Chapter 1662 – Main Attacks and Feints

Under the bipolar pattern, many ludicrous things can happen, such as people trained by the United States to establish a pro-Sudanese state.

The Sudanese leader Nimeiri is one such example, and this is not just a lone example; there are several similar examples in Africa.

But Sudan’s pro-Soviet credentials are questionable. Socialism has different standards in the eyes of different countries, and while the Soviet Union approved of Sudan’s nature, a major power did not.

But who would take the standards of a major power seriously? The free world certainly recognized the standards of the USSR, and naturally, Sudan was to be treated as if it should be cleaned up.

By this point, Alan Wilson had also pulled together a pretty good amount of power to support the British strategy for the Horn of Africa, with those who believed in the Religion of Peace pulling in the Arab states, like Ethiopia where the religion wasn’t so obvious, and taking it upon themselves to apply pressure for subversion.

“If the change in Africa becomes a reality, it will be a great boost to our confidence in facing the Soviet Union.” Alan Wilson swears by it, and the anti-Soviet sign is standing pretty firm.

No one would assert that Eastern Europe would fall apart in just a few years, and both at home and on this visit to the United States, Allen Wilson had come to understand that even Reagan found the British plan risky.

Listening to the report on the achievements of Mrs. Thatcher was also very satisfied, although the Iron Lady is not completely tough, but since it has been put into action, the nature of the head of the Iron Woman still prevailed, not to mention that even the United States has supported Britain’s strategy in Africa, consider this strategy as a good way to squeeze the Soviet Union’s strategic space, where there is still what to say?

“We have enough time before the nuclear negotiations in the second half of the year to expect the purpose to be achieved.”

Alan Wilson also gave the Iron Lady confidence, this kind of thing is very simple, Britain is also an old imperialism, if the colonies may have to think about it more, like this kind of country that has already become independent, Britain is not afraid of backfiring on itself at all.

This is the fact that most of the world’s countries are not very friendly, the independence of the colonies, on the contrary, solved a lot of trouble for the United Kingdom, and now in a similar subversion, the United Kingdom will not be responsible for it.

In the case of this sanction, it was all a matter of UN sanction, even if the five permanent members were responsible because of the difficulties that had arisen in Ethiopia, the responsibility was not Britain’s own.

Facts have proved very effective, even the Soviet Union, there is no opposition, visible map head is what becomes a leader, Margaret Thatcher at least hard mouth, the Soviet Union even the wording of the protest is full of regret.

Said the British advancement of things, Alan Wilson took out the Mir space station application, said he hoped to be able to borrow the Soviet Union’s space station for scientific research, this is the Royal Interplanetary Society made the application, after the moon landing, the space station has become the focus of the U.S. and the Soviet Union’s space war again.

At present, the Soviet Union still has the upper hand, admit it or not or the fact is that the Mir space station is the first space station that can operate for a long time, the significance is still very significant.

“Can’t we not rely on the Soviet Union?” Mrs. Thatcher was not happy, begged who is not good, even begged the Soviet Union, “we can and the United States together research, the United States technology is more sophisticated.”

“After ten years? American efficiency has always been a problem.” Alan Wilson flatly refused, he really had no confidence in the efficiency of the United States, even if the Star Wars program was blowing up.

As far as he could remember, the Mir space station had long been the only space station that could be utilized by humans, waiting for the United States to launch its own space station? That would be a lot of waiting. Anything can distinguish whether it is capitalism, but science is better not to do so.

Convincing Alan Wilson was still very good at his job, and had a set of words at once, “Many people believe that the Mir space station does not correspond to the reality, and is actually a component of a combat space station. In fact, the Royal Interstellar Society has similar doubts. After all, the animosity between the two countries is still very strong, we have to figure out if the Mir’s peace is true to its name, which requires professionals to see for themselves what the inside of the Mir space station looks like, only then can we dispel this distrust.”

“So at the conference, the idea of applying to the Soviet Union for access to the space station was discussed.” Alan Wilson righteously trumpeted the Soviet threat theory, and although Maphead had apparently eased up, who knew if there was a desire to maintain peace within the Soviet Union,

“Space City Zero-Zero-Seven, right?” Margaret Thatcher laughed out loud, referring to one of the famous British series of movies from a few years ago, “Well, I don’t think the Soviet Union would agree to that, you could ask.”

Turning her head, a phone call was made to 10 Downing Street, where Alan Wilson gleefully reported to the Prime Minister that the Soviets had agreed, and were willing to take a wide range of international cooperation on the establishment of the space station.

In fact, as long as you do not talk to Margaret Thatcher about the unemployed population, this prime minister is not incapable of communication, only this issue can not be talked about, talk about is in the face of the prime minister.

The trade union movement in Britain is mainly derived from the unemployment problem. During the term of office of her predecessor, the Labour Party’s Callaghan Government, the number of unemployed people in Britain was as high as one million. Accordingly, before she came to power, Mrs. Thatcher used to taunt Prime Minister Callaghan as an “unemployed prime minister”.

However, during the years of her administration, the unemployment rate not only did not improve, but also rose steadily.

It can be said that in any year of Margaret Thatcher’s term of office, the unemployment figure was higher than that of the Callaghan period. The Iron Lady, again mocking herself, claimed that the first problem of the United Kingdom was to solve the problem of inflation, arguing that, at the beginning, bringing down inflation did mean increasing unemployment, but there was no other choice. In the circumstances, the Thatcher government was in no hurry to tackle this age-old problem.

By now, anyone who dared to talk about unemployment was being disloyal to Mrs. Thatcher, and fortunately for Alan Wilson’s efforts, the unemployed population had been reduced by almost thirty percent from the historic three million. But trying to get it down to under a million is not something that can be done anytime soon.

Alan Wilson still had to support the Prime Minister, because this Prime Minister’s policy was very clear, as far as possible to ease the burden of the capitalists, so that their capital stays in Britain, and listen to their free and unrestricted development, such a policy certainly deserves the strong support, as for the unemployed population? As for the unemployed? The Cabinet Secretary was not unemployed himself.

As if all this were not enough, Margaret Thatcher reconvened the Cabinet to discuss tax cuts for her second term of office, with inheritance tax and personal income tax to be lowered again.

At the same time as the UK side was mulling over another tax cut, the Mengistu regime, which had suffered severe sanctions, was asking for help from its big brother in the USSR. For countries with insufficient volume, the effect of comprehensive sanctions is never immediate; after all, the world is so big that the smaller the country, the easier it is to be replaced, and Ethiopia, which had been sanctioned for importing and exporting, was already experiencing difficulties a month later.

Most places in fact did not appear to have any difficulties, after all, as long as lying flat enough, the sky can not collapse, enough backward places can even be immune to sanctions, but the big cities soon appeared to be a problem, Mengstu can not pay attention to the vast countryside, but the instability of the big cities will lead to the instability of the regime.

Encountered this predicament, Mengistu of course, is to think up the big brother’s assistance, regardless of the head of the map in how, now the pro-Soviet regime has reached a critical moment, can not see the death, right.

The Soviet Union replied that it sympathized with the Mengistu regime’s situation and hoped to tide it over, but that the best solution now was to tighten its belt, which was essentially to save it from death.

With people like Yakovlev on our side, there was naturally no secrecy about this kind of thing, and soon the free world knew the bottom line, and for a time Yakovlev’s unification value rose by the day.

Allen Wilson all felt that such a person should be treated well, as long as it is not a good big child opening, he will never betray this Soviet Union and even the entire history of Russia can be ranked alongside Peter III traitor.

In fact gave up the bottom line of Ethiopia, known by Allen Wilson, naturally also known by the United States, the United States, although it is after joining the African strategy, but it is extremely uptight, after all, looking at the biggest victory within the term of Reagan is about to appear, in the strength of the sanctions, the United States instead of the United Kingdom asked the European countries and nearby developing countries to make a concerted effort.

As for Alan Wilson, he didn’t mind the U.S. contributing, because the layout of both Kenya and South Sudan had been around for years, and the U.S. couldn’t possibly oust the U.K. by contributing even more.

The reason why the African strategy was shared with the US was because he placed more importance on penetrating the Balkans, with the main target being Yugoslavia, which also relied on in-law Grace to help.

Europe was what mattered, and the United States, if it invested a great deal of energy in Africa, would also be able to provide a good cover for the penetration of Yugoslavia.

Just when countries think that the Horn of Africa will become the next point of contention, many have become rich and patriotic south of the overseas Chinese, began the journey home, back to their hometowns, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, of course, can not be left behind independent of Yugoslavia outside of Albania, Hoxha is also as Tito died of illness.

The illness and death of the Balkan political strongman, naturally, can not let go of the opportunity, in Moscow, the more fierce the wind of new thinking, the more Allen Wilson to step up.

It is believed that Reagan, who was already attracted by this time, did not believe that Allen Wilson had Africanized a strategy involving three countries and almost four million square kilometers, which was merely a big pie.

Then began to focus all efforts to promote the penetration of the Balkans, who let the British hand has Rhodesia so a card it, as for the strategy of the Horn of Africa, used to highlight the special relationship between Britain and the United States on the line.

As in the Soviet Union, some clubs began to appear in Yugoslavia and Albania, and also rooted in Yugoslavia’s special enterprise groups according to local conditions. Like Yugoslavia, a bunch of state-owned enterprises gathered into a national environment, Alan Wilson is very optimistic.