Chapter 1713 Bush’s Problems

A country like the Federal Republic of Germany, which is full of eyes and ears, especially when the capital, Bonn, is still under the observation of the British garrison, naturally cannot be hidden from the eyes of MI6.

So Mrs. Thatcher departed for the United States, certainly will not receive Cole’s cross-country phone call, and the Cabinet Secretary can not do it on behalf of the Secretary General, naturally, can only let Cole wait a moment.

“He can be ruthless, or what they teach us at school is true, imperialism is indeed ruthless enough.” Anna crooked her neck and complained, looking at Bokina and asking, “Do you have any ideas.”

“No, German reunification is really something uncompromisable for Britain and not a whim.”

Bokina shook her head and said, “If you look at Mrs. Thatcher’s formation of anti-German allies for a year, you know that this is a consensus in British politics, it’s not at all a certain person pushing it forward, there’s no use in looking for him, it’s not as if you don’t know him, everything else is good for negotiation, he never begrudges us a share of what he has for himself, but he’s never negotiable when it comes to national relations. ”

“Indeed.” Anna let out a long breath helplessly, “In fact, we don’t need to fight for it, we are not ……”

“Hmm?” Bokina gave Anna a sidelong glance, causing her sister to swallow back the German’s half-sentence, “It’s not as if we’re men, there’s no need for us to care about matters of state. If German men can’t solve this problem, a woman stepping in will?”

For the two sisters, it was time to do business or business, but the energy problem did have a huge impact on the Heilmann family’s business as well, after all, in the average person’s life, this kind of hard time was already a long time ago memory. Likewise German businesses are under enormous pressure.

“If this keeps up, we’ll have to think about it and find a country that isn’t so costly to manufacture in.” Bogina took stock of the current situation, and it must be said that the two sisters were also primed with the self-awareness of world citizenship, and did not think they had to be bound to one country.

In the absence of the Prime Minister, Britain was what the other half of the husband and wife store said it was, looking at Prince Alexander in front of him, Alan Wilson expressed his importance, “Actually, Britain emphatically fought for His Majesty, but Tito was too strong at the time, but there’s no denying that His Majesty’s opinion within Yugoslavia has been improving in the past few years.”

The reason it was improving was not because Tito was dead and the political system Tito had left behind was starting to play out, which led to the growth of the royalists, as there were few places left to rally a Yugoslav consensus other than Tito himself, and Peter II in exile in Britain, who was overthrowing the pro-German regent at the time, was not a bad idea.

Of course it is still impossible to carry out a royal restoration with this alone, and Allen Wilson is just trying it out to see if it has any effect, saying directly to Prince Alexander, “The situation in Yugoslavia, to be honest, is very much like the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I, and this is not something that any European country wants to see.”

This was a very blunt statement, like the Austro-Hungarian Empire crumbled into pieces, thanks entirely to American President Wilson, Britain was against national self-determination at that time.

The biggest victims of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were, of course, the Hungarians, but the Hungarians had problems of their own; when the Austro-Hungarian Empire existed, Hungary shared power with the Austrians with slightly more than one-fifth of its population.

Receiving transfer payments from Austria, it also used its political position to suppress other nationalities, playing the role of a foot-dragger.

In a sense, it is true that the Hungarians were not wronged after the war, though harsh terms like those of the Peace of Trianon must have been beyond the dreams of the Hungarians.

Alan Wilson then used Hungary after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as an example, telling Prince Alexander, “In fact, the situation of the Serbs in the territory of Yugoslavia is very similar to the situation of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time, and does not dominate the population, which is extremely widely distributed, resulting in a lot of controversial places is not a dominant population. Britain hopes for peace in Europe, and also hopes that Yugoslavia will be able to restore the traditional friendly relations with Britain, Honorable Prince, would you not mind making a trip to Yugoslavia?”

Although the chances of success were not high, but in case it was possible to revive the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Prince Alexander, as the sole heir of the royal family, had lived in Britain for so many years there must be some feelings towards Britain existed, at least among the time this prince was king, Yugoslavia should not be so much as to be in disagreement with Britain.

He remembered that Prince Alexander also participated in the Queen’s funeral, at least that news in the body is still quite strong, so it seems to be able to maintain friendly relations for forty years.

Of course Prince Alexander even if he returned to Yugoslavia, the probability is not able to restore, if not able to restore, this will cause the vigilance of the Communist Party of the South (CPJ), if there is a foreign enemy, maybe the forces within Yugoslavia will not tear their faces off, if they have to break up the best not to go to war.

In any case things couldn’t be worse, they wouldn’t be so bad that history would repeat itself, and it would be better than a melee breaking out among the various ethnic groups in Yugoslavia.

If this were to come to fruition, Allen Wilson would be able to save millions of lives again, it was truly a meritorious endeavor just to think about it, and now the only question was, would Prince Alexander dare to go?

Prince Alexander quickly answered this question, of course dare, not to say that power easily makes people blind, Allen Wilson felt that Prince Alexander also knew in his heart that the success rate is really not big, but for a hope, how he also want to try.

“Let’s go to Rhodesia first, I will arrange some people to shoot a scene of ten thousand people embracing.” Alan Wilson hesitated but still issued a warning, “Rhodesia is an inalienable territory of the British Empire, even if the locality is occupying some Slavs, it is British land. I hope the prince will not think too much about it.”

Going to Rhodesia first, lending momentum to the supporters of Rhodesia, and then going to Yugoslavia, this could shape some momentum, but the help Alan Wilson could provide was limited to momentum, he was not generous enough to give away the overseas territories that he had gone to great lengths to keep, generously to others.

At this moment, Mrs. Thatcher also arrived at the White House, from the old Bush came to power, Mrs. Thatcher’s frequency of visits to the United States has declined, of course, the reason is that the old Bush is not keen on what Britain and the United States special relationship.

Of course, the old Bush this time also watched the British and French show how to temper the Germans, the old Bush is a professional politician, and do not want to learn Reagan regardless of the consequences of the heavy fist on Japan, the key is Japan only one, to the old Bush has not been able to use.

But Britain and France this time unreasonable, but also let part of Germany’s hot money pouring into the United States, so he allowed Britain and France to make a mess within the appropriate range.

This time the old Bush has predicted that Mrs. Thatcher is going to fight for American support for Britain’s behavior, and he will certainly not support it, and will also persuade Mrs. Thatcher to stop in moderation, but of course he also has problems to talk to Mrs. Thatcher, such as the issue of South Africa.

Though the Anglo-American relationship is having a loss of confidence and the iceberg is hard to rely on. There is also a slow split within the Western camp, but there are some extraterritorial issues that Bush Sr. feels he can still talk to Mrs. Thatcher about.

European issues were not absent, and Bush said after the meeting that he thought “NATO and Warsaw Pact countries, as well as the Soviet Union, should try to conclude a joint reconciliation statement of “non-use of force” and “no further hostility to each other”, and to work towards conventional disarmament in Europe. and the Soviet Union should try to conclude a joint reconciliation statement of ‘no use of force’ and ‘no further hostility’ and to agree on principles for a conventional disarmament agreement in Europe.”

Bush’s idea is very simple, like Reagan’s three trillion dollar debt explosion is unsustainable, don’t the Soviet Union is still alive, the U.S. and then use chicken blood to kill themselves.

Now that Maphead has deliberately demonstrated a desire to end the hostilities, slow disarmament is what he should do while he has the upper hand to end the long-standing hostilities.

“We can’t do that, Mr. President.” Mrs. Thatcher objected as soon as she heard, “At least not at this time, we should start from a position of strength and force the Soviet Union to reach the outcome we want to see, rather than joining in ourselves.”

“Do you think the Soviet conservatives also let Maputo stay stupid?” Bush Sr. asked directly in return, “If I remember correctly, the Soviet Union did have a coup d’état, and it wasn’t that long ago.”

As for the issue of nuclear weapons, Bush Sr. did not hide his thoughts, “The United States will support the view of the Federal Republic of Germany, in fact, after the conventional forces are downsized, Europe will have to rely mainly on its own protection, and the United States will of course continue to protect Europe, but Europe itself will have to protect itself.”

“We should continue to believe in the proven role of NATO nuclear weapons, as we have done. We are slipping into the deadly position of no first use of nuclear weapons. This position has been maintained by the propaganda tools of the Soviet Union. Such a realignment would put our conventional forces in the position of being unable to counter their numerical superiority.”

This line of rhetoric from Mrs. Thatcher certainly worked well with Reagan, though not from Bush Sr.’s point of view; now that both Britain and France have reached out and pinched the military power of the FRG, one still retaining quite a bit of territory on other continents, and the other with Algeria in North Africa pinched in its hands, and yet the U.S. is allowed to continue to commit itself?

Heavy-handed against the FRG and cavalier with the Soviets I? This time to contain the Federal Republic of Germany’s military exercises, in his point of view, it is obvious that the British and French still have the power to spare, but do not use it where it should be used, but always in the European security issues to kidnap the U.S., so that the U.S. to bear the burden of the big head of the confrontation with the Soviet Union.

As a matter of fact, this is also the mainstream opinion of the current Bush administration, which feels that Britain and France within the free world are the suspicious allies of the U.S. Why suspicious? Because these two countries do not have U.S. troops stationed there.

“For Europe’s defense spending, this part of the U.S. is definitely not increasing.” Old Bush did not hide his own ideas, the Soviet Union have been disarmed, the threat has become smaller, in the continued increase in military spending is not justified.