Chapter 1557: The Spectators

"Australia has fallen? When did the news come out?!"

Is this considered eating melons in your own home?

Soon, the news spread throughout the entire Lu team, and attracted discussion and attention from almost everyone.

Except for Lu Pingan, he was still watching the fun and didn't understand.

"Uh, why are you so excited? Isn't it just Australia? Even if it's lost, does it have anything to do with us?"

Lu Pingan was a little confused until he saw a shocked face.

".We thought you were pretending not to understand politics, but you are obviously very good at important policies."

"Oh, I understand, do you want to hear our opinions?"

Seeing this situation, someone gave Lu Pingan a ladder, and Lu Pingan could only listen honestly.

After listening to two sentences, Lu Pingan understood that this was completely a deviation between the two world lines. After the "pollution boom" around the 1950s, those slight deviations continued to magnify.

The butterfly effect threw up a typhoon, gradually changing the two worlds, and a little difference eventually turned into the essential difference in the geopolitics of the two worlds.

"Red Star has not disintegrated, but it is inevitably shrinking. The Citibank Federation is still strong, but its sphere of influence is mainly in the Americas and Oropa, and is limited to Asia."

These changes, in fact, are all about one thing - "external pressure"

When there is a lot of "pollution" in the world, public security naturally becomes a problem, and the cost of expansion is greatly increased. The major powers can only manage their own affairs.

World hegemon? Who wants to fight for this mess? Live well first.

Red Star can still survive because it has not expanded blindly and has not inserted its foot into the Middle East and Central Asia and fallen into the quagmire. Citibank has not inserted too much power in those regions, which is also the root cause of the Red Star's need to fight to the death with it.

You retreat, I will naturally retreat, you look down on it, I look down on it, it's such a simple and direct reason.

Although Red Star inevitably declined due to some reasons, it did not fall to the level of another world disintegration.

Of course, it is also because the Western countries of Citibank have constant fireworks in their hometowns, and they have no ability and mood to interfere too much with foreign countries.

The two powers still exist, but they are still just two powers instead of two hegemons. As a result, the living space of Dongda is freer than that of the other line. After development, it is natural to control the surrounding forces more within its own influence. This is also the reason why the first batch of full support will be the surrounding forces such as Southeast Asia, Sakurajima, and Red Star after the launch of the Nirvana Plan. Now Dongguo has naturally become the largest local power core.

The Cold War, or the confrontation between the two forces, still exists, but due to the existence of external pressure, it is not so sharp. When humans have to fight for survival, internal fighting will naturally not become the main theme.

Looks good? No matter how good the situation and changes are, there are still victims, but I am afraid that only the time traveler Lu Pingan knows that the biggest victim of this world line is Australia.

"The Os people were originally a place of exile in the West and were not welcomed, and their subsequent development was also very ordinary."

This made Lu Pingan a little confused, but after looking at the history, he noticed the essential difference.

In fact, Australia is closer to Asia. It is an isolated island overseas. Although it belongs to the Western forces, when the Western leader Citigroup is restricted to its own America, it naturally does not receive much attention.

When the two sides confront each other, the front line will naturally receive attention and investment, but the momentum of the confrontation between the two sides has been greatly weakened, and the front has become a marginal place with little strategic value and continued risks.

". What's worse is that sea transportation in this world is very dangerous, and air transportation. There are only floating airships but no faster planes."

An isolated island, under such a situation, naturally has difficulty in development. They do have very good natural resources, and very high-quality agricultural products, but in the case of unsmooth transportation, they can only produce and sell by themselves.

Naturally, overproduction, food price collapse, no one grows, food prices soar, corporate monopoly, famine and other series of cycles have come several times, making themselves the same as a free country in South America in another world line.

Due to the inconvenience of transportation, its suppression of Asia has been greatly reduced, and it has not received military and industrial investment. Even the local masters are willing to go to the safer America and Europe. Why should they go to the exile land to see kangaroos baring their teeth?

The final result is that it has never developed well, and the "official" has weakened, and the power vacuum has led to the rise of "corporate politics".

These local super companies in Australia have become the actual power controllers, and naturally they only fight for their own interests, and the local public order has deteriorated extremely.

At this time, it reflects Lu Ping'an's "wrong perception" of "modern countries" and "geopolitics" because he is too lazy to pay attention.

He never realized that because Australia itself is too weak, it lacks influence on the island countries and South Asia to its north, and the Western countries cannot invest their power in it, making this area a hollow. Power naturally hates hollowness, and a certain Eastern power further north naturally incorporates it into its economic and trade circle, becoming the edge of its power.

The world line is different. Australia and Southeast Asia that Lu Pingan thinks of are other people's places, the traditional sphere of influence of the West. If they are rotten, they are rotten. Maybe Lu Pingan will open champagne to celebrate.

If something really happens? Shouldn't a Citibank blockbuster be staged to let the Western allies come to the rescue? Just eat melons and have fun.

And the Australia that Hua Xueyi and others think of is a mixture of a rotten place and a lawless place. It is a marginal area of ​​the West, while the archipelago and Southeast Asia further north have been the sphere of influence of the East Country in recent years.

Now that Australia has fallen, the most panicked are Southeast Asia and the island countries. If they also collapse, then the East Country will definitely be dragged into the water.

".You see, if all of Australia really falls, they will definitely go north. At that time, the Archipelago Alliance (Indonesia and the Pacific Islands) will be the first to suffer, followed by the South Asian countries, the Pakistan Federation, and then up, Sakura Island (Sakura Kingdom) and the Leighton Peninsula"

Now, Lu Pingan understands.

In this world line, Australia is completely collapsed, and Citibank will probably pretend not to see it. When the wound of this world begins to bleed, the only countries that must take action to control it may be the surrounding countries. If they cannot solve the problem, it is only a matter of time before the Eastern Power is dragged in.

"Uh, uh, uh, it seems that I will definitely be dragged in"

After looking around, Lu Ping'an was also numb.

If that position is really lost, the most headache is not even the land and islands, but the vast ocean.

In this world line, the island chain is not the western line of defense to contain the Eastern Power, but the sphere of influence and line of defense of the Eastern Power itself.

Once it collapses, the coastal areas of the Eastern Power itself will also be threatened.

And the coastal areas of the Eastern Power. Lu Ping'an pointed and pointed to the southernmost point of the map, a place he was familiar with.

Or in other words, the "hometown" of his own power.

"Longyue Island"

Wailongzhou is one of the southernmost states of the Eastern Power, and at the same time, it is also the southernmost island area of ​​the Eastern Power.

The most helpless thing is that it is actually the main territory of the Southern Faction of the Linnv Church, and the hometown of a group of bigwigs including Liu Lao.

"Oh my god, this melon is eaten in my own home!!"

"You, just found out?!"