Chapter 1665: Be on guard against Britain and France
Of course it is Alan Wilson’s credit, this is not the time to be modest, holding the microphone to receive the praise of the Paleontological Society, he expresses his modesty in another field, “The research results of the Kearny period flooding event is everyone, not my credit alone, in fact, I only expressed support for the relevant research on behalf of the government and provided the relevant funding, and the other didn’t do anything, and the byline still puts me first, that’s it?”
“Sir, the Paleontological Society knows up and down that you are the giant in this field.” Ike immediately expressed his opinion, in no way flattering the Cabinet Secretary, but purely respecting the connoisseur in the field, “Without your strong support and sound extrapolated hypotheses, this would not have come to fruition.”
“Suit yourselves.” Excessive modesty is hypocrisy, and Alan Wilson put the phone down straight away, as the news of the Sudan’s softening came through, and he was still in a pretty good mood today.
Britain’s public opinion should move, blowing up, not the slightest concealment of the Sudan’s institutional changes, attributed to the British leadership of the external pressure above, of course, can not forget the Kingdom of Egypt, Yinlak Kingdom of the important role of the United Kingdom is not as the United States of America and the Soviet Union has an overwhelming force, it must respect the role of the other countries.
Back home, Alan Wilson shared the good news with his wife, Pamela Mountbatten asked rhetorically, “So then, the financial outlay is not to expand again, after all, the Sudan’s change of the first thing to be assistance.”
“That’s for the Arab world.” Alan Wilson two one pushed as five said, “Britain is not the Soviet Union, although Sudan was once a traditional British colony, but to be honest Sudan’s value is not high. These pro-Soviet countries in the Horn of Africa don’t really have much of a stake in it, a strategic position is useful for a world hegemony, but Britain is no longer a world hegemony.”
The UK wouldn’t mind in the slightest if the US made a bigger investment if the US wanted to, but if the UK itself?
Then forget it, Africa wouldn’t be the last continent to be carved up if it was really particularly good. That’s not to say that Africa has no value, it still has a lot of value, but not every part of it is worth fighting over.
In terms of natural conditions, let’s not talk about North Africa, the Sahara Desert is such a big piece of land that everyone understands.
If the regional division, the whole of Africa is summarized as North Africa is not as good as South Africa, West Africa is not as good as East Africa, and the natural conditions of East and Southern Africa are still of some value.
The natural conditions of the northeast corner of Africa, that is, than the whole country are dependent on the canal income, life safety based on the Nile River all over the Egypt stronger. But it is not so much to be grasped as not to be dispensed with.
Since the United Kingdom withdrew from these places, in the future, peace of mind to operate south of Kenya, encountered what need to labor labor projects, and a large country thirty-seven split the bill on the line.
“But you said that the blacks in southern Africa, the level is not as good as the Arabs.” Pamela Mountbatten referred to what her husband had once said about the world’s ethnic pits.
“Just because most of them can’t, doesn’t mean their leadership is stupid. East Africa still has some foundation, West Africa is screwed, having already had its social structure destroyed by the triangular trade, and stumbled upon a ruler like France.” Alan Wilson was very unimpressed with French Africa, where most of the news of the various bizarre coups in Africa came from.
The fact that black African countries had such a bad reputation was indelibly linked to the role of the French in the middle of it, and French rule was not particularly strong.
If there was a country that didn’t care about the French military and was determined to infiltrate into French Africa, there was nothing the French could do about it, Russian mercenaries had beaten the French to a pulp in Mali in the latter days, and the start of the special military operations somehow took the pressure off of the French rule of Africa, which wasn’t all bad.
“I didn’t believe you when you said you were going to eradicate the pro-Soviet forces in Africa, it didn’t work out to be that easy.” Pamela Mountbatten sighed, “It seems we can be optimistic can’t we?”
“Countries have different bases of rule and you can’t be too optimistic. Like Lumumba of the DRC, who has been ruling the Congo for almost thirty years now, it’s not that easy, and he’s not old enough to even run the country.” Alan Wilson replied with a frown.
African countries are generally not cared about, even the keyway people of a major country know little information, let alone data. But even if he didn’t know the data, Alan Wilson felt that Lumumba’s rule couldn’t be worse than Mobutu’s, and the current DRC was definitely much stronger than the one ruled by Mobutu.
If it is not much stronger, Rhodesia is so close to the DRC, he let Grace first under the eyes of the hidden trouble solved, still need to work in North Africa first?
Sudan facing the transformation of Central Asia can of course be blown away, but can not think that now all the pro-Soviet countries in Africa, will be the same as Sudan, a little external pressure will collapse.
But his good friend Reagan, now the man in charge in the United States, might not think so. Sudan’s overnight renunciation of the Soviet system was celebrated not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the White House. The entire White House was in a sea of joy, and Reagan had been acting as if the Cold War had ended in his own hands since he took office.
Whether or not he really thought so in his heart, but in the performance is really so show people, but in fact the United States only in Grenada, found some self-confidence. Even Gaddafi, who historically led a population of less than four million, didn’t let Reagan touch it.
Now Sudan’s compromise has allowed Reagan to find a breakthrough point, not to say that the old imperialism still has something to learn from, although the African strategy was proposed by Britain, but Reagan felt that, since the falsehoods of Africa have been discovered, the United States can take out a greater force to operate.
The benefits of this were twofold, the first was to humiliate the Soviet Union, which cannot be overemphasized, while the other was to contain Britain.
Britain could not be allowed to win big in its African strategy, and it was for this reason that the United States had to join in, and the only way to keep Britain from gaining even more influence in Africa was to carry out the African strategy together with Britain.
The external trouble was the Soviet Union, and the internal trouble was Britain and France. The United States, of course, wanted to finish off the Soviet Union once and for all, but it also had to keep a close eye on Britain and France to prevent these two countries from becoming rivals of the United States.
Former Secretary of State General Hague, although already out of office, but does not mean that Reagan has lost trust in General Hague, like this scramble in Africa, precisely like General Hague, such a person, the operation is more appropriate, can not count on the CIA agents on the battlefield.
“The President is thinking right.” General Haig heartily commented that Reagan’s understanding of the internal and external problems was correct, and that it was indeed necessary to guard against Britain a little bit, if the Soviets left from Africa, in exchange for Britain coming back, then for the United States, there is no gain at all to talk about, “The problem of Africa, it is indeed worthy of our attention. Not only Britain, but also France.”
The African problem is not to bypass France, claiming that half of Africa in hand, in fact, explicitly more difficult than the United Kingdom, France with its own hard power army and economy and soft power French language and culture will be all of these countries substantial colonial rule continues to this day.
France has always been obsessed with its colonies, and after suffering a loss in Vietnam, it turned to both hard and soft power.
In the other world, Britain can only do things within the framework of the Commonwealth, and in Africa alongside France. The Commonwealth itself is very loose and has limited influence. Britain’s strength lies in its hegemony of the English language and its leadership of the educational media, which influences Africa with an invisible force.
But in this world, Britain, even if it wasn’t so obviously grasping at Africa as France was, still had a strong presence in Washington’s eyes, especially as Rhodesia became one destination for all white British African immigrants, and the other destination was, of course, Australia.
The American strategy for Africa also came out right after that, much the same as the one developed by Whitehall, almost identical, but the aim was of course to prevent the resurgence of Britain’s traditional influence in the pro-Soviet countries, so the fundamental core of the strategy was that whatever Britain did, the United States would have to follow it closely and sideline Britain’s role in it.
This strategy is very clever, the 攘外必先安内嘛, but Allen Wilson actually do not care about Africa, and there is no idea in the Soviet Union after the influence of the idea of restoring British influence. The nail in the coffin, like Zanzibar, had already been done.
Britain, as a de facto Asian country, had nothing to bother with in Africa. Even a meeting with Prince Alexander, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was more important than the African strategy.
Certainly not in public opinion, and the great victory in the Sudan certainly had the effect of becoming a self-congratulatory statement by Mrs. Thatcher in the House of Commons.
It is not as if the Yugoslav royal family was not embraced, and the reason for its present downfall is really that, like Grace, it was unlucky enough to run into Tito, the Menacing Man from Heaven.
Alan Wilson has little faith in the restoration of the Yugoslav monarchy, but it is equally important to be prepared for it, and there is no conflict.
Something like Yugoslavia, which had no de facto subject nation and so little cohesion of its own, might actually be a good thing to have a king.
There are two kinds of preparations to be made for Yugoslavia, one is to find the controllers of the corporations in the midst of this corporate conglomerate republic and get rich together, and if that doesn’t work out, to see if Prince Alexander can coagulate the unity of the country.
As for who is the leader of Yugoslavia at this time it does not matter, Tito died before specifically changed the political structure of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia does not have a president. Rather, it is in the middle of a presidency, representing the interests of each of the constituent republics, such a structure to find an agent are laborious, it is better to find the local business controller, the current situation in Yugoslavia, it depends on the patriotic south of the diaspora can get how much useful information.