The news that the Soviet Union was about to carry out large-scale disarmament soon triggered a new round of turmoil in the international community, especially the NATO countries led by the United States.

"Damn, these Soviets tricked us, they tricked us once." It was the first time Brent had seen Bush so angry, he threw the documents on the table on the ground, and before he could calm the anger, he hammered the table with both hands, filled with righteous indignation, "If we had forced the Soviet Union on the Baltic Sea issue again, they would definitely have yielded, God, why so many intelligence analysts in the Pentagon can't think that Yanayev is deceiving you!" ”

Brent muttered inwardly that I insisted on continuing to coerce the Soviet Union, but you and your European allies chose to withdraw in the end, so blame me? And are we being played by the Soviets less often? When we signed the agreement with Brezhnev on the limitation of strategic ballistic weapons, didn't the Americans still think it was a victory of reason? Didn't the Soviet Union's 1981 Western-81 military exercise on an unprecedented scale make the West conclude that the Warsaw Pact's tank sea was capable of wiping out NATO's garrisons in Central Europe and reaching the city of Paris within a week? Haven't our top leaders learned from these events?

Of course, Brent couldn't say these things explicitly, so he could only comfort Bush, "But President, at least we learned one very important thing from the disarmament of the Soviet Union, that is, they can no longer use the weak economy to maintain the huge military spending on armored forces." So from now on, we should adjust our strategic objectives to completely crush the Soviet economy. In this case, even if they have a huge weapon of war, they will go bankrupt because they have no money to maintain it. ”

"That's the way it is, but how to bring down the economy of the USSR? It was clear that the Soviets had begun to find a way to counter our propaganda offensive, and Pentagon intelligence analysis indicated that since the Soviets adopted Ryzhkov's economic policies, there was a 74 percent chance that the Soviets would get out of their economic predicament. ”

"Isn't there a 26 percent chance of failure? As long as we add fuel to the fire of the Soviet Union's troubled economy, no matter how effective the reforms are, we will not be able to stand up to the collapse of reality. Brent said.

Bush nodded, and he wanted to make the Soviet economy worse. Bush picked up a document and threw it to Brent, saying, "So don't we have another guy named Leo Vantaa?" According to the information in my possession, in the '80s, the CIA agent named Vantaa was directly commissioned by President Reagan to engage in a secret financial war aimed at subverting the Soviet ruble, and he designed the secret operation codename "The Great Ruble Scam", and this layout has been planned for several years. It's time to give this guy a shine. ”

Brent was also one of the insiders of the Vantaa plan, which he presented to Brent, saying that he would work with his co-conspirators within the Soviet Union to complete a highly lucrative deal for $5 billion for 140 billion rubles at twice the price on the black market. Then in this year's gold exchange, he went on a short spree of up to 2,000 tonnes of gold on the London gold exchange. As a result, the Soviet economy, which was already weak, survived on the little money from gold exports, and the collapse of gold prices drove the last nail into the coffin lid of the Soviet Union, and it collapsed completely. Vantaa then pursued a follow-up plan to buy a large amount of assets from the Soviet Union, which had already achieved the goal of hollowing out the red polar bear.

This action has been waiting for Bush's approval, and because of the inexplicable change in the situation in the Soviet Union a year ago, the Vantaa operation was several months later than in history, and the Americans, who thought they were seamless, of course, did not know that this change of situation contained the secret methods of the time-traveler, but only regarded him as the cause of force majeure, and continued to prepare for the operation according to the original plan.

"Is the president ready to use Vantaa as a pawn?" Brent asked, he was a little worried that if Brent would have supported Leo Vantaa without hesitation six months ago, this time he always felt that things would not be so simple.

However, President Bush has lost his mind in anger, and he urgently needs to win back a game in the political game to save face, otherwise the United States will not be able to raise its head among NATO allies, so no matter what form it takes, he must teach the Soviets a profound lesson.

"That's for sure, you're going to call Vantaa to my office. I would like to talk to him personally about the steps taken to implement this plan. "The calm president has been thoroughly ignited with the seeds of hatred, and he wants Yanayev to see the American counterattack and sanctions.

Some people are worried, and some people are happy, and the military threat pressed on the north of the southern neighbor has been removed, and they can finally take a deep breath, and they no longer need to worry all day long against the violent machine in the north that suddenly can't turn their brains to push it over with a torrent of steel, and you must know that the three provinces in the east are plain areas with no strategic depth at all, and once the enemy launches a large-scale attack, it will absolutely be powerless to stop the advance of those tank tracks.

Immediately after the disarmament of the Far East, Yanayev issued a statement saying that the disputed areas on the northern border were willing to put aside disputes with neighboring countries and develop them together. This was a sign of goodwill by the Soviet Union, whose southern neighbors were also facing great economic distress since the military and economic sanctions imposed by NATO, and the search for new development opportunities was also on their agenda, and the Soviet Union's overtures gave them a glimmer of new dawn and hope.

Years of struggle in a complex international environment have also cultivated a cautious character in the southern neighbor, and the overtures to the Soviet Union have only been symbolic and insignificant, and there is no further expression. But Yanayev was already satisfied with his performance. The icebreaker won't happen overnight, but it doesn't seem like a bad start.

The Soviet Union's overtures frightened a group of small countries in Southeast Asia, especially those neighbors that were at odds with the big East Asian powers, to use the generosity of the former Soviet Union against their vast neighbors. For example, the Vietnamese general secretary prudently stated that they were strategic partners of the Soviet Union and reaffirmed the friendly relations between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. But Yanayev just scoffed, who is friendly with your group of Vietnamese monkeys? At the beginning, Vietnam was just a pawn to contain the rise of great powers, and since the two countries are ready to join forces in the Asia-Pacific region, there is nothing to do with your group of small countries.

The political influence exerted by the alliance of the two socialist powers in the Asia-Pacific region is not something that NATO and the United States could have predicted, and the alliance of the Asia-Pacific superpowers will also bring terrible political pressure to those small countries in East and Southeast Asia. To borrow a lyric, the picture is too beautiful to look at.

So these days have been busy with foreign policy directors and senior officials from various small countries, who have gathered to discuss the implications of the convergence of the situation in East Asia, but the results have invariably been dismal conclusions. If two large socialist countries move towards an alliance, then the small countries with friction of interests in the vicinity must give up their interests and protect themselves. After experiencing a group of white-eyed wolves such as Vietnam and Albania, China has begun to become like a hegemonic country, and then encounters a red polar bear who fantasizes about how to sell arms to other countries to make profits all day long, and has no communist international spirit, so the most likely approach for these countries is that the two superpowers unite to divide up the interests of the surrounding small countries, and the question they stand on is nothing more than to choose the distant American free world, or choose the nearby communist glory.

The choice of surrender or death may become a question that the leaders of many small countries have racked their brains in the near future, but there are also leaders who do not see the situation clearly and misjudge the current political situation from the great disarmament of the Soviet Union. It was thought that the Soviet Union was only a purely economic problem and could not sustain huge military spending.

There is no doubt that Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Umibe is one of the leaders of one of the countries who cannot see the situation clearly.