Chapter 1299 European Energy Security Conference
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India is a big country, both in terms of population and area. It is not like Australia, which has more evaporation than precipitation, although India's evaporation is also very alarming.
The population and area are coupled with good agricultural conditions and resource reserves. Sorry, this is the case for a large country, but India is still a little behind.
India will also be short of water like other latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, and record high temperatures at every turn. In North America, the climate is unstable due to the cold current moving south, and in India, the lack of monsoons has caused instability.
Of course, Britain attaches great importance to India, but this time there are indeed too many Peace Religion countries. Only Turkey, which is dedicated to Westernization, has not expressed its position, and the rest are all there.
This is difficult to do. The two most important points for a country to become a powerful country are population and area. India has both of these. But the Peace Church world is not something to be trifled with. The Peace Church world has threatened Europe for centuries. It was only before World War I that Europe breathed a sigh of relief with the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. No matter Europe or the United States, they are trying to prevent the Peace Church world. Power appears again.
The Peace Sect has a larger base than India. Although it does not have the backing of a powerful country and its organization is relatively loose, it cannot be offended.
This makes it difficult for countries with broad interests like the UK to easily choose sides. Alan Wilson promised to help when receiving the Indian ambassador, but when facing the Gulf countries, he also understood their support for the brother country Pakistan, and then he looked for opportunities. Follow Pamela Mountbatten to inspect the Land Rover factory.
The Land Rover factory now retains its production lines in the UK. Only the Range Rover production line remains. This is the most high-end among the Land Rover brands. Alan Wilson, who is also a copycat, has produced more than 10,000 high-end off-road models under the guidance of Alan Wilson. , Pamela Mountbatten was in the past to attend the celebration ceremony.
The production of Land Rover Defender pickup truck and Land Rover Discovery has been increasing steadily, and they have been widely used in the Middle East, North Africa and Australia.
While Pamela Mountbatten was driving, her husband was leisurely reading the information, "In other families, the man drives the car and the wife is the co-pilot."
"Our family is just the opposite." Alan Wilson glanced at his wife and said frankly that he had a bad stomach, and then continued to read the preparations for the European Community meeting.
"European Community meeting matters? Is there anything related to me?" Pamela Mountbatten didn't care at all and wanted to know the national trends from her husband.
"An important content of this European Community may be that India's oil embargo is more relevant to you. Another major issue is France's proposal to enhance Germany's voice in the European Community." Alan Wilson collected file,
"You have to know that except for North Sea oil, Europe has few resources. When faced with an oil embargo like India's, it may encounter even greater problems."
Of course, one piece of North Sea oil can lift India's oil reserves several times, but one must also consider the scale of Europe's industry, which requires far more oil than India.
India's own oil reserves are enough to sustain a major country in the 21st century for one year, and its shortage is comparable to the coal reserves in Latin America. It is in a situation where it is theoretically available but not actually available.
When a large country had an industrial scale similar to that of India, its local oil could fully support its oil needs. However, when India later reached this stage, the import ratio reached almost 85%. It can be said that it is almost completely dependent on imports.
In the long run, the price of oil will definitely get higher and higher. The skyrocketing oil price faced by a large country in its development will only become more obvious in India, which is simply an unbearable burden on life.
Not much oil has been discovered in India in the 21st century, not to mention that in the 1960s, Alan Wilson colluded with oil-producing countries to impose an oil embargo on India, just to see if the situation faced by India could be handled by Europe, which also lacked resources. Well, Britain has shared the risk after all.
"I think about it, has your industry risen a lot recently?" Alan Wilson asked his wife. The oil industry is also an important industry for Pamela Mountbatten. After receiving the good news that India was embargoed on oil, theoretically it should rise. right.
"It has increased by a few pennies. Although India does not have oil locally, its demand is far from reaching the point of causing fluctuations in the world market. Facing an oil embargo, it is only their own country that will suffer." Pamela Mountbatten He curled his lips, obviously not thinking that India has the ability to affect oil prices, "The United States has already increased its troops by more than 100,000 in Southeast Asia, and you don't seem to care at all."
"Isn't it just a replica of the strategic bombing of Germany? What should we care about? That is, the strength of the free world exceeds that of its opponents. Otherwise, if Washington does this, it will kill us." Now that the Vietnam War has officially started, Ai Len Wilson stopped pretending and began to ridicule the United States unscrupulously.
In the situation of the Cold War, even if a certain major country united with the Soviet Union and never fell out, the free world had a higher probability of victory than the hostile camp. Unless India also changes its color, the free world will be doomed.
As for a few decades later, as long as the Cold War starts again, victory will be easier than this time. The industrial scale of a certain big country needs resources to support it. It is not that a certain big country has too few resources, but that the industrial scale is too large. Evaluate it based on industrial scale. is inaccurate.
Once the Cold War begins, and it takes decades, he believes that the free world can win again.
But the problem is that the United States seems unwilling to pay the price, and it seems to want both. It’s not enough to always think about winning without paying the price. Another point is that the United States seems to be unable to benefit and does not want to benefit.
In the Vietnam War, the US military's ground troops were like Ukraine's, piling up in South Vietnam and its air force like Russia's, using bombs to talk. How could they win the war?
While the couple was attending the celebration, Dixon was discussing the direction of the India-Pakistan war with Soviet Ambassador Viktor. Moscow still took the initiative to ask Britain if it wanted to mediate the war.
A day later, Alan Wilson, who came back from a private trip, learned about this, shook his head and said, "This has just begun. Only when the two countries are exhausted is the opportunity for mediation. If we mediate now, both countries will think they are at a loss." Okay. We should prepare well for the EC meeting. After the meeting, it is estimated that the two sides are almost at peace before going to mediate. Just answer the Soviets like this."
It involves mediation between two countries, and the location of the mediation is also an issue. The Soviet Union will definitely not be happy if it is placed in London, but the United Kingdom will not be willing to put it in Moscow.
There are only a few locations, Geneva? Forget it. Those goblins in Zurich are not worthy, so it would be better to leave them in Stockholm.
"Then we just reply that Moscow is waiting?" Dixon asked about this question. "Are we going to tell the Prime Minister the same thing?"
"Oh my God, how can we hide this from the Prime Minister? But stress the importance of the EC meeting. France is speaking out for Germany and wants a greater voice." Alan Wilson gave Dixon a hint , this European Community is not the other European Community, this European Community is the product of the colonial countries to unite for warmth. It has evolved to the point where today, Britain and France agree that the EU model of one person, one vote must not be used.
I don’t know if Europeans care about food but not fights. Poland has used the one-person-one-veto voting system, which has turned Poland, a large Eastern European country from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, into a stepping stone for Europe. Fortunately, the European Community, which was born out of European colonial countries, has no such thing. At present, the European Community can be said to be a democratic centralism. In theory, everyone has equal rights, but in fact, as long as France is dealt with, the United Kingdom can lead a resolution that is beneficial to the United Kingdom.
Germany and Japan are both countries that have lowered their exchange rates with the acquiescence of the United States. From the post-war period to the present, Germany has surpassed France to become the second largest currency in Europe. Now that the Vietnam War has broken out, the United States also intends to improve Germany's status to prevent problems with Europe's defense forces when the United States is fighting in Southeast Asia.
However, Alan Wilson still believes in France. Once France completely digests Algeria, it can regain its advantage over Germany unless Germany is unified.
As usual, the European Community Foreign Ministers' Meeting was attended by Rab Butler, and Alan Wilson knew in his heart that Prime Minister Eden was the one who controlled the overall situation.
"Aren't you in control of Britain's foreign policy? I should be really lucky that you came to see me despite your busy schedule." Hepburn held her son in her arms while breastfeeding, but her tone always had a hint of sourness.
"I'm also busy, so I come here anxiously whenever I have free time." The supreme authority looked aggrieved at this moment, and slapped his chest loudly to express his loyalty to Guhua, "You are so graceful when you are breastfeeding, my dear, You are the embodiment of the word elegance, and I believe no one will object.”
"I just know how to say nice things." Hepburn put down the bottle and rocked her son in her arms. "I know you are very busy and you don't have anything to say."
"I'm very grateful for this consideration." Alan Wilson kissed the back of Hepburn's hand as he hit the snake. "Actually, it's nothing. I just run for peace and protect the development of Europe."
Alan Wilson is dealing with private matters here, while Rab Butler is talking about Europe's energy dependence in Brussels. Europe really has no energy distribution. Europe should avoid the current situation in India and one day be encountered by Europe.
"The Soviet Union built an oil pipeline. In fact, we can think of ways to build on this pipeline and not completely rely on oil and natural gas from the Middle East." German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder mentioned that the Soviet Union last year Completed friendship pipeline, think this is a way to spread the risk?
The news came from Brussels, and Eden launched a consultation to consider whether there were risks. Alan Wilson looked suspicious and firmly objected, "This will reduce the role of North Sea oil."
"But the production of oil in the North Sea is limited." Aiden was also a little embarrassed. "France doesn't seem to object to this. It has the same attitude as the Germans."