Chapter 1307: East-America Geopolitical Conflict

After Logans analyzed the reasons for the US's participation in the war from an economic perspective, Defense Minister Pripyat also analyzed the US government's participation in the war from a geopolitical perspective.

"The United States cannot get rid of the influence of the British in international affairs. Furthermore, the United States certainly has plans to use the influence of Britain to enhance its position in international competition."

"The United States is limited by its geographical location and has three directions of expansion: the American continent, especially Latin America, the European continent, and Asia."

"Among them, although Britain and France were affected by the war and their power shrank significantly in the American direction, the empire just filled this gap."

"Especially in the influence on South American countries, we have more advantages than the United States. In major South American countries such as Brazil and Argentina, the influence of the empire has exceeded that of Britain and the United States."

"In northern South America, our influence has penetrated to the periphery of the Caribbean Sea and even directly threatened the Panama Canal, an important channel closely related to the US economy."

Why East Africa threatens the Panama Canal? This has to start 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 supported Panama's independence movement in the early twentieth century.

According to the normal course of history, Colombia can only consider itself unlucky. After all, the United States dominated the Americas in the past, and it happened to encounter the opportunity that European forces such as Britain and France had to withdraw from the Americas.

But now with the new player East Africa, the situation is naturally different. East Africa originally focused on Venezuela, and Colombia, as a neighbor of Venezuela, especially close to Venezuela's oil-producing areas, made East Africa pay attention to Colombia's diplomatic relations.

What's more, the two countries have a natural basis for cooperation. Colombia needs new external forces to balance the United States. If possible, it even wants to take back the lost land of Panama and control the Panama Canal, a money printing machine.

East Africa also does not want the United States to dominate the Caribbean. In the past, the United States almost turned the Caribbean into its own inland sea and acted recklessly in the region.

East Africa is certainly not a "saint", and wants to fight for the countries in the Caribbean, but it does not want the United States to completely consolidate its hegemony over the Caribbean.

After all, controlling the Caribbean, in addition to the possible threat to 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 East Africa's national strategy. East Africa has already regarded the southern countries as its core interests, and the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans have the same status and are regarded as the two wings of East Africa.

And from a realistic 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 core areas are basically under British control, such as India, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and other regions.

Although Britain used to have a strong influence in South America, South America was the sphere of influence of Portugal and Spain in the past, and it was only in the last century that South American countries got rid of the control of these two sovereign countries.

Therefore, from the perspective of realistic interests or the future development strategy of East African countries, East Africa cannot ignore the relationship 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 control it, as long as it does not turn to the United States, it will be a victory for East Africa.

Pripyat continued: "In the Pacific direction, we also have a competitive relationship with the United States. Our country has extensive colonies and economic interests in the Pacific."

"And the Pacific direction is related to the US strategy 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 and my country are also in competition in the South Pacific region. The two countries can be said to be potential competitors in Asia."

"However, the two countries are far away from the East Asian region with the Far East Empire as the core. At the same time, the Far East Empire and Japan in the region are not small countries, which makes our competition with the United States in East Asia not fierce."

"But overall, my country's advantages in East Asia and expansion to the whole of Asia are far stronger than those of the United States, so the expansion of the United States in the Far East is not smooth."

East Africa attaches importance to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean because East Africa faces the two oceans and is a world power.

The United States is the same, so the United States will naturally attach importance to expansion in the Atlantic and Pacific directions, and also regard the entire America as its core interests.

The problem now is that the expansion directions of the United States and East Africa overlap, and East Africa is in an advantageous position overall, which has hindered the United States' world policy.

So Pripyat said: "It can be said that the existence of our East Africa has made the United States' expansion in both directions not smooth, and the only direction the United States can rely on now is Europe."

"And in today's world pattern, Europe can be said to be the most powerful political and economic bloc. Whoever can integrate Europe can gain world hegemony."

"The European war has given the United States this opportunity, and they have more advantages than us 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 two traditional European powers, Britain and France."

To a certain extent, Britain and France determine the exchanges between other countries and the European interior. 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 the Suez Canal in Egypt, the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters covered by it are the back gardens of the two navies.

The reason why Russia can avoid it 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, so it is difficult to achieve anything.

Therefore, 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 into Europe.

Even East Africa is 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 worth paying attention to in North Africa is oil, but now East Africa has escaped 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 for 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 something that East Africa cannot ignore. factors.

This brings the topic back to Britain and France. It can be seen that the power of Britain and France just wraps up the whole of Europe.

Pripyat said: "Now Britain and France need the United States to contain the Allies and have to lure the wolf into the house, and the United States is obviously greedy for Europe's wealth, power and influence."

"Of course, the United States' participation in the war cannot exclude its containment of the German countries. After all, Germany and Austria-Hungary are the core of the Allied camp. If the two countries achieve European hegemony and add us in East Africa, the United States will always be able to only play a regional role. A big country 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, let alone the entire America, the United States may have difficulty controlling 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 suffer further.