Rise of the Argentine Empire

The Americans have been planning to comprehensively build military bases in Latin America for the past year or two. This matter has been tacitly approved and handled discreetly by the Brazilian leadership. However, Saint-Hesse would never give them his tacit approval. What he wants to do is to completely expose this matter, making things difficult for both the Brazilians and the Americans.

But it has to be done discreetly, so that not too many people find out.

Ideally, the Brazilians should "discover" it themselves, and then gradually and spontaneously launch a movement from below.

Ultimately, the Brazilian government will be mired in a public opinion crisis of selling out the country. This is in line with Argentina's interests. A powerful neighbor who completely relies on the United States would keep Saint-Hesse up at night. This country has great potential, despite its various minor problems.

If this is not done, Argentina will become a complete scapegoat. Argentina is the first major Latin American country to refuse the stationing of American troops. Mexico is only the second. Now and in the future, Brazil will be strongly pro-American.

The Argentine presidential palace is also preparing to be pro-American, but is somewhat reluctant to lose face, and is only contacting the Americans secretly. For any country that seeks to ensure its sovereignty and integrity, the stationing of troops represents giving away sovereignty and becoming a country controlled by others. Even if Perón wanted to sell out the country, he would not allow American troops to be stationed.

Unless you want to completely give up, many European countries in later generations could not resist this temptation, including Spain and Italy. Germany had no choice. Even the United Kingdom in later generations has American bases. Only France refused American military bases and led the European Community. This is also the reason why France's military strength in later generations can still rank fourth among the five major powers.

The integrity of a country's sovereignty inevitably means the integrity of its military sovereignty. Many countries are willing to be dogs for the Americans because there are great benefits to be gained. Argentina does not want to be such a country, and neither can Brazil.

Otherwise, Argentina will never be able to revive again. They just want to abolish these two major South American countries. Mexico is too deeply involved, and even if they resist, it will be extremely limited.

Argentina's own national strength as an agricultural and semi-industrialized country cannot resist American infiltration. Then, what about adding Brazil and even Chile? Perhaps it is possible, at least to make superficial shows of support and reap a wave of plastic friendships.

Countries like Uruguay, as Argentina's traditional brotherly nation, must also be under Argentina's watch and cannot have American troops stationed there. If things continue like this, Argentina will be finished sooner or later.

The future South American Big Three, ABC (Argentina, Brazil, Chile), can completely complement each other. In later generations, they also formed the Southern Common Market, a loose alliance, under the leadership of the Americans.

Currently, Brazil is the strongest among the three countries, followed by Argentina, and Chile is the weakest. Among them, Chile has almost been completely infiltrated by the Americans.

Now, it is necessary to enhance Chile's strength while relatively weakening Brazil, so as not to let it completely fall to the United States. Now is the best opportunity. The Americans are about to take over from the French in fighting the Vietnam War. The CIA is currently just a younger brother.

Through World War II, the United States controlled the vast majority of islands and strategic locations in the Asia-Pacific region.

In the Atlantic region, through military assistance, exchange of interests, and military occupation, it acquired military bases originally controlled by Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, such as the Würzburg Army Garrison, the Schweinfurt Army Garrison, the Chièvres Air Base in Germany, and the Gavia Air Base in Italy.

During World War II, the United States established 484 military bases, including 228 in the Atlantic region and 256 in the Pacific region, forming an overseas base network.

After the war, the United States used economic assistance as bait, using methods such as the "Marshall Plan" and the "Point Four Program" to win over Western Europe and other allies, and even directly obtained the right to station troops on the territory of other countries as a condition for monetary aid.

Stimulated by the Cold War, the United States expanded its overseas military bases. Under the pretext of common security, it signed multilateral and bilateral military agreements with many countries. In about seven or eight years, the United States successively signed multilateral and bilateral military treaties with more than 40 countries, establishing military alliances, and also obtained a large number of military bases in Europe and the Far East.

When preparing to end the Korean War in 1952, the U.S. military had more than 600 overseas bases.

… …

May 1st, Cohen Consulting Firm.

Saint-Hesse convened a Falcon Bureau meeting, attended by a group of core members such as Guerrero, Maria Town Doug, and Booth Andrew.

"Guerrero, this matter will be handled by your Falcon Bureau. Prari International will also provide you with cover. The matter must be kept low-key and hidden, and our tracks must be erased completely."

The Falcon Bureau in Brazil is not the same as in Argentina. If this is not handled well, it will become an international incident. It must be very, very low-key, and the Brazilian government also has intelligence agencies, so we must be cautious beyond cautious.

"Although the Americans are powerful, they are not invincible. We need to use some small tricks to create a public opinion war among the Brazilian people. The basic idea is to be a major country with its own sovereignty. The Americas are not the Americas of the Americans. This is the general idea."

Saint-Hesse's philosophy is like this. Now the United States and the Soviet Union have taken over the global hegemony from Britain and are dismantling the British and French colonial systems. In fact, their energy is limited. Now it is entirely possible to do something to prevent their backyard from being so smooth. It is still possible to do it.

"Yes, boss, we will do our best to do this and prevent the Americans from controlling Brazil."

Let the backyard of Latin America catch fire. Mexico is experiencing large-scale anti-American troop stationing demonstrations. It is also necessary for the Brazilians to get involved. The Americans cannot do ten things at once. They want African interests, Middle Eastern interests, East Asian interests, Southeast Asian interests, American interests, and Western European interests. It is impossible to let them be so smooth.

"I'll add some ideas, that is, unless the Brazilians split, they will never be able to be dogs for the Americans and live well. We must shatter their illusions. The next step for the Americans is to dismember Brazil. This is for the upper echelons of Brazil. There are three major theories: Brazil's betrayal of the country, Brazil's dismemberment, and Brazil's threat. This is the information, take a look."

Brazil is too big, and it does have a tendency to split. A split Brazil is actually not in the interests of the Americans, but Saint-Hesse intends to develop public opinion in this direction, especially in the three southern states, which do want to be independent.

This idea is for the upper echelons of Brazil. The propaganda for the lower classes is Brazil's betrayal of the country, the propaganda for the upper echelons is the American dismemberment of Brazil, and there is also an American lobbying effort for the Brazilian threat theory, but Saint-Hesse has not been involved in the American public opinion environment and still needs follow-up efforts. Perhaps it can be involved when Pukins goes to the United States.

"The Americans can't be so awesome. We South Americans must also resist and not be dogs of the Americans, or dogs that are slaughtered at any time."

In later generations, it was because there was almost no turmoil in the Americas that they directly conquered the Americas. They only needed to spend some American dollars and send people from the CIA to do things, and the South American countries would succumb? It can only be said that the United States had too much luck in South America after World War II without firing a single shot.

The Vietnamese dare to resist, the Koreans dare to fight, and New China is not afraid of the United States. Only blood and fire can win an independent and autonomous destiny.

Africa was at least in turmoil because of the common interests of the United States and the Soviet Union, and France and Britain have always been able to have influence in Africa.

Europe sided with the United States, at least with the Marshall Plan.

Latin America leaning towards the United States would only result in economic colonization and a dumping market, with its sovereignty undermined. That would truly be a losing game, reminding him of Ukraine in his past life, which thought it could win without resistance, only to end up worse than a dog.

"The people of the Americas must never be dogs for the United States. There's absolutely no benefit in that. We must resist and make a final effort."

San Martin said with some solemnity. Argentina would never hand over the shackles of fate to the Americans. The United States' backyard must also rise up and resist American economic colonization.

"Boss, I believe we can do it."

Guerrero absolutely agreed with San Martin. When he returned from the Potassium Triangle, he also visited Farm No. 1 of Future Agriculture.

"In Brazil, focus on promoting the 'American Dismemberment of Brazil' and 'Brazilian Betrayal' theories. Study these materials."

"The Americans are just being packaged and beautified now, but the terrible things they did in the American West are quite "good." Moreover, the United States has also developed into the stage of imperialism. I hope everyone will not forget these things.

Their aggression against Korea after World War II was no less than that of the British and French. Now that the Soviets are restraining the United States, they dare not go too far, but we must abandon our illusions about the Americans."

San Martin concluded. Some people at the bottom of Argentina can have illusions about the United States, but if even the leadership does, then it's completely over.

This meeting was also a ideological baptism for the Falcon Bureau, thoroughly uniting them under San Martin's banner, truly considering the future of the country in the long term. This was not about sabotage, but also about giving the Falcon Bureau's actions a layer of righteous glory.

After San Martin's words, Guerrero and the others fell into deep thought. Initially, everyone didn't pay much attention to this operation, but now that it had risen to the national level, they felt that the boss was considering things in the long term.

It turned out that the boss was truly working hard for the Argentine people, and the Brazilians were being deceived. They were doing the right thing, not going to Brazil to cause destruction.

Everyone was also convinced by some of San Martin's sophistry, feeling that it made sense. Of course, San Martin was not joking; he was just turning some of the things the Americans did in his past life into his deduction and explanation of the future situation of the Falcon Bureau.

He discovered that Argentines now had illusions about the United States, and the Falcon Bureau was no exception. This was definitely not acceptable. Although the Falcon Bureau had a highly unified ideology, he had to have a justifiable reason; otherwise, morale would definitely decline in the long run.

Now, the scale of the Falcon Intelligence Bureau is expanding, and as an organization hidden in the dark, involving intelligence and special agent organizations, it is very strict in terms of personnel core and screening. Even the departments of the intelligence bureau are not subordinate to each other. The code names are passed down level by level, which also ensures the accuracy and security of the intelligence.

Unlike the security companies of Delta and Thunder Cross, they only need to maintain San Martin's interests.

… …

Some local informants in Brazil also quickly publicized it through some secret channels, especially opposition parties and some civil organizations, without taking action themselves.

Slowly, it began to attract some people's attention. The theory of American dismemberment of Brazil was promoted in the three southern states, while the theory of Brazilian betrayal was present throughout the country.

On May 1st, International Labor Day, a keen reporter, under the guidance of an informant, published an article,

"American Garrison in Brazil: Is This the Future Brazilians Need?" It was published in a small tabloid, and this article objectively introduced the news of the American garrison in Brazil and the establishment of military bases, causing the sales of this small tabloid to soar and spread rapidly.

The opposition party newspaper of the Labor Party and domestic newspapers began to serialize it, further expanding its influence.

Soon, the University of Rio de Janeiro also began to discuss the possibility of American neo-colonialism in the Brazilian economy, and the University of São Paulo followed suit.

"Leak! Dismembering Brazil into 19 countries, the American Brazilian Disintegration Plan is exposed!"

This article, in the style of an American plan, began to spread among the Brazilian people, mixing the false with the true.

The influence gradually expanded,

Soon, all kinds of newspapers with sensational headlines began to frantically attack the Vargas Presidential Palace in Brazil.

"Mexico Rejects American Garrison, Brazil Should Also Say No"

"Even worse than the Argentines, refuse the American garrison, starting with me"

"The Sold-Out Brazilians, How the President Is Walking Towards Betrayal Step by Step"

"Learn from the Argentines"

"American Troops Get Out of Brazil, Don't Be a Colony, Start with Me"

San Martin looked at these Brazilian newspapers, and things were changing.

On May 5th, bankrupt Brazilian workers organized an uprising, and conflicts began to occur.

On May 6th, the Brazilian army began to intervene, and the Brazilian public opinion event was greatly impacted.

On May 8th, Brazilians organized demonstrations against the American garrison.

On May 24th, the Brazilian government declared that it refused the American garrison.

The Brazilians achieved a phased victory.

… …

While San Martin was continuing his layout, he once again became a hands-off shopkeeper, began to worry about his studies, as well as the integrated development of the New Argentina newspaper, and also kept an eye on the Future Cup, which had entered the top four and was preparing to compete for the championship.

Thunder Mining was invited by the new Bolivian government to enter Bolivia's mining production.

The news of the Bolivian coup also caused a sensation at home and abroad. The Americans once again sent the CIA to try to kill the anti-American Paz.

Bolivia is preparing to nationalize foreign assets, learn from Argentina, and at the same time embark on the path of socialism, carry out land reform, and improve the status of Indians, giving them the right to vote.

Paz did give Thunder Mining some rewards, and also half-sold and half-gave some mines that could not be exploited, to Thunder Mining for factual comparison.

Thunder Mining did not refuse Paz's goodwill, and worked hard to start encircling land in the Bolivian border mining area, while also setting its sights on the Mutun iron ore, this super-large iron ore, which can meet the raw material needs of Argentina's steel development for the next few decades.

Bolivia's infrastructure is not good, so it still needs ships as usual, and the mining investment is very large, because Bolivia's infrastructure is even worse than that of northern Argentina. Most of it needs to be transported by river, or the border railway needs to be repaired to Bolivia, which is a brand new challenge.

In fact, railway transportation of ore is the most stable, and the time and speed are guaranteed in all aspects, but the investment is very large.