Chapter 1711 – Cutting with a Blunt Knife

“Without current military strength, we would never have had this kind of power to suppress the Federal Republic of Germany. The United States respects Britain as much as it respects Britain’s nine carrier battle groups, and with France’s four, keep in mind that the United States only has fifteen carrier battle groups as well.”

Alan Wilson had finished his tour of feigned illness and had returned to London to continue his grandstanding on the issue of German unification.

The big talk was of course to add confidence to Mrs. Thatcher’s toughness; after all, George Bush Sr. had already expressed concern about the current round of conflict between Britain and Germany.

Alan Wilson is afraid of Margaret Thatcher U.S. pressure, this iron lady backed down, this kind of thing is not unheard of.

Anything can be concerned about the views of the United States, but German unification can not, if this matter can be backed down, only to show that the Iron Lady this nickname does not live up to its name, not as good as Mrs. Mayer, not as good as Indira Gandhi, completely self-hypnotized.

“If it wasn’t for the fact that you’ve just recovered from your illness, I’d embarrass you.” Mrs. Thatcher dripped a sentence, or look at the cabinet secretary general is very sick, only do not and his general understanding, pretending to be sick things the prime minister and do not know, also thought that has been working for many years of the man, really is not very good health.

Hearing the prime minister’s words, Alan Wilson expressed gratitude, at the same time that the old Bush’s pressure, the United Kingdom is able to withstand, “In fact as far as we have observed, the sanctions against East Asia has not been determined by the French eucalyptus, which shows that President Bush is actually not consistent particularly firm.”

If the U.S. were to really come down on a country with deadly sanctions, it would at least have to introduce a law, and Bush Sr. just finally chose to make an announcement that could be said to have spared a certain country.

It can be seen that Bush Sr, as a traditional conservative, is actually not like Reagan, who recognized a target and went for it with blood.

“Well, not to mention the problems in the U.S., it seems that the advisors over in the GDR are doing a good job.” Mrs. Thatcher inquired, having heard that the privatization reforms pushed by Britain had taken effect.

“Not all of them are thought to have done a good job, in fact many citizens of the GDR feel they have been victimized. Especially university students.” Alan Wilson shook his head outright, even if Arnold was his son, he couldn’t lie about this any more and still had to tell Mrs. Thatcher the real story.

Privatization alone is not enough, as we know from the privatization reforms in the UK, there is also the need to cut welfare, and Margaret Thatcher was known as the Milk Killer when she was Education Secretary.

In the GDR, there were a lot of welfare benefits. Since university students were the hope of the future, the subsidies for university students could not be neglected. The GDR had more than two million students, accounting for 12 percent of the total population. This shows that in terms of education, every country in the Soviet system was not bad.

And for those who are in school, every secondary school student has a subsidy of one hundred marks, and every university student has a subsidy of two hundred marks, which is paid every month.

Arnold went straight for these students who had not entered society, just as Margaret Thatcher had done when she was Education Secretary, as a way of saving the GDR’s expenses.

“I see you have another good son.” As soon as Mrs. Thatcher heard about this kind of operation, she remembered the way she did it when she was the Education Minister, and flatly added some goodwill towards the son of the Cabinet Secretary, even though the child was not born to her, “It is shocking that the GDR should have invested so much in education.”

“Indeed, a waste of the country’s finances, if it were up to me, I’d wish the whole country was illiterate.” Alan Wilson said with the tone of a historical antagonist, “What’s the point of going to school?”

Although his mouth was unforgiving, he was actually very proud in his heart of his son’s operation, which could not be used against the real producers, which would have destroyed production throughout the GDR leading to the country’s regression. The GDR was in such a bad shape that it naturally wanted to merge with the FRG.

However, the students, who had no access to the raw materials for production, and whose contribution to the country would come later, were the right group to be used as a target for the knife.

Since they were not part of the country’s economy, they could be considered unimportant, and unimportant groups were of course to be kneaded at will.

“The Soviet bloc is now showing signs of decline, but it’s hard to say what the future holds.” Alan Wilson explained to Margaret Thatcher, “My idea is this, it is essential to go after the education systems of all the countries that have been affected by the Soviet Union, the populations that the Soviet Union controls are inherently inferior to that of the free world, and if we can bring about a collapse of the public education systems in these countries, stripping out the role of the state in supporting public education, this will destroy the potential of these countries. ”

“Think about it, the Eastern European countries themselves are generally small in population, and if they don’t play up to quality parity, it would be a huge win for us.”

Allen Wilson still saved face for the free world by saying something along the lines of quality parity, when in fact he thought the rival camps were better educated than the free world, except for higher education.

“Indeed it is best to let our enemies decline slowly.” Mrs. Thatcher nodded, agreeing with the strategy of boiling the frog in warm water as being more prudent. Once the conflict was intensified, the Warsaw Pact was, after all, an armed group with the strength of NATO forces, and even if they fought a civil war on their own, it would be enough to embolden the Western European side.

Alan Wilson nodded, he knew that Europe and the United States at the end of the Cold War, the most afraid of the map head pace is too fast, resulting in the Soviet Union within the conservatives set off the table, a country equipped with tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, if you fight a civil war, even if you know that they have nothing to do with themselves, that is enough to make people alarmed.

In the world of memory, Saddam once fought with the multinational force, not forgetting to use the scud to attack Israel, Israel is not also rare did not radicalize the situation.

Anyone who’s afraid of a dying country going out on a limb to get someone else’s back, and the UK has actually actually come across something like that.

The Ottoman Empire is such an example, as of World War I, the Ottoman Empire has lost more than three million square kilometers of land, close to 70 percent of the peak. As soon as the World War began, the rulers of the Ottoman Empire knew that the entire nation of the Ottoman Empire was in danger of disappearing in the event of defeat.

The Ottoman Empire’s dying maneuvers really beat Britain enough, along with dragging Imperial Russia, the world’s enemy, to death. If Imperial Russia does not collapse, the Ottoman Empire will really only be put on the table after the war.

“We can’t think that the Soviet Union is weaker than the Ottoman Empire right? In fact, this matter can be discussed with Washington.” Alan Wilson liked to defend the special Anglo-American relationship on such matters of little interest.

Mrs. Thatcher usually went to the United States more often than she went home, this time it is possible to make a trip, Allen Wilson can also take this opportunity to see if the loyal Whitehall has been doped when he pretended to be sick.

“That’s rare.” Mrs. Thatcher was a little surprised, “Is it a case of being sick once and having your thoughts cleared?”

This is indeed Mrs. Thatcher’s thoughts, if the Soviet Union is no longer a threat from now on, then where will NATO go, it certainly must still exist, after all, the United States is also unwilling to NATO disintegration, the United Kingdom in fact is also unwilling to NATO appeared originally is the product of the United Kingdom to tie up the United States.

Even if the Warsaw Pact is gone, the Soviet Union itself is stronger than Britain, and Britain does not have the national strength to face the Soviet Union alone.

About the future of NATO, Mrs. Thatcher still want to talk to Bush, although the special relationship between Britain and the United States she has seen through the old Bush, and to Germany is also a demonstration of the idea of Bush, but in the larger level, Britain still want to keep and the United States does not red face.

Mrs. Thatcher rarely got the support of Whitehall to open this visit to the U.S. Alan Wilson suggested waiting for Cole’s reaction, he felt that Cole would not easily compromise on the issue of reunification.

If Cole does not compromise, the military exercises are not impossible to extend, Mrs. Thatcher wants to shirk her responsibility to prove that she is not a bad person when she can go to visit the United States.

Meanwhile, the present naval and land military exercises are still going on, with the Laihin Group taking over the facilities of the Baltic oil and gas pipeline in Hamburg, in preparation for the day when it was strongly suggested that a landing had to be made near the camp of the British garrison in Hamburg.

Whether Kohl recognized it or not, the entire oil and gas pipeline of the Federal Republic of Germany had been all but choked by the British.

At the cabinet meeting, ministers were discussing what to do if Kohl just wouldn’t compromise. There was a proposal to choke off Germany’s overseas transportation lines, which Alan Wilson had to firmly oppose, “That would be a pure act of war, and we can’t do that. Likewise we can’t choke off the Galileo system of navigation, which is a navigation system in our hands competing with the American positioning system, and the reason why we have the largest share amongst the European countries is because the European countries are still willing to trust Britain not to go after the European countries.”

Alan Wilson was adamantly opposed to getting his hands on the overseas transportation lines, and the navigation cut off would not do, Britain was counting on this system to increase its influence, “Honorable Ministers, sanctions cannot be imposed at the cost of backfiring on themselves. We might as well look to the industrial capital of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland to make Kohl understand the seriousness of the situation, and I hear that Kohl’s polls have dropped.”

Existing cards can continue to be played, but the UK can’t stab the Germans in the back with each other, and this kind of European behavior of a special military operation is something he can never do.

Bloodletting against Russia, who went from 10,000 per capita to 5,000 per capita, then 30,000 to 20,000 in the EU? Fifteen thousand? Inflation skyrockets, industry moves out, and what happens after that? Western Europe grows potatoes bigger than Russian potatoes, what’s the deal? Or do they grow potatoes that are the same size and sell for ten bucks a pound in Europe?

Take more tactics, and the U.S. won’t be sitting on the sidelines watching, now that Bush Sr. has decided that Britain and France are a bit out of touch with the Greatest Generation of the day.