Chapter 1684: The snipe and clam fight (third update, please subscribe)
"This Reagan!"
Li Yian didn't sleep well that night, and he kept thinking about a question in his mind.
Reagan, Soviet Union.
Reagan is different from all the US presidents. For all the US presidents before him, the Soviet issue was just a political issue, but only Reagan raised the Soviet issue to the issue of life and death.
I believe that there is more than just ideological or political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is related to the life and death of the United States.
It is precisely because of this that Reagan launched a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union at the beginning of his tenure. Although this attack was not in the form of a hot war, he found the weakest link in the Soviet Union.
"Money!"
Li Yian recalled the books he had read. In Reagan's own memoir, he clearly mentioned how he discovered the weakest link in the Soviet Union in the book. Give it a fatal blow.
"Money, the biggest advantage of the United States over the Soviet Union is that we have enough dollars.
However, the Soviet Union could only obtain US dollars by exporting oil.
They need to support their expansion worldwide through the US dollar they receive from exporting oil to support their domestic market demand.
What the United States needs to do is to do its best to reduce the Soviet Union's access to the US dollar. And forcing him to spend more dollars. "
This is the easiest way for Reagan to defeat the Soviet Union!
In order to reduce the Soviet Union's access to the US dollar, Reagan personally visited Saudi Arabia to provide security protection to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. In exchange for their agreement to increase oil production, which caused international oil prices to plummet.
Oil and natural gas were the most important channels for the Soviet Union to obtain the US dollar.
At the same time, Reagan continued to push up international food prices and increase the US dollar consumption of the Soviet Union - the Soviet Union had to spend more dollars to obtain the food and other commodities they needed from the international market.
This is just in trade, as for other aspects, such as Afghanistan, such as Africa, America, South America.
Reagan upholds a policy of use, even if he is a devil, as long as they stand opposite the Soviet Union, they are freedom fighters, and they can receive American aid.
From jihadists in Afghanistan, to tyrants in Africa, to tyrants in South America.
They all transformed into so-called "freedom fighters" and received support from the United States in all aspects.
In order to help his supporters, the Soviet Union invested more funds, more aid and consumed more ammunition.
In terms of technology, Reagan formulated stricter embargo measures, even a video recorder or a video game console was within the scope of embargo. He would rather bear economic losses than stifle the possibility of the Soviet Union obtaining technology from the West.
As for the "Star Wars Plan", it forced the Soviet Union into a desperate situation - either it took huge amounts of money to fight, or the nuclear missiles built in decades before turned into a pile of scrap iron.
But at that time, the Soviet Union had no way to deal with it technically and financially.
Finally, in Reagan's comprehensive killing strategy, the Soviet Union gradually collapsed.
After Reagan handed over the presidential position to Bush for physical reasons, the Soviet Union soon collapsed.
Faced with such a Soviet killer, Li Yian was really troubled. "If there was no Soviet Union, the conflict between the United States and the sEA would have erupted."
Li Yian frowned, and his expression became more and more serious.
The second child curse.
To a large extent, it is inevitable, in another world, the United States' suppression of Japan and its later offensive against Dongda University.
To put it bluntly, it is all about attacking the second child, because only the second child can replace the eldest child.
The United States has never relaxed its vigilance towards its second child.
Only one era has been relaxed-under the threat of the Soviet Union!
In 1968, Japan jumped to the second largest economy in capitalist countries in terms of total economic output, second only to the United States.
But in the following decade, there were only more trade disputes between Japan and the United States, and those trade conflicts were quickly resolved under the threat of the Soviet Union.
Until 1985, when the Soviet Union had weakened, and when the Soviet Union began to retreat, Reagan immediately took the 40m big knife in his hand against Japan.
That knife hit Japan and it lost 30 years at once.
In the next 30 years, Japan declined from the second in the world to the third in the world, and then fell to the fourth.
How will it fall to the future? No one knows.
But it is certain that there is only one result in the competition between the boss and the second - the winner takes all, and the loser has nothing.
Unless you are willing to become a role like Japan, conflict with the boss will be inevitable.
Who in this world is willing to become such a role?
Li Yi Anran will not be willing to sink into despair.
"In other words, we must insist on interfering with Russia and cheating the United States!"
Although I was a little reluctant, Li Yian still had to face a very realistic problem, only by allowing Russia to maintain enough threat. Only the United States will ignore the threat that the world's second place brings to him.
Otherwise, once Russia declines, the United States will point his big knife at itself.
"Soviet..."
I had already made a decision in my heart, but whenever I thought of the Soviet Union, I still frowned into a ball because the mud really couldn't support the wall.
The reason for such an evaluation is entirely because the continuation of the Medal Emperor, the Medal Emperor, directly strangled the reforms of the Soviet Union.
It is precisely because of this that the Soviet Union gradually moved towards a desperate situation. In the end, Reagan seized the opportunity and strangled it step by step.
In this case, even if you want to help the Soviet Union, you may have the will but not the ability.
After all, relying solely on external forces, the Soviet Union was unable to overcome its own problems and then challenge the United States.
"From the sEA's standpoint, a strong and aggressive Soviet Union is far better than a weak Soviet Union!"
In the study, Li Yian looked at Berlin and said:
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"This..."
Berlin thought for a moment, and then said: "Now it seems that the Soviet Union is still very powerful. They are the first country to land on the moon.
They have shown their own strength in front of the whole world, and their strength is obvious to all."
Berlin's answer made Li Yian shook his head and said.
"This kind of power is only temporary. They lag behind the Western world in many technical fields. Coupled with some of their own problems, the recession of the Soviet Union will be inevitable in about a decade."
"Is the recession of the Soviet Union inevitable?" Berlin looked at your Excellency with confusion and asked: "How is this possible?" "We must consider this possibility and then respond in a targeted manner."
When Li Yian said this, he looked at Berlin and asked:
"So I need you to collect some intelligence here, and then understand the weak links of the Soviet Union as much as possible, and we will give them some help in the right time."
Esteeming your decision, Berlin thought for a moment, and then said:
"Your Excellency, we can do this, but you must be clear that the Russians are a double-edged sword. Just like before World War II, Germany had extremely extensive cooperation with the Soviet Union. During World War II, the United States and Britain's aid to the Soviet Union were also selfless, but the final result is obvious to all."
Looking at your Excellency, Berlin looked solemn:
"Historically, Russia has never been a country that will be grateful. For them, all the help you give them is just help, which does not prevent them from choosing to betray or betray at the right time.
There is an old saying in Europe: If you shake hands with a Russian, beware of him breaking your fingers.
So we can't get any reward for the help we give them. But we must also consider that helping Russia is likely to backfire ourselves. "
This is Russia.
This is Russia in the eyes of Europeans. Of course there is no exaggeration. It can even be said that this proverb in Europe is a little bit of a plea for the Russians. They are not going to break your fingers, but cut off your palms directly.
Li Yian nodded and said:
"We are very clear about the outcome of dealing with the Russians, but now everything we do is based on strategic considerations. We must see one thing - in the next few years, with the rapid economic development, our GDP will soon jump to the second place in the world, and we will have to face the suppression of the United States."
Li Yian stood up and said while taking steps.
"In this case, we need a strong Soviet Union to share the burden for us, but an aggressive Soviet Union is needed to make the United States fight with all its might.
Only in this way, we can concentrate on developing ourselves while the snipe and clam fight, and finally benefit from the fisherman."
After thinking for a while, Li Yian added:
"As long as the Soviet Union maintains an aggressive attitude, the United States will not be able to focus on us. Not only that, they must further integrate into us to concentrate our efforts against the Soviet Union. In this case, the benefits we have obtained will be extremely rich.
Maybe, we will inadvertently surpass the United States."
When talking about surpassing, Li Yian couldn't help but feel full of expectations.
It is not impossible to surpass the United States, and more importantly, it is that transcendence is carried out silently. By the time Americans realize it, it is too late.
"Two powers are in conflict with each other. In contrast, the threat posed by a powerful Soviet Union to us is limited, far from the United States. As for their vigilance against the second child, they will do their best to attack us, just like attacking the Soviet Union."
Li Yian said with a raised eyebrows: "So the backlash from the Soviet Union is acceptable, and the Soviet Union still has some flaws. These flaws will limit their development and restrict their future. When we fully develop, it will not be too late to turn around and deal with them."
When he said this, Li Yian's tone was extremely confident.
"And now, the biggest threat for us is not the Soviet Union, but the United States. Only the United States can give us the most fatal blow.
So we must let the United States focus their attention on the Soviet Union."
(This chapter ends)