Brezhnev, Suslov, Sherepin and Kosigin all nodded. Obviously, this was a very reasonable prediction. If you withdraw from the Vietnam battlefield without saying a word, there might be a military expenditure left, but the price you pay for is also very high.

"Given the relative decline of the United States' position in the capitalist world economy, the changes in the U.S.-Soviet military power comparison is unfavorable to the United States; the conflict between the United States and Western Europe and Japan deepens; the Third World strives to get rid of the control of superpowers, and these reasons, appropriate offensive policies are feasible and necessary."

"Yes, some offensive policies can test the bottom line of the United States on the one hand, and increase our influence on the other." Brezhnev nodded. The offensive policies coincided with his ideas. Easing is easing, and offense is offensive. Brezhnev does not think there is any contradiction. The easing policy is just to deceive Western European countries and put pressure on the United States to continuously improve its military power.

In fact, long before Selov came up with this plan, Marshal Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov had already come to the Kremlin a few days ago and saw Brezhnev first came up with the navy's development plan. The target was aimed at the Suez Canal, Mediterranean, Western Pacific, North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. The Soviet Union's nuclear assault strategy faced a problem, that is, the United States is also attacking the Soviet Union nuclear assault strategy. What the Soviet Union's nuclear assault strategy must ensure is to grasp the initiative in nuclear assault, and the Soviet Union adopted

The way to limit US nuclear strikes is to use anti-submarine assault groups to search and track US nuclear submarines and then attack them. This is all driven by the Soviet nuclear assault strategy. Therefore, the Soviet Union must begin to develop a long-distance navy and develop a navy that has always been able to compete face-to-face with the US Navy. At the same time, the Y-class submarine will be put into service this year and can build one every month, giving the Soviet Navy the opportunity to be on par with the US Navy in the field of strategic nuclear containment. Its missiles can reach anywhere in the United States.

Marshal Gorshkov's naval development plan has been approved by Brezhnev. In recent times, Ustinov, as well as the generals of the Army and Air Force often come to the Kremlin to submit new arms development plans.

"There are three main attack directions, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. There is no need to say much about Southeast Asia. It is in progress now. In Africa, we use Sudan as a military base to try to go south and establish a direct route to South Africa. In the world, oil resources in the Middle East are very important. Comrades, we must consider another issue, that is, although our Soviet Union does not lack oil resources, our mining costs far exceed those of the Middle East countries. Once this place is controlled by the United States, artificially lowering oil prices will have an impact on our oil industry. When the Third Baku has been put into production, this possibility is very harsh." Selov said in a very serious tone, "Think about it, if the cheap oil prices in the Middle East become a supplement to the enemy's nutrition, and the oil we provide to the allies will have no profits. By comparison, it will drag down our development speed."

"Yes, the treasure house of the world's minerals is in southern Africa, while the treasure house of oil is in the Middle East. The strategic offensive plan must take these two places into consideration." Brezhnev nodded in approval, but unexpectedly, this person and he thought about going together.

"Comrades, we mainly adopt a moderation policy against Western European countries, but we must attack firmly in other directions, especially in southern Africa and the Middle East, which must be included in our influence." Brezhnev's right fist emphasized his tone.

Historically, Brezhnev launched a eased offensive to Western Europe, and then launched a fierce expansion offensive to the Third World, and formulated a three-pronged global offensive strategy: using economic strategy as support, military strategy as the core, supplemented by easing strategy; taking Europe as the strategic focus, flanking detours in the Middle East and Africa, competing for strategic locations, strategic resources and maritime channels; with the goal of breaking the US strategic layout, gradually gaining strategic advantages over the US.

Xie Lieping thought for a while and nodded, then asked, "In principle, there is no problem, but the order is the same. Now that the United States is deeply involved in Southeast Asia, can't we get rid of the war and expand the war in Southeast Asia?"

"Three directions start at the same time!" Selov said something that surprised everyone, "Once the United States promotes joint defense through diplomacy and communicates with relevant countries, many places will be difficult to chew. When the United States has not completed it, it is the time of the election, so we must take the initiative. I personally supervise the actions in the Middle East."

This eagerness is because the opportunity lasts just a few years. During the Nixon period, the United States' Middle East policy was a double-pillar policy. It was about to regard Saudi Arabia and Iran as the main partners of the United States in the Persian Gulf, providing them with a large number of weapons, making Iran a military pillar and a police role. Saudi Arabia mainly became the economic pillar, and played a stabilizer by using its huge economic induction power.

Saudi Arabia and Iran were the bottom line of the United States during the Nixon period. After Ford Vice President replaced Nixon, he clearly guaranteed the American people that the Middle East was a place that the United States must protect. In fact, Ford, who was not well-known in history, completed the bondage between oil and the US dollar, and drew a red line for the Soviet Union, indicating that the Middle East was definitely not a place that the United States gave up. So if you want to think about the Middle East, you must start now. In the future, if the Soviet military force directly intervened in the Middle East, even if the United States fought its life, it would fight the Soviet Union to the end.
Chapter completed!