The first update

Just as the riots in Ingushetia diverted the attention of the central Moscow center, the United States began to play its second hand in a hurry. That is, Turkey, a neighbor with no less than ten wars with Russia. This is also one of the few important cards in Mario's hand, although Turkey's unauthorized actions before led to the United States' betrayal of teammates, but in order to confront the Soviet Union, the previous small discord can be put down, not to mention that Turkey is still trying to join the European anti-missile system.

In the face of the common enemies of Turkey and the United States, all grievances between the two sides can be put aside. Moreover, there has been a resurgence of internal turmoil in the Soviet Union recently, and political experts who study Kremlin have found that Yanayev has not been seen in public for several days, and Yanayev's name is rarely mentioned in central newspapers such as the Moscow Daily and the Communist Party. Therefore, they analyzed that after the unrest in the Ingushetia region, there must have been a considerable political earthquake in Moscow, so much so that the name of the first leader, Comrade Yanayev, actually disappeared from the newspaper headlines for some reason.

But they forget that all the information they receive is sent by Soviet-controlled newspapers, which means that the information obtained by Kremlin-based political researchers around the world is a smoke bomb deliberately or unintentionally released by the Soviet Union.

Yanayev was more calm than anyone else, and he now wanted to see how many hole cards the United States still had in his hand to use. So when he heard that the United States had suddenly increased the number of visits to Turkey, Yanayev believed that after the "appetizing dessert" of Ingushetia, President Mario was finally going to play the first card.

The plane was parked at Istanbul's international airport, which had been raised to the highest level of alert because of the increasing frequency of terrorist attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party in the east, and Demirel did not want anything unexpected to happen to President Mario while he was at the airport.

President Mario stepped off the plane, looked at the crowd below, and waved. Turkey is a country that shares the same disgust that Demirel has brought to him, and if it were not for the existence of the Soviet Union, President Mario might even list Turkey as one of the targets of terrorist support, as is the current Iranian president, but the importance of the Turkish alliance has been highlighted after the overthrow of the Iranian king.

Mario is reminded of some unreliable rumors about Istanbul, which is said to be more arrogant than anyone else, and that he has always wanted to reclaim the city, and changed the halal name of Istanbul to Constantinople of the Roman Empire, which alone reminds people of how terrifying Yanayev's ambitions were. This also made Demirel constantly worried about the movements of the Soviet Union.

"President Mario, welcome to Turkey." Demirel personally greeted Mario at the airport, and for him, he would not have to worry about repeating the tragedy of 1980 when he was ousted due to civilian incompetence.

As for the former selling teammates of the United States? Demirel admits that it was his own mistake that led to such an embarrassing situation. And he is more aware of the importance of currying favor with the United States, otherwise the loss of the Turkish Straits will be a lesson from the past.

And now the Turkish military is very dissatisfied with Demirel's governing policy, and they believe that the president's cowardice in foreign affairs will lead to such a misfortune. Once the seeds of contradictions between the military and the government are planted, all that remains is a major explosion that accumulates for a certain period of time.

"Hello, President Demirel." Mario also smiled and shook Demirel's hand. This is his first visit to Turkey, and the fact that Mario has finally taken over the affairs that had been represented by the secretary of state, is a key step in containing the rise of China and the Soviet Union, creating disputes over the Black Sea, and Turkey is the best pawn in creating disputes.

This time, President Mario will talk about this issue inside the Turkish presidential palace, because Demirel studied in the United States in his early years, so there is not much of a barrier to communicating in English.

However, President Demirel is not as calm as Mario, as soon as he came up, he single-handedly single-handedly pointed out the current situation in Turkey, "We need to get the protection of the United States, the Soviet Union is now showing more and more aggressive posture of expansion, once the strategic deployment of the Soviet Union is completed, the first to be threatened is Turkey." So I hope that we will be able to introduce American anti-missile systems to block the threat from the Soviet Union. ”

President Demirel took the initiative to build an anti-missile system on the territory of his own country, which surprised President Mario a little, but it was more of an appreciation for Demirel who knew the times. Since Mario took office, he has stepped up its funding for the U.S. military, and the Patriot and THAAD anti-missile systems did not wait until after 2000 to conduct interception experiments, and all tests were completed as early as December last year.

The actual combat effect of the new product naturally has to be verified by the allies, so Turkey is impatient to jump out as a guinea pig, which is also a signboard for the US anti-missile system.

What Demirel considered was that he did not need to fight with the Soviet Union, and that the deployment of the anti-missile system was only a means of deterring the Soviet Union in a larger sense. Without the huge military bloc of NATO, Turkey's little anti-aircraft firepower would not be enough to be plugged by the Soviet Union's huge missile arsenal.

President Mario did not speak, and he motioned for Demirel to continue.

"When we deploy the anti-missile system, we can really contain the Soviet Union's eastward expansion, including the right to speak in the Turkish Straits. Now that the Turkish Straits are still under our co-trusteeship with the USSR, we must take it back from the USSR! ”

"Although NATO countries have already begun to book our anti-missile systems, our anti-missile systems are still in the preliminary stage, and if they are really perfected, it may take several years to come." President Mario reminded, "Even if it's just an imperfect anti-missile system, do you have to book it in advance?" ”

"Yes." Demirel did not hesitate to be the main wrongdoer at the moment, as long as he could deter the Soviet Union and stabilize those who opposed him in the army, even if the American anti-missile system was a pile of scrap metal, it would be worth buying.

"If we really want to buy sincerely, we will provide Turkey with a more complete anti-missile system as early as around March next year, and the later maintenance work and the operation of the missile system will be carried out by NATO, which is our request."

Mario believes that after taking care of Turkey, it will not be difficult to deploy anti-missile systems in Bulgaria and Romania.

Since Demirel likes to take the lead in trying the anti-missile system that even the US military still thinks is not very reliable, then President Mario naturally wants to give him some preferential treatment in return, "and the later upgrade and maintenance of the anti-missile system is provided free of charge by the United States." ”

"The most important point is that this time Turkey must be under the personal supervision of the United States to use the anti-missile system, and in the event of an emergency, it will report to the NATO command as soon as possible, and we will decide whether to activate the system."

This is to add an insurance policy to Turkey's anti-missile deployment and prevent Turkey's unauthorized actions from creating an irreparable situation.

After listening to what President Mario said, Demirel was a little dissatisfied with the last request, but everything else was acceptable. But the last point also has a lot of room for mediation, what kind of unexpected situation does it need to be reported to NATO in the first place?

"I think this cooperation between Turkey and the United States will be a historic event, marking the breaking of the Soviet Union's hegemonic monopoly in Eastern Europe." Demirel reached out and shook President Mario's hand.

"Happy cooperation, President Mario." Demirel said with a smile.

"Happy working together?" President Mario narrowed his eyes and smiled meaninglessly, he approached President Demirel a little and said in a voice that only two people could hear, "Isn't it possible that President Mirel doesn't want to take back the Turkish Straits?" ”

After President Mario said this, the car just stopped in front of the Turkish presidential palace, and then the door was opened, and President Mario turned around, with an expression of indescribable meaning on his face. The contours of his face flickered in the flickering of the spotlight. (To be continued.) )