Chapter 1178 Showing Off Muscles to Each Other

Putting down the phone, Pamela Mountbatten fell into deep thought, and she remembered what her husband had said.

"Private property is inviolable, and there is a limit. During World War II, the United States forced Britain to sell British-owned enterprises in the United States. If you fail to protect your own strength, this will happen a second time or a third time. Other countries cannot count on it. The only one we can count on is the British government.”

Pamela Mountbatten's face suddenly changed. The night before leaving London, her man said a lot of things that are worth considering carefully. "The wealth in your hands is close to the British capital that was forcibly taken away by the United States during the war. If If you don’t follow the Lockheed path, you will be targeted sooner or later.”

"Marina, ask the Commander of the British Forces in Australia, General Wavell, if he has time to meet." Pamela Mountbatten asked her assistant to help make an appointment with the Commander of the British Forces in Australia who had previously used the Australian launch site to station.

At the critical moment, it was the presence of the garrison that reassured the female CEO, who increasingly felt that her husband's judgment was reasonable.

General Wavell lived in Perth. He thought Marshal Mountbatten's daughter was looking for him to ask about the Cuban Missile Crisis that was spreading around the world today, and he had already prepared a rhetoric.

He thought too much. Pamela Mountbatten had almost superstitious confidence in her man. "Australia's location will not be affected by a nuclear war, especially Perth, which is outside the range of Soviet nuclear missiles, and the Soviet Union's Intercontinental missiles are all aimed at the United States, so I am not worried at all."

This answer amazed General Wavell, "It seems that the marshal's daughter has an extraordinary understanding of military affairs."

"That's out of the question." Pamela Mountbatten took a deep breath and said, "On the contrary, the instability in Asia is closely related to Australia and deserves full concern."

"But even so, the atmosphere in Europe is definitely more tense than here." General Wavell said with a wry smile, "I think your husband, the Permanent Under Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, may be very busy now."

After Kennedy announced a naval blockade against Cuba, the whole world was shocked, including of course the European countries on the border of the Soviet Union. The most nervous was not the United Kingdom, but the European front line of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany.

Even after learning that the United States was going to launch a naval blockade, Alan Wilson still looked unfazed and was seriously analyzing the possible reactions of France and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cabinet Office.

"Sir Wilson is so calm. I wonder if this calmness is based on the fact that your family has already gone to Australia." Burke Trend couldn't help but hum, full of yin and yang.

Alan Wilson replied calmly, "Burke, my wife goes to Perth at this time every year. Whether or not this crisis occurs, nothing will change.

Perth has its important industries, and it is more convenient to handle cross-border business, not to mention... there are many people living in Australia now. "

The last sentence is not a threat, but a fact. Perth's population growth mainly comes from British immigrants. In fact, the birth rate in the UK is not low, but the annual population increase is not much because of constant immigration.

Especially after Pamela Mountbatten and many nobles made their fortune in Australia, Australia's attractiveness doubled. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, it is estimated that the attractiveness to Britain will increase.

Australia is located in the southern hemisphere, and the local environment is very safe and can avoid nuclear war.

It doesn't matter whether it is reasonable or not. As long as British citizens believe this unscientific statement, they will naturally take action.

"Then let's continue to discuss the reactions of France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Now it is estimated that the two countries are also stunned and shocked. But based on my understanding of the two countries, this crisis is over, and the two countries will try independent cooperation among European countries. So. The British attitude does not need to change. We still support the United States, but there is no need to be too eager. After Germany and France express their positions one after another, the United Kingdom will appear to support the United States."

Norman Brook couldn't help but nod, but he glanced at Burke Trend and added, "Alan, you always need a reason to make a decision."

"Of course, Sir. In fact, for both countries, the threat of the Soviet Union's Western Cluster is not much smaller than the threat of nuclear weapons. The British situation is slightly better, but it is actually the same. In the face of the Soviet Union's overwhelming ground power, Whether to use nuclear weapons is already a secondary option. We are not the United States!"

"Based on the current navy and air force that the United States can mobilize, it is more than enough to implement a naval blockade."

Alan Wilson came up with the layout of the navy and air force in the United States. Of course he has this information, otherwise wouldn't he be the Secretary-General of the Joint Intelligence Committee for nothing?

The United States can assemble more than eight aircraft carriers and a huge fleet of hundreds of warships to use in the naval blockade of Cuba. This force cannot be broken through by the Soviet Union's weak Red Navy no matter what.

"In the next few days, we will see the United States and the Soviet Union flexing their muscles and speaking harshly to each other, but both Washington and Moscow have ample time to consider how this crisis that has attracted the world's attention will end. . After all, naval operations are slow, otherwise why would we send the Royal Navy to Asia? Right?"

Just as Burke Trend said, Alan Wilson really looked like he didn't change his expression when the mountain collapsed in front of him. When analyzing this matter, he showed no tension at all, as if it was an external matter.

And Burke Trend's guess was right. The rival's family left England for Australia, which really made Alan Wilson fearless. He was not even afraid of a nuclear war. If it happened, how many people would be killed? One billion people were buried with him, so why should he be afraid?

"It sounds like France and Germany should indeed react more vigorously than us." Norman Brooke nodded in approval. "From this point of view, the UK must express its stance better than the two countries in order to appear calm."

Alan Wilson sat down directly, thinking that there was no end to it. If it were a few decades later, Europe's reaction would be even more intense. The big stick of sanctions has been rounded up. Unfortunately, the more sanctions are imposed, the more they cover up the cowardice of not daring to step down.

If you really think you are strong, you can directly use military force to speak. If you don't use military force, the more severe the sanctions, the more severe the sanctions will only mean that the sanctions are used to cover up the cowardice of not taking action. Only the more severe the sanctions can you betray your teammates. Cover up the embarrassment.

It is a pity that the Soviet Union now has its own economic system cycle. The sanctions imposed by NATO countries cannot be said to be useless, but they are indeed useless. The big stick of sanctions cannot be used, so we can only call for peace.

At this moment, the phone in the Cabinet Office rang, and Norman Brooke's chief private secretary answered the phone and reported, "Sir Norman and the Soviet Union accused the United States of its blockade policy and stated that they would not compromise."

"Start flexing your muscles!" Alan Wilson shrugged, indicating that his conclusion was absolutely correct.

Soon, a call came to No. 10 Downing Street from the Cabinet Office and the Joint Intelligence Committee that needed to prepare an intelligence analysis to discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In a public statement on behalf of the Soviet government, Khrushchev angrily accused the United States of America's naval blockade policy as "an unprecedented act of piracy that is heading towards launching a world nuclear war."

If it were just a verbal threat, Washington might not take it seriously. But then, the Soviet armed forces began to enter the highest state of combat readiness. All furloughs were cancelled, veterans' rehabilitation efforts were stopped, and several Soviet submarines disappeared from U.S. spy satellite images...

Faced with this threat, the United States completed the largest national mobilization after World War II in less than 24 hours: 183 warships including eight aircraft carriers, 12 destroyers and cruisers, and seven submarines A military force composed of 1,000 aircraft and 1,600 missiles surrounded the narrow Cuban waters.

Across the strait in Florida, the United States has also assembled 120,000 Army and Marine Corps troops, including five integrated divisions.

On the blue Caribbean Sea, on Grand Turk Island, about 300 kilometers away from the eastern coast of Cuba, there is a huge US military missile tracking station that closely monitors every move of ships heading to Cuba. The whole of Cuba was surrounded like an iron barrel.

At this time, the British cabinet meeting was discussing that Britain would never take a stand until Germany and France took a stand.

In the field of public opinion, British public opinion and American public opinion also described the incident differently.

American public opinion emphasized the Soviet Union's threat to the United States, while British public opinion added the Congolese army commanded by the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the battle in Katanga, and the assassination of Tshombe, together with the Battle for the Roof of the World, to shape the It became this chain conflict and the general offensive of the Soviet bloc.

This is definitely not an isolated incident, but a premeditated act to test the strength of the free world. As for why there has been no change in Europe, it is of course that we in Europe are too powerful and have already prepared for battle, so that the Soviets do not dare to take a step further.

"Weird talk, full of nonsense." Alan Wilson, who was holding his wife's top-up newspaper, made an evaluation in Chinese in Whitehall. However, although it was very nonsense, the so-called citizens of the free world should not overestimate their discernment. Especially in front of this suffocating solemnity, his judgment is even more compromised.

"Alan, what are you looking at?" Rab Butler asked curiously after hearing Alan Wilson mutter something incomprehensible.

"I say, thank you, Minister!" Alan Wilson put down the newspaper with a smile. "I estimate that France will make a statement soon. You must know that the Soviet army has entered a state of war readiness. The first people to bear the pressure are Germany and France. France considers itself a big country, and its statement is affirmative. In front of the Germans.”