Chapter 1913: Between the bottom line
"Since we basically ended the war on the Eastern Front, the Americans asked us to consider peace talks to end the war through various channels, and began to delay the delivery of supplies for excuses. I can tell you very clearly that our current imports are far less than consumption. Quantity. We are fighting this war with inventory. Our material situation is not as good as you think. And if one day, the Americans cut off our raw materials for excuses and instead support Britain and France, then what will happen to this result? Do you still want to use hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives to fight you to death?"
"I can tell you clearly that once our army arrives outside Paris, the American attitude will change immediately, and it is even possible to stand on the enemy's side! And if this happens, I think the British will Don’t hesitate to sell Japan to form an alliance with the Americans! What a cost-effective business to trade a dispensable ally for the support of the world’s largest economy and industry! If it were me, I would have Do it!"
The words of the Crown Prince directly shocked everyone present. The United States is terrible. There is no doubt about this. Perhaps most people would say that the U.S. Navy lost to the Japanese Navy and the Army has not fought against European powers, so military power is not enough to fear. But in fact, in the opinion of these high-level German military , The rich resources, the world's largest economy and resources, and hundreds of millions of people have determined the strength of Americans. They just haven't learned how to use these forces to transform into military strength, but it does not mean that they are weak!
The Americans were very entangled when they were in contact with the Germans. In fact, the Germans were also very entangled when they were in contact with the Americans. Crook and others all had contact with the US military delegation headed by Pershing. The two sides found that apart from discussing military affairs and discussing how to deal with common enemies, they rarely shared topics. There was a big gap in the values and moral standards between the two sides. The Germans regarded Americans as upstarts and non-compliance. The rulers, while the Americans think the Germans are rigid, old and stubborn. This feeling is very bad.
Even Crook wrote in his diary: "It is very difficult for us to understand why we become allies with the Americans. Our two countries appear to be so incompatible in terms of political systems, cultural traditions, and social systems. This kind of personal cognition should not affect national policy, but I think if it were not for our common enemy, then Americans would definitely not have a good impression of Germans, and so would we!"
Therefore, everyone here knows that the foundation of the German-American alliance is interest, and this interest has two aspects. On the one hand, it is the need to fight against Britain and Japan. And there is another aspect that most people don't know, that is, the United States needs a Europe that is strategically roughly balanced!
The British like to play strategic balance, and the Americans do. The British will not fight their former enemies to death, because this will allow new opponents to rise. For example, after the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire in history, the French remained a European power. The same goes for the Americans! In fact, historically, the Americans also planned to open their doors on the issue of Germany, and even planned to return the German islands in the Pacific to Germany. (Of course, the more important idea is that the Americans do not want the Japanese to get these islands.) This is also a balance.
If the United States and Britain and Japan are enemies, then the relationship between the United States and the French is somewhat delicate. Although the French are on the side of the British, to be honest, the Americans and the French really have nothing to worry about. Since the founding of the United States, the relationship between the United States and France has been good, let alone the French Volunteers and the Earl of Lafayette in the American Revolution. Not to mention that the Americans bought Santa Louisiana from the French. Let the American territory directly more than doubled. Simply speaking, France, as a usury country, provided Americans with a large amount of loans before the war. Yes, you read that right, whether in history or now, the United States was a debtor country before World War I, and France was a creditor country of the United States!
So, not only is the relationship between the Americans and the French not hostile, there is actually a lot of economic and political cooperation. These similar emotional factors and the United States' need to balance Europe have created a bottom line of the United States' European strategy, that is, the German army cannot enter Paris again! Not to mention that, like the Franco-Prussian War, it once again seized a large amount of land directly from France. The Americans need a stronger France to serve as a European nail to restrict Germany. Therefore, even when Germany and the United States are still cooperating, the Americans still clearly expressed their attitude to Ruprecht. The materials, funds, and even the relationship between the German-American alliance are bargaining chips!
That’s great, let’s talk about another question~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although the Americans have drawn the bottom line, they also have another bottom line, that is, Germany cannot lose. The operating space between the two bottom lines can be larger. There is a so-called box principle in Thick, which means that there is a large space between the bottom line and the upper line, and people can choose a suitable position in it to get the most benefits. And Ruprecht is also playing a box game now, showing operations before the floor and ceiling!
That’s great. Didn’t your United States keep us from entering Paris? Aren’t we letting the French open a side? This is okay, but the problem is that there is no free lunch in the world, and the behavior of the United States has harmed Germany's interests, so other interests must be used to make up for it, or everyone really can't be friends.
Don’t forget, Roosevelt, if you want to retaliate against Japan after the war, without the help of the German navy, do you have a bottom line? What if there is Pearl Harbor? It is thousands of kilometers from Pearl Harbor to Southeast Asia. It is impossible for the British to provide you with help. It is the coal-fired battleship of World War I, ha ha. Where is the remaining combat power? Roosevelt may not be clear, but the prince believed that General Benson, the chief of staff of the US Navy, must have thought about it.
Why can the cooperation between the United States and Germany go to the present? Isn't the root cause still holding each other's fate? Americans really need German help. Therefore, Americans are really unwilling to tear their faces when it comes to some last resort. Of course, Ruprecht would not tell Crook and others about these words, as long as they knew that Germany could not beat France too badly this time.
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