Chapter 729 Revolutionaries in the Western Hemisphere

“It’s a matter of trade-offs that will delay Malaya.” Alan Wilson replied after a moment of contemplation, “I for one do not want Britain to get into the same predicament as the French, especially now that there is the dawn of wiping out the debt, General. On the question of trade-offs, let alone now, even a hundred years ago we were cautious when faced with China.”

It may stand to reason to say that, but it’s a fact, make a list of the countries that Britain blew the hammer off of during the colonial era, and the Qing Dynasty is kind of slight in that list.

Some people will counter with the Zulu living Afghans against the British losses, but in fact this is a pseudo-proposition, because the purpose of the war is different, the British ultimately turned the Zulu territory into a colony, but also cut nearly half of the territory of Afghanistan, but ultimately did not do anything to the Qing Dynasty.

Because when facing the Zulus living Afghans, even if they suffered even more losses, Britain still considered this loss visible, and ultimately the enemy was willing to accept paying the price to reach their goal no matter how much they resisted.

This is different from the British army attacked the Qing dynasty, the British army on the Qing dynasty’s combat goal, never is to force the Qing dynasty to yield, once the Qing dynasty to soften the British will use the slope, sign a treaty to withdraw troops, rather than choose to expand the war.

This difference lies in the fact that the Qing dynasty at that time in the world’s unique population size, once the scope and scale of the war out of control, all the British mathematicians together, but also can not figure out the British in the end to pay how much it costs to achieve the purpose.

That is to say that the nineteenth century the British Empire, has been and the Qing Dynasty to fight a planned war, the British army will not go deep inland, hit some of the coast or the imperial capital like the offshore cities to establish prestige, just wait and the Qing Dynasty negotiations.

So why are in the twentieth century, the Eight-Power Allied Forces were still aggressive at the beginning, but after arriving in the imperial capital, they were not moving inland. This is the same reason, if it is facing a country like Afghanistan, the eight allied forces will never retreat.

General Bilton is a soldier, the level of how to put aside, he was able to listen to what Alan Wilson said the trade-off problem in the end, simply put is that the United Kingdom can choose between attacking Argentina and attacking the Soviet Union.

Even if Argentina was at full German military level, Britain would have no trouble trying to whack Argentina. The USSR could hammer Britain even if it really was propagandized by the free world as being good at nothing but mano-a-mano warfare, that’s the simple truth.

“I’m actually on the fence about that, so let’s hear from the cabinet first, and Rangoon has sent a request to London.” General Bilton mused, indicating that he was not as strongly in favor of military action as Alan Wilson thought.

France’s current plight, also in the midst of the Southeast Asian forests, was not invisible to him, and he still had misgivings about military action.

“I don’t think the Prime Minister will undertake a military adventure!” Alan Wilson knew what Prime Minister Aidley valued most, the existing colonies the Prime Minister certainly did not want to lose during his term, but for the colonies that had already been lost, Aidley no longer had much interest.

Got the attitude of General Bilton, Allen Wilson is completely relaxed, the Burmese people to deal with Burma is very reasonable. If you can’t do it according to history, letting China come over to fight the bandits is also a way.

However, Allen Wilson did not say anything, China is now, after all, the free world’s rival camp generals. Basic enemy identification, he still has this realization.

So now that the deafness to Rangoon’s plea for help is a probable event, Allen Wilson will continue to walk the world, promote truth, goodness and beauty, and care for the children of the Third World, or Korea to be precise.

Regarding the ethnic policy of British Malaya, Allen Wilson is a simple binary distinction between Chinese and Malays only. The foreign population, as long as they were not considered Malays, were all categorized among the Chinese.

So of course these Korean children who were rescued in the name of the European Red Cross would also be categorized as Chinese. Otherwise? Would he have to find Koreans to educate them in Korean? Wouldn’t that raise the cost of training?

These children sponsored by the Mountbatten Group through the Red Cross were also arranged to live in Sarawak, East Malaysia. From an early age, they were raised in the zaibatsu model that is very familiar to Koreans in the latter days.

“When these children are a little older, they will have to undergo practical training, and they will be the ones to pick the executioners for the future prison clearances.”

In the middle of a former camp for Japanese POWs in Sarawak, Alan Wilson accompanied his wife in to express his goodwill toward the Korean children who had just been rescued.

These somewhat skinny, timid children of both sexes peeked with wandering eyes at these different-looking Europeans, unaware that the course of their future lives had already been mapped out.

“You let them kill?” Pamela Mountbatten was a little startled, but managed to control the volume of her voice and whispered, “As far as that? Or did you feel that you had to deal with some infiltration operations and that’s why you adopted them?”

“A little bit of all kinds of reasons!” Alan Wilson put his hands in his pockets and said with a hypocritical smile, “Working for the Concepcion Group, is it still wrong for them?”

“I just feel uneasy, will these kids listen to us when they grow up?” Pamela Mountbatten said with some melancholy.

“I no longer want to use the French Swiss Guard and the Ottoman New Army as examples!” Alan Wilson yawned and said, “Anyway, you have to believe that your husband will not harm you.”

If it was another country, there might be an argument on this topic, but if it was the Koreans? There’s no need to argue about it at all. No one knows how to be a servant nation better than Koreans.

Korean history has a strong history of being one-sided, to the point where a term called Matter-of-Factism has emerged.

Matter-of-factism was also used by the later North Korea to bash South Korea, saying that South Korea had no sovereignty at all, but was just a semi-independent country controlled by the U.S. military.

South Korea itself is no resistance to foreign ideas, South Korea’s ancient writing are used in Chinese characters, the country’s own text can not be promoted, the modern era did not have the European and American cultural invasion, and even South Korea’s first major religion is Christianity, as well as a series of cults.

In the face of such a community, Alan Wilson how can not have confidence, these children are destined to grow up after a sentence of Korean will not speak, will be completely absorbed into the Mountbatten Group of a private force, used to do some not very bright things.

Finally, General Navarre came to Kuala Lumpur again, this time with a simpler purpose, this time General Navarre returned to Paris to gain the support of the government, except that the chaotic political situation in Paris was continuing the tradition of the Fourth Republic.

Although the parties in the major issues concerning France, or take out a consensus, and reinforcements to come to the reinforcements still and General Nawal’s requirements are far from, he finally as long as to ten battalions of reinforcements.

These reinforcements are related to Britain, because with the French navy, transporting ten battalions of troops to the Far East is still a bit of a struggle. As in 1945, most of the reinforcements were transported with the help of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean fleet.

This fleet, when it came to Asia, would be based in the ports of Malaya and would be part of the military force defending Britain’s largest colony in Asia.

The configuration of the Royal Navy was now so obvious that the Admiralty had decided to place the ships, including the battleship fleet, in the Pacific Fleet, while retaining the newer warships in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as the heavy aircraft carrier fleet.

This configuration was to split the Royal Navy in two, with the Shannon and Malaya responsible for the more obsolete part of the Royal Navy. The British mainland, on the other hand, was responsible for the more up-to-date part of the fleet, and each was divided.

The warships of the Persian Gulf Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, both of which had home ports in Malaya, together with ports in Ceylon and the Persian Gulf, were responsible for British overseas interests east of the Suez Canal.

Formations carrying French reinforcements were still on their way, and this was the first time since 1945 that Britain had again stepped in to help transport French soldiers to Asia, for which Adderley’s cabinet was thanked by the French government.

“Ten battalions? That’s not a bad number!” Alan Wilson listened to General Navarre’s words and opened his mouth to congratulate him, “Honorable French ally, if there is anything you need help with. You can just say it!”

In fact, by the standards of offensive warfare, these armies were naturally sufficient, and it wasn’t as if the French army hadn’t participated in the Battle of Mainpuri. European armies are actually not uncomfortable with offensive warfare in drawn out positions.

Just this kind of decoy combat fight well is the center bloom, fight badly is the whole army, France to really do this. It probably wouldn’t have ended up any better than history.

Alan Wilson, if he was in the role of General Bilton, really might try to help, but now there is not much he can do, who let the warships can not go ashore, land warfare is not Britain’s strength.

“Thank you very much Britain for your help, we’ve had some communication breakdowns with Washington, it seems that something came up in Cuba earlier that caught Washington’s attention, and it’s only recently that the Americans have responded positively.” General Navarre frowned slightly, “You can imagine how much influence the Soviet Union has now, to the point where it has influence in the Western Hemisphere.”

“Cuba?” Alan Wilson froze, how could he have time to pay attention to what was happening in America’s backyard, but then it was like he remembered something, it seemed like it was the year Castro started the Cuban Revolution.

With a fire under his nose, it was no wonder the US hadn’t responded to France’s request for aid in the first place.

Castro had a long way to go to succeed, though, and it wasn’t as if he was bent on following the Soviet Union at first. It was the United States, with its Soviet-phobia and its suspicion that Cuba was pro-Soviet, that forced Castro to become a socialist in the eyes of public opinion.

Due to the special relationship between Britain and the United States, Alan Wilson was obliged to remind, but thought better of it, the Americans are the world’s hegemony, which use an overbearing hegemon to remind?

As General Navarre returned to Saigon to formulate a battle plan, military supplies from Malayan ports also began to set sail and were sent to the French army in Vietnam, and when the French reinforcements that were still on the way arrived, the large-scale French offensive was about to begin.