69novels Chapter 984
Chapter 984
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: 0.281s Scan: 0.049sAfter hearing what Carol II said, Mussolini was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and looked at him as if he was a fool
“What’s wrong? Is there any problem? Don’t you have the guts to do this?”
Carol II was very thick-skinned. He was not angry when the other party looked at him like this. Instead, he used provocation to provoke the other party.
“I want to know why Your Highness suddenly thought of attacking the Russians?”
Italy is thousands of miles away from the Russians. The two countries do not border each other, so there is no conflict. When the Allied Powers jointly intervened in the Russian Civil War, they did not participate!
On the contrary, because of the distance, the two countries’ private relationship is actually quite good. As early as 1922, when the Russians tried to return to the international system and be accepted by other countries, they had contacted Italy to seek Italy’s support.
Italy also took this opportunity to reach a lot of cooperation with the Russians in private, so Mussolini never thought of attacking the Russians.
Instead of crossing several countries to expedition to the Russians, it is better to annex these small countries at home!
By eating up these surrounding countries, Italy’s area will be much smaller than that of the Soviet Union. It can be expanded immediately, and these small countries are all near them, so it will be very convenient for them to develop and control here.
On the other hand, the Russians are far away in Eastern Europe. Even if the Italian army is powerful and defeats the Russians and conquers a lot of land, it is difficult for them to control the conquered land from such a distance.
What’s more, according to the current situation, the Third Reich has already regarded Eastern Europe as its own backyard. If other countries easily get involved here, it will definitely anger the Hans. Even if the Italians can defeat the Russians, they can’t defeat the Germans. This means that they can’t defend what they have worked so hard to conquer. What’s the point of conquering it?
So Mussolini was indifferent to the Romanians’ proposal!
“Do you need a reason to beat a woolly bear?”
Carol II was very puzzled by Mussolini’s question.
“Didn’t you hear what Führer Mainz said just now at the meeting? If you want to qualify for the rotating presidency of Europe, you must prove your strength. The two major powers in Europe, Gaul and the British Empire, were defeated by the Third Reich, and the only remaining power is the bear!”
Carol II changed his previous informal and exaggerated style and suddenly became serious!
“Moreover, the Russian bear in the east has always been a threat to the civilized world of Europe.
The Slavs have appointed themselves as the European gendarmes, which means they want to control everything in Europe.
The native chickens in the south have been beaten up by them for hundreds of years.
Even the heartland of Europe, the Balkan Peninsula, has been covered by them.
Yugoslavia itself has been a headache for your country.
If the Russian bear recovers its strength and extends its tentacles again, will your country be able to remain unscathed?”
Carol II’s words caused Mussolini to think!
He looked at Carol II and actually agreed with what he said.
The existence of the Russians did pose a great threat to Europe. Their powerful military force has frequently appeared in wars among European countries in modern history. They have been present in the Napoleonic Wars, the Russo-Turkish War, the First World War, etc. Moreover
, on the Balkan Peninsula, because of the existence of another group of Slavs, namely the Yugoslavs, a group of nationalists in the Russians have been building momentum, demanding that the Russians stand up for their Slavic brothers.
As a result, in the past hundred years, the power of the Russians has continued to enter the Balkan Peninsula. They took Ukraine from Turkey, helped Romania to restore its country, and then turned Bulgaria into its own protectorate. After defeating Turkey, a large number of pro-Russian Slavic countries emerged in the Balkan Peninsula!
It can be said that it was precisely because the expansion momentum of the Russians was too fierce that it attracted the attention and vigilance of the traditional European powers, the British Empire and Gaul. So the two countries jointly intervened in the Russo-Turkish War, leading to the outbreak of the Crimean War!
This war caused huge losses and consumption to the participating countries, and they paid a huge price.
Although the British Empire and Gaul prevented the expansion of the Russians, the price they paid was not proportional to the benefits they gained, so they were no longer enthusiastic about it.
The Russians’ expansion was interrupted due to their defeat, so their activities in the Balkan Peninsula began to slow down. European countries, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Central Europe and Italy in Southern Europe, all relaxed. Heaved a sigh of relief!
Later, due to the weakness of the Qing Dynasty, the Russian Bear placed the focus of its expansion in Asia, which made European countries breathe a sigh of relief.
After seeing the Russian Bear’s actions, the British Empire shifted the blame to the East, allowing the people in the East to challenge the Russian Bear, which resulted in the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War.
This war brought greater losses to the Russian Bear, causing a sharp decline in its national strength, and social unrest, making it no longer able to expand!
Finally, with the outbreak of World War I, the Russian Bear’s expansion reached its limit.
The empire with huge internal contradictions collapsed, and the areas they conquered became independent one after another, which is what the red Russian Bear looks like today!
In the first few years after the red Russian Bear was founded, the reason why European countries made so much effort to interfere in the civil war of the Russian Bear was, on the one hand, out of fear of redism and not wanting to see the red bear. The success of the proletarian workers’ revolution.
On the other hand, they were also afraid of the powerful and aggressive Mao Xiong, and did not want Mao Xiong to become strong again and return to its former appearance.
Therefore, what they most wanted to see was that Mao Xiong was in a state of division, with constant domestic wars and no unified regime. In this way, Mao Xiong was divided into many parts, and the strength of each part was weakened. Moreover, they only cared about their own internal struggles and no longer had time to threaten the security of Europe!
Unfortunately, their intervention failed, and coupled with the rapid rise of the Third Reich, the British Empire and Gaul no longer had time to care about Mao Xiong’s affairs, and instead spent most of their energy on curbing the rise of the Third Reich, which led to the rapid development of Mao Xiong in the past few years!
Italy has its own intelligence network in Mao Xiong. According to the response of their intelligence personnel, Mao Xiong’s national strength has made great progress in the past few years. Their industrialization is well organized, and the progress of the military industry is even more rapid. If it continues to develop at the current speed, I believe it will not be long before Mao Xiong will return to its peak!
Mussolini couldn’t bear the thought that the Russian bear would interfere in the Balkan Peninsula, which was right on his doorstep, after returning to its peak!
“OK, I agree to send troops, but it’s not enough for just the two of us, you have to get a few more allies!”_