1142 Drink to quench thirst

It can't be said that southern Africa is not helpful at all, India and Japan will be different after all, what Japan needs is raw materials, what India needs is food, what Southern Africa has, is not a strategic resource, India only needs to pay for it, how much it wants, Southern Africa does not restrict exports, the more the better.

The problem is the "money", India has no money.

There was no money to say an egg, so Sastri deliberately provoked Roque, probably thinking that if he showed enough hostility, Roque would make appropriate concessions to India in order to turn the conflict into a jade silk.

Let's talk nonsense, Roque has always persuaded people with reason, and the truth is only within the range of naval guns.

Therefore, the international general territorial sea line is only 12 nautical miles, because the range of naval guns at that time was 12 nautical miles.

"Locke—" Balfour knew that there had been some unpleasantness between Roque and Sustry, but this was not the time to dwell on these details, and it was Balfort's task to put the team together as quickly as possible.

"Ahh

Belfort was speechless.

Sastri was also speechless.

Viscount Gladstone and Bowden were even more speechless.

"Lord Nyasaland, India and Southern Africa are both Commonwealth countries, and now India is in trouble, Southern Africa should help India." Sastri can't wait, this "should" is used well, you help me is God's will, if you don't help me, I should die.

"Huh, should?" You're welcome Roque, God knows why Sastri is so confident, and what about the cabinet members, should he be naïve, or naïve?

"Yes, Southern Africa should provide complete and complete assistance to India, you have the ability to do so." Sastri is really not strange, and many white people really think that this "should" is a matter of course.

Of course, many Africans have learned this white mentality to the fullest.

"Yes, Southern Africa does have the capacity, but why should Southern Africa help you? It's completely thorough, did you wake up? Will India's suzerainty be the British Empire or Southern Africa? You are not my son, why am I used to you? Roque wanted to be tactful, but he was afraid that Sastri wouldn't understand, so he would just be more direct.

"You-you're going too far-" Sastri was also a face-hungry man, and he couldn't hang on his horse.

Roque sneered, he couldn't stand this blow, and his psychological endurance was seriously insufficient.

"Locke, India and Southern Africa are the same—" Balfour tried to lighten the mood.

"Your Excellency, these problems are not something we can solve now, we still focus on the naval conference." Roark bluntly said that if Balfour wanted to have a meeting to resolve the conflict of interests within the Commonwealth, then Balfour was wrong, very wrong.

To put it mildly, when the Commonwealth was founded, hundreds of politicians gathered in London to argue for more than a year without being able to understand, and Balfour would be out of his own power if he thought so.

But this is also normal, considering the impact of the Balfour Declaration before and after, our Privy Council President is sometimes naïve.

Nor can it be said to be naïve, if Southern Africa had not rejected Balfour, then this would definitely be a good move for the British Empire, not only to solve the refugee problem that has plagued Britain for a long time, but also to smash a nail in the Middle East, to plant a hidden danger for the future of the Middle East, so that Britain can continue to have an impact on the Middle East with a detached position.

It's a pity that Balfour didn't expect the British Empire to weaken so quickly, nor did it anticipate the reaction of southern Africa, let alone how urgent Rothschild's mood was.

It's still like this, Belfort didn't expect Roque to be so direct, and as soon as Roque's words fell, Belfour looked at Roque with stern eyes.

It's about the same as the dean.

Roque is the student who has excellent grades, but also has a strong personality.

"If this issue is not resolved, then there is no need for India to participate in the naval conference," said Sadtri, believing that he had captured Roque's sore point.

This is also self-sufficient, the naval meeting, when did it have anything to do with India?

The meeting broke up unhappily, and after the meeting, Bowden took the initiative to find Roque.

"If Southern Africa can send armored troops to Canada, then the Americans will not dare to do it, of course, there is also the Air Force, Canada's sky, and it also needs the protection of the Southern African Air Force, rest assured Locke, the Canadian government is fully responsible for the expenses incurred by all troops during their stationing in Canada." Bowden's attitude is very good, and if you ask for someone, you have to have a posture of asking for someone.

During the World War, the armored forces showed an increasingly important role, and by the end of the World War, the performance of the armored forces had directly determined the balance of the war, and it was precisely because the Allied forces were equipped with a large number of tanks that they could form a frontal suppression of Germany on the battlefield.

After the end of the World War, only two armies remained in southern Africa, one was an armored force and the other was a mountain force, both of which were extremely distinctive and could play a huge role in specific circumstances.

Bowden knew the combat effectiveness of the southern African army, and the United States also knew that if southern Africa sent armored troops to Canada to assist in the defense, it would not even need to send an entire division, but a symbolic armored regiment would be enough to form a huge deterrent to the United States.

For Canada, which covers an area of 9.98 million square kilometers, one regiment is clearly not enough.

If necessary, southern Africa can raise hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops at any time, and this is where the confidence of southern Africa lies.

"Canada's defense, can not always rely on southern Africa, the strength still has to be in their own hands, southern Africa can send troops to Canada to assist in the defense, but this is only a stopgap measure, if necessary, southern Africa can help Canada train troops, in order to better deal with the threat of the United States." Roque seems to be really thinking from the position of Canada, but in fact it is also a conspiracy.

If Canada is going to have its own troops, then it must buy all kinds of equipment that the troops need.

Canada has basically no military industrial capacity at home, so if it needs tanks and aircraft, it will definitely have to buy them from southern Africa.

This kind of arms purchase is not a one-time business, and the purchase of weapons always involves repair and maintenance, and in the future, it will also involve the upgrading of the new generation, and all these tasks require the cooperation of southern Africa in order to ensure that the weapons and equipment can give full play to their due combat effectiveness.

This is the same as southern Africa, before the establishment of southern Africa, the British weapon system was used, so after the establishment of southern Africa, it can only be developed and upgraded on the basis of the British weapon system, which will have a lasting impact on the future of southern Africa.

To take the simplest example, accustomed to the left-hand drive car, and then drive the right-hand drive car will produce all kinds of discomfort, sometimes careless, causing traffic accidents are not a few.

Winston has a lot to say in this regard, and in another time and space, Winston was in a car accident in New York because he was not used to American transportation.

"Locke, Canada is not southern Africa, we only have a population of eight million, and if we want to form a force, the number of people is not enough to protect Canada, and the number of people is too large for the Canadian government to afford financially, so southern Africa and Canada work together to really complement each other's advantages." Bowden is very sober, the vast land also has the sorrow of the vast land, Canada is not southern Africa, there are no endless Africans to drive, and now there is not even a decent railroad in Canada, which is very miserable.

To put it bluntly, there is still no one, and if Canada can have the human resources of India, then Bowden will not come to Roque.

Just kidding, more than 300 million people can easily raise millions of troops, and the United States can be heaped to death with crowd tactics.

Bowden's complementary strengths are actually the British government's approach.

For the British Empire, the presence of colonies all over the world was an advantage, but in fact a burden.

During the Second Boer War, Britain easily mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops from all over the world, forming an overwhelming advantage over the Boer coalition forces.

During the World War, too, Britain relied on the Southern African Expeditionary Force, the Anzac Corps, the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and the Indian Legion to raise millions of troops and wear Germany to death.

It seems that Britain has a huge advantage, but in fact, in order to maintain the British Empire's maritime hegemony on a global scale, Britain has to invest more and more of its budget in the construction of the navy, and the navy is a well-known gold-swallowing monster.

The main reason why the British government wants to bring southern Africa, Australia, and Canada to the naval conference is probably to share military spending.

This reason is very appropriate, if Britain wants to protect the interests of its colonies and overseas territories, then it must not be all paid by London, and the colonies and dominions must also make their due contributions.

For example, in southern Africa, which does not want to build capital ships, but wants to build aircraft carriers.

In this way, it is simple, Britain won the corresponding share of aircraft carriers from the naval conference, and then took out a part of it to give it to southern Africa to equip the southern African navy, so that if a world war breaks out again in the future, the southern African navy will also have to fight side by side with the royal navy, and it will not affect the combat effectiveness of the royal navy.

As for whether the aircraft carriers belonging to the Southern African Navy will fully obey the orders of the British War Department, the current British government is in no mood to consider this.

It's not that it's not in the mood, but it's incapable, and if the British government does this, then it will definitely have an impact on the future of the Commonwealth, and the influence of Southern Africa will continue to increase, and the influence of Britain itself will continue to weaken.

But even if it knew this, the British government had no choice, which was to drink to quench its thirst, knowing that drinking poison would kill you, but not drinking it would die now.