The root of the conflict between the United States and the League of Nations is that the United States did not join the League of Nations.
As mentioned earlier, a large part of the reason why the United States did not join the League of Nations was because the United States was unwilling to accept the leadership of Britain and France, so it stayed outside the League of Nations.
Over the years, the League of Nations has never given up on the United States, otherwise the League of Nations would not have retained its permanent seat on the Security Council for the United States.
The United Kingdom is now taking the initiative to mediate the differences between the United States and the League of Nations because it does not want to see the expansion of Southern Africa's influence in the League of Nations.
Since Britain is no longer able to guarantee its leadership of the League of Nations, it is more in line with Britain's interests to introduce the United States to form a check and balance in southern Africa.
Looking at it this way, you can understand why the UK is so proactive.
Joining the League of Nations has both advantages and disadvantages for the United States. The advantage is that after joining the League of Nations, the United States can obtain the treatment of a League of Nations member country and its products can smoothly enter the market of the League of Nations member countries.
This is of course based on the premise that U.S. goods must comply with the customs regulations of other countries and pay due taxes.
The disadvantage is naturally that the United States is a member of the League of Nations. When the League of Nations decides to impose sanctions on a certain country, the United States must abide by the provisions of the League of Nations, which will have a certain impact on trade between the United States, Germany, and Japan.
Actually, it’s mainly Japan.
In terms of its attitude towards Germany, the League of Nations is still relatively tolerant. Only France has a firmer attitude towards Germany. Other major countries such as southern Africa, the United Kingdom and Russia have a relatively ambiguous attitude towards Germany.
Japan's main opponent in the League of Nations is Southern Africa.
Compared with France, Southern Africa still has a relatively large influence on the League of Nations. After Japan began its military expansion in the Far East, Southern Africa advocated strict trade sanctions against Japan. The Indian Ocean Fleet even blocked the Strait of Malacca for a time, prohibiting all Japanese ships from passing through.
Strait of Malacca, including merchant ships.
Taking into account the attitude of southern Africa, the attitude of European countries towards Japan has gradually turned colder. This has also led to Japan's foreign trade, mainly through the United States. If the United States agrees to impose trade sanctions on Japan, then its military expansion against Japan will definitely have serious consequences.
Influence.
As mentioned earlier, more than 80% of the steel Japan needs to build warships is imported from the United States. Japan's oil dependence on the United States is almost 100%. Other rare metals are also almost entirely imported from the United States. As long as the United States agrees to
If Japan imposes trade sanctions, Japan's ambitious and huge shipbuilding plan will become a castle in the air.
"So by joining the League of Nations, our trade with Germany and Japan will definitely be affected. So what compensation can the League of Nations give us in these aspects?" The United States still attaches great importance to British mediation. After London sent the signal, Secretary of State Cordell Herr
I arrived in London as soon as possible.
"Isn't it enough to use the domestic markets of all League of Nations members as compensation?" Neville personally took action. In order to seduce the profit-seeking Americans, Neville was even ready to cut his flesh.
"Including the Commonwealth market?" Cordell Hull's eyes lit up. The United States has always wanted to open the Commonwealth market, but unfortunately it has never been able to do so.
In fact, the current Commonwealth market, compared with the previous Commonwealth market, is plummeting in value to the United States.
Mainly southern Africa.
A Commonwealth with Southern Africa and a Commonwealth without Southern Africa are completely different things. Except for Southern Africa and the UK, other Commonwealth countries such as India have large populations but cannot form an effective market. In fact, they are useless.
After leaving the Commonwealth, Southern Africa and the United States reached a series of trade agreements. However, after the League of Nations decided to impose sanctions on the United States, these trade agreements were temporarily shelved and will not continue until the sanctions are lifted.
"Of course, this includes not only the Commonwealth, but also France's overseas territories." Neville wants everyone to die together, and we cannot let the British Empire suffer.
"Then we have to talk about the tariff issue again." Cordell Hull had doubts and was worried about being deceived.
Market opening also comes in degrees. Don't listen to Neville's nice words. If the Commonwealth opens its market to American goods and sets a higher tariff rate at the same time, then American goods will lose their competitiveness even if they enter the Commonwealth market.
"Haha, the United Kingdom doesn't even bother to do that!" Neville sneered, using tariffs to protect the domestic market, which was originally the United States' specialty.
What Americans are best at is using tariffs to create a trade surplus. As early as the last century, when American goods competed with British goods, the United States used higher tariffs, export tax rebates and other policies to support the competition between American companies and British companies, thus gradually
Gain the upper hand.
Compared with the United States, the European continent can barely be regarded as a whole. Although various disputes continue within Europe, there are still relatively few restrictions on trade.
Compared with the United States, which talks about "free trade" every day, Europe is closer to the true meaning of free trade.
"No, no, no, Your Excellency, Prime Minister, when it comes to national interests, we should try to form a textual resolution, which is better." Cordell Hull did not blush, no matter what matter involves national interests, no matter how much he breaks his promise, he will not get rich.
Shameful.
However, it is not that simple to form a textual resolution. There are many countries involved, and everyone needs to sit down and talk slowly.
The ongoing civil war in Brazil could not wait. After breaking through the first line of defense of the government army, the Mizhou Army broke through the second line of defense of the government army in one go. Then the Mizhou Army encountered the US Marine Corps.
The Americans were indeed arrogant and unreasonable in Brazil. Facing the aggressive Mizhou Army, a telegram from the U.S. government put the Mizhou Army into a dilemma.
"This is the fact. The Americans asked us to temporarily stop the offensive and give the United States time to evacuate its nationals. The specific time for the truce has not yet been determined, and it depends on the speed of the United States' evacuation of its nationals." Vargas looked ugly, and the Michigan army broke through the government's second
After the defense line, it is less than 30 kilometers away from downtown Rio de Janeiro.
At a distance of thirty kilometers, the roar of heavy artillery was clearly audible. Not to mention the Americans, even the Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro were fleeing in a hurry, trying to avoid the war.
The purpose of the Americans is simple: to use the evacuation of overseas Chinese as an excuse to buy more time for the government forces.
"What if it takes a year for the Americans to evacuate?" Augusto didn't expect the Americans to be so shameless.
"Then we have to wait a year." Fan Bao looked at Vargas with a smile. Now Vargas's choice is very important.
If the U.S. military wants to conquer Rio in one go, Vargas must have the courage to turn against the Americans.
In this way, the US government will become Vargas's enemy, but Vargas can strengthen friendship in southern Africa.
If we don't break up with the Americans, then I'm afraid the capture of Rio will be out of reach.
Even if the Americans do not participate in the war, the Rio military government can use this time to mobilize troops and build new lines of defense. Next, the pressure on the Mizhou Army will increase.
Vargas said nothing, he was now in a dilemma.
There are really too many pro-American forces in Brazil. After Vargas defeated the military junta in Rio, unless he established a personal poisonous rule, he still had to unite the pro-American forces in Brazil to form a coalition government.
If we break up with the United States, the pressure faced by Mizhou will suddenly increase. Even the Holy State, which has a good relationship with Mizhou, will inevitably come under tremendous pressure from the United States. By then, Mizhou will truly become a lonely country.
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But if they don't fall out, it will give the Rio military government time to breathe, which will become more and more dangerous for the Mizhou Army as time goes by.
Victoria, the main external channel of Mizhou, is currently under attack by government troops. It can be said that the external assistance of the Mizhou Army has been basically cut off. The logistics of the Mizhou Army are now quite sufficient. This is mainly due to the crazy procurement in the early stage. Mizhou itself has no hematopoiesis.
Functionally, even weapons and ammunition cannot be produced. If it takes too long and Victoria cannot break the blockade of the government forces, the longer it takes, the more disadvantageous it will be to the Mizhou Army.
Thinking of this, Vargas finally made up his mind.
"We can give the Americans a week. After one week, the Michigan Army will launch a full-scale attack on Rio de Janeiro." Even at this time, Vargas did not completely break up with the Americans.
August and Fan Bao looked at each other with disappointment in their eyes.
But it's not bad. As long as the United States joins the war, Vargas will inevitably fall to southern Africa.
Just when the United States brazenly intervened on the front line in Rio de Janeiro, in Victoria Harbor, the government forces gradually gained the upper hand with their superior strength. The Michigan National Guard had retreated to defend Victoria. The government forces relied on their naval superiority to completely surround Victoria.
However, it is not easy for the government forces to eliminate the Mizhou Army in Victoria. After days of bloody battles, Victoria still has nearly 4,000 Mizhou troops. They use the favorable terrain to engage in brutal street battles with the government troops and will not give up any street or house easily.
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The terrain advantage was exploited to the extreme by the Mizhou Army. Victoria was a port with a relatively complete drainage system, so the sewers were also fully utilized by the Mizhou Army. Small groups of elite troops of the Mizhou Army often used Victoria's sewers to attack government troops from the rear.
As a result of the sneak attack and the stubborn sniper fire from the government troops, nearly 20,000 government troops have been killed or injured so far in the battle.
You must know that before the war broke out, Victoria's Mizhou Army only had about 5,000 people.
Now the battle loss ratio between the Mizhou Army and the government forces has reached nearly 20 to one, so when the battle has progressed to this level, the government forces have also been exhausted.
But we still have to bite the bullet and keep fighting. Now it depends on who can't hold on first. As long as this breath is lost, all the previous efforts will be in vain.
