Chapter 1253 Sympathy
Given the scale of the Soviet Union’s military aid, coupled with Indonesia’s geographic environment suitable for the navy, Alan Wilson felt that the sending of the Indonesian fleet such a thing, will never happen only once.
When Brezhnev came to power, there might be more, and even if there wasn’t, if the Soviet Union’s Red Navy developed, who said it couldn’t be stationed in Indonesia?
Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. Navy, the Caribbean Sea siege like an iron barrel, the Soviet submarine was also found by the United States, the gap between the U.S. and the Soviet Union’s naval strength, the Soviet Union Navy touched a great deal, although the anti-ship missiles in wartime can indeed sink battleships, nuclear weapons can be even more destructive of the country, but these things do not mean that all the time can be used.
In the same month that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, Gorshkov, the leader of the Soviet Red Navy, pushed for the construction of a Moscow-class aircraft carrier, which had already been endorsed by the Central Presidency of the Soviet Union.
Although this kind of carrier, as Alan Wilson said, similar to the Centaur class of the Royal Pacific Fleet, is really not useful. But he could not deny that it was a decisive shift.
At this point, the theory that carriers were floating coffins, which had been popular for some time, could be said goodbye. Even the Soviets, who had advocated carrier coffins, had realized the error of their ways. It was also a good thing for Britain that Mountbatten, who had done everything he could to preserve the Royal Navy’s renewal over the years with the support of his son-in-law, had finally waited for the demise of the coffin faction.
And now, the Royal Navy is still quite well endowed, if you add the four Centaurs to it, who doesn’t have a fleet of ten or more carrier battle groups in their hands to destroy the country?
“The importance of treating Australia cannot be overemphasized.” Profumo made his position clear in front of the pair, since the case of the underage girls and the Soviet spies, the Secretary of State for Defense had changed his attitude towards the military, and was firmly in favor of the military’s role in the defense of the United Kingdom.
“If you’re going to sell, sell the best, the Australian Navy nominally has three carriers, but two of them are unwieldy and can’t really be upgraded at a time when carrier aircraft are booming.” Alan Wilson was not at all embarrassed when he said this, it was he himself who had sold the British Grudge, Glory and Giant classes.
In this world, the number of countries with aircraft carriers had never been greater, it was simply a carrier heyday, the benefit was that it was extremely difficult to upgrade these carriers, and even if they barely managed to do so they still needed to go back to the UK to return to the factory.
The aircraft carriers left behind by the UK itself are all big guys, but that’s still not enough, they need to be bigger and stronger, and if there is a rich country that has such a need? If there is a rich country that has such a need, can the UK build the next level of aircraft carriers to gain experience? Isn’t there a saying that we all have a bright future with each other.
“Since even Britain itself doesn’t have such a powerful aircraft carrier but has given such a powerful weapon to Australia, then price wise I don’t think Australia will count on it, the key is to make Australia understand, Britain’s sincerity and objective difficulties, which requires a widely respected and loved individual, to use the prestige he himself possesses to make this happen. ”
Mountbatten was nodding his head, listening to his son-in-law’s long speech, but the more he listened, the more unpleasant it was, wasn’t it talking about him? After half a day he is the clown, directly in front of Profumo opened his mouth, “I go to Canberra, I hope to be able to facilitate this matter.”
Listening to Mountbatten’s lack of confidence, Allen Wilson spoke, “I passed through Perth before I came back, and Pamela told me that Indonesia’s political situation has caused Australia to shake the country. At this time the effect of the visit is excellent, the two Eagle class carriers although deployed to the Pacific Fleet, but in fact the Eagle class has also reached the time of upgrading and transformation, if you can through this arms sale, talk about two Eagle class upgrading and transformation of the inputs recovered, to the United Kingdom is a good thing, will not make it difficult for the Ministry of Finance.”
Alan Wilson this are very conservative estimates, six hundred and sixty billion dollars twelve nuclear-powered submarines have appeared in the big single.
Five and a half billion dollars for one submarine? If you only calculate the construction cost, instead of adding all the personnel training, this is enough for a certain big country to build up fifteen aircraft carriers, even if you let the Americans to build the Ford class, you can still build five of them.
Naturally Profumo would have no objections, the defense minister wanted the support of the military, and if it wouldn’t result in a financial allocation all the better, there wouldn’t be any defense minister who would object to arms sales, especially arms sales to English speaking countries.
“I happen to be going to see Pamela.” Despite being kicked to Australia by his son-in-law’s lack of martial virtues, Field Marshal Mountbatten didn’t bother his son-in-law, and sighed directly, “The changes in Indonesia have far-reaching consequences, the Soviet Union is troublesome enough, and the Asian side of the world is just as troublesome, and the situation is becoming more and more headache-inducing.”
“The gap between the rich and the poor is too large, and the per capita resources are insufficient, it is easy for this kind of thing to happen. But fortunately Indonesia is an island nation, and the Royal Navy still has a deterrent effect on island nations.” Alan Wilson said in a neutral tone, “But Indonesia’s potential should not be overestimated, the resource shortfall is still quite prominent.”
Some of Indonesia’s resources are certainly rich, oil and gas are enough, but the most basic coal and iron, simply put, there is coal but no iron. This kind of limp resource distribution, you see how many wars Germany and France have fought around the bordering region to know.
I believe that no one will think, Australia will export iron ore to help Indonesia to fill the short board, Australia can not wait for Java Island to sink.
The world is so unfair, there are many countries that are short of resources, the entire Latin America is in the situation of having iron but no coal.
The Middle East in addition to oil, almost nothing is not enough, even fill their stomach ability of the country are not a few, although Alan Wilson once ridiculed Western Europe, natural resources on the level of an India, are not enough for a major power to fight, not to mention and the Soviet Union than.
But even so, Western Europe has been considered a very blessed place in this world, specifically Indonesia, Allen Wilson estimates that it will be stronger than the Indonesia ruled by Suharto in his mind. But to say that it’s off the charts after defecting to communism? Let’s just say the road ahead is winding and needs to be redoubled.
“Do you think I’m talking about Indonesia alone, isn’t there another one that’s even tougher?” Mountbatten glanced at his son-in-law, indicating that there was another major power that he was talking about as a threat.
The news about the mutiny in Indonesia came because the time was chaotic and Britain didn’t know whether it was the pro-Soviet forces or the pro-China forces that had risen up. In fact even now, Britain can not figure out, because Indonesia total before leaving a pro-China impression, but it seems to be the Soviet Union gift fleet to Indonesia, Indonesia immediately after the coup, as if again pro-Soviet forces move.
“It doesn’t matter who exactly, they are all enemies.” Alan Wilson said with an expressionless face, “It’s just the difference between an enemy and a prickly fighter, the Soviet Union is the enemy while the other countries are the fighters.”
“Oh, you think so.” Marshal Mountbatten nodded, “The Soviet Union is indeed overpowered, it would be nice to make the other Soviet allies realize that the Soviet Union can’t protect them.”
Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow and said, “You might as well wait for someone from within the Soviet bloc to do it themselves, Britain can’t shoulder such a major responsibility anyway.
The back-stabbing of a certain major power was a key factor in the Soviet Union’s gradual turn to disadvantage in the standoff, though it also only held back a quarter of its military forces. The most elite part of the Soviet military never left Europe.
The here and now is just like the there and then, the situation in the twenty-first century is just the other way around, when the worst thing that could happen to one of the major powers would be for Russia to learn a lesson from its history and learn from the operations of its neighbors in the East.
Other than that possibility, none of the remaining evolutions are the most egregious, and being pro-Russian is not an option, it’s a necessity. Unless you think that Australia is a more reliable supplier of coal and iron than Russia.
But Australia is a country that could go to hell and back for the United States, as if it were facing Indonesia at this time, loyally following the United Kingdom.
From the Ministry of Defense, Alan Wilson went directly to 10 Downing Street to report on the whole process of this participation in the U.S. State Funeral, because the murderer was killed and killed by the whole U.S. live broadcast, there must be questions about this.
Sure enough, Aidan then inquired about the news about the murderer being killed, “Alan, you were in America at the time, what did the Americans think?”
“Uh, Honorable Prime Minister, the vast majority of Americans believe that JFK died in a conspiracy, and that the shooting of the murderer was a public killing spree.” Alan Wilson said with some shame, “I would be lying if I said that Americans all thought it was just an accident, or I would be telling a lie that I don’t believe at all.”
“Actually, similar things have happened in Japan, Italy, and other countries, I just still can’t believe that the Americans are doing this at home in their own country. However, there are no American troops stationed in Britain, so there is no need to worry about this aspect, and I believe that even with a different president, the special relationship between Britain and the United States will not change.”
At the crucial moment, Alan Wilson took a back stab at the Anglo-American Special Relationship, which had actually happened at the very beginning of the Cold War. Otherwise Italy might well have fallen into the arms of the Soviet Union.
Ditto for Japan, where the US has operated similarly with white gloves. Is the life of a British Prime Minister harder than that of a US President?
Aidan is an old-school British, is witnessed the glory of the Sunset, in the current British political arena, like Aidan still convinced that Britain is the world’s decisive force of politicians are still there, but Aidan is definitely that the most unwavering. Aiden absolutely do not want to Britain like Germany, Italy and Japan as hostage to the United States.
For a moment, Aidan even understood a little bit of de Gaulle, why he had to get rid of the American garrison on the country. Once France got rid of the American troops? Britain could never take them in either.
Kennedy’s buns of human blood will be eaten for a while longer, Aiden can think like this, the French can think like this even more, no one knows more about conspiracy theories than Ai Zhongtang, and no one knows more about spreading conspiracy theories in France than he does.