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Venezuelan President Blanco's mood has turned from sunny to gloomy recently.

Why is it because Colombian President Domingo, his old rival, did the opposite when his relationship with the Netherlands was getting closer? Instead, he strengthened relations with the United Kingdom to break the situation. Although he did not admit it, that was the United Kingdom. In the past few decades, Over the past hundred years, it has defeated the Dutch coachmen in Europe and the Spanish Empire, the former suzerain country in Latin America except Brazil.

Although such a country has become less lustrous with the rise of the Netherlands, that is only relative. For other countries, including Venezuela, the United Kingdom is still the behemoth.

Regardless of whether Colombia's proximity to the United Kingdom is offensive or not, the promises Colombia received from the United Kingdom made Venezuela uneasy.

British weapons are actually given priority for sale to Colombia, and are even ranked at the same level as Japan, Britain's Far East ally.

This suddenly made Colombia a country that could purchase advanced weapons from the Netherlands and the UK at the same time.

If Colombia purchases a large amount of British weapons, Venezuela will only be able to purchase Dutch weapons. At the same time, the Netherlands' allies are divided into several levels of weapons. Venezuela's level is still behind the Netherlands' closest allies, Greece, Sweden, and Denmark. It is just the same as the second-level ally of the Netherlands in the Far East, the Kingdom of Siam (the predecessor of Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos).

Also, the UK actually publicly expressed its support for British capital investment in Colombia. Although the UK was surpassed by the Netherlands in 1876 and lost its status as the number one economy, it is undeniable that both the German Empire and the United States, which ranked fourth, were It currently does not pose a threat to the economic status of the second-placed UK.

Therefore, British economic support will be a huge boon to Colombia.

Maybe Venezuela's economy will take off as a result, and it is very possible that Venezuela will become the second Argentina in Latin America.

After all, Argentina is now a more powerful economy in Latin America than Brazil. Even militarily, Argentina is no worse than Brazil.

Argentina is currently the tenth largest economy in the world.

In terms of navy, since the conflict with the Netherlands in 1876, Argentina has purchased weapons from its new ally, the United Kingdom, in addition to the Dutch navy and army equipment it originally purchased. Germany and France have also been one of Argentina's main sources of weapons in the past six years.

Although Argentina now offends the Netherlands, the reason is naturally that Argentina tried to occupy Chile after the civil strife in Chile and became a geographically key country that occupies the entire southern part of Latin America.

However, the Netherlands actually ditched Argentina, staged a coup with the current Chilean president, and then drove away the United Kingdom. It also successfully overthrew the previous government. The Netherlands even stationed troops in Chile, making Chile a de facto protector. country.

On almost all major military and political fronts, the Netherlands has become one of Chile's top decision-makers.

Everyone in Latin America knows this.

While dissatisfied with the vigilance of the Dutch garrison, they were even more uneasy about Argentina's ambitions than the Netherlands.

Therefore, when the Netherlands subsequently formed the Thirteen-Nation Alliance of Latin America, all countries actively participated, and the Latin American Security Conference Summit became a reflection of Argentina’s existence in everyone’s discussion of regional peace.

It is under such circumstances that Colombia actually brought in the United Kingdom. Is this preparing to break the status of the Netherlands in recent years? Does it want to become another Argentina or another Brazil?

Domingo actually has such courage. It seems that I underestimated him before.

Blanco was very helpless.

Unlike Colombia, which is geographically located on both the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines and plays a popular role in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Venezuela is geographically located on the Atlantic side, with the islands in the Caribbean Gulf to the north. Currently, several islands close to Venezuela are owned by the Netherlands. manage. A little further outside, there are the overseas colonial gangs of Britain and France.

To the west is Colombia’s long coastline.

To the east was British-controlled Guyana, to the east of British Guia was Dutch-controlled Suriname, and further east was French Guiana. However, after Napoleon lost the war in 1871, it became an overseas territory of the victorious German Empire.

So Venezuela’s location is terrible.

To the south is the Brazilian Empire, the largest country in South America.

Such a surrounding environment makes it difficult for Venezuela to deploy despite being surrounded by major powers. In addition to the direction of Colombia in the west, it can also be expanded. This is why Blanco has deliberately made trouble with Colombia in recent years, trying to get some territory to expand the area of ​​Venezuela.

Only Colombia is the weakest in the surrounding area. If you don't bully it, who will you bully?

But now it's self-defeating. Did you use too much force?

Colombia has actually hooked up with the United Kingdom, and is expanding relations in all aspects.

Then Venezuela has worked hard to please the Netherlands as it competes with Colombia for favor, and the situation where Venezuela is better may become reversed.

This made Blanco a little unwilling.

However, he has already hinted his intention through the Dutch Embassy in Venezuela, that is, Venezuela needs more help from the Netherlands, otherwise Venezuela is worried that other countries will follow Colombia's approach.

It's been an hour since the death, so it should be here soon.

Sure enough, his guess was good.

Cruyff, the Dutch ambassador to Venezuela, soon appeared in front of the Latin American president.

After the two exchanged friendly greetings, Blanco got straight to the point.

"I believe Mr. Ambassador also knows about the incident in Colombia. We are very dissatisfied with it and are willing to work with your country to deal with such a difficult situation."

Cruyff said with a grateful face: "Thank you so much. The Netherlands is so lucky to have an ally like Venezuela."

Blanco also had a proud expression on his face, but then he frowned and said: "But we still need to face the traitor Colombia, who joined the Thirteen Latin American Group Alliance and even flirted with the United Kingdom. This is an influence. The group is united, so I still think he should be suppressed or checked and balanced."

Blanco calmly began to guide the topic towards Colombia.

Cruyff could be the ambassador of the Netherlands to a foreign country, and he was naturally smart and responsive. Although his heart moved, his face remained unchanged. He wanted to see what the Venezuelan president in front of him wanted to do?