Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

“The Dutch National Council for Strategic Security is a strategic organization created by William IV in 1860 when William IV was the Crown Prince of the Netherlands to provide advice on Dutch national security.

The members of the organization include Antur, the Dutch National Strategic Security Council and Atlantic Affairs Strategic Coordinator. The remaining three are Akci, the Indian Ocean and Pacific Strategic Coordinator, Samuel, the European and African Strategic Coordinator, and Felik, the American Strategic Coordinator. Sri Lanka.

This organization has been established for 22 years and is the security strategy think tank that King William IV of the Netherlands relies on most.

Akci, strategic coordinator for the Indian and Pacific Ocean, was previously rector of the University of Amsterdam.

Samuel, strategic coordinator for Europe and Africa, comes from the University of Groningen, where he is also the former president.

The Americas Strategy Coordinator of the former President of Utrecht University is also very popular among the teachers and students of the University.

As for Cantur, director of the Dutch National Strategic Security Council and Atlantic Strategy Coordinator, he was the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs during the period of William IV’s father, the former King of the Netherlands and the current King of Greece, William III, and has rich diplomatic experience.

This strategic security think tank that William IV relies on most has a profound influence on William IV's diplomacy. We need to pay close attention to it, because only by understanding its internal structure and operation methods, we can understand that William IV has kept a low profile over the years but has made the Netherlands Reasons to keep going.”

Emperor Wilhelm I of the German Empire listened very carefully to Prime Minister Bismarck's evaluation of the think tank of the King of the Netherlands.

Bismarck said: “Over the years, I have to say that as the economic and political growth of our German Empire has grown faster and faster, we have done more and more research on the Netherlands.

The Dutch development model is different from the German model. They comprehensively promote relations with surrounding countries, and almost all of them are Dutch proactively creating a peaceful environment.

However, almost all of the countries surrounding our German Empire are in frequent wars. The Second French Empire was divided between the north and the south, with constant conflicts of all sizes. Italy's colonies in Africa, Libya and Tunisia were all trapped in it, making it difficult to escape.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was ambitious but lacked talent. Franz Joseph I could not find favor with our German Empire, so he simply took his anger out on Mexico, but he did not expect that this move would not be completed for almost two years.

The problems on the Balkan Peninsula are even more complicated. Tsarist Russia, the Netherlands, Austria-Hungary, the Ottomans, the United Kingdom and even France have all started writing there. The Kingdom of Rome and Bulgaria are also countries that are adding to the chaos, so in the end we, the German Empire, also got involved. Unfortunately, we are still involved. We can only barely maintain a balance, and there is a danger of war breaking out at any time.

Finally, there is the United Kingdom of Sweden-Norway in the northern part of the Baltic Sea. This water area is currently surrounded by the German Empire in the south, the Tsarist Empire in the east, the United Kingdom of Sweden-Norway in the north, and the Kingdom of Denmark in the west.

Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands all signed with the Kingdom of Denmark the right to use the Øresund and Kattegat straits.

The power to promote economic prosperity and unimpeded naval access to the region. "

“The German Empire’s current colonies in Africa are relatively scattered, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Somalia, and Namibia.

On the contrary, the Netherlands owns the entire North and South Congo region on both sides of the Congo River Basin, Gabon, northern Angola, the chaotic Uganda-Rwanda-Burundi region, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, northern Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius Islands, and the Seychelles Islands. , the colonies are relatively concentrated, and they are connected from east to west, making them easier to manage.

The UK only has South Africa, Egypt, South Sudan, North Sudan, etc.

France currently only has Mauritania, Mali, West Africa, Algeria, and Niger, all barren places.

When it comes to African issues, the loudest speakers currently are Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

On Latin American issues, the Netherlands has the greatest influence.

In the early days, the Netherlands used Argentina to intervene in Latin America. However, as Latin America rose too fast and became the tenth largest economy in the world, it also used Dutch military weapons to become a presence in South America that could overpower Brazil. Therefore, it became ambitious to try to hinder the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in Chile. In the battle for Chile, he wanted to seize Chile, but finally fell out with the Netherlands and fell to the British side.

Subsequently, the Netherlands invested its economic and military strength in supporting Argentina to other Latin American countries, of which Ecuador was the biggest beneficiary. This small country turned out to be the headquarters of the Netherlands' power projection in Latin America.

Not only has Kiir become the headquarters of the Thirteen Latin American Group, the President of Ecuador has also become the group's deputy secretary-general candidate, ranking second only to the Secretary-General of the Group of Thirteen arranged by the Netherlands.

Subsequently, Venezuela and Chile were the countries that benefited the most, and both countries became the largest investment destinations for Dutch weapons and capital.

Chile has almost become a state and province of the Netherlands, and all the people there are doing business with the Netherlands, or working for Dutch companies.

Venezuela welcomes Dutch capital from top to bottom and has a strong willingness to get closer to the Netherlands.

So if I want to talk about it, this South American triangle is the triangular axis on which the Netherlands establishes its influence.

Bolivia and Peru are the other branches and leaves above. Colombia, a powerful country in the region, is a bit like Argentina at the time. It considers itself a powerful presence among the Dutch allies and believes that the Netherlands needs to rely on it to complete the alliance.

Therefore, Colombia's approach to the United Kingdom is actually more of a display of bargaining and counterattack with the Netherlands, while the United Kingdom is willing to be used by Colombia to break into the Latin American alliance shaped by the Netherlands and break the Netherlands' core position in it. .

Other countries have joined the diplomatic war in South America, which is the result that Britain wants to see. "

Kaiser Wilhelm I, Crown Prince Friedrich, Crown Prince William, Chief of General Staff Moltke, Military Minister Albrecht Rohn, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia Bernhard von Bülow, Second Chief of General Staff Chief Alfred Waldersee, Director of Munitions Alfred von Schlieffen.

When Bismarck said this, he said: "As I said before, the next place where we Germany will expand is towards Latin America, the place on the other side of the Atlantic. Now that Britain has started, we originally supported and secretly promoted the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Mexico. To launch an invasion, we would use the Austro-Hungarian Empire to stand up to the enemy and commit crimes from the front, while we would benefit from behind the scenes and follow up secretly to expand our interests.

Austria-Hungary is at the front and Britain is at the back, both of which have become legitimate excuses for our German advance.

Everyone, preparations for the expansion of the military base in Uruguay have been completed, and our 500 German troops have been stationed in Paraguay. The time is about to come when our military and government take action in Latin America. I hope you will not disappoint Your Majesty and I. "

No one expected that this small closed-door meeting in Berlin, the German Empire, on November 6, 1882, would turn out to be the most important meeting for Germany's invasion of Latin America. This meeting also pushed Germany to the brink of war.