Chapter 1722: A Day Without a Day

Special relationship, there are times when there is, there are times when there is not, in the United States need the United Kingdom to top the mine, or the United Kingdom need to snub the United States when it exists, fortunately, the latter still exists now, but if the Soviet Union is no longer there, the latter is not existed is not certain.

With the current UK being about a third of the strength of the US, it’s still tough enough to face the US.

Unless it is like the Soviet Union before the 1960s, which was able to unite the whole country to fight against it, it is obvious that the Soviet Union could do it, but the UK, with its social environment similar to that of the US, could not do it.

And now the Soviet Union may not be able to do it, if you first remove the possibility of the Soviet Union as a shield, consider the United Kingdom or have to add France, can stand up to the hostility of the United States, this will have to be calculated.

From the comparison of military strength, Britain’s national strength of five hundred and ninety-five thousand, France because of the long-term military presence in North Africa to prevent the territorial secession of North Africa, the total strength of a little bit more, the French army, navy and air force of seven hundred thousand people.

But because France has to take care of the army, navy and air force, and take the route of independence and autonomy, not to mention the basis than the United Kingdom to be a little worse, France’s armament will be slightly behind.

Simply put, France’s navy and air force is not as good as Britain’s, and the army is not as good as Germany’s. At present, France’s main model is the Mirage 2000 fighter, and there is no shadow of the Rafale, which is only known to be under research. As for the four aircraft carriers of the French Navy, two of them are still sold to France by Britain.

From the military comparison, even if the British and French together, the total military strength is one million three hundred thousand, while the United States active size is two million. Britain and France together also have more than sixty percent of the military strength of the United States.

And in the total population, the British mainland is fifty-nine million, France is fifty-eight million five hundred and fifty million, the population of the two countries is roughly the same, from less than one-fifth of the British, to the population of the two countries is roughly the same, the French is finally wiped out the demographic gap between the United Kingdom and France, and the United States compared to it? The United States has a national population of two and a half billion.

Of course this figure is just counting the mainland, if you include France’s North African territories, France’s population is seventy million, and there are ten million or so French in North Africa as well as locals who are willing to be French. Britain would be a bit more optimistic on that front, if you count Malaya’s population of twenty-four million, as well as the Fragrant River. Don’t count Rhodesia and Newfoundland, there aren’t many of them. Britain now controls a population of close to ninety million.

This made the comparative style of Britain, France, and the United States one point six billion to two point five billion, which seemed to compare favorably, and was not a lopsided comparison, or at least appeared to be circumscribed.

With a basic idea, Alan Wilson went to 10 Downing Street, ready to inform Margaret Thatcher that she had heard first-hand from Field Marshal Mountbatten, and that perhaps at this year’s summit, U.S. President George W. Bush would declare that the great free world had won the Cold War.

“America is going to declare victory in the Cold War to end the Cold War?” Mrs. Thatcher was stunned, then puzzled, “And that’s letting the Soviet Union off the hook?”

“What about that? The Soviet Union has liberalized Eastern Europe. And thanks to the brilliant leader you admire so much, Mr. Maphead, the Soviet Union is now in a situation that anyone who can see it understands.”

Allen Wilson replied with a grimace, “Why don’t we consider talking to Maphead? Telling the US is just one more breath of air, this round of prosperity was printed by printing money, and the fact is that Bush is unlikely to come up with another three trillion dollars in national debt like Reagan’s fools.”

Mrs. Thatcher shook her head, she felt that the man was all round the corner connoting her because essentially she and Reagan had the same reforms, except that the US was increasing the debt and the UK was able to cash in on the SOEs in addition to increasing the debt. The US really can’t match the economic growth of the Reagan years.

“And what about the army, even with half a million disarmed, the USSR still has over four million armed forces, it’s plain to see, isn’t it?” Mrs. Thatcher retorted defiantly.

“Without money, no one can starve and fight for their lives, it’s not like the old days, Maphead has already lost the cohesion of the Soviet Union.” Alan Wilson sneered, “Couldn’t see it a few years ago, who can’t see now that the Soviet Union is now truly no longer a threat.”

Holding its breath by the state system was possible for the Soviet Union in the old days, but to say that Mr. Maphead, the first Soviet President, could do the same? That would be?

Let alone him, a certain big country in history is not unprecedented, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the national conflict is very sharp, our Qing Dynasty even the same work is not the same pay, the fallen green battalion than the fallen eight banners pension less, enough to prove that the national oppression, simply outrageous.

This to how serious point it, serious to the Qing army green battalion of ordinary soldiers killed in action to give only thirty two silver, my Ming killed a general will give ten two. That is the silver ah, are given to the big head soldiers, really sinful.

The Great Powers do not miss my Qing Dynasty, so that the level of the Great Powers is not as good as my Qing Dynasty, Qing Dynasty abolition of green soldiers also give severance pay, but also special attention not to be the local government embezzlement.

The head of the map with a stroke of a pen, the elite placed in Eastern Europe after the return of layoffs, but also thanks to the head of the map turned out to be the leader of the Soviet Union, a country that emphasizes class, but did not know that the class covers a larger area than the nation.

When the country that emphasizes class, all of a sudden became a typical example of reverse operation, don’t blame the Khitans for adopting the national narrative and digging into the corners of the map head, it is the map head itself that is self-defeating.

Mrs. Thatcher was silent, Alan Wilson lowered his voice and dripped, “Honorable Prime Minister, think about it, think carefully, the United States does not think the Soviet Union poses a threat anymore, to be put aside, then it is against against whom? Anymore, the Soviet Union’s homeland is contiguous, unlike some countries where the connection between the homeland and the overseas territories may be inherently problematic for historical reasons. In fact, such a country is more fragile, a good target to go after.”

Mrs. Thatcher was stunned, “What else can the United States do when there are no more enemies to disarm? Could it come at Britain or France and make us an imaginary enemy.”

“Just a possibility, without any personal bias mixed in.” Allen Wilson explained without skipping a beat, “I’m still the leader in Washington anyway, and won’t spare potential enemies.”

This was completely truthful, if he were to have the national power of the United States, not to mention not being able to spare Britain and France, even China and the Soviet Union would have to be completely put down, and then stomped on with 10,000 feet, so that they would never be able to turn around.

This is completely reasonable, the United States is going to rule this world until the end of the earth, not to mention having the ability to challenge the United States, have the idea is the original sin, to be five horses and death by lynching.

“I think the possibility exists, otherwise expect the Pentagon to watch the world balance? Their own budget cuts?”

Thinking along this line of thought under the net, Mrs. Thatcher also had to pay attention to it, Alan Wilson naturally took out the comparison of the various data that had been thought of before coming here. Britain is at best a little more than a third of the United States, the native population is less than a third.

Even if you add France together, together with the territories of the two countries, is less than seventy percent of the United States.

But the good thing is that this seventy percent is very real, and not Japan during World War II, only the Navy has the U.S. Navy’s seventy percent, every other aspect of the data are only the United States of America’s zero, so dare to clamor seventy percent of the strength of the war.

So look at Allen Wilson’s work for many years or very effective, the end of the Cold War, not to mention Britain and France are 70%, even the Soviet Union’s 70% are not up to add up to the matter of the United States of America’s national strength of 40%.

So the United States really want to unload the donkey, the United Kingdom is not unable to resist, of course, to ensure that the unity of Britain and France to work, a single jump out that is in the United States to send food.

So far, Allen Wilson has talked about the option of bombing Warsaw, and then you can talk about the most optimistic situation, but there is a map head in, may be this situation is not very optimistic.

With the possibility of an end to the Cold War already on the American side, Britain should have played a tough obstructionist role to squeeze the last bit of value out of the Soviet threat theory, just in case it worked. Though as history has shown, it really doesn’t help much, and the US has already made up its mind to claim victory.

To say it now is merely to put Mrs. Thatcher’s mind at ease, “There are two preparations to be made, on the one hand to be wary of the United States’ ironclad determination to end the Cold War and its hostile attitude towards Britain. We must improve relations with France, and this joining forces against Germany is an opportunity to do so. And the optimistic position, we still hope that the Cold War will not end and that the United States will be able to concentrate its attention on the Soviet Union, always to be optimistic, the difficulty is that the ability to map the head of the map is really almost non-existent, which may have turned out to be an advantage, but in the face of the changing world situation, it is a disadvantage.”

The optimistic vision is not so optimistic, the pessimistic prediction that’s really pessimistic, “The Prime Minister has been running the Anglo-American special relationship, and I hope that the Prime Minister will be able to salvage this, Britain’s most important? At least the top three foreign relations, apart from the Commonwealth and the EEC.”

“Oh, what a brilliant idea from the Cabinet Secretary.” Margaret Thatcher replied grimly, now warming up to the Anglo-American special relationship again, but grimacing won’t change the treacherous future.

Mrs. Thatcher had already made up her mind that she couldn’t let the Cold War end just like that, and that she wanted to draw America’s attention firmly to the Soviet Union, which was Britain’s diplomatic priority at the moment.

Alan Wilson, of course, knew that the odds were that it would fail, for no particular reason, because it had failed historically, and the chances of failure were even greater now.

At the same time that Mrs. Thatcher was adjusting her foreign policy, the Chetnik, who had been inaugurated as President of the Soviet Union at the same time as Maphead, and who had only just become President of Russia, began his first visit to Britain.

Mrs. Thatcher received the man who could be described as the rising star of Soviet politics, from the first secretary of the Moscow City Council, who was ousted by a word, to the current President of Russia, some levels and Map Head have the same status, Mrs. Thatcher expressed her hope that the Chetanian would assist Map Head and stabilize the political situation in the Soviet Union.

Alan Wilson also looked for an opportunity to talk to this Russian President, who unlike Margaret Thatcher was so impractical, had only four words at the heart of what he wanted to convey to the Chetians, and the sky was the limit.