69novels Chapter 531
Chapter 531
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: 0.038s Scan: 0.026sFeeling the president’s encouraging attitude, the chief of staff continued:”If we don’t go to Iron Tower City right now, I’m afraid our alliance with Hans will end quickly. If we go to Iron Tower City, the relationship between the two countries can be maintained for a while!”
“What is your attitude? Do you think we should go?”
Roosevelt stared at the other person’s eyes and asked directly.
“I don’t think we should go!”
“Oh? Why?”
Hearing this answer, Roosevelt raised his eyebrows. He wanted to hear the other party’s reason.
“There are three reasons:
First, we are now facing a huge economic crisis, and tens of millions of unemployed people in the country need to be resettled. Only war can quickly absorb so many young and middle-aged laborers. War will promote the development of the military industry and various supporting industries, and will create war dividends in the short term. This is of great help to us in getting rid of the economic crisis!”
Rossford nodded. He could accept this reason. War does have such benefits. The most recent example is Hans.
Hans said that it was because of Mainz’s five-year plan and large-scale new infrastructure that he got rid of the economic crisis, but in fact, the fundamental reason why Hans got rid of the economic crisis was their rapid militarization!
Hans’ army expanded rapidly from 200,000 in 1922 to 240,000 in 1923. This alone absorbed more than 2 million middle-aged laborers.
The consumption caused by the weapons, equipment, training and life of the 2 million troops is a huge burden on the people. It is a huge market for factories. In order to meet the consumption of 2.4 million troops, the military industry quickly revived and recruited a large number of workers, which further reduced their unemployment rate.
After Hans’s army expanded, he quickly used foreign wars to gain profits and expand his territory, achieving the goal of fighting to support the war!
Hans had already annexed Czechoslovakia and Poland, and economically colonized Hungary and Bulgaria. If we count the Benelux countries and the northern part of Gaul that they occupied, the profits they gained through the war are huge!
These military The profits seized by the team can not only successfully make up for the huge military investment of the German army, but also further drive the economic development of their country, and maintain Hans’s high quality of life by sucking blood from the occupied areas!
This makes the economic crisis have almost no effect on Hans, and all the impacts they should have suffered have been passed on to these defeated countries!
The Far East’s foot basin also provoked foreign wars because of the economic crisis. Although the foot basin people did not make smooth progress in the initial military operations, they still relied on their national strength to drag down their opponents and officially entered the war dividend period!
At this time, the fascism in the foot basin was very serious. From the government to the army to the people, there was almost a fanatical militarism atmosphere. Because of the war, domestic military factories received large military orders. In addition, the army expanded its military to meet the needs of front-line operations, which made the surplus labor force in the foot basin consumed at this time!
They also solved the problems brought by the national machine by launching a war!
With these two examples, if other countries want to quickly get rid of the influence of the economy, they can directly learn from their experience and achieve it through war!
“go on!”
“Secondly, the ultimate interests of Hans and us are the same, which is to overthrow the world order established by the British Empire.
However, our navy is stronger than Hans’s, and we span the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Such a favorable geographical environment makes it much more convenient for us to project our power than Hans’s.
As long as the world order on which the sun never sets collapses, we can quickly take over their interests in the Far East and Africa.
Except for South Asia and East Africa which are temporarily out of our reach, almost all other places are within our sphere of influence.
All Hans can control is mainland Europe!
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“At this time, after defeating Gaul, Hans had basically taken control of Europe, so they would not be happy with such a result. Even if our two countries maintain the current alliance, they will part ways due to huge conflicts of interest. In short, once Hans defeats the British Empire and successfully overthrows the world order, then we will have a war with Hans. This is absolutely unavoidable!”
Roosevelt took a deep look at the other party. When the relationship between Eagle Sauce and Hans was still an alliance, he concluded that the two countries would break up sooner or later or even have a war sooner or later. This person is either a thorough militarist fanatic or a very far-sighted strategist!
Roosevelt felt that he should be the latter.
“Go on, Major Marshall, I’m curious about your third reason!”
Roosevelt sat up straight without realizing it, pretending to listen.
The chief of staff introduced to him by General Pershing was none other than Major Marshall!
This man was the Chief of Staff of the Eagle Sauce during World War II in history, and was also the Secretary of State of President Truman after the war. It was he who proposed the famous Marshall Plan!
This plan rebuilt Europe and completely changed the world pattern, allowing the Eagle Sauce to become the dominant force in the Western world. Without going through war, it successfully replaced the position of the world hegemon on which the sun never sets!
And Marshall, who proposed this plan, naturally became the biggest contributor to the Eagle Sauce becoming the world hegemon!
Obviously, what the other party said was very attractive to President Roosevelt!
“The third point is my personal opinion, which is very subjective, so you don’t have to take it seriously!”
Rarely, Marshall hesitated before speaking.
This made Roosevelt even more curious. What kind of personal opinion made him consider it before speaking?
“I think Mainz is too dangerous. Even if we plot against him, he has probably already plotted against us!”
This is actually the most important point!
Marshall believes that Mainz is very ambitious, and he will never be satisfied with conquering Europe. He will definitely expand to the world, and the national strength and size of the Eagle Sauce mean that the Eagle Sauce is destined to become Hans’ biggest competitor.
And the Eagle Sauce’s geographical location determines that conquering the Eagle Sauce is definitely much more difficult than conquering the British Empire!
Therefore, the reason why they formed an alliance with the Eagle Sauce is not that they really want to be friends with the Eagle Sauce for generations, but to use this treaty to temporarily stabilize the Eagle Sauce and prevent the Eagle Sauce from immediately turning to the Allies, thus giving them enough time to resolve the threat of the Allies!
Perhaps, from beginning to end, the Hans people have never thought about relying on the strength of the Eagle Sauce to help them solve the British Empire.
Even if the Eagle Sauce wants to join the war at this time, the Hans people will not be willing, because they don’t want to give any benefits to the Eagle Sauce!
After Marshall finished speaking, he stood quietly aside, quietly waiting for his own president’s statement.
After hearing his three points of view, President Roosevelt pondered for a long time and finally made up his mind.
“In this case, let’s accept Hans’ invitation and go to the military parade in the Iron Tower City to see who Mainz is. We can also visit Hans’ army and see what kind of army this invincible army in Europe is like!”
Roosevelt’s decision caught Marshall off guard. He said so much, but he still failed to change President Roosevelt’s decision. Wouldn’t all the words he said before be in vain?
“Haha, you can’t be too honest. How do you know that I didn’t go there to deceive them?”