Chapter 576 Prepare to Launch(1/2)
If the Canal War only embarrassed the people of Eagle Country and made them realize that the world was no longer decided by him but by Eagle Sauce and Mao Xiong, then the independence of the African colonies was the true root of the rise of Eagle Country.
The previous loss of the Indian subcontinent and the Suez Canal made the people of Eagle Country uncomfortable, but because there are many colonies in Africa, these colonies can continuously deliver blood to the mainland of Eagle Country from far away.
The people of Eagle Country are still living a good life. Although there is a certain gap in national strength compared with Eagle Sauce and Mao Xiong, as long as the African colonies are developed, Eagle Country still has the strength to become one of the three giants in the world.
Instead of being frightened and withdrawing the troops because of a letter or a phone call from Mao Xiong in the 1950s.
But no matter how good the idea is, the reality is ruthless. During the national liberation trend in the late 1950s, Eagle Country was the first colonial empire to fall, and its African colonies became independent one after another.
It was in the late 1950s. After Prime Minister Eden resigned due to the Suez Canal Crisis, Macmillan became his successor. This was the most miserable prime minister in the history of the Eagle Country.
There are three things that need to be dealt with after he comes to power. If done well, the return of the Eagle Country to its glory will be just around the corner. Even if it cannot restore its status as an empire on which the sun never sets, it can still become one of the three giants in the world. In this way, the pride that the people of the Eagle Country are about to lose will also be lost.
Will be able to keep it, and Macmillan can also become one of the greatest prime ministers in the history of Eagle Country.
These three things are: first, improving the tense relationship with Eagle Sauce and Mao Xiong due to the Suez crisis.
Second, respond to the trend of national liberation in the colonies and preserve the huge colonies under the name of Eagle Country.
The third is to join the European Economic Community.
Times have changed, and the center of the world is no longer Europe, but has turned to North America and the woolly bears. The Eagle Country can no longer be a troublemaker in Europe, wandering outside the European continent, and pulling and beating European powers. It must join in to fight against the woolly bears and eagles.
Just the sauce.
Macmillan did these three things but failed to do them well. He only did half of them at most.
First of all, it was to improve the tense relationship with Eagle Sauce and Mao Xiong due to the Suez Crisis. Macmillan did a pretty good job in this matter and fell into several categories.
Because the struggle between Mao Xiong and Ying Jiang for hegemony was the mainstream of the world in the 1967s, Mao Xiong and Ying Jiang were happy to accept the initiative of a former overlord like Eagle Country to be soft and contact them.
During his tenure as prime minister, Macmillan held many talks with U.S. leaders Eisenhower and Kennedy, opening up a channel for frank and informal talks between prime ministers and presidents on both sides of the Atlantic.
and furry bears.
Macmillan took the initiative to visit the Commander-in-Chief of Mao Xiong in Moscow. Although it was more meaningful than expected, Mao Xiong did not give much face to Eagle Country, but he expressed his sincerity and would not embarrass Eagle Country too much in international affairs.
At the same time, under Macmillan's promotion, Eagle Country, Mao Xiong and Eagle Sauce also successfully signed the "Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", which shows that during Macmillan's administration, Eagle Country's influence on the world was recovering.
However, Macmillan failed miserably in dealing with colonial national liberation thoughts.
During his administration, not only did he fail to stabilize the situation in the colonies, but there was a secession trend. In just a few years, 13 colonies including Ghana, Malaysia, Guinea, and Tanzania broke away from the control of the Eagle Kingdom.
If this doesn't matter, the key point is that South Africa left the Commonwealth.
Because South Africa is a place that is extremely favored by God, its minerals have many types and quantities, which are envied and amazed by countries around the world.
Among them, the reserves of gold and diamonds are the largest in the world, and it has the largest gold mines and diamond mines in the world. Because of these gold and diamonds, the Eagle Country and the white immigrants who immigrated to South Africa fought fiercely and launched the "Boer War".
After wiping out the efforts of nine bulls and two tigers, the Eagle Nation was able to conquer South Africa, make it a member of its command, and continuously provide gold and diamonds to the country.
In addition to a large amount of diamonds and gold, South Africa's reserves and production of mineral resources such as vanadium, manganese, antimony, uranium, and coal also rank among the top in the world.
Relying on its abundant resources, South Africa's economic level has developed rapidly and it has achieved world-renowned economic achievements!
With a population of 6%, South Africa's total GDP accounts for 40% of Africa's total GDP. At the same time, it accounts for 60% of labor production, 90% of steel production, 54% of telephone networks, and 50% of railway transportation.
%, and the annual economic growth rate was once as high as 8%.
It also has sound public facilities, a high-level medical system, high-quality education and a variety of entertainment activities.
This performance is not only second to none in Africa, but also very dazzling in Europe.
But it is such a country full of gold, and if it escapes the control of the Eagle Kingdom, the lives of the people of the Eagle Kingdom will be ruined.
Of course, it is inappropriate to blame Macmillan for the secession trend in the colonies, because within a dozen years after Macmillan resigned, the secession trend not only did not subside, but intensified, with 32 colonies including Zimbabwe, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates successively
independent.
If Mrs. Thatcher, the Iron Lady in the 1980s, had not fought hard and fought with all her life to win the Falklands War and stem this trend, even those islands in the ocean would have been lost.
The reason for this is that the decline of Eagle Country's overall national strength and the global trend of national liberation are affected at the same time. It cannot be solved by one or two prime ministers.
Even Churchill, one of the three giants of World War II, was powerless to break away from the trend when he returned as prime minister in the 1970s.
However, Macmillan was not responsible for the secession of the colonies, but Macmillan's failure to join the European Economic Community was due to Macmillan's inability.
In 1963, as Prime Minister, Macmillan, on behalf of the Eagle Country, submitted a request to the European Economic Community to join the European Economic Community, but was rejected by the leader of the European Community at the time, Gallic President Charles de Gaulle.
The reason why de Gaulle vetoed Eagle Country's application to join is also very simple.
First, they were worried that the addition of Eagle Country would reduce the leadership status of Gallic Chicken.
Although the Eagle Kingdom declined after World War II, it was no longer an empire on which the sun never sets.
But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
The Eagle Country is far inferior to the Wooly Bear and Eagle Sauce, but compared with the European powers that are also in decline, such as the Gallic Chicken. If the Eagle Country joins the European Community, it will not give up the leadership position of the Gallic Chicken.
It is impossible to launch a challenge.
Second, De Gaulle was worried that if Eagle's membership in the European Economic Community would make the European Economic Community become Eagle's little brother.
Because the relationship between Yingguo and Yingjiang is so close, it quickly became its younger brother after the Suez Canal. Not only did they cooperate on nuclear weapons, but they also followed Yingjiang in various international affairs.
It has the meaning that life is the eldest brother’s beef, and death is the eldest brother’s black pepper beef tenderloin family portrait set meal.
Faced with such an eagle country, how could de Gaulle, as a strong man of his generation, be confident in allowing it to join the European Economic Community?
After being rejected by Gaul Chicken, the arrogant Eagle Country was very angry. Since you don't want me, don't blame me for going against you.
So the Eagle Country united with six other small European countries (Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and Portugal) to establish the European Free Trade Association.
Officially declared that the Western European capitalist countries were split into two hostile economic blocs - the "European Free Trade Association" and the "European Economic Community".
If all three things are done well, there is still a slight chance that the Eagle Kingdom will become one of the world's three giants. But if it only accomplishes half of the things, it will never be able to restore the glory of the Empire on which the sun never sets.
So the sun never sets around Macmillan - "the most humiliating prime minister" in the history of the empire.
During his period in power, there was almost daily bad news in the international community. Colonies continued to break away, and de Gaulle kept stumbling upon the Gallic chicken.
When facing Yingjiang and Mao Xiong, he was even more submissive. In the end, he lost the support of the people because of the implementation of economic austerity measures. It can be said that he is "not a human being inside and outside".
During his term of office, the people of Eagle Country could very directly feel the decline of Eagle Country's status, so they were no longer interested in having the right to speak in the world.
Because they know that the glory of the empire on which the sun never sets has completely disappeared, leaving only the pride of developing countries in the third world.
Because the people of Eagle Country are only weak and humiliated compared to Eagle Sauce and Mao Xiong, for the whole world, Eagle Country is still the leading country in the first echelon outside the "bipolar" pattern, with great advantages in economy, culture, science and technology, etc.
Powerful advantages.
Although with the development of the world, Eagle Country may not even be able to retain the leadership of this first-tier country, and has been surpassed by Hans Cat and Japanese Stupid in terms of economy.
But facing the mainland, face still needs to be saved.
Of course it's just for face.
It took a lot of effort to fight the Falklands War with the South American Eagle. Facing a mainland that is several times or even ten times more powerful than the South American Eagle, submissiveness in disguise is a must.
Mrs. M's telegram can be said to have given the Prime Minister the best possible step down the hill.
"General, headquarters, let us find a stealth ship that is almost undetectable by radar, located between us and the confrontation fleet." The task force fleet headquarters looked at the order sent to them.
The fleet commander looked confused. Since it was a stealth ship that could hardly be detected by radar, and it was still in the dark night, how could it be found? Do soldiers need to smell it with their noses?
But since it is an order issued by the headquarters, it must be implemented even if it is absurd. So the general asked the officer in charge of the radar, "Are there any small things detected on the radar, like a lifeboat or a periscope?"
"No, nothing was found." The officer in charge of the radar shook his head, saying that nothing was found.
"Ms. Yang, what you see is not just a missile attack, but the birth of a new era." When the task force tried its best to search for the stealth ship, but nothing was found.
Right under their noses, Carver was introducing his great achievements to Yang Jianhua.
"You know, as long as there are six minutes, the Flying Leopards will reach the attack range. Regardless of whether they launch an attack or not, I will retaliate against this provocation.
Send those two missiles to XX and XX cities. These are your two largest cities. There are a large number of elites gathered in them. If you destroy them!"
"Why do you do this? Don't tell me it's for the so-called exclusive broadcast rights. That makes me doubt your IQ." Yang Jianhua asked coldly.
"Of course I won't do it for the exclusive broadcast rights in the mainland for 100 years. In fact, you and I both know that it will take time for the missile to fly to its destination no matter how fast it is.
This is enough time for your leaders to evacuate, but people can leave and things cannot leave.
It is even more sad that these two cities have not only gathered wealth but also a large number of talents, talents in all fields. You will never be able to complete the evacuation in a short period of time, and they will accompany the city to destruction."
Carver chuckled and said, "The reason is very simple. You are developing too fast, even though your country's GDP is only hundreds of billions of dollars.
Not only is it not as good as the beautiful country, but it is also not as good as the Japanese and Hans, and it is not even as good as the Gallic Chicken.
But this is an illusion.
You have concealed your strength. If calculated in terms of purchasing power, the economic strength of the mainland is not much worse than that of Japan.
What's even more frightening is the speed of your development.
After the collapse of Mao Xiong, you absorbed a large amount of Mao Xiong’s property, which allowed your growth rate to reach 20% last year and this year!
This made some big shots very dissatisfied, so they asked me to take action and teach you a lesson."
"You want just a lesson?" Carver's words made Yang Jianhua very angry. This was really done at home, and disaster came from the sky. He was clearly keeping a low profile, but he was still being targeted.
"No way, the world is like this. The so-called peaceful coexistence is based on equality of strength, otherwise." Carver shrugged, turned around and shouted, "Are the missiles ready?"
"We are ready to attack at any time!" Carver's younger brother, missile expert Guda, replied.
To be continued...