Chapter 1710 Done with the Soviet Union
The sound waves from the Typhoon fighters made the British advisors with their beers raise their voices in applause, and the wind waves from the Tiger helicopter gunships made the gentlemen cheer.
“This one will sober up the Germans in the west.” Arnold opened his drink and laughed at the accompanying economic advisors, “I’ve heard that a few years ago the GDR and the FRG signed an agreement that involved the harmonization of some standards, right down to the highway system with no speed limit isn’t that right?”
“Secretary General, today we are just having a few casual drinks, let’s not be driving, safety is still very important.” A man whose appearance was unimpressive opened his mouth to persuade, this person was not Arnold’s subordinate, but came from Rhodesia responsible for Arnold’s security.
“Safety is certainly the number one priority.” Arnold nodded, “In order to avoid accidents, how about we borrow a few tanks from the Soviets, armored vehicles would be fine.”
Since presiding over the privatization reforms, Arnold considered himself to be on good terms with the local garrison, and also followed the migration of Volga Germans to the GDR, he really valued the Anglo-German friendship to a certain extent.
But only to a certain extent, and at a higher level, he was as adamantly opposed to German unification as his supreme authority father.
Neither tanks nor armored cars were a rare thing for the GDR, and it wasn’t long before gentlemen were already putting up borrowed armored cars with rice flags, rampaging through downtown Berlin, blasting British Expeditionary Forces military music, and shouting in the downtown area, which, if this had really been on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, would surely have been punished to a certain extent.
But this was the territory of the GDR, and these Brits were not British soldiers, and even the armored vehicles they were driving were borrowed, so naturally they could not be bound by military discipline, and as for the Unified Socialist Party government, they didn’t care.
People British to show a little free world personality, not only to the GDR no harm, there are many benefits, for example, the world as black as a crow, the GDR government why stop.
Not only do not stop, the GDR also in a certain sense to the British and French joint military exercises to cooperate with the troops to cooperate with the natural is unlikely, but other aspects such as energy can be tried.
There is a friendship oil and gas pipeline in the GDR, which was built by the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact countries, and also exported oil and gas like the Federal Republic of Germany. After the start of this naval and land military exercises, the GDR government announced that the friendship oil and gas pipeline was shut down for routine inspections, and the friendship oil and gas pipeline was pinched off after the announcement.
There was now only one Baltic oil and gas pipeline available to the GDR, and because the North Sea and Friendship pipelines were cut off so cleanly, the Kohl government was given no time at all to prepare a response.
At the beginning of the year, when spring is still far from arriving in Europe, millions of households in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland were affected, with soaring electricity costs causing the average person a great deal of extra expense.
The only thing left is the Baltic oil and gas pipeline that is still delivering gas, the British and French navies are conducting live-fire exercises, and the British Ministry of Defense has said to the public that the Royal Navy’s determination to defend the free world will not change, so this exercise carries tactical nuclear weapons in case of any emergencies.
“My body still needs to heal for a while.” Alan Wilson took his big brother and talked to the British Foreign Office, “About the protest from the Soviet side, I don’t think it’s a big deal. Their leader is a softie, can he be hard at the bottom if he can’t at the top.”
Greta Garbo skimmed her head and looked out the window, as if you could get hard now if you said you could, “It’s really not possible to remind the Soviet Union that if Moscow doesn’t want the INF treaty to be halfway through and we all continue to point our missiles at each other, don’t see this military exercise as a threat. It’s actually quite simple to do this sort of thing; when you’re strong enough to think that it’s enough to set up all the blackmail, it’s certainly not a threat.”
Alan Wilson points Middleton in the direction of the INF treaty, the only thing that seems to qualify as a political achievement at the moment at Maphead, and exhorts the Soviet government that it would be best to turn a blind eye to this British-French military exercise.
Of course Moscow can ignore it; Margaret Thatcher was always against the INF treaty.
If the INF treaty is repeated, the map head will not even have the only little political achievements, the Soviet Union do not dare to say that the conservative hardliners to regain the upper hand, but the hardliners power is certain to rise greatly.
At that time has been every day than than chatter to reform the map head, the Chetan people will have originally unnecessary trouble.
If now to reformer self-proclaimed powers that be do not want to have trouble to appear, will certainly turn a blind eye to this time the British and French maneuvers. Although deterring the Germans with military force is not such a brilliant solution, it is often the best solution when there is no solution.
“When there’s no way out, that’s the best way out.” Alikseyev recited what his mother Foltseva had said, and finally nodded, “You’re right, mother, even if what we’ve built over the decades isn’t enough to convince most people, the military investment is real, and as long as we hold the direction of the army, I’m sure the situation will eventually stabilize.”
“That’s for sure, any more trouble than a tank?” Foltseva was pleased with her son’s thoughts and spoke, “In fact, there has never been a good way to seize power like this since the beginning of time. I can find countless positive examples and countless negative examples, since you already have this idea, don’t expect to control the entire Soviet Union, just find a way to make preparations in Moscow. The average local powerhouse wouldn’t dare to confront the center, as long as you can control Moscow, the big deal is that in the end, it’s all about whose fist is bigger.”
“The Kremlin, its reaction to this military exercise? What will happen?” Aliksheyev asked his mother what she thought of the counteraction to this military exercise.
“It will be treated as if it is not there, this is Mikhail’s only political achievement, he wouldn’t dare to bring up the INF treaty as a threat.”
Foltseva said categorically, “If he really has the courage to do so, it would mean that the previous détente to the West was a mistake, and someone would definitely have to take the blame, and even if someone is willing to be the scapegoat, it would be a huge damage to his prestige.”
Once the policy shifts, then everything since coming to power will have to be re-judged, bearing in mind that Hungary and Poland are now starting to have a pluralist political line, i.e. parliamentary system and market economy.
The Bundesrepublik Deutschland (FRG) and Czechoslovakia have not yet taken a step towards pluralistic politics, but market economy reforms have already begun.
The GDR had the support of Britain, Czechoslovakia had the support of France, the power of the West has substantially penetrated into Eastern Europe, even if the INF Treaty map head can find the backstabber, so many problems all overthrow, he is a best leader a little bit responsible for nothing?
So the map head is not to momentum of the INF treaty this only political achievements disappear, because this will bring a series of problems down the road, ignoring this time the British and French military exercises continue to promote the reform, better than by the time to be attacked by a group of people.
In the perspective of political life, the map head can only smile to welcome, even if the strength of the Soviet Union together is not as good as the British and French, otherwise it is to admit the mistake, admit the mistake to be responsible for, and he does not want to be responsible for.
“Chang Gong chose the wrong opponent ah.” Recuperate in the midst of Alan Wilson, not surprisingly received the Soviet Union side of the low-profile handling of the response. Facts proved that the supreme authority in predicting the Soviet Union’s response, once again did the decision to win, and it is true that micro-manipulation is to look at the opponent, encountered the map head such an opponent, panning the machine gun thirty meters is not a problem at all.
Greta Garbo coughed softly, and Allen Wilson turned around and softly inquired, “What’s wrong? Greta.”
“The doctor said it’s time to be discharged, the pneumonia is pretty much gone.” Garbo smiled in thanks, “You’ve had a hard time hiding in Stockholm for so many days pretending to be sick.”
“The opportunity to pretend to be sick is unavailable, it’s not hard work at all.” Alan Wilson replied dryly, “Normally I wouldn’t be able to find such an opportunity. If you’re not feeling well anywhere and it’s too late to contact me, be sure to keep in touch with Lovisa, I think it’s more reassuring to find two reliable maids to take care of your life.”
Over the years, the opportunities to be lazy can be said to be few and far between, like now when watching Mrs. Thatcher perform and hiding on the side to take a break, it is even more rare to find.
Apparently this time in Alan Wilson’s guidance, Mrs. Thatcher finally had a little serious, European monetary integration and German unification for bundling, so that the Iron Lady to find the Conservative Party’s support for the largest common denominator, whether it is the Atlantic faction or the European faction, in the two things are the same, to give Mrs. Thatcher full support.
With such support, Margaret Thatcher was able to mobilize everything that Britain could still mobilize at the moment to stop the implementation of the Federal Republic of Germany’s desire for unification.
If only to prevent the European monetary integration and German unification of one of them, take the European monetary integration of this matter, the United Kingdom because of the reason of the British pound certainly do not want to see the emergence of the euro, but many countries want the euro to appear.
Even France does not exclude the emergence of the euro, the only real opponent is actually the use of the pound Britain, but the European monetary integration and German unification linked to the United Kingdom will be able to pull a lot of supporters. It could change the UK’s de facto isolation, and once Germany fails to unify, it could get an inch and say that it can’t even unify itself, so what’s the point of talking about unifying European currencies?
Through diplomacy from the Central Leadership Treaty pinched the handle of the head of the map, Margaret Thatcher felt that she could at least do so that the Soviet Union does not favor the Germans, and now it is to unite with France, forcing Kohl to make a public statement commitment to the GDR and the GDR is a relationship of equality between the state and the country.
The British Ministry of Defense unilaterally announced that because of the huge gains of this exercise, the British Ministry of Defense announced the postponement of the military exercise, in the context of détente, focusing on dealing with the threat of terrorists, care of the Bonn government, the security of the Baltic oil and gas pipeline, is the focus of this phase of the military exercise, and the British troops under the British Army Group in German Rheinland announced that it had taken over the periphery of Hamburg in accordance with the order.