The fourth update

"Build an anti-missile system?" After hearing Titus's answer, President Constantinescu showed great surprise, in his opinion, the establishment of an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe is a fantasy story, first of all, about Romania's own position, at this time Romania is not a member of NATO, that is to say, in itself, Romania has no obligation to establish an anti-missile system and then hand it over to NATO. Moreover, this is tantamount to stationing foreign troops in the country in disguise, which also undermines the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Romanian state.

"Yes, that's what Madame Madeleine asked. We thought that this request would need to be discussed before we could give a reply, and the other party readily agreed. Titus looked a little embarrassed, "Look, President Constantinescu, we ......"

Konstantinescu pondered for a moment, then repeated the words of Foreign Minister Titus, "and then they asked for low-interest loans from the United States and help the Romanian army to renew its armaments and build a strong Romanian army." And the request put forward by the United States is to deploy an anti-missile system in Romania and provide us with long-range missile defense. ”

"Yes." Titus replied nervously, not knowing what the president was trying to do with it.

Konstantinescu leaned back, raised his head and looked at the pattern on the ceiling in a daze, "This is equivalent to pulling Romania into the water in disguise and becoming a pawn of the Americans." As tempting as this cake is, there is poison hidden in it. ”

"What should we do?" Titus asked, a little nervously.

Konstantinescu's gaze shifted from the ceiling to the foreign secretary, and he said to Titus, "Secretary of State Madeleine cannot be offended, in any case, the United States side will mediate with me." There is still a lot of room for maneuvering in this matter. Moreover, a wave of separatist tendencies broke out in the Soviet Union. I don't think the Soviets have time to pay attention to what is happening in Romania, and as long as relations with the United States are managed, Romania will be the big winner of this incident. ”

Titus didn't speak, he didn't think it was a sensible thing to do, especially when both superpowers were going to make you choose to take sides. When the end of the grass on the wall is likely to turn into a tragedy for Gaddafi.

President Konstantinescu really wanted to take the benefits and then did not want to fulfill the obligation. But he also didn't want to think about how a woman who could become the US Secretary of State could lose to the leader of a small European country with her skills and courage.

When Constantinescu met with Madeleine, he was still waiting for him because he felt that this woman was not a very good character to deal with. As the first female secretary of state in U.S. history, Madeleine has a strong political acumen.

As soon as she came up, she adopted a preemptive strategy, "Hello President Konstantinescu, I think you have already understood the treaty proposed by the United States before. For us, the basis of cooperation between the two sides is in good faith, and if the Romanian side is willing to cooperate with us, then we are also very willing to have in-depth and further exchanges with Romania. ”

Madeleine's answer was neither humble nor unrelenting, but it gave Constantinescu a feeling that he could not refute. But greed always drives people to do hot-headed things, such as wanting to benefit from the United States but not wanting to fulfill their obligations. This is definitely the stupidest thing Konstantinescu has ever done.

The Romanian leader tried to defend Madeleine, "Although we are more than happy to accept American assistance, there is one issue that must be made clear, and that is that Romania must be given command of the establishment of an anti-missile system." I mean, the anti-missile system deployed in Romania must be operated by the Romanian military, not by NATO personnel. Moreover, the cost of the delivery, purchase and installation of NATO anti-missile systems must be paid for by itself, and Romania will not contribute a single penny. ”

"Oh?" Madeleine stared at Constantinescu's face and said very seriously, "Is there anyone on the Romanian side who can operate the anti-missile system?" ”

Later, she added, "Or does the Romanian president think that he thinks too much of Romania as a country?" ”

Madeleine put her hands on her knees and said unhurriedly, "In Eastern Europe, countries where NATO and the United States can choose to build an anti-missile system abound. In addition to one Romania, we have Bulgaria, Poland and a host of other former socialist countries to choose from. Why does Romania think that we will definitely choose to deploy missiles on your soil? Just because you have a border with Ukraine, we in Romania can directly threaten the Ukrainian Front of the USSR? ”

Constantinescu did not speak, or he could not find the words to refute Madeleine's sharp reply.

"Let's put it this way, without the support of Romania, we can also deploy anti-missile systems elsewhere, we can even deploy them in Moldova, and it is better to believe that we have the ability to subvert this small European country. Do you think that the World Bank only provides low-interest loans to Romania? Don't forget, we can give benefits to any country if they want to, or as long as they have value to use. ”

Madeleine wanted to make Constantinescu understand that Romania is not absolute for NATO, but the EU and NATO are irresistible temptations for Romania.

With the existence of this layer of relationship, Madeleine is not worried that Constantinescu will not bow his head, not to mention that he uses the geographical location of Romania as a threat, doesn't he just want to exchange for more benefits?

Seeing through this, Madeleine would not be afraid of any small action by Constantinescu, and her sentence "Romania is not unavailable" blocked all the next words of the Romanian president.

"So now we can discuss the conditions for building an anti-missile system in a calm mood?" Madeleine is as sincere as ever, and her capable professional image has impressed the male politicians around her with regard to the Iron Lady, who is worthy of being the woman who can sit in the first seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Yes, I think we should really discuss the details of the trade between the two countries, and the Romanian government would very much welcome the guidance from the American side, especially on the military side."

After being tamed, Constantinescu didn't dare to say a word, he knew that the other party had seen through all his hole cards. If you continue to dwell on this issue, you will only suffer from yourself. The US Secretary of State has already vaguely revealed the confidence to threaten him, and he has reason to believe that Romania will be unlucky enough to be the one who will be unlucky.

"What a terrible woman." Konstantinescu sighed secretly in his heart.

Seeing that the other party had made the choice, Secretary Madeleine smiled and said, "Thank you President for making the right choice." ”

The conversation between the two standing together is like a dumb riddle, and only each other understands what it means.

Constantinescu waved his hand and said, "I've just made the choice you wanted." ”

"Isn't it good to be an ally of the United States?" Madeleine blinked, "We are willing to provide our allies with perfect protection from communist infiltration. The current Soviet Union is not the Soviet Union of the 80s or 70s, which only knew how to use force to blackmail, they have become more cunning, so we have every reason to upgrade the Romanian army on the road. ”

The year 1997 coincided with the time for the United States to replace its armaments, and the so-called upgrading of Romanian armaments was nothing more than packaging and disposing of the active equipment that the United States was preparing to obsolete as foreign garbage, and the Romanian army itself would toss it. This saves a fee and at the same time can be exchanged for a political favor.

"Yes, who calls us allies?" Konstantinescu said with a reluctant smile.

"If only you understood." Secretary Madeleine nodded, very satisfied with Romania's reply. (To be continued.) )