Chapter 1694 – Britain and France have a consensus

“What exactly is Mitterrand’s attitude?” After the Brussels Conference, Alan Wilson went directly to West Berlin, while Margaret Thatcher moved to Paris to meet with French President Mitterrand to discuss the German unification tendency that Britain had discovered, or rather France had also discovered but had not uttered a word.

Once Germany was unified, together with the GDR’s population of 20 million, the aftermath of the Plaza Accord could be easily resolved, itself adding 20 million more laborers who were not at all poorly educated.

Because of the difference in living standards between the two Germanys, the Bonn government can also use this to lower the cost of labor in Germany now.

As for the process of annexation, those dirty tricks, such as the GDR’s industry to devalue the value of a penny to the cabbage price for the acquisition of things, and compared to the above is considered harmless, Alan Wilson also do not have to envision in front of Margaret Thatcher, Britain is not without privatization, in the fairness of the index to reduce a ten times a hundred times to the set of on the line, in any case, the GDR is a defeated country, there will be no The GDR was a defeated country anyway, and there would be no one later to redress his grievances.

Sooner or later, the people who lived through the GDR will forget about it and won’t ask whether it was fair to annex it in the first place.

Allen Wilson remembers because he came from a country that slipped through the cracks and got away with it in the midst of the despised gaze of the free world.

“It’s as if, as you predicted, we’ve rediscovered a consensus on the reunification of Germany.” Margaret Thatcher, the flag bearer of the Anglo-American special relationship, had been dealt a blistering blow at the Brussels conference by Bush Sr.’s remark that Germany was Europe’s leading partner, and even if her heart wasn’t in it, she knew that she couldn’t play with the Anglo-American special relationship any longer.

The Iron Lady may not have wanted it in her heart, but in the end she lived up to what she hated, and like the Labour Party and the European wing of the Conservative Party, admitted what she had previously been reluctant to admit, that Britain was in fact a European country.

For the loss of the sellout, Alan Wilson did not poke, the United States is certainly hope and the existence of a special relationship with the United Kingdom, if the United Kingdom’s influence is limited to the British Isles, the United States is sure that the short term will not bar the United States how to do, the long term will not be accurate.

Obviously this offer, and Mrs. Thatcher’s heart price is far from the UK to give up Rhodesia, Newfoundland, Malaya, and even the Middle East, the interests of the South Pacific. Margaret Thatcher could accept this offer, so after ten years in power, the Iron Lady was finally woken up by George Bush Sr. to the illusion of a special relationship.

A good horse doesn’t eat back grass, but a female prime minister can, and just two hours after the Brussels meeting, Mrs. Thatcher found a common language with France under the guidance of the cabinet secretary, that is, how to contain the German unification, as that conversation said, Mitterrand was very interested in it, and Mrs. Thatcher’s visit to Paris instantly found the Anglo-French consensus.

Mrs. Thatcher changed in the special relationship between Britain and the United States of decadence, completed the leadership of Europe’s magnificent turnaround, but also like Alan Wilson conveyed Mitterrand’s attitude, “we are open and honest talk, Mitterrand also has some doubts, we assume that the reunification of Germany in this matter, are clear about their own attitudes.”

Mrs. Thatcher then recounted Mitterrand’s stance ‘France and Germany are friends and allies. But what is happening now is causing us to prepare a new alliance of France, Britain and the USSR against Germany, as it was in 1913. You will have a population of ninety million, but the Soviet Union will turn on us and you will be surrounded.”

“Too optimistic, the USSR is likely to be of no help with that map head with all the brains in his head, knowing that Russia abounds with German wannabes, it’s not as if the Peter III type hasn’t been around before.”

Alan Wilson heard heard the role of the Soviet Union again and looked at Margaret Thatcher and asked rhetorically, “Do you think Maphead is smarter than Peter III?”

Modern German unification originated in Prussia, there is no Prussia without German unification, Prussia really crowded into the ranks of the European powers but also to Frederick William I’s son, Frederick the Great period, Frederick the Great is the Prussian father of the country type of figure, in Frederick the Great Prussia crowded into the ranks of the European powers.

The Seven Years’ War was extremely important in the history of Prussia, as France, Austria and Russia formed an alliance, with Britain supporting Prussia on land and seizing French colonies overseas.

New France in North America and French India in Asia were captured by Britain in this war. On land, Prussia was in a perilous situation.

Prussia defeated the Austrians several times in localized wars, but she could not help making too many enemies. The Franco-Austrian coalition entered Magdeburg in the west, Austria recovered Silesia and wanted to march to Berlin, the capital of Prussia, the Russian-Austrian coalition occupied East Prussia and marched to Pomerania, and Sweden sent troops from the north road to enter Pomerania and march to Berlin.

Just at this time the Russian Empress Elizabeth I died, Frederick the Great’s number one fan Peter III succeeded to the throne, Peter III, the German Founding Father to save Prussia from the brink of extinction, before the embryo of modern Germany, but this is close to betrayal of the interests of the Imperial Russians, surely not to die a good death.

In the face of the Cabinet Secretary’s rhetorical questions, Mrs. Thatcher, who had never thought she was wrong, hesitated in a rare moment, her self-confidence having already been bludgeoned once by George Bush Sr. Sticking to her guns in return for embarrassment, one can’t dare say now that Maphead is more eloquent than Peter III.

“Containing German unification will certainly require a combined effort from all three of us, but the main job will have to be ours and the French’. Then again, it would be possible to use Peter III’s example of sparing Prussia to spread the word within the Soviet Union, and in theory of course it would be best for the Soviet Union to do so, and we can avoid being remembered by the Germans or we should. Still, I don’t really trust Maphead.”

Allen Wilson schmoozed, “Maybe he’s really stupid enough to forget how Peter III died.”

Peter III was taken out by his wife, Ekaterina the Great, through a palace coup, Maphead’s wife wasn’t named Ekaterina, but the Supreme Authority had a lady on equal footing with his wife by that name, Foltseva’s full name was Ekaterina Alexeevna Foltseva.

Called a cultural czar by one of the great powers during a period of war with the Soviet Union, Alexeyev was indeed preparing a mantle as well.

Because of this, Alan Wilson decided not to spread conspiracy theories comparing Peter III to Maphead, what if he was superstitious? And then go after Foltseva again.

The preparations that needed to be made were made, and Alan Wilson suggested replacing the British forces in West Berlin with reliable units and the commander with a reliable commander who was nearing retirement.

“Why?” Mrs. Thatcher was a little suspicious, hadn’t it just been said that it was best for the Soviet Union to be the villain.

“We don’t want to be the villain ourselves, but be prepared to be the villain, Erich Honecker may request military intervention from abroad should Berlin show signs of destabilization.”

Alan Wilson replied, “I mentioned this scenario in my conversation with Erich Honecker. Of course, I don’t expect it to happen, but preparations must be made, just as I made military plans for the Falklands War in the 1950s.”

Then Alan Wilson expressed his appreciation for Mitterrand, “If the Triple Entente can re-emerge, it will be good for the maintenance of peace in Europe, and, of course, Eastern Europe still has to be liberalized, and if the Soviet Union releases its interests in Europe, even if it is a free-for-all, and does not become aggressive in the future, peace in Europe can be expected in the future. If the EEC uses pounds for trade in pounds, then the USSR is a close ally of Britain.”

You really dare to think? Mrs. Thatcher muttered in her heart, the Economic and Mutual Council is the Soviet Union together with the trade system of Eastern Europe, certainly not as powerful as the United States on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean plus Western Europe, but it is also regarded as the world’s second industrial bloc in addition to Europe and the United States, if they all use the pound to settle the bill, that is the moment when the British pound is back to the world’s currency.

“If it did happen, Britain would of course be a close ally of the Soviet Union.” Mrs. Thatcher replied absentmindedly, so she wouldn’t delay the Cabinet Secretary from dreaming.

“Prepare for Erich Honecker’s visit, and I’ll ask Pamela’s friends what industries are of interest to the GDR. Reform is such a good thing, especially privatization reform.” Alan Wilson had his hands in his pants pockets and was ready to take his leave, with all the buzz this year.

A few days later, six former Romanian Communist Party leaders published an open letter criticizing Ceausescu’s policies and calling on him to reform Romania, to which Ceausescu responded by not responding.

Allen Wilson took the matter seriously and tried to get in touch with the good Dahl to ask if there was some plan on the Soviet side to take out the leader who was defying Moscow’s authority.

Anyway, Allen Wilson had already communicated with the American side that there were no plans for the free world at the moment, and after three days of intervals, Arikseyev said he had found no news of what was going to be done to Ceausescu.

Apart from Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia are still calm, what was supposed to be an invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 became Poland in this world.

This led to Czechoslovakia’s low brow on the one hand, and on the other hand the economic looseness that had always existed, in other words the reformists had always been there, they just did it quietly.

As for Bulgaria, it didn’t have much of a presence in the Warsaw Pact camp either; Bulgaria’s role in the Warsaw Pact amounted to, I’ll do what you, the Soviet Union, tell me to do. Moscow also does not use hard, can be completely good to talk to discuss to, so at present Bulgaria is also quite calm.

Thinking about it, the most dangerous is still Poland, although the losses are pushed to the Solidarity Union, but Poland’s foreign debt should be paid back, this is not a problem that Jaruzelski can handle.

Alan Wilson wondered if it was not better, to continue to defend the Anglo-American special relationship over such harmless issues, such as no waves, and to use the debt due to pressure Poland.

Arnold returned from Singapore, Alan Wilson decided to wait a few more days, Poland such a poor bastard in the sort of deserved to take a back seat, which is not as important as the head of a piece of cloth close allies.