Chapter 462: Why Compromise
Of course, Li Junhao can also ignore the reactions of Roosevelt, Truman and others, grasp the current power by himself, and control the CIA and the two major blocks of sea and land, I believe that no one will dare to touch himself in a short time!
In addition, the secret files left by Edgar Hoover are also one of his hole cards, even if politicians don't have a good opinion of them, they have a way to control most of them!
When it really comes to need, you can control many people, and you may not be able to completely override the president, but it is absolutely no problem to keep your position, and even if necessary, you can directly remove the president from power.
Also, Truman, although he spoke ill of himself in front of Roosevelt and was himself an anti-communist, he knew that in his previous life, after this person took over as president, he did not do well in politics and people's livelihood, but because the disarmament issue had a bad relationship with the military, but there was no way to do it, and it was impossible for the post-war country to keep tens of millions of troops!
If you lay out your own layout in advance, can you cooperate with Truman?
Thinking of this, he felt a little bit in his heart, got up and walked to the window, and looked in the direction of the White House, in fact, there were many buildings in the way, and the distance was a little far, so he couldn't see there at all......
After smoking two cigarettes in a row, he made a decision: find an opportunity to talk to Roosevelt as soon as possible and make a final effort! It depends on whether it is worth accepting your kindness?
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On August 30, at the White House advisory meeting on Wednesday, Li Junhao unexpectedly found that the president was actually present!
It can be seen that Roosevelt should have undergone a certain amount of makeup, and even wore blush to cover his overly gray face, but even so, the whole person still looked very haggard.
Today's advisory meeting is mainly to study the matter of the summit meeting of the allies; as the actual leader of the Western countries, the United States has actually made arrangements for it in its own hands, but there is one important ally that does not cooperate -- the Soviet Union!
I don't know what the Soviet leader thinks, but he refuses to cooperate with the arrangements of the United States, whether it is the time or place of the meeting; The US side asked the Soviet Union to put forward its own demands, and the other side even said that it would hold a meeting in the Soviet Union, on the grounds that the leader would have a headache when he flew on a plane!
But how could Roosevelt now be able to travel long distances to the Soviet Union for a meeting?
In this way, things become deadlocked!
For this reason, since July, the White House Council of Advisers has held no less than five meetings on this matter, all of which happened to be during the time period when Li Junhao was directing the landing war in Europe, so he participated in the discussion of this topic for the first time.
Originally, he was not going to speak, but then he really couldn't listen to it anymore, Roosevelt and his advisers had no way to deal with the Soviet side's non-cooperation, but only accommodated and retreated, and even began to tend to let Roosevelt drag his sick body to the Soviet Union!
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say two words......," Li Junhao said, "the allies were jointly established by all the anti-fascist countries, the four most important of which were the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union...... In this case, shouldn't it be up to us to dominate? Why compromise with the USSR step by step? ”
Hearing this, everyone attending the meeting was stunned, and Admiral Leay subconsciously said: "Of course, it is because the Soviet Union has involved seventy percent of Germany's forces on the Eastern Front, which has greatly relieved the pressure on the Allied forces on the Western Front......
"No, that's not true!" Li Junhao said, "First of all, it must be clear that the Soviet Union was attacked by the German army, and the Soviet Union was the invaded party!"
"It was only after losing half of the country that the Soviet Union reacted and fought desperately against the invasion...... During this period, China has provided a lot of aid to it, and now it has even exceeded the total aid to Britain and China!
"Why? It is because many people hold the view that the Soviet Union has dragged down most of the strength of the German army, so the United States must support him, just as it supports China's war of resistance and drags Japan!
"But everyone forgets that the USSR and China are different!
"China is the first and hardest country in the world to resist fascist aggression, but its military industry is extremely weak, there is no large-scale imitation and manufacturing capacity, weapons and equipment basically rely on imports, and later rely on our military aid, and the weapons and equipment they get can only be used and consumed......
"The Soviet Union is in a completely different situation, it has a very complete military industrial chain, because of our attention, the amount of military aid it has received is tens or hundreds of times that of China, and while it is holding military aid to equip its own troops, it is actively copying, including our new fighters, tanks, artillery, etc......
"There is intelligence that the Soviet Union's military industrial capacity is now capable of supplying more than seven million troops!
"On the other hand, at present, the Soviet army has begun to enter the counteroffensive stage, and it is they who are pressing the German army to fight, which is no longer a problem of dragging the German army, but the German army cannot withdraw if it wants to! In other words, the hatred between Germany and the Soviet Union made the Germans not dare to retreat at all!
"I don't know if you've ever thought about it, the war has been fought so far, Italy has surrendered, and the core of the Axis powers is only Germany and Japan, how long can they last?
"I think, a year at most! And what about a year later? What will the world look like? At this point, he stopped, and the rest was left to these people! Can you figure it out, he is not responsible for explaining!
Of course, if he said this, and some people don't understand, there is only one possibility - he is playing stupid, or he is a Soviet spy himself!
Harry Hopkins, for example, was a fervent advocate of comprehensive aid to the Soviet Union, and a liaison between Roosevelt and Stalin, and a good friend of them.
At the end of the meeting, Li Junhao paid special attention to the color of Roosevelt's light spots, which were not bad and did not continue to change, and he wondered if he knew that he was involved in the "forcible treatment" of him, so his thoughts about himself had changed? If his attitude changes a little more for the better, he will decide to save it! ——
When he returned to the office, Ayres followed and expressed concern about what he had just said, not because he thought it was wrong, but because it was contrary to Roosevelt and Harry's attitude toward the Soviet Union, and he was worried that the two would have an opinion about Li Junhao.
Li Junhao said that he didn't care, but said in his heart: I have already had an opinion, but I haven't shown it yet! But it said: "Nelson, when discussing important issues, someone has to be the opposition, isn't it?" ”
(End of chapter)