real top of the world, or whether we will clean up the situation and not even have a chance to join the war." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Biquge www.biquge.info to vote for recommendations and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation. )ββ
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