Chapter 732: One Step Further is Berlin

The first to be calm was the German government, and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was now almost a frightened bird, not only because the original plan to bring the Soviets to its knees was aborted, but also because the army instilled an inexplicable fear of the Red Empire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info In particular, they heard that it took less than four hours for the huge Imperial Panzer Corps to completely disarm a country, enough to terrify this group of soldiers stationed on the eastern border of Poland and Germany.

And Moscow has made harsh statements that if the NATO bloc continues to behave in the territory inherent in the Soviet Union, they will not mind at all turning the crisis of the three Baltic countries into another version of the Cuban missile crisis. At this time, Helmut, who had learned a lesson, realized that the Soviet Union was still a powerful super-empire, and it would not become a second-rate country because ********** had been in power for more than ten years. As long as a tough leader takes over, even if the internal bloc is in crisis, it can continue to suppress the West for another decade.

Without greeting NATO allies, the German government was the first to issue a statement saying that Germany's operation on the border was only a large-scale exercise, in full compliance with international regulations. Germany expressed its deep regret over the Baltic issue, and hoped that relations between Moscow and the three Baltic countries would develop in the direction of friendship and cooperation.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Dmitrievich Pankin has already drawn up a speech, claiming that the Baltic crisis is an internal affair of the Soviet Union, and no country has the right to use this crisis to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union. Whoever it is, they will be punished by communism. Especially the robbers who came in from the Skagerrak Strait and ran back in disgrace.

"These Siberian robbers are terrible monsters. Quick, get me on the phone, I'm going to get in touch with the White House. Helmut Kohl said nervously that he would not let Germany become the front-line battlefield of the confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

British Defense Secretary Tom King and British Prime Minister John Major also gathered to discuss countermeasures, and in fact they did not expect that the sun would never set on the navy, and they would be mercilessly taunted and slapped in the face when the sun never sets, trying to show its power in European waters.

The British people booed the government, and the BBC ridiculed, "Our government navy originally wanted to drive those damned robbers out of the Baltic Sea like a proud victor, but we didn't expect to be driven out of the Gulf of Finland like a lost dog." Who knows where these governments spend so much of their tax dollars every year? ”

"Great Britain has already lost face in front of the whole world twice, if the first time was the unreasonable arrogance of the Soviet Union, the second time we stretched out our face and slapped each other hard!" Prime Minister John Major was a little angry, the incident was enough to get the political opponents who were eyeing his position, and the poor diplomatic performance also caused his approval rating to drop by several percentage points.

"But isn't that a good thing, my Prime Minister?" Defense Secretary Tom King has openly contradicted John Major.

"A good thing?" John Major was about to get angry, but when he saw the calm face of the Secretary of State for Defense, he instantly calmed down again, as one of the foreign policy think tanks of this administration, Tom King does have a knack for thinking about things, "How can such a bad scene become a good thing?" ”

"The time has come to ask the parliament for money and reinvigorate the navy. The Prime Minister could use this incident to hold a press conference to educate the public about the importance of building a strong navy. In this way, under the pressure of public opinion, it is impossible for the parliament to cut off the budget of the army, and increasing the budget means that we can build a few more destroyers. Tom King tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table, pausing with each sentence as if to summarize what had been said.

Tom King was a well-known hawk in the government, and in his view, no Britain without a strong navy was as incomplete as an eagle with broken wings. Unfortunately, since World War II, the British military has been relegated from its former maritime hegemony, and in recent years, financial constraints have delayed the construction of the British fleet.

"Well, that's a helpless move." John Major said helplessly, he held his forehead and said to himself, "I just don't know what the mood of our NATO ally the French is now, I really hope that after this incident, it can continue to maintain precise contact with NATO." ”

"Don't worry, Prime Minister." Tom King said confidently, "Although the French have always had a lukewarm attitude towards the strong rise of the United States, they are definitely allies on the same front as us when it comes to Soviet Russia." No one wants to have a well-being neighbor by their side. ”

The French did not take it to heart as the British, in fact, they still secretly laughed at the faces of Germany and England, as a French leader who had always wanted to restore the glory of Napoleon and become the leader of the European countries, since the time of Charles de Gaulle, he has been looking for a possible way out on the road to recovery full of thorns. It is a pity that France has nothing but slogans, and the British and the United States, which have always been unaccustomed to it, are closely united. Although they had made peace with their feud Germany decades earlier, the French, who had always prided themselves on European orthodoxy, had deep prejudices against Germany in their hearts.

Perhaps France was only symbolic, and the Soviet Union paid lip service to France's actions, but did not directly say that the Paris Commune was the first great attempt of communism, but only said that it hoped that the French government would be able to recognize the form in foreign affairs, not make irrational actions, and hope to carry out deeper exchanges with France, rather than just being limited to ideological confrontation.

According to the rules of diplomatic terminology, the first two sentences are not the focus, the focus is on the last sentence, and the deeper communication is not limited to ideological confrontation. It is clear that the Americans sniffed out dangerous signals here.

"You mean that the Soviet Union deliberately co-opted the French? How is this possible? According to their foreign policy, they were to sprinkle the glory of communism all over Europe before they were resigned, and it was a fantasy to win over France. (To be continued.) )