Chapter 1176 – The Indian Attack

It is very important that both sides going to war in the Himalayas are not threatening the British mainland.

The opposite is true for the two sides facing off in the Caribbean; the risks of the two events are very different, and naturally rubbing it in cannot be a head-slapping decision, as apparently one Prime Minister and two Cabinet Ministers agree.

“Won’t you stand up to the Commonwealth and give the Chinese a piece of your mind.” Aiden wondered if he was not initiating some kind of sanction to show the strength of the UK.

“There is an option, if we go out on a limb, we can close off Xiangjiang. But the potential losses would just have to be borne by the UK, I estimate it would result in a loss of trade of around sixty million pounds.” Alan Wilson answered this question very seriously, “And it can’t do much, and we can’t affect their prices, it can only cause book losses, look as if the loss is just a big one.”

For a country in the self-sufficiency stage, what use are sanctions? It cannot be said that they are of no use at all, and it can indeed be said that they are of little use. Sanctions are damaging to the parts that bring about foreign dependence.

For example, sanctions on Russian chips and semiconductors and whatnot will lead to a spike in the price of similar products.

But the impact can not affect the prices of food, clothing, housing and transportation in Russia, Russia’s bread should be what price, or what price, meat will not go up, alcohol will not go up. And Russia’s exports of food, energy that are just in demand. Sanctions can only feedback to themselves.

So the consequences of closing down Xiangjiang is probably that a certain big country’s ass is fine, Xiangjiang will fall into the middle of the depression, the UK’s trade volume is damaged, and the mastery of the only import and export port status may be impacted.

“Actually, one-sided sanctions are useless.” Rab Butler immediately stood on the side of justice, “And it will make it be perceived that Britain is participating in the war in actual action, so that the government will be passive.”

“Right, right, right!” Profumo also said with a look of consideration for the whole situation, “We are not taking a position, but only giving some care to India at the critical moment, and by no means joining in the war.”

“Ministers high opinion.” Listening to NATO will never send troops to help the Ukrainian variant, Alan Wilson did not mince words and patted his ass, the ministers here are all pillars of talent ah.

Although this will appear to be the United Kingdom is also a little passive, but also the most practical response, ancient and modern warfare, the pig’s tactics again and again for people to successfully use, in the event of an attack on the buttocks snuggled up against the wall, so that you can not catch the tail, and finally it can not be helped, or perhaps sharp teeth to give you a bite, biting on the not to be let go.

Sanctions are not desirable, this is a lose-lose behavior, and once they start to ignore you, the United Kingdom will not be embarrassed? If you don’t want to be embarrassed, you’ll have to raise the stakes, ban soccer? Figure skating? Or individual sanctions?

What if the individual sanctions don’t work? We can’t go into history, can we? The fact that sanctions are imposed on individuals means that they can no longer be imposed at the national level.

If you are so desperate, you want to liberate Hong Kong? Is Britain going to follow? If we follow them, we can’t beat them in a land war, but if we don’t follow them, we’ll lose Hong Kong, and a big country will have a smooth sea voyage. If the navy can’t do it now, will it never be able to do it again?

This is the same as once Ukraine is annexed, the European Union will start to feel bad, Ukraine is geographically separated from Russia and the traditionally influential Southeast Europe, its existence leads to Russia to the Southeast Europe can not reach.

Keep in mind that during the time of Imperial Russia, the peoples of the entire European territories of the Ottoman Empire were saved by Imperial Russia.

Once Ukraine is gone, Russia will be able to open the way to the Balkans once again, what with Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and all those countries, Russia’s influence will grow rapidly.

After all, the real hardcore anti-Russian countries, only Poland and the three Baltic States, with Ukraine in front, they can jump, if Ukraine is gone, who dare guarantee that they will not privately and Russia, big brother, just now the fact that many people?

The discussion about the need to come up with some means of support for India, it’s just started and it’s over, it’s as if it’s never been mentioned.

The discussion resulted in concrete steps of support for India, limited for the time being to diplomatic solidarity, so as to make the British position clear without causing damage.

Alan Wilson left 10 Downing Street with Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, and there was no doubt that the Foreign Office was in charge of the matter at this stage.

Rab Butler asked, “How on earth, then, can India feel the goodwill of Britain?”

“Minister, it is not necessary, when the war comes to fruition, the Indians will naturally feel it.” Alan Wilson said to himself, “Rab Butler, don’t forget that Britain colonized India.

Even in the twenty-first century, on the subject of not having a northern neighbor, India was always after Britain to bite.

In fact, it is very simple to communicate with the Indians on the Internet, India wants to join the permanent membership of the crazy.

Just mention it casually, and then quickly take it in the wrong direction, and you’ll have countless Indians agreeing with you.

India wants to join the permanent is true, how to enter is not important, you can say with the Indian people and the United Kingdom has long been declining, not worthy of a permanent seat, India should replace the United Kingdom, immediately you will get the Netflix treatment.

Indians look at a major power, the same way a major power looked at the Soviet Union, you’re strong but you can’t ignore me. Similarly, India’s impression of a major power is inherited from a major power’s impression of the USSR.

There is hatred between the two countries, but there are many issues on which they share the same attitude, such as the idea that the British seat should be replaced by an Indian one.

On October 16th, the White House was in the midst of final consultations on whether to invade Cuba directly or to conduct air strikes.

Himalayan foothills, India in the eastern section, deployed more than sixteen thousand troops; in the western section, the Indian army deployed a brigade headquarters six infantry battalions, a machine gun battalion and a number of supporting detachments totaling more than 6,000 people. The Indian troops moving northward reached the designated point to begin their attack.

The Ambassador to India, who had received a telegram from London and was required to report every twelve hours, informed London of the Indian attack, and early the next morning the news of the Sino-Indian war, which made the front page of every newspaper, spread like a hurricane all over England, and out of the borders of the country all over the world.

“We call on both countries to take a pragmatic approach, to negotiate a settlement.” Foreign Secretary Rab Butler said as much.

“Minister, the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ meeting is said to be taking place in December, is it on schedule?” A reporter from the Daily Times stood up to ask his question.

“I believe there is not much of a problem, it should go on as scheduled.” Rab Butler replied smilingly.

Almost at the same time, in the British Ministry of Defense headquarters building, Field Marshal Mountbatten was expounding to the Secretary of Defense on the Royal Navy’s mobilization plans for the Mediterranean Fleet’s two Queen Elizabeth-class carrier battle groups, which would be heading to East Africa for deployment.

In this situation, Alan Wilson wants to recite a poem, Mengliang mesa Huben collapsed, thousands of miles to help Li Tianxia. It is not that I see death and do not save each other, but the communist army has a high degree, a good poem, a good poem ……

The whole of Britain, now, is watching the distant battlefields of Asia, that war on the roof of the world.

New Delhi, the capital of India, huge crowds of people flooded every street, the last time it was this busy was when Nehru declared India’s independence, people held up pictures of Gandhi and Nehru in support of the Indian army’s courageous move, and all kinds of newspapers wrote successive quotes praising the Nehru government’s courageous move.

Countless religious people and ascetics, sitting on the ground, prayed for the Indian army at the front and wished them victory.

This scene was in the eyes of the British ambassador, in a telegram to London, there is some concern about this, “India’s independence after the nationalism flourished, has become more and more radical.”

“These ambassadors abroad, no matter what country they are permanently residing in, are always subject to local influences.” Alan Wilson took the telegraphic report of the ambassador to India, “Let him wait it out, maybe what he sees in a month’s time will be completely different.”

What’s that saying again? Adults break down in a moment. The same is true for a nation.

“And tell Kefley to stay out of it with the Americans, whatever the Americans and Changgong talk about has nothing to do with Britain, an ambassador don’t make a mistake on this one, and if he wants to be a commissioner in a different place, like some island in the South Pacific, he can fart around with what I say.”

Wick was too reticent to say anything more about Fraud Island, “I’ll tell him right away.”

“What a wonderful world, living well is better than anything.” Alan Wilson sighed, flipping open the Southern Traveler’s Journal and reading it with great interest.

British military port Portsmouth, Field Marshal Mountbatten wearing the field marshal uniform, see Queen Victoria class ship number one and number two out of the harbor, the two British tonnage of the largest, the shortest age of the aircraft carriers, will be rushed to the Mediterranean Sea, in place of the Mediterranean fleet’s two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, responsible for the security of the Mediterranean Sea.

This Royal Navy troop movement is huge, not to say the only one after the war is almost the same.

The departure of the 90,000-ton megaship not only attracted Mountbatten and a cadre of generals, but likewise a number of nearby residents.

In fact, the Royal Navy did not want to hide anything, on the contrary can be said to be a big fanfare, lest others do not know, these two ships of the Royal Navy’s pride to mobilize.

The British side of the movement, was soon plagued by a variety of opinions Kennedy know, at this time direct attack on Cuba, and the adoption of surgical air strikes of the views of the different, so that he is not overjoyed.

Kennedy even became a little envious of the British, having the leisure to pay attention to hot-button issues a million miles away at a time like this.

“Royal Navy mobilization, Navy?” Kennedy froze for a moment, blockade with the navy? Yeah, the US can do that too, the US naval strength is even stronger than the Royal Navy.