Chapter 1643 Paid help

Alexeyev was silent in response, if he had a solution, he wouldn’t be here, as Alan Wilson said, facing Yakovlev he actually couldn’t do anything, his entire being was filled with a sense of powerlessness, and ironically, Yakovlev’s power was brought about by the very order of the Soviet Union.

“You see, you only know that there is a problem, but how big the problem is, how serious it is, you don’t even understand it yourself.”

Alan Wilson spread his hands with a look of pity, “For quite some time, the Soviet Union’s reputation around the world I won’t say as the KGB you also know that doing good deeds is not appreciated, doing bad deeds can be remembered for a lifetime. Not to mention relations with the enemy, you can’t get relations with countries that are supposed to be allies, of course the issue is complex and I don’t think you’re all wrong.”

It’s like the issue of the Combined Fleet and the Golden Gate gunfight, with the Soviet Union emphasizing that the latter gave the Soviet Union a hard time, and a certain great power emphasizing that the former was unfair to them. Taken into the perception of both countries of course both are justified. It’s not really easy to tell who is right and who is wrong.

“But as it happens, I, as a British official, understand very well where the problem of strategic contraction lies, and if this is not done properly, the contraction will turn into a collapse. Right now Britain’s overseas territories are two million out, but compared to the pre-war British Empire, you can see how big the gap is. And I’m telling you, Britain’s contraction has reached the tipping point where quantitative change causes qualitative change, and if we can’t maintain the existing framework, the next step will be collapse. We won’t be able to keep any of our overseas territories, only the British Isles will be left.”

“If that happens, that is the advent of the Anglo-American special relationship, where the voice of Washington is more authoritative than the voice of Whitehall, and where British military diplomacy, etc., will be no more independent than Germany’s.”

The strategic contraction of the USSR was inevitable, no country can just expand without contracting, and the same is true of the US, except that the US will obviously not be as honest as the USSR in taking a beating and standing upright.

The strategic contraction of the United States can be said to be a strengthened version of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom in the post-war strategic contraction is to bury nails for offshore balancing, the United States is obviously more courageous, do not mind in the least to provoke wars, provoke wars can hinder the enemy to receive the United States contraction of the territory of the time.

And the United States is much larger than the United Kingdom, wait until ten or eight years later, if the enemy can not handle, adjusted the United States can still kill a shot back.

As for the situation of the Soviet Union, instead of following the example of the United Kingdom, we can follow the example of the United States, after all, the Soviet Union’s national strength is closer to the United States, not closer to the United Kingdom.

Now that the USSR is facing the same problems that the former UK faced, it is actually unlikely that it will be able to harden itself, and although this current time, the free world is not having a very good time, it is clear that Japan and Germany can make the US stick around, so where can the USSR find blood packs to replenish them?

“Currently, I can just see a few problems for the USSR, the three Baltic states that have been annexed can have been making noise. Poland within the Warsaw Pact has been unsettled. That’s something you know about, Solidarity in Walesa is a big problem, and apparently Moscow doesn’t have much of a solution. None of this is something you can solve.”

“Let’s assume, hypothetically, what if one day the Soviet Union is faced with falling apart because of deteriorating economic conditions? Let’s not forget that the Soviet Union’s Union Republics can withdraw. Normally that’s not a problem, once the order of the country collapses, that’s a very obvious loophole, not to say it’s unlikely to happen, back in the day when Ireland became independent, we didn’t think that was going to happen either.”

“If the Soviet Union was on the losing side of this Cold War confrontation, and if the victor had been Britain, then Britain might have tried to weaken the Soviet Union but not make it so that it could never turn around. But Alyosha, the leader of the NATO camp is now the United States, and if the Soviet Union were to bow down to the United States, you must not forget that decades ago, just after the United States entered the war, it clamored for the unconditional surrender of Germany. Surrender to the United States and don’t even think about preserving your country.”

Alexeyev’s heart flinched, from the beginning of his entry into the job, there had never been a day like today, when his whole person could not raise his spirits and appeared to be at sixes and sevens.

He also knew that the Soviet Union was not in good shape at the moment, and it might indeed be necessary to adopt an evasive attitude and détente with the free world, but the Soviet Union would collapse? He still didn’t think it would be a problem to stabilize the situation. But his old father had a point; would the United States let the Soviet Union succeed in contracting?

Of course it will not, as the Cabinet Secretary, Alan Wilson at this time as if he could hear the heart of the good oldest child, began to introduce the beginning of the end of the World War from strict 1945, Britain and the United States immediately into the battle of wits, around British India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, British Africa and the Middle East interests, in the shadowy contest, and how the United Kingdom was expelled from the Yoonlang.

How many times did one resist lobbying in favor of Israel in the face of Israel, and how did one end up having to walk away in Africa as well, concentrating the remaining whites in Rhodesia, and so on.

“I wanted to maintain the British Empire’s territories as much as I could at the time, but in the end I could only save Rhodesia and Newfoundland and Malaya.”

Alan Wilson had the heart to say, “Watching Canada and the United States closer and closer, and to be honest, Canada from the post-war national power is getting smaller and smaller, and the position in the world economy and 1945 can not be compared. But what can I do when I see it, I can’t do anything about it, just like you are now, I see the problem and all I can do is watch it happen.”

Canada in the post-war period is a real world four, ranking is the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Canada, France has to be ranked backward, the United Kingdom chose to show goodwill to Canada want to give Newfoundland to Canada, is Alan Wilson’s personal experience, which does not even need to ask someone else.

It was also his own strong opposition, the same Newfoundland is not willing to merge with Canada, and ultimately for the United Kingdom to retain a foothold in North America.

To have it and not to have it are two completely different treatments, even if there is only one British soldier on Newfoundland, Britain can still say that it has interests in North America.

The reason for his opposition is not that he feels that even if Britain plus Canada face the United States will not help, it seems to be very beautiful, the last two of the world’s top four to maintain traditional relations to maintain Britain’s unique position, face the Soviet Union have the study, but precisely to face the United States can not.

Alexeyev was like a third-grade student listening to his father’s account of how Britain contracted after the war, and how many narrow escapes there were in the process. Even if Britain’s contraction was considered very successful, it was not comparable to the 30 million square kilometers before the war, “Is it so hard to understand that India can be robbed by your Soviet Union, and that it is so difficult to understand the places that were incorporated by the United States into its own system?”

“If, when the Soviet system shows signs of collapse, I want your help, will you help me?” Alexeyev felt himself laughing as he spoke; there was no chance that nothing would happen to the Soviet Union. The fundamentals of the two countries were still very different.

“Didn’t your leader with the map on his head change the ruble settlement in order to absorb foreign exchange? Now it’s in dollars, and to a lesser extent pounds marks?”

In the face of Arikseyev’s wish to fulfill his promise, Alan Wilson turned the tables and said, “If the Soviet Union, as well as the Eastern European countries, settle all their foreign trade in pounds sterling, and drive the countries that are on good terms with the Soviet Union to do the same, I’ll definitely do everything I can to help.”

At present, Britain’s share of the free world settlement is twenty-seven percent, while the United States is forty-five percent, if you count the historical record, the pound once reached eighty percent of the share of international trade settlement, this proportion has never been close.

Do not say that the world pound has not been marginalized, even Alan Wilson memory of the world, the mark for a long time is also a challenger to the dollar, as well as the yen’s share is also very large.

If the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence over the decades was included in the sterling system, the pound could have overwhelmed the dollar in a single stroke after the war and taken back its position as the world’s currency. Knowing that the Soviet bloc was almost another economic and trade system and did not use the currencies of the free world to any great extent, this share of the settlement was underestimated.

Alan Wilson’s request is almost like telling the good Dahl, want not to be eaten up by the United States, the Soviet Union can only bring the gun to the British, to help Britain to expand the right to speak in the financial sphere, and beyond that there is no way for Britain to risk tearing up the face of the United States as a backslider.

This condition, Alexeyev felt very excessive, very nonchalant, “Britain in this world is also considered a powerful country, but compared with the Soviet Union is still inferior. Even the Royal Navy, which can be taken seriously by others, is not necessarily a match for the Soviet Red Navy.”

“I have high respect for the Soviet Union’s military construction over the decades.” Alan Wilson yawned and said, “This is the only thing that the Soviet Union has taken, the other aspects are even.”

To the Soviet bloc, and not just the Soviet Union a country’s foreign trade settlements all in pounds, this request is indeed very excessive, if Allen Wilson is the Soviet Union, he also felt very excessive.

The volume of the system controlled by the Soviet Union, even if it can not be compared to the free world, is almost one-third of the world, and pro-Soviet India and other countries?

If all of it went to the pound, the status of the pound and the dollar reversed, the benefits Britain took, and the Soviet Union looked like it would get nothing. It can’t be helped though, why would Britain help without heavy benefits? How risky is it to go against the US?

“In fact, what can be considered, is not now about to use the dollar settlement? Increase the liquidity of the dollar for nothing? Might as well strengthen the UK, that would also be good for the balance of the world.”

Alan Wilson again took out that set of British ancestral offshore balance theory, to the good oldest child to start the persuasion work, may be his good son Alyosha for a moment can not be accepted, it does not matter slowly. Not in a hurry to leave Xiangjiang is it, today first consider a day.