Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

"You all answered very well. In fact, there is one more thing I want to say. In fact, I also know that you only know what you understand, but you just leave it to me, so I won't waste your kindness. In fact, We can also directly declare our status as a neutral country, freeze our actions, and watch the next struggles between countries in the world, thereby reaping the benefits. As for things that some people worry that other countries will be wary of us and dare not do anything, in fact This is absolutely redundant. Among them, Japan is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Their ambition is enough to make them give up their scruples. What we have to do is to directly sign every word of the Lu Xun government on the announced list of allies."

"Where to sign?" After all, I just said that the first sign is the most important to Spain, so Trini's question attracted attention.

"Being in the middle, neither above nor below, can make other countries think that we don't attach much importance to us, but it can also make other countries have some scruples." Alfonso said lightly: "This way, we can maintain our relationship with Yuan Shikai. And we can have more leverage to carry out strategic negotiations with Lu Xun, so as to earn more benefits for Spain."

Seeing that several people nodded in agreement with this statement, Alfonso continued the topic just now and said: "In fact, the most important thing about our contraction strategy is that we can build Spain into a safe haven. According to the development over the years, we can also According to the information in the newspaper, if nothing else happens, there may really be a war in Europe within the next few years."

Seeing the disinterested expressions of Chavez and others, Alfonso thought of William II. At the beginning, he did not think that the war would develop to such a large scale. Originally, according to Germany's plan, he just wanted to use the assassination of Crown Prince E of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to recover some benefits from the British, French and Russian combinations, but in the end But it evolved into a war across Europe. Even because of the large number of colonies in European countries, countries such as the United States and Japan also joined it, and it became a world-level war out of control. [

But now that he saw the people in front of him like this, he could imagine how shocked most Europeans would be at that time when they finally faced the power of the world's largest war on their backs.

Actually, let’s talk about it. This war was of little benefit to the European powers. The death toll in each of their countries was in the hundreds of thousands, and the resources and previously accumulated wealth of each country even ended up in the pockets of the Americans and became theirs. In the end, it became a stepping stone for the United States and Japan. Before the war begins. Ranked according to strength, they are Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the United States, Japan, Spain, and the Nordic country Denmark. The United States and Japan only rank seventh or eighth, even on par with Denmark. But after World War I, the United States and Japan suddenly surpassed most of the previous countries. Ranked only after the United Kingdom and on par with France, you only need to look at the binding but binding world ship tonnage constraints.

Although the United Kingdom still seems to maintain its status as the largest power, the United States has actually surpassed the United Kingdom in all aspects except the military. As a result, Japan has ranked third in the world in terms of navy. Originally, although Germany was rising, Germany was just weexing Britain in Europe. There was still no way to really wexe Britain in other places. But look, Britain was afraid of Germany's rapid development, and finally became a power in the Indo-Pacific. Wexe was created against Britain, so they worked with France, Russia, etc. to control Germany.

However, after the First World War, Britain discovered that it had only Germany as a potential global interest challenger. However, with the rise of the Soviet Union and the recovery of France, the cooperation between Suzi, Japan and the United States in the Pacific made it Britain suddenly found that it had more enemies and more people to share the spoils. Especially in the Atlantic, there were more American warships. Only then did it realize that its war was not actually the final one. The victor, the final victor, is actually the United States, which launched the war effort during the war, and Japan, which occupied many territories in Asia, including Germany. It was their European powers that weakened their dominance over Asia and Africa because of the European war. and obtained the greatest benefit.

It is precisely because of this understanding that in the end, despite the hatred that France was almost destroyed, Britain still continued to support Germany in retaining its greatest strength, in order to reduce the dominance of France and Russia in Europe. This allows the UK to devote more energy to Asia, Africa and other Pacific and Atlantic areas.

This is also the reason why Britain was so tolerant of Hitler in the early days of World War II. After suffering the losses last time, the smart British want to avoid it happening again. However, they are not the United States. Unlike the United States, they are not separated by the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The United Kingdom is only separated by the small ditch of the English Channel. However, they didn't want to participate in the war, but they couldn't bear it in the end. In the end, they made the impulse to participate in the exhibition just like during World War I. They continued to do so knowing that the United States might or would continue to reap the benefits of the fishermen, but they had no choice but to fly away. They rushed forward like fire. Finally, when the war was over, all the British faces had scars left over from the war. Unknowingly, they saw that everyone in the world's richest country was carrying this burden on their shoulders. paid a huge amount of money.

Many of their islands in the Pacific have become vacation islands for Americans, and many islands around the world have even become Americans’ back gardens. As a result, these small island countries, which were originally small, have lost their reputation. It fell from its position as the world's largest country. What's even more sad is that at this time, the Soviet Union, which was not taken seriously before World War I and World War II, actually surpassed the United Kingdom and became second only to the United States, becoming the new opponent of the United States. , but Britain could only play a supporting role and thug, becoming the United States' pawn and taking orders from the United States in the Cold War. This has been difficult for all the proud people of the British Empire to accept. It is precisely because of this that in the Knowing that there is no way to confront the United States (the United States' strengths are actually Britain's previous strengths, such as being a maritime power), Britain, which dares not be lonely, always has to stand up and bite the Soviet Union and Russia after its disintegration from time to time. To show your presence.

The rise and fall of a big country is destined to be very tragic.

If the British and Germans had not ignored any signs of war and dealt with them as soon as possible, would they have fallen into the world so quickly and become the United States and Japan? (To be continued...)