Chapter 1307 Geographical Conflict in East America
After Rogers analyzed the reasons for the United States’ participation in the war from an economic perspective, Defense Secretary Pripyat also analyzed the US government’s participation in the war from a geopolitical perspective.
“The United States cannot escape the influence of the British in international affairs. Furthermore, the United States must also intend to use the British influence to enhance its position in international competition.”
“ The United States is limited by its geographical location, and its expansion direction is Three places, one is the American continent, especially Latin America, the second is the European continent, and the third is Asia."
"Among them, in the American direction, although Britain and France were affected by the war, their power shrank significantly, but the empire. But it just fills this gap.”
"Especially in terms of influence on South American countries, we have an advantage over the United States. In large South American countries such as Brazil and Argentina, the empire's influence has exceeded that of the United Kingdom and the United States."
"And in northern South America, we have The influence has penetrated to the periphery of the Caribbean and even directly threatened the Panama Canal and the US economy. "
Why East Africa threatens the Panama Canal starts with the country of Panama. Originally, Panama was not an independent country, but a territory of Colombia. In order to strengthen its control over the Panama Canal, the United States control, so it supported Panama's independence movement in the early twentieth century.
According to the normal historical trend, Colombia can only admit that it is unlucky. After all, the United States was the dominant player in the Americas in its previous life, and it happened to meet the opportunity when European forces such as Britain and France had to withdraw from the Americas.
But now that there is a new player in East Africa, the situation is naturally different. Originally, East Africa focused on Venezuela, and Colombia, as a neighbor of Venezuela, especially close to Venezuela’s oil producing areas, makes East Africa piggybacks on Colombia’s foreign relations.
What's more, the two countries have a natural basis for cooperation. Colombia needs new external forces to check and balance the United States. If possible, it even wants to take back the lost land of Panama and control the money printing machine of the Panama Canal.
East Africa does not want the United States to dominate the Caribbean. In its previous life, the United States almost turned the Caribbean into its own inland sea and acted recklessly in the region.
Of course East Africa is not the "Virgin Mother". It wants to fight injustices for various Caribbean countries, but it also does not want the United States to completely consolidate its hegemony over the Caribbean.
After all, controlling the Caribbean Sea, in addition to potentially threatening East Africa's interests in Venezuela, the United States can also use this place to further expand its influence on South American countries.
This conflicts with the national strategy of East Africa. East Africa has regarded southern countries as its core interests, and the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean have the same status and are regarded as the two wings of East Africa.
And from a practical perspective, the direct benefits that South America can bring to East Africa are even greater than those of the Indian Ocean.
After all, South America is more politically and economically independent and larger than the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.
Although there are many good places along the Indian Ocean coast, the best areas are basically under British control, such as India, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and other areas.
Although Britain used to have a relatively strong influence in South America, in the final analysis, South America used to be the sphere of influence of Portugal and Spain, and it was only in the last century that South American countries got rid of the control of these two sovereign states.
Therefore, from the perspective of practical interests and future development strategies of East African countries, it is impossible for East Africa to ignore relations with the Americas, especially the South Atlantic countries.
Of course, Colombia obviously belongs to the North Atlantic, but it is indeed the front line of the confrontation between East Africa and the United States.
If East Africa wants to maintain its interests in the Americas, it must pay attention to Colombia. Even if it cannot be controlled, as long as it does not fall to the United States, it is a victory for East Africa.
Pripyat continued: "In the Pacific direction, we also have a competitive relationship with the United States. Our country's colonies and economic interests in the Pacific are widespread."
"And in the Pacific direction , related to the United States in Asia Asia is the core of the Pacific, and the Far East Empire is the core of the core. "
"At the same time, the United States also has a competitive relationship with our country in the Southeast Asia region. The two countries can be said to be potential competition in Asia. Opponent.”
"However, the two countries are relatively far away from the East Asia region where the Far Eastern Empire is the core. At the same time, the Far Eastern Empire and Japan are not small countries in the region. This makes the competition between us and the United States in East Asia not fierce." "But overall, our country is in East Asia has far greater advantages than the United States in expanding to the entire Asia, so the United States’ expansion in the Far East is not smooth.”
East Africa attaches great importance to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean because East Africa itself faces both. ocean, and is a world power.
The same is true for the United States, so the United States will naturally attach importance to expansion in the Atlantic and Pacific directions, and at the same time regard the entire America as its core interest.
The current problem is that the expansion directions of the United States and East Africa overlap, and East Africa is generally in a dominant position, which hinders the United States' world policy.
So Pripyat said: "It can be said that our existence in East Africa has made the expansion of the United States in two directions unsmooth, and the only thing the United States can count on now is the European direction."
"And in today's world situation, Europe can be said to be the most powerful political and economic sector. Whoever can integrate Europe can gain world hegemony."
"The European war allowed the United States to see this opportunity. and And they have more advantages than we in East Africa to participate in this round of political changes in Europe.”
“After all, this time the United States intervened in European politics at the invitation of the two traditional European powers, Britain and France.”
To a certain extent, Britain and France determine the exchanges between other countries and the interior of Europe. After all, Europe's external communication channels, except for the giant Russia, are basically controlled by Britain and France.
It can be said that Britain and France unite to prevent other European countries from entering the sea.
From the North Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar and then to Egypt’s Suez Canal, the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters covered are the back gardens of the navies of the two countries.
The reason why Russia can be avoided is because Russia spans two continents and its territory extends to the Pacific Ocean. However, the external channels controlled by Russia basically rely on land transportation and are not major trade routes. It is difficult to as.
So, the Allied Powers controlled Europe's external exchange routes. As long as Britain and France did not nod, it would be difficult for other countries to penetrate Europe.
Even East Africa is also blocked by Britain and France. Of course, there is no way for East Africa to break the situation, that is, to capture Egypt, Libya and other North African regions and turn East Africa into a country along the Mediterranean Sea.
However, just as the United States does not directly annex Mexico, East Africa does not want to turn Egypt and other North African regions into its own territory. Now East Africa's mainland has reached a limit.
If this limit is exceeded, it will put great pressure on the economic development of East Africa, just like Siberia does to Russia.
Siberia’s resources are no less than those of North African regions such as Egypt and Libya, and are even more comprehensive. After all, the resource worthy of attention in North Africa is oil, but now East Africa has got rid of the energy crisis.
In addition, the culture and race of North Africa are very different from those of East Africa. Taking North Africa will be more troublesome than East Africa. Other factors are that these places have been carved up by Britain and France. For example, Egypt is a British colony and Libya is a French colony. This is also a factor that cannot be ignored in East Africa.
This brings the topic back to Britain and France. It can be seen that the power of Britain and France just wraps up the entire Europe.
Pripyat said: "Now, Britain and France need the United States to contain the Allies and have to lead the wolf into the house, and the United States is obviously coveting Europe's wealth, power and influence."
"Of course, the United States cannot participate in the war. We do not rule out its containment of German countries. After all, Germany and Austria-Hungary are the core of the Allied camp. If these two countries gain hegemony in Europe, and we are included in East Africa, the United States will always be able to only play a regional role. A major regional power is bound to the North American continent, so if the United States wants to go further, it must join the war to avoid the possibility of this happening. "
If Pripyat's words come true, the United States will not. Speaking of controlling the entire Americas, I am afraid it will be difficult to control the North American continent. After all, East Africa can now extend its sphere of influence to Colombia. If the United States makes strategic mistakes, other countries will only be further hurt.
(End of this chapter)