Chapter XXVII

The drama is getting older and closer, but India has not responded. The top level of the United States is anxious to see the situation.

Shortly after the test unit led by Jia Baoguo arrived at the Shuangpai Air Force Base in Kunming, Dudgway took Colonel Stark to the White House to report back to the president again.

Colonel Stark, also from the U.S. Marine Corps, was a key subordinate of Dudgway when he became Secretary of Defense.

Before the outbreak of the Half-Ukrainian War, Colonel Stark was a major battalion commander of the 2nd Marine Division, that is, when Du Qiwei was the commander of the division. After following Dudgway into the Korean War, Stark narrowly escaped and arrived in Busan. On the eve of Korea's defeat, he returned to the United States with Dudgway to participate in the rebuilding of the 2nd Marine Division, during which time he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. When Dudgway first became Secretary of Defense, Stark was transferred to the Department of Defense, where he was responsible for Marine Corps equipment research and procurement. During Dudgway's second term as secretary of defense, Stark was promoted to colonel and then head of the Pentagon's arms procurement department, making him Dudgway's most important middle manager.

Like Dudgway, Stark is distinctly assertive and has a different understanding of warfare. What's more, Stark is one of Dudgway's most loyal subordinates, otherwise he wouldn't be reused by Dudgway. Among the many officers trained by Dudgway, Stark had the highest political consciousness, so he was brought to the Ministry of Defense by Dudgway to participate in administrative work. In the past two years, Stark did not disappoint Duchway, not only shared a lot of pressure for Duchway, but also provided Duchway with a lot of advice, so that Duchway could gain a firm foothold in the fiercely fought Pentagon.

It's just that at this time, Dugway is not facing Westwood, but Bran.

Brandino is also a Democratic president, but the president, who has been governor of New York for many years, has never agreed with Westwood's foreign policy, and has even openly criticized Westwood's mistakes on many occasions. In many ways, Blandino is more like Governor Bruderlin, which may have a lot to do with the similarities between the two men. Blandino's ability to hold the governorship throughout the Great Depression speaks volumes about his abilities.

The Great Depression, which lasted for many years, changed not only the world, but also the United States.

During this period, not only did the U.S. federal president change hands several times, but the states also changed hands several times. Since the beginning of the year, several states that have been the stronghold of the Democratic Party have changed owners, and several states that are also strongholds of the Republican Party have also changed hands one after another, such as California, which has been managed by the Republican governor for many years, fell into the hands of the Democrats in the year of the bumper. Brandino was one of the few U.S. states to have not lost a run during the Great Depression.

Blandino's success has a lot to do with his ability to make an economy.

Before the end of the Great Depression, New York State was the first to embark on the road to recovery and became the locomotive of the American economy. Even during the Great Depression, New York State had the highest employment rate of any U.S. state.

This achievement laid the foundation for Blandino's victory over Brooklyn in the Democratic Party election that year.

In other words, Brooklyn's defeat had a lot to do with his tenure as Westwood's secretary of state. If he had turned down Westwood's invitation to continue as his governor, he would likely have become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in the year of the struggle, because Westwood's second choice for secretary of state was Blandino.

Regardless, Blancino got a chance to be in the White House.

In the general election, Blandino's performance in New York State earned him a lot of support. The Republican presidential candidate mistook the slogan and slammed Westwood's weak foreign policy in the general election as the key reason for the decline of the United States. The vast majority of voters are not concerned with the lives of millions of Japanese or the living conditions of hundreds of millions of Indians, but about employment and real income. For the U.S. economy, which is just emerging from its predicament, who can provide jobs for the thousands of unemployed and who can provide more income for American families. Whoever is the ideal president will be able to live in the White House.

Brandino captured the mindset of the electorate and put forward the right slogan.

Although Westwood's mistakes during his presidency greatly reduced the Democratic Party's popularity, Blandino still won the election by a narrow margin with his seductive slogan and his outstanding performance in New York State.

After moving into the White House, Blandino began to make good on his promises.

It has to be said that Blandino's luck was very good. By the time he became president, the Great Depression had ended, the global economy had begun to recover strongly, and the U.S. economy was improving. Compared to Westwood, Blandino doesn't have much to clean up and more to enjoy the fruits of the previous administration. On the other hand, this is also a success for the Democratic Party. Affected by the international environment, even though Westwood made many mistakes during his administration, the Republican Party is better at leading the United States to expand abroad when the situation is better, rather than developing the economy in the face of adversity. Many of Westwood's mistakes can be attributed to overly long-term strategic tactics. With long-term goals as their main purpose, Westwood is bound to have trouble dealing with real-world problems. In this way, whoever aims to develop the economy can defeat the Republican Party in the general election. In other words, whether it is Brooklyn or Brandino, they can enjoy the political fruits left by Westwood after taking office. Not to mention anything else, Westwood's long-term economic cooperation with India was based on U.S. investment in the early days. As cooperation deepens, the U.S. is becoming more disconnected from the Indian market, and U.S. workers are bound to benefit from the activities of this large market with hundreds of millions of consumers.

After taking office, all he had to do was build on the foundation laid by Westwood.

For this reason, Brandino started the largest infrastructure activity in American history, and he was also called Franklin Roosevelt Jr. by almost everyone"Interestingly, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt, who led the United States out of the Great Depression, was also from New York State, and he was governor for several years before becoming president, and he showed remarkable economic talent during his tenure as governor.

Brandino began to engage in infrastructure construction at the beginning of the drowning year, which was considered to meet the needs of the Times Exhibition.

Every energy revolution has a corresponding wave of infrastructure. For example, after the birth of the steam engine, the first batch of countries to carry out the industrial revolution represented by Britain began to overhaul the railway, making the train the main means of transportation and transportation, and finally changed the world; After the invention of the internal combustion engine, the United States began to overhaul roads. The car replaced the train as the main means of transportation and transportation, and eventually changed the world. The electric revolution is the energy revolution that has the greatest impact on the world since the steam engine and the internal combustion engine. No matter which country it is, if you want to catch the shuttle bus of the electric revolution. You have to keep up with the pace of the times, otherwise you will be abandoned by the times.

The United States didn't start early, but it wasn't too late.

The energy revolution is based on technology, and it is its own technology, not the technology of other countries.

China was the first to master the key technologies of the power revolution, so it was the first to carry out infrastructure construction, and since the beginning of the year, China has been preparing for the power revolution.

The late arrival of the United States is a microcosm of the gap between the two countries in terms of key technologies for the electric revolution.

Because the United States is the second to master key technologies and the second to start infrastructure construction, it is not too late for the United States to start. In the long history, the power year is very short, and with the scientific and technological strength of the United States, as long as it concentrates its forces, it is very promising to catch up with China.

What Brandino did was to concentrate the power of the United States.

Fundamentally speaking, infrastructure construction is to pave the way for new technologies to enter the market. As can be seen from the exhibition in China, until the infrastructure keeps up with the needs of the times, it is difficult for consumers to accept even the most advanced technology. Taking electric vehicles as an example, if China has not built a nationwide charging station, a national power grid with a large enough capacity, and a controllable fusion nuclear power plant that can meet huge power consumption, electric vehicles will certainly not be popularized in China first, and it will not be possible to bring the world's largest and most well-established electric vehicle industry with an annual output value of tens of trillions of yuan, providing employment opportunities for tens of millions of industrial workers, tens of thousands of engineers, and thousands of scientists. Without the infrastructure driven by the electric vehicle industry, various electric industries such as the electric aircraft industry and the electric ship industry, as well as the cutting-edge arms industry, would not have been born, and China would not have become a high-end producer.

As governor of his tenure, Blanche has always understood the relationship between infrastructure and advanced industries.

In the first year of his tenure, Blandino revised the budget of the year, and the annual budget was submitted to Congress at the end of the first year, and the time of the president of the United States was to expand the capacity of the national basic power grid by two national power groups, and the nuclear power subsidiaries of General Electric, Northrop and Lockheed Martin shared government orders, trillions of dollars were used to improve the charging stations covering the country, In addition, $400 million was spent on road repair and environmental management.

On top of that, most of the new thugs' budgets are paid for by companies through subcontracts, negotiated pricing, and so on, and the budget deficit has increased by less than $2, silencing lawmakers who are worried about hyperinflation during the economic recovery. In the following two years, the U.S. federal government invested $3 million in infrastructure construction in Shache, accounting for 3 percent of the federal budget, second only to social welfare.

Huge investment brings huge returns.

In the first quarter of Qu year, the unemployment rate in the United States fell from the old courtyard when Brandino took office to the lowest level since the beginning of the year; The average income of households rose from US$4 to US$4, an increase of Gongmi, an average annual increase that was the highest since World War II. As a result, Blandino's approval rating rose from 4 when he was elected to 4 when he took office, becoming the first president in the century to rise without falling after taking office.

According to outside predictions, as long as Blandino does not make low-level mistakes, such as making unsightly slander, his chances of winning the election over the years have been excessive, setting a record for the longest tenure of a Democratic president since Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. In the view of some more optimistic people, as long as Yiweinuo does not change the basic economic policy, it will continue to invest in infrastructure construction. No matter how much he makes mistakes in other areas, he can be re-elected in the past years.

Regardless of how to say it, it took two years to win the trust and support of voters.

It is for this reason that many people ignore the nature of Blandino, or the nature of American politics.

Although Blandino is very good at economic development and has made some adjustments in foreign policy, none of this can change his fundamental identity as a spokesman for interest groups.

Compared to Westwood, Blandino values immediate interests more than long-term interests.

Judging from the international situation at the time of Blandino's inauguration, this was also the basic policy that he had to adopt.

The country's huge infrastructure requires a huge amount of money, whether it is paid by the federal government, local governments, or large enterprises, and huge international revenues are required to fill the funding gap. Compared with Roosevelt's time, the biggest problem that Branzino encountered was that the international status of the dollar had diminished, and it was no longer the only universal currency in the world with a store of value. With China first shorting US Treasuries and strengthening the renminbi's position in international finance, and countries such as France, Germany and Italy vigorously promoting the euro, the hegemony of the dollar has long since ceased to exist. If it is unable to generate international revenues, large American companies will certainly not be able to make long-term investments at home, infrastructure is long-term investment, the Federal Reserve will never be able to increase its currency at the risk of a vicious depreciation of the dollar, and the federal government's deficit budget will not be able to run a big way.

If Westwood is pouring money outside, then Blancheno is collecting money from the outside.

This policy has had a tremendous impact on the allies of the United States. In the second year of incubation, Loma and Boeing raised the price of the mother, resulting in heavy losses for many of the old countries involved in the Feng Kai project, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, and Israel, and had to reduce the number of purchases.

Relatively speaking, it is certainly India that hurts the most.

In the year, Branbeno vetoed a contract to sell fighter jets to India because India could not come up with enough cash and could only buy them through loans or barter. The US federal government simply does not have a surplus line of credit and it is simply impossible to provide a secured loan to India. The American market was already flooded with cheap goods from India, and the benefits of bartering had to be passed on to Japan.

The following year, Blandino revised the terms of aid to India, demanding that India pay for the American technology it acquired.

This one involves near! The $100 million almost led to a break between the United States and India, because India simply can't afford to have so much foreign exchange reserves, and the United States desperately needs the money. In the end, the risk was transferred to the capital market, and the large consortium of the United States and Europe came forward to advance nearly a dollar for India in the way that the Indian government opened up the domestic market, so that the US federal government benefited.

These radical policies do not indicate that Blandino does not value India, but that he has a different view.

Westwood's aid to India policy is basically a "long-term investment" aimed at building India into a major force to confront and contain China. "Long-term investment. The rewards are very high, and the risks are also very high. If India loses, the United States is likely to lose all its capital before it pays for itself.

Bran's policy of aiding India is basically a "short-term speculation", and the purpose is not to obtain high returns, but to recover the capital invested by his predecessor as soon as possible. In other words, he is not optimistic about India, believing that India is not China's opponent, let alone defeating China. If the costs are not recovered soon, all the investments in the United States will be in vain.

The policy toward India can be seen as a natural continuation of Bran's basic policy.

According to the analysis of the outside world, Blandino's main purpose is to give the United States the basic conditions to complete the electric revolution, that is, to complete the infrastructure before being thrown off by China; To this end, the United States must shift its focus to domestic construction, spend more money on domestic construction, and must reduce unnecessary expenditures, including foreign aid, and secondary expenditures, including defense budgets. In order to reduce external pressure, the United States needs to "reconcile" with China. "At the very least, we have to ease the fierce U.S.-China contradictions; In addition to adjusting its diplomacy with China, the United States also has to make concessions on international issues related to China, including the very sensitive comprehensive nuclear disarmament and peaceful use of outer space, as well as the more sensitive assistance to India.

Those who have seen through Blandino's political line know that sooner or later the president will have to make a choice when it comes to South Asia.

It is the overall international situation that is more favorable to the United States, and the last ally that can contain China is discarded.

Although Dudgway was a military man, not a politician, he was among the federal government officials in the United States. He is one of the more clear ones.

To use a Chinese saying: take a step back, the sea and the sky.

What Blanche has done is to take this crucial step back and win a better environment for the United States to exhibit and the opportunity to catch up with China.

The point is also here, the United States has only taken a step back, not endless concessions.

As tensions in South Asia re-emerged, China made a big fuss about Sikkim and sent hundreds of thousands of troops to help Sikkim build a state.

No matter how Blandino thinks about India's future, from the national interests of the United States, India must not be allowed to lose too badly!