Chapter 1033: Armistice
In the current situation, as long as it is shameless, the United States can still say that it will make peace, but if it continues, the United States will undoubtedly lose, and a nuclear war is a good way to reverse the situation, but a nuclear war will not change the outcome either. The Soviet Union had more nuclear weapons than the United States www.biquge.info, and the world could not afford to use only a fraction of their nuclear arsenals.
It is impossible to win a conventional war, and both sides of a nuclear war will die together, so stopping the war is a realistic consideration. Serov did not mean to humiliate his opponent, and it can be said that after this battle, the United States will not be able to turn the tables.
"How we and the United States step down now depends on Comrade Gromyko's ability." Serov left the matter to Gromyko to solve, he was not greedy, and after swallowing Kuwait, basically all the goals of the Soviet Union had been achieved. It is basically impossible to replicate the results of the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Americans, so he is not daydreaming, and the rest of the time should be devoted to the problems in the socialist camp.
Gromyko nodded, and soon the Soviets responded through diplomatic channels to French mediation. This response also relieved the French, the Soviets are still not crazy in the end, and they must drag the whole world to accompany the funeral.
After two days of silence, the United States reacted violently, massing troops at home, the country's maritime forces carrying armaments to Europe, and the media were also clamoring for war, and both the administration and Bush himself turned to a tough attitude, as if they must decide the victory or defeat on the battlefield, and this reaction surprised the whole world, and turned into a deep fear that once a conventional war escalated, it would become a nuclear war that would destroy the whole world.
In the face of the aggressive actions of the United States, the Soviet Union did not fight back, but only held the cards that had been caught in his hand, Serov knew that the attitude of the United States was not to fight a nuclear war, and it would not continue to be a conventional war.
This judgment is made because of these US deployments, and there is no Middle East orientation. Otherwise, if something happens in the Middle East, what will the increase of troops in Europe do, and there will be no connection between them at all. Of course, it is also possible that NATO is preparing to attack the Warsaw Pact, but this possibility is very low, and even if it is, it is a big deal that the nuclear war will be over.
If the United States can destroy the Soviet Union itself unscathed, Serov will definitely be intimidated, but if the Soviet Union has the strength to drag the whole world to die together, he will definitely not coax it, because the two sides are on the same starting line.
This kind of behavior is like making a gesture, and now there is a lack of a country that pulls the United States in. The United States is also looking forward to the emergence of this country, just like a couple, the husband looks like he wants to do something with someone else, and the wife wants to hold her husband's hand to stop it. Now the U.S. posture has been made, sounding the alarm of fear all over the world.
Now there is no need to do anything, the preparations for war in the USSR have long been completed, and the state of combat readiness of the first level has not been lifted. All that can be done is to wait, for the country that is holding the hand of the Americans to appear, and at the same time prevent the sudden outbreak of nuclear war. No matter how low the probability is, the relevant preparations must be made, and if you are not careful, the whole world will be gone.
The reaction of the Soviet Union was the opposite of that of the United States, without any statement or troop movement, and on the contrary to the high-profile actions of the United States, which created a very sharp contrast in front of the whole world.
France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Italy have all sent ambassadors to mediate, and under the pressure of nuclear war, the major powers are very united, and they must defend the peace of this world, and the United States and the Soviet Union can die, but if they drag other countries to die together, no one wants to.
These countries appeared at the right time, and their very hard mediation eventually built a bridge of communication between the Soviet Union and the United States. This bridge was very important for both the United States and the Soviet Union, but the two of them could not do it on their own.
Because the countries of the Middle East are clearly on the same side, the location of the discussion between the two countries has become a difficult problem, and it is not possible to place it in Riyadh, Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad. In the end, a neutral country had to be chosen, and there were not many countries that the Soviet Union could accept, and finally between Switzerland and Austria, the venue of the talks was set in Vienna, the capital of Austria.
The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union at the conference, between Gromyko and US Secretary of State James Baker, was not much less intense than the battlefield, on the contrary, because the fire on the battlefield was very strong, and even the negotiations were full of gunpowder. The attitude of both sides is very tough, because the conditions put forward by the other side are far from the conditions that are acceptable to the other side.
But there is one thing that both sides agree, the current war between the two countries puts the whole world in danger, so the first thing to do is to cease fire, and let the other side compensate for the losses is a matter of later.
In this way, on the 50th day after the United States launched an air strike on Iran and Iraq, the two sides officially announced a ceasefire, and the whole world finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Vienna, the venue for the negotiations between the Austrian government, where Gromyko and James Beck argued fiercely about the causes of the war, including the question of the ownership of Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as the question of reparations, the question of prisoners of war, and so on.
Both sides understand that there is no consensus at all on many issues, and the reason for raising them at this time is very simple, that is, they are used for compromise; even if the United States knows that the Soviet Union will not let Iraq and Kuwait spit out, but even if they know, they must bring it up and talk about it, and it is unreasonable for the United States to be reasonable without mentioning a word.
"It is impossible for the Soviet Union to let Iraq and Iran spit out the occupied areas, and the result of this is that the Soviet Union will lose all its allies, and the United States has already made efforts to help the Kuwaiti royal family, and this is the end of the matter. A truce between the two sides is the best outcome! "Another point, we should say that the losses of Iraq and Iran far exceeded those of the American army, but out of respect for the United States, the Soviet Union was willing to help the fallen American troops to a certain extent." For example, a passage was opened for wounded U.S. soldiers to be treated. ”
It is very doubtful that Moscow, Serov thought about it and postponed the Kodak affair again, and if there was another accident in the United States within a year, he had already thought of a good day to implement the plan, and on the day of the collapse of the Soviet Union, he gave the United States a big gift package on that day, which is also very commemorative.
The United States and the Soviet Union in the Persian Gulf war, rushed to the most direct impact, is Japan, this time the two countries in the Middle East to fight, directly detonated the Japanese stock market crash, according to history Serov knows, completely dependent on oil imports Japan fell into an extreme panic, stock prices fell sharply. With the end of the war, the Japanese stock market rebounded strongly, but it was no longer able to reach its original heights. However, people still have illusions about the bubble-like boom, hoping that the impact of higher interest rates and the Gulf War on stock prices will be eliminated as soon as possible, and stock price fluctuations will stabilize in the short term. However, almost the vast majority of stock investors and speculators disappointed, and the Japanese stock market has been plummeting ever since.
The USSR had already withdrawn all its funds earlier and would definitely not suffer losses. However, whether the hot money spilled over from the Japanese stock market crash will return to the United States to make the US stock market rebound, and whether this consequence will be realized, Serov does not know for the time being.
With the beginning of the armistice, both countries began to count the war losses, although the ground war was only a few days, but the intensity of the war between the Soviet Union and the United States was far greater than that of the United States itself, the Soviet Union lost 21,000 people, and the United States announced that the number of casualties was as high as 17,000, not including the British Royal Navy was wiped out.
In terms of casualty comparison, the United States won, but the war is not only considered in terms of exchange ratio, if you think about it in this way, Germany should have won, and the number of US military casualties is smaller than that of the Soviet Union, which can only be used as a talking point for American netizens to argue in the future, and it has no effect otherwise.
"Our war has also helped Iraq occupy a disputed area rich in oil reserves on the border with Saudi Arabia, in fact, the monetary hegemony of the United States has been contacted, and we control more than half of the world's oil, which is where we have gained the most, and the occurrence of the Japanese stock market crash, the economic advantage of the other side has become a thing of the past."
It was already the end of the year, Serov and the chairman of the Council of Ministers Tikhonov were talking about the harvest, and Gromyko's work in Vienna was still going on, and the day was not far from the time when the United States and the Soviet Union reached a consensus. The war still did not evolve into the worst scenario, and nuclear war did not come on the first day and will never come again.
"Fortunately, I won this bet, I won't make such a dangerous decision in the future, and I can't drag the country to continue to take risks with me!" Serov said with a relieved expression, "Fortunately, I'm not afraid of anything. ”
"Peace is indeed too precious!" Tikhonov, who had just been discharged from the hospital, felt the same way, and when the atmosphere was at its most tense, he could hardly withstand the pressure and went to the hospital for treatment, and now he has only been discharged from the hospital for a few days.
Half a month before 1990, Gromyko and James Baker formally agreed that the Soviet Union and the United States would formally cease the war, and then the Kremlin and the White House officially announced the event. However, in private, the US military will be stationed in Saudi Arabia in the future to keep this oil tyrant. The Soviet Union was also prepared to leave a force in Kuwait to defend against the United States.
The actions after the armistice have just begun, and the United States will not admit defeat, but at this time Serov believes that the United States will no longer be able to turn the tables, and through this war, the strength of the United States and the Soviet Union will be fundamentally reversed, but it will be a few years later until the Soviet Union has digested the results before it can be slowly reflected.