Chapter 1222 – Strategic Determination

Really say conscientious arms sales, dare to sell their own generation of weapons to the outside, in the middle of the free world also have to look at the United Kingdom. Instead of a city on top of a mountain, you know why the Soviet Union has been disintegrated for thirty years, there are still many countries still remember the good.

One of the main reasons is that the USSR had the courage to sell its own generation of weapons, although there was also the problem of castrated monkeys. But compared to the U.S., it was a good buyer.

The US sells weapons with numerous restrictions, and then gives a castrated version, which is even more hated than the Soviet weapons, and military aid is impossible.

There are simply too many examples of a certain great power that is a model of peace, what kind of demons and devils are those?

The fact is that even reputable powers don’t trust US weapons, and the treatment of having GPS turned off isn’t exclusive to a certain power, people have experienced it with reputable powers.

No other country except Israel would enjoy not being neutered.

The UK is much better, if the Arab countries are willing to pay with one hand and deliver with the other, at least Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, which are the Arab world powers, the UK is willing to show its rare imperialist conscience and arm a few countries.

Aircraft carriers are sold, what’s wrong with land and air equipment? All but the nukes can’t be sold.

Alan Wilson’s words are now full of credibility because of the previous example of selling aircraft carriers.

Several Arab ambassadors are interested, but such a big thing they can not sit on the main, just said they will communicate with the domestic, not long before Field Marshal Mountbatten came back, and saw a son-in-law in Arab robes, “how to dress like this?”

“Isn’t this to get closer to the Arabs?” Allen Wilson threw off his turban, he was a couple of Hedy Lamarr’s robes, a few days ago when the rocket ride, but also took out to cultivate a love affair.

Marshal Mountbatten raised an eyebrow and inquired with a you’re-happy look, “How’s the talk going?”

“Just the first communication, haven’t talked it down yet.” Alan Wilson said as he thought, “I want to keep the Defense Department happy too, there is that, but there may be some moral costs.”

“What way?” As soon as Mountbatten saw his son-in-law say that, a feeling of sudden discomfort filled his body.

“A bribe!” Alan Wilson spoke with a straight face, “It requires Pamela to resort to shady contracts and take care of some contacts, which makes it much easier to push.”

The Cabinet Secretary, who is always thinking of solutions, suddenly remembered the operation of the former colonies. There is no need to hide anything, the inspiration came from India, where the problem of military sales kickbacks can be endless.

Just think about it casually, simply involves the military sales of all types of military, not to mention other things, the Rafale fighter is an example.

“Rafale” fighter jets before the highest price is less than 100 million U.S. dollars, which is the “luxury version of the configuration” to have the price, the general is more than 60 million U.S. dollars. But in this deal, the Indian Air Force spent $8.7 billion to buy thirty-six Dassault Rafale fighters, the unit price of $ 2.4 billion, even more expensive than the F-35 standard fifth-generation aircraft.

Even after accounting for a range of additional expenses such as logistics and maintenance, spare parts, and so on, this price is clearly unreasonable.

Earlier, India had negotiated with Russia in the nineties for the purchase of Su-30 fighters, and Air Marshal Kaul of India, who was involved in the negotiations, was later exposed to have taken a bribe of one and a half million dollars, and to have been gifted a large amount of diamonds by Russia.

Giant military sales that are watched by all dare to take kickbacks, small military sales that generally go unnoticed must be even more serious.

“I don’t know when Pamela will be back, so I can use the banknote ability if it’s on the way.” Alan Wilson thought it very feasible, a good thing to join forces, and the integrity of the Arabs, if not higher than that of the Indians, was not much higher.

The Cabinet Secretary in London had his heart set on pushing British arms into a wider arena, and to that end made loving appeals to the Presidentess, but the Presidentess had things to do at the moment.

With the sell-off of silver, the price in the American silver market, instead of falling, was climbing.

Pamela Mountbatten even contacted her husband about this, and Allen Wilson’s response was that everyone should speed up the selling when they felt it would continue to rise.

In fact, ladies of equal stature to their wives were uncharacteristically selling silver for cash, as was the case in London, Paris, Bonn, and Stockholm.

But that’s no reason why Pamela Mountbatten can’t come back for a while; she’s in Perth to receive representatives of several companies, the names of which, respectively, are ADM (USA), Bunge (USA), Cargill (USA), and Louis D’Alva (France), the four major grain merchants, as they are known.

It is impossible to hide any windy movement in the world grain market from their eyes. After the announcement of the reform of the grain reserve system in the United Kingdom, the effects have already shown up in the international market.

Soon, the four major grain merchants followed the transportation vein and found the important link that helped the UK with grain transportation this time, being Pamela Mountbatten in Perth.

“The international market for grain has now risen twenty percent, all because of Britain’s actions that led to this.”

“Ms. Pamela, we need an explanation, the actions of the Mountbatten Group have disrupted the international grain market and Bunge is very unhappy about it.”

“Louis Duffy was unprepared for the current situation, the relationship between Britain and France should have been kept in communication.”

A few representatives of your side of the stage, a look from a position of strength, to make Pamela Mountbatten look good.

“What’s the matter? Friends, isn’t it a good thing that food is rising?” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes glanced, unimpressed replied, “on the contrary, you should be grateful to the United Kingdom, you can use this time to get the benefits of the rise in food, after all, most years, the price of food is in a stable state, like now this good opportunity can not be rare, and you door to door bullying me a woman, don’t you feel ashamed of it? ”

“And that is, except for my husband, I will not be threatened by any man, door-to-door questioning, I hope it will not happen next time, it will damage the relationship. To put it bluntly, it is better for each other if we make money together, and I am not afraid of you if there is to be a confrontation, you may have heard the saying that the British Empire will never surrender until the blood of the Indians is drained, British India is independent, and the British colonies are not all independent yet ……”

“Ms. Pamela, you may have some misunderstandings ……,” the representative of Louis Dreyfus turned his words to express the meaning of the crowd just now, “We have always recognized the strength of the Mountbatten Group, although certain voices believe that, as a integrated group, entering the grain field has caused unhappiness, but the reality is already like this, we should still be united.”

The representatives of the other three U.S. companies also nodded their heads, shifting from a position of strength to a position of knowledge, it is so mellow, unity is the basis for no harm, we are all in this field to make a living, the one who is hurt by the disturbance is still himself.

“I also think that unity is the basis of consensus.” Pamela Mountbatten smiled and proposed, “In fact, the food needs of East Asian countries objectively exist, controlling food is controlling the whole world, no one can top the belly rebellion, even Washington can’t force you to make concessions.”

“The current situation is actually very simple, either increase prices or let the government give you subsidies, my suggestion is simple, now is the time to test strategic determination. The four of you plus me control most of the world’s food, as long as we take a common stance, mountains of gold will come to us.”

“We will inform the board of directors of Ms. Pamela’s words, word for word, and I believe there will be little problem.”

“I’ll wait for your good news. As for certain countries where food might be a problem, there might not be enough panic.” Pamela Mountbatten smiled and spoke, “We act together, and this year’s earnings will definitely not be small.”

After this meeting, the four major grain merchants had become a thing of the past, replaced by the five major grain merchants.

To be honest, Allen Wilson didn’t actually want to use this kind of tactic, but with the development of Japan’s industry, which caused more and more pressure on Britain, he also had to use some underhanded means. Who let you have such a low food self-sufficiency rate?

As for Korea and Fraud Island that was completely incidental, he couldn’t do a precision attack.

A few days later, the American ADM, the American Bunge, the American Cargill, and the French Louis Dreyfus announced to the public one after another that due to climatic anomalies, a number of countries expected that this year’s food production would not be as good as expected.

With the four supreme beings stepping out of the forbidden zone, the prelude to the 1963 food boom began, and countries that were not self-sufficient in food were in a state of panic.

Foreign Secretary Rab Butler set off on a visit to the Arab pro-British countries, on the one hand, also to ensure the food security of these countries, the United Kingdom will not be ignored, and the other purpose is to sell weapons.

Pamela Mountbatten, who departed from Perth, is also in Baghdad at this time, following through on her husband’s instructions to favor, nothing that can’t be favored, and the Iraqi royal family and the military, to determine the amount of the rebate for ten percent of the total price of the arms sale. This is already quite a high percentage, enough to show good faith.

Even if it is a prestigious power, usually rebates will not exceed three percent, ten percent of that are military sales of large single, in order to hit the name of the military industrial complex, consolidate the Arab pro-British countries, Pamela Mountbatten can be said to be very generous.

“Pamela, you really can surprise me every time.” Princess Badia sighed, the same are women, look at others and then look at themselves, in addition to the same origin of the upper class, other aspects are too far away.

“Badia, you are my best friend.” Pamela Mountbatten played the emotional card, “I hope that the British-Iranian relationship, to the likes of ours, is close.”