Chapter 2147: The World After War II

Of course, it will take time to break through this kind of ice that has been frozen for more than ten years, and it also requires mutual efforts. The thawing of relations between the United Kingdom and the United States is a good thing in the long run. The cooperation between the United States and Germany is not long-term. There has always been wariness between the two sides. The honeymoon period between the two parties is coming to an end. And by that time, after there are no more checks and balances between each other, the United States will definitely start playing the so-called continental balance policy like the British, and if the French surrender to Germany, then the only major Western European powers that the Americans can win over are The British are gone, and the British will naturally form an alliance with the Americans in order to fight against Germany. If this happens, Germany will be in a bit of trouble!

But in the short term, if the British choose to ease relations with the Americans, then this side effect will be great! The Americans are not stupid. If the British want to ease relations with the Americans, they must do something practical. For the United States, which is at war in the Pacific, the greatest value of the United Kingdom is Australia and the frontier of the United Kingdom in the Pacific base.

However, if the British choose to stand on the side of the Americans, they will naturally stand on the opposite side of the Japanese! It is necessary for the Japanese to take revenge, and it is even possible to attack the British colonies in Southeast Asia! And at this time, can the British use force to defend their rights? The answer is somewhat difficult! Not to mention that the war has just ended, the British need to lick their own wounds, and not to mention how many warships the Royal Navy will have left after the Great War between Britain and Germany in the North Sea. Simply speaking, the cost of compensation paid by the British to Germany is extremely high for Britain after the war. It is a huge burden to say the least!

You know, Ruprecht's plan is to make the UK compensate at least 200 million pounds every year! This is the currency value before the war! Every pound must contain more than 7 grams of gold! And Germany has enough power to make the British pay the money even if they are pants! Well, here comes a simple question, where did the British get the money to pay for the war while paying reparations?

As for asking the Americans to help advance the payment? This is theoretically possible, but it is also very difficult in practice. After all, wars are about fighting for money. The Americans must spend a lot of money on ocean-going operations, while the British are not as simple as tens of millions of dollars! It is an annual compensation of up to 200 million yuan, and there is interest every year! Why did the United States give the British $500 million a year for nothing during the war? Just for some forward base? This is obviously a loss-making business! If you give it to the Germans, the prince can guarantee that the Japanese fleet will not have to worry about the Americans, and the High Seas Fleet will handle it for you!

Therefore, at the beginning of the end of the war, the British lacked resistance to the risks of the Far East, and at the same time they lacked sufficient benefits to transfer to the Americans. It can even be said that if the United Kingdom is going to cooperate with the Americans, I am afraid that Japan will have laid hands on the British colonies in the Pacific region before the two parties sign an agreement? It is bragging to say that Australia is taken down, but it is not a problem to take down the area on the island of New Guinea, as well as Sarawak in the northwest of Kalimantan (later East Malaysia) and Malay in the southeastern peninsula. These places in Asia (later West Malaysia) are the purification of the colonies of the British Empire, so if the British want to join the Americans, they must consider the loss of their colonial rights!

Of course, in the short term, the British feel that there is not much benefit in easing relations with the United States, or that it is difficult for the two sides to approach due to excessive pressure, which only reduces the possibility of the United States and Britain getting closer. In fact, the two sides can still cooperate in some aspects. For example, during the war, American businessmen still did business with the British. Britain can persist until now, and it is still not trapped in the face of the partial blockade of German submarines that is stronger than in history. Death, the Americans still deserve a lot of credit....

The United States is not just sending supplies to Germany!

So, in order to prevent the two sides from getting closer, Ruprecht still has some things to do! That is to allow Britain and Japan to continue to maintain each other's friendship in this war! That's right, to put it bluntly, it is to inherit the international relations in the Battle of the Philippines again, the British helped the Japanese, and the Germans helped the Americans!

In the short term, it is the most cost-effective for the British to help the Japanese. The Japanese need a lot of materials, transportation and weapons to fight against the United States. And these things the British can give, such as Sarawak's rubber, tin ore and non-ferrous metals, oil, the British Navy's warships and post-war surplus materials, as well as Britain's strong shipbuilding capabilities and remaining fleets, these things For Japan, it is of great strategic significance, especially the post-war surplus materials. In fact, whether it is the battleships of the large fleet or the artillery in the army's inventory, it is more like a burden to the British after the war. As for the Japanese, they can exchange a lot of real money for these outdated British things. After all, Japan's industry cannot compare with the British.

As a result, Britain and Japan took what they needed, the British provided Japan with weapons, materials and technology, and the Japanese sent the money they earned in the war to the pockets of the British! As for what the Americans would think? Ideas are definitely there, but they will never be put into practice! The Americans can't use their limited fleet to fight Japan in the Pacific Ocean and Britain in the Atlantic Ocean, right? And Ruprecht is also happy to see such a result! It is Germany's consistent policy to make the distance between the United States and Britain as large as possible! Therefore, even if Germany has the ability to stop it, Ruprecht will not do it. It can even be said that the confrontation between the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the American-German alliance is very important for maintaining the situation in the Far East and maintaining Germany's better foreign strategic system. Significance.......

Well, according to this principle, in Ruprecht's setting, Britain cannot be too weak, and the British must realize that although they have lost this time, they still have the possibility to stand up again, even if this Just an illusion! If the British are weakened so badly that they choose to surrender, or even give up the Far East and Oceania, then they will not have any pressure to surrender to the Americans, just like France, which has decided to become a second-rate country, is willing to give up its hostility to Germany!

Therefore, it is precisely from this starting point that Ruprecht is willing to let the British retain most of India. Even if the war wins, Germany will not consider moving the entire India in a short time-the most dazzling crown of the British Empire. Pearl! At least some thoughts and coffins should be left for the British Empire, isn't it?

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