Chapter 102: There's Oil Over There!
Shepard's streetlamp speech caused the two old guys in the room to look at each other, who were almost 110 years old, and Primri thought for a few seconds before suddenly realizing.
"No wonder you kid wrote this in the contract, you already knew it?"
"It's just a little speculation!"
Shepard pointed to his head, indicating that it was all up to his clever brain.
And Smith is not unusual, he has known Shepard for a long time, when Shepard dared to point to Kennedy, who was speaking, at the White House dinner, and said that this guy would die sooner or later, and swore to everyone that the Soviet Union would finally give in to the Cuban crisis, so generally what he said, Smith would believe.
"Then, according to you, aren't we going to have to do it again in the DRC?"
"That's not necessarily, the Congo is gone, it doesn't mean that there are no other places, Rhodesia, Angola, Zambia, Sierra Leone, these places are all suitable for our vast world!"
"First of all, don't rush to those places, it just so happens that the Shadow Company is in Katanga, so I have already greeted the inspection team and Mobutu for the training of personnel, let you do it!"
"Ha, let's go and train the Congolese Defence Forces? Shouldn't the Pentagon be left to handle this? Choose a reserve officer, bring a few reserve officers, come here and take the black uncles to run and shoot guns, you let us train, what do we train? ”
"It's mainly a matter of funding and personnel, you know, the situation in Vietnam is like that now, the Pentagon is eager to put everyone on a plane and send it to Vietnam, and the training and integration of the DRC army is still a job led by Langley, if they don't look for you, they will find someone else to do this!"
"But let my people do this, you don't know the situation of the company, most of them are mobilized soldiers from South Korea, and there are few .........."
"Wouldn't that be better? Koreans can better dissociate themselves from us! ”
"Temporary workers, right, why did the CIA pull its crotch like this, and even anti-Russia didn't dare to blatantly oppose it?"
Shepard slammed the table in anger and yelled.
"Because the Russians are too strong!"
Smith said helplessly.
"Look at Angola next door, the Portuguese have almost mobilized their entire army here, but what's the use, the Angolan guerrillas supported by the Russians are blooming everywhere, the Portuguese army is dizzy, and forty percent of the defense funds are invested in it, and now even the city can't go in and out casually!"
"It's okay, the Pentagon will take action, why do you think the congressional lords should support Mobutu, this place is too important, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a crossroads in Africa, if something goes wrong in Angola, this is the best base for intervention!"
"Interesting, keep talking!"
Smith was interested, and he had heard similar things from analysts back home, but not as straightforward as Shepard, more like some speculative analysis than Shepard was so sure.
"The Portuguese will definitely not be able to hold on, now they are already riding a tiger, just waiting for an opportunity to withdraw, and when the time comes, the Russians will definitely let the forces they support quickly occupy the power gap left by the Portuguese, and reach the established facts as quickly as possible, so that the Pentagon will not have time to intervene at all!"
"And if we can make sure that the DRC is a transit base, then it will be very convenient for military intervention or sending arms to the armed opposition there!"
Smith nodded again, no wonder he was going to retire and be pulled here to play his spare time.
"That's right, after all, it doesn't matter who you are when it is the policy of the congressional lords, as long as you are against the Russians, then you are a good brother in the free world, so among our allies there are thieves and scum, and they are unpopular but can still sit firmly on the throne of power, isn't that Mobutu such a person!"
"That's not something we can think about, Shepard, after all, the political direction is there, so many times we have to think about it, not whether it should or shouldn't, but how to do it!"
"It doesn't matter, anyway, the Shadow Company is a military contractor, whoever has more money will help whom!"
"Then you say, if there is a problem in Angola, who will we help?"
"Simple, there are a lot of oil fields in the north of Angola, whoever occupies this place we will help whom, or ......"
Shepard raised an eyebrow, then looked at Smith.
"It's unrealistic, without tens of thousands of troops and heavy equipment, it is impossible to hold it by occupying it, boy, it's a good thing to have a big appetite, but it's easy to have problems if it's too big!"
"It's not all occupied, if we can steadily seize a few, or just one, and the time is not too much, we can occupy a year or two, and the oil extracted will not be less!"
"According to what you say, it's not impossible, but you can't call the shots in this matter, you have to listen to me!"
Smith is also excited, oil is liquid gold, no one will think it is less!
"Or we can also consider the south, there are diamond mines there, and the mining volume is not small, in short, as long as we can make a mouthful of soup, it will be enough for us to spend several years!"
"John, stop, you're not thinking well right now!"
Although Smith knew the huge benefits, he also knew the risks that came with the huge benefits, and he immediately shouted to Shepard to stop planning and return to a more realistic problem.
"I need to send you an assistant to keep you calm!"
"Old man, we didn't say that at the beginning, I'm nineteen, and I can be independent!"
"Fart, let you be independent is not for you to be brutal, it's too early to discuss the affairs of Angola, you can concentrate on dealing with the affairs of Katanga, especially the reorganization of the Wehrmacht, you have a good relationship with the commander of the garrison, then you can do it yourself, Plomri, you keep an eye on this guy for me!"
"But Mr. Smith, I don't think John is as reckless as you think!"
Plomri tried to stand up and say something fair, but was stopped by the other party.
"Whether there is it or not, it is better not to have it!"
Smith sighed, then continued.
"What is the situation in Angola, it has nothing to do with us at the moment, you can do what I will do for you now! Also, I know you want more helicopters, I'll find a way to get you two more! ”
"Well, they say that a slap is given to a date, but isn't your date a little small?"
"And what do you want?"
"I want armored vehicles or tanks, if only there were fixed wings!"
"Why don't you want a nuclear bomb?"
"If you give it, I'll definitely do it!"
"You kid, wait for my news, I want to find a way!"
"Nuke?"
"Get a B52 bomber for you!"