Chapter 1658 Alan really hate
Northeast Africa, that is, the general sense of the Horn of Africa, the strategic position of the Red Sea coast that is also important, the supreme authority of the goodness of heart, the war caused by the non-existent oil to wipe out, but still does not help to change the local environment, after all, the natural conditions of North Africa, and southern Africa can not be compared.
Alan Wilson excitedly discusses the local situation, and believes that the term of office of the head of the map is really determined to contract, this is also a good opportunity for Britain to show the prestige of the great powers.
Mrs. Thatcher usually seems to be quite tough, but when it comes time for Britain to pay for action, her first thought is to avoid, “There are no British interests on the ground.”
“Oh ho.” Alan Wilson looked at Margaret Thatcher with a playful face, “We have to show the Soviet Union that Britain is tough from a position of strength, huh ……”
Supreme Authority is not intentionally mocking the Iron Lady, but the above quote is what Margaret Thatcher often said publicly in the middle of her speeches, especially at internal Conservative Party meetings, and similar speeches that were so powerful and so beside the point, and then this now?
“You’re crazy, what if it angers the Soviet Union?” Mrs. Thatcher still can’t make up her mind, “Since Maphead is going to shrink, we’ll just wait on the side, we don’t need to do anything risky.”
“At this point the map head has to know that our toughest prime minister in recent years might regret being too soft on you if he’s like this now.” Alan Wilson replied, not at all politely, “Simply ashamed of the old imperialist infamy Britain has carried for so many years, I don’t see you reacting much to Malaya becoming independent one day.”
The disappointment of supreme authority was written on her face, almost for the first time since Mrs. Thatcher became Prime Minister, she spoke so nonchalantly that she simply had to take out the authority of the head of the family.
Margaret Thatcher similarly blank head, on the face of stagnant listening to the cabinet secretary general to their own spit, she has never been so passive in her life, the last time so passive or campus Conservative Party chairman, a good half a day before coming back to God, “you have finished, just you brave.”
“I’m sorry, it’s just that the cowardice displayed by the Prime Minister just doesn’t go with the image of the Iron Lady, and I’m finding that out for the first time in seven years.” Alan Wilson apologized with a stern face, but it was clear that the disappointment lingering on his face hadn’t faded cleanly.
“I was just momentarily unprepared.” Explaining her conservative attitude, as if to redeem her image as the Iron Lady, Mrs. Thatcher looked at a map of the northeast corner of Africa and said, “This is, after all, three countries, two or three million in size, so of course I would have been cautious.”
This explanation Alan Wilson then accepted first, replied, “There is still a foundation, Kenya’s conditions are good, a lot stronger than the neighboring Ethiopia. In fact, the Soviet Union’s industrial transplantation experience has a big problem, that is, the Soviet Union itself is rich in resources and huge, and the closer the Soviet Union’s volume, the more adapted to accept the Soviet Union’s development model. Many small countries received Soviet aid and also showed a lack of suitability.”
According to a major country, it is important to take into account the actual situation on the ground, if Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan were one country, it would certainly be impossible to engage. But since all three countries have accepted the same development guidance, it’s not much of a problem, and Britain is perfectly capable of showing a bit of imperialist iron fist in Africa.
“So where are you going to start?” Margaret Thatcher inquired looking at the map, once again the Prime Minister had been persuaded, it seemed that the Cabinet Secretary had persuaded the Prime Minister more times than the entire Conservative Party.
“Ethiopia, it’s a multi-ethnic country with different ethnic groups on different boarders, it’s not like the coast of Somalia, or Sudan which is mostly Arab. The populations of the two main religions are not far apart, and it’s a suitable target from a religious point of view and an ethnic point of view.”
Alan Wilson replied without thinking, then presented up the details, “Mengistu killed Haileselassie I, but the nostalgia for the former king is still there among the common people. We don’t necessarily need to take military action, it would be best if shaping a protest march to apply pressure would accomplish the goal.”
Mengistu is one of those leaders who claim to be pro-Soviet but in reality are pro no one, Mengistu, who is actually an Amhara nationalist, claimed to believe in socialism externally in order to get Soviet aid, forming the Ethiopian Labor People’s Party Organizing Committee and the Ethiopian Workers’ Party, but he still brutally repressed the socialist parties, the pro-China Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP) and the pro-Soviet All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement.
How can this be said, something like this is very normal, Vietnam’s Le Dang cleansed its country of foreign agents, and North Korea did the same, so cleansing pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese parties is not unintelligible.
If that were all, Ethiopia would still not be a good target for infiltration, but God help us, starting the year Brezhnev fell ill, Ethiopia ran into a continuous famine that lasted four years and half a million people fled the country.
The famine was triggered by drought and severely exacerbated by Mengistu’s ban on trade in agricultural products, crackdowns on commerce and widespread insecurity caused by the civil war.
“The Mengistu government was in fact essentially a military government, and the discontent had been there for a long time.” Allen Wilson spoke up, “It’s a good target to start with, and we’re using Kenya to see how impregnable these Soviet allies in Africa really are.”
The famine in Ethiopia had been going on for several years and was known by the whole world, and the United States even organized a special charity concert to send the collected supplies to Ethiopia, where volunteers could use giant ships to bring the world’s supplies to Ethiopia, but had to carry the supplies on their shoulders and pull them by hand to the affected areas.
Years of civil war have severely damaged Ethiopia’s transportation network, and there are no cars to be found in the area. If the volunteers chose to transport the goods across the sea, they would be confiscated by the military government, which had lost its eyes in the civil war.
And so the first shipment of relief supplies rotted on the harbor. It wasn’t until later that Mengtus found a business opportunity, or rather, a war machine, in this steady stream of relief supplies.
At that time, Mengtus had a huge enemy on his back, and these supplies became the thickest straw he could grab. He agreed: wherever his army fought, this supplies would be escorted by them.
This was actually a good move on his part to buy people’s hearts and minds, to make the victims think that the food was a gift from him, and that as long as the people were on the side of Mengatus here, the people would be fed.
Have reached this point, Britain should seize the opportunity to give this nearly barely supported by the regime of the rage of a blow, if you can’t handle it, there is the Libyan model can be referred to, Britain and France on Gaddafi three days to play all the military inventory of this matter, not can wait for the arrival of the U.S. Army.
This world because of the existence of the Kingdom of Libya, the U.S. Army has not been able to find to show a bit of military power to restore national self-confidence, if the British action is not smooth, in and the United States to discuss.
Listening to Alan Wilson have arranged the role of Reagan, Mrs. Thatcher could not help but be shocked, she has always touted Reagan, but Alan Wilson has always taken advantage of, “Can he help?”
“What president of the United States is not full of martial virtues? It’s not enough for him to just conduct a military operation against Grenada.” Allen Wilson is confident that this has a high chance of success.
The American people knew about the famine in Ethiopia, or there wouldn’t have been that one charity concert.
Of course the first thing to do is to shape public opinion, this kind of thing Allen Wilson has already done many times, also has a way to make the famine fever in the United States to raise up, the prime minister is completely unnecessary to worry about.
The first thing to do in this case is to let Kenya, which is still on good terms with the UK, make its voice heard and create public opinion by expressing to the UK about the misery of those in Ethiopia who have fled to Kenya because of the famine.
“Mengatus must be a demon who kills women and children, and with the American side we can emphasize his pro-Soviet attributes, while among the wider public opinion we have to emphasize the attributes of his junta, which is also to avoid the Soviet Union’s stress reaction.”
The mission was quickly sent down to Alan Wilson, the pictures of the famine had actually been there all along, it was just that they hadn’t aroused much public opinion in the beginning, and now was the time to do it. It was time because the world needed a British act of justice, an imperial conscience, at this time.
In the hegemony of public opinion and in this field, as Britain kicks into high gear, its influence will soon affect the U.S. Ethiopia, which has been undergoing famine for several years, explodes at this time with unparalleled unity value, and the real situation about Ethiopia appears on the front pages of the entire free world, and likewise attracts the attention of the Americans.
Public opinion is invisible, but the Soviet Union is able to fall on this if it is not careful, let alone a small African country, maybe Ethiopia is not small in Africa, but in front of Britain is nothing.
At the UN meeting, there was also a special session on the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, the UN ambassadors of Britain, France and the United States took to the stage to turn the fiasco caused by this pro-Soviet country back on its head, and the heat of public opinion of the boom was on the rise.
“Ronald, amnesty for illegal immigrants will lead to a less pure English culture in the U.S. It’s still something to think about carefully.”
While casting a trolling bait on the United States, Allen Wilson, as a close friend of President Reagan’s without words, of course, can not give up the opportunity to give Reagan a hard time, in order to the status of the English language, the more Reagan does not listen to anything, the more he has to say.
“Allen this person used to be good, now why so annoying.” Reagan muttered to his wife Nancy disgruntled, he is obviously helping the United Kingdom on the issue of Ethiopia, but still have to be the British to add to the problem, it is really outrageous.