Pavlov's words made Milosevic really wake up, he was still calculating before, he understood one thing, the Soviet Union is now very important to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Serbia's interests can be separated for the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's abandonment of Yugoslavia is just the loss of an important outpost, when Serbia is isolated in the whole of Europe, it means that they will be divided by NATO countries until collapse.

It is an insult to the Serbian people to think that as the president of a country, he should be tried before an international tribunal and finally sentenced to life imprisonment or sent to the gallows.

Milosevic said worriedly, "What if the deployment of ballistic missiles irritates NATO's nerves?" Yugoslavia could no longer afford to be bombed by the no-fly zone and the combined NATO forces. Even if the Soviet Union was willing to provide billions of interest-free loans, Serbia would not be able to complete the post-war reconstruction of its homeland in a short period of time. ”

"What countries are next to Serbia?"

Pavlov suddenly came such a sentence, which made Milosevic a little baffled, but he still answered honestly, "Around Serbia? Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Romania and many more. Together with Slovenia, Croatia has not received official recognition from the international community. ”

"Then which of these countries do you think has a military strength that far surpasses Serbia's?" Pavlov asked softly, his hand tapping lightly on the table, waiting for President Milosevic's answer.

"To be honest, no." Milosevic replied honestly, "During the Yugoslav war, we received a large number of military exercises from your country, and although the economy is in a difficult period now, its military strength far exceeds that of the surrounding countries. ”

"Good. So do you think we're going to have the Cuban Missile Crisis situation now? "Serbia is not geographically close to the old European powers, so it will not face the threat from NATO, and the deployment of ballistic missiles is a political game between the two sides, not a military contest." ”

However, Serbia's economy has not fully recovered, and to do so would be tantamount to cutting off Serbia's future. None of us wants Serbia, which has managed to stand up in the war, to end up falling because of economic problems. Milosevic voiced his concerns.

"Do you want to say that Yugoslavia was strong and prosperous in those days because of the charity of Western society?" Pavlov sneered. "Economic blockade? There are more countries willing to cooperate with you, and I don't want to hear the ridiculous argument that Serbia has chosen to surrender because of the economic blockade of Western countries. ”

Milosevic was speechless by the rebuttal, so he chose to remain silent. Pavlov knew that the first tentative contact had not made real progress, and Milosevic was skeptical of Pavlov's promise. After all, Serbia is now facing social unrest.

"I don't think that the fact that there is no temporary progress in cooperation today does not mean that the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will not change its mind in the future." Pavlov took a step back and did not show the Soviet Union's brutality and hardline attitude in political positions to blackmail President Milosevic.

Pavlov stretched out his hand and shook hands with Milosevic, reaffirming the friendship and equality between the two peoples, but in fact he was looking at other conspiracies. Since Milosevic is unwilling to cooperate half-pushing, then he makes the other party have no choice at all.

On the second day of Pavlov's departure from Serbia. Western newspapers published a conversation between the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and the President of Serbia in Belgrade about his attempt to establish a ballistic missile base cooperation project, and if it was impossible to say that it was impossible to do so without the help of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union wanted to force Milosevic to make a choice, whether to cooperate with the Soviet Union or choose to fight NATO alone.

Of course, NATO's reaction was strong, especially German Chancellor Kohl, who was already wary of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and after hearing that Serbia was ready to cooperate with the Soviet Union, the German government, which was originally busy dealing with refugees at home, immediately bombed. He immediately got in touch with French President Jacques Chirac. Reach the agreement of both sides before the situation deteriorates.

Although there were still minor contradictions between Germany and France, they showed a high-profile unity in the face of the threat of a common enemy.

"President Chirac. You and I both know that the Soviet Union and Serbia are so close because of the recent revelations by the CIA about the creation of ballistic missile interception systems in Central European countries. The Soviets couldn't take it anymore and they wanted to fight back. Prime Minister Kohl replied, "This is also an opportunity for us to clean up the disobedient Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." NATO can fully use this pretext to impose military sanctions against Serbia. ”

"Military sanctions? As long as Croatia is encouraged to provoke trouble again, it can intervene in the chaos in Serbia. We could have backed Serbia on the Croatian border behind our backs, and then brought in the UN to intervene. "French President Jacques Chirac has made a solid suggestion that Serbia will have a chance only if they are in chaos. If Yugoslavia does not eat a soft and hard one. Even France and Germany were at a loss.

"What if we attack Serbia and bring the Soviet Union in?" Chirac raised his concerns, he was not afraid of Yugoslav resistance, the only fear was that the Soviet Union would make some dirty little moves behind his back, so that France would have a hard time. This is not the first time that Chirac has learned such a despicable trick.

"It's better than people saying that missiles are on our doorstep, isn't it? Besides, the strategic space of the Soviet Union has been almost squeezed out of our country, and if we add another fire, we can completely squeeze them out of Eastern Europe. Only isolated Moscow remains, how else can Yanayev play? ”

Kohl tried to drag down the Soviet Union's layout in Eastern Europe by all means, even if it ended up being a lose-lose situation. Of course, he was always thinking about calculating France, and of course he was thinking about how to make France and the Soviet Union lose both, so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman. Let Germany fight with the USSR? Germany, which had experienced a war, was not so stupid.

So as for the sincerity of the Franco-German alliance this time, it is self-evident. (To be continued.) )