Winston has always had great expectations for Russia.
This expectation is definitely not similar to that in southern Africa, which hopes that Russia will become the Allied factory, but hopes that the German army will go north and both Russia and Russia will lose, so that the war can be victorious.
Rock partially agrees with Winston's views on the war.
When the time came to 1941, the German army was at its unprecedented peak.
Continuous victories gave the German army unparalleled confidence.
Through a series of wars, German generals have become more and more experienced in the use of armored forces, and their use of blitzkrieg has become more and more mature. Germany's industrial capabilities have been greatly improved after the conquest of France, and the size of the German army has reached more than 5 million people.
, even if Southern Africa goes all out, it will still have to pay a huge price to defeat Germany.
"Southern Africa has carried out general mobilization for war. We have mobilized millions of troops and produced tens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles. We are helping the British and Free French rebuild their armies, and have provided the British with weapons that can equip 75 divisions.
equipment, helped the Free France train 110,000 people, and as many as 230,000 people are being trained in the training camp in Luanda. This work will be completed in the next six months, and by then we will have as many as four
"Million Army" Roque was the first to speak. A total of 19 countries participated in the meeting, including all Commonwealth countries and the Southern African Union countries.
"We now have 105 air squadrons and the Royal Navy has as many as 350 warships. We completely defeated the Italians in East Africa and the restoration of the Abyssinian Empire was our first decisive victory since the outbreak of the European War.
Victory, we have completed training, and the number of troops currently training exceeds 2 million. By the end of next year at the latest, we will launch a counterattack on the European continent and give the Germans a fatal blow!" Winston spoke for the second time.
It was an obvious change of concept. The Allied victory in East Africa had almost nothing to do with the British Empire.
The reason why it was almost was mainly because Canberra persisted until the end, which prevented the British Empire from losing face. At least the British army in Canberra played a certain role in containing the Italian East African Army.
On the first day of the meeting, neither Roosevelt nor de Gaulle got a chance to speak.
In the evening, Roque held a banquet at the Santa Maria Naval Club to entertain leaders from various countries from afar.
Roosevelt spent the entire evening chatting with Rock.
It can be seen that Roosevelt is not clear enough about the prospects of the war, so he has not made a decision yet.
This is understandable. As recently as November last year, Russia was still discussing with Germany about the possibility of Russia joining the Axis powers.
This is not alarmist.
If Mustache had agreed to divide South Bukovina to Russia last winter, then maybe Russia would have become a member of the Axis Powers by now.
It was precisely because he saw clearly Russia's ambitions for South and North Bukovina that Mustache made up his mind to fall out with the Russians.
Roosevelt was still unclear about the "tacit understanding" between the Germans and the Russians, so he was hesitant.
"A war will definitely break out between Germany and Russia, because both countries have an arrogant leader." Rock is very aware of the shortcomings of mustaches and beards.
Mustaches and big beards have similar shortcomings. They are stubborn and arrogant. Who else would they be?
"Based on the available intelligence, we are not yet able to make such a judgment." Roosevelt didn't know enough about mustaches and beards.
In other words, American capitalists have not made enough.
As explained in the previous article, Roosevelt was the spokesperson for American capital. Roosevelt had the final say on whether the United States would participate in the war. Morgan and Rockefeller had the final say.
So this is obviously an excuse.
Of course it might not be.
Some things are difficult to explain using common sense.
The Russians did not know anything about "Project Barbarossa".
Before the start of "Plan Barbarossa", Moscow successively obtained multiple pieces of extremely detailed intelligence. The intelligence not only provided details of the German Army's "Plan Barbarossa", including the date of the attack, as well as the location of the tanks of the three German fronts.
The precise number, and even the names of the senior generals of the group army are complete.
With such detailed information, the Russians should be on guard.
The key is that the bearded man doesn’t believe it.
Until the moment before the Russo-German war broke out, Big Beard did not believe that Germany would attack Russia.
In order to show Russia's trust in Germany, Beard even ordered the Russian Air Force not to interfere with reconnaissance aircraft that frequently enter Russia for reconnaissance.
See clearly, no interference is allowed.
Not to mention attacking.
The same goes for the United States.
Regarding Pearl Harbor, I have already said it before, but I will not say it in order not to get scolded.
"Germany has begun to gather troops on the German-Russian border. Don't you think that the Germans really want to avoid the bombing of the Southern African Air Force, so they gathered their troops far away from the strait." Rock teased, the Germans
The excuse is lame enough.
The key is that the bearded man is willing to believe.
In order to attack Russia, Mustache has amassed 3.2 million people on the Russian-German border and 680,000 people on the Romanian-Russian border.
Also mobilized were 360,000 Romanian troops, 4.4 Hungarian troops, and 470,000 Finnish troops.
The concentration of so many troops on the border will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Russians.
The German explanation for this is that in order to avoid Allied bombing, they deployed their troops to the German-Russian border far away from the Strait.
The bearded guy actually believed such a lame excuse!
Mustache really wants to thank the Southern African Air Force for the assist.
Of course, the bearded man is not defenseless.
While the German army was gathering heavy troops on the border, the Russians were also actively preparing for the "Thunderstorm Plan."
By 1941, Russia had 4.3 million troops deployed on the Western Front.
At the same time, there are an equal number of mobilization troops in Russia that can be mobilized at any time.
Pay attention to this situation, this is the main reason why the Russians were able to kill the Germans.
It was precisely because he underestimated the determination of the Russians and Russia's war potential that Mustache repeated Napoleon's mistakes.
"Southern Africa is not going all out, and we are not in a hurry." Roosevelt was rarely honest, and this is also true.
Rock said to go all out.
In fact, southern Africa is still far from going all out.
Southern Africa has no less war potential than Russia.
Whether in terms of resource quantity, industrial capacity, or even population, Southern Africa has an overall advantage over Germany.
After Southern Africa entered the war, only the Second Army made an occasional splash in Italian East Africa, while the other armies made almost no achievements.
So Roosevelt was right. If Southern Africa went all out, it might not be able to completely defeat Germany in a short time. At least it could completely win over Italy.
"It's not that southern Africa doesn't want to go all out, but someone doesn't want us to go all out." Rock chuckled. With the British Empire here, the Allies could not unite.
"So, this is why we are worried." Roosevelt also laughed. If Britain is a wealthy country, southern Africa and the United States are a pair of chicken thieves.
"Locke, you have given too much aid to the French." Winston took the initiative to express his dissatisfaction to Locke.
"The French promised to transfer all French power in Asia to southern Africa after the war." Roque was helpless, the French gave too much.
Winston frowned.
Now that southern Africa already controls the Strait of Malacca, if it controls Indochina again, Britain's influence in Asia will continue to weaken.
Now Britain no longer expects to have control over Asia.
It’s hard to say just how influential it is.
"The Second Army and the Third Army can enter Italian North Africa to assist the Nile Army in its operations, but after the war, the Southern African Army must withdraw from North Africa, completely withdraw." Winston knew Roark very well, so he emphasized it specifically.
"Winston, North Africa belongs to the French and Italians, and has never belonged to the British Empire." Roque was dissatisfied. Your British hand stretched too far.
To put it bluntly, whoever hits you will get it. In this world, fists have always spoken.
Like Winston, Roark's bottom line was the Suez Canal.
This means that after the war, southern Africa can help Britain maintain its control of the Suez Canal.
Forget about North Africa, East Africa is also southern Africa
"Southern Africa already owns most of the African continent, how much bigger do you want it to be?" Winston made it clear.
"The territory of Southern Africa was all obtained with the blood of Southern Africans. The key is not that big. Russia still pays 20 million." Roque said that as big as the heart is, the territory will be as big as possible.
"Most of the Russian territory is within the Arctic Circle, and the land in southern Africa is a barren land." Winston felt uncomfortable. There was obviously no comparison.
Talking about it brings tears of bitterness.
Although Russia's territory is large, it is covered in ice and snow most of the year, which is not suitable for human survival at all.
France's colonies in North and West Africa are also quite large, but unfortunately most of them are deserts.
The Italians said that in their colonies in North and East Africa, only a few ports looked good, and most of the other areas were deserts or Gobis.
Only southern Africa.
Just like Winston said, all the land you own is a ruined land.
Even the desert in Port Elizabeth contains tons of oil.
"Otherwise, we will launch an attack on Italian North Africa together, and whoever defeats it will be the winner." Roque pointed out directly that Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia were all busy dividing their spheres of influence, and the Allies could not do it either.
Play dumb.
When it comes to spheres of influence, de Gaulle immediately became enthusiastic.
"While Free France inherits French territory, its interests in the Mediterranean also need to be protected." De Gaulle's words made Roque and Winston frown at the same time.
Rather than simply saying that we want the entire Mediterranean after the war, where does that leave southern Africa and Britain?
"The interests of the federal government of Southern Africa in the Mediterranean also need to be protected." Roque also has requirements for the Mediterranean, and his eldest son cannot ignore them.
Winston sneered, as long as Britain controls the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, Southern Africa and France will be scum.
Britain's island-for-destroyer plan does not include the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.
The UK can lease Malta to southern Africa, sell Changi Naval Base to southern Africa, and give the Bahamas to southern Africa. Only the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal are forbidden areas that the UK cannot touch.
"If the United States joins a war in the future, its interests in the Mediterranean also need to be protected." Roosevelt also came to join in the fun. Americans, like southern Africa, wanted to get involved in everything.
"Greece" Greek Prime Minister Alexandros Korizis, who came to the meeting on behalf of Greece, hopes that Greece's interests can also be guaranteed.
Roque immediately turned around and discussed with Vargas where to eat that night.
Southern Africa could safeguard British interests in the Mediterranean.
It can protect France's interests in the Mediterranean.
It could even protect Brazil's interests in the Mediterranean.
Only in Greece, Roque did not want to talk to Alexandros Korizis.
Just before the start of the Saar Conference, former Greek Prime Minister Giannis Metaxas passed away due to illness, and Korizis succeeded Metaxas as Prime Minister of Greece.
Greece's back-and-forth on the Crete issue has had a huge impact on the relationship between southern Africa and Greece.
After the British intervention, Greece was forced to open Crete to southern Africa, but the Cyprus squadron did not take any action and did not send a single soldier to Crete.
In Rock and Temperature's plan, Greece has been completely abandoned. Compared with prompting Germany to attack Russia, Greek interests must be given up.
"Of course, as Greece is our ally, Greece's interests will be protected after the war." Winston vowed, but purely in terms of thick skin, Roark was still not as good as Winston.
However, the commitment given by Winston was obviously not as good as Rock's.
So a little later, Coritsis asked Rock to have dinner with him, hoping to repair relations between southern Africa and Greece.
Rock is sorry.
The role of southern Africa for the Allies does not need to be emphasized again. Roque was very busy during the Saar Conference. Not just anyone had the opportunity to have dinner with Roque.
During the Saar Conference, the interests between Southern Africa, Britain and France need to be reconciled, and the interests within the Southern African Union also need to be reconciled.
After Southern Africa entered the war, the Southern African Union countries joined the war one after another, and all took the initiative to send expeditionary forces to Europe to participate in the war with the Southern African Expeditionary Force.
Since the alliance countries are so cooperative, there must be rewards, not to mention territory, but also some financial assistance.
What's more important is safety.
It is sad to say that the biggest threat to the countries of the Southern African Union is not Germany or the United Kingdom, but the Federal Government of Southern Africa, the leader of the Southern African Union.
The demands of the alliance countries are simple. They need Roque's guarantee that southern Africa will not annex them in the future.
