Soviet Union 1991

The third update

Even though President Chirac was reluctant to admit his policy mistakes, he still changed his Libya policy, from initially supporting the February Revolution Brigade to standing idly by. He didn't care about the lives of a group of militiamen, and the Butifle Pool also changed from being unstoppable at the beginning to a tug-of-war between the two sides.

This was President Chirac's pledge of allegiance, which meant that France would not conspire with the United States to touch the cheese of the Soviet Union, and France also asked the Soviet Union to spare France once on the issue of arms sales to Vietnam. Of course, after seeing France put down its posture, he did not press on the South China Sea issue, and finally let Vietnam and France reach an order for five Gladiator-class missile patrol boats. However, after consideration by the Ministry of Defense, they still chose the familiar Soviet Cassin-class destroyer, because the Soviet Union promised to help them upgrade the air defense missiles of the active ships, which France could not do.

So in the end, France could only regretfully miss the goddess of victory.

Although it was a bit regrettable, Chirac at least completed a deal. As long as this door was opened, Chirac believed that he could get involved in the arms sales of the South China Sea countries. However, Chirac did not know that the Soviet Union had already included the South China Sea in its arms dumping territory. Just when everyone was focusing on the war-torn Middle East, Yanayev had begun to promote the foreign trade version of the "Bastion System" jointly developed with Japan to neighboring countries, starting from Vietnam.

"President Chirac has begun to give in, and the French ambassador to the Soviet Union has submitted this secret visit application to us. I think there must be something else behind this." Shevardnadze handed the secret application from France to Yanayev, and only Yanayev had the final say.

Yanayev opened the sealed document in the envelope and quickly browsed the information on it, and then he fell into deep thought. Yanayev's contemplation lasted much longer than the content of the letter, so that Ryzhkov and Shevardnadze could only stand there honestly, waiting for Yanayev's further instructions.

"Comrade Ryzhkov." Yanayev suddenly opened his eyes and said to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers in front of him, "If France and the Soviet Union cooperate, how likely is it to swallow up most of Libya's oil fields?"

Ryzhkov was stunned for a moment. He had not thought about this question carefully, but still expressed his general opinion, "Now the Gebbi oil field and Hussein oil field in the Karanshu Desert are already controlled by the Americans. The oil fields in Ghaf, Mirbachi and Zalttan are complicated. There is not only German infiltration, but also direct control by Britain. Now it is not so simple for France to unite with the Soviet Union to destroy the oil revenue of other countries. Unless France is willing to continue to spend money and manpower to block Gaddafi's army's southward policy. After the revolution in Tripoli, Gaddafi has been entrenched in the southern city. But this does not mean that they will not fight back, and the thing they want to see most is..."

"Civil strife in the opposition government?" Yanayev added the next sentence directly.

"Yes." Ryzhkov was opened up. He used to express his opinions cautiously, but now he spoke freely. "The temporary coalition government was forced to unite because of the existence of Gaddafi, the enemy. But once they control a certain area, the conflicts of interest between them will be exposed. Moreover, the numerous factions within the government will lead to the interim government being in dire straits if it fails to attack the majority of the main forces of the Libyan government army in a short period of time."

Gaddafi's army is stationed in Kufra, ready to counterattack at any time. France is not as enthusiastic about fighting Gaddafi as it was in the past. It only carried out precision-guided strikes on Gaddafi's army in the first three months of the outbreak of the Libyan civil war. After that, it was busy calculating those agents who seized the oil fields, but did not make much profit. This is why the ** army did not end the battle against the government army in just one year as in the civil war in history.

Yanaev held his chin and expressed his opinion while thinking, "If we unite with France, Butifle Lake will become the first line against the Kufra government forces, and France will seize most of the oil fields from Hamra from north to south to Oweh. This will complicate the situation in Libya. So we need the French to pay a deposit."

"Deposit?" Ryzhkov didn't quite understand what Yanaev meant.

"France will continue to strike the Libyan government forces with air strikes, so that the government forces will not have the strength to move north. This is one of our cooperation conditions." Yanaev said affirmatively.

As long as France can use air strikes to attack the armored forces and supply lines of the Libyan government forces, then crossing the Kalanshu Desert is not a correct choice. Presumably, the Libyan government forces have lost the combat capability of most of their troops before reaching Butifle Lake.

"Otherwise, don't blame the Soviet Union for selling out its teammates. We will use the same method to move the Libyan army's offensive route to Sepuha and Wodan, breaking through the last line of defense of the ** Alliance. What else do the French have now? The courage to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that the world does not exist. Moreover, France still has a large investment that has not been thrown to you, that is, the oil fields. Now having so many oil fields does not mean that it does not need to maintain these oil field facilities. There are also many that have temporarily eased the pressure on escape due to funding issues."

Since Yanayev has made it very clear, there is no need for Ryzhkov to continue to struggle. Now the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the French Prime Minister have been replaced by two powerful figures, which is also to reflect the freedom of the socialist system.

"General Secretary Yanayev, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave first." Shevardnadze knew that some of the following conversations were not something that a minister of his level could hear.

After Shevardnadze left the presidential office, Yanayev proposed a feasible cooperation plan between the Soviet Union and France in Libya to Ryzhkov. Based on this set of temporary plans, Yanayev made the noble Frenchman bow his head.

"I would also like to trouble Comrade Ryzhkov to tell the French president during the next visit that the Soviet Union can contain the interests that Britain and Germany want, but Chirac had better show me 100% sincerity in cooperation. Any betrayal of the Soviet Union will never be tolerated." (To be continued.)