Chapter 1449 – Calculating Old Father

That was all Britain and Oman had to say on the development of the new era, sooner or later it was going to come to this, and Harold Wilson was a little lost, wondering if he had made the right or wrong decision.

“We still have enough control over a country the size of a medium power. A military base is enough to influence.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to comfort the Prime Minister.

Middle power was actually a concept put forward by the Americans, originating before the First World War, and was mainly used to describe the imperialist powers of Britain, France, and Germany in Europe.

This concept is not important, the United States in the most optimistic time, also applied this concept to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, apparently think they have taken care of Russia, as if Aidan took care of Nasser, but of course the results proved that the United States still did not take care of this old Cold War rival.

A middle power is one that has a population of tens of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, a player that is considered powerful, but not particularly so.

Oman is obviously even the concept of a medium power is far worse, belonging to the United Kingdom is a steady pinch of the country, by virtue of the financial and military, enough to not let Oman out of control.

The prime minister and the cabinet secretary general two, talked about the role of Britain in the Middle East this problem, apparently both agreed that Britain still must have a place in the Middle East. One cannot put all one’s hopes on the Anglo-American special relationship, and then there are a few countries that must not back down.

Harold Wilson argued that Britain’s prosperity was tied to a voice in the Middle East, and then asked the head of the civil service what he thought, and was answered, “Kuwait, the UAE. Control of these two countries is enough to give Britain a place in the Middle East, and as for Egypt, they are no longer technically considered a British protectorate, and in the long run both Iraq and Oman will be more assertive of their interests. But Kuwait and us pinching out la UAE should be the bottom line that Britain will never compromise on.”

Not that Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Oman will be strangers to Britain, Alan Wilson definitely does not have this intention, in fact, everyone can be completely in a cooperative attitude, and in the future to jointly defend each other’s interests, really need to protect the country, only remaining per capita resources are enough to support the status of the landed gentry of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Since World War II Britain has lost the national power to put its hand on Saudi Arabia, but if it can maintain control over Kuwait and the UAE, it is enough to support Britain’s right to speak. And both countries really need a country to keep them safe.

This is also in defense of Saudi Arabia, which is not much of a fighter, and can’t put up a fight against countries like Iraq, Egypt, and Syria, but it’s still easy to crush a what’s-her-name UAE or Kuwait in terms of national strength.

Once the UK withdraws, Saudi Arabia can easily integrate these smaller brothers that are not as good as themselves and increase their voice in the oil sector.

Following the United States to increase their own voice, Saudi Arabia, that is the same as taking the British protectorate to vote for the United States, it is necessary to prevent such a future appearance.

As for the base camp of the British forces in the Middle East in the future, they will of course be among these assembled emirates of the UAE and will be ready to protect the security of Kuwait. As long as the British troops in the Middle East do not leave, British influence will not dissipate.

Now Princess Margaret, in addition to opening a chain of hotels, is also in the clothing business, specializing in supplying the Emirs of Middle Eastern countries, which is influence, and these Emirs are not losing out.

Princess Margaret’s clothing industry is specialized in serving feudal lords, and the royal families that still exist in Europe are also included, which is nothing more than the difference between a suit and an Arab robe.

After discussing Middle East strategy with the Prime Minister, Alan Wilson was off duty, continuing to follow up on the Watergate scandal was certainly important, but it didn’t delay Her Royal Highness’s summons.

“If you weren’t here, I’d feel less attractive than a computer.” Princess Margaret wrapped her arms around Alan Wilson’s neck and said with a look of frustration.

“You can’t say that, Turing had a major contribution to Britain. Definitely a scientist who will go down in history.” Alan Wilson had to open his mouth to defend Turing, the value of a national treasure scientist was unquestionable.

Although modern society is unlikely to have a story of one man turning the tide, the existence of such a scientist at least avoids Britain’s detours in industrial development.

If the level of the leader is average, it is not impossible to cause damage to the country, this kind of thing is not uncommon even in the modern world, for example, the Ford’s electromagnetic catapult, that is not the most obvious example?

In fact, this is just the tip of the iceberg, the F35 is the only large-scale mass production of weapons systems in the United States in the new century twenty years, the United States constantly reigning as the world’s first military spending results.

“I see his biggest role as being able to cover for a moralistic supreme authority.” Princess Margaret opened her mouth to deride the man, and as soon as the words left her mouth, her long dress was pulled off her body and fell to the floor.

Whitehall had never been so concerned about the United States as it was now, of course it had been concerned about the United States before, after all the United States was the leader of NATO.

But obviously because of the outbreak of Watergate, the attention has risen to a certain height, although the gentlemen of Whitehall people are still in London, the gift has been to the warm beaches of North America.

Makins came to the Cabinet Secretary’s office to say a few words of opinion, what does this have to do with the Ministry of Defense? Well, even if it did!

Brexit came to give a few thoughts? The Ministry of the Interior also has something to do with the United States? This is clearly considered an internal affair of the United States, the Foreign Office, the Treasury Department, not forgetting to talk a little bit about how they think Nixon will be safe and sound, and how they think he’s going to end up in the dust and lose in the middle of the midterm elections.

But almost no one thought Nixon would step down, because there had been no precedent since the founding of the United States for a president to step down because of what should be considered a scandal.

If it had been possible in England it would have been possible for backbenchers from the ruling party to form a tandem and possibly get the Prime Minister to roll out of office. Alan Wilson’s mind’s eye recalled that the latest victim had been Bao Zhongtang.

Alan Wilson wasn’t in a good position to discourage his colleagues from caring about Watergate, because he himself was concerned and also knew that Nixon couldn’t hide from it. Because it also involved anti-Semitic remarks, and anti-Semitism has been a political red herring in any European or American country since World War II because of the slaughter of Jews in the war.

The investigative committee organized by the Democratic Party had a new information that Nixon had ordered the installation of bugging devices in the White House office from the beginning of nineteen seventy-one in order to record the contents of conversations and phone calls with his men. The committee demanded that Nixon provide these recordings and information. But Nixon refused, citing executive privilege. Eventually the courts held that the president was also bound by the law and had to turn them over.

Among the recordings Nixon was found to have made were anti-Semitic remarks, Nixon said that the Jews were all spies and were very arrogant and put themselves above the law.

Nixon said the U.S. government was full of Jews, most of whom were not loyal at all. But he said his Jew, Kissinger was trustworthy. And said you should never trust those assholes, they will turn against you.

He hadn’t seen any Jews come back from the Vietnam War, and he didn’t know how the hell these Jews escaped the war.

Of course Alan Wilson knows that Nixon saved Israel in the historic Fourth Middle East War by ordering that everything America could fly be sent to Israel and earned Israel’s gratitude.

But the Democrats were not going to let Nixon off the hook, seizing on the anti-Semitic remarks and slamming Nixon as a racist.

And Nixon’s own political maneuvering was very much like the British political structure, leaning on his own appointed chiefs of staff, like Kissinger, and not taking the Senate too seriously, like the position in the midst of the Indo-Pakistani war, where the U.S. Congress was opposed to antagonizing India, but only Nixon’s, Bush Sr.’s, and Kissinger’s groups ignored the views of the U.S. Congress, and stood firmly on the side of Pakistan.

It didn’t matter much in the UK, but in the US, the fact that the Clerk of the House threw Congress aside was very upsetting to the Congressional Lords, and one of the reasons why Watergate was so closely scrutinized by the Democrats.

In fact, with Nixon reelection period of the polls, for any person completely do not have to do Watergate this kind of thing, but Nixon so conceited people election is not smooth, after doing Eisenhower’s eight years as vice president, and kitchen debates this kind of famous scene, surprisingly lost to the fledgling Kennedy.

Egotistical Nixon was obviously impressed by losing to Kennedy, even if his re-election was a sure thing, but also for a peace of mind, made this completely unnecessary setup.

Nixon himself was egotistical, and at this point was not conceding, but showing his toughness, Nixon was accusing was fake news and an enemy of the state.

At this point in the United States, Judge Celica, the judge in charge of the trial, senses that this could be the milepost of his life, but the judge can’t be sure of everything, so he decides to swindle the three prisoners who’ve been pushed out as scapegoats in the areas where he can, by using felonious sentences as a threat.

After much deliberation, McCord, one of the three inmates, decides to go back on his word. He wrote a letter to Judge Celica, mentioning the following points: what he had said in court was perjury; he had been pressured to perjure himself by higher-level politicians; and he could make a full confession and give up all his insider information, but only in the presence of Judge Celica.

McCord’s letter, when received by Judge Celica, was immediately given in public, and the whole United States shook, which until then had been regarded as a dull soap-opera.

“It’s quite a stinking, long soap opera.” Holding a copy in his hand Allen Wilson, finally waited for a preliminary result, he also understood that this is not the final result.

While Allen Wilson was watching Washington, his mother and son were watching him from Moscow, where Alexeev had returned home and Foltseva had relayed conversations with the Supreme Authority that included the idea that Watergate would not end so simply.

As news of Nixon’s run-in with trouble spread, he remembered the original conversation.

It was as if many of the currencies in the sterling area were anchored to the pound, and Allen Wilson was staring at Nixon, and there were others in Moscow who were anchored to him.

“What do you think, Mother?” Alikseyev put away his poker face, knowing in his heart of hearts that Foltseva had a lot more experience than he did.

“All I know is that he is a man of great integrity and really does what he says he will do.” Foltseva was deep in thought, but answered in an affirmative tone, “Now he’s waiting for the most favorable moment to come.”